Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1996
PL 104-52 (H.R.2020), enacted 11/19/1995

109 STAT. 468 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
Nov. 19, 1995 
[H.R. 2020] 
Treasury, Postal 
Service, and 
General 
Government 
Appropriations 
Act, 1996. 
Public Law 104-52 
104th Congress 
An Act 
Making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Serv-
ice, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the 
following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department, the 
United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, 
and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1996, and for other purposes, namely: 
Treasury 
Department 
Appropriations 
Act, 1996. 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Departmental Offices including 
operation and maintenance of the Treasury Building and Annex; 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; maintenance, repairs, and 
improvements of, and purchase of commercial insurance policies 
for, real properties leased or owned overseas, when necessary for 
the performance of official business; not to exceed $2,900,000 for 
official travel expenses; not to exceed $2,950,000 to remain available 
until expended for information technology modernization require-
ments; not to exceed $150,000 for official reception and representa-
tion expenses; not to exceed $258,000 for unforeseen emergencies 
of a confidential nature, to be allocated and expended under the 
direction of the Secretary of the Treasury and to be accounted 
for solely on his certificate; $105,929,000, of which up to $500,000 
shall be available to reimburse the District of Columbia Metropoli-
tan Police Department for personnel costs incurred by the Metropoli-
tan Police Department between May 19, 1995 and September 30, 
1995 as a result of the closing to vehicular traffic of Pennsylvania 
Avenue Northwest and other streets in the vicinity of the White 
House: Provided, That section 640 of title VI of the Treasury, 
Postal Service and General Grovernment Appropriations Act, 1995 
(Public Law 103-329, 108 Stat. 2432), is amended by adding at 
the end thereof the following new sentence: "This section shall 
not apply to any claim where the employee has received any com-
pensation for overtime hours worked during the period covered 
by the claim under any other provision of law, including, but not 
limited to, 5 U.S.C. 5545(c), or to any claim for compensation 
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109 STAT. 469 
for time spent commuting between the employee's residence and 
duty station.". 
TREASURY BUILDINGS AND ANNEX REPAIR AND RESTORATION 
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the Treasury 
Building and Annex, and the Secret Service Headquarters Building, 
$21,491,000, to remain available until expended. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
as amended, hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed 
$2,000,000 for official travel expenses; not to exceed $100,000 for 
unforeseen emergencies of a confidential nature, to he allocated 
and expended under the direction of the Inspector General of the 
Treasury; $29,319,000. 
TREASURY FORFEITURE FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund, as 
authorized by Public Law 102-393, not to exceed $10,000,000, to 
be derived from deposits in the Fund. 
FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK 
S^UARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Financial Crimes Enforcement 
Network, including hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel expenses 
of non-Federal law enforcement personnel to attend meetings con-
cerned with financial intelligence activities, law enforcement, and 
financial regulation; not to exceed $14,000 for official reception 
and representation expenses; $22,198,000: Provided, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, the Director of the Financial 
Crimes Enforcement Network may procure up to $500,000 in 
specialized, unique or novel automatic data processing equipment, 
ancillary equipment, software, services, and related resources from 
commercial vendors without regard to otherwise applicable procure-
ment laws and regulations and without full and open competition, 
utilizing procedures best suited under the circumstances of the 
procurement to efficiently fulfill the agency's requirements: Pro-
vided further. That funds appropriated in this account may be 
used to procure personal services contracts. 
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforcement Train-
ing Center, as a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, includ-
ing materials and support costs of Federal law enforcement basic 
training; purchase (not to exceed fifty-two for police-type use) and 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; for expenses for student athletic 
and related activities; uniforms without regard to the general pur-
chase price limitation for the current fiscal year; the conducting 
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Gifts and 
property. 
42 u s e 3771 
note. 
of and participating in firearms matches and presentation of 
awards; for public awareness and enhancing community support 
of law enforcement training; not to exceed $7,000 for official recep-
tion and representation expenses; room and board for student 
interns; and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided, 
That the Center is authorized to accept and use gifts of property, 
both real and personal, and to accept services, for authorized pur-
poses, including funding of a gift of intrinsic value which shall 
be awarded annually by the Director of the Center to the outstand-
ing student who graduated from a basic training program at the 
Center during the previous fiscal year, which shall be funded only 
by gifts received through the Center's gift authority: Provided fur-
ther. That notwithstanding any other provision of law, students 
attending training at any Federal Law Enforcement Training Cen-
ter site shall reside in on-Center or Center-provided housing, insofar 
as available and in accordance with Center policy: Provided further. 
That funds appropriated in this account shall be available for 
training United States Postal Service law enforcement personnel 
and Postal police officers, at the discretion of the Director; State 
and local government law enforcement training on a space-available 
basis; training of foreign law enforcement officials on a space-
available basis with reimbursement of actual costs to this appropria-
tion; training of private sector security officials on a space-available 
basis with reimbursement of actual costs to this appropriation; 
travel expenses of non-Federal personnel to attend State and local 
course development meetings at the Center: Provided further. That 
the Center is authorized to obligate funds in anticipation of 
reimbursements from agencies receiving training at the Federal 
Law Enforcement Training Center, except that total obligations 
at the end of the fiscal year shall not exceed total budgetary 
resources available at the end of the fiscal year: Provided 
further. 
That the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is authorized 
to provide short term medical services for students undergoing 
training at the Center; $36,070,000, of which $8,666,000 for mate-
rials and support costs of Federal law enforcement basic training 
shall remain available until September 30, 1998. 
ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENTS, AND RELATED 
EXPENSES 
For expansion of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 
for acquisition of necessary additional real property and facilities, 
and for ongoing maintenance, facility improvements, and related 
expenses, $9,663,000, to remain available until expended. 
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Financial Management Service, 
$184,300,000, of which not to exceed $14,277,000 shall remain 
available until expended for systems modernization initiatives. In 
addition, $90,000, to be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust 
Fund, to reimburse the Service for administrative and personnel 
expenses for financial management of the Fund, as authorized 
by section 1012 of Public Law 101-380. 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 471 
BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms, including purchase of not to exceed six hundred and 
fifty vehicles for police-type use for replacement only and hire 
of passenger motor vehicles; hire of aircraft; and services of expert 
witnesses at such rates as may be determined by the Director; 
for payment of per diem and/or subsistence allowances to employees 
where an assignment to the National Response Team during the 
investigation of a bombing or arson incident requires an employee 
to work 16 hours or more per day or to remain overnight at 
his or her post of duty; not to exceed $10,000 for official reception 
and representation expenses; for training of State and local law 
enforcement agencies with or without reimbursement; provision 
of laboratory assistance to State and local agencies, with or without 
reimbursement; $377,971,000, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 
shall be available for the payment of attorneys' fees as provided 
by 18 U.S.C. 924(d)(2); and of which $1,000,000 shall be available 
for the equipping of any vessel, vehicle, equipment, or aircraft 
available for official use by a State or local law enforcement agency 
if the conveyance will be used in drug-related joint law enforcement 
operations with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and 
for the payment of overtime salaries, travel, fuel, training, equip-
ment, and other similar costs of State and local law enforcement 
officers that are incurred in joint operations with the Bureau of 
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms: Provided, That no funds made avail-
able by this or any other Act may be used to implement any 
reorganization of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms 
or transfer of the Bureau's functions, missions, or activities to 
other agencies or Departments in the fiscal year ending on Septem-
ber 30, 1996: Provided further, That no funds appropriated herein 
shall be available for salaries or administrative expenses in connec-
tion with consolidating or centralizing, within the Department of 
the Treasury, the records, or any portion thereof, of acquisition 
and disposition of firearms maintained by Federal firearms licens-
ees: Provided further. That no funds appropriated herein shall 
be used to pay administrative expenses or the compensation of 
any officer or employee of the United States to implement an 
amendment or amendments to 27 CFR 178.118 or to change the 
definition of "Curios or relics" in 27 CFR 178.11 or remove any 
item from ATF Publication 5300.11 as it existed on January 1, 
1994: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated herein 
shall be available to investigate or act upon applications for relief 
from Federal firearms disabilities under 18 U.S.C. 925(c): Provided 
further. That such funds shall be available to investigate and act 
upon applications filed by corporations for relief from Federal fire-
arms disabilities under 18 U.S.C. section 925(c). 
UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the United States Customs Service, 
including purchase of up to 1,000 motor vehicles of which 960 
are for replacement only, including 990 for police-type use and 
commercial operations; hire of motor vehicles; not to exceed $20,000 
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PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
for official reception and representation expenses; and awards of 
compensation to informers, as authorized by any Act enforced by 
the United States Customs Service; $1,387,153,000, of which such 
sums as become available in the Customs User Fee Account, except 
sums subject to section 13031(f)(3) of the Consolidated Omnibus 
Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(3)), shall 
be derived from that Account; of that total, not to exceed $150,000 
shall be available for pa3nTient for rental space in connection with 
preclearance operations, and not to exceed $4,000,000 shall be 
available until expended for research: Provided, That uniforms may 
be purchased without regard to the general purchase price limita-
tion for the current fiscal year: Provided further, That the Commis-
sioner of the Customs Service designate a single individual to 
be port director of all United States (Government activities at two 
ports of entry, one on the southern border and one on the northern 
border: Provided further. That $750,000 shall be available for addi-
tional part-time and temporary positions in the Honolulu Customs 
District. 
HARBOR MAINTENANCE FEE COLLECTION 
For administrative expenses related to the collection of the 
Harbor Maintenance Fee, pursuant to Public Law 103-182, 
$3,000,000, to be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund 
and to be transferred to and merged with the Customs "Salaries 
and Expenses" account for such purposes. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR AND MARINE INTERDICTION 
PROGRAMS 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
operation and maintenance of marine vessels, aircraft, and other 
related equipment of the Air and Marine Programs, including oper-
ational training and mission-related travel, and rental payments 
for facilities occupied by the air or marine interdiction or demand 
reduction programs, the operations of which include: the interdiction 
of narcotics and other goods; the provision of support to Customs 
and other Federal, State, and local agencies in the enforcement 
or administration of laws enforced by the Customs Service; and, 
at the discretion of the Commissioner of Customs, the provision 
of assistance to Federal, State, and local agencies in other law 
enforcement and emergency humanitarian efforts; $64,843,000 
which 
shall 
remain 
available 
until 
expended; 
in 
addition, 
$19,733,000 shall be transferred from the Customs Air and Marine 
Interdiction Programs, Procurement Account to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That no aircraft or other related equip-
ment, with the exception of aircraft which is one of a kind and 
has been identified as excess to Customs requirements, and aircraft 
which has been damaged beyond repair, shall be transferred to 
any other Federal agency. Department, or office outside of the 
Department of the Treasury, during fiscal year 1996, without the 
prior approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions. 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 473 
CUSTOMS SERVICES AT SMALL AIRPORTS 
(TO BE DERIVED FROM FEES COLLECTED) 
Such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $1,406,000, 
for expenses for the provision of Customs services at certain small 
airports or other facilities when authorized by law and designated 
by the Secretary of the Treasury, including expenditures for the 
salary and expenses of individuals employed to provide such serv-
ices, to be derived from fees collected by the Secretary of the 
Treasury pursuant to section 236 of Public Law 98-573 for each 
of these airports or other facilities when authorized by law and 
designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, and to remain available 
until expended. 
BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 
ADMINISTERING THE PUBLIC DEBT 
For necessary expenses connected with any public-debt issues 
of the United States; $180,065,000: Provided, That the sum appro-
priated herein from the General Fund for fiscal year 1996 shall 
be reduced by not more than $600,000 as definitive security issue 
fees are collected and not more than $9,465,000 as Treasury Direct 
Investor Account Maintenance fees are collected, so as to result 
in a final fiscal year 1996 appropriation from the General Fund 
estimated at $170,000,000. 
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE 
PROCESSING, ASSISTANCE, AND MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service, not 
otherwise provided for; including processing tax returns; revenue 
accounting; providing assistance to taxpayers, management serv-
ices, and inspection; including purchase (not to exceed 150 for 
replacement only, for police-type use) and hire of passenger motor 
vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, at such rates as may be determined by the Commissioner: 
$1,723,764,000, of which up to $3,700,000 shall be for the Tax 
Counseling for the Elderly Program, and of which not to exceed 
$25,000 shall be for official reception and representation expenses. 
TAX LAW ENFORCEMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service for 
determining and establishing tax liabilities; tax and enforcement 
litigation; technical rulings; examining employee plans and exempt 
organizations; investigation and enforcement activities; securing 
unfiled tax returns; collecting unpaid accounts; statistics of income 
and compliance research; the purchase (for police-type use, not 
to exceed 850), and hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 
1343(b)); and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such 
rates as may be determined by the Commissioner $4,097,294,000, 
of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall remain avEiilable until 
September 30, 1998 for research: Provided, That $13,000,000 shall 
be used to initiate a program to utilize private counsel law firms 
and debt collection agencies in the collection activities of the 
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Internal Revenue Service in compliance with section 104 of this 
Act. 
INFORMATION SYSTEMS 
For necessary expenses for data processing and telecommuni-
cations support for Internal Revenue Service activities, including: 
tax systems modernization (modernized developmental systems), 
modernized operational systems, services and compliance, and sup-
port systems; and for the hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 
U.S.C. 1343(b)); and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at 
such 
rates 
as 
may 
be 
determined 
by 
the 
Commissioner; 
$1,527,154,000, of which no less than $695,000,000 shall be avail-
able for tax systems modernization activities, of which up to 
$185,000,000 for tax and information systems development projects 
Reports. 
shall remain available until September 30, 1998: Provided, That 
of the 
funds 
appropriated 
for 
tax 
systems 
modernization, 
$100,000,000 may not be obligated until the Secretary of the Treas-
ury provides a report to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House and the Senate that (1) with explicit decision criteria, identi-
fies, evaluates, and prioritizes all systems investments planned 
for fiscal year 1996, (2) provides a schedule for successfully mitigat-
ing deficiencies identified by the General Accounting Office in its 
April 1995 report to the Committees, (3) presents a milestone 
schedule for development and implementation of all projects 
included in the tax systems modernization program, and (4) pre-
sents a plan to expand the utilization of external expertise for 
systems development and total program integration. 
