Urgent Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1982
PL 97-216 (H.R.6685), enacted 07/18/1982

96 STAT. 180 
PUBLIC LAW 97-216—JULY 18, 1982 
Public Law 97-216 
97th Congress 
An Act 
July 18,1982 
Making urgent supplemental appropriations for the 
fiscal 
year ending September 80, 
[H.R. 6685] 
1982, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
Urgent 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
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otherwise appropriated, to supply supplemental appropriations (this 
Act may be cited as the "Urgent Supplemental Appropriations Act, 
1982") for the fiscal year ending September 30,1982, and for other 
purposes, namely: 
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CHAPTERI 
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION 
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for "Program administration", 
$8,742,000 to be derived by transfer from Employment and Training 
Administration, "Employment and training assistance". 
EMPIX)YMENT AND TRAINING ASSISTANCE 
For an additional amount for the Summer Youth Program under 
part C of title IV of the Ck)mprehensive Employment and Training 
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Act, $45,000,000. 
EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for '''Salaries and expenses", $4,259,000 
to be derived by transfer from Emplo^nnent and Training Admhiis-
tration, "Employment and training assistance". 
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96 STAT. 181 
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $5,623,000 
to be derived by transfer from Employment and Training Adminis-
tration, "Emplojnnent and training assistance". 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
HEALTH SERVICES 
For an additional amount for "Health Services", $60,080,000, of 
which $3,500,000 shall be used to provide twelve months of transi-
tional funding for those University Affiliated Facilities previously 
funded under section 502(a) of the Social Security Act or predecessor 42 use 702. 
legislation (title V of the Social Security Act as m effect prior to the ^^ ^sc 70i. 
enactment of the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant), 
but for which termination of such funding has been announced 
during fiscal year 1982. 
HEALTH RESOURCES ADMINISTRATION 
HEALTH RESOURCES 
For an additional amount for "Health Resources", $1,000,000, 
which shall be available for nursing research grants. 
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES 
WORK INCENTIVES 
For an additional amount for "Work incentives", $35,000,000. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
From amounts appropriated for fiscal year 1982 for pa5mients to 
States for Medicaid Fraud Control Units, there is transferred to the 
Office of Inspector General, D^artment of Health and Human 
Services, for necessary expenses, $13,941,000. 
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 
REFUGEE AND ENTRANT ASSISTANCE 
For an additional amount for "Refugee and Entrant assistance", 
$20,000,000, to be available only to reimburse States which by 
reason of court order, State statute or regulation, or other adminis-
trative restraint could not implement the change in regulations 
96 STAT. 182 
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published on March 12, 1982, for refugee assistance and domestic 
assistance for Cuban and Haitian entrants. 
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
STUDENT LOAN INSURANCE 
For an additional amount under title IV, part B of the Higher 
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Education Act, $1,300,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $5,650,000. 
RELATED AGENCIES 
ACTION 
OPERATING EXPENSES, DOMESTIC PROGRAMS 
For an additional amount for "Operating expenses, domestic pro-
grams", under the provisions of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act 
of 1973, as amended (Public Law 93-113, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 
section 4951 et seq.), $2,000,000. 
CORPORATION FOR PUBUC BROADCASTING 
PUBUC BROADCASTING FUND 
For an additional amount for pajrment to the Corporation for 
Public Broadcasting, as authorized by the Communications Act of 
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1934 as amended, an amount which shall be available within limita-
tions specified by said Act, for the fiscal year 1984, $24,400,000: 
Provided, That no funds made available to the Corporation for 
Public Broadcasting by this Act shall be used to pay for receptions, 
parties, and similar forms of entertainment for Government officials 
or employees: Provided further. That none of the fimds contained in 
this paragraph shall be available or used to aid or support any 
program or activity excluding from participation in, denying the 
benefits of, or discriminating against any person on the basis of race, 
color, national origin, religion, or sex. 
PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION FOR THE STUDY OF ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN 
MEDICINE 
SALARIES A N D EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $309,000. 
