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[EX Q]: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stop Westward Aquatic Threats Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT OF NONINDIGENOUS AQUATIC NUISANCE PREVENTION AND 
              CONTROL ACT OF 1990.

    Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an 
amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal 
of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to 
be made to a section or other provision of Nonindigenous Aquatic 
Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 (16 U.S.C. 4701 et seq.).

SEC. 3. 100TH MERIDIAN AND WESTWARD PROGRAM.

    Subtitle C (16 U.S.C. 4721 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 
the following:

``SEC. 1210. 100TH MERIDIAN AND WESTWARD PROGRAM.

    ``(a) Public Information and Education.--The Secretary shall 
coordinate with the States to provide the public with information and 
education on the threat of zebra mussels and other aquatic nuisance 
species and how to prevent their westward advance.
    ``(b) Source States Action Plan.--The Secretary, in consultation 
with the Task Force, shall work with States that contain aquatic 
nuisance species, including zebra mussels, that threaten western States 
to develop and implement a prevention action plan that includes 
inspections of vessels at boat launches and elsewhere.
    ``(c) Movement Across the 100th Meridian.--
            ``(1) Early detection and rapid response.--The Secretary, 
        in consultation with the Task Force, shall seek to prevent 
        westward movement of aquatic nuisance species by monitoring and 
        preventing westward movement of zebra mussels and other aquatic 
        nuisance species across and beyond the 100th meridian, 
        monitoring water bodies, educating boaters leaving waters 
        infected by aquatic nuisance species, and providing rapid 
        response capacity in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, 
        Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
            ``(2) Check stations.--Under this subsection, the 
        Secretary, in collaboration with the Secretary of 
        Transportation and the States, shall--
                    ``(A) work with States to establish check stations 
                on highways and waterways that cross the 100th 
                meridian, and require that all commercial vessels 
                moving westward across the meridian stop and be checked 
                for zebra mussels and aquatic weeds at such check 
                stations;
                    ``(B) require that contaminated vessels identified 
                at such check stations be cleaned in accordance with 
                protocols developed by the Task Force before being 
                moved across the 100th meridian;
                    ``(C) assess and collect from persons who violate 
                such requirement more than one time a civil penalty of 
                $150 for each violation after the first violation;
                    ``(D) identify and record all vessels that stop at 
                such check stations and the water body most recently 
                visited by each such vessel;
                    ``(E) focus prevention resources on States having 
                the greatest number of contaminated vessels; and
                    ``(F) coordinate implementation of this subsection 
                with appropriate Canadian authorities.
    ``(d) Vector Action Plans.--The Secretary and the Task Force, in 
collaboration with the States and within 18 months after the date of 
the enactment of this subsection, shall--
            ``(1) assess the relative risk of vectors and pathways of 
        westward movement of zebra mussels and other aquatic nuisance 
        species across the 100th meridian and throughout the western 
        States and develop adequate action plans to control each 
        pathway, ranked by priority; and
            ``(2) provide to the Task Force, for distribution to the 
        States, data developed through such assessment.
    ``(e) Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Expedition.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary of the Interior shall 
        ensure that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the 
        National Park Service coordinate efforts to implement an action 
        plan to prevent the spread of aquatic nuisance species by 
        vessels and other potential vectors involved in the Lewis and 
        Clark Bicentennial Expedition, including efforts to educate 
        participants in such Expedition by no later than January 1, 
        2003.
            ``(2) Authorization of appropriations.--There are 
        authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior 
        to carry out this subsection $100,000 for each of fiscal years 
        2002 through 2005.
    ``(f) Application in Other States.--If the Secretary determines 
that any State (other than those listed in subsection (c)) that is 
located west of the 100th meridian needs to be involved in 
implementation of this section for this section to be effective, the 
Secretary may apply this section in such State.
    ``(g) Evaluation of Effectiveness.--The Secretary shall enter into 
an arrangement with an independent entity under which the entity shall, 
by January 1, 2005, evaluate the effectiveness of the 100th meridian 
and westward program under this section in stopping the westward 
movement of zebra mussels and other aquatic nuisance species across and 
beyond the 100th meridian.
    ``(h) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section $5,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2003 through 2007.''.