Taxes. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE 
SECTION 1. Not to exceed 2 per centum of any appropriation 
made available to the Internal Revenue Service for the current 
fiscal year by this Act may be transferred to any other Internal 
Revenue Service appropriation upon the advance approval of the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Internal Reve-
nue Service is authorized to transfer such sums as may be necessary 
between appropriations with advance approval of the House and 
Senate Appropriations Committees. 
Employee 
SEC. 2. The Internal Revenue Service shall institute and main-
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employees are trained in taxpayers' rights, in dealing courteously 
with the taxpayers, and in cross-cultural relations. 
UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE 
SALARIES A N D EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the United States Secret Service, 
including purchase (not to exceed 665 vehicles for police-type use 
for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire 
of aircraft; training and assistance requested by State and local 
governments, which may be provided without reimbursement; serv-
ices of expert witnesses at such rates as may be determined by 
the Director; rental of buildings in the District of Columbia, and 
fencing, lighting, guard booths, and other facilities on private or 
other property not in Government ownership or control, as may 
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109 STAT. 475 
be necessary to perforra protective functions; for payment of per 
diem and/or subsistence allowances to employees where a protective 
assignment during the actual day or days of the visit of a protectee 
require an employee to work 16 hours per day or to remain over-
night at his or her post of duty; the conducting of and participating 
in firearms matches; presentation of awards; and for travel of 
Secret Service employees on protective missions without regard 
to the limitations on such expenditures in this or any other Act: 
Provided, That approval is obtained in advance from the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations; for repairs, alterations, 
and minor construction at the James J. Rowley Secret Service 
Training Center; for research and development; for making grants 
to conduct behavioral research in support of protective research 
and operations; not to exceed $12,500 for official reception and 
representation expenses; not to exceed $50,000 to provide technical 
assistance and equipment to foreign law enforcement organizations 
in counterfeit investigations; for payment in advance for commercial 
accommodations as may be necessary to perform protective func-
tions; and for uniforms without regard to the general purchase 
price limitation for the current fiscal year; $531,944,000. 
VIOLENT CRIME REDUCTION PROGRAMS 
For activities authorized by Public Law 103-322, to remain 
available until expended, which shall be derived from the Violent 
Crime Reduction Trust Fund, as follows: 
(a) As authorized by section 190001(e), $69,314,000, of which 
$25,690,000 shall be available to the United States Customs Service 
for expenses associated with "Operation Hardline"; of which 
$21,010,000 shall be available to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco 
and Firearms, of which no less than $14,410,000 shall be available 
to annualize the salaries and related costs for the fiscal year 1995 
supplemental initiative, and of which no less than $3,500,000 shall 
be available for administering the Gang Resistance Education and 
Training program, and of which $3,100,000 shall be available for 
ballistics technologies; of which $21,600,000 shall be available to 
the United States Secret Service, of which no less than $1,600,000 
shall be available for enhancing forensics technolo^ to aid missing 
and exploited children investigations; and of which $1,014,000 shall 
be available to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; 
and 
(b) As authorized by section 32401, $7,200,000, for disburse-
ment through grants, cooperative agreements or contracts, to local 
governments for Gang Ilesistance Education and Training: Pro-
vided, That notwithstanding sections 32401 and 310001, such funds 
shall be allocated only to the affected State and local law enforce-
ment and prevention organizations participating in such projects. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
SECTION 101. Any obligation or expenditure by the Secretary 
in connection with law enforcement activities of a Federal agency 
or a Department of the Treasury law enforcement organization 
in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 9703(g)(4)(B) from unobligated bal-
ances remaining in the Fund on September 30, 1996, shall be 
made in compliance with the reprogramming guidelines contained 
in the House and Senate reports accompanying this Act. 
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Confidential 
information. 
26 u s e 6103 
note. 
31 u s e 321 note. 
Postal Service 
Appropriations 
Act. 1996. 
SEe. 102. Appropriations to the Treasury Department in this 
Act shall be available for uniforms or allowances therefor, as author-
ized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901), including maintenance, repairs, and 
cleaning; purchase of insurance for official motor vehicles operated 
in foreign countries; purchase of motor vehicles without regard 
to the general purchase price limitation for vehicles purchased 
and used overseas for the current fiscal year; entering into contracts 
with the Department of State for the furnishing of health and 
medical services to employees and their dependents serving in 
foreign countries; and services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 
SEC. 104. None of the funds appropriated by this title shall 
be used in connection with the collection of any underpayment 
of any tax imposed by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 unless 
the conduct of officers and employees of the Internal Revenue 
Service in connection with such collection, including any private 
sector employees under contract to the Internal Revenue Service, 
complies with subsection (a) of section 805 (relating to communica-
tions in connection with debt collection), and section 806 (relating 
to harassment or abuse), of the Fair Debt Collection Practices 
Act (15 U.S.C. 1692). 
SEC. 105. The Internal Revenue Service shall institute policies 
and procedures which will safeguard the confidentiality of taxpayer 
information. 
SEC. 106. The funds provided to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco 
and Firearms for fiscal year 1996 in this Act for the enforcement 
of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act shall be expended in 
a manner so as not to diminish enforcement efforts with respect 
to section 105 of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act. 
SEC. 107. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized in fiscal 
year 1996 and hereafter, to use Treasury Department aircraft, 
with or without reimbursement, to assist bureaus within the 
Department of the Treasury or other Federal agencies. Departments 
or offices outside of the Department of the Treasury to provide 
emergency law enforcement support to protect human life, property, 
public health, or safety. 
This title may be cited as the "Treasury Department Appropria-
tions Act, 1996". 
TITLE II—POSTAL SERVICE 
PAYMENTS TO THE POSTAL SERVICE 
PAYMENT TO THE POSTAL SERVICE FUND 
For payment to the Postal Service Fund for revenue forgone 
on free and reduced rate mail, pursuant to subsections (c) and 
(d) of section 2401 of title 39, United States Code; $85,080,000: 
Provided, That mail for overseas voting and mail for the blind 
39 use 403 note, shall continue to be free: Provided further, That six-day delivery 
and rural delivery of mail shall continue at not less than the 
1983 level: Provided further. That none of the funds made available 
to the Postal Service by this Act shall be used to implement any 
rule, regulation, or policy of charging any officer or employee of 
any State or local child support enforcement agency, or any individ-
ual participating in a State or local program of child support enforce-
ment, a fee for information requested or provided concerning an 
address of a postal customer: Provided further. That none of the 
funds provided in this Act shall be used to consolidate or close 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 477 
small rural and other small post offices in the fiscal year ending 
on September 30, 1996. 
PAYMENT TO THE POSTAL SERVICE FUND FOR NONFUNDED LIABILITIES 
For payment to the Postal Service Fund for meeting the liabil-
ities of the former Post Office Department to the Employees' Com-
pensation Fund pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 2004, $36,828,000. 
This title may be cited as the "Postal Service Appropriations 
Act, 1996". 
TITLE III—EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND 
Executive Office 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 
Appropriations 
Act, 1996. 
COMPENSATION OF THE PRESIDENT 
For compensation of the President, including an expense allow-
ance at the rate of $50,000 per annum as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 
102; $250,000: Provided, That none of the funds made available 3 USC 102 note, 
for official expenses shall be expended for any other purpose and 
any unused amount shall revert to the Treasury pursuant to section 
1552 of title 31 of the United States Code: Provided further, That 
none of the funds made available for official expenses shall be 
considered as taxable to the President. 
THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE 
SI^ARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the White House as authorized 
by law, including not to exceed $3,850,000 for services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 105; including subsistence expenses 
as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 105, which shall be expended and 
accounted for as provided in that section; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles, newspapers, periodicals, teletype news service, and travel 
(not to exceed $100,000 to be expended and accounted for as pro-
vided by 3 U.S.C. 103); not to exceed $19,000 for official entertain-
ment expenses, to be available for allocation within the Executive 
Office of the President; $39,459,000. 
EXECUTIVE RESIDENCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing, 
improvement, heating and lighting, including electric power and 
fixtures, of the Executive Residence at the White House and official 
entertainment expenses of the President; $7,827,000, to be expended 
and accounted for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 105, 109-110, 112-
114. 
WHITE HOUSE REPAIR AND RESTORATION 
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the Executive 
Residence at the White House, $2,200,000, to remain available 
until expended for replacement of the White House roof, to be 
expended and accounted for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 105, 109-
110, 112-114. 
109 STAT. 478 
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OFFICIAL RESIDENCE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For the care, operation, refurnishing, improvement, heating 
and Ughting, including electric power and fixtures, of the official 
residence of the Vice President, the hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
and not to exceed $90,000 for official entertainment expenses of 
the Vice President, to be accounted for solely on his certificate; 
$324,000: Provided, That advances or repayments or transfers from 
this appropriation may be made to any department or agency for 
expenses of carrying out such activities. 
SPECIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE PRESIDENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to enable the Vice President to provide 
assistance to the President in connection with specially assigned 
functions, services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 
106, including subsistence expenses as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 106, 
which shall be expended and accounted for as provided in that 
section; and hire of passenger motor vehicles; $3,280,000. 
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Council in carrying out its func-
tions under the Employment Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1021), 
$3,180,000. 
OFFICE OF POLICY DEVELOPMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Policy Development, 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and 3 U.S.C. 
107; $3,867,000. 
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Security Council, includ-
ing services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; $6,648,000. 
OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Administration; 
$25,736,000, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 
and 3 U.S.C. 107, and hire of passenger motor vehicles. 
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Management and 
Budget, including hire of passenger motor vehicles, services as 
PUBLIC l A W 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
1Q9 STAT. 479 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; $55,573,000, of which not to exceed 
$5,000,000 shall be available to carry out the provisions of 44 
U.S.C. chapter 35: Provided, That, as provided in 31 U.S.C. 1301(a), 
appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which appro-
priations were made except as otherwise provided by law: Provided 
further. That none of the funds appropriated in this Act for the 
Office of Management and Budget may be used for the purpose 
of reviewing any agricultural marketing orders or any activities 
or regulations under the provisions of the Agricultural Marketing 
Agreement Act of 1937 (7 U.S.C. 601 et seq.): Provided 
further, 
That none of the funds made available for the Office of Management 
and Budget by this Act may be expended for the altering of the 
transcript of actual testimony of witnesses, except for testimony 
of officials of the Office of Management and Budget, before the 
Committee on Appropriations or the Committee on Veterans' Affairs 
or their subcommittees: Provided further, That this proviso shall 
not apply to printed hearings released by the Committee on Appro-
priations or the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. 
OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of National Drug Control 
Policy; for research activities pursuant to title I of Public Law 
100-690; not to exceed $8,000 for official reception and representa-
tion expenses; for participation in joint projects or in the provision 
of services on matters of mutual interest with nonprofit, research, 
or public organizations or agencies, with or without reimbursement; 
$23,500,000, of which $16,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, shall be available to the Counter-Drug Technology 
Assessment Center for counternarcotics research and development 
projects and shall be available for transfer to other Federal depart-
ments or agencies; and of the funds made available to the Counter-
Drug Technology Assessment Center, $600,000 shall be transferred 
to the Drug Enforcement Administration for the El Paso Intelligence 
Center: Provided, That the Office is authorized to accept, hold, Gifts and 
administer, and utilize gifts, both real and personal, for the purpose property. 
of aiding or facilitating the work of the Office. 
UNANTICIPATED NEEDS 
For expenses necessary to enable the President to meet 
unanticipated needs, in furtherance of the national interest, secu-
rity, or defense which may arise at home or abroad during the 
current fiscal year; $1,000,000. 
FEDERAL DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMS 
HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS PROGRAM 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of National Drug Control 
Policy's 
High 
Intensity 
Drug 
Trafficking 
Areas 
Program, 
$103,000,000 for drug control activities consistent with the approved 
strategy for each of the designated High Intensity Drug Trafficking 
109 STAT. 480 
PUBLIC LAW 104^52—NOV. 19, 1995 
Areas, of which no less than $55,000,000 shall be transferred to 
State and local entities for drug control activities; and of which 
up to $48,000,000 may be transferred to Federal agencies and 
departments at a rate to be determined by the Director: Provided, 
That the funds made available under this head shall be obligated 
within 90 days of the date of enactment of this Act. 
This title may be cited as the "Executive Office Appropriations 
Act, 1996". 
Independent 
Agencies 
Appropriations 
Act, 1996. 
Government 
organization. 
42 u s e note 
prec. 4271. 
TITLE IV—INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
ADVISORY COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS 
SALARIES A N D EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Commission on Inter-
governmental Relations, $784,000, of which $334,000 is to carry 
out the provisions of Public Law 104-4, and of which $450,000 
shall be available only for the purposes of the prompt and orderly 
termination of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Rela-
tions. 
Government 
organization. 
Termination 
date. 
5 u s e note prec. 
591. 
ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Administrative Conference of 
the United States, established under subchapter V of chapter 5 
of title 5, United States Code, $600,000: Provided, That these funds 
shall only be available for the purposes of the prompt and orderly 
termination of the Administrative Conference of the United States 
by February 1, 1996. 
COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 
SEVERELY DISABLED 
SALARIES A N D EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Committee for Purchase From 
People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled established by the 
Act of June 23, 1971, Public Law 92-28; $1,800,000. 