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96 STAT. 183 
CHAPTER II 
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 
HOUSING PROGRAMS 
ANNUAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ASSISTED HOUSING 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the amount of authority provided under this heading in the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development-Independent Agen-
cies Appropriation Act, 1982 and prior Appropriation Acts, 95 Stat. 1417. 
$94,382,000 of contract authority and $4,098,640,000 of budget 
authority are rescinded: Provided, That any balances of authorities 
made available prior to enactment of the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development-Independent Agencies Appropriation Act, 
1982, which are, or become, available for obligation in fiscal year 
1982, shall be added to and merged with the authority approved in 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development-Independent 
Agencies Appropriation Act, 1982, and such merged amounts shall 
be made subject only to terms and conditions of law applicable to 
authorizations becoming available in fiscal year 1982: Provided 
further. That $190,860,000 of contract authority and $4,098,685,000 
of budget authority, shall be used for the public housing program, 
including $18,960,000 of contract authority for assistance in financ-
ing the development or acquisition cost of low-income housing for 
Indian families, $90,000,000 of contract authority for modernization 
of existing low-income housing projects, and $1,263,005,000 of budget 
authority for new construction and substantial rehabilitation as 
authorized by section 5(c) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 
as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437c); and $870,969,000 of contract authority 
and $15,228,518,000 of budget authority shall be used for new con-
struction and substantial rehabilitation and assistance to existing 
housing units, including amendments for units reserved in prior 
years, under the lower-income housing assistance program (section 
8, United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended): Provided further, 42 use I437f. 
That of the foregoing amounts, $152,715,200 of contract authority 
and $3,700,000,000 of budget authority shall be for projects under 
section 8, United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, the rents 
for which are approved pursuant to the note governing financing 
adjustments (46 Fed. Reg. 51903, October 23, 1981) or any published 
amendment thereto or successor note, except that the Secretary 
shall include in the determination of the fair market rental a debt 
service factor reflecting the lesser of (A) 14 percent or (B)(i) where 
the rate of interest on the permanent instrument sold to finance the 
project is 12 percent or less, such rate of interest or (ii) where the 
rate of interest on the permanent instrument sold to finance the 
project is more than 12 percent, one-half percent below such rate of 
interest but not less than 12 percent, and except that the Agreement 
to Enter into a Housing Assistance Payments Contract shall not be 
required to include a provision requiring that construction must be 
in progress prior to October 1, 1982: Provided further. That with 
respect to newly constructed and substantially rehabilitated projects 
under section 8, United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, 
during 1982, the Secretary shall not impose a percentage or other 
arbitrary limitation on the cost and rent increases resulting from 
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increased construction cost in exercising the authority to approve 
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cost and rent increases set forth in section 8(1) of such Act: Provided 
further. That none of the merged amounts available for obligation in 
1982 shall be subject to the provisions of section 5(c) (2) and (3) and 
the fourth sentence of section 5(c)(1) of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437c), and section 213(d) of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (42 
Termination. 
U.S.C. 1439): Provided further. That no funds provided under this or 
any other Act shall be used to terminate a reservation of contract 
authority for any project under section 8 of the United States 
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Housing Act of 1937, as amended, on account of the inability of the 
developer or owner of that project to obtain firm financing, unless 
such termination occurs no less than twenty-four months following 
the date of initial reservation of contract authority for such project: 
Provided further, 
That $74,375,000 of contract authority and 
$1,750,000,000 of budget authority provided under this heading in 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development-Independent 
95 Stat. 1417. 
Agencies Appropriation Act, 1982, shall not become available for 
obligation until October 1, 1982, and $89,321,727 of the foregoing 
budget authority shall be for the modernization of 5,073 vacant 
uninhabitable public housing units, pursuant to section 14 of the 
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United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, other than section 
14(f) of such Act: Provided further. That to the extent that the 
amount of budget authority which is recaptured or deobligated, 
including budget authority internally transferred by State Housing 
Finance Development agencies pursuant to 24 C.F.R. part 883.207, 
does not equal $5,000,000,000 on June 30,1982, the amounts deferred 
in the immediately preceding proviso may be used in accordance 
with, and in addition to, the amounts provided in the third proviso 
of this paragraph, except that to the extent such amounts are used, 
an equivalent amount of such recaptured or deobligated contract 
authority and budget authority, which become available on or after 
July 1, 1982, through September 30, 1982, if any, shall be deferred 
until October 1,1982. 
