Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1990
PL 101-136 (H.R.2989), enacted 11/03/1989

PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
103 STAT. 783 
Public Law 101-136 
101st Congress 
An Act 
Making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal 
Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certeiin Independent Agencies, 
for the fiscal year ending September 30,1990, 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 Septem-
ber 30,1990, and for other purposes, namely: 
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TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary including 
operation and maintenance of the Treasury Building and Annex; 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed $22,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses; not to exceed $200,000 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; not less than $2,000,000 
and forty full-time permanent positions for the Office of Foreign 
Assets Control; not to exceed $1,649,000, to remain available until 
expended, for systems modernization requirements; not to exceed 
$573,000, to remain available until expended, for repairs and 
improvements to the Main Treasury 
Building and 
Annex; 
$58,081,000. 
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses of the international affairs function of the 
Office of the Secretary; hire of passenger motor vehicles; mainte-
nance, repeiirs, 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 $2,000,000 for official travel expenses; and not to exceed 
$73,000 
for 
official 
reception 
and 
representation 
expenses; 
$25,010,000. 
Nov. 3, 1989 
[H.R. 2989] 
Treasury, Postal 
Service and 
General 
Government 
Appropriations 
Act, 1990. 
Treasury 
Department 
Appropriations 
Act, 1990. 
103 STAT. 784 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $13,6,05,000. 
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER 
Gifts and 
property. 
Decorations, 
medals, awards. 
Gifts and 
property. 
42 use 3771 
note. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforcement Training 
Center, as a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, including 
purchase (not to exceed thirty for police-tjrpe use) and hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; for expenses for student athletic and 
related activities; uniforms without regard to the general purchase 
price limitation for the current fiscal year; the conducting of and 
participating in firearms matches and presentation of awards; for 
public awareness and enhancing community support of law enforce-
ment training; not to exceed $5,000 for official reception and rep-
resentation 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 gifts: Provided further. That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, students attending training at any 
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center site shall reside in on-
Center or Center-provided housing, insofar as available and in 
accordance with Center policy: Provided further. That funds appro-
priated in this account shall be available for State and local govern-
ment 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 appropriation; 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 develop-
ment meetings at the Center: Provided further. That the Director of 
the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center shall annually 
present an award to be accompanied by a gift of intrinsic value to 
the outstanding student who graduated from a basic training pro-
gram at the Center during the previous fiscal year, to be funded by 
donations received through the Center's gift authority: Provided 
further. That the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center shall 
hire up to and maintain an average of not less than 425 direct full-
time equivalent positions for fiscal year 1990; $36,000,000: Provided 
further. That none of the funds appropriated under this heading 
shall be used to reduce the level of advanced training or other 
training activities of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center 
at Marana, Arizona. 
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, $15,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
103 STAT. 785 
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Financial Management Service, 
$289,695,000, of which not to exceed $14,864,000 shall remain avail-
able until expended for systems modernization initiatives. 
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BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS 
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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-tjrpe use for replacement only and hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles; hire of aircraft; and services of expert wit-
nesses at such rates as may be determined by the Director; not to 
exceed $5,000 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; $257,565,000, of which 
$19,000,000 shall be available solely for the enforcement of the 
Federal Alcohol Administration Act during fiscal year 1990, and of 
which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available for the pajmaent of 
attorneys' fees as provided by 18 U.S.C. 924(d)(2): Provided, That no 
funds appropriated herein shall be available for administrative 
expenses in connection with consolidating or centralizing within the 
Department of the Treasury the records of receipts and disp<)sition 
of firearms maintained by Federal firearms licensees or for issuing 
or carrying out any provisions of the proposed rules of the Depart-
ment of the Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, on 
Firearms Regulations, as published in the Federal Register, volume 
43, number 55, of March 21,1978: Provided further. That none of the 
funds appropriated herein shall be available for explosive identifica-
tion or detection tsigging research, development, or implementation: 
Provided further. That not to exceed $300,000 shall be available for 
research and development of an explosive identification and detec-
tion device: Provided further. That funds made available under this 
Act shall be used to achieve a minimum level of 3,850 full-time 
equivalent positions for fiscal year 1990, of which no fewer than 692 
full-time equivalent positions shall be allocated for the Armed 
Career Criminal Apprehension Program. 
UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the United States Customs Service, 
including purchase of up to one thousand motor vehicles for replace-
ment only, including nine hundred and ninety for police-type use 
and commercial operations; hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to 
exceed $10,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 
and awards of compensation to informers, as authorized by any Act 
enforced by the United States Customs Service; $1,059,634,000, of 
which up to $7,000,000 shall be available for the Interagency Border 
Inspection System, and of which such sums as become available in 
the Customs User Fee Account, except sums subject to section 
103 STAT. 786 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
13031(f)(3) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 
1985, as amended (19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(3)), shall be derived from that 
Account; of the total, not to exceed $150,000 shall be available for 
payment for rental space in connection with preclearance oper-
ations, and not to exceed $4,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, for research: Provided, That uniforms may be purchased 
without regard to the general purchase price limitation for the 
current fiscal year: Provided further. That none of the funds made 
available by this Act shall be available for administrative expenses 
to pay any employee overtime pay in an amount in excess of $25,000: 
Provided further. That the Commissioner or his designee may waive 
this limitation in individual cases in order to prevent excessive costs 
or to meet emergency requirements of the Service: Provided further. 
That none of the funds made available by this Act may be used for 
administrative expenses in connection with the proposed redirection 
of the Equal Employment Opportunity Program: Provided further. 
That the United States Customs Service shall hire and maintain an 
average of not less than 16,976 full-time equivalent positions in 
fiscal year 1990, of which a minimum level of 10,385 full-time 
equivalent positions shall be allocated to commercial operations 
activities, and of which a minimum level of 930 full-time equivalent 
positions shall be allocated to air interdiction activities of the 
United States Customs Service: Provided further. That no funds 
appropriated by this Act may be used to reduce to single eight hour 
shifts at airports and that all current services as provided by the 
Customs Service shall continue through September 30, 1990: Pro-
vided further, That not less than $500,000 shall be expended for 
additional part-time and temporary positions in the Honolulu Cus-
toms District. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR INTERDICTION PROGRAM 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the hire, 
lease, acquisition (transfer or acquisition from any other agency), 
operation and maintenance of aircraft, and other related equipment 
of the Air Program; $196,728,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That no aircraft or other related equipment shall 
be transferred to any Federal agency. Department, or office outside 
of the Department of the Treasury during fiscal year 1990. 
CUSTOMS FORFEITURE FUND 
(LIMITATION ON AVAILABIUTY OP DEPOSITS) 
For necessary expenses of the Customs Forfeiture Fund, not to 
exceed $10,000,000, as authorized by Public Law 100-690; to be 
derived from deposits in the Fund. 
CUSTOMS SERVICES AT SMALL AIRPORTS 
(TO 
BE 
DERIVED 
FROM 
FEES 
COLLECTED) 
Such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $2,175,000, 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 
salaries and expenses of individuals employed to provide such serv-
ices, to be derived from fees collected by the Secretary of the 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
103 STAT. 787 
Treasury pursuant to section 236 of Public Law 98-573 for each of 
these airports or other facilities when authorized by law and des-
ignated by the Secretary of the Treasury, and to remain available 
until expended. 
UNITED STATES MINT 
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SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
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For necessary expenses of the United States Mint; $50,735,000, 
including amounts for purchase and maintenance of uniforms not to 
exceed $275 multiplied by the number of employees of the agency 
who are required by regulation or statute to wear a prescribed 
uniform in the performance of official duties. 
BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 
ADMINISTERING THE PUBLIC DEBT 
For necessary expenses connected with any public-debt issues of 
the United States; $207,906,000. 
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE 
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SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service, not 
otherwise provided; for executive direction and management serv-
ices, 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; $72,382,000, of which not to 
exceed $25,000 for official reception and representation expenses 
and of which not to exceed $500,000 shall remain available until 
expended for research, and of which $128,000 shall remain available 
until expended for tax systems modernization initiatives. 
PROCESSING TAX RETURNS 
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service not other-
wise provided for; including processing tax returns; revenue 
accounting; computer services; 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 C!ommissioner; 
$1,946,003,000 of which $156,419,000 shall remain available until 
expended for tax systems redesign initiatives and of which not to 
exceed $60,000,000 shall remain available until expended for sys-
tems modernization initiatives. 
EXAMINATION AND APPEALS 
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service for deter-
mining and establishing tax liabilities; employee plans and exempt 
organizations; tax litigation; 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; $1,911,301,000, of ' 
which $1,674,000 shall remain available until expended for tax 
systems modernization initiatives. 
103 STAT. 788 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
INVESTIGATION, COLLECTION, AND TAXPAYER SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service for inves-
tigation and enforcement activities; including purchase (not to 
exceed four hundred and fifty-one for replacement only, for police-
type use) and hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); 
securing unfiled tax returns; collecting unpaid accounts; examining 
selected employment and excise tax returns; technical rulings; 
enforcement litigation; providing assistance to taxpayers; and serv-
ices as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be 
determined by the Commissioner: Provided, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of the Act, none of the funds made available by 
this Act shall be used to reduce the number of positions allocated to 
taxpayer service activities below fiscal year 1984 levels, or to reduce 
the number of positions allocated to any other direct taxpayer 
assistance functions below fiscal year 1984 levels, including, but not 
limited to Internal Revenue Service toll-free telephone tax law 
assistance and walk-in assistance available at Internal Revenue 
Service field offices: Provided further, That the Internal Revenue 
Service shall fund the Tax Counseling for the Elderly Program at 
$3,000,000. The Internal Revenue Service shall absorb within exist-
ing funds the administrative costs of the program in order that the 
full 
$3,000,000 
can 
be 
devoted 
to 
program 
requirements; 
$1,620,252,000, of which $1,431,000 shall remain available until 
expended for tax systems modernization initiatives; and of which an 
additional $7,400,000 shall be available for criminal investigations 
activities: Provided, That an additional $7,400,000 may be made 
available within existing funds for criminal investigations.. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE 
SECTION 1. Not to exceed 4 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. 
SEC. 2. Not to exceed 15 per centum, or $15,000,000, whichever is 
greater, of any appropriation made available to the Internal Reve-
nue Service for document matching for the current fiscal year by 
this Act may be transferred to any other Internal Revenue Service 
appropriation for document matching. 
UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the United States Secret Service, 
including purchase (not to exceed three hundred and forty-three 
vehicles for police-type use for replacement only) and hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles; hire of aircraft; training and assistance 
requested by State and local governments, which may be provided 
without reimbursement; services 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 be necessary to perform protective functions; the 
conducting of and participating in firearms matches and presen-
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103 STAT. 789 
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tation 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; for pay-
ment in advance for commercial accommodations as may be nec-
essary to perform protective functions; and for uniforms without 
regard to the general purchase price limitation for the current fiscal 
year; $870,785,000, of which $2,100,000 shall remain available until 
expended for construction at the Vice President's Temporary Offi-
cial Residence, and of which not to exceed $160,000 shall be made 
available for the protection at the one non-governmental property 
designated by the President of the United States under provisions of 
section 12 of the Presidental Protection Assistance Act of 1976 (18 
U.S.C. 3056 note). 
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SECTION 101. Appropriations to the Treeisury Department in this 
Act shall be available for uniforms or allowances therefor, as au-
thorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901), including maintenance, repairs, and 
cleaning; purchase of insurance for official motor vehicles operated 
in foreign countries; 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 as 
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authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 
SEC. 102. None of the funds appropriated by this title shall be used 
in connection with the collection of any underpayment of any t£ix 
imposed by the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 unless the conduct of 
officers and employees of the Internal Revenue Service in connec-
tion with such collection complies with subsection (a) of section 805 
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(relating to communications 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. 103. Not to exceed 2 per centum of any appropriations in this 
Act for the Department of the Treasury may be transferred between 
such appropriations. However, no such appropriation shall be in-
creEised or decresised by more than 2 per centum and any such 
proposed transfers shall be approved in advance by the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House and Senate. 
SEC. 104. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning 
31USC 306 note. 
October 1, 1990, and thereafter, the Financial Management Service 
shall be fully and directly reimbursed from the Social Security Trust 
Funds for the costs it incurs in the issuance of Social Security Trust 
Funds benefit payments, including all physical costs associated with 
payment preparation and postage costs. Such direct reimbursement 
shall also be made for all other trust and special funds which are the 
recipients of services performed by the Financial Man£igement Serv-
ice and which prior to enactment of this provision reimburse the 
General Fund of the Treasury for such services. 
SEC. 105. Not more than $22,640,000 of the funds appropriated by 
this Act may be obligated or expended for the procurement of 
advisory or assistance services by the Department of the Treasury. 
103 STAT. 790 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
This title may be cited as the "Treasury Department Appropria-
tions Act, 1990" 
Postal Service 
Appropriations 
Act, 1990. 
39 u s e 403 note. 
New York. 
Reports. 
Executive Office 
Appropriations 
Act, 1990. 
3 u s e 102 note. 
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TITLE II 
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POSTAL SERVICE 
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PAYMENT T
O THE POSTAL SERVICE FUND 
For payment to the Postal Service Fund for revenue forgone on 
free and reduced rate mail, pursuant to subsection (c) of section 2401 
of title 39, United States Code; $459,755,000: Provided, That mail for 
overseas voting and mail for the blind 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 charg-
ing any officer or employee of any State or local child support 
enforcement agency, or any individual participating in a State or 
local program of child support enforcement, 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 small rural and other small post 
offices in the fiscal year ending on September 30,1990. 
PAYMENT TO THE POSTAL SERVICE FUND FOR NONFUNDED LIABILITIES 
For payment to the Postal Service Fund for meeting the liabilities 
of the former Post Office Department to the Employees' Compensa-
tion Fund pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 2004, $36,942,000. 
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UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SECTION 1. That none of the funds in this Act or made available by 
39 U.S.C. 2401(a) may be used to enter into any new contracte 
relating to the Westchester County, New York, General Mail Facil-
ity or construction thereof for a period of ninety days. During this 
ninety-day period, the Postal Service shall pursue alternative site 
locations for the Westchester GMF and at the end of that period 
shall report back to the Appropriations Committee with rec-
ommended alternatives. 
This title may be cited as the "Postal Service Appropriations Act, 
1990". 
TITLE III 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 
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 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 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
103 STAT. 791 
none of the funds made available for official expenses shall be 
considered as taxable to the President. 
OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the 
Office 
of 
Administration; 
$18,825,000, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 
U.S.C. 107, and hire of passenger motor vehicles and of which not 
less than $500,000 shall be made available to the White House 
Conference on Indian Education. 
THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE 
SALARIES 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 provided by 3 
U.S.C. 103); not to exceed $20,000 for official entertainment ex-
penses, to be available for allocation within the Executive Office of 
the President; $30,639,000. 
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; $6,898,000, of which 
$800,000 for the replacement of exterior windows of the Executive 
Residence shall remain available until expended, to be expended 
and accounted for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 105,109-110, 112-114 and 
of which $125,000 shall remain available until expended for 
refurbishment of furniture. 
OFFICIAL RESIDENCE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT 
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OPERATING EXPENSES 
For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing, 
improvement, heating and lighting, including electric power and 
fixtures, of the official residence of the Vice President, the hire of 
passenger motor vehicles, and not to exceed $75,000 for official 
entertainment expenses of the Vice President, to be accounted for 
solely on his certificate; $578,000: Provided, That advances or repay-
ments or transfers from this appropriation may be made to any 
department or agency for expenses of carrying out such activities. 
103 STAT. 792 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
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; $2,335,000. 
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Council in carrying out its functions 
under the Employment Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1021); $2,906,000. 
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; 
$3,079,000. 
NATIONAL CRITICAL MATERIALS COUNCIL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Critical Materials Council, 
including activities as authorized by Public Law 98-373; $400,000: 
Provided, That a minimum level of 5 permanent full-time equivalent 
positions shall be hired and maintained by the National Critical 
Materials Council in fiscal year 1990: Provided further, That none of 
the funds made available to the Council under this Act shall be used 
to pay other Federal agencies for reimbursable detailees in fiscal 
year 1990 without the advance approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations. 
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; $5,409,000. 
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 authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109; $44,894,000 of which not to exceed $4,500,000 shall be 
available to carry out the provisions of 44 U.S.C. chapter 35: Pro-
vided, That, as provided in 31 U.S.C. 1301(a), appropriations shall be 
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applied only to the objects for which appropriations were made 
except as otherwise provided by law: Provided further. That none of 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
103 STAT. 793 
the funds appropriated in this Act for the Office of Mangigement and 
Budget may be used for the purpose of reviewing any agricultural 
marketing orders or any activities or regulations under the provi-
sions 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 Manage-
ment 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 re-
leased by the Committee on Appropriations or the Committee on 
Veterans' Affairs: Provided further, That none of the funds made 
available by this Act or any other Act shall be used to reduce the 
scope or publication frequency of statistical data relative to the 
operations and production of the alcoholic beverage and tobacco 
industries below fiscal year 1985 levels: Provided further. That none 
of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to the Office 
of Management and Budget for revising, curtailing or otherwise 
amending the administrative and/or regulatory methodology em-
ployed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to gissure 
compliance with section 105, title 27 of the United States Code 
(Federal Alcohol Administration Act) or with regulations, rulings or 
forms promulgated thereunder. 
INVESTMENT IN MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT 
For expenses necessary to improve the management Eind 
productivity of Executive agencies, such as the development of 
systems to integrate budget, accounting, administrative, and pro-
gram management information, and pilot projects to use credit card 
technology to disburse benefit payments, $500,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
OFFICE 
OF 
FEDERAL 
PROCUREMENT 
POLICY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, includ-
ing services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; $2,660,000. 
OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
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 $7,500 for official reception and representation 
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; 
$12,000,000: 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. 
103 STAT. 794 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
Independent 
Agencies 
Appropriations 
Act, 1990. 
Reports. 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 
UNANTICIPATED NEEDS 
For expenses necessary to enable the President to meet unantici-
pated needs, in furtherance of the national interest, security, or 
defense which may arise at home or abroad during the current fiscal 
year; $1,000,000. 
This title may be cited as the "Executive Office Appropriations 
Act, 1990". 
TITLE IV 
ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Administrative Conference of the 
United States, established by the Administrative Conference Act, as 
amended (5 U.S.C. 571 et seq.), including not to exceed $1,000 for 
official reception and representation expenses; $1,865,000. 
ADVISORY COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL 
RELATIONS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the 
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations Act of 1959, 
as amended (42 U.S.C. 4271-79); $1,300,000, and additional amounts 
not to exceed $200,000, collected from the sale of publications shall 
be credited to and used for the purposes of this appropriation. 
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL PAY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Committee on Federal 
Pay, established by 5 U.S.C. 5306; $205,000: Provided, That the 
annual report of the Advisory Committee on Federal Pay shall be 
submitted to the Appropriations Committees of the House and 
Senate and other appropriate Committees of the Congress at the 
same time the report is submitted to the President. 
COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM THE BLIND AND OTHER 
SEVERELY HANDICAPPED 
'' 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Committee for Purchase From the 
Blind and Other Severely Handicapped established by the Act of 
June 23,1971, Public Law 92-28, $1,062,000. 