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Fed-
eral Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended; $26,521,000, 
of which no less than $1,500,000 shall be available for internal 
automated data processing systems, of which not to exceed $5,000 
shall be available for reception and representation expenses: Pro-
vided, That none of the funds appropriated for automated data 
processing systems may be obligated until the Chairman of the 
Federal Election Commission provides to the House Committee 
on Appropriations a systems requirements analysis on the develop-
ment of such a system. 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 481 
FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY 
SI\LARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Federal 
Labor Relations Authority, pursuant to Reorganization Plan Num-
bered 2 of 1978, and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, including hire of experts 
and consultants, hire of passenger motor vehicles, rental of con-
ference 
rooms in the District of Columbia and 
elsewhere; 
$20,542,000: Provided, That public members of the Federal Service 
Impasses Panel may be paid travel expenses and per diem in 
lieu of subsistence as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5703) for persons 
employed intermittently in the Grovernment service, and compensa-
tion as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further. That notwith-
standing 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds received from fees charged to non-
Federal participants at labor-management relations conferences 
shall be credited to and merged with this account, to be available 
without further appropriation for the costs of carrying out these 
conferences. 
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
FEDERAL BUILDINGS FUND 
LIMITATIONS ON AVAILABILITY OF REVENUE 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION) 
For additional expenses necessary to carry out the purpose 
of the Fund established pursuant to section 210(f) of the Federal 
Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended 
(40 U.S.C. 490(f)), $86,000,000, to be deposited into said Fund 
shall be available for necessary expenses of real property manage-
ment and related activities not otherwise provided for, including 
operation, maintenance, and protection of Federally owned and 
leased buildings; rental of buildings in the District of Columbia; 
restoration of leased premises; moving governmental agencies 
(including space adjustments and telecommunications relocation 
expenses) in connection with the assignment, allocation and transfer 
of space; contractual services incident to cleaning or servicing build-
ings, and moving; repair and alteration of federally owned buildings 
including grounds, approaches and appurtenances; care and safe-
guarding of sites; maintenance, preservation, demolition, and equip-
ment; acquisition of buildings and sites by purchase, condemnation, 
or as otherwise authorized by law; acquisition of options to purchase 
buildings and sites; conversion and extension of Federally owned 
buildings; preliminary planning and design of projects by contract 
or otherwise; construction of new buildings (including equipment 
for such buildings); and payment of principal, interest, taxes, and 
any other obligations for public buildings acquired by installment 
purchase and purchase contract, in the aggregate amount of 
$5,066,149,000, of which (1) not to exceed $545,002,000 shall remain 
available until expended for construction of additional projects at 
locations and at maximum construction improvement costs (includ-
ing funds for sites and expenses and associated design and construc-
tion services) as follows: 
New Construction: 
109 STAT. 482 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
Colorado: 
Lakewood, Denver Federal Center, U.S. (Geological Sur-
vey Lab Building, $25,802,000 
Florida: 
Tallahassee, U.S. Courthouse Annex, $24,015,000 
Georgia: 
Savannah, U.S. Courthouse Annex, $2,597,000 
Louisiana: 
Lafayette, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 
$29,565,000 
Maryland: 
Prince Georges County, Food and Drug Administration, 
$55,000,000 
Nebraska: 
Omaha, 
Federal 
Building 
and 
U.S. 
Courthouse, 
$53,424,000 
New Mexico: 
Albuquerque, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 
$6,126,000 
New York: 
Central Islip, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 
$189,102,000 
North Dakota: 
Pembina, Border Station, $11,113,000 
Pennsylvania: 
Scranton, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse 
Annex, $24,095,000 
South Carolina: 
Columbia, U.S. Courthouse Annex, $3,562,000 
Texas: 
Austin, Veterans Affairs Annex, $7,940,000 
Brownsville, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 
$27,452,000 
Washington: 
Point Roberts, U.S. Border Station, $3,516,000 
Seattle, U.S. Courthouse, $5,600,000 
West Virginia: 
Martinsburg, Internal Revenue Service Computer Cen-
ter, $63,408,000 
Non-prospectus Projects Program, $12,685,000: 
Provided, That each of the immediately foregoing limits of costs 
on new construction projects may be exceeded to the extent that 
savings are effected in other such projects, but not to exceed 10 
per centum unless advanced approval is obtained from the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations of a greater amount: 
Provided further, That the $6,000,000 under the heading of non-
prospectus construction projects, made available in Public Laws 
102-393 and 103-123 for the acquisition, lease, construction and 
equipping of flexiplace work telecommuting centers, is hereby 
increased by $5,000,000 from funds made available in this Act 
for non-prospectus construction projects, all of which shall remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That of the $5,000,000 
made available by this Act, half shall be used for telecommuting 
centers in the State of Virginia and half shall be used for tele-
commuting centers in the State of Maryland: Provided 
further. 
That of the funds made available for the District of Columbia, 
Southeast Federal Center, under the heading, "Real Property Activi-
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 483 
ties, Federal Buildings Fund, Limitations on Availability of Reve-
nue" in Public Law 101-509, $55,000,000 are rescinded: Provided 
further, That the limitation on the availability of revenue contained 
in such Act is reduced by $55,000,000: Provided further. That all 
funds for direct construction projects shall expire on September 
30, 1997, and remain in the Federal Buildings Fund except funds 
for projects as to which funds for design or other funds have 
been obligated in whole or in part prior to such date: Provided 
further. That claims against the Government of less than $250,000 Claims, 
arising from direct construction projects, acquisitions of buildings 
and purchase contract projects pursuant to Public Law 92-313, 
be liquidated with prior notification to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House and Senate to the extent savings are effected 
in other such projects; (2) not to exceed $637,000,000 shall remain 
available until expended, for repairs and alterations which includes 
associated design and construction services: Provided further. That 
the amounts provided in this or any prior Act for Repairs and 
Alterations may be used to fund costs associated with implementing 
security improvements to buildings necessary to meet the minimum 
standards for security in accordance with current law and in compli-
ance with the reprogramming guidelines of the appropriate Commit-
tees of the House and Senate: Provided further. That funds in 
the Federal Buildings Fund for Repairs and Alterations shall, for 
prospectus projects, be limited to the amount by project as follows, 
except each project may be increased by an amount not to exceed 
10 per centum unless advance approval is obtained from the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate of a greater 
amount: 
Repairs and Alterations: 
Arkansas: 
Little Rock, Federal Building, $7,551,000 
California: 
Sacramento, Federal Building (2800 Cottage Way), 
$13,636,000 
District of Columbia: 
ICC/Connecting Wing Complex/Customs (phase 2/3), 
$58,275,000 
Illinois: 
Chicago, Federal Center, $45,971,000 
Maryland: 
Woodlawn, SSA East High-Low Buildings, $17,422,000 
North Dakota: 
Bismarck, Federal Building, Post Office and U.S. 
Courthouse, $7,119,000 
Pennsylvania: 
Philadelphia, Byrne-Green Complex, $30,909,000 
Philadelphia, SSA Building, Mid-Atlantic Program 
Service Center, $11,376,000 
Puerto Rico: 
Old San Juan, Post Office and U.S. Courthouse, 
$25,701,000 
Dallas, Federal Building (Griffin St.), $5,641,000 
Washington: 
Richland, Federal Building, U.S. Post Office, and 
Courthouse, $10,000,000 
Nationwide: 
109 STAT. 484 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
Chlorofluorocarbons Program, $43,533,000 
Elevator Program, $ 13,109,000 
Energy Program, $20,000,000 
Advance Design, $22,000,000 
Basic Repairs and Alterations, $304,757,000: Provided further. 
That additional projects for which prospectuses have been fully 
approved may be funded under this category only if advance 
approval is obtained from the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House and Senate: Provided further, 
That the difference 
between the funds appropriated and expended on any projects in 
this or any prior Act, under the heading "Repairs and Alterations", 
may be transferred to Basic Repairs and Alterations or used to 
fund authorized increases in prospectus projects: Provided 
further, 
That all funds for repairs and alterations prospectus projects shall 
expire on September 30, 1997, and remain in the Federal Buildings 
Fund except funds for projects as to which funds for design or 
other funds have been obligated in whole or in part prior to such 
date: Provided further. That of the funds provided for Advanced 
Design, $100,000 shall be made available for architectural design 
studies for renovation of the National Veterinary Services Labora-
tory and a biocontainment facility at the National Animal Disease 
Center, Ames, Iowa: Provided further. That the amount provided 
in this or any prior Act for Basic Repairs and Alterations may 
be used to pay claims against the Government arising from any 
projects under the heading "Repairs and Alterations" or used to 
fund authorized increases in prospectus projects; (3) not to exceed 
$181,963,000 for installment acquisition payments including pay-
ments on purchase contracts which shall remain available until 
expended; (4) not to exceed $2,326,200,000 for rental of space which 
shall remain available until expended; and (5) not to exceed 
$1,302,551,000, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available 
for 
logistical 
support 
and 
personnel 
services for 
the 
Xth 
Paralympiad for building operations which shall remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That funds available to the Gen-
eral Services Administration shall not be available for expenses 
in connection with any construction, repair, alteration, and acquisi-
tion project for which a prospectus, if required by the Public Build-
ings Act of 1959, as amended, has not been approved, except that 
necessary funds may be expended for each project for required 
expenses in connection with the development of a proposed prospec-
tus: Provided further, That the Administrator is authorized to enter 
into and perform such leases, contracts, or other transactions with 
any agency or instrumentality of the United States, the several 
States, or the District of Columbia, or with any person, firm, associa-
tion, or corporation, as may be necessary to implement the trade 
center plan at the Federal Triangle Project: Provided further. That 
for the purposes of this authorization, buildings constructed pursu-
ant to the purchase contract authority of the Public Buildings 
Amendments of 1972 (40 U.S.C. 602a), buildings occupied pursuant 
to installment purchase contracts, and buildings under the control 
of another department or agency where alterations of such buildings 
are required in connection with the moving of such other depart-
ment or agency from buildings then, or thereafter to be, under 
the control of the General Services Administration shall be consid-
ered to be federally owned buildings: Provided further, That funds 
available in the Federal Buildings Fund may be expended for emer-
gency repairs when advance approval is obtained from the Commit-
•^W¥t^ 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 485 
tees on Appropriations of the House and Senate: Provided 
further, 
That amounts necessary to provide reimbursable special services 
to other agencies under section 210(f)(6) of the Federal Property 
and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 
490(f)(6)) and amounts to provide such reimbursable fencing, light-
ing, guard booths, and other facilities on private or other property 
not in Grovernment ownership or control as may be appropriate 
to enable the United States Secret Service to perform its protective 
functions pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 3056, as amended, shall be available 
from such revenues and collections: Provided further. That revenues 
and collections and any other sums accruing to this Fund during 
fiscal year 1996, excluding reimbursements under section 210(f)(6) 
of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 
(40 U.S.C. 490(f)(6)) in excess of $5,066,149,000 shall remain in 
the Fund and shall not be available for expenditure except as 
authorized in appropriations Acts. 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise provided for, 
necessary for asset management activities; utilization of excess 
and disposal of surplus personal property; transportation manage-
ment activities; procurement and supply management activities; 
Government-wide and internal responsibilities relating to auto-
mated 
data 
management, 
telecommunications, 
information 
resources management, and related activities; utilization survey, 
deed compliance inspection, appraisal, environmental and cultural 
analysis, and land use planning functions pertaining to excess and 
surplus real property; agency-wide policy direction; Board of Con-
tract Appeals; accounting, records management, and other support 
services incident to adjudication of Indian Tribal Claims by the 
United States Court of Federal Claims; services as authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109; and not to exceed $5,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses; $119,091,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General and 
services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $33,274,000: Provided, That 
not to exceed $5,000 shall be available for pajmtient for information 
and detection of fraud against the Grovemment, including payment 
for recovery of stolen Government property: Provided further, That 
not to exceed $2,500 shall be available for awards to employees 
of other Federal agencies and private citizens in recognition of 
efforts and initiatives resulting in enhanced Office of Inspector 
General effectiveness. 
ALLOWANCES AND OFFICE STAFF FOR FORMER PRESIDENTS 
For carrying out the provisions of the Act of August 25, 1958, 
as amended (3 U.S.C. 102 note), and Public Law 95-138; $2,181,000: 
Provided, That the Administrator of General Services shall transfer 
to the Secretary of the Treasury such sums as may be necessary 
to carry out the provisions of such Acts. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
SECTION 1. The appropriate appropriation or fund available 
to the General Services Administration shall be credited with the 
109 STAT. 486 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
Telecommuting. 
40 use 490h. 
Telecommuting. 
Maryland. 
103 Stat. 805. 
cost of operation, protection, maintenance, upkeep, repair, and 
improvement, included as part of rentals received from Government 
corporations pursuant to law (40 U.S.C. 129). 
SEC. 2. Funds available to the CJeneral Services Administration 
shall be available for the hire of passenger motor vehicles. 
SEC. 3. Funds in the Federal Buildings Fund made available 
for fiscal year 1996 for Federal Buildings Fund activities may 
be transferred between such activities only to the extent necessary 
to meet program requirements. Any proposed transfers shall be 
approved in advance by the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House and Senate. 
SEC. 4. No funds made available by this Act shall be used 
to transmit a fiscal year 1997 request for United States Courthouse 
construction that does not meet the standards for construction 
as established by the General Services Administration, the Judicial 
Conference of the United States, and the Office of Management 
and Budget and does not reflect the priorities of the Judicial Con-
ference of the United States as set out in its approved five-year 
construction plan. 