PAYMENTS FOR OPERATION OF LOW-INCOME HOUSING PROJECTS 
For an additional amount for "Payments for Operation of Low-
Income Housing Projects", $198,000,000: Provided, That of the total 
amount available in fiscal year 1982 for "Payments for Operation of 
Low-Income Housing Projects", $1,215,275,400 shall be made avail-
able pro rata solely in accordance with the Performance Funding 
System (as set forth in 24 C.F.R. part 890, as of February 8, 1982). 
RENT SUPPLEMENT 
(RESCISSION) 
The limitation otherwise applicable to the maximum payments 
that may be required in any fiscal year by all contracts entered into 
under section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 
1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s), is further reduced in fiscal year 1982 by not 
more than $3,340,000 in uncommitted balances of authorizations 
provided for this purpose in appropriation Acts. 
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96 STAT. 185 
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 
CONSTRUCTION GRANTS 
For necessary expenses to carry out title n of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act, as amended, other than sections 201(m), 
205(k), except that for the project authorized by said section the 33 use I28i, 
AdmMstrator shall allocate to the State of New York an amount ^285. 
equal to one-third of the total cost from the amount made available 
under this paragraph to the State of New York, one-third from the 
amount made available to the State of New Jersey; and one-third 
from the amounts made available to the remaining States, 206,208, 
and 209, $2,400,000,000, including grants for biological treatment 
facilities to repair or replace small communily systems but not to 
exceed three systems suffering operational problems outside the 
warranty period where the existing Environmental Protection 
Agency planned systems have proven to be inoperable by the local 
municipalities, where determined to be necessary, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That of such amount, $3,965,426 in 
additional funds (the amount which was withheld frova. the State of 
Kansas by reason of an accounting error by the Federal Govern-
ment) shall be made available to the State of Kansas: Provided 
further. That nothing herein shall prohibit any project specified in 
section 201(m) from receiving a grant under section 201(g), in compli-
ance with all relevant procedures under title II of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act, as amended, and paid from funds allotted to 
the State by section 205 and appropriated by this Act: Provided 
further. That the Administrator, upon application by the Governor Transfer of 
of the State of Ohio, with the approval of the Committees on ^"'^'^^ 
Appropriations, shall before October 1,1982, commit existing unobli-
gated funds from the State's Wastewater Construction Grant allot-
ments to fund the Solid Waste Energy facility in Akron, Ohio. 
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE RESPONSE TRUST FUND 
Of the funds appropriated under this head in the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development-Independent Agencies Appropri-
ation Act, 1982, $5,000,000 shall be made available to the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services, upon enactment, and up to an 
additional $2,000,000 may be made available by the Administrator 
to the Department for the performance of specific activities in 
accordance with section 111(c)(4) of Public Law 96-510, the Compre-
hensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
of 1980. Management of all funds made available to the Department 42 use 9611. 
shall be consistent with the responsibilities of the trustee of the 
fund, as outlined in section 223(b) of the Act. 
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this or any other Act, of 
the funds appropriated under the heading, "National Aeronautics 
and Space Admmistration, Research and development" in Public 
Law 97-101, not less than the amounts hereinafter set forth shall be 95 Stat. 1426. 
96 STAT. 186 
PUBLIC LAW 97-216—JULY 18, 1982 
95 Stat. 1426; 94 
Stat. 3054. 
Space Shuttle 
launch pad. 
Limitations. 