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Federal 
Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended; $15,330,000. 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
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103 STAT. 795 
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
REAL PROPERTY ACTIVITIES 
FEDERAL BUILDINGS FUND 
UMITATIONS ON AVAILABILITY OP REVENUE 
For additional expenses necessary to carry out the purposes 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)), $25,220,000 to be deposited into said fund. The revenues and 
collections deposited into said fund shall be available for necessary 
expenses of real property management and related activities not 
otherwise provided for, including operation, maintenance, and 
protection of federally owned and leased buildings; rental of build-
ings in the District of Columbia; restoration of leased premises; 
moving Governmental agencies (including space adjustments) in 
connection with the assignment, allocation and transfer of space; 
contractual services incident to cleaning or servicing buildings and 
moving; repair and alteration of federally owned buildings, includ-
ing grounds, approaches and appurtenances; care and safeguarding 
of sites; maintenance, preservation, demolition, Eind equipment; ac-
quisition of buildings and sites by purchase, condemnation, or as 
otherwise authorized by law; 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 pajrment of principal, interest, 
t^es, and any other obligations for public buildings acquired by 
purchase contract, in the aggregate amount of $3,328,345,320, of 
which (1) not to exceed $138,843,000 shall remain available until 
expended for construction of additional projects at locations and at 
maximum construction improvement costs (including funds for sites 
and expenses) as follows: 
New Construction: 
Alaska: 
Skagway, Border Station, $4,110,000 
Iowa: 
Ames, a grant to establish a midwest Supercomputer 
Access Center at Iowa State University, $5,000,000 
California: 
^ 
Long Beach, Grant to County of Los Angeles, additional 
deck to a parking facility, $3,000,000 
Colorado: 
Boulder, NOAA, $31,814,000 
Kansas: 
Kansas City, Federal Building, Courthouse, Site, $200,000 
Maryland: 
Prince George's County Federal Courthouse, Site and 
Design, $4,700,000 
Boston, Federal Building, Claun, $2,930,000 
Woods Hole, a grant for the development of the Marine 
Biomedical Institute for Advanced Studies, $2,000,000 
Northampton, a grant for a science center at Smith 
•yH\ 
College, $1,500,000 
Maryland: 
103 STAT. 796 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
Baltimore, a grant for planning and design of the Chris-
topher Columbus Center on Marine Research and Explo-
ration, $1,500,000 
Minnesota: 
International Falls, Border Station, $1,472,000 
New Jersey: 
Paterson, Federal Building, $1,200,000 
Nebraska: 
Lincoln, a grant for expansion of the Eppley Institute for 
Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, $5,000,000 
New Mexico: 
Alamogordo, Grant to the New Mexico State University, 
i 
Primate Research Institute, Site and Facilities, to be con-
structed on a site leased from the United States Air Force 
at HoUoman Air Force Base, $5,000,000 
North Carolina: 
Asheville, Federal Building, site and design, $4,000,000 
Oregon: 
Astoria, Grant to the City of Astoria for reconstruction 
(including parking/roadwork) of the first United States 
Custom House west of the Rockies, $90,000 
Pennsylvania: 
Philadelphia, Veterans Administration, $54,000,000 
Virgin Islands: 
' 
St. Croix, Federal Building, Courthouse, $8,827,000 
Construction Projects, less than $1,500,000, $2,000,000 
Other selected purchases including options to purchase, 
$500,000: 
Provided, That each of the immediately foregoing limits of costs on 
new construction projects may be exceeded to the extent that sav-
ings are effected in other such projects, but by not to exceed 10 per 
centum: Provided further, That all funds for direct construction 
projects shall expire on September 30, 1991, 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 $100,000 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 Appropriations of the House and Senate to the 
extent savings are effected in other such projects; (2) not to exceed 
$558,692,320 which shall remain available until expended, for re-
pairs and alterations: 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 Appro-
priations of the House and Senate for a greater amount: 
Repairs and Alterations: 
Alabama: 
Mobile, Federal Building, $1,581,000 
Alaska: 
Juneau, Federal Building, Courthouse, Post 
Office, 
$12,258,000 
California: 
Los Angeles, Federal Building, Post Office, 
11000 
Wilshire Blvd., $7,700,000 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
103 STAT. 797 
Los Angeles, Courthouse, 312 Spring Street, $5,302,000 
San Francisco, Federal Building, Ck)urthouse, 450 Golden 
Gate Avenue, $55,851,000 
Colorado: 
Denver, Byron G. Rogers Federal Building, Courthouse, 
$8,614,000 
Lakewood, Denver Federal Center, Building 810, 
$7,841,000 
District of Columbia: 
General 
Services 
Administration 
Headquarters, 
$19,000,000 
J. Edgar Hoover Federal Building, $9,800,000 
Housing and Urban Development, $9,500,000 
Old Executive Office Building, $18,000,000 
Florida: 
St. Petersburg, Federal Building, $3,637,000 
Georgia: 
Macon, Federal Building, Courthouse, $1,765,000 
Illinois: 
Chicago, Customhouse, $9,596,000 
Chicago, Everett M. Dirksen Federal Building, Court-
house, $2,833,000 
Chicago, Federal Building, 536 S. Clark 
Street, 
$35,328,000 
Danville, Federal Building, Courthouse, $2,627,000 
Boston, John F. Kennedy Federal Building, $9,700,000 
Michigan: 
Detroit, Federal Building, Courthouse, $2,580,000 
Minnesota: 
Fort Snelling, Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, 
$4,728,000 
Missouri: 
Overland, Adjutant General Personnel Center, $1,940,000 
Overland, Federal Records Center, $7,691,000 
New Mexico: 
Sante Fe, Federal Building, Cathedral Place at Palace, 
$2,130,000 
New York: 
Brooklyn, Emanuel Celler Federal Building, Cadman 
Plaza, $5,100,000 
Pennsylvania: 
Philadelphia, James A. Bjnme Courthouse, $7,801,000 
Philadelphia, William J. Greene, Jr., Federal Building, 
$6,774,000 
Philadelphia, Robert N.C. Nix, Sr., Federal Building, 
$19,268,000 
Pittsburgh, William S. Moorhead Federal Building, 
$7,850,000 
Tennessee: 
Chattanooga, Joel W. Solomon Federal Building, Court-
house, $3,033,000 
Jackson, Post Office, Courthouse, $2,433,000 
Texas: 
Fort Worth, Fritz G. Lanham Federal Building, 
$4,834,000 
Virginia: 
103 STAT. 798 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
Charlottesville, Federal Executive Institute, $2,100,000 
^ 
Wisconsin: 
Milwaukee, Federal Building, Courthouse, $3,548,000 
Capital Improvements of United States-Mexico Border Facilities, 
$54,681,320 as follows: 
Arizona: 
Douglas, New Border Station, $4,000,000 
Nogales, Mariposa Border Station, $4,289,000 
Nogales, Grand Ave./Morley Gate Border 
Station, 
$12,427,000 
California: 
Calexico, Border Station, $4,000,320 
Otay Mesa, Border Station, $4,302,000 
Otay Mesa, New facility, $2,000,000 
San Ysidro, Border Station, $3,366,000 
New Mexico: 
Santa Teresa, New Border Station, $6,152,000 
Texas: 
Brownsville, Los Indios Border Station, $1,535,000 
Columbia, New Border Station, $4,000,000 
Eagle Pass, Border Station, $1,402,000 
El Paso, Bridge of the Americas, Border Station, 
$7,208,000. 
Minor Repairs and Alterations, $201,268,000: Provided, That by no 
later than July 30,1990, the Administrator of General Services shall 
assess the level of unobligated balances, if any, in the Federal 
Buildings Fund and request reprogramming of such balances, not to 
exceed $10,000,000, to provide additional funding for United States-
Mexico Border Facility projects: 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 all funds for repairs and alterations prospec-
tus projects shall expire on September 30, 1991, 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; (3) not to exceed $126,752,000 for payment on 
purchsise contracts entered into prior to July 1, 1975; (4) not to 
exceed $1,341,736,000 for rental of space; (5) not to exceed 
$948,000,000 for real property operations; (6) not to exceed 
$68,020,000 for program direction and centralized services; and (7) 
not to exceed $146,302,000 for design and construction services 
which shall remain available until expended: 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), 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 
department or agency from buildings then, or thereafter to be, 
under the control of the General Services Administration shall be 
Contracts. 
considered to be federally owned buildings: Provided further, That 
Georgia. 
the Administrator of General Services is hereby directed to enter 
into a lease to ownership agreement, pursuant to a competitive 
selection process, for the lease purchase of a building of approxi-
mately 541,000 occupiable square feet, in Chamblee, Georgia. The 
contract shall provide, by lease or installment pa3mients over a 
period of not to exceed thirty years, for the payment of the purchase 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
108 STAT. 799 
price and reasonable interest thereon, and shall provide for title to 
the building to vest in the United States on or before the expiration 
of the contract term upon fulfillment of the terms and conditions of 
the agreement. Obligations of funds for the le£ise or installment 
payments shall be limited to the current fiscal year for v/hich 
payments are due without regard to section 1341(a)(1)(B) of title 31, 
United States Code: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Administrator of General Services is 
hereby authorized to enter into a lease to ownership agreement, 
pursuant to a competitive selection process, for the lease purchase of 
such buildings as required to provide not to exceed 1,400,000 occupi-
able square feet and necessary parking for the Environmental 
Protection Agency, on a site in the District of Columbia. The con-
tract shall provide, by lease or installment pajnnent over a period 
not to exceed thirty years, from funds available in the Federal 
Buildings Fund for the payment of the purchase price and reason-
able interest thereon, and shall provide for title to the building(s) to 
vest in the United States on or before the expiration of the contract 
term upon fulfillment of the terms and conditions of the agreement. 
Obligation of funds for the lease or installment pajrmente shall be 
limited to the current fiscal year for which payments are due 
without regard to section 1341(a)(1)(B) of title 31, United States 
Code: Provided further. That the Administrator of General Services 
is hereby directed to enter into a lease to ownership agreement, 
pursuant to a competitive selection process, for the lease purchase of 
a building of approximately 664,100 occupiable square feet, on a site 
to be donated or otherwise acquired, in the City of Baltimore, 
Maryland, or the City of Woodlawn, Maryland. The contract shall 
provide, by lease or installment payments over a period of not to 
exceed thirty years, for the payment of the purchase price and 
reasonable interest thereon, and shall provide for title to the build-
ing to vest in the United States on or before the expiration of the 
contract term upon fulfillment of the terms and conditions of the 
agreement. Obligations of funds for the lease or installment pay-
ments shall be limited to the current fiscal year for which payments 
are due without regard to section 1341(a)(1)(B) of title 31, United 
States Code: Provided further. That the limitation on purchase price 
for the Oakland, California building authorized under this heading 
in Public Law 100-202 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 for a 
greater amount: Provided further. That none of the funds available 
to the General Services Administration with the exception of those 
for the Prince George's County, Maryland, Federal Courthouse; 
Capital Improvements for United States-Mexico Border Facilities; 
and the Santa Fe New Mexico Federal Building shall be available 
for expenses in connection with any construction, repair, alteration, 
and acquisition project for which a prospectus, if required by the 
Public Buildings 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 
prospectus: Provided further. That funds available in the Federal 
Buildings Fund may be expended for emergency repairs when ad-
vance approval is obtained from the Committees 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 
Contracts. 
District of 
Columbia. 
Contracts. 
