Department of Housing and Urban Development-Independent Agencies Appropriation Act, 1986
PL 99-160 (H.R.3038), enacted 11/25/1985

PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
99 STAT. 909 
Public Law 99-160 
99th Congress 
An Act 
Making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and 
for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for 
the fiscal year ending September 30,1986, 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 Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commis-
sions, corporations, and offices for the ^scal year ending September 
30,1986, and for other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 
HOUSING PROGRAMS 
Nov. 25, 1985 
[H.R. 3038] 
Department of 
Housing and 
Urban 
Development-
Independent 
Agencies 
Appropriations 
Act, 1986. 
ANNUAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ASSISTED HOUSING 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION) 
The amount of contracts for annual contributions, not otherwise 
provided for, as authorized by section 5 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437c), and heretofore approved 
in appropriation Acts, is increased by $838,803,547: Provided, That 
the budget authority obligated under contracts for annual contribu-
tions shall be increased above amounts heretofore provided in 
appropriation Acts by $9,965,607,781: Provided further. That of the 
budget authority provided herein, $1,306,500,000 shall be for assist-
ance in financing the development or acquisition cost of public 
housing, of which $327,600,000 shall be for assistance in financing 
the development or acquisition cost of housing for Indian families; 
$1,500,000,000 shall be for modernization of existing public housing 
projects pursuant to section 14 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 14371); 
$1,616,640,000 shall be for assistance for projects developed for the 
elderly or handicapped under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, 
as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701q); $2,468,160,000 shall be for the sec-
tion 8 existing housing program (42 U.S.C. 1437f); $922,500,000 shall 
be for the section 8 moderate rehabilitation program (42 U.S.C. 
14370; $75,000,000 shall be available as an appropriation of funds, to 
remain available until September 30, 1986, only for rental re-
habilitation grants pursuant to section 17(aXlXA) of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437o); 
$75,000,000 shall be available as an appropriation of funds, to 
remain available until September 30, 1986, only for development 
grants pursuant to section 17(aXlXB) of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437o); and $851,225,000 shall be 
available for the housing voucher program under section 8(o) of the 
42 u s e 1437/. 
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42 u s e 1437f. 
42 u s e 1417a. 
12 u s e 1715z. 
Ante, pp. 502, 
815. 
42 u s e 1417a. 
98 Stat. 2222. 
12 u s e 1715z. 
42 u s e 1417a. 
42 u s e 1437d. 
United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437f), for 
use, notwithstanding the limitations in section 8(oXl) of such Act 
that the Secretary conduct a demonstration, and in section 8(oX4) of 
such Act that the Secretary use substantially all authority in 
connection with certain programs, in connection with the rental 
rehabilitation program under section 17 of such Act and for any 
other purposes as determined by the Secretary: Provided 
further, 
That any balances of authorities made available prior to the enact-
ment of this Act which are or become available for obligation in 
fiscal year 1986 shall be added to and merged with the authority 
approved herein, and such merged amounts shall be made subject 
only to terms and conditions of law applicable to authorities 
becoming available in fiscal year 1986: Provided further. 
That 
notwithstanding the immediately preceding ("merger") proviso, 
notwithstanding any requirement of section 235(cX3) of the National 
Housing Act, as amended, and notwithstanding the proviso in this 
paragraph concerning rescission of recaptured budget authority, any 
balances of the contract authority and budget authority provided in 
the Second Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1984 (Public Law 98-
396, 98 Stat. 1369,1380) for the home ownership assistance program 
under section 235 of the National Housing Act, as amended (12 
U.S.C. 1715z), for which the Secretary has made fund reservations 
prior to the date of enactment of this Act shall remain available for 
obligation without regard to any fiscal year limitation until such 
reserved budget authority is expended, and the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development shall have the authority to enter new 
contracts for assistance pa3anents and to insure mortgages under 
section 235 until such reserved budget authority is expended not-
withstanding any sunset date specified in the last sentences of 
section 235(hXl) and section 235(m), respectively: Provided 
further, 
That notwithstanding the "merger" proviso, and notwithstanding 
the proviso in this paragraph concerning rescission of recaptured 
budget authority, any amounts of budget authority heretofore made 
available for obligation until September 30, 1986 for rental re-
habilitation grants and development grants, pursuant to section 
17(aXl) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, shall 
remain available until such date: Provided further. That none of the 
amounts available for obligation in 1986 shall be subject to the 
provisions of section 213(d) of the Housing and Community Develop-
ment Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1439): Provided 
further. 
That all amounts of budget authority (and contract authority) equal 
to the amounts of such budget authority (and contract authority) 
which are recaptured during fiscal year 1986 except such amounts 
provided for assistance payments contracts under section 235 of the 
National Housing Act of 1937, and for grants under section 17(aXl) 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937, shall be rescinded: Pro-
vided further. That section 6(b) of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 is repealed: Provided further. That up to 20 per centum of the 
$978,900,000 provided herein for assistance in financing the develop-
ment or acquisition cost of public housing shall be made available 
for major reconstruction of obsolete public housing projects. 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
99 STAT. 911 
RENTAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE 
(RESCISSION) 
The limitation otherwise appHcable to the maximum payments 
that may be required in any fiscal year by all contracts entered into 
under section 236 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-l) is 
reduced in fiscal year 1986 by not more than $2,000,000 in un-
committed balances of authorizations provided for this purpose in 
appropriation Acts. 
HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY OR HANDICAPPED FUND 
In 1986, $631,033,000 of direct loan obligations may be made under 
section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended (12 U.S.C. ITOlq), 
utilizing the resources of the fund authorized by subsection (a)(4) of 
such section, in accordance with paragraph (C) of such subsection: 
Provided, That such commitments shall be available only to quali-
fied nonprofit sponsors for the purpose of providing 100 per centum 
loans for the development of housing for the elderly or handicapped, 
with any cash equity or other financial commitments imposed as a 
condition of loan approval to be returned to the sponsor if sustaining 
occupancy is achieved in a reasonable period of time: Provided 
further. That the full amount shall be available for permanent 
financing (including construction financing) for housing projects for 
the elderly or handicapped: Provided further, That the Secretary 
may borrow from the Secretary of the Treasury in such amounts £is 
are necessary to provide the loans authorized herein: Provided 
further. That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the re-
ceipts and disbursements of the aforesaid fund shall be included in 
the totals of the Budget of the United States Government: Provided 
further. That, notwithstanding section 202(a)(3) of the Housing Act 
of 1959, loans made in fiscal year 1986 shall bear an interest rate 
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which does not exceed 9.25 per centum, including the allowance note. 
adequate in the judgment of the Secretary to cover administrative 
costs and probable losses under the program. 
CONGREGATE SERVICES 
For contracts with and payments to public housing agencies and 
nonprofit corporations for congregate services programs in accord-
ance with the provisions of the Congregate Housing Services Act of 
1978, $2,700,000, to remain available until September 30, 1987. 42 U
S
C 8001 
note. 