SEC. 4. STATE MANAGEMENT PLANS.

    (a) Grants to States for Development of Management Plans.--Section 
1204(b) (16 U.S.C. 4724(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1) by inserting ``make grants to States 
        to develop management plans under this section, including for 
        hiring personnel for such development, and'' after ``at the 
        recommendation of the Task Force,'';
            (2) in paragraph (3)(A) by striking ``each comprehensive 
        management plan implemented with Federal assistance'' and 
        inserting ``implementation of each comprehensive management 
        plan''; and
            (3) in paragraph (3)(B) by striking ``each public facility 
        management plan implemented with Federal assistance'' and 
        inserting ``implementation of each public facility management 
        plan''.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 1301 (16 U.S.C. 4724) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c) by striking ``There are authorized'' 
        and all that follows through ``of which'' and inserting ``For 
        grants to States under section 1204(b) there are authorized to 
        be appropriated to the Director $10,000,000 for each of fiscal 
        years 2003 through 2007, of which up to 20 percent may be 
        available for plan development and of which''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Funding for Capacity Building by Western Regional Panel.--To 
build capacity and foster the development and implementation of 
comprehensive management plans under section 1204 for States located on 
or west of the 100th meridian there are authorized to be appropriated 
to the Western Regional panel established under section 1203(b) 
$600,000 for each of fiscal years 2003 through 2007.''.
[EX A]: Stop Westward Aquatic Threats Act - Amends the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to direct the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) provide the public with information and education on the threat of zebra mussels and other aquatic nuisance species and how to prevent their westward advance; (2) work with States that contain aquatic nuisance species (including zebra mussels) that threaten western States to develop and implement a prevention action plan that includes inspections of vessels at boat launches and elsewhere (including vessels involved in the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Expedition); and (3) prevent westward movement of aquatic nuisance species by monitoring and preventing westward movement of zebra mussels and other aquatic nuisance species beyond the 100th meridian, monitoring water bodies, educating boaters leaving waters infected by aquatic nuisance species, and providing rapid response capacity in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.Authorizes the Director of the of the Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force to make grants to States to develop management plans which identify those areas or activities within the State for which assistance is needed to eliminate or reduce the environmental, public health, and safety risks associated with aquatic nuisance species, particularly the zebra mussel.

[EX Q]: SECTION 1. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT; LIABILITY PROTECTIONS FOR HEALTH-
              CENTER PRACTITIONERS PROVIDING SERVICES IN EMERGENCY 
              AREAS.