95 Stat. 1440. 
made available for the purposes specified: $31,200,000 for expend-
able launch vehicles; $323,500,000 for physics and astronomy (in-
cluding $40,000,000 for Shuttle-Spacelab payloads); $205,000,000 for 
planetary exploration (including $1,700,000 for the midlevel facility 
in Hawaii); $39,500,000 for life sciences; $328,200,000 for space appli-
cations (including $2,300,000 for the search and rescue program, 
$5,000,000 for technology transfer, $6,000,000 for upper atmospheric 
research satellite experiments, $16,200,000 for Shuttle-Spacelab pay-
loads, and $15,400,000 for a 30/20 gigahertz test satellite); $8,000,000 
for technology utilization; $264,800,000 for aeronautical research 
and technology; $111,000,000 for space research and technology; and 
$402,100,000 for tracking and data acquisition: Provided, That of the 
funds available for the Space Shuttle, including space flight oper-
ations, not less than $80,000,000 shall be made available for design, 
development and procurement of liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen 
(Centaur) upper stages for use in launching the Galileo and Solar 
Polar spacecraft in 1986: Provided further. That no funds may be 
obligated for other upper stages, including kick stages, for the 
Galileo and Solar Polar spacecraft after the enactment of this Act 
except for work performed prior to the effective date of this Act, 
together with liability for termination: Provided further. That no 
funds appropriated in this or any other Act may be obligated for a 
Solar Maximum repair/retrieval mission until the Secretary of the 
Air Force enters into an agreement with the Administrator to 
reimburse the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 50 
per centum of the costs of such mission (exclusive of the costs 
attributable solely to equipment for the Solar Maximum spacecraft 
and to equipment capable of reuse): Provided further. That upon 
request by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration and approval by the Committees on Appropriations 
not to exceed $50,000,000 from the unobligated balances of funds 
appropriated under the heading "National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, Construction of facilities" or "National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration, Research and program management" in 
Public Law 97-101 and Public Law 96-526 shall be available for the 
Space Shuttle, including space flight operations: Provided 
further, 
That the Administrator makes sufficient funds available to assure 
that a second Space Shuttle launch pad at the Kennedy Space 
Center, Florida, is operational by January 1,1986. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
Limitations in section 501(40) of title V of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development-Independent Agencies Appropri-
ation Act, 1982, are amended as follows: The limitations on the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Relations are 
increased from 26 full-time permanent positions and 27 staff years 
to 31 full-time permanent positions and 33.5 staff years, the limita-
tion on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Office 
of the Comptroller is increased from 150 full-time permanent posi-
tions to 161 full-time permanent positions, the limitation on the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Office of External 
Relations is increased from 120 full-time permanent positions to 125 
full-time permanent positions, excluding those positions allocated 
for Technology Utilization activities, and the limitation on the 
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96 STAT. 187 
Veterans Administration's Office of Planning and Program Evalua-
tion is increased from $1,500,000 to $2,300,000. 
CHAPTER III 
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
COAST GUARD 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Operating expenses", $17,500,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION 
FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY PROGRAM 
Section 3(a) of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981 is amended by 95 Stat. 1699. 
striking the period at the end of the first sentence and by inserting ^^ ^^^ ^^^ "
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the following: "plus, an additional amount not to exceed $19,000,000 
in obligation authority to carry out section 310(d)(3) of Public Law 
97-102.". 
95 Stat. 1459. 
For an additional amount of authority to execute contracts to 
replace or rehabilitate highway bridges according to Title 23, United 
States Code, Section 144, $19,000,000 out of the Highway Trust 
Fund, to remain available until expended: Provided, That obligations 
incurred under this authority shall not be subject to any law 
limiting obligations for Federal-Aid Highways. 
Section 3(a) of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981 is further 
amended by striking the period at the end of the first sentence and 
by inserting the following: "plus, an additional amount not to exceed 
$53,000,000 in obligation authority which the Secretary shall allo-
cate to the States in order to increase such total obligation limita-
tion, so that the reduction of any State's final obligation limitation 
is held to 15 per centum of the tentative limitation issued by the 
Secretary on October 1,1981.". 
NATIONAL SCENIC AND RECREATIONAL HIGHWAY 
(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION) 
Any amounts previously authorized to be derived from the High-
way Trust Fund for payment of obligations in carrying out the 
provisions of 23 U.S.C. 148 are to be transferred to and administered 
under the appropriation "Federal-aid highways". 
FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION 
GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION 
Section 303(d) of the Rail Passenger Service Act, 45 U.S.C. 543(d), 
is amended by changing the period at the end thereof to a semicolon 
and adding the following: 
except that the holding of securities 
issued by a railroad shall not be deemed to be violative of this 
prohibition: Provided, That the officer who holds such securities 
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recuses himself from any decisions which bear directly on such 
railroad, and makes full public disclosure of such holdings.". 
RELATED AGENCIES 
CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD 
PAYMENTS TO AIR CARRIERS 
For an additional amount for "Payments to air carriers", 
$28,400,000 to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
$8,242,000 shall be used to liquidate obligations incurred during 
September 1981, to provide for subsidy payments under 49 U.S.C. 
1376 and 1389: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law any funds appropriated for "Payments to air carri-
ers" in this or any other Act which are not obligated by September 
30, 1982, shall be available for obligations only for section 419 (49 
U.S.C. 1389) subsidies, except for adjustments to section 406 (49 
U.S.C. 1376) payments for service provided prior to September 30, 
1982. 
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION 
PAYMENTS FOR DIRECTED RAIL SERVICE 
For an additional amount for "Pa3mients for directed rail service", 
$8,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
Section 120 of the Rock Island Railroad Transition and Employee 
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Assistance Act is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking out "the Rock Island Railroad" the first 
place it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "any railroad 
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subject to section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act, or subchapter 
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IV of chapter 11 of title 11, United States Code, which has 
ceased to provide passenger commuter service over any line 
of the railroad"; 
(B) by striking out "2-year" and inserting in lieu thereof 
"3-year"; and 
(C) by striking out "Rock Island Railroad" each place it 
appears (other than the first time it appears) and inserting 
in lieu thereof "railroad"; and 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking out "the Rock Island Rail-
road" and inserting in lieu thereof "emy reiilroad". 
CHAPTER IV 
DEPARTMENT 
OF 
THE 
TREASURY 
BUREAU OF GTOVERNMENT FINANCIAL OPERATIONS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", 
$81,604,000. 
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96 STAT. 189 
BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", 
$23,825,000: Provided, That no funds made available by this Act or 
Public Law 97-161 may be used to accomplish or implement any 
proposed reorganization of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms or the transfer of the Bureau's functions, missions, or 
activities to other agencies within the Department of the Treasury 
in the fiscal year ending on September 30, 1982: Provided further. 
That no reorganization of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms or the transfer of the Bureau's functions, missions, or 
activities to other agencies within the Department of the Treasury 
subsequent to September 30, 1982, shall be accomplished or imple-
mented without the specific, express approval of both the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", 
$14,865,000, of which $8,000,000 shall be used for salaries, expenses, 
equipment, and other related expenses for Operation Exodus. 
U.S. POSTAL SERVICE 
Transfer of 
functions. 
Ante, p. 22. 
PAYMENT TO THE POSTAL SERVICE FUND 
For an additional amount for pajmient to the Postal Service Fund 
for revenue foregone on free and reduced rates of mail, pursuant to 
39 U.S.C. 2401(c), $42,000,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Postal Service shall use these funds 
promptly to revise the adjustment to preferred rates made pursuant 
to section 108 of Public Law 97-92 so that all mail covered by the 16-
year phasing schedule established pursuant to section 3626 of title 
39, United States Code, shall benefit from step 13 on such schedule 
through September 30, 1982. This provision shall take effect ten 
days after enactment of this Act. 
Effective October 1, 1982, section 1723 of the Omnibus Reconcili-
ation Act, Public Law 97-35, is amended by striking out "(a)" before 
"Notwithstanding" in subsection (a) and by striking out subsection 
(b). 
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
95 Stat. 1193. 
Effective date. 
Effective date. 
95 Stat. 759. 
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note. 
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For an additional amount for "Office of Inspector General", 
$500,000. 
FEDERAL BUILDINGS FUND 
Notwithstanding the provision immediately following the repairs 
and improvements line item projects under the heading "General 
Limitations. 