PAYMENTS FOR OPERATION OF LOW-INCOME HOUSING PROJECTS 
For payments to public housing agencies and Indian housing 
authorities for operating subsidies for low-income housing projecte 
as authorized by section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 
as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437g), $1,210,600,000, to remain available for 
obligation in accordance with section 9(a), notwithstanding section 
9(d), of such Act until September 30,1987. 
HOUSING COUNSELING ASSISTANCE 
For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not otherwise provided 
for, for providing counseling and advice to tenants and home-
owners—both current and prospective—with respect to property 
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maintenance, financial management, and such other matters as 
may be appropriate to assist them in improving their housing 
conditions and meeting the responsibilities of tenancy or 
homeownership, including provisions for training and for support of 
voluntary agencies and services as authorized by section 106(a)(l)(iii) 
and section 106(aX2) of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 
1968, as amended, $3,500,000. 
12 u s e 1701. 
42 u s e 5301 
note. 
TROUBLED PROJECTS OPERATING SUBSIDY 
For assistance payments to owners of eligible multifamily housing 
projects insured, or formerly insured, under the National Housing 
Act, as amended, in the program of operating subsidies for troubled 
multifamily housing projects under the Housing and Community 
Development Amendments of 1978, all unobligated balances of 
excess rental charges and any collections after September 30, 1985, 
to remain available until September 30, 1987: Provided, That assist-
ance payments to an owner of a multifamily housing project £is-
sisted, but not insured, under the National Housing Act may be 
made if the project owner and the mortgagee have provided or 
agreed to provide assistance to the project in a manner as deter-
mined by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 
FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION FUND 
For pa3mient to cover losses, not otherwise provided for, sustained 
by the Special Risk Insurance Fund and General Insurance Fund as 
authorized by the National Housing Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 
1715z-30b) and 1735c(f)), $239,762,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
During 1986, within the resources available, gross obligations for 
direct loans are authorized in such amounts as may be necessary to 
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carry out the purposes of the National Housing Act, as amended. 
During 1986, additional commitments to guarantee loans to carry 
out the purposes of the National Housing Act, as amended, shall not 
exceed $60,000,000,000 of loan principal. 
During fiscal year 1986, gross obligations for direct loans of not to 
exceed $89,222,000 are authorized for pa3mients under section 230(a) 
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of the National Housing Act, as amended, from the insurance fund 
chargeable for benefits on the mortgage covering the property to 
which the payments made relate, and pajmients in connection with 
such obligations are hereby approved. 
NONPROFIT SPONSOR ASSISTANCE 
During 1986, within the resources and authority available, gross 
obligations for the principal amounts of direct loans shall not exceed 
$1,000,000. 
GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION 
12 u s e 1721. 
GUARANTEES OF MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES 
During 1986, new commitments to issue guarantees to carry out 
the purposes of section 306 of the National Housing Act, as amended 
(12 U.S.C. 1721g), shall not exceed $68,250,000,000 of loan principal. 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 
99 STAT. 913 
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS 
For grants to States and units of general local government and for 
related expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for carrjring 
out a community development grant prc^am as authorized by title 
I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 5301), $3,124,800,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 1988: Provided, That not to exceed 20 per centum of 
any grant made with funds appropriated herein shall be expended 
for "Planning and Management Development" and "Administra-
tion" as defined in regulations promulgated by the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development. 
During 1986, total commitments to guarantee loans, as authorized 
by section 108 of the aforementioned Act, shedl not exceed 
$225,000,000 of contingent liability for loan principal. 
URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACTION GRANTS 
For grants to carry out urban development action grant programs 
authorized in section 119 of the Housing and Community Develop-
ment Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 5301), pursuant to section 
103 of that Act, $330,000,000, to remain available until Septem-
ber 30,1989. 
REHABILITATION LOAN FUND 
During 1986, collections, unexpended balances of prior appropria-
tions (including any recoveries of prior reservations) and any other 
amoimts in the revolving fund established pursuant to section 312 of 
the Housing Act of 1964, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1452b), after Septem-
ber 30, 1985, are available and may be used for commitments for 
loans and operating costs and the capitalization of delinquent in-
terest on delinquent or defaulted loans notwithstanding section 
312(h) of such Act. 
URBAN HOMESTEADING 
For reimbursement to the Federal Housing Administration Fund 
for losses incurred under the urban homesteading program (12 
U.S.C. 1706e), and for reimbursement to the Administrator of Veter-
ans Affsdrs and the Secretary of Agriculture for properties conveyed 
by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of 
Agriculture, respectively, for use in connection with an urban home-
steading program approved by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development pursuant to section 810 of the Housing and (Commu-
nity Development Act of 1974, as amended, $12,000,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
PoucY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH 
98 Stat. 2231, 
2233. 
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Ante, p. 503. 
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RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY 
For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of programs of 
research and studies relating to housing and urban problems, not 
otherwise provided for, as authorized by title V of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1970, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701z-l et 
seq.), including carrying out the functions of the Secretary under 
99 STAT. 914 
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section l(a)(l)(i) of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1968, $16,900,000, to 
remain available until September 30,1987. 
FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 
FAIR HOUSING ASSISTANCE 
For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not otherwise provided 
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for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as 
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amended, $6,700,000, to remain available until September 30, 1987. 
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary administrative and nonadministrative expenses of 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, not otherwise 
provided for, including not to exceed $4,000 for official reception 
and representation expenses, $587,831,000, of which $251,404,000 
shall be provided from the various funds of the Federal Housing 
Administration. 
TITLE II 
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of the Amer-
ican Battle Monuments Commission, including the acquisition of 
land or interest in land in foreign countries; purchases and repair of 
uniforms for caretakers of national cemeteries and monuments 
outside of the United States and its territories and possessions; rent 
of office and garage space in foreign countries; purchase (one for 
replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and insur-
ance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries when required by 
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law of such countries; $10,954,000: Provided, That where station 
allowance has been authorized by the Department of the Army for 
officers of the Army serving the Army at certain foreign stations, 
the same allowance shall be authorized for officers of the Armed 
Forces assigned to the Commission while serving at the same foreign 
stations, and this appropriation is hereby made available for the 
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pajmient of such allowance: Provided further, That when traveling 
on busineiss of the Commission, officers of the Armed Forces serving 
as members or as Secretary of the Commission may be reimbursed 
for expenses as provided for civilian members of the Commission: 
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Provided further. That the Commission shall reimburse other 
Government agencies, including the Armed Forces, for salary, pay, 
and allowances of personnel assigned to it: Provided further, That 
Post, p. 931. 
section 409 of the general provisions carried in title IV of this Act 
shall not apply to the funds provided under this heading. 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160-NOV. 25, 1985 
99 STAT. 915 
CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Consumer Product Safety Commis-
sion, including hire of passenger motor vehicles, services as au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates foi* individuals not to exceed 
the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for GS-18, and not to exceed 
$500 for official reception and representation expenses, $36,000,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—CIVIL 
CEMETERIAL EXPENSES, ARMY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, for maintenance, 
operation, and improvement of Arlington National Cemetery and 
Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, $14,615,442, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That reimbursement 
shall be made to the applicable military appropriation for the pay 
and allowances of any military personnel performing services pri-
marily for the purposes of this appropriation. 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, including hire 
of passenger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of 
aircraft; uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901-5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for 
individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for 
GS-18; purchase of reprints; library memberships in societies or 
associations which issue publications to members only or at a price 
to members lower than to subscribers who are not members; 
construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of 
facilities, not to exceed $25,000 per project; and not to exceed $3,000 
for official reception and representation expenses; $690,176,000: Pro-
vided, That none of these funds may be expended for purposes of 
Resource Conservation and Recovery Panels established under 
section 2003 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 6913). 