Maryland. 
103 STAT. 800 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 490(f)(6)) and amounts to provide 
such reimbursable fencing, lighting, guard booths, and other facili-
ties on private or other property not in Government 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 collec-
tions: Provided further. That revenues and collections and any other 
sums accruing to this Fund during fiscal year 1990 excluding re-
imbursements 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 
$3,328,345,320 shall remain in the Fund and shall not be available 
for expenditure except as authorized in appropriations Acts. 
FEDERAL 
SUPPLY 
SERVICE 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise provided for, nec-
essary for property management activities, utilization of excess and 
disposal of surplus personal property, rehabilitation of personal 
property, transportation management activities, transportation 
audits by in-house personnel, procurement, and other related supply 
( 
management activities, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109; $47,644,000. 
FEDERAL 
PROPERTY 
RESOURCES 
SERVICE 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for carrying 
out the functions of the Administrator with respect to utilization of 
excess real property; the disposal of surplus real property, the 
utilization survey, deed compliance inspection, appraisal, environ-
mental and cultural analysis, and land use planning functions 
pertaining to excess and surplus real property, including services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; $12,174,000, to be derived from proceeds 
from transfers of excess real property and disposal of surplus real 
property and related personal property, subject to the provisions of 
the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 
U.S.C. 4601-5). 
REAL 
PROPERTY 
RELOCATION 
For expenses not otherwise provided for, $8,000,000 to remain 
available until expended, necessary for carrying out the functions of 
the Administrator with respect to relocation of Federal agencies 
from property which has been determined by the Administrator to 
be other than optimally utilized under the provisions of section 
210(e) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 
1949, as amended: Provided, That such relocations shall only be 
undertaken when the estimated proceeds from the disposition of the 
original facilities approximate the appraised fair market value of 
such new facilities and exceed the estimated costs of relocation. 
Relocation costs include expenses for and associated with acquisition 
of sites and facilities, and expenses of moving or repurchasing 
equipment and personal property. These funds may be used for 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
103 STAT. 801 
payments to other Federal entities to accomplish the relocation 
functions: Provided further. That nothing in this paragraph shall be 
construed as relieving the Administrator of General Services or the 
head of any other Federal agency from any obligation or restriction 
under the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (including any obligation 
concerning submission and approval of a prospectus), the Federal 
Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, or 
any other Federal law, or as authorizing the Administrator of 
Greneral Services or the head of any other Federal agency to take 
actions inconsistent with statutory obligations or restrictions placed 
upon the Administrator of General Services or such agency head 
with respect to authority to acquire or dispose of real property. 
GENERAL MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of agency management of activities under 
the control of the General Services Administration, and general 
administrative and staff support services not otherwise provided for; 
for providing accounting, records management, and other support 
incident to adjudication of Indian Tribal Claims by the United 
States Court of Claims, and services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; 
$124,297,000, of which $800,000 shall be available only for, and is 
hereby specifically earmarked for personnel and associated costs in 
support of Congressional District and Senate State offices: Provided, 
That this appropriation shall be available, subject to reimbursement 
by the applicable agency, for services performed for other agencies 
pursuant to subsections (a) and O
t
)
) of section 1535 of title 31, United 
States Code: Provided further, That not to exceed $5,000 shall be 
available for official reception and representation expenses: Pro-
vided further, That for the fiscal year ending September 30,1990, in 
addition to funds previously appropriated to General Management 
and Administration, there is hereby appropriated $13,152,000 to 
remain available until expended, to be eillocated as grants for the 
following projects: 
(a) Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, 
to establish a strategic materials research center, $1,500,000; 
OD) Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, 
for construction of a center for applied metallurgical, minerals, 
and materials research, $5,000,000; 
(c) University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, to estab-
lish a center for strategic man-made materials, $1,500,000; 
(d) University of Hawaii, Manoa, Hawaii, for a strategic 
materials research facility, $1,000,000; and 
(e) University of Texas, El Paso, Texas, for a grant to study 
and facilitate the development and transfer and installation of 
strategic materials technologies among American industries, 
$4,152,000. 
INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT SERVICE 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise provided for, nec-
essary for carrying out Government-wide and internal responsibil-
ities relating to automated data management, telecommunications, 
103 STAT. 802 
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Public buildings 
and grounds. 
40 use 490d. 
Maryland. 
information resources management, and related activities, including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and for the Information 
Security Oversight Office established pursuant to Executive Order 
12356; $32,480,000. 
OFFICE OP INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General; 
$26,500,000 of which $1,000,000 is available until expended for 
procurement and installment of an automation program in support 
of audits and investigations: Provided, That not to exceed $10,000 
shall be available for pa5maent for information and detection of 
fraud against the Government, including pa5mient 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 carrjdng out the provisions of the Act of August 25,1958, 
as amended (3 U.S.C. 102 note), and Public Law 95-138; $1,823,000: 
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 SERVICES ADMINISTRATION-GENERAL 
PROVISIONS 
SECTION 1. The appropriate appropriation or fund available to the 
General Services Administration shall be credited with the cost of 
operation, protection, maintenance, upkeep, repair, and improve-
ment, included as part of rentals received from Government cor-
porations pursuant to law (40 U.S.C. 129). 
SEC. 2. Funds available to the General Services Administration 
shall be available for the hire of passenger motor vehicles. 
SEC. 3. Not to exceed 1 per centum of funds made available in 
appropriations for operating expenses and salaries and expenses, 
during the current fiscal year, may be transferred between such 
appropriations for mandatory program requirements. Any transfers 
proposed shall be submitted promptly to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House and Senate for approval. 
SEC. 4. Funds in the Federal Buildings Fund made available for 
fiscal year 1990 for Federal Buildings Fund activities may be trans-
ferred between such activities only to the extent necessary for 
mandatory program requirements. Any transfers proposed shall be 
submitted promptly to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House and Senate for approval. 
SEC. 5. Funds hereafter made available to the General Services 
Administration for the payment of rent shall be available for the 
purpose of leasing, for periods not to exceed thirty years, space in 
buildings erected on land owned by the United States. 
SEC. 6. Notwithstanding any provisions of this Act or any other 
Act in any fiscal year, the Administrator of General Services is 
authorized and directed to charge the Department of the Interior for 
design and alterations to the Avondale, Maryland, property at rates 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
103 STAT. 803 
40 u s e 490a-l. 
Safety. 
New York. 
S
O as to recover the approximate applicable cost incurred by General 
Services Administration in providing such alterations, and the 
Department of the Interior is authorized to repay such charges out 
of any appropriation available to the department and the pa5mients 
shall be deposited in the fund established by 40 U.S.C. 490(f). 
SEC. 7. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Adminis-
trator of Greneral Services is hereafter authorized to transfer from 
the resources of the Federal Buildings Fund, in accordance with 
such rules and procedures as may be established by the Office of 
Management £md Budget and the Department of the Treasury, such 
amounts as are necessary to repay the principal amount of General 
Services Administration borrowings from the Federal Financing 
Bank when such borrowings are legal obligations of the Fund. 
SEC. 8. The General Services Admmistration shall take immediate 
action to secure corrections to health and safety problems at the IRS 
Manhattan District Office and is directed if unable to correct such 
problems through the lessor within 90 days, to take such actions 
necessary to accomplish the corrections and withhold such amounts 
expended on such corrections from rental pajnnents. 
SEC. 9. OBLIGATIONS FOR MULTIYEAR AGREEMENTS FOR LEASE OR 40 use 491 note. 
OTHER ACQUISITION OF MOTOR VEHICLES ENTERED INTO BY ADMINIS-
TRATOR O
F GENERAL SERVICES.—(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsec-
tion (b), obligations of funds for multiyear agreements for the lease 
or other acquisition of motor vehicles entered into by the Adminis-
trator of General Services for the purposes of section 211 of the 
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 
491) shall be limited to the current fiscal year for which pajmients 
are due, without regard to any termination or cancellation costs, 
and without regard to section 1341(a)(1)(B) of title 31, United States 
Code. 
(b) AFFECTED AGREEMENTS.—This section shall apply to multiyear 
agreements which— 
(1) are entered into by the Administrator during the 4-year 
period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act; and 
(2) provide for the lease of motor vehicles for a period of not 
more than four years. 
SEC. 10. The general provision (section 8) in Public Law 100-440 is 
amended as follows: In subsection Ot))(l) delete "600,000" and insert 
"900,000". Delete subsection (b)(2). 
SEC. 11. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the 
Administrator of General Services, with the concurrence of the 
Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is authorized and 
directed to acquire, by means of a lease of up to twenty years 
duration, a new facility to house the offices of Region Five of the 
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Hampshire County or Holyoke, 
M£issachusetts. 
0)) There is hereby made available until expended, out of the 
Federal Buildings Fund, not to exceed $100,000 for telecommuni-
cation system expenses associated with the relocation of Region Five 
of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to the facility authorized to be 
leased by this Act. 
SEC. 12. The Administrator of GSA is directed to lease approxi-
mately one hundred thousand occupiable square feet of office and 
specisd purpose space to provide for relocation and consolidation of 
the outpatient clinic functions in Boston, Massachusetts, currently 
located in an outdated Federal building at 17 Court Street. 
102 Stat. 1741. 
eontracts. 
Massachusetts. 
eontracts. 
Massachusetts. 
103 STAT. 804 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
Colorado. 
North Carolina. 
California. 
Hawaii. 
Gifts and 
property. 
SEC. 13. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary 
of C!ommerce shall transfer to the General Services Administration 
at no cost approximately fifteen acres of the site at 325 Broadway in 
Boulder, Colorado, for the construction of a new Federal Building to 
house the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In 
selecting the land to be transferred, the Secretary shall give due 
consideration to access from Broadway and the availability of 
utilities. 
SEC. 14. The Administrator of General Services after consultation 
with the Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury and 
the Department of Defense shall submit a prospectus for the In-
ternal Revenue Service and a prospectus for the Department of the 
Navy to the House Committee on Public Works, the Senate Commit-
tee on Environment and Public Works, and the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations within 90 days of enactment of this 
Act. 
One prospectus shall provide for the consolidation of existing 
leased space for activities of the National Office of the Internal 
Revenue Service and additional space which may be required by 
such activities in the National Capital Region, into one consolidated 
suburban Maryland location in the National Capital Region. 