    (a) In General.--Section 224(g) of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 233(g)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(B)(ii), by striking ``subparagraph 
        (C)'' and inserting ``subparagraph (C) and paragraph (6)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following paragraph:
    ``(6)(A) Subject to subparagraph (C), paragraph (1)(B)(ii) applies 
to health services provided to individuals who are not patients of the 
entity involved if, as determined under criteria issued by the 
Secretary, the following conditions are met:
            ``(i) The services are provided by a contractor or employee 
        of the entity who is a physician or other licensed or certified 
        health care practitioner and who is otherwise deemed to be an 
        employee for purposes of paragraph (1)(A) when providing 
        services with respect to the entity.
            ``(ii) The services are provided in an emergency area (as 
        defined in subparagraph (D)).
            ``(iii) The services of the contractor or employee 
        (referred to in this paragraph as the `out-of-area 
        practitioner') are provided under an arrangement with--
                    ``(I) an entity that is deemed to be an employee 
                for purposes of paragraph (1)(A) and that serves the 
                emergency area involved (referred to in this paragraph 
                as an `emergency-area entity)'; or
                    ``(II) a Federal agency that has responsibilities 
                regarding the provision of health services in such area 
                during the emergency.
            ``(iv) The purposes of the arrangement are--
                    ``(I) to coordinate, to the extent practicable, the 
                provision of health services in the emergency area by 
                the out-of-area practitioner with the provision of 
                services by the emergency-area entity, or by the 
                Federal agency, as the case may be;
                    ``(II) to identify a location in the emergency area 
                to which such practitioner should report for purposes 
                of providing health services, and to identify an 
                individual or individuals in the area to whom the 
                practitioner should report for such purposes; and
                    ``(III) to verify the identity of the practitioner 
                and that the practitioner is licensed or certified by 
                one or more of the States.
            ``(v) With respect to the licensure or certification of 
        health care practitioners, the provision of services by the 
        out-of-area practitioner in the emergency area is not a 
        violation of the law of the State in which the area is located.
    ``(B) In issuing criteria under subparagraph (A), the Secretary 
shall take into account the need to rapidly enter into arrangements 
under such subparagraph in order to provide health services in 
emergency areas promptly after the emergency begins.
    ``(C) Subparagraph (A) applies with respect to an act or omission 
of an out-of-area practitioner only to the extent that the practitioner 
is not immune from liability for such act or omission under the 
Volunteer Protection Act of 1997.
    ``(D) For purposes of this paragraph, the term `emergency area' 
means a geographic area for which--
            ``(i) the Secretary has made a determination under section 
        319 that a public health emergency exists; or
            ``(ii) a presidential declaration of major disaster has 
        been issued under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford 
        Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--With respect to paragraph (6) of section 
224(g) of the Public Health Service Act, as added by subsection (a) of 
this section:
            (1) Except as provided in this subsection, an arrangement 
        under subparagraph (A)(iii) of such paragraph (6) is deemed to 
        be in effect for any health professional who, within the 
        meaning of such paragraph--
                    (A) is an employee or contractor of a health center 
                under section 330 of such Act; and
                    (B) served or is serving as an out-of-area 
                practitioner in any emergency area declared as a result 
                of Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita.
            (2) Such paragraph (6) is deemed to have taken effect on 
        August 27, 2005, for purposes of paragraph (1) of this 
        subsection. Such paragraph (6) otherwise takes effect on the 
        date of the enactment of this Act.
            (3) Paragraph (1) of this subsection applies until the 
        expiration of the 48-hour period beginning on the date on which 
        the Secretary of Health and Human Services publishes in the 
        Federal Register a notice that the applicability of such 
        paragraph is being terminated.
[EX A]: Amends the Public Health Service Act to deem certain physicians or other licensed or certified health care practitioners to be employees of the Public Health Service for purposes of any civil action that may arise due to services provided in an emergency area by a contractor or an employee of a qualified health center. Provides that such services must be provided under an arrangement with a qualified health center or with a federal agency with responsibility for providing health services in the emergency area.

[EX Q]: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Library of Congress Financial 
Management Act of 1999''.

              TITLE I--LIBRARY OF CONGRESS REVOLVING FUND

SEC. 101. AVAILABILITY OF FUND FOR SERVICE ACTIVITIES.

    The Librarian of Congress is authorized--
            (1) to establish Fund service units to carry out Fund 
        service activities; and
            (2) to make the library products and services constituting 
        Fund service activities available for purchase through Fund 
        service units at rates estimated by the Librarian to be 
        adequate to recover the direct and indirect costs of the 
        activities, with respect to each Fund service unit, over a 
        reasonable period of time.

SEC. 102. FUND SERVICE ACTIVITIES.

    The Fund service activities that may be conducted by Fund service 
units are--
            (1) preparation of research reports, translations, 
        analytical studies, and related services for departments and 
        other entities of the Federal Government;
            (2) centralized acquisition of publications and library 
        materials in any format, information, research, and library 
        support services; training in library and information services; 
        and related services for departments and other entities of the 
        Federal Government;
            (3) decimal classification development;
            (4) gift shop and other sales of items associated with 
        collections, exhibits, performances, and special events of the 
        Library of Congress;
            (5) location, copying, storage, preservation and delivery 
        services for library document and audio-visual materials, not 
        including basic domestic interlibrary loan services; and 
        international interlibrary lending;
            (6) special events and programs; performances, exhibits, 
        workshops, and training; and
            (7) cooperative acquisitions of foreign publications and 
        research materials and related services on behalf of 
        participating institutions.

SEC. 103. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS REVOLVING FUND.