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
For research and development activities, $223,400,000, to remain 
available until September 30,1987: Provided, That $5,000,000 of the 
funds provided under this heading shall be available only for a full 
scale demonstration of limestone injection multist£^e burner tech-
nol(%y in a tangentially fired boiler on an equal cost sharing basis 
with the electric power industry. 
ABATEMENT, CONTROL, AND COMPLIANCE 
For abatement, control, and compliance activities, $577,600,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 1987: Provided, That none of 
these funds may be expended for purposes of Resource Conservation 
note. 
99 STAT. 916 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
and Recovery Panels established under section 2003 of the Resource 
Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 6913), or for 
support to State, regional, local and interstate agencies in accord-
ance with subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, 
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other than section 4008(aX2) or 4009: Provided further. 
That 
6949. 
$50,000,000 of the funds provided under this heading shall be avail-
able for the purposes of the Asbestos School Hazards Abatement Act 
98 Stat. 1287. 
of 1984, including $4,000,000 for administrative expenses: Provided 
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further. That the $46,000,000 available for grants and loans for 
school asbestos abatement may be obligated only for projects con-
ducted by persons who are State-certified or who have successfully 
completed a training program approved by the Environmental 
Protection Agency. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, alteration, and 
purchase of fixed equipment for facilities of, or use by, the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, $5,000,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
PAYMENT TO THE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE RESPONSE TRUST FUND 
For payment, as repayable advances to the Hazardous Substance 
Response Trust Fund, when specifically authorized by the Com-
prehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 
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Act of 1980, as amended, such borrowed funds as may be necessary 
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tx) carry out the purposes of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended. 
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE RESPONSE TRUST FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as 
amended, including sections 111 (cX3), (cX5), (cX6), and (eX4) (42 
U.S.C. 9611), $900,000,000, to be derived from the Hazardous Sub-
stance Response Trust Fund, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That funds appropriated under this account may be allo-
cated to other Federal agencies in accordance with section 111(a) of 
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Public Law 96-510: Provided further. That for performance of spe-
cific activities in accordance with section 104(i) of Public Law 96-
510, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, 
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and Liability Act of 1980, $21,000,000 shall be made available to the 
Department of Health and Human Services, to be derived by trans-
fer from the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund, of which no 
less than $5,125,000 shall be available for toxicological testing of 
hazardous substances. For necessary expenses to carry out the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil-
ity Act of 1980, as amended, not to exceed $90,000,000 shall be 
available for administrative expenses. 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF 
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 
For necessary expenses of the Council on Environmental Quality 
and the Office of Environmental Quality, in carrying out their 
functions under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160-NOV. 25,1985 
99 STAT. 917 
(Public Law 91-190), the Environmental Quality Improvement Act 
42 USC 4321 
of 1970 (PubUc Law 91-224), and Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1977, "Jte 
including not to exceed $500 for official reception and representa- 
note 
tion expenses, and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $700,000. 
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OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TiXJHNOLOGY POLICY 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and Technology 
Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the National Science and 
Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 (42 
U.S.C. 6601 and 6671), hire of passenger motor vehicles, services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, not to exceed $1,500 for official recep-
tion and representation expenses, and rental of conference rooms in 
the District of Columbia, $2,343,000: Provided, That the Office of 
Science and Technolc^y Policy shall reimburse other agencies for 
not less than one-half of the personnel compensation costs of individ-
uals detailed to it. 
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY 
DISASTER RELIEF 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the functions of the Disas-
ter Relief Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), 
$120,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, including hire 
and purchase of motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343); uniforms, or allow-
ances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 59*01-5902; services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to 
exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for GS-18; expenses 
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of attendance of cooperating officials and individuals at meetings 
concerned with the work of emergency preparedness; transportation 
in connection with the continuity of government program to the 
same extent and in the same manner as permitted the Secretary of a 
Military Department under 10 U.S.C. 2632; and not to exceed $1,500 
for official reception and representation expenses, $118,746,000. 
42 USC 4001 
note. 
E B O S G E N C Y MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND ASSISTANCE 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, to carry out 
activities under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as 
amended, and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as amended 
(42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Disaster Relief Act of 1974, as amended 
(42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 
1977, as amended (42 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), the Federal Fire Preven-
tion and Control Act of 1974, as amended (15 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.), the 
S t r a t ^ c and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act, as amended (50 
U.S.C. 98 et seq.), the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, as amended 
(50 U.S.C. App. 2251 et seq.), the Defense Production Act of 1950, as 
amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.), section 103 of the National 
Security Act (50 U.S.C. 404), and Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978, 5 use app 
$248,910,000. 
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NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For repayment under notes issued by the Director of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency to the Secretary of the Treasury 
pursuant to section 15(e) of the Federal Flood Insurance Act of 1956, 
as amended (42 U.S.C. 2414(e)), $92,852,000, of which $8,760,000 
shall, upon enactment of this Act, be transferred to the Salaries and 
expenses appropriation for administrative costs of the insurance 
programs and $45,750,000 shall, upon enactment of this Act, be 
transferred to the Emergency management planning and assistance 
appropriation for flood plain management activities, including 
$4,778,000 for expenses under section 1362 of the National Flood 
Insurance Act of 1968, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4103, 4127), which 
amount shall be available until September 30, 1987. In fiscal year 
1986, no funds in excess of (1) $40,750,000 for operating expenses, (2) 
$67,591,000 for agents' commissions and taxes, and (3) $9,160,000 for 
interest on Treasury borrowings shall be available from the Na-
tional Flood Insurance Fund without prior notice to the Committees 
on Appropriations. For the purpose of the determination of pre-
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mium rates under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, the 
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flood 
protection system in Winfield, Kansas, shall, at the 50 per 
centum stage of completed construction, as required by section 
1307(e) of such Act, be considered to comply with the requirements 
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and conditions of section 1307 of such Act, notwithstanding the 
source of funding. 
NATIONAL INSURANCE DEVELOPMENT FUND 
For one-time payments from the National Insurance Development 
Fund to participating Federal Crime Insurance Program States, as 
authorized by section 1242 of the Urban Property Protection and 
82 Stat. 555. 
Reinsurance Act of 1968, as amended, not to exceed $10,000,000. 