A second prospectus shall provide for the consolidation of existing 
leased space in northern Virginia and additional space required by 
the Department of the Navy in the northern Virginia area into one 
consolidated location in the northern Virginia area. 
The prospectuses shall outline how such space shall operate in a 
coordinated fashion with existing Government controlled space that 
will continue to be occupied by such agency or department and shall 
provide that the Administrator of General Services shall competi-
tively acquire and select quality space representing the best value 
for the Government at the lowest possible cost within each respec-
tive area. 
SEC. 15. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the General 
Services Administration is hereby authorized to sell to the city of 
Asheville or political subdivision at fair market value, the Grove 
Arcade Federal Building and site, in whole or in part, in Asheville, 
North Carolina, and to deposit such proceeds into the Federal 
Buildings Fund. 
SEC. 16. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the County of 
Los Angeles in the State of California shall provide to the General 
Services Administration, without cost, 250 parking spaces for a 
period of ninety-nine years, in the Parking Facility at Long Beach, 
California, for which a Grant is provided from revenues and collec-
tions deposited into 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)), 
SEC. 17. (a) CONVEYANCE.—Subject to subsection (c), notwithstand-
ing any other provision of law, the Administrator of General Serv-
ices (Administrator) shall convey, subject to existing easements, 
without consideration, to the State of Hawaii, all right, title and 
interest of the United States in and to approximately 89.274 acres 
more specifically described in subsection (b), together with any 
improvements, structures and fixtures located thereon and related 
personal property in Waianae, Oahu, State of Hawaii at the former 
U.S. Coast Guard transmitter site. 
(b) LEGAL DESCRIPTION.—This land is a portion of Grant 4751 to 
H.M. Von Holt and a portion of Lot A-4-A of Land Court Applica-
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103 STAT. 805 
tion 130 situated about 2,000 feet Northeasterly from Farrington 
Highway at Luedualei, Waianae, Oahu, State of Hawaii; beginning 
at the Northwest comer of this piece of land and on the easterly 
boundary of Grant 7859 to Ralph E. Turner, the true azimuth and 
distance from Government Survey Triangulation Station "Puu-0-
Hulu (Makai)" being 167^33' 5556.27 feet and running by true 
azimuths measured clockwise from South: (1) 261*'44' 1940.00 feet 
along 50' road easement; (2) 360''00' 2551.34 feet; (3) 89°06' 1413.41 
feet; (4) 167°33' 2349.87 feet along Grant 8422 to Lizzie Gilliland and 
Grant 7859 to Ralph E. Turner to the point of beginning; total 
acreage 93.575. 
Excluding from said 93.575 acre parcel, parcel A of Waianaenui 
Watershed Project, Maili Channel Improvement, lines M-5 and M-
6, Being Lot 202-A, area 1.440 acres, as shown on Map 53, and filed 
in the Office of the Assistant Registrar of the Land Court of State of 
Hawaii with Land Court Application No. 130 of Alexander C. 
Dowsett et al., and being a portion of the land described in Transfer 
Certificate of Title No. 86,019 issued to said grantor, situated at 
Lualualei, Waianae, Oahu, Hawaii, and also excluding therefrom. 
Parcel "B" of Waianaenui Watershed Project, Maili Channel 
Improvement, lines M-5 and M-6: All of that certain parcel of land 
being a portion of Grant 4751 to H.M. Von Holt (Portion of U.S. Civil 
No. 868), situated at Lualualei, Waianae, Oahu, Hawaii, approxi-
mately 2.861 acres. 
(c) CONDITIONS OF CONVEYANCES.—(1) The Administrator shall 
convey the approximately 89.274 acres described in subsection (b) to 
the State of Hawaii on the condition that the State of Hawaii, 
within 3 years of date of conveyance, exchange such property and 
other appropriate consideration (if necessary) for an equal total 
amount of consideration that includes one or more parcels of Hawai-
ian home lands on the islands of Hawaii, Oahu, and Molokai consist-
ing of: (1) approximately 6.00 acres of real property located in 
Keaukaha (Tract 1), Waiakea, Hilo, Hawaii, being the present site of 
Keaukaha School; (2) approximately 26.207 acres of real property 
filed in the Office of the Department of Land and Natural Resources 
in C.S.F. No. 20282 and a separate parcel, being the present site of 
Molokai High School and Athletic Field; and (3) approximately 
13.675 acres, filed in the Office of the Department of Land and 
Natural Resources in C.S.F. Nos. 12325, 10414, and 6342, being the 
present site of Nanaikapono Elementary School. 
In the event the exchange of the property is not completed within 
the time period as specified herein, including recording the deed for 
the conveyance of the property from the State of Hawaii in accord-
ance with all applicable laws, all right, title and interest to such 
property shall revert to the United States and the United States 
shall have the immediate right of entry thereon. 
(2) Prior to the conveyance by the Administrator of approximately 
89.274 acres described in subsection (b), as a condition of the convey-
ance, the State of Hawaii sheill agree that the Hawaiian Home Leind 
properties to be acquired by the State of Hawaii in the exchange 
described in subsection (c)(1) shall only be used for educational 
purposes in perpetuity, and in the event the properties cease to be so 
used, all or any portion of such properties shall, in its existing 
condition, revert to the United States. 
SEC. 18. (a) Notwithstanding section 203(k) of the Federal Property 
and Administrative Services Act of 1949, any implementing regula-
tions, and the conveyance of Deed Without Warranty of June 5,1968 
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Real property. 
New Mexico. 
South Carolina. 
Real property. 
recorded in Book 250 pages 183 through 196 of the Deed Records of 
Chaves County, New Mexico, on June 5,1968, and Correction Deed 
of January 6, 1969, to the Deed Without Warranty of June 5, 1968, 
recorded in Book 252 pages 100 through 115 of the Deed Records of 
Chaves County, New Mexico, from the United States of America to 
the Board of R^ents, Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU), the 
Secretary of Education shall, as to the property described in subsec-
tion Ot»), grant a release to ENMU from sJl terms, conditions, 
reservations, and restrictions required by the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act, implementing r^ulations or contained 
in the above mentioned Deeds, subject to the United States retain-
ing until June 5,1998, a reversionary interest, which runs with the 
land, if any part of the property described in subsection Qji) is not 
used for educational or training purposes. 
(b) The property referred to in this section is described as a tract 
of land lying and being situated in Section 33, Township 11 South, 
Range 24 East, NMPM, Chaves County, New Mexico and being more 
particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point on the South 
boundary of the Pecos Valley Village subdivision from which the 
Northwest comer of said Section 33 bears N 6''16'28'' W a distance of 
2382.64 feet, said point being the intersection of said South boundary 
and the centerline of Gail Harris Street; thence S 89°37'30'' E along 
the south boundary of the Pecos Valley Village subdivision, a 
distance of 753.38 feet; thence S 0°00'43'' E a distance of 2382.10 feet; 
thence S 89°58'24" W a distance of 771.18 feet to the centerline of 
Gail Harris Street; thence N 0°24'51'' E along said centerline, a 
distance of 2387.43 feet to the point of b^inning. Containing 41.7245 
acres, more or less. 
SEC. 19. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Adminis-
trator of General Services— 
(a) shall convey, without consideration, jurisdiction (custody, 
accountability and control) to the Institute of American Indian 
and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development (Institute), 
over approximately 31,006 square feet of real property, together 
with any improvements, structures, and fixtures located 
thereon and related personal property, located at Cathedral 
Place at Palace, in Ward Number 4 of the City of Santa Fe and 
Precinct Number 18 of the County of Santa Fe, New Mexico, 
and 
(b) shall transfer to the Institute, from revenues and collec-
tions in the fund established pursuant to section 210(f) of the 
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 
United States Code 490(f)), the sum of $2,130,000 for carrying 
out, in consultation with the Administrator of General Services, 
repairs and alterations to the facility transferred by this sec-
tion. 
SEC. 20. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secreta^ of Education shall convey, without consideration, to the 
School District of Charleston County, South Carolina, a deed— 
(1) releasing the reversionary interest to the property identi-
fieid in subsection (b), held by the United States on the date of 
the enactment of this Act; and 
(2) which is subject to the condition that— 
(A) the property shall be used for educational purposes 
for a period of 25 years; and 
(B) if during that period the property or any portion of 
the property ceases to be used for educational purposes, all 
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103 STAT. 807 
right, title, and interest in and to the property shall revert 
to the United States. 
(b) All that lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being on 
the west side of Chisolm Street, in Ward 2, in the City of Charleston, 
County of Charleston, and State of South Carolina. 
Measuring and containing in front on Chisolm Street 100 feet, and 
the same on the west or back line, and in depth on the northernmost 
line from east to west 150 feet and V
a inch, and the same on the 
southernmost line—be all the said dimensions a little more or less. 
Butting and bounding to the north on lands now of Anderson 
Lumber Company, formerly of Mrs. E.C. Rennecker; east on Chisolm 
Street aforesaid; south on part of the original tract of land owned by 
the said A.B, Murray and West Point Mills Company, now reserved 
by the said grantors, and west on another part of the said original 
tract, formerly belonging to the said A.B. Murray and West Point 
Mills Company, and conveyed by them to the United States of 
America. 
The said lot of land hereby conveyed being the northernmost 
portion of that portion of the Chisolm's Mills Property, reserved by 
the A.B. Murray and West Point Mills Company after conveyance of 
the greater part of the said Chisolm's Mills Property to the United 
States of America, by Deeds which are recorded and may be seen in 
Book U-24, Page 582 and Page 585 in the R.M.C. Office for Charles-
ton County, and all of which is more fully shown and delineated on a 
Plat of the said Chisolm's Mills Property, dated April 23, 1914, and 
made and certified to by H.D. King, Inspector, United States Light 
House Department, which said Plat is on record in Plat Book C, 
Page 97, in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County. 
Being the same premises which were conveyed to the United 
States of America by deed of Andrew B. Murray dated October 23, 
1916, and recorded in the Office of the R.M.C. for Charleston County 
in Book U-24, Page 587, and by deed of West Point Mills Company, 
dated November 20, 1916, and recorded in said office in Book U-24, 
Page 589. 