    (a) Establishment.--There is established in the Treasury of the 
United States a fund to be known as the Library of Congress Revolving 
Fund. The Fund shall be available to the Librarian of Congress without 
fiscal year limitation, for the conduct of Fund service activities 
operated by the Library on a cost-recovery basis. Obligations for Fund 
service activities are limited to the total amounts specified in the 
appropriations act for any fiscal year. The Fund shall consist of 
amounts deposited under subsection (b) and credits under subsection 
(c).
    (b) Capital; Amounts Deposited.--The Fund shall consist of--
            (1) amounts from funds appropriated to the Library of 
        Congress that the Librarian may temporarily transfer to the 
        Fund for capitalization of the Fund, in which case the Fund 
        shall reimburse the Library for amounts so transferred before 
        the period of availability of the Library appropriation 
        expires;
            (2) any amounts transferred as capital from the fund 
        authorized under section 207(b)(2) of Legislative Branch 
        Appropriation Act, 1998 (Public Law 105-55) (as such section 
        was in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this 
        Act);
            (3) any obligated, unexpended balances existing as of 
        September 30, 2000, or the date of enactment of this Act, 
        whichever is later, attributable to the activities specified in 
        section 102 that the Library conducts, which balances the 
        Librarian may transfer to the Fund notwithstanding the 
        requirements of section 1535(d) of title 31, United States 
        Code;
            (4) upon the transfer of an activity of the Library of 
        Congress to a Fund service unit, the difference between--
                    (A) the total value of the supplies, inventories, 
                equipment, gift fund balances, and other assets of the 
                activity; and
                    (B) the total value of the liabilities (including 
                the value of accrued annual leave of employees) of the 
                activity; and
            (5) any amounts appropriated by law for the purposes of the 
        Fund.
    (c) Credits.--The Fund shall be credited with all amounts received 
by Fund service units with respect to Fund service activities, 
including--
            (1) fees, advances, and reimbursements;
            (2) gifts or bequests of money or property for credit to 
        the Fund;
            (3) receipts from sales and exchanges of property;
            (4) payments for loss or damage to property;
            (5) receivables, inventories, and other assets; and
            (6) amounts appropriated by law.
    (d) Advances of Funds.--Participants in Fund services activities 
shall pay by advance of funds in all cases where it is determined by 
the Librarian that there is insufficient capital otherwise available in 
the Fund. Advances of funds also may be made by agreement between the 
participants and the Librarian.
    (e) Individual Accounting Requirement for Fund Service Units.--
Separate accounts of the Fund shall be maintained with respect to 
individual Fund service units.
    (f) Excess Funds.--Any unobligated and unexpended balances in the 
Fund that the Librarian determines to be in excess of amounts needed 
for activities financed by the Fund shall be deposited in the Treasury 
of the United States as a miscellaneous receipt. For the purpose of the 
preceding sentence the term ``amounts needed for activities financed by 
the Fund'' means the direct and indirect costs of the activities, 
including the costs of purchasing, shipping, and binding of books and 
other library materials; supplies, materials, equipment and service 
needed in support of the activities; salaries and benefits; general 
overhead; and travel.
    (g) Multiyear Contracting Authority.--In the operation of Fund 
activities, the Librarian is authorized to enter into contracts for the 
lease and acquisition of goods and services (including severable 
services) for a period that begins in one fiscal year and ends in the 
next fiscal year, and to enter into multiyear contracts for the 
acquisition of property and services, in the same manner and to the 
same extent as the head of an executive agency may enter into such 
contracts under sections 303L and 304B, respectively, of the Federal 
Property and Administrative Services Act (41 U.S.C. 253l and 254c).
    (h) Annual Report.--Not later than March 31 of each year, the 
Librarian shall submit to Congress an audited financial statement for 
the Fund for the preceding fiscal year. The audit shall be conducted in 
accordance with Government Auditing Standards for financial audits 
issued by the Comptroller General of the United States.

SEC. 104. DEFINITIONS.

    As used in this title--
            (1) the term ``departments and other entities of the 
        Federal Government'' means any department, agency or 
        instrumentality of the United States Government, including 
        executive departments, military departments, independent 
        establishments, wholly owned Government corporations, and 
        entities in the legislative and judicial branches, and includes 
        any department, agency or instrumentality of the District of 
        Columbia government;
            (2) the term ``Fund'' means the Library of Congress 
        Revolving Fund established under section 103;
            (3) the term ``Fund service activities'' means the library 
        information products and services described in section 102;
            (4) the term ``Fund service unit'' means an organizational 
        entity of the Library of Congress that, at the direction of the 
        Librarian, is partially or fully sustained through the Fund; 
        and
            (5) the term ``Librarian'' means the Librarian of Congress.