Eligibility for payment under this appropriation shall be contingent 
upon certification by a State that it shall develop, on an expeditious 
basis, an alternative mechanism for providing access to crime insur-
ance to all current Federal Crime Insurance policyholders in that 
State who apply. Such certification shall be made not later than 30 
days following the effective date of this paragraph. Payments to 
each State shall be determined by the proportionate share of this 
amount based on the number of policies in force in each State, as of 
July 31, 1985. The administrator of the Federal Insurance Adminis-
tration, Federal Emergency Msmagement Agency, shall provide 
such funds no later than 60 days following the effective date of this 
Effective date. 
paragraph. This paragraph shall become effective on January 1, 
1986: Provided, That the provisions of this paragraph, and eligibility 
for payments hereunder, shall not become effective or shall cease to 
be effective during any period that the authority of the Federal 
Crime Insurance Program for issuance of insurance policies is 
effective. 
EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER PROGRAM 
There is hereby appropriated $70,000,000 to the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency, to remain available until September 30, 
1986, to carry out an emergency food and shelter program. Notwith-
standing any other provision of this or any other Act, such amount 
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99 STAT. 919 
shall be made available under the terms and conditions of the 
following paragraphs: 
The Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
shall, as soon as practicable after enactment of this Act, constitute a 
national board for the purpose of determining how the pr(^am 
funds are to be distributed to individual localities. The national 
board shall consist of seven members. The United Way of America, 
the Salvation Army, the National Council of Churches of Christ in 
the U.S.A., the National Conference of Catholic Charities, the Coun-
cil of Jewish Federations, Inc., the American Red Cross, and the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency shall each designate a 
representative to sit on the national board. The representative of 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall chair the 
national board. 
Each locality designated by the national board to receive funds 
shall constitute a local board for the purpose of determining how its 
funds will be distributed. The local board shall consist, to the extent 
practicable, of representatives of the same organizations as the 
national board except that the mayor or appropriate head of govern-
ment will replace the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
member. 
The Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
shall award a grant for $70,000,000 to the national board within 
thirty days after enactment of this Act for the purpose of providing 
emergency food and shelter to needy individuals through private 
voluntary organizations and through units of local government. 
Eligible private voluntary organizations should be nonprofit, 
have a voluntary board, have an accounting system, and practice 
nondiscrimination. 
Participation in the program should be based upon a private 
volimtaiy organization's or unit of local government's ability to 
deliver emergency food and shelter to needy individuals and such 
other factors as are determined by the local boards. 
Total administrative costs shall not exceed 2 per centum of the 
total appropriation. 
As authorized by the Charter of the Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion, the Corporation shall process and distribute surplus food 
owned or to be purchased by the Corporation under the food dis-
tribution and emergency shelter prc^ram in cooperation with the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency. 
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
CONSUMER INFORMATION CENTER 
For necessary expenses of the Consumer Information Center, 
including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $1,249,000, to be 
deposited into the Consumer Information Center Fund: Provided, 
That the appropriations, revenues and collections deposited into the 
fund shall be available for necessary expenses of Consumer Informa-
tion Center activities in the £^gr^ate amount of $5,200,000. 
Administrative expenses of the Consumer Information Center in 
fiscal year 1986 shall not exceed $1,631,000. Appropriations, reve-
nues and collections accruing to this fund during fiscal year 1986 in 
excess of $5,200,000 shall remain in the fund and shall not be 
available for expenditure except as authorized in appropriation 
Acts. 
99 STAT. 920 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
OFFICE OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Consumer Affairs, includ-
ing services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $1,988,000. 
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, including 
research, development, operations, services, minor construction, 
maintenance, repair, rehabilitation and modification of real and 
personal property; purchase, hire, maintenance, and operation of 
other than administrative aircraft, necessary for the conduct and 
support of aeronautical and space research and development activi-
ties of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; 
$2,756,800,000, to remain available until September 30,1987. 
SPACE FUGHT, CONTROL AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for; in support of 
space flight, spacecraft control and communications activities of the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, including oper-
ations, production, services, minor construction, maintenance, 
repair, rehabilitation, and modification of real and personal prop-
erty; tracking and data relay satellite services as authorized by law; 
purchase, hire, maintenance and operation of other than adminis-
trative aircraft; $3,397,900,000, to remain available until Septem-
ber 30,1987. 
CONSTRUCTION OF FACIUTIES 
For construction, repair, rehabilitation and modification of facili-
ties, minor construction of new facilities and additions to existing 
facilities, and for facility planning and design not otherwise pro-
vided, for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and 
for the acquisition or condemnation of real property, as authorized 
by law, $139,300,000, to remain available until September 30, 1988: 
Provided, That, notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of 
funds appropriated under this heading by this appropriation Act, 
when any activity has been initiated by the incurrence of obligations 
therefor, the amount available for such activity shall remain avail-
able until expended, except that this provision shall not apply to the 
amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization for repair, 
rehabilitation and modification of facilities, minor construction of 
new facilities and additions to existing facilities, and facility plan-
ning and design: Provided further, T^at no amount appropriated 
pursuant to this or any other Act may be used for the lease or 
construction of a new contractor-funded facility for exclusive use in 
support of a contract or contracts with the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration under which the Administration would 
be required to substantially amortize through payment or re-
imbursement such contractor investment, unless an appropriation 
Act specifies the lease or contract pursuant to which such facilities 
are to be constructed or leased or such facility is otherwise identified 
in such Act: Provided further. That the Administrator may au-
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
99 STAT. 921 
thorize such facility lease or construction, if he determines, in 
consultation with the Committees on Appropriations, that deferral 
of such action until the enactment of the next appropriation Act 
would be inconsistent with the interest of the Nation in aeronautical 
and space activities. 
RESEARCH AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses of research in Government laboratories, 
management of programs and other activities of the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration, not otherwise provided for, 
including uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 
U.S.C. 5901-5902); awards; lease, hire, maintenance and operation of 
administrative aircraft; purchase (not to exceed thirty for replace-
ment only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and meiintenance 
and repair of real and personeil property, and not in excess of 
$100,000 per project for construction of new facilities and additions 
to existing facilities, repeiirs, and rehabilitation and modification of 
facilities; $1,367,000,000: Provided, That contracts may be entered 
into under this appropriation for maintenance and operation of 
facilities, and for other services, to be provided during the next fiscal 
year: Provided further, That not to exceed $35,000 of the foregoing 
amount shall be available for scientific consultations or extraor-
dinary expense, to be expended upon the approval or authority of 
the Administrator and his determination shall be final and conclu-
sive: Provided further. That of funds provided for the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration under this or any other 
account, $400,000 shall be available for the activities of the National 
Commission on Space, established by the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration Authorization Act, 1985 (Public Law 98-361; 
98 Stat. 422). 
MISSISSIPPI TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER CENTER 
(a) The Congress finds that— 
(1) section 9 of Mississippi Senate Bill No. 2984,1985 Regular 
Session, which became effective on July 1,1985, provides appro-
priations for constructing, furnishing and equipping a building 
and related facilities, to be known as the Mississippi Technology 
Transfer Center, at the National Space Technologies Labora-
tories in Hancock County, Mississippi; and 
(2) operation and maintenance of the Mississippi Technology 
Transfer Center by the Federal Government is in the national 
interest. 