SEC. 21. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, agencies 
are authorized to make rent payments to the General Services 
Administration for lease space relating to expansion needs of the 
agency and General Services Administration is authorized to use 
such funds, in addition to the amount received as New Obligational 
Authority in the Rental of Space activity of the Federal Buildings 
Fund. Such payments are to be at the commercial equivalent rates 
specified by section 201(j) of the Federal Property and Administra-
tive Services Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 490(j)) and are to be 
deposited into 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)). 
0)) There are hereby appropriated, out of the Federal Buildings 
Fund, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of 
subsection (a). 
SEC. 22. Notwithstanding any provisions of this Act or any other 
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Act in any fiscal year, obligations of funds for lease, entered into in 
accordance with section 210(h)(1) of the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, 40 U.S.C. 490, 
shall be limited to the current fiscal year for which payments are 
due without regard to section 1341(a)(l)0^) of title 31, United States 
Code. 
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Arkansas. 
SEC. 23. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
obligated or expended in any w ^ 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, Depart-
ment of the Army, without the specific approval of the Congress. 
SEC. 24. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 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. 25. Section 110 of the Federal Property and Administrative 
Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 757) establishing the Information 
Technology Fund is amended by adding a sentence at the end of 
paragraph (aX2): These plans fiufill the requirements of 31 U.S.C. 
1512 and 1513. 
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses in connection with National Archives and 
Records Administration 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, 
$126,612,000 of which $5,000,000 for allocations and grants for 
historical publications and records as authorized by 44 U.S.C. 2504, 
as amended, shall remain available until expended. 
OFFICE O
F GOVERNMENT ETHICS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office of 
Government Ethics pursuant to the Ethics in Government Act of 
1978, as amended fy Public Law 100-598, 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 ve-
hicles, and not to exceed $1,500 for official reception and representa-
tion expenses: $3,414,000. 
OFFICE O
F 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 Numbered 
2 of 1978 and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, medical examinations per-
formed 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 reimbursements to 
applicable funds of the Office of Personnel Management and the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation for expenses incurred under Execu-
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103 STAT. 809 
tive Order 10422 of January 9, 1953, as amended: Provided, That Gifts and 
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Director is hereby authorized to P
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accept gifts for goods and services, which shall be available only for 
hosting National Civil Service Appreciation Conferences, to be held 
in several locations throughout the United States in 1990. Goods and 
services provided in connection with the conference may include, 
but are not limited to, food and refreshments; rental of seminar 
rooms, banquet rooms, and facilities; and use of communications, 
printing and other equipment. Awards of minimal intrinsic value 
will be allowed. Gifts provided by an individual donor shall not 
exceed 50 percent of the total value of the gifts provided at each 
location; $112,430,000 of which not less than $250,000 shall be made 
available to establish a program to facilitate the use of job sharing 
arrangements in agencies £is authorized in section 3402 of title 5, 
United States Code, and of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be 
made available for establishment of Federal health promotion and 
disease prevention programs for Federal employees; in addition to 
$81,907,000 for administrative expenses, inclu^g direct procure-
ment of health benefits printing, for the retirement and insurance 
programs of which $11,800,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended for costs incurred in implementing the recordkeeping system 
of the Federal Employees Retirement System, to be transferred from 
the appropriate trust funds of the Office of Personnel Management 
in the amounts determined by the Office of Personnel Management 
without regard to other statutes: Provided, That the provisions of 
this appropriation shall not affect the authority to use applicable 
trust funds as provided by section 8348(a)(lXB) of title 5, U.S.C.: 
Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be avEiil-
able 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 on White House 
Fellows, established by Executive Order 11183 of October 3, 1964, 
may, during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1990, accept 
donations of money, property, and personal services in connection 
with the development of a publicity brochure to provide information 
about the White House Fellows, except that no such donations 
shall be accepted for travel or reimbursement of travel ex-
penses, or for the salaries of employees of such Commission. 
OFFICE O
F 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, rental of 
conference rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, hire of 
t
£issenger motor vehicles: $2,918,000; and in addition, not to exceed 
2,193,000 for administrative expenses to audit the Office of Person-
nel Management's insurance programs, to be transferred from the 
appropriate trust funds of the Office of Personnel Management in 
amounts sufficient to cover such administrative expenses, as deter-
mined by the Inspector General without regard to other statutes. 
103 STAT. 810 
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GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR ANNUITANTS, EMPLOYEES HEALTH 
BENEFITS 
For payment of Government contributions with respect to retired 
employees, as authorized by chapter 89 of title 5, United States 
Code, and the Retired Federal Employees Health Benefits Act (74 
Stat. 849), as amended, $3,780,169,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR ANNUITANTS, EMPLOYEE LIFE 
INSURANCE 
For pa3mient of Government contributions with respect to employ-
ees retiring after December 31, 1989, as required by chapter 87 of 
title 5, United States Code, $2,700,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
PAYMENT TO CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND 
For financing the unfunded liability of new and increased annuity 
benefits becoming effective on or after October 20, 1969, as au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 8348, and annuities under special Acts to be 
credited to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, 
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$5,211,732,000: Provided, That annuities authorized by the Act of 
May 29, 1944, as amended (22 U.S.C. 3682(e)), August 19, 1950, as 
amended (33 U.S.C. 771-75), may hereafter be paid out of the Civil 
Service Retirement and Disability Fund. 
REVOLVING FUND 
Pursuant to section 4109(d)(1) of title 5, United States Code, costs 
for entertainment expenses of the President's Commission on Execu-
tive Exchange shall not exceed $12,000. 
MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Merit Sys-
tems Protection Board pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 
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; $20,987,000, together with not to exceed $1,450,000 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. 
OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office of the 
Special Counsel pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 
1978 and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-454), 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, payment of fees 
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103 STAT. 811 
and expenses for witnesses, rental of conference rooms in the Dis-
trict of Columbia and elsewhere, and hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles; $5,142,000. 
FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY 
SALARIES 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 conference 
rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; $17,590,000: Pro-
vided, 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 intermit-
tently in the Government service, and compensation £is authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 
UNITED STATES TAX COURT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including contract reporting and other 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; $28,120,000: Provided, That 
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travel expenses of the judges shall be paid upon the written certifi- 
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cate of the judge. 
This title may be cited as the "Independent Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 1990". 
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
THIS ACT 
SEC. 501. 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 therefor in the budget estimates 
submitted for the 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 of the Selective 
Service System; to travel performed directly in connection with care 
and treatment of medical beneficiaries of the Department of Veter-
ans 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 where separately set 
forth in the budget schedules. 
SEC. 502. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available to pay the salary of any person filling a position, other 
than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee who has 
left to enter the Armed Forces of the United States and has satisfac-
torily 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 posi-
103 STAT. 812 
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tion and has been certified by the Office of Personnel Management 
as still qualified to perform the duties of his former position and has 
not been restored thereto. 
SEC. 503. No part of any appropriation made available in this Act 
shall be used for the purchase or sale of real estate or for the 
purpose of establishing new offices inside or outside the District of 
Columbia: Provided, That this limitation shall not apply to pro-
grams which have been approved by the Congress and appropria-
tions made therefor. 
SEC. 504. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein. 
Contracts. 
SEC. 505. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for 
any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 
U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such expendi-
tures are a matter of public record and available for public inspec-
tion, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under 
existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 505A. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be available for the procurement of, or for the payment of, the 
salary of any person engaged in the procurement of any hand or 
measuring tool(s) not produced in the United States or its posses-
sions except to the extent that the Administrator of General Serv-
ices or his designee shall determine that a satisfactory quality and 
sufficient quantity of hand or measuring tools produced in the 
United States or its possessions cannot be procured as and when 
needed from sources in the United States and its possessions, or 
except in accordance with procedures prescribed by section 6-
104.40b) of Armed Services Procurement Regulation dated Janu-
ary 1, 1969, as such regulation existed on June 15, 1970: Provided, 
That a factor of 75 per centum in lieu of 50 per centum shall be used 
for evaluating foreign source end products against a domestic 
source end product. This section shall be applicable to all solicita-
tions for bids opened after its enactment. 
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SEC. 506. None of the funds made available to the General Serv-
ices Administration pursuant to section 210(f) of the Federal Prop-
erty 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 service which, before such date, was per-
formed by individuals in their capacity as employees of the General 
Services Administration in any position of guards, elevator opera-
tors, messengers, and custodians, except that such funds may be 
obligated or expended for the procurement by contract of the cov-
ered services with sheltered workshops emplo3dng the severely 
handicapped under Public Law 92-28. 
SEC. 507. No funds appropriated in this Act shall be available for 
administrative expenses in connection with implementing or enforc-
ing any provisions of the rule TD ATF-66 issued June 13, 1980, by 
the Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms on labeling and advertising of wine, distilled spirits and 
malt bever£iges, except if the expenditure of such funds, is necessary 
to comply with a final order of the Federal court system. 
SEC. 508. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be used 
for administrative expenses to close the Federal Information Center 
of the General Services Administration located in Sacramento, 
California. 
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103 STAT. 813 
SEC. 509. None of the funds made available by this Act for the 
Department of the Treasury may be used for the purpose of 
eliminating any existing requirement for sureties on customs bonds. 
SEC. 510. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be 
available for any activity or for pa3dng 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 1930 Tariff Act. 
SEC. 511. 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 Gl5nico, Georgia, 
Marana, Arizona, and Artesia, New Mexico, out of the Treasury 
Department. 
SEC. 512. 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. 513. 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 prohibit 
or prevent, any officer or employee of the United States Postal 
Service from having any direct oral or written communication 
or contact with any Member or committee of Congress in 
connection with any matter pertaining to the emplojmient 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 em-
ployee or in response to the request or inquiry of such Member 
or committee; or 
(2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, demotes, re-
duces 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 employment 
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 de-
scribed in paragraph (1) of this subsection. 
SEC. 514. No funds appropriated by this Act shall be available 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. 
SEC. 515. The provision of section 514 shall not apply where the 
life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to 
term. 
SEC. 516. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used 
to solicit bids, lease space, or enter into any contract to close or 
consolidate executive seminar centers for the Office of Personnel 
Management. 
SEC. 517. The Administrator of General Services, under section 
210(h) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 
1949, as amended, may acquire, by means of a lease of up to thirty 
years duration, space for the United States Courts in Tacoma, 
Washington, at the site of Union Station, Tacoma, Washington. 
Abortion. 
Contracts. 
Washington. 