SEC. 5. The Administrator of General Services is authorized 
to accept and retain income received by the General Services 
Administration on or after October 1, 1993, from Federal agencies 
and non-Federal sources, to defray costs directly associated with 
the functions of flexiplace work telecommuting centers. 
SEC. 6. Of the $11,000,000 made available by this Act and 
Public Laws 102-393 and 103-123 for flexiplace work telecommut-
ing centers, not less than $2,200,000 shall be available for imme-
diate transfer to the Charles County Community College, to provide 
facilities, equipment, and other services to the General Services 
Administration for the purposes of establishing telecommuting work 
centers in Southern Maryland (Charles, Calvert, and St. Marj^s 
County) for use by Government agencies designated by the Adminis-
trator of Greneral Services: Provided, That the language providing 
authority to pay a public entity in the State of Maryland, not 
to exceed $1,300,000 for the purpose of establishing telecommuting 
work centers in Southern Maryland, under the heading "Federal 
Buildings Fund Limitations on Availability of Revenue" in Public 
Law 103-329 (108 Stat. 2400), is hereby repealed. 
SEC. 7. Notwithstanding any provision of this or any other 
Act, during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and there-
after, no funds may be obligated or expended in any way for 
the purpose of the sale, excessing, surplusing, or disposal of lands 
in the vicinity of Norfolk Lake, Arkansas, administered by the 
Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, without the specific 
approval of the Congress. 
SEC. 8. Notwithstanding any provision of this or any other 
Act, during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and there-
after, no funds may be obligated or expended in any way for 
the purpose of the sale, excessing, surplusing, or disposal of lands 
in the vicinity of Bull Shoals Lake, Arkansas, administered by 
the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, without the 
specific approval of the Congress. 
SEC. 9. Section 17(c) of Public Law 101-136 is amended by— 
(a) striking "within 3 years of date of conveyance," and 
inserting in lieu thereof, "simultaneously"; and by striking the 
remainder of the first sentence following, "the islands of Hawaii, 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 487 
Oahu, and Molokai" and inserting a period immediately there-
after; and 
(b) in paragraph (2) by striking "in the exchange described 
in subsection (cXl)" and inserting, "or recreational" immediately 
after the word, "educational". 
JOHN F . KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD 
For necessary expenses to carry out the John F. Kennedy 
Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, $2,150,000. 
MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD 
SA]:.ARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Merit 
Systems Protection Board pursuant to Reorganization Plan Num-
bered 2 of 1978 and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, rental of conference rooms 
in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, hire of passenger motor 
vehicles, and direct procurement of survey printing, $24,549,000, 
together with not to exceed $2,430,000 for administrative expenses 
to adjudicate retirement appeals to be transferred from the Civil 
Service Retirement and Disability Fund in amounts determined 
by the Merit Systems Protection Board. 
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 
ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses in connection with the administration 
of the National Archives and records and related activities, as 
provided by law, and for expenses necessary for the review and 
declassification of documents, and for the hire of passenger motor 
vehicles, $199,633,000, of which $4,500,000 shall be available until 
expended for cataloging, archiving and digitizing activities: Pro-
vided, That the Archivist of the United States is authorized to 
use any excess funds available from the amount borrowed for 
construction of the National Archives facility, for expenses necessary 
to move into the facility. 
ARCHIVES FACILITIES AND PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES 
REPAIRS AND RESTORATION 
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of archives facilities 
and presidential libraries, $1,500,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDS COMMISSION 
GRANTS PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses for allocations and grants for historical 
publications and records as authorized by 44 U.S.C. 2504, as 
amended, $5,000,000 to remain available until expended. 
109 STAT. 488 
PUBLIC LAW 104^-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office 
of Government Ethics pursuant to the Ethics in Grovemment Act 
of 1978, as amended by PubHc Law 100-598, and the Ethics Reform 
Act of 1989, PubUc Law 101-194, including services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, rental of conference rooms in the District of 
Columbia and elsewhere, hire of passenger motor vehicles, and 
not to exceed $1,500 for official reception and representation 
expenses; $7,776,000. 
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF TRUST FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office 
of Personnel Management pursuant to Reorganization Plan Num-
bered 2 of 1978 and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, medical examinations 
performed for veterans by private physicians on a fee basis, rental 
of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, 
hire of passenger motor vehicles, not to exceed $2,500 for official 
reception and representation expenses, and advances for reimburse-
ments to applicable funds of the Office of Personnel Management 
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for expenses incurred 
under Executive Order 10422 of January 9, 1953, as amended; 
$88,000,000, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be made avail-
able for the establishment of health promotion and disease preven-
tion programs for Federal employees and in addition $102,536,000 
for administrative expenses, to be transferred from the appropriate 
trust funds of the Office of Personnel Management without regard 
to other statutes, including direct procurement of health benefits 
printing, for the retirement and insurance programs, of which 
$11,300,000 shall be transferred at such times as the Office of 
Personnel Management deems appropriate, and shall remain avail-
able until expended for the costs of automating the retirement 
recordkeeping systems, together with remaining amounts author-
ized in previous Acts for the recordkeeping systems: Provided, That 
the provisions of this appropriation shall not affect the authority 
to use applicable trust funds as provided by section 8348(a)(1)(B) 
of title 5, United States Code: Provided further, That, except as 
may be consistent with 5 U.S.C. 8902a(f)(l) and (i), no pajrment 
may be made from the Employees Health Benefits Fund to any 
physician, hospital, or other provider of health care services or 
supplies who is, at the time such services or supplies are provided 
to an individual covered under chapter 89 of title 5, United States 
Code, excluded, pursuant to section 1128 or 1128A of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320a-7-1320a-7a), from participation in 
any program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395 et seq.): Provided further. That no part of this appropriation 
shall be available for salaries and expenses of the Legal Examining 
Unit of the Office of Personnel Management established pursuant 
to Executive Order 9358 of July 1, 1943, or any successor unit 
of like purpose: Provided further. That the President's Commission 
PUBLIC LAW 104^52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 489 
on White House Fellows, established by Executive Order 11183 
of October 3, 1964, may, during the fiscal year ending September 
30, 1996, accept donations of money, property, and personal services 
in connection with the development of a publicity brochure to pro-
vide information about the White House Fellows, except that no 
such donations shall be accepted for travel or reimbursement of 
travel expenses, or for the salaries of employees of such Commission. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF TRUST FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act, as 
amended, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, hire 
of passenger motor vehicles: $4,009,000, and in addition, not to 
exceed $6,181,000 for administrative expenses to audit the Office 
of Personnel Management's retirement and insurance programs, 
^ 
to be transferred from the appropriate trust funds of the Office 
of Personnel Management, as determined by the Inspector General: 
Provided, That the Inspector General is authorized to rent con- Rent, 
ference rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere. 
GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR ANNUITANTS, EMPLOYEES HEALTH 
BENEFITS 
For pajmnient of Government contributions with respect to 
retired employees, as authorized by chapter 89 of title 5, United 
States Code, and the Rtjtired Federal Employees Health Benefits 
Act (74 Stat. 849), as amended, $3,746,337,000 to remain available 
until expended. 
GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR ANNUITANTS, EMPLOYEE LIFE 
INSURANCE 
For payment of Government contributions with respect to 
employees retiring after December 31, 1989, as required by chapter 
87 of title 5, United States Code, such sums as may be necessary. 
PAYMENT TO CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND 
For financing the unfunded liability of new and increased annu-
ity benefits becoming effective on or after October 20, 1969, as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 8348, and annuities under special Acts 
to be credited to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, 
such sums as may be necessary: Provided, That annuities author- 33USC776. 
ized by the Act of May 29, 1944, as amended, and the Act of 
August 19, 1950, as amended (33 U.S.C. 771-75), may hereafter 
be paid out of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT 
Section 1. Section 1104 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) by inserting after "title" the following: ", the 
cost of which examinations shall be reimbursed by 
109 STAT. 490 
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pajrments from the agencies employing such judges 
to the revolving fund 
established under 
section 
1304(e)"; and 
(ii) by striking the semicolon at the end of para-
graph (2) and inserting in lieu thereof a period; and 
(B) by striking the matter following paragraph (2) 
through "principles."; and 
(2) in subsection (b) by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph: 
"(4) At the request of the head of an agency to whom 
a function has been delegated under subsection (a)(2), the Office 
may provide assistance to the agency in performing such func-
tion. Such assistance shall, to the extent determined appro-
priate by the Director of the Office, be performed on a reimburs-
able basis through the revolving fund established under section 
1304(e).". 
SEC. 2. Subparagraph (B) of section 8348(a)(1) of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) by inserting "in making an allotment or assignment 
made by an individual under section 8345(h) or 8465(b) of 
this title," after "law),"; and 
(2) by striking "title 26;" and inserting "title 26 or section 
8345(k) or 8469 of this title;". 
SEC. 3. Section 4(a) of the Federal Workforce Restructuring 
5 use 8331 note. Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-226; 108 Stat. I l l ) is amended— 
(1) by deleting "FISCAL YEARS 1994 AND 1995" and inserting 
in lieu thereof: "VOLUNTARY SEPARATION INCENTIVE PAY-
MENTS.—^"; and 
(2) in paragraph (1)(A) by striking "and before October 
1, 1995,". 
SEC. 4. Title 5, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in the second section designated as section 3329 (as 
added by section 4431(a) of Public Law 102-484)— 
(A) by redesignating such section as section 3330; and 
(B) by adding at the end thereof the following new 
subsection: 
"(f) The Office may, to the extent it determines appropriate, 
charge such fees to agencies for services provided under this section 
and for related Federal employment information. The Office shall 
retain such fees to pay the costs of providing such services and 
information."; and 
5USCprec. 
(2) in the table of sections for chapter 33 by amending 
3301. 
the second item relating to section 3329 to read as follows: 
"3330. Government-wide list of vacant positions.". 
SEC. 5. Section 1 under the subheading "General Provision" 
under the heading "Office of Personnel Management" under title 
rV of the Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appro-
priations Act, 1992 (Public Law 102-141; 105 Stat. 861; 5 U.S.C. 
5941 note), as amended by section 532 of the Treasury, Postal 
Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1995 (Public 
Law 103-329; 108 Stat. 2413), is further amended by striking 
"1996" both places it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "1998". 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 491 
OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office 
of Special Counsel pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 
of 1978, the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-
454), the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 (Public Law 101-
12), Public Law 103-424, and the Uniformed Services Employment 
and Reemployment Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-353), including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, payment of fees and 
expenses for witnesses, rental of conference rooms in the District 
of Columbia and elsewhere, and hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
$7,840,000. 
UNITED STATES TAX COURT 
SA]:jmiES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including contract reporting and other 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; $33,269,000: Provided, 
That travel expenses of the judges shall be paid upon the written 
certificate of the judge. 
This title may be cited as the "Independent Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 1996". 
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
26 u s e 7443 
note. 
THIS ACT 
SEC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year 
unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 502. The expenditure of any appropriation under this 
Act for any consulting semce through procurement contract, pursu-
ant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where 
such expenditures are a matter of public record and available 
for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under exist-
ing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to exist-
ing law. 
SEC. 503. None of the funds made available to the General 
Services Administration pursuant to section 210(f) of the Federal 
Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 shall be obligated 
or expended after the date of enactment of this Act for the procure-
ment by contract of any guard, elevator operator, messenger or 
custodial services if any permanent veterans preference employee 
of the General Services Administration at said date, would be 
terminated as a result of the procurement of such services, except 
that such funds may be obligated or expended for the procurement 
by contract of the covered services with sheltered workshops employ-
ing the severely handicapped under Public Law 92-28. Only if 
such workshops decline to contract for the provision of the covered 
services may the General Services Administration procure the serv-
ices by competitive contract, for a period not to exceed 5 years. 
At such time as such competitive contract expires or is terminated 
for any reason, the General Services Administration shall again 
offer to contract for the services from a sheltered workshop prior 
to offering such services for competitive procurement. 
Contracts. 
Public 
information. 
Contracts. 
40 u s e 490c. 
109 STAT. 492 
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SEC. 504. None of the funds made available by this Act shall 
be available for any activity or for paying the salary of any Govern-
ment employee where funding an activity or paying a salary to 
a Government employee would result in a decision, determination, 
rule, regulation, or policy that would prohibit the enforcement of 
section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930. 
SEC. 505. None of the funds made available by this Act shall 
be available for the purpose of transferring control over the Federal 
Law Enforcement Training Center located at Glynco, Georgia, and 
Artesia, New Mexico, out of the Treasury Department. 
SEC. 506. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes within the 
United States not heretofore authorized by the Congress. 
SEC. 507. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be available for the payment of the salary of any officer 
or employee of the United States Postal Service, who— 
(1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threatens to pro-
hibit or prevent, any officer or employee of the United States 
Postal Service from having any direct oral or written commu-
nication or contact with any Member or committee of Congress 
in connection with any matter pertaining to the employment 
of such officer or employee or pertaining to the United States 
Postal Service in any way, irrespective of whether such commu-
nication or contact is at the initiative of such officer or employee 
or in response to the request or inquiry of such Member or 
committee; or 
(2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, demotes, 
reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or performance of effi-
ciency rating, denies promotion to, relocates, reassigns, trans-
fers, disciplines, or discriminates in regard to any emplo3mfient 
right, entitlement, or benefit, or any term or condition of 
employment of, any officer or employee of the United States 
Postal Service, or attempts or threatens to commit any of 
the foregoing actions with respect to such officer or employee, 
by reason of any communication or contact of such officer 
or employee with any Member or committee of Congress as 
described in paragraph (1) of this subsection. 
SEC. 508. The Office of Personnel Management may, during 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, accept donations of 
supplies, services, land and equipment for the Federal Executive 
Institute and Management Development Centers to assist in 
enhancing the quality of Federal management. 