O
t
)
) The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration may— 
(1) enter into an agreement with the State of Mississippi by 
which title to the Mississippi Technology Transfer Center shall 
be transferred to the Government of the United States and by 
which such Center shall be operated by the Government of the 
' 
United States; 
(2) accept title to such Center on behalf of the Government of 
the United States; and 
(3) after title has been transferred under paragraph (2) of this 
subsection, operate and maintain such Center, subject to the 
availability of appropriations for such purposes. 
99 STAT. 922 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
(c) It is the sense of Congress that, to the extent practicable, the 
National Space Technology Laboratories should apply its existing 
reimbursement policies to occupants of such Center. 
NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION 
CENTRAL LIQUIDITY FACILITY 
During 1986, obligations of the Central Liquidity Facility for new 
loans to member credit unions as authorized by the National Credit 
Union Central Liquidity Facility Act (12 U.S.C. 1795) shall not 
exceed $600,000,000: Provided, That administrative expenses of the 
Central Liquidity Facility in fiscal year 1986 shall not exceed 
$850,000. 
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 
RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the purposes of the Na-
tional Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861-
1875), title IX of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 (42 
U.S.C. 1876-1879), and the Act to establish a National Medal of 
Science (42 U.S.C. 1880-1881); services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109; maintenance and operation of aircraft and purchase of flight 
services for research support; acquisition of one aircraft; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed $2,500 for ofGcial reception 
and representation expenses; uniforms or allowances therefor, as 
author^ed by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902); rental of conference rooms in 
the District of Columbia; and reimbursement of the General Serv-
ices Administration for security guard services; $1,352,205,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 1987: Provided, That of the 
funds appropriated in this Act, or from funds appropriated pre-
viously to the Foundation, not more than $72,500,000 shall be 
available for prc^am development and management in fiscal year 
1986, including $3,450,000 for expenses of travel: Provided further. 
That contracts may be entered into under the program development 
and management limitation in fiscal year 1986 for maintenance and 
operation of facilities, and for other services, to be provided during 
the next fiscal year: Provided further. That receipts for scientific 
support services and materials furnished by the National Research 
Centers and other National Science Foundation supported research 
facilities may be credited to this appropriation: Provided further. 
That to the extent that the amount appropriated is less than the 
total amount authorized to be appropriated for included program 
activities, all amounts, including floors and ceilings, specified in the 
authorizing Act for those program activities or their subactivities 
shall be reduced proportionally: Provided further. That not to exceed 
$9,000,000 shall be available for the very long baseline array: Pro-
42 use 1887. 
vuied further. That the Foundation is hereafter authorized to indem-
nify grantees, contractors, and subcontractors associated with the 
ocean drilling program under the provisions of section 2354 of title 
10 of the United States Code, with all approvals and certifications 
required thereby made by the Director of the National Science 
Foundation. 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
99 STAT. 923 
UNITED STATES ANTARCTIC PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the research and oper-
ational support for the United States Antarctic Program pursuant 
to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 
U.S.C. 1861-1875); maintenance and operation of aircraft and pur-
chase of flight services for research and operations support; mainte-
nance and operation of research ships and charter or lease of ships 
for research and operations support; hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles; not to exceed $1,000 for official reception and representation 
expenses; $115,100,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That receipts for support services and materials provided to 
individuals for non-Federal activities may be credited to this appro-
priation: Provided further, That no funds in this account shall be 
used for the purchase of aircraft. 
SCIENCE EDUCATION ACTIVITIES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out science education pro-
grams and activities pursuant to the purposes of the National 
Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861-1875), 
including award of graduate fellowships, services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109, and rental of conference rooms in the District of 
Columbia, $55,550,000, to remain available until September 30,1987: 
Provided, That to the extent that the amount of this appropriation 
is less than the total amount authorized to be appropriated for 
included program activities, all amounts, including floors and ceil-
ings, specified in the authorizing Act for those program activities or 
their subactivities shall be reduced proportionally. 
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES OVERSEAS 
(SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM) 
For payments in foreign currencies which the Treasury Depart-
ment determines to be excess to the normal requirements of the 
United States, for scientific activities, as authorized by law, 
$1,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1987: Provided, 
That this appropriation shall be available in addition to other 
appropriations to the National Science Foundation for payments in 
the foregoing currencies. 
NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION 
PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION 
For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for 
use in neighborhood reinvestment activities, as authorized by the 
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 8101-8107), 
$17,669,000. 
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Selective Service System, including 
expenses of attendance at meetings and of training for uniformed 
personnel assigned to the Selective Service System, as authorized by 
99 STAT. 924 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
law (5 U.S.C. 4101-4118) for civilian employees; and not to exceed 
$1,000 
for 
official 
reception 
and 
representation 
expenses; 
$27,780,000: Provided, That during the current fiscal year, the Presi-
dent may exempt this appropriation from the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 
1341, whenever he deems such action to be necessary in the interest 
of national defense: Provided further. That none of the funds appro-
priated by this Act may be expended for or in connection with the 
induction of any person into the Armed Forces of the United States. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
PAYMENTS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT FISCAL ASSISTANCE TRUST FUND 
For payments to the Local Government Fiscal Assistance Trust 
Fund, $4,566,700,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding the provi-
sions of 31 U.S.C. 6701-6724, payments to local governments from 
this appropriation shall not exceed $4,185,000,000 and this appro-
priation is hereby reduced by $381,700,000 through a reduction in 
the payment for the final quarter of the entitlement beginning 
October 1,1985, and ending September 30,1986. 
OFFICE OF REVENUE SHARING, SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Revenue Sharing, includ-
ing hire of passenger motor vehicles, $7,800,000. 
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION 
COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS 
For the payment of compensation, pensions, gratuities, and allow-
ances, including burial awards, plot allowances, burial fiags, 
headstones and grave markers, emergency and other officers' retire-
ment pay, adjusted-service credits and certificates, and other bene-
fits as authorized by law; and for payment of premiums due on 
commercial life insurance policies guaranteed under the provisions 
of article IV of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, as 
50 use app. 540. amended, $14,160,800,000, to remain available until expended. 
READJUSTMENT BENEFITS 
For the payment of readjustment and rehabilitation benefits to or 
38 use 801 et 
on behalf of veterans as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. chapters 21,31, 
seq., 1500 et seq. 34-36, 39, 51, 53, 55, and 61), $826,000,000, to remain available until 
38 use 1651 et 
expended. 
seq., 1700 et seq., 
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^ 
1770 et seq., 1901 
VETERANS INSURANCE AND INDEMNITIES 
etseq.,ZOQlet 
seq., 3101 et seq.. 
For military and naval insurance, national service life insurance, 
3201 efseg., 3501 servicemen's indemnities, and service-disabled veterans insurance, 
38 ule 701 et 
as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. chapter 19; 70 Stat. 887; 72 Stat. 487), 
seq. 