SEC. 105. REPEAL.

    Section 207 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1998 
(Public Law 105-55) is repealed.

SEC. 106. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This title shall take effect on October 1, 2000.

               TITLE II--CATALOGING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

SEC. 201. AVAILAB1LITY OF CATALOGING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES.

    (a) In General.--The Librarian of Congress is authorized to make 
cataloging products and services, created by the Library of Congress, 
available for purchase at prices that reflect as closely as practicable 
the cost of distribution over a reasonable period of time. The amounts 
received for such products and services shall be deposited in the 
Treasury of the United States to the credit of the appropriation for 
salaries and expenses of the Library of Congress, to remain available 
until expended for necessary distribution of such products and 
services.
    (b) Definition.--As used in this section, the term ``cataloging 
products and services'' means those bibliographic products and 
services, in any format now known or later developed, that are used by 
libraries and library organizations, including other Library-created 
data bases, and related technical publications.

SEC. 202. REPEAL.

    The paragraph beginning ``The Librarian of Congress'' under the 
heading ``Public printing and binding'' in the first section of the Act 
entitled ``An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of 
the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen 
hundred and three, and for other purposes'', approved June 28, 1902 (2 
U.S.C. 150), is repealed.

SEC. 203. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This title and the amendment made by this title shall take effect 
on October 1, 2000.

       TITLE III--LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TRUST FUND BOARD AMENDMENTS

SEC. 301. ADDITION OF BOARD MEMBER.

    The first sentence of the first paragraph of the first section of 
the Act entitled ``An Act to create a Library of Congress Trust Fund 
Board, and for other purposes,'' approved March 3, 1925 (2 U.S.C. 154) 
is amended by inserting ``and vice chairman'' after ``chairman.''

SEC. 302. TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF BOARD MEMBER TERM.

    The first paragraph of the first section of such Act (2 U.S.C. 154) 
is amended by inserting after the first sentence the following: ``Upon 
the request of the chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, any 
member whose term has expired may continue to serve on the Library of 
Congress Trust Fund Board until the earlier of (A) the date on which 
such member's successor is appointed, or (B) the end of the two-year 
period beginning on the date such member's term expires.''.

SEC. 303. TRUST FUND BOARD QUORUM.

    The third sentence of the first paragraph of the first section of 
such Act (as amended by section 302) (2 U.S.C. 154) is amended by 
striking ``Nine'' and inserting ``Seven''.
[EX A]:
(Sec. 102) Specifies the Fund service activities that may be conducted by Fund Service units.
(Sec. 103) Establishes the Library of Congress Revolving Fund, to be made available to the Librarian without fiscal year limitation, for the conduct of Fund service activities. Limits the obligations for such activities for any fiscal year to the total amounts specified in appropriations Acts for such fiscal year.
Authorizes the Librarian, in the operation of Fund activities, to enter into: (1) contracts for the lease and acquisition of goods and services for a period that begins in one fiscal year and ends in the next fiscal year; and (2) multi-year contracts for the acquisition of property and services in the same manner and to the same extent as the head of an executive agency may enter into such contracts under provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act.
(Sec. 105) Repeals provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1998 establishing the Cooperative Acquisitions Program Revolving Fund for financing a Library program to acquire foreign publications and research materials on behalf of participating institutions on a cost-recovery basis.
Title II: Cataloging Products and Services
 - Authorizes the Librarian of Congress to make cataloging products and services, created by the Library, available for purchase at prices that reflect as closely as practicable the cost of distribution over a reasonable period.
(Sec. 202) Repeals Federal law provisions that authorize the Librarian of Congress to sell copies of card indexes and other publications to institutions or individuals.
Title III: Library of Congress Trust Fund Board Amendments
 - Revises the composition of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board to include the vice chair of the Joint Committee on the Library. Provides for a temporary extension of Board members' terms. Decreases from nine to seven members the Board's quorum for the transaction of business.