SEC. 509. The United States Secret Service may, during the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, accept donations of money 
to off-set costs incurred while protecting former Presidents and 
spouses of former Presidents when the former President or spouse 
travels for the purpose of making an appearance or speech for 
a payment of money or any thing of value. 
19 use 2 note. 
SEC. 512. Notwithstanding any provision of this or any other 
Act, during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and there-
after, no funds may be obligated or expended in any way to with-
draw the designation of the Virginia Inland Port at Front Royal, 
Virginia, as a United States Customs Service port of entry. 
SEC. 513. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be available to pay the salary for any person filling a position, 
other thar a temporary position, formerly held by an employee 
who has left to enter the Armed Forces of the United States and 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 493 
has satisfactorily completed his period of active military or naval 
service and has within ninety days after his release from such 
service or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a 
period of not more than one year made application for restoration 
to his former position and has been certified by the Office of Person-
nel Management as still qualified to perform the duties of his 
former position and has not been restored thereto. 
SEC. 514. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to provide any non-public information such as mailing 
or telephone lists to any person or any organization outside of 
the Federal Government without the approval of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 515. COMPLIANCE WITH BUY AMERICAN ACT.—^No funds 
appropriated pursuant to this Act may be expended by an entity 
unless the entity agrees that in expending the assistance the entity 
will comply with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 
1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a-lOc, popularly known as the "Buy American 
Act"). 
SEC. 516. 
SENSE OF CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT 
REGARDING 
NOTICE.—(a) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT AND PROD-
UCTS.—In the case of any equipment or products that may be 
authorized to be purchased with financial assistance provided under 
this Act, it is the sense of the Congress that entities receiving 
such assistance should, in expending the assistance, purchase only 
American-made equipment and products. 
(b) NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF ASSISTANCE.—In providing finan-
cial assistance under this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
provide to each recipient of the assistance a notice describing the 
statement made in subsection (a) by the Congress. 
SEC. 517. PROHIBITION OF CONTRACTS.—If it has been finally 
determined by a court or Federal agency that any person inten-
tionally affixed a label bearing a "Made in America" inscription, 
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or any inscription with the same meaning, to any product sold 
in or shipped to the United States that is not made in the United 
States, such person shall be ineligible to receive any contract or 
subcontract made with funds provided pursuant to this Act, pursu-
ant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures 
described in section 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal 
Regulations. 
SEC. 518. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, 
not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining available 
at the end of fiscal year 1996 from appropriations made available 
for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 1996 in this Act, shall 
remain available through September 30, 1997 for each such account 
for the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall be 
submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
for approval prior to the expenditure of such funds. 
SEC. 519. Where appropriations in this Act are expendable 
for travel expenses of employees and no specific limitation has 
been placed thereon, the expenditures for such travel expenses 
may not exceed the amount set forth therefore in the budget esti-
mates submitted for appropriations without the advance approval 
of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided, 
That this section shall not apply to travel performed by uncompen-
sated officials of local boards and appeal boards in the Selective 
Service System; to travel performed directly in connection with 
care and treatment of medical beneficiaries of the Department 
109 STAT. 494 
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of Veterans Affairs; to travel of the Office of Personnel Management 
in carrying out its observation responsibilities of the Voting Rights 
Act; or to payments to interagency motor pools separately set forth 
in the budget schedules. 
SEC. 520. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regula-
tion: (1) The authority of the special police officers of the Bureau 
of Engraving and Printing, in the Washington, DC Metropolitan 
area, extends to buildings and land under the custody and control 
of the Bureau; to buildings and land acquired by or for the Bureau 
through lease, unless otherwise provided by the acquisition agency; 
to the streets, sidewalks and open areas immediately adjacent to 
the Bureau along Wallenberg Place (15th Street) and 14th Street 
between Independence and Maine Avenues and C and D Streets 
between 12th and 14th Streets; to areas which include surrounding 
parking facilities used by Bureau employees, including the lots 
at 12th and C Streets, SW, Maine Avenue and Water Streets, 
SW, Maiden Lane, the Tidal Basin and East Potomac Park; to 
the protection in transit of United States securities, plates and 
dies used in the production of United States securities, or other 
products or implements of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing 
which the Director of that agency so designates; (2) The exercise 
of police authority by Bureau officers, with the exception of the 
exercise of authority upon property under the custody and control 
of the Bureau, shall be deemed supplementary to the Federal police 
force with primary jurisdictional responsibility. This authority shall 
be in addition to any other law enforcement authority which has 
been provided to these officers under other provisions of law or 
regulations. 
SEC. 521. Section 5378 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding: "(8) Chief—^not more than the maximum rate 
payable for GS-14.". 
31 use 5136. 
SEC. 522. Subchapter III of chapter 51 of subtitle IV of title 
31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof 
Coins. 
the following new section: "SEC. 5136. UNITED STATES MINT PUBLIC 
ENTERPRISE FUND.". There shall be established in the Treasury 
of the United States, a United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund 
(the "Fund") for fiscal year 1996 and hereEifter: Provided, That 
all receipts from Mint operations and programs, including the 
production and sale of numismatic items, the production and sale 
of circulating coinage, the protection of Government assets, and 
gifts and bequests of property, real or personal shall be deposited 
into the Fund and shall be available without fiscal year limitations: 
Provided further, That all expenses incurred by the Secretary of 
the Treasury for operations and programs of the United States 
Mint that the Secretary of the Treasury determines, in the Sec-
retary's sole discretion, to be ordinary and reasonable incidents 
of Mint operations and programs, and any expense incurred pursu-
ant to any obligation or other commitment of Mint operations 
and programs that was entered into before the establishment of 
the Fund, shall be paid out of the Fund: Provided further. That 
not to exceed 6.2415 percent of the nominal value of the coins 
minted, shall be paid out of the Fund for the circulating coin 
operations and programs in fiscal year 1996 for those operations 
and programs previously provided for by appropriation: Provided 
further. That the Secretary of the Treasury may borrow such funds 
from the General Fund as may be necessary to meet existing 
liabilities and obligations incurred prior to the receipt of revenues 
PUBLIC LAW 104^52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 495 
into the Fund: Provided further. That the General Fund shall be 
reimbursed for such funds by the Fund within one year of the 
date of the loan: Provided further. That the Fund may retain 
receipts from the Federal Reserve System from the sale of circulat-
ing coins at face value for deposit into the Fund (retention of 
receipts is for the circulating operations and programs): Provided 
further. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer to the 
Fund all assets and liabilities of the Mint operations and programs, 
including all Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund assets and liabil-
ities, all receivables, unpaid obligations and unobligated balances 
from the Mint's appropriation, the Coinage Profit Fund, and the 
Coinage Metal Fund, and the land and buildings of the Philadelphia 
Mint, Denver Mint, and the Fort Knox Bullion Depository: Provided 
further. That the Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund, the Coinage 
Profit Fund and the Coinage Metal Fund shall cease to exist as 
separate funds as their activites and functions are subsumed under 
and subject to the Fund, and the requirements of 31 USC 5134(c)(4), 
(c)(5)(B), and (d) and (e) of the Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund 
shall apply to the Fund: Provided further. That at such times 
as the Secretary of the Treasury determines appropriate, but not 
less than annually, any amount in the Fund that is determined 
to be in excess of the amount required by the Fund shall be 
transferred to the Treasury for deposit as miscellaneous receipts: 
Provided further. That the term "Mint operations and programs" 
means (1) the activities concerning, and assets utilized in, the 
production, administration, distribution, marketing, purchase, sale, 
and management of coinage, numismatic items, the protection and 
safeguarding of Mint assets and those non-Mint assets in the cus-
tody of the Mint, and the Fund; and (2) includes capital, personnel 
salaries and compensation, functions relating to operations, market-
ing, distribution, promotion, advertising, official reception and rep-
resentation, the acquisition or replacement of equipment, the ren-
ovation or modernization of facilities, and the construction or 
acquisition of new buildings: Provided further. 
That the term 
"numismatic item" includes any medal, proof coin, uncirculated 
coin, bullion coin, numismatic collectible, other monetary issuances 
and products and accessories related to any such medal or coin: 
Provided further. That provisions of law governing procurement 
or public contracts shall not be applicable to the procurement of 
goods or services necessary for carrying out Mint programs and 
operations. 
SEC, 523. Section 531 of Public Law 103-329, is amended 
3USCi02note. 
by inserting, "of the first section", after "adding at the end". 
SEC. 524. No funds appropriated by this Act shall be available Abortion. 
to pay for an abortion, or the administrative expenses in connection 
with any health plan under the Federal employees health benefit 
program which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions, 
after the last day of the contract currently in force for any such 
negotiated plan. 
SEC. 525. The provision of section 524 shall not apply where 
the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried 
to term, or that the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape 
or incest. 
SEC. 526. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 40 USC 759 note. 
Administrator of General Services shall delegate the authority to 
procure automatic data processing equipment for the Tax Systems 
Modernization Program to the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, 
109 STAT. 496 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
That the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall 
have the authority to revoke such delegation upon the written 
recommendation of the Administrator that the Secretary's actions 
under such delegation are inconsistent with the goals of economic 
and efficient procurement and utilization of automatic data process-
ing equipment: Provided further, That for all other purposes, a 
procurement conducted under such delegation shall be treated as 
if made under a delegation by the Administrator pursuant to 40 
U.S.C. 759. 
Postal service. 
S E C . 527. RELIEF OF CERTAIN PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS.—For 
39 use 3626 
mail classification purposes under section 3626 of title 39, United 
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States Code, and any regulations of the United States Postal Service 
for the administration of that section, a weekly second-class periodi-
cal publication which— 
(i) is eligible to publish legal notices under any applicable 
laws of the State where it is published; 
(ii) is eligible to be mailed at the rates for mail under 
former subsection 4358 (a), (b), and (c) of title 39, United 
States Code, as limited by current subsection 3626(g) of that 
title; and 
(iii) the pages of which were customarily secured by 2 
staples before March 19, 1989; 
shall not be considered to be a bound publication solely because 
its pages continue to be secured by 2 staples after that date. 
SEC. 528. (a) Prior to February 15, 1996, none of the funds 
appropriated by this Act may, with respect to an individual 
employed by the Bureau of the Public Debt in the Washington 
metropolitan region on April 10, 1991, be used to separate, reduce 
the grade or pay of, or carry out any other adverse personnel 
action against such individual for declining to accept a directed 
reassignment to a position outside such region, pursuant to a trans-
fer of any such Bureau's operations or functions to Parkersburg, 
West Virginia. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to any individual 
who, prior to February 15, 1996, declines an offer of another position 
in the Department of the Treasury which is of at least equal 
pay and which is within the Washington metropolitan region. 
SEC. 529. Section 4 of the Presidential Protection Assistance 
18 use 3056 
Act of 1976, Public Law 94^524, is amended by striking "$75,000" 
note. 
and inserting in lieu thereof "$200,000". 
SEC. 530. No part of any appropriation made available in this 
Act shall be used to implement Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms Ruling TD ATF-360; Re: Notice Nos. 782, 780, 91F009P. 
SEC. 531. Section 5542 of title 5, United States Code, is amend-
ed by adding the following new subsection at the end: 
"(e) Notwithstanding subsection (d)(1) of this section, all hours 
of overtime work scheduled in advance of the administrative work-
week shall be compensated under subsection (a) if that work 
involves duties as authorized by section 3056(a) of title 18, United 
States Code, and if the investigator performs, on that same day, 
at least 2 hours of overtime work not scheduled in advance of 
the administrative workweek.". 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 497 
TITLE VI—GOVERNMENTWIDE GENERAL PROVISIONS 
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS 
SECTION 601. Funds appropriated in this or any other Act 
may be used to pay travel to the United States for the immediate 
family of employees serving abroad in cases of death or life threaten-
ing illness of said employee. 
SEC. 602. No department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
Drug-free 
United States receiving appropriated funds under this or any other workplace. 
Act for fiscal year 1996 shall obligate or expend any such funds, 
unless such department, agency, or instrumentality has in place, 
and will continue to administer in good faith, a written policy 
designed to ensure that all of its workplaces are free from the 
illegal use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances (as 
defined in the Controlled Substances Act) by the officers and 
employees of such department, agency, or instrumentality. 
SEC. 603. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1345, any agency, depart-
ment or instrumentality of the United States which provides or 
proposes to provide child care services for Federal employees may 
reimburse any Federal employee or any person employed to provide 
such services for travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses 
incurred for training classes, conferences or other meetings in 
connection with the provision of such services: Provided, That any 
per diem allowance made pursuant to this section shall not exceed 
the rate specified in regulations prescribed pursuant to section 
5707 of title 5, United States Code. 
SEC. 604. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the maximum 31USC 1343 
amount allowable during the current fiscal year in accordance with note, 
section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 810), for the 
purchase of any passenger motor vehicle (exclusive of buses, ambu-
lances, law enforcement, and undercover surveillance vehicles), is 
hereby fixed at $8,100 except station wagons for which the maxi-
mum shall be $9,100: Provided, That these limits may be exceeded 
by not to exceed $3,700 for police-type vehicles, and by not to 
exceed $4,000 for special heavy-duty vehicles: Provided 
further, 
That the limits set forth in this section may not be exceeded 
by more than five percent for electric or hybrid vehicles purchased 
for demonstration under the provisions of the Electric and Hybrid 
Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1976: 
Provided further. That the limits set forth in this section may 
be exceeded by the incremental cost of clean alternative fuels 
vehicles acquired pursuant to Public Law 101-549 over the cost 
of comparable conventionally fueled vehicles. 
SEC. 605. Appropriations of the executive departments and 
independent establishments for the current fiscal year available 
for expenses of travel or for the expenses of the activity concerned, 
are hereby made available for quarters allowances and cost-of-
living allowances, in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5922-24. 