$9,750,000, to remain available untU expended. 
MEDICAL CARE 
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and operation of 
hospitals, nursing homes, and domiciliary facilities; for furnishing, 
as authorized by law, inpatient and outpatient care and treatment 
to beneficiaries of the Veterans Administration, including care and 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
99 STAT. 925 
treatment in facilities not under the jurisdiction of the Veterans 
Administration, and furnishing recreational facilities, supplies and 
equipment; funeral, burial and other expenses incidental thereto for 
beneficiaries receiving care in Veterans Administration facilities; 
repairing, altering, improving or providing facilities in the several 
hospitals and homes under the jurisdiction of the Veterans Adminis-
tration, not otherwise provided for, either by contract or by the hire 
of temporary employees and purchase of materials; uniforms or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902); aid to 
State homes as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 641); and not to exceed 
$2,000,000 to fund cost comparison studies as referred to in 38 U.S.C. 
5010(aX5); $9,255,694,000, plus reimbursements. 
MEDICAL AND PROSTHETIC RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses in carrying out programs of medical and 
prosthetic research and development, as authorized by law, to 
remain available until September 30, 1987, $191,370,000, plus 
reimbursements. 
MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses in the administration of the medical, 
hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, construction and supply, re-
search, employee education and training activities, as authorized by 
law, $57,119,000, plus reimbursements. 
GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary operating expenses of the Veterans Administration, 
not otherwise provided for, including uniforms or allowances there-
for, as authorized by law; not to exceed $3,000 for official reception 
and representation expenses; cemeterial expenses as authorized by 
law; purchase of ten passenger motor vehicles, for use in cemeterial 
operations, and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and reimburse-
ment of the Greneral Services Administration for security guard 
services, and the Department of Defense for the cost of overseas 
employee mail; $760,060,000: Provided, 
That in the Veterans 
Administration not to exceed 53 full-time equivalent employ-
ment shall be available for the Office of Planning and Program 
Evaluation. 
CONSTRUCTION, MAJOR PROJECTS 
For constructing, altering, extending and improving any of the 
facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use of the Veterans 
Administration, or for any of the purposes set forth in sections 1004, 
1006, 5002, 5003, 5006, 5008, 5009, and 5010 of title 38, United States 
Code, including planning, architectural and engineering services, 
and site acquisition, where the estimated cost of a project is 
$2,000,000 or more or where funds for a project were made available 
in a previous major project appropriation, $507,360,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That, except for advance plan-
ning of projects funded through the advance planning fund and the 
design of projects funded through the Design Fund, none of these 
funds shall be used for any project which has not been considered 
and approved by the Congress in the budgetary process: Provided 
further. That funds provided in the appropriation "Construction, 
major projects" for fiscal year 1986, for each approved project shall 
99 STAT. 926 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
be obligated (1) by the awarding of a working drawings contract by 
September 30, 1986 and (2) by the awarding of a construction 
contract by September 30, 1987: Provided further, That the Adminis-
trator shall promptly report in writing to the Comptroller General 
and to the Committees on Appropriations any approved major 
construction project in which obligations are not incurred within the 
time limitations established above; and the Comptroller General 
shall review the report in accordance with the procedures estab-
lished by section 1015 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (title 
2 use 686. 
X of Public Law 93-344): Provided further, That no funds from any 
other account may be obligated for constructing, altering, extending, 
or improving a project which was approved in the budget process 
and funded in this account until one year after substantial comple-
tion and beneficial occupancy by the Veterans Administration of the 
project or any part thereof with respect to that part only: Provided 
further, That the final proviso under this heading in the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development-Independent Agencies 
97 Stat. 219. 
Appropriation Act, 1984 (Public Law 98-45) and the penultimate 
proviso under this heading in the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development-Independent Agencies Appropriation Act, 1985 
98 Stat. 1213. 
(Public Law 98-371) are hereby repealed: Provided 
further. 
That 
prior to the issuance of a bidding document for any construction 
contract for a project approved under this heading (excluding 
completion items), the director of the affected Veterans Administra-
tion medical facility must certify that the design of such project is 
acceptable from a patient care standpoint. 
CONSTRUCTION, MINOR PROJECTS 
For constructing, altering, extending, and improving any of the 
facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use of the Veterans 
Administration, including planning, architectural and engineering 
services, and site acquisition, or for any of the purposes set forth in 
sections 1004, 1006, 5002, 5003, 5006, 5008, 5009, and 5010 of title 38, 
United States Code, where the estimated cost of a project is less than 
$2,000,000, $144,400,000, to remain available until expended, along 
with unobligated balances of previous Construction, minor projects 
appropriations which are hereby made available for any project 
where the estimated cost is less than $2,000,000: Provided, That not 
more than $36,313,000 shall be available for expenses of the Office of 
Construction: Provided further, That funds in this account shall be 
available for (1) repairs to any of the nonmedical facilities under the 
jurisdiction or for the use of the Veterans Administration which are 
necessary because of loss or damage caused by any natural disaster 
or catastrophe and (2) temporary measures necessary to prevent or 
to minimize further loss by such causes. 
GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF STATE EXTENDED CARE FACILITIES 
For grants to assist the several States to acquire or construct 
State nursing home and domiciliary facilities and to remodel, 
modify or alter existing hospital, nursing home and domiciliary 
facilities in State homes, for furnishing care to veterans, as au-
thorized by law (38 U.S.C. 5031-5037), $22,000,000 to remain avail-
able until September 30,1988. 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
99 STAT. 927 
GRANTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATE VETERANS CEMETERIES 
For grants to aid States in establishing, expanding or improving 
State veterans cemeteries as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 1008), 
$3,000,000, to remain available until September 30,1988. 
GRANTS TO THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHIUPPINES 
For payment to the Republic of the Philippines of grants, as 
authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 632), for assisting in the replacement 
and upgrading of equipment and in rehabilitating the physical plant 
and facilities of the Veterans Memorial Medical Center, $500,000, to 
remain available until September 30,1987. 
DIRECT LOAN REVOLVING FUND 
During 1986, within the resources available, not to exceed 
$1,000,000 in gross obligations for direct loans is authorized for 
specially adapted housing loans (38 U.S.C. chapter 37). 
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seq. 
LOAN GUARANTY REVOLVING FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary to carry out Loan guaranty and insurance 
operations, as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. chapter 37, except 38 use 1801 et 
administrative expenses, as authorized by section 1824 of such title), seq. 
$200,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
During 1986, the resources ,of the Loan guaranty revolving fund 
shall be available for expenses for property acquisitions, payment of 
participation sales insufficiencies, and other loan guaranty and 
insurance operations, as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. chapter 37, 
except administrative expenses, as authorized by section 1824 of 
such title): Provided, That the unobligated balances, including re-
tained earnings of the Direct loan revolving fund, shall be available, 
during 1986, for transfer to the Loan guaranty revolving fund in 
such amounts as may be necessary to provide for the timely pay-
ment of obligations of such fund, and the Administrator of Veterans 
Affairs shall not be required to pay interest on amounts so trans-
ferred after the time of such transfer. 