103 STAT. 814 
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SEC. 518. Funds under this Act shall be available as authorized by 
sections 4501-4506 of title 5, United States Code, when the achieve-
ment involved is certified, or when an award for such achievement 
is otherwise payable, in accordance with such sections. Such funds 
may not be used for any purpose with respect to which the preceding 
sentence relates beyond fiscal year 1990. 
SEC. 519. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during 
fiscal year 1990, the authority to establish higher rates of pay under 
section 5303 of title 5, United States Code, may— 
(1) in addition to positions paid under any of the pay systems 
referred to in subsection (a) of section 5303 of title 5, United 
Stetes Code, be exercised with respect to positions paid under 
any other pay system established by or under Federal statute 
for positions within the executive branch of the Government; 
and 
(2) in addition to the circumstance described in the first 
sentence of subsection (a) of section 5303 of title 5, United Stetes 
Code, be exercised based on— 
(A) pay rates for the positions involved being generally 
less than the rates payable for similar positions held— 
(i) by individuals outside the Government; or 
(ii) % other individuals within the executive branch 
of the Government; 
(B) the remoteness of the area or location involved; 
(C) the undesirability of the working conditions or the 
nature of the work involved, including exposure to toxic 
substances or other occupational hazards; or 
(D) any other circumstances which the President (or an 
agency duly authorized or designated by the President in 
accordance with the last sentence of section 5303(a) of title 
5, United Stetes Code, for purposes of this subparagraph) 
may identify. 
Nothing in paragraph (2) shall be considered to permit the exercise 
of any authority based on any of the circumstances under such 
paragraph without an appropriate finding that such circumstances 
are significantly handicapping the Government's recruitment or 
retention efforts. 
(bXD A rate of pay esteblished during fiscal year 1990 through the 
exercise of any additional authority under subsection (a) of section 
5303 of title 5, United Stetes Code— 
(A) shall be subject to revision or adjustment, 
(B) shall be subject to reduction or termination (including pay 
retention), and 
(C) shall otherwise be treated, 
in the manner as generally applies with respect to any rate other-
wise esteblished under section 5303 of title 5, United Stetes Code. 
(2) The President (or an agency duly authorized or designated by 
the President in accordance with the last sentence of section 5303(a) 
of title 5, United Stetes Code, for purposes of this subsection) may 
prescribe any regulations necessary to carry out this subsection. 
(c) Any additional authority under this section may, during fiscal 
year 1990, be exercised only to the extent that amounts otherwise 
appropriated under this Act for purposes of section 5303 of title 5, 
United Stetes Code, are available. 
SEC. 520. None of the funds available in this Act may be used to 
contract out positions or downgrade the position classification of the 
Bureau of Engraving and Printing Police Force. 
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103 STAT. 815 
SEC. 521. The Office of Personnel Management may, during the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1990, accept donations of supplies 
and equipment for the Federal Executive Institute for the enhance-
ment of the morale and educational experience of attendees at the 
Institute. 
SEC. 522. The Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service shall 
take such action as necessary to maintain the existing staffing level 
without any downgrading of existing employees at the Detroit Data 
Center in the course of modifying certain payroll and personnel 
processing operations in the Office of Fiscal Operations and in the 
Resources Systems Development Division and modifying the capac-
ities of the Center to achieve backup compatibility with the Internal 
Revenue Service Martinsburg Computer Center in West Virginia. 
SEC. 523. The Director of Nationsd Drug Control Policy, as estab-
lished by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Public Law 100-690, 102 
Stat. 4181, (1989), is hereby authorized in cooperation with the 
Administrator of General Services to select a site not to exceed 
30,000 occupiable square feet for housing the Office of National 
Drug Control Policy suitable to meet the mission and security 
requirements of such Office, and the Administrator of General 
Services is hereby authorized to enter into a lease for such site 
under such terms and conditions as the Administrator finds to be in 
the best interests of the United States, notwithstanding any other 
provisions of law. 
SEC. 524. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the United 
States Customs Service may acquire by purchase land in the Baha-
mas for the operation of an aerostat site. Appropriations for the Air 
Program shall be available for the acquisition of such land. 
SEC. 525. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
shall take appropriate action to provide that the official title of the 
metropolitan statistical area which includes AUentown, Bethlehem, 
and Easton, Pennsylvania, shall be the "AUentown-Bethlehem-
Easton Metropolitan Statistical Area". 
SEC. 526. Section 631 of the "Treasury, Postal Service and General 
Government Appropriations Act, 1989" (Public Law 100-440) is 
amended by striking "December 22, 1987" and inserting in lieu 
thereof "October 1, 1983". The amendment made by this section 
shall be effective as if it had been included in Public Law 100-440. 
SEC. 527. The Presidential Protection Assistance Act of 1976 (18 
U.S.C. 3056 note) is amended by adding at the end thereof: 
"SEC. 12. In carrying out the protection of the President of the 
United States, pursuant to section 3056(a) of title 18, at the one non-
governmental property designated by the President of the United 
States to be fully secured by the United States Secret Service on a 
permanent basis, as provided in section 3.(a) of Public Law 94-524, 
the Secretary of the Treasury may utilize, with their consent, the 
law enforcement services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of the 
affected State and local governments. Further, the Secretary of the 
Treasury is authorized to reimburse such State and local govern-
ments for the utilization of such services, personnel, equipment, and 
facilities. All claims for such reimbursement by the affected govern-
ments will be submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury on a 
quarterly basis. Expenditures for this reimbursement are authorized 
not to exceed $160,000 in any one fiscal year: Provided, That the 
designated site is located in a municipality or political subdivision of 
any State where the permanent resident population is 7,000 or less 
and where the absence of such Federal assistance would place an 
Grovernment 
organization and 
employees. 
Michigan. 
Contracts. 
Pennsylvania. 
102 Stat. 1759. 
Effective date. 
State and local 
governments. 
103 STAT. 816 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
26 u s e 89 note. 
Effective date. 
Wages. 
Government 
organization 
and employees. 
undue economic burden on the affected State and local govern-
ments.". 
SEC. 528. No monies appropriated by this Act may be used to 
implement or enforce section 1151 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 or 
the amendments made by such section. 
SEC. 529. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available for the procurement of, or for the pa5rment of, the 
salary of any person engaged in the procurement of stainless steel 
flatware not produced in the United States or its possessions, except 
to the extent that the Administrator of General Services or his 
designee shall determine that a satisfactory quality and sufficient 
quantity of stainless steel flatware produced in the United States or 
its possessions, cannot be procured as and when needed from sources 
in the United States or its possessions or except in accordance with 
procedures provided by section 6-104.40)) of Armed Services 
Procurement Regulations, dated January 1, 1969. This section shall 
be applicable to all solicitations for bids issued after its enactment. 
SEC. 530. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1990 pay 
raises for programs funded by this Act shall be absorbed within the 
levels appropriated by this Act. 
TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
31 u s e 1343 
note. 
5 u s e 3101 note. 
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS 
SECTION 601. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the maxi-
mum amount allowable during the current fiscal year in accordance 
with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 810), for the 
purchase of any passenger motor vehicle (exclusive of buses and 
ambulances), is hereby fixed at $7,100 except station wagons for 
which the maximum shall be $8,1()0: 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 be exceeded by 
not 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. 
SEC. 602. 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. 603. Unless otherwise specified during the current fiscal 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 major-
ity 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 the date of enactment of this Act, 
who, being eligible for citizenship, has filed a declaration of in-
tention 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, or the Baltic countries lawfully admitted to 
the United States for permanent residence, or (5) South Vietnamese, 
Cambodian, and Laotian refugees paroled in the United States after 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
103 STAT. 817 
January 1, 1975: 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 
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 £iny other 
provisions of existing law: Provided further. That any pajmient 
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 Repub-
lic of the Philippines or to nationals of those countries allied with 
the United States in the current defense effort, 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. 604, 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 (86 Stat. 216), or 
other applicable law. 
SEC, 605, 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; 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 subsequently 
transferred to or paid from other funds, the limitations on adminis-
trative expenses shall be correspondingly reduced. 
SEC, 606. 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. 607. 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 authorizing the 
use of such credits), only when reimbursement therefor is made to 
the Treasury from applicable appropriations of the agency con-
cerned: Provided, That such credits received as exchanged allow-
ances or proceeds of sales of personal property may be used in whole 
or part pajnnent for acquisition of similar items, to the extent 
and in the manner authorized by law, without reimbursement to 
the Treasury. 
SEC. 608. 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 
103 STAT. 818 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
specific statutory approval to receive financial support from more 
than one agency or instrumentality. 
SEC. 609. Funds made available by this or any other Act to the 
"Postal Service Fund" (39 U.S.C. 2003) shall be available for employ-
ment 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 General 
Services may take under the provisions 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 consequences under the authority and 
within the limits provided in section 4 of the Act of June 1, 1948, as 
amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318c). 
SEC. 610. None of the funds made available pursuant to the 
provisions of this Act shall be used to implement, administer, or 
enforce any regulation which has been disapproved pursuant to a 
resolution of disapproval duly adopted in accordance with the ap-
plicable law of the United States. 
SEC. 611. No part of any appropriation contained in, or funds 
made available by, this or any other Act, shall be available for any 
agency to pay to the Administrator of the General Services Adminis-
tration a higher rate per square foot for rental of space and services 
(established pursuant to section 210(j) of the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended) than the rate per 
square foot established for the space and services by the General 
Services Administration for the fiscal year for which appropriations 
were granted. 
5 use 5343 note. 
SEC. 612. (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 years ending September 30, 1990, 
or September 30, 1991, by this Act or any other Act, may be used to 
pay any prevailing rate employee described in section 5342(aX2XA) 
of title 5, United States (Dode, or any employee covered by section 
5348 of that title— 
(1) during the period from the date of expiration of the 
limitation imposed by section 612 of the Treasury, Postal Serv-
ice, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1989, until 
the first day of the first applicable pay period that begins not 
less than ninety days after that date, in an amount that exceeds 
the rate payable for the applicable grade and step of the ap-
plicable wage schedule in accordance with such section 612; and 
(2) during the period consisting of the remainder, if any, of 
fiscal year 1990, and that portion of fiscal year 1991, that 
precedes the normal effective date of the applicable wage survey 
adjustment that is to be effective in fiscal year 1991, in an 
amount that exceeds, as a result of a wage survey adjustment, 
the rate payable under paragraph (1) of this subsection by more 
than the overall aversige percentage adjustment in the General 
Schedule during fiscal year 1990. 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no prevailing rate 
employee described in subparagraph (B) or (C) of section 5342(aX2) of 
title 5, United States Code, may be paid during the periods for which 
subsection (a) of this section is in effect at a rate that exceeds the 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
103 STAT. 819 
Wages. 