SEC. 606. Unless otherwise specified during the current fiscal 5 USC 3101 note. 
year no part of any appropriation contained in this or any other 
Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee 
of the Government of the United States (including any agency 
the majority of the stock of which is owned by the Government 
of the United States) whose post of duty is in the continental 
United States unless such person (1) is a citizen of the United 
States, (2) is a person in the service of the United States on 
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109 STAT. 498 
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Law enforcement 
and crime. 
Recycling. 
Environmental 
protection. 
the date of enactment of this Act who, being eUgible for citizenship, 
has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen of the 
United States prior to such date and is actually residing in the 
United States, (3) is a person who owes allegiance to the United 
States, (4) is an alien from Cuba, Poland, South Vietnam, the 
countries of the former Soviet Union, or the Baltic countries lawfully 
admitted to the United States for permanent residence, (5) South 
Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees paroled in the United 
States after January 1, 1975, or (6) nationals of the People's Repub-
lic of China that qualify for adjustment of status pursuant to 
the Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992: Provided, That for 
the purpose of this section, an affidavit signed by any such person 
shall be considered prima facie evidence that the requirements 
of this section with respect to his or her status have been complied 
with: Provided further, That any person making a false affidavit 
shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shall be fined 
no more than $4,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, 
or both: Provided further, That the above penal clause shall be 
in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions 
of existing law: Provided further. That any payment made to any 
officer or employee contrary to the provisions of this section shall 
be recoverable in action by the Federal Government. This section 
shall not apply to citizens of Ireland, Israel, the Republic of the 
Philippines or to nationals of those countries allied with the United 
States in the current defense effort, or to international broadcasters 
employed by the United States Information Agency, or to temporary 
employment of translators, or to temporary employment in the 
field service (not to exceed sixty days) as a result of emergencies. 
SEC. 607. Appropriations available to any department or agency 
during the current fiscal year for necessary expenses, including 
maintenance or operating expenses, shall also be available for pay-
ment to the General Services Administration for charges for space 
and services and those expenses of renovation and alteration of 
buildings and facilities which constitute public improvements per-
formed in accordance with the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (73 
Stat. 749), the Public Buildings Amendments of 1972 (87 Stat. 
216), or other applicable law. 
SEC. 608. In addition to funds provided in this or any other 
Act, all Federal agencies are authorized to receive and use funds 
resulting from the sale of materials recovered through recycling 
or waste prevention programs. Such funds shall be available until 
expended for the following purposes: 
(1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention 
and 
recycling programs as described in Executive Order 12873 
(October 20, 1993), including any such programs adopted prior 
to the effective date of the Executive Order. 
(2) Other Federal agency environmental management pro-
grams, including but not limited to, the development and 
implementation of hazardous waste management and pollution 
prevention programs. 
(3) Other employee programs as authorized by law or as 
deemed appropriate by the head of the Federal agency. 
SEC. 609, Funds made available by this or any other Act for 
administrative expenses in the current fiscal year of the corpora-
tions and agencies subject to chapter 91 of title 31, United States 
Code, shall be available, in addition to objects for which such 
funds are otherwise available, for rent in the District of Columbia; 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 499 
services in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified 
under this head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable 
to the expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in 
the Act by which they are made available: Provided, That in the 
event any functions budgeted as administrative expenses are subse-
quently transferred to or paid from other funds, the limitations 
on administrative expenses shall be correspondingly reduced. 
SEC. 610. No part of any appropriation for the current fiscal 
year contained in this or any other Act shall be paid to any person 
for the filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated 
after the Senate has voted not to approve the nomination of said 
person. 
SEC. 611. Any department or agency to which the Administrator Rent, 
of General Services has delegated the authority to operate, maintain 
or repair any building or facility pursuant to section 205(d) of 
the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, 
as amended, shall retain that portion of the GSA rental pa3mient 
available for operation,, maintenance or repair of the building or 
facility, as determined by the Administrator, and expend such funds 
directly for the operation, maintenance or repair of the building 
or facility. Any funds retained under this section shall remain 
available until expended for such purposes. 
SEC. 612. Pursuant to section 1415 of the Act of July 15, 
1952 (66 Stat. 662), foreign credits (including currencies) owed 
to or owned by the United States may be used by Federal agencies 
for any purpose for which appropriations are made for the current 
fiscal year (including the carrying out of Acts requiring or authoriz-
ing the use of such credits), only when reimbursement therefor 
is made to the Treasury from applicable appropriations of the 
agency concerned: Provided, 
That 
such credits received 
as 
exchanged allowances or proceeds of sales of personal property 
may be used in whole or part payment for acquisition of similar 
items, to the extent and in the manner authorized by law, without 
reimbursement to the Treasury. 
SEC. 613. No part of any appropriation contained in this or 
any other Act shall be available for interagency financing of boards, 
commissions, councils, committees, or similar groups (whether or 
not they are interagency entities) which do not have a prior and 
specific statutory approval to receive financial support from more 
than one agency or instrumentality. 
SEC. 614. Funds made available by this or any other Act to Postal service, 
the "Postal Service Fund" (39 U.S.C. 2003) shall be available for Law enforcement 
employment of guards for all buildings and areas owned or occupied 
by the Postal Service and under the charge and control of the 
Postal Service, and such guards shall have, with respect to such 
property, the powers of special policemen provided by the first 
section of the Act of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 
40 U.S.C. 318), and, as to property owned or occupied by the 
Postal Service, the Postmaster General may take the same actions 
as the Administrator of Greneral Services may take under the provi-
sions of sections 2 and 3 of the Act of June 1, 1948, as amended 
(62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318a, 318b), attaching thereto penal con-
sequences under the authority and within the limits provided in 
section 4 of the Act of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 
40 U.S.C. 318c). 
SEC. 615. None of the funds made available pursuant to the 
provisions of this Act shall be used to implement, administer, or 
and crime. 
109 STAT. 500 
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Locality pay. 
5 u s e 5343 note. 
Regulations. 
Effective date. 
enforce any regulation which has been disapproved pursuant to 
a resolution of disapproval duly adopted in accordance with the 
applicable law of the United States. 
SEC. 616. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and 
except as otherwise provided in this section, no part of any of 
the funds appropriated for the fiscal year ending on September 
30, 1996, by this or any other Act, may be used to pay any prevailing 
rate employee described in section 5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United 
States Code— 
(1) during the period from the date of expiration of the 
limitation imposed by section 617 of the Treasury, Postal Serv-
ice and General Government Appropriations Act, 1995, until 
the normal effective date of the applicable wage survey adjust-
ment that is to take effect in fiscal year 1996, in an amount 
that exceeds the rate payable for the applicable grade and 
step of the applicable wage schedule in accordance with such 
section 617; and 
(2) during the period consisting of the remainder of fiscal 
year 1996, in an amount that exceeds, as a result of a wage 
survey adjustment, the rate payable under paragraph (1) by 
more than the sum of— 
(A) the percentage adjustment taking effect in fiscal 
year 1996 under section 5303 of title 5, United States 
Code, in the rates of pay under the General Schedule; 
and 
(B) the difference between the overall average percent-
age of the locality-based comparability payments taking 
effect in fiscal year 1996 under section 5304 of such title 
(whether by adjustment or otherwise), and the overall aver-
age percentage of such payments which was effective in 
fiscal year 1995 under such section. 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no prevailing 
rate employee described in subparagraph (B) or (C) of section 
5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code, and no employee covered 
by section 5348 of such title, may be paid during the periods 
for which subsection (a) is in effect at a rate that exceeds the 
rates that would be payable under subsection (a) were subsection 
(a) applicable to such employee. 
(c) For the purposes of this section, the rates payable to an 
employee who is covered by this section and who is paid from 
a schedule not in existence on September 30, 1995, shall be deter-
mined under regulations prescribed by the Office of Personnel 
Management. 
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates of pre-
mium pay for employees subject to this section may not be changed 
from the rates in effect on September 30, 1995, except to the 
extent determined by the Office of Personnel Management to be 
consistent with the purpose of this section. 
(e) This section shall apply with respect to pay for service 
performed after September 30, 1995. 
(f) For the purpose of administering any provision of law 
(including section 8431 of title 5, United States Code, and any 
rule or regulation that provides premium pay, retirement, life insur-
ance, or any other employee benefit) that requires any deduction 
or contribution, or that imposes any requirement or limitation on 
the basis of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary or 
*slK*^s 
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109 STAT. 501 
basic pay payable after the application of this section shall be 
treated as the rate of salary or basic pay. 
(g) Nothing in this section shall be considered to permit or 
/ 
require the pa3anent to any employee covered by this section at 
a rate in excess of the rate that would be payable were this section 
not in effect. 
(h) The Office of Personnel Management may provide for excep-
tions to the limitations imposed by this section if the Office deter-
mines that such exceptions are necessary to ensure the recruitment 
or retention of qualified employees. 
SEC. 617. During the period in which the head of any depart-
ment or agency, or any other officer or civilian employee of the 
Government appointed by the President of the United States, holds 
office, no funds may be obligated or expended in excess of $5,000 
to furnish or redecorate the office of such department head, agency 
head, officer or employee, or to purchase furniture or make improve-
ments for any such office, unless advance notice of such furnishing 
or redecoration is expressly approved by the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House and Senate. For the purposes of this section, 
the word "office" shall include the entire suite of offices assigned 
to the individual, as well as any other space used primarily by 
the individual or the use of which is directly controlled by the 
individual. 
SEC. 618. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no execu-
tive branch agency shall purchase, construct, and/or lease any addi-
tional facilities, except within or contiguous to existing locations, 
to be used for the purpose of conducting Federal law enforcement 
training without the advance approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 619. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, United Telecommun-
States Code, or Sec. 613 of this Act, funds made available for ications. 
fiscal year 1996 by this or any other Act shall be available for 
the interagency funding of national security and emergency 
preparedness telecommunications initiatives which benefit multiple 
Federal departments, agencies, or entities, as provided by Executive 
Order Numbered 12472 (April 3, 1984). 
SEC. 620. Notwithstanding any provisions of this or any other 31USC1348 
Act, during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and here- "ote. 
after, any department, division, bureau, or office may use funds 
appropriated by this or any other Act to install telephone lines, 
and necessary equipment, and to pay monthly charges, in any 
private residence or private apartment of an employee who has 
been authorized to work at home in accordance with guidelines 
issued by the Office of Personnel Management: Provided, That 
the head of the department, division, bureau, or office certifies 
that adequate safeguards against private misuse exist, and that 
the service is necessary for direct support of the agency's mission. 
SEC. 621. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this or any 
other Act may be obligated or expended by any Federal department, 
agency, or other instrumentality for the salaries or expenses of 
any employee appointed to a position of a confidential or policy-
determining character excepted from the competitive service pursu-
ant to section 3302 of title 5, United States Code, without a certifi-
cation to the Office of Personnel Management from the head of 
the Federal department, agency, or other instrumentality employing 
the Schedule C appointee that the Schedule C position was not 
109 STAT. 502 
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Drug-free 
workplace. 
President. 
Certification. 
5 use 7301 note. 
Conservation. 
42 use 8256 
note. 
created solely or primarily in order to detail the employee to the 
White House. 
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to Federal 
employees or members of the armed services detailed to or from— 
(1) the Central Intelligence Agency; 
(2) the National Security Agency; 
(3) the Defense Intelligence Agency; 
(4) the offices within the Department of Defense for the 
collection of specialized national foreign intelligence through 
reconnaissance programs; 
(5) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Depart-
ment of State; 
(6) any agency, office, or unit of the Army, Navy, Air 
Force, and Marine Corps, the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
and the Drug Enforcement Administration of the Department 
of Justice, the Department of Transportation, the Department 
of the Treasury, and the Department of Energy performing 
intelligence functions; and 
(7) the Director of Central Intelligence. 
SEC. 622. No department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
United States receiving appropriated funds under this or any other 
Act for fiscal year 1996 shall obligate or expend any such funds, 
unless such department, agency or instrumentality has in place, 
and will continue to administer in good faith, a written policy 
designed to ensure that all of its workplaces are free from discrimi-
nation and sexual harassment and that all of its workplaces are 
not in violation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as 
amended, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and 
the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. 
SEC. 623. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
may be used to pay for the expenses of travel of employees, including 
employees of the Executive Office of the President, not directly 
responsible for the discharge of official governmental tasks and 
duties: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply to the family 
of the President, Members of Congress or their spouses, Heads 
of State of a foreign country or their designee(s), persons providing 
assistance to the President for official purposes, or other individuals 
so designated by the President. 
SEC. 624. Notwithstanding any provision of law, the President, 
or his designee, must certify to Congress, annually, that no person 
or persons with direct or indirect responsibility for administering 
the Executive Office of the President's Drug-Free Workplace Plan 
are themselves subject to a program of individual random drug 
testing. 
SEC. 625. (a) Beginning in fiscal year 1996 and thereafter, 
for each Federal agency, except the Department of Defense (which 
has separate authority), and except as provided in Public Law 
102-393, title IV, section 13 (40 U.S.C. 490g) with respect to the 
Fund established pursuant to 40 U.S.C. 490(f), an amount equal 
to 50 percent of— 
(1) the amount of each utility rebate received by the agency 
for energy efficiency and water conservation measures, which 
the agency has implemented; and 
(2) the amount of the agency's share of the measured 
energy savings resulting from energy-savings performance con-
tracts, 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 503 
Employee 
training. 
may be retained and credited to accounts that fund energy and 
water conservation activities at the agency's facilities, and shall 
remain available until expended for additional specific energy effi-
ciency or water conservation projects or activities, including 
improvements and retrofits, facility surveys, additional or improved 
utility metering, and employee training and awareness programs, 
as authorized by section 152(f) of the Energy Policy Act (Public 
Law 102-486). 