During 1986, with the resources available, gross obligations for 
direct loans and total commitments to guarantee loans are au-
thorized in such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the 
purposes of the "Loan guaranty revolving fund". 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
Not to exceed 5 per centum of any appropriation for 1986 for 
"Compensation and pensions", "Readjustment benefits", and "Vet-
erans insurance and indemnities" may be transferred to any other 
of the mentioned appropriations, but not to exceed 10 per centum of 
the appropriations so augmented. 
Appropriations available to the Veterans Administration for 1986 
for salaries and expenses shall be available for services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 
99 STAT. 928 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
No part of the appropriations in this Act for the Veterans 
Administration (except the appropriations for "Construction, major 
projects" and "Construction, minor projects") shall be available for 
the purchase of any site for or toward the construction of any new 
hospital or home. 
No part of the foregoing appropriations shall be available for 
hospitalization or examination of any persons except beneficiaries 
entitled under the laws bestowing such benefits to veterans, unless 
reimbursement of cost is made to the appropriation at such rates as 
may be fixed by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs. 
One or more pilot programs shall be conducted to determine the 
effectiveness of utilizing private contractual services to assist in the 
administrative collection of various t5T)es of delinquent debts or 
other funds due the Government. 
TITLE III 
CORPORATIONS 
Corporations and agencies of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board which 
are subject to the Government Corporation Control Act, as 
amended, are hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within 
the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each such 
corporation or agency and in accord with law, and to make such 
contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations 
31 use 9104 
as provided by section 104 of the Act as may be necessary in 
note. 
carr)dng out the programs set forth in the budget for 1986 for such 
corporation or agency except as hereinafter provided: Provided, 
That collections of these corporations and agencies may be used for 
new loan or mortgage purchase commitments only to the extent 
expressly provided for in this Act (unless such loans are in support 
of other forms of assistance provided for in this or prior appropria-
tion Acts), except that this proviso shall not apply to the mortgage 
insurance or guaranty operations of these corporations, or where 
lo£ms or mortgage purchases are necessary to protect the financial 
interest of the United States Government. 
FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK BOARD 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK 
BOARD 
Not to exceed a total of $26,877,000 shall be available for adminis-
trative expenses of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board for procure-
ment of services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and contracts for 
such services with one organization may be renewed annually, and 
uniforms or allowances therefor in accordance with law (5 U.S.C. 
5901-5902), and said amount shall be derived from funds available to 
the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, including those in the Federal 
Home Loan Bank Board revolving fund and receipts of the Board for 
the current fiscal year, of which not to exceed $500,000 shall be 
available for purposes of training State examiners and not to exceed 
$1,500 shall be available for official reception and representation 
1
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expenses: Provided, That members and alternates of the Federal 
note. 
Savings and Loan Advisory Council may be compensated subject to 
5 use app. 
the provisions of section 7 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
99 STAT. 929 
and shall be entitled to reimbursement from the Board for transpor-
tation expenses incurred in attendance at meetings of or concerned 
with the work of such Council and may be paid in lieu of subsistence 
per diem not to exceed the dollar amount set forth in 5 U.S.C. 5703: 
Provided further. That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
and in connection with the Board's delegation of certain functions to 
the Federal home loan banks, the Board may transfer title of related 
furniture, fixtures and equipment property of record as of the date 
of the delegation to the banks: Provided further. That, notwithstand-
ing any other provisions of this Act, except for the limitation in 
amount hereinbefore specified, the expenses and other obligations of 
the Board shall be incurred, allowed, and paid in accordance with 
the provisions of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act of 1932, as 
amended (12 U.S.C. 1421-1449). 
UMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, FEDERAL SAVINGS AND 
LOAN INSURANCE CORPORATION 
Not to exceed $1,440,000 shall be available for administrative 
expenses, which shall be on an accrual basis and shall be exclusive 
of interest paid, depreciation, properly capitalized expenditures, 
expenses in connection with liquidation of insured institutions or 
activities relating to section 406(c), 407, or 408 of the National 
Housing Act, liquidation or handling of assets of or derived from 
insured institutions, payment of insurance, and action for or toward 
the avoidance, termination, or minimizing of losses in the case of 
insured institutions, legal fees and expenses and payments for 
expenses of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board determined by said 
Board to be properly allocable to said Corporation, and said Corpora-
tion may utilize and may make pajnnente for services and facilities 
of the Federal home loan banks, the Federal Reserve banks, the 
Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage 
Corporation, and other agencies of the Grovernment: Provided, That, 
notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, except for the 
limitation in amount hereinbefore specified, the administrative ex-
penses and other obligations of said Corporation shall be incurred, 
allowed, and paid in accordance with title IV of the Act of June 27, 
1934, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1724-1730f). 
12 u s e 1729-
1730a. 
TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. Where appropriations in titles I and II of this Act are 
expendable for travel expenses and no specific limitation has been 
placed thereon, the expenditures for such travel expenses may not 
exceed the amounts set forth therefor in the budget estimates 
submitted for the appropriations: Provided, That this section shall 
not apply to travel performed by uncompensated officials of local 
boards and appeal boards of the Selective Service System; to travel 
P
erformed directly in connection with care and treatment of medical 
eneficiaries of the Veterans Administration; to travel performed in 
connection with major disasters or emergencies declared or deter-
mined by the President under the provisions of the Disaster Relief 
Act of 1974; to site-related travel performed in connection with the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil-
ity Act of 1980; to site-related travel under the Solid Waste Disposal 
Transportation. 
Prohibition. 
Ante, pp. 909, 
914. 
42 u s e 5121 
note. 
42 u s e 9601 
note. 
99 STAT. 930 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
42 u s e 3251 
note. 
Motor vehicles. 
Banks and 
banking. 
12 u s e 1749a. 
Government 
organization and 
employees. 
Transportation. 
Grants. 
Gontracts. 
Research and 
development. 
Grants. 
Act, as amended; or to payments to interagency motor pools where 
separately set forth in the budget schedules: Provided further. That 
if appropriations in titles I and II exceed the amounts set forth in 
budget estimates initially submitted for such appropriations, the 
expenditures for travel may correspondingly exceed the amounts 
therefor set forth in the estimates in the same proportion. 
SEC. 402. Appropriations and funds available for the administra-
tive expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment and the Selective Service System shall be available in the 
current fiscal year for purchase of uniforms, or allowances therefor, 
as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902); hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C, 3109. 
SEC. 403. Funds of the Department of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment subject to the Government Corporation Control Act or 
section 402 of the Housing Act of 1950 shall be available, without 
regard to the limitations on administrative expenses, for legal serv-
ices on a contract or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment 
for services and facilities of Federal National Mortgage Association, 
Government National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan 
Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Federal Reserve 
banks or any member thereof. Federal home loan banks, and any 
insured bank within the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance 
Corporation Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1811-1831). 