96 STAT. 190 
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Services Administration, Federal buildings fund, Limitations on 
availability of revenue" in H.R. 4121 as passed by the House and in 
H.R. 4121 as reported by the Senate on September 22,1981, funds 
presently available for repairs and alterations nonprospectus proj-
ects shall be used to initiate the design and related work required to 
begin the repairs and alterations of the U.S. Court of Appeals 
building, Atlanta, Georgia. 
MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $4,006,000. 
OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $238,000. 
U.S. TAX COURT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $1,530,000. 
CHAPTER V 
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $3,171,000. 
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $3,500,000 
to be derived by transfer from the Economic Development Revolving 
Fund. 
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES 
For an additional amount for "Operations, research, and facili-
ties", $2,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
PUBLIC LAW 97-216—JULY 18, 1982 
96 STAT. 191 
RELATED AGENCY 
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION AGENCY 
ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION OP RADIO FACILITIES 
Appropriations made available under this heading for fiscal year 
1982 may be used for lease of real property for periods of up to 
twenty-five years in Africa, Asia, the Cariboean area, and Europe. 
CHAPTER VI 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE 
FOOD STAMP PROGRAM 
For an additional amount for the "Food Stamp Program", 
$1,006,616,000. 
CHAPTER VII 
DEPARTMENT 
OF 
DEFENSE—CIVIL 
DEPARTMENT 
OF 
THE 
ARMY 
CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL 
FLOOD CONTROL AND COASTAL EMERGENCIES 
For an additional amount for "Flood Control and Coastal Emer-
gencies", $40,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That $18,000,000 of the funds provided shall be for flood control 
measures and features on the Cowlitz and Toutle Rivers in the State 
of Washington. 
TITLE II 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 201. Any institution of higher education specifically cited in 
the conference report on the Education Amendments of 1980 (report 2
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committee for that legislation intended to be recognized as a devel-
oping institution eligible to apply for funds under title III of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965, shall be treated as an eligible institu- 20 use 1051. 
tion for such purpose for fiscal year 1982, notwithstanding section 
322(a)(2)(A) of such Act. 
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SEC. 202. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 203. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds provided for International Organizations and Programs in 
Public Law 97-121, the Foreign Assistance and Related Programs 
Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year 1982, shall be available for the 95 Stat. 1647. 
United States proportionate share for any programs for the Pales-
96 STAT. 192 
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Restrictions. 
30 u s e 801 note. 
95 Stat. 1183. 
Loan guarantee 
to Polish 
People's 
Republic. 
Report to 
Congress. 
95 Stat. 958. 
95 Stat. 1098, 
1183. 
Ante, p. 22. 
42 u s e 256. 
Fund 
apportionment. 
20 u s e 1070b-3. 
20 u s e 1070b. 
20 u s e 1070b-3. 
42 u s e 2752. 
42 u s e 2751. 
tine Liberation Organization, the South West Africa Peoples Organi-
zation, or Cuba. 
SEC. 204. No funds appropriated or otherwise made available for 
fiscal year 1982 shall be obligated or expended to prescribe, issue, 
administer, or enforce any standard, rule, regulation, or order under 
the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 on any State or 
political subdivision thereof Notwithstanding section 101(aX3) of 
Public Law 97-92 or any similar or comparable provision of anv 
other law, during fiscal year 1982 the Mine Safety and Health 
Administration shall have the same enforcement authorities vested 
in such Administration on September 30,1981. 
SEC. 205. Effective upon enactment of this Act and for the remain-
der of fiscal year 1982, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
no funds may be paid out of the Treasury of the United States or out 
of any fund of a Government corporation to any private individual 
or corporation in satisfaction of any assurance agreement or pay-
ment guarantee or other form of loan guarantee entered into by any 
agency or corporation of the United States Government with respect 
to loans made and credits extended to the Polish People's Republic, 
unless the Polish People's Republic has been declared to be in 
default of its debt to such individual or corporation or unless the 
President has provided a monthly written report to the Speaker of 
the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate 
explaining the manner in which the national interest of the United 
States has been served by any payments during the previous month 
under loan guarantee or credit assurance agreement with respect to 
loans made or credits extended to the Polish People's Republic in 
the absence of a declaration of default. 