(b) The remaining 50 percent of each rebate, and the remaining 
50 percent of the amount of the agency's share of savings from 
energy-savings performance contracts, shall be transferred to the 
General Fund of the Treasury at the end of the fiscal year in 
which received. 
SEC. 627. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be obligated or expended for any employee training when 
it is made known to the Federal official having authority to obligate 
or expend such funds that such employee training— 
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, 
and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official 
duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of emo-
tional response or psychological stress in some participants; 
(3) does not require prior employee notification of the con-
tent and methods to be used in the training and written end 
of course evaluation; 
(4) contains any methods or content associated with reli-
gious or quasi-religious belief systems or "new age" belief sys-
tems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 
Notice N-915.022, dated September 2, 1988; 
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants' 
personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace; or 
(6) includes content related to human immunodeficiency 
virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) other 
than that necessary to make employees more aware of the 
medical ramifications of HIV/AIDS and the workplace rights 
of HIV-positive employees. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or otherwise 
preclude an agency from conducting training bearing directly upon 
the performance of official duties. 
SEC. 628. No funds appropriated in this or any other Act Nondisclosure. 
for fiscal year 1996 may be used to implement or enforce the 
agreements in Standard Forms 312 and 4355 of the Government 
or any other nondisclosure policy, form or agreement if such policy, 
form or agreement does not contain the following provisions: "These 
restrictions are consistent with and do not supersede, confiict with 
or otherwise alter the employee obligations, rights or liabilities 
created by Executive Order 12356; section 7211 of title 5, United 
States Code (governing disclosures to Congress); section 1034 of 
title 10, United States Code, as amended by the Military Whistle-
blower Protection Act (governing disclosure to Congress by members 
of the military); section 2302(b)(8) of title 5, United States Code, 
as amended by the Whistleblower Protection Act (governing disclo-
sures of illegality, waste, fraud, abuse or public health or safety 
threats); the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 (50 U.S.C. 
421 et seq.) (governing disclosures that could expose confidential 
Grovernment agents), and the statutes which protect against disclo-
sure that may compromise the national security, including sections 
109 STAT. 504 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
Classified 
information. 
Contracts. 
Tele-
communications. 
EfTective date. 
Reports. 
641, 793, 794, 798, and 952 of title 18, United States Code, and 
section 4(b) of the Subversive Activities Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 
section 783(b)). The definitions, requirements, obUgations, rights, 
sanctions and habihties created by said Executive Order and listed 
statutes are incorporated into this agreement and are controlling": 
Provided, That notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, a non-
disclosure policy form or agreement that is to be executed by a 
person connected with the conduct of an intelligence or intelligence-
related activity, other than an employee or officer of the United 
States Government, may contain provisions appropriate to the 
particular activity for which such document is to be used. Such 
form or agreement shall, at a minimum, require that the person 
will not disclose any classified information received in the course 
of such activity unless specifically authorized to do so by the United 
States Government. Such nondisclosure forms must also make it 
clear that they do not bar disclosures to Congress or to an author-
ized official of an executive agency or the Department of Justice 
that are essential to reporting a substantial violation of law. 
SEC. 629. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this or any 
other Act may be expended by any Federal Agency to procure 
any product or service that is subject to the provisions of Public 
Law 89-306 and that will be available under the procurement 
by the Administrator of General Services known as "FTS2000" 
unless— 
(1) such product or service is procured by the Administrator 
of (General Services as part of the procurement known as 
"FTS2000"; or 
(2) that agency establishes to the satisfaction of the 
Administrator of Greneral Services that— 
(A) that agency's requirements for such procurement 
are unique and cannot be satisfied by property and service 
procured by the Administrator of Greneral Services as part 
of the procurement known as "FTS2000"; and 
(B) the agency procurement, pursuant to such delega-
tion, would be cost-effective and would not adversely affect 
the cost-effectiveness of the FTS2000 procurement. 
(b) After July 31, 1996, subsection (a) shall apply only if the 
Administrator of General Services has reported that the FTS2000 
procurement is producing prices that allow the Government to 
satisfy its requirements for such procurement in the most cost-
effective manner. 
(c) The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct 
and deliver a comprehensive analysis of the cost to the Federal 
Government of all Federal agency telecommunications services and 
traffic, by agency, and provide such report to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations by no later than May 31, 1996: 
Provided, That such report shall (1) identify which agencies are 
using FTS2000 systems; (2) determine whether or not such usage 
is cost-effective; and (3) provide a comparison of telecommunication 
costs between agencies that use or do not use FTS2000. 
SEC. 630. (a) Section 4-607(18) of title 4 of the District of 
Columbia Code, is amended by inserting "the United States Secret 
Service Uniformed Division, the United States Secret Service Divi-
sion," after "average pay of a member who was an officer or member 
of. 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 505 
(b) Section 4-622 of title 4 of the District of Columbia Code, 
is amended— 
(A) in subsection (b)(1)(A) by striking out "Of the basis 
upon which the annuity, relief, or retirement compensation 
being received by such former member at the time of death 
was computed" and inserting in lieu thereof "Of the adjusted 
average pay of such former member"; 
(B) in subsection (c)(l)(A)(ii), by striking out "The basis 
upon which the former member's annuity at the time of death 
was computed" and inserting in lieu thereof 'The adjusted 
average pay of the former member"; and 
(C) in subsection (c)(2)(B), by striking out the colon after 
"United States Secret Service Division" through clause (iii) 
and inserting in lieu thereof ", 75 percent of the adjusted 
average pay of the former member, divided by the number 
of eligible children; or". 
Sec. 631. (a) Section 5402 of title 39, United States Code, 
is amended— 
(1) in subsection (f) by striking out "During the period 
beginning January 1, 1985, and ending January 1, 1999, the" 
and inserting in lieu thereof'The"; and 
(2) in subsection (g)(1) by amending subparagraph (D) to 
read as follows: 
"(D) have provided scheduled service within the State Alaska, 
of Alaska for at least 12 consecutive months with aircraft— 
"(i) up to 7,500 pounds payload capacity before 
being selected as a carrier of nonpriority bypass mail 
at an applicable intra-Alaska bush service mail rate; 
and 
"(ii) over 7,500 pounds payload capacity before 
being selected as a carrier of nonpriority bypass mail 
at the intra-Alaska mainline service mail rate.". 
(b)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the amendment made by sub-
section (a) shall be effective on and after August 1, 1995. 
(2) Subparagraph (D) of section 5402(g)(1) title 39, United 
States Code (as in effect before the amendment made under sub-
section (a)), shall apply to a carrier, if such carrier— 
(A) has an application pending before the Department of 
Transportation for approval under section 41102 or 41110(e) 
of title 39, United States Code, before August 1, 1995; and 
(B) would meet the requirements of such subparagraph 
if such application were approved and such certificate were 
purchased. 
(c) Section 41901(g) of title 49, United States Code, is repealed. 
SEC. 632. 
LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR THE PROVISION 
OF CERTAIN FOREIGN ASSISTANCE.— 
(a) IN GENERAL.—^Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
none of the funds made available by this Act for the Department 
of the Treasury shall be available for anv activity or for paying 
the salary of any CJovernment employee where funding an activity 
or paying a salary to a (jovernment employee would result in 
a decision, determination, rule, regulation, or policy that would 
permit the Secretary of the Treasury to make any loan or extension 
of credit under section 5302 of title 31, United States Code, with 
respect to a single foreign entity or government of a foreign country 
(including agencies or other entities of that government)— 
Effective date. 
39 use 5402 
note. 
109 STAT. 506 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
(1) with respect to a loan or extension of credit for more 
than 60 days, unless the President certifies to the Committee 
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and 
the Committee on Banking and Financial Services of the House 
of Representatives that— 
(A) there is no projected cost (as that term is defined 
in section 502 of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990) 
to the United States from the proposed loan or extension 
of credit; and 
(B) any proposed obligation or expenditure of United 
States funds to or on behalf of the foreign government 
is adequately backed by fin assured source of repayment 
to ensure that all United States funds will be repaid; 
and 
(2) other than as provided by an Act of Congress, if that 
loan or extension of credit would result in expenditures and 
obligations, including contingent obligations, aggregating more 
than $1,000,000,000 with respect to that foreign country for 
more than 180 days during the 12-month period beginning 
on the date on which the first such action is taken. 
(b) WAIVER OF LIMITATIONS.—The President may exceed the 
dollar and time limitations in subsection (a)(2) if he certifies in 
writing to the Congress that a financial crisis in that foreign country 
poses a threat to vital United States economic interests or to the 
stability of the international financial system. 
(c) 
EXPEDITED 
PROCEDURES FOR A RESOLUTION OF DIS-
APPROVAL.—A presidential certification pursuant to subsection (b) 
shall not take effect, if the Congress, within thirty calendar days 
after receiving such certification, enacts a joint resolution of dis-
approval, as described in paragraph (5) of this subsection. 
(1) REFERENCE TO COMMITTEES.—All joint resolutions intro-
duced in the Senate to disapprove the certification shall be 
referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban 
Affairs, and in the House of Representatives, to the appropriate 
committees. 
(2) DISCHARGE OF COMMITTEES.—(A) If the committee of 
either House to which a resolution has been referred has not 
reported it at the end of 15 days after its introduction, it 
is in order to move either to discharge the committee from 
further consideration of the joint resolution or to discharge 
the committee fi-om further consideration of any other resolu-
tion introduced with respect to the same matter, except no 
motion to discharge shall be in order after the committee has 
reported a joint resolution with respect to the same matter. 
(B) A motion to discharge may be made only by an individ-
ual favoring the resolution, and is privileged in the Senate; 
and debate thereon shall be limited to not more than 1 hour, 
the time to be divided in the Senate equally between, and 
controlled by, the majority leader and the minority leader or 
their designees. 
(3) FLOOR CONSIDERATION IN THE SENATE.—(A) A motion 
in the Senate to proceed to the consideration of a resolution 
shall be privileged. 
(B) Debate in the Senate on a resolution, and all debatable 
motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited 
to not more than 4 hours, to be equally divided between, and 
',^|%sr 
J"' 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 507 
controlled by, the majority leader and the minority leader or 
their designees. 
(C) Debate in the Senate on any debatable motion or appeal 
in connection with a resolution shall be limited to not more 
than 20 minutes, to be equally divided between, and controlled 
by, the mover and the manager of the resolution, except that 
in the event the manager of the resolution is in favor of any 
such motion or appeal, the time in opposition thereto, shall 
be controlled by the minority leader or his designee. Such 
leaders, or either of them, may, from time under their control 
on the passage of a resolution, allot additional time to any 
Senator during the consideration of any debatable motion or 
appeal. 
(D) A motion in the Senate to further limit debate on 
a resolution, debatable motion, or appeal is not debatable. 
No amendment to, or motion to recommit, a resolution is in 
order in the Senate. 
(4) In the case of a resolution, if prior to the passage 
by one House of a resolution of that House, that House receives 
a resolution with respect to the same matter from the other 
House, then— 
(A) the procedure in that House shall be the same 
as if no resolution had been received from the other House; 
but 
(B) the vote on final passage shall be on the resolution 
of the other House. 
(5) For purposes of this subsection, the term "joint resolu-
tion" means only a joint resolution of the 2 Houses of Congress, 
the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: 
"That the Congress disapproves the action of the President 
under section 632(b) of the Treasury, Postal Service, and Gen-
eral Government Appropriations Act, 1996, notice of which 
was submitted to the Congress on 
. , with the blank 
space being filled with the appropriate date. 
(d) APPLICABILITY.—This section— 
(1) shall not apply to any action taken as part of the 
program of assistance to Mexico announced by the President 
on January 31, 1995; and 
(2) shall remain in effect through fiscal year 1996. 
SEC. 633. For purposes of each provision of law amended by 
section 704(a)(2) of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 (5 U.S.C. 5318 
note), no adiustment under section 5303 of title 5, United States 
Code, shall be considered to have taken effect in fiscal year 1996 
in the rates of basic pay for the statutory pay systems. 
SEC. 634. Notwitnstanding any other provision of law, the 
United States Customs Service shall transfer, without consider-
ation, to the National Warplane Museum in Geneseo, New York, 
2 seized and forfeited A~37 Dragonfly jets for display and museum 
purposes. 
SEC. 636. This section may be cited as the "Prohibition of 
Cigarette Sales to Minors in Federal Buildings and Lands Act". 
(a) As used in this section— 
(1) the term "Federal agency" means— 
(A) an Executive agency as defined in section 105 
of title 5, United States Code; and 
(B) each entity specified in subparagraphs (B) through 
(H) of section 5721(1) of title 5, United States Code; 
5 u s e 5303 note. 
Museum. 
Prohibition of 
Cisarette Sales 
to Minors in 
Federal 
Buildings and 
Lands Act 
40 u s e 486 note. 
109 STAT. 508 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
(2) the term "Federal building" means— 
(A) any building or other structure owned in whole 
or in part by the United States or any Federal agency, 
including any such structure occupied by a Federal agency 
under a lease agreement; and 
(B) includes the real property on which such building 
is located; 
(3) the term "minor" means an individual under the age 
of 18 years; and 
(4) the term "tobacco product" means cigarettes, cigars, 
little cigars, pipe tobacco, smokeless tobacco, snuff, and chewing 
tobacco. 
Regulations. 
(b)(1) No later than 45 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator of General Services and the head 
of each Federal agency shall promulgate regulations that prohibit— 
(A) the sale of tobacco products in vending machines located 
in or around any Federal building under the jurisdiction of 
the Administrator or such agency head; and 
(B) the distribution of free samples of tobacco products 
in or around any Federal building under the jurisdiction of 
the Administrator or such agency head. 