SEC. 404, 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, 405, No funds appropriated by this Act may be expended— 
(1) pursuant to a certification of an officer or employee of the 
United States unless— 
(A) such certification is accompanied by, or is part of, a 
voucher or abstract which describes the payee or payees 
and the items or services for which such expenditure is 
being made, or 
(B) the expenditure of funds pursuant to such certifi-
cation, and without such a voucher or abstract, is specifi-
cally authorized by law; and 
(2) unless such expenditure is subject to audit by the General 
Accounting Office or is specifically exempt by law from such 
audit. 
SEC, 406, None of the funds provided in this Act to any depart-
ment or agency may be expended for the transportation of any 
officer or employee of such department or agency between his 
domicile and his place of employment, with the exception of the 
Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 
who, under title 5, United States Code, section 101, is exempted from 
such limitation. 
SEC, 407, None of the funds provided in this Act may be used for 
payment, through grants or contracts, to recipients that do not 
share in the cost of conducting research resulting from proposals not 
specifically solicited by the government: Provided, That the extent 
of cost sharing by the recipient shall reflect the mutuality of 
interest of the grantee or contractor and the Government in the 
research. 
SEC. 408, None of the funds provided in this Act may be used, 
directly or through grants, to pay or to provide reimbursement for 
pasonent of the salary of a consultant (whether retained by the 
Federal Government or a grantee) at more than the daily equivalent 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
99 STAT. 931 
Contracts. 
Public 
availability. 
Contracts. 
Regulations. 
Report. 
of the maximum rate paid for GS-18, unless specifically authorized 
by law. 
SEC. 409. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act for 
personnel compensation and benefits shall be available for other 
object classifications set forth in the budget estimates submitted for 
the appropriations. 
SEC. 410. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to pay the 
expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties interven-
ing in r^ulatory or adjudicatory proceedings. Nothing herein 
affects the authority of the Consumer Product Safety Commission 
pursuant to section 7 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 
2056etseq.). 
SEC. 411. Except as otherwise provided under existing law or 
under an existing Executive order issued pursuant to an existing 
law, the obligation or expenditure of any appropriation under this 
Act for contracts for any consulting service shall be limited to 
contracts which are (1) a matter of public record and available for 
public inspection, and (2) thereafter included in a publicly available 
list of all contracts entered into within twenty-four months prior to 
the date on which the list is made available to the public and of all 
contracts on which performance has not been completed by such 
date. The list required by the preceding sentence shall be updated 
quarterly and shall include a narrative description of the work to be 
performed under each such contract. 
SEC. 412. Except as otherwise provided by law, no part of any 
appropriation contained in this Act shall be obligated or expended 
by any executive agency, as referred to in the Office of Federal 
Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) for a contract for 
services unless such executive agency (1) has awarded and entered 
into such contract in full compliance with such Act and the regula-
tions promulgated thereunder and (2) requires any report prepared 
pursuant to such contract, including plans, evaluations, studies, 
analyses and manuals, and any report prepared by the agency which 
is substantially derived from or substantially includes any report 
prepared pursuant to such contract, to contain information concern-
ing (A) the contract pursuant to which the report was prepared and 
(B) the contractor who prepared the report pursuant to such 
contract. 
SEC. 413. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall Regulations. 
be available to implement, administer, or enforce any regulation 
which has been disapproved pursuant to a resolution of disapproval 
duly adopted in accordance with the appUcable law of the United 
States. 
SEC. 414. Elxcept as otherwise provided in section 406, none of the 
funds provided in this Act to any department or agency shall be 
obligated or expended to provide a personal cook, chauffeur, or other 
personal servants to any officer or employee of such department or 
agency. 
SEC. 415. None of the funds provided in this Act to any depart-
ment or agency shall be obligated or expended to procure passenger 
automobiles as defined in 15 U.S.C. 2001 with an EPA estimated 
miles per gedlon average of less than 22 miles per gallon. 
SEC. 416. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
amounts otherwise provided by this Act for the following accounts 
and activities are reduced by the following amounts: 
Ante, p. 930. 
Motor vehicles. 
99 STAT. 932 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 
HOUSING PROGRAMS 
"Congregate services", $29,700; 
"Housing counseling assistance", $38,500; 
"Federal housing administration fund (limitation on gross obliga-
tions for direct loans under section 230(a) of the National Housing 
12 use 1715U. 
Act, as amended)", $981,442; 
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 
"Community development grants (limitation on total commit-
ments to guarantee loans)", $2,475,000; 
"Urban homesteading", $132,000; 
FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 
"Fair housing assistance", $73,700; 
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION 
"Salaries and expenses", $120,494; 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 
"Salaries and expenses", $6,000,000; 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 
"Office of science and technology policy", $25,773; 
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY 
"Disaster relief, $20,000,000; 
"Salaries and expenses", $4,000,000; 
"National flood insurance fund (appropriation)", $1,021,372; 
"National flood insurance fund (transfer to 'Salaries and 
expenses')", $96,360; 
"National flood insurance fund (transfer to 'Emergency manage-
ment planning and assistance')", $503,250; 
"National flood insurance fund (earmark, of transferred funds, for 
expenses under section 1362 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 
42 use 4103. 
1968, as amended)", $52,558; 
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
"Consumer information center (appropriation)", $13,739; 
"Consumer information center (limitation on administrative 
expenses)", $17,941; 
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 
"Research and program management", $5,000,000; 
NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION 
"Central liquidity facility (limitation on new loans)", $6,600,000; 
PUBLIC LAW 99-160—NOV. 25, 1985 
99 STAT. 933 
"Central liquidity facility (limitation on administrative ex-
penses)", $9,350; 
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM 
"Salaries and expenses", $305,580; 
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
"Office of revenue sharing, salaries and expenses", $85,800; 
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION 
"Medical and prosthetic research", $2,105,070; 
"Medical administration and miscellaneous operating expenses", 
$3,595,309; 
"General operating expenses", $23,195,660; 
"Construction, minor projects (appropriation)", $7,449,908; 
"Construction, minor projects (limitation on expenses of the office 
of construction)", $399,443; 
"Grants for construction of State extended care facilities", 
$242,000; 
"Grants for construction of State veterans cemeteries", $33,000; 
"Grants to the Republic of the Philippines", $5,500; 
"Direct loan revolving fund (limitation on direct loans)", $11,000. 
SEC. 417. Any funds appropriated in a previous Act for construe- 
Grants. 
tion grants under title II of the Clean Water Act shall be made 
33 use 1281. 
available immediately eind shall not be limited to phases or seg-
ments of previously funded projects. 
This Act may be cited as the "Department of Housing and Urban 
Development-Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986". 
Approved November 25, 1985. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 3038: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 99-212 (Comm. on Appropriations) and No. 99-363 (Comm. of 
V oniiPT'pncpI 
SENATE REPORT No. 99-129 (Comm. on Appropriations). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 131 (1985): 
July 24, 25, considered and passed House. 
Oct. 17, 18, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Nov. 13, House agreed to conference report; receded and concurred in certain 
Senate amendments, in others with amendments. Senate agreed to confer-
ence report; concurred in House amendments.