SEC. 206. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
amounts appropriated for fiscal year 1982 under Public Law 97-51 
(as amended by Public Law 97-85) and Public Law 97-92 (as 
amended by Public Law 97-161) for purposes of section 340 of the 
Public Health Service Act shall be available for funding grants and 
contracts under such section in areas that are not urbanized areas 
and in urbanized areas. 
SEC. 207. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any 
other Act, or section 413D of the Higher Education Act of 1965, the 
Secretary shall apportion the sums appropriated pursuant to section 
413A0D) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 for the fiscal year 1982 
among the States so that each State's apportionment bears the same 
ratio to the total amount appropriated as that State's apportion-
ment in the fiscal year 1981 bears to the total amount appropriated 
pursuant to section 413A(b) for that fiscal year: Provided, That the 
Secretary shall allocate sums to institutions in each State notwith-
standing section 413D(b)(l)(B)(ii)(I) of the Higher Education Act of 
1965. 
SEC. 208. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any 
other Act, or section 442 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, the 
Secretary shall allot the sums appropriated pursuant to section 441 
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 for the fiscal year 1982 among 
Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 
the Virgin Islands, and the States (including the District of Colum-
bia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico) so that the allotment of 
Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 
the Virgin Islands, and each State (including the District of Colum-
bia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico) bears the same ratio to 
the amount appropriated as the allotment of Guam, American 
PUBLIC LAW 97-216—JULY 18, 1982 
96 STAT. 193 
Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands, 
and each State (including the District of Columbia and the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico) for the fiscal year 1981 bears to the total 
amount appropriated pursuant to section 441 for that fiscal year: 
Provided, That the Secretary shall allocate sums to institutions in 
each jurisdiction notwithstanding the second sentence of section 
446(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965. 
SEC. 209. The Secretary of Education and the Director of the 
National Institute of Education shall not terminate any long-term 
special institutional agreement (or any other grant agreement or 
contract which incorporates by reference such long-term special 
institutional agreement) which— 
(1) was entered into under section 405(f) of the General Educa-
tion Provisions Act, relating to laboratories and centers, and 
(2) is in effect on the date of enactment of this Act, 
prior to the original completion date established by such long-term 
special institutional agreement (or any other grant agreement or 
contract which incorporates by reference such long-term special 
institutional agreement). 
SEC. 210. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall initiate construc-
tion on not less than fifteen new projects under the Watershed 
Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) during 
fiscal year 1982. 
(b) Any project proposed for construction pursuant to the Act 
referred to in subsection (a) and submitted to the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget for review shall be deemed to be 
approved by the Director unless disapproved by him within ninety 
days after submission. 
SEC. 211. (a) Subsection (a) of section 112 of the Act of December 
15,1981 (95 Stat. 1194), is amended by inserting after "in connection 
with a qualified issue" the following: ", except to the extent such 
funds are used in connection with the consideration or granting of 
an exemption from the application of such revenue ruling or regula-
tion under proposed income tax regulation section 1.103-7(b)(6)(ii) or 
any similar statute or regulation". 
(b) Subsection (d) of section 112 of the Act of December 15,1981 (95 
Stat. 1196), is amended to read as follows: 
"(d) It is the sense of the Congress that after August 23, 1981, the 
Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate, in all cases, should enforce 
any revenue ruling or regulation described in paragraph (1) or (2) of 
subsection (a) in a manner consistent with the provisions of this 
section. Nothing in the preceding sentence shall prevent the Secre-
tary of the Treasury or his delegate from granting or considering an 
exemption from the application of such a revenue ruling or regula-
tion under proposed income t£ix regulation section 1.103-7(b)(6)(ii) or 
any similar statute or regulation.". 