(2) The Administrator of General Services or the head of an 
agency, as appropriate, may designate areas not subject to the 
provisions of paragraph (1), if such area also prohibits the presence 
of minors. 
(3) The provisions of this subsection shall be carried out— 
(A) by the Administrator of (Jeneral Services for any Fed-
eral building which is maintained, leased, or has title of owner-
ship vested in the General Services Administration; or 
(B) by the head of a Federal agency for any Federal building 
which is maintained, leased, or has title of ownership vested 
in such agency. 
Reports. 
(c) No later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Administrator of General Services and each head of an 
agency shall prepare and submit, to the appropriate committees 
of Congress, a report that shall contain— 
(1) verification that the Administrator or such head of 
an agency is in compliance with this section; and 
(2) a detailed list of the location of all tobacco product 
vending machines located in Federal buildings under the 
administration of the Administrator or such head of an agency. 
Regulations. 
(d)(1) No later than 45 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration 
and the House of Representatives Committee on House Oversight, 
after consultation with the Architect of the Capitol, shall promulgate 
regulations under the Senate and House of Representatives rule-
making authority that prohibit the sale of tobacco products in 
vending machines in the Capitol Buildings. 
(2) Such committees may designate areas where such prohibi-
tion shall not apply, if such area also prohibits the presence of 
minors. 
(3) For the purpose of this section the term "Capitol Buildings" 
shall have the same meaning as such term is defined under section 
16(a)(1) of the Act entitled "An Act to define the area of the 
United States Capitol Grounds, to regulate the use thereof, and 
for other purposes", approved July 31, 1946 (40 U.S.C. 193m(l)). 
PUBLIC LAW 104-52—NOV. 19, 1995 
109 STAT. 509 
(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed as restricting 
the authority of the Administrator of General Services or the head 
of an agency to limit tobacco product use in or around any Federal 
building, except as provided under subsection (b)(1). 
SEC. 
637. 
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON RESTRUCTURING THE 
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE.— 
(a) FINDINGS.—^The Congress finds the following: 
(1) While the budget for the Internal Revenue Service 
(hereafter referred to as the "IRS") has risen from $2.5 billion 
in fiscal year 1979 to $7.3 billion in fiscal year 1996, tax 
returns processing has not become significantly faster, tax 
collection rates have not significantly increased, and the 
accuracy and timeliness of taxpayer assistance has not signifi-
cantly improved. 
(2) To date, the Tax Systems Modernization (TSM) program 
has cost the taxpayers $2.5 billion, with an estimated cost 
of $8 billion. Despite this investment, modernization efforts 
were recently described by the GAO as "chaotic" and "ad hoc". 
(3) While the IRS maintains that TSM will increase effi-
ciency and thus revenues. Congress has had to appropriate 
additional funds in recent years for compliance initiatives in 
order to increase tax revenues. 
(4) Because TSM has not been implemented, the IRS 
continues to rely on paper returns, processing a total of 14 
billion pieces of paper every tax season. This results in an 
extremely inefficient system. 
(5) This lack of efficiency reduces the level of customer 
service and impedes the ability of the IRS to collect revenue. 
(6) The present status of the IRS shows the need for 
the establishment of a Commission which will examine the 
organization of IRS and recommend actions to expedite the 
implementation of TSM and improve service to taxpayers. 
(b) COMPOSITION OF THE COMMISSION.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—^To carry out the purposes of this 
section, there is established a National Commission on 
Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service (in this section 
referred to as the "Commission"). 
(2) COMPOSITION.—^The Commission shall be composed of 
thirteen members, as follows: 
(A) Five members appointed by the President, two 
from the executive branch of the Government, two from 
private life, and one from an organization that represents 
a substantial number of Internal Revenue Service employ-
ees. 
(B) Two members appointed by the Majority Leader 
of the Senate, one from Members of the Senate and one 
from private life. 
(C) Two members appointed by the Minority Leader 
of the Senate, one from Members of the Senate and one 
from private life. 
(D) Two members appointed by the Speaker of the 
House of Representatives, one from Members of the House 
of Representatives and one from private life. 
(E) Two members appointed by the Minority Leader 
of the House of Representatives, one from Members of 
the House of Representatives and one fi-om private life. 
Taxes. 
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note. 
President. 
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The Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service shall be 
an ex officio member of the Commission. 
(3) CHAIRMAN.—^The Commission shall elect a Chairman 
from among its members. 
(4) MEETING; QUORUM; VACANCIES.—^After its initial meet-
ing, the Commission shall meet upon the call of the Chairman 
or a majority of its members. Seven members of the Commission 
shall constitute a quorum. Any vacancy in the Commission 
shall not affect its powers, but shall be filled in the same 
manner in which the original appointment was made. 
(5) APPOINTMENT; INITIAL MEETING.— 
(A) APPOINTMENT.—It is the sense of the Congress 
that members of the Committee should be appointed not 
more than 60 days after the date of the enactment of 
this section. 
(B) INITIAL MEETING.—If, after 60 days from the date 
of the enactment of this section, seven or more members 
of the Commission have been appointed, members who 
have been appointed may meet and select a Chairman 
who thereafter shall have the authority to begin the oper-
ations of the Commission, including the hiring of staff. 
(c) FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSION,— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—^The functions of the Commission shall 
be— 
(A) to conduct, for a period of not to exceed one year 
from the date of its first meeting, the review described 
in paragraph (2), and 
Reports. 
(B) to submit to the Congress a final report of the 
results of the review, including recommendations for 
restructuring the IRS. 
(2) REVIEW,—^The Commission shall review— 
(A) the present practices of the IRS, especially with 
respect to— 
(i) its organizational structure; 
(ii) its paper processing and return processing 
activities; 
(iii) its infrastructure; and 
(iv) the collection process; 
(B) requirements for improvement in the following 
areas: 
(i) making returns processing "paperless"; 
(ii) modernizing IRS operations; 
(iii) improving the collections process without 
major personnel increases or increased funding; 
(iv) improving taxpayer accoimts management; 
(v) 
improving 
the 
accuracy 
of 
information 
requested by taxpayers in order to file their returns; 
and 
(vi) changing the culture of the IRS to make the 
organization more efficient, productive, and customer-
oriented; 
(C) whether the IRS could be replaced with a quasi-
governmental 
agency 
with 
tangible 
incentives 
and 
internally managing its programs and activities and for 
modernizing its activities, and 
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(D) whether the IRS could perform other collection, 
information, and financial service functions of the Federal 
Government. 
(d) POWERS OF THE; COMMISSION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—(A) The Commission or, on the authoriza-
tion of the Commission, any subcommittee or member thereof, 
may, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this 
section— 
(i) hold such hearings and sit and act at such times 
and places, take such testimony, receive such evidence, 
administer such oaths, and 
(ii) require, by subpoena or otherwise, the attendance 
and testimony of such witnesses and the production of 
such books, records, correspondence, memoranda, papers, 
and documents, as the Commission or such designated 
subcommittee or designated member may deem advisable. 
^ 
(B) Subpoenas issued under subparagraph (A)(ii) may be 
issued under the signature of the Chairman of the Commission, 
the chairman of any designated subcommittee, or any des-
ignated member, and may be served by any person designated 
by such Chairman, subcommittee chairman, or member. The 
provisions of sections 102 through 104 of the Revised Statutes 
of the United States (2 U.S.C. 192-194) shall apply in the 
case of any failure of any witness to comply Avith any subpoena 
or to testify when summoned under authority of this section. 
(2) CONTRACTING.—^The Commission may, to such extent 
and in such amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts, 
enter into contracts to enable the Commission to discharge 
its duties under this section. 
(3) INFORMATION FROM FEDERAL AGENCIES.—^The Commis-
sion is authorized to secure directly from any executive depart-
ment, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, independent 
establishment, or instrumentality of the Grovernment, informa-
tion, suggestions, estimates, and statistics for the purposes 
of this section. Each such department, bureau, agency, board, 
commission, office, establishment, or instrumentality shall, to 
the extent authorized by law, furnish such information, sugges-
tions, estimates, and statistics directly to the Commission, upon 
request made by the Chairman. 
(4) ASSISTANCE FROM FEDERAL AGENCIES.—(A) The Sec-
retary of the Treasury is authorized on a nonreimbursable 
basis to provide the Commission with administrative services, 
fimds, facilities, staff, and other support services for the 
performance of the Commission's functions. 
(B) The Administrator of General Services shall provide 
to the Commission on a nonreimbursable basis such administra-
tive support services as the Commission may request. 
(C) In addition to the assistance set forth in subparagraphs 
(A) and (B), departments and agencies of the United States 
are authorized to provide to the Commission such services, 
funds, facilities, staff, and other support services as they may 
deem advisable and as may be authorized by law. 
(5) POSTAL SERVICES.—^The Commission may use the 
United States mails in the same manner and under the same 
conditions as departments and agencies of the United States. 
(e) STAFF OF THE COMMISSION.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—^The Chairman, in accordance with rules 
agreed upon by the Commission, may appoint and fix the 
compensation of a staff director and such other personnel as 
may be necessary to enable the Commission to carry out its 
functions, without regard to the provisions of title 5, United 
States Code, governing appointments in the competitive service, 
and without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 and sub-
chapter III of chapter 53 of such title relating to classification 
and General Schedule pay rates, except that no rate of pay 
fixed under this subsection may exceed the equivalent of that 
payable to a person occupying a position at level V of the 
Executive Schedule under section 5316 of title 5, United States 
Code. Any Federal Government employee may be detailed to 
the Commission without reimbursement from the Commission, 
and such detailee shall retain the rights, status, and privileges 
of his or her regular employment without interruption. 
(2) CONSULTANT SERVICES.—The Commission is authorized 
to procure the services of experts and consultants in accordance 
with section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, but at rates 
not to exceed the daily rate paid a person occupying a position 
at level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of 
title 5, United States Code. 
(f) COMPENSATION AND TRAVEL EXPENSES.— 
(1) COMPENSATION.—(A) Except as provided in subpara-
graph (B), each member of the Commission may be compensated 
at not to exceed the daily equivalent of the annual rate of 
basic pay in effect for a position at level IV of the Executive 
Schedule imder section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, 
for each day during which that member is engaged in the 
actual performance of the duties of the Commission. 
(B) Members of the Commission who are officers or employ-
ees of the United States or Members of Congress shall receive 
no additional pay on account of their service on the Commission. 
(2) TRAVEL EXPENSES.—^While away from their homes or 
regular places of business in the performance of services for 
the Commission, members of the Commission shall be allowed 
travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in 
the same manner as persons employed intermittently in the 
Government service are allowed expenses under section 5703(b) 
of title 5, United States Code. 
(g) FINAL REPORT OF COMMISSION; TERMINATION.— 
(1) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than one year after the date 
of the first meeting of the Commission, the Commission shall 
submit to the Congress its final report, as described in sub-
section (c)(2). 
(2) TERMINATION.—(A) 
The Commission, 
and 
all 
the 
authorities of this section, shall terminate on the date which 
is 60 days after the date on which a final report is required 
to be transmitted under paragraph (1). 
(B) The Commission may use the 60-day period referred 
to in subparagraph (A) for the purpose of concluding its activi-
ties, including providing testimony to committees of Congress 
concerning its final report and disseminating that report, 
(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Such sums as may 
be necessary are authorized to be appropriated for the activities 
of the Commission. 
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(i) APPROPRIATIONS.—Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, $1,000,000 shall be available from fiscal year 1996 funds 
appropriated to the Internal Revenue Service, "Information sys-
tems" accoimt, for the activities of the Commission, to remain 
available until expended. 
SEC. 638. The Administrator of General Services shall, within Reports, 
six months of enactment of this Act, report to Congress on the 
feasibility of leasing agreements with State and local governments 
and private sponsors for the construction of border stations on 
the borders of the United States with Canada and Mexico whereby— 
(1) lease pajmients shall not exceed 30 years for payment 
of the purchase price and interest; 
(2) an agreement entered into under such provisions shall 
provide for the title to the property and facilities to vest in 
the United States on or before the expiration of the contract 
term, on fulfillment of the terms and conditions of the agree-
ment. 
SEC. 639. TRANSFER OF CERTAIN FEDERAL PROPERTY IN NEW 
JERSEY.—^The first section of the Act entitled "An Act transferring 
certain Federal property to the city of Hoboken, New Jersey", 
approved September 27, 1982 (Public Law 97-268; 96 Stat. 1140), 
is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by adding "and" at the end; and 
(2) by striking "Stat. 220), and" in subsection (b) and all 
that follows through "New Jersey; concurrent with" and insert-
ing the following: '%tat. 220); 
concurrent with". 
SEC. 640. Service performed during the period January 1, 1984, 5 USC 8401 note, 
through December 31, 1986, which would, if performed after that 
period, be considered service as a law enforcement officer, as defined 
in section 8401(17) (A)(i)(II) and (B) of title 5, United States Code, 
shall be deemed service as a law enforcement officer for the purposes 
of chapter 84 of such title. 
This Act may be cited as the "Treasury, Postal Service, and 
General Government Appropriations Act, 1996". 
Approved November 19, 1995. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 2020: 
HOUSE REPORTS: Nos. 104-183 (Comm. on Appropriations) and 104-291 (Comm. 
of Conference). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 104-121 (Comm. on Appropriations). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 141 (1995): 
July 18, 19, considered and passed House. 
Aug. 5, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Nov. 15, House agreed to conference report; disagreed to Senate amendment. 
Senate agreed to conference report; receded from its amendment. 
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 31 (1995): 
Nov. 19, Presidential statement.