Effective date. 
rates that would be payable under subsection (a) were subsection (a) 
applicable to such employee. 
(c) For the purpose of this section, the rates payable to an em- Regulations, 
ployee who is covered by this section and who is paid from a 
schedule that was not in existence on September 30, 1989, shall be 
determined under regulations prescribed by the Office of Personnel 
Management. 
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates of premium 
pay for employees subject to this section may not be changed from 
the rates in effect on September 30, 1989, except to the extent 
determined by the Office of Personnel Management to be consistent 
with the purpose of this section. 
(e) The provisions of this section shall apply with respect to 
pay for services performed by any affected employee on or after 
October 1,1989. 
(f) For the purpose of administering any provision of law, includ-
ing section 8431 of title 5, United States Code, or any rule or 
regulation that provides premium pay, retirement, life insurance, or 
any other employee benefit, that requires any deduction or contribu-
tion, or that imposes any requirement or limitation, on the basis of a 
rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary or 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 may be construed to permit or require 
the pajonent 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. 613. None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
used to plan, implement, or administer (1) any reduction in the 
number of regions, districts or entry processing locations of the 
United States Customs Service; or (2) any consolidation or cen-
tralization of duty assessment or appraisement functions of any 
offices in the United States Customs Service. 
SEC. 614. During the period in which the head of any department 
or agency, or any other officer or civilian employee of the Govern-
ment appointed by the President of the United States, holds office, 
no fun<k 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 improvements 
for any such office, unless advance notice of such furnishing or 
redecoration is expressly approved by the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House and Senate. 
SEC. 615. 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 threatening 
illness of said employee. 
SEC. 616. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 112 and 
113 of title 3, United States Code, each Executive agency detailing 
any personnel shall submit a report on an annual basis in each 
fiscal year to the Senate and House Committees on Appropriations 
on all employees or members of the armed services detailed to 
Executive agencies, listing the grade, position, and offices of each 
Reports. 
5 use prec. 
3341 note. 
103 STAT. 820 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
person detailed and the agency to which each such person is de-
tailed. 
(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 Jus-
tice, the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of 
Energy performing intelligence functions; and 
(7) the Director of Central Intelligence. 
(c) The exemptions in part (b) of this section are not intended to 
apply to information on the use of personnel detailed to or from the 
intelligence agencies which is currently being supplied to the Senate 
and House Intelligence and Appropriations Committees by the 
executive branch through budget justification materials and other 
reports. 
(d) For the purposes of this section, the term "Executive agency" 
has the same meaning as defined under section 105 of title 5, United 
States Code (except that the provisions of section 104(2) of title 5, 
United States Code shall not apply) and includes the White House 
Office, the Executive Residence, and any office, council, or organiza-
tional unit of the Executive Office of the President. 
SEC, 617. Section 622(b) of this Act shall have no force and effect. 
SEC. 618. No funds appropriated in this or any other Act for fiscal 
year 1990 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: 
Classified 
(1) concerns information other than that specifically marked 
information. 
gg classified; or. Unmarked but known by the employee to be 
classified; or, unclassified but known by the employee to be in 
the process of a classification determination; 
(2) contains the term classifiable; 
(3) directly or indirectly obstructs, by requirement of prior 
written authorization, limitation of authorized disclosure, or 
otherwise, the right of any individual to petition or commu-
nicate with Members of Congress in a secure manner as pro-
vided by the rules and procedures of the Congress; 
(4) interferes with the right of the Congress to obtain execu-
tive branch information in a secure manner as provided by the 
rules and procedures of the Congress; 
(5) imposes any obligations or invokes any remedies inconsist-
ent with statutory law: 
Provided, That nothing in this section shall affect the enforcement 
of those aspects of such nondisclosure policy, form or agreement 
that do not fall within subsection (l)-(5) of this section. 
Wages. 
SEC. 619. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the 
5 use 5305 note, 
case of fiscal year 1990, the overall average percentage of the 
adjustment under section 5305 of title 5, United States Code, in the 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
103 STAT. 821 
rates of pay under the General Schedule, and in the rates of pay 
under the other statutory pay systems (as defined by section 5301(c) 
of such title), shall be an increase of 3,6 percent. 
(2) Each increase in a pay rate or schedule which takes effect 
pursuant to paragraph (1) shall, to the maximum extent practicable, 
be of the same percentage, and shall take effect as of the first day of 
the first applicable pay period commencing on or after January 1, 
1990. 
(b)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any other 
law, no adjustment in rates of pay under section 5305 of title 5, 
United States Code, which becomes effective on or after October 1, 
1989, and before October 1, 1990, shall have the effect of increasing 
the rate of salary or basic pay for any office or position in the 
legislative, executive, or judicial branch or in the government of the 
District of Columbia— 
(A) if the rate of salary or basic pay payable for that office or 
position as of September 30, 1989, was equal to or greater than 
the rate of basic pay described in paragraph (3); or 
(B) to a rate exceeding the rate of basic pay described in 
paragraph (3) if, as of September 30, 1989, the rate of salary or 
basic pay payable for that office or position was less than the 
rate described in such paragraph. 
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), the rate of salary or basic pay 
payable as of September 30, 1989, for any office or position which 
was not in existence on such date shall be deemed to be the rate of 
salary or basic pay payable to individuals in comparable offices or 
positions on such date, as determined under regulations pre-
scribed— 
(A) by the President, in the case of any office or position 
within the executive branch or in the government of the Dis-
trict of Columbia; 
(B) jointly by the Speaker of the House of Representatives £ind 
the President pro tempore of the Senate, in the case of any 
office or position within the legislative branch; or 
(C) by the Chief Justice of the United States, in the C£ise of 
any office or position within the judicial branch. 
(3) The rate of basic pay described in this paragraph is the rate 
equal to the rate of basic pay payable for level III of the Executive 
Schedule under section 5314 of title 5, United States Code, as of 
September 30,1989, increased by 3.6 percent. 
SEC. 620. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no execu-
tive branch agency shall purchase, construct, and/or lease any 
additional facilities, except within or contiguous to existing loca-
tions to be used for the purpose of conducting Federal law enforce-
ment training without the advance approval of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 621. 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 Adminis-
trator of General Services that— 
President of U.S. 
Congress. 
103 STAT. 822 
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Drugs and drug 
abuse. 
Government 
organization and 
employees. 
(A) the agency's requirements for such procurement are 
unique and cannot be satisfied by property and service 
procured by the Administrator of General Services as part 
of the procurement known as "FTS2000"; and 
(B) the agency procurement, pursuant to such delegation, 
would be cost-effective and would not adversely affect the 
cost-effectiveness of the FTS2000 procurement. 
SEC. 622. (a) No department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
United States receiving appropriated funds under this Act for fiscal 
year 1990, or under any other Act appropriating funds for fiscal year 
1990, shall obligate or expend any such funds, unless such depart-
ment, 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 dis-
tribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled 
Substances Act) by the officers and employees of such department, 
agency, or instrumentality. 
flj) No funds so appropriated to any such department, agency, or 
instrumentality shall be available for pa3mient in connection with 
any grant, contract, or other agreement, unless the recipient of such 
grant, contract or party to such agreement, as the case may be, has 
in place and will continue to administer in good faith a written 
policy, adopted by such recipient, contractor, or party's board of 
directors or other governing authority, satisfactory to the head of 
the department, agency, or instrumentality making such payments, 
designed to ensure that all of the workplaces of such recipient, 
contractor, or party 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 recipient, 
contractor, or party. 
SEC. 623. (a) No amount of any grant made by a Federal agency 
shall be used to finance the acquisition of goods or services (includ-
ing construction services) unless the recipient of the grant agrees, as 
a condition for the receipt of such grant, to— 
(1) announce in any solicitation for offers to procure such 
goods or services (including construction services) the amount of 
Federal funds that will be used to finance the acquisition for 
which such offers are being solicited; and 
(2) express the amount announced pursuant to paragraph (1) 
as a percentage of the total costs of the planned acquisition. 
(b) The requirements of subsection (a) shall not apply to a procure-
ment for goods or services (including construction services) that has 
an aggregate value of less than $500,000. 
SEC. 624. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, United States 
Code, or section 608 of Public Law 100-440, funds made available for 
fiscal year 1990 by this or any other Act shall be available for the 
interagency funding of national security and emergency prepared-
ness telecommunications initiatives which benefit multiple Federal 
departments, agencies, or entities, as provided by Executive Order 
Numbered 12472 (April 3,1984). 
SEC. 625. (a) Section 5384(c) of title 5, United States Code, is 
(1) by striking "(c)" and inserting "(cXD"; and 
(2) by adding at the end thereof the following: 
"(2) not less than a majority of the members of any review 
board referred to in paragraph (1) shall be career appointees 
whenever making recommendations under such paragraph with 
PUBLIC LAW 101-136—NOV. 3, 1989 
103 STAT. 823 
respect to a career appointee. The requirement of the preceding 
sentence shall not apply in any case in which the Office of 
Personnel Management determines that there exists an insuffi-
cient number of career appointees available to comply with the 
requirement.". 
Q)) Section 5381 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting " 'career appointee'," before "and". 
(c) None of the funds in this Act may be used to reduce the rank or 
rate of pay of a career appointee in the Senior Executive Service 
upon reassignment or transfer. 
This Act may be cited as the "Treasury, Postal Service and 
General Government Appropriations Act, 1990". 
Approved November 3,1989. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 2989: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 101-170 (Ck)mm. on Appropriations) and No. 101-276 (Comm. 
of Conference). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 101-105 (Ck)mm. on Appropriations). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 135 (1989): 
July 28, considered and passed House. 
Aug. 4, considered and passed Senate, £imended. 
Oct. 17, House agreed to conference report; receded and concurred in certain 
Senate amendments, in others with amendments. 
Oct. 18, Senate agreed to conference report; concurred in House amendments. 
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 25 (1989): 
Nov. 3, Presidential statement.