SEC. 212. Notwithstanding any provision of this or any other Act, 
none of the funds appropriated for the Department of Labor, Mine 
Safety and Health Administration, shall be used to classify a mine 
in the potash industry as gassy based upon air samples containing 
concentrations of methane gas, unless such classification standard 
has been adopted through formal rulemaking on or after November 
5,1981. 
SEC. 213. None of the funds provided in this or any other Act shall 
be used to implement an apportionment and staffing plan to specifi-
cally phase down the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. 
42 use 2751. 
42 use 2756. 
Grant 
agreement, 
termination. 
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note. 
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eonstruction 
projects. 
Project approval. 
Restrictions. 
Restrictions. 
96 STAT. 194 
PUBLIC LAW 97-216—JULY 18, 1982 
26 u s e 162. 
26 u s e 280A. 
26 u s e 162 note. 
Effective date. 
26 u s e 162 note. 
Transfer of 
funds. 
Restriction. 
95 Stat. 1700. 
23 u s e 101 note. 
SEC. 214. The Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service, 
within available funds, shall expend not less than $1,000,000 for 
research on the cyclocrane concept of a lighter-than-air heavy lift 
vehicle for use in logging operations. 
SEC. 215. (a) The last sentence of section 162(a) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1954 (relating to trade or business expenses) is 
amended by inserting ", but amounts expended by such Members 
within each taxable year for living expenses shall not be deductible 
for income tax purposes in excess of $3,000" after "home". 
(b) Paragraph (4) of section 280A(f) of such Code (relating to 
coordination with section 162(a)(2)) is amended to read as follows: 
"(4) COORDINATION WITH SECTION 162(a) (2).—Nothing in this 
section shall be construed to disallow any deduction allowable 
under section 162(a)(2) (or any deduction which meets the tests 
of section 162(a)(2) but is allowable under another provision of 
this title) by reason of the taxpayer's being away from home in 
the pursuit of a trade or business (other than the trade or 
business of renting dwelling units).". 
(c) Subsection (a) of section 139 of the Act of October 1, 1981 (95 
Stat. 967), is hereby repealed. 
(d) The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable 
years beginning after December 31,1981. 
SEC. 216. For an additional amount for National Guard Personnel, 
Army, such amount as is necessary to make 850 man-days available 
to the Kentucky Army National Guard to implement and operate 
the Medical Assistance to Safety and Traffic program in Kentucky 
through August 1, 1982, to be derived by transfer from Operations 
and Maintenance, Army National Guard. 
SEC. 217. (a) None of the funds which are made available by this or 
any other Act shall be used to study, plan, or implement the 
termination of the operation of the Southwestern Indian Polytech-
nic Institute located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in fiscal year 
1982. 
(b) The Secretary of the Interior shall use funds made available to 
the Department of the Interior under the Act of December 23, 1981 
(95 Stat. 1391), to operate Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute 
through fiscal year 1982. 
SEC. 218. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4(b) of the 
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981, and section 102(c) of the Federal-
Aid Highway Act of 1976, the Secretary may approve the use of 
interstate construction funds authorized by section 108(b) of the 
PUBLIC LAW 97-216—JULY 18, 1982 
96 STAT. 195 
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, as amended, on projects for 23 use loi note. 
resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, and reconstructing the Inter-
state System in accordance with the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 119, or 
for those purposes for which funds apportioned under 23 U.S.C. 
104(b) (1), (2), and (6) may be expended, in a State which received no 
more than one-half of 1 per centum of the total apportionment 
under 23 U.S.C. 104(b)(5)(A) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
1983, where necessary in order to fully utilize funds apportioned 
under 23 U.S.C. 104(b)(5)(A) through the fiscal year ending Septem-
ber 30, 1982, but within the obligational limitation established by 
section 3 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981. 
95 Stat. 1699. 
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23 u s e 104 note. 
Approved July 18, 1982. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 6685: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 97-632 (eomm. of Oonference). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 128 (1982): 
June 24, considered and passed House. 
June 29, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
July 15, House concurred in Senate amendment, with an amendment; Senate 
agreed to conference report and concurred in House amendment. 
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 18, No. 29 (1982): 
July 19, Presidential statement.