Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 1998
PL 105-61 (H.R.2378), enacted 10/10/1997

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PUBLIC LAW 105-61—OCT. 10, 1997 
*Public Law 105-61 
105th Congress 
Oct. 10, 1997 
[H.R. 2378] 
Treasury and 
General 
Government 
Appropriations 
Act, 1998. 
Treasury 
Department 
Appropriations 
Act, 1998. 
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An Act 
Making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal 
Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, 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 fiscal year ending September 
30, 1998, and for other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Departmental Offices including 
operation and maintenance of the Treasury Building and Annex; 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; maintenance, repairs, and 
improvements of, and purchase of commercial insurance policies 
for, real properties leased or owned overseas, when necessary for 
the performance of official business; not to exceed $2,900,000 for 
official travel expenses; not to exceed $150,000 for official reception 
and representation expenses; not to exceed $258,000 for unforeseen 
emergencies of a confidential nature, to be allocated and expended 
under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury and to be 
accounted for solely on his certificate; $114,771,000: Provided, That 
section 113(2) of the Fiscal Year 1997 Department of Commerce, 
Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, Public Law 104-208 (110 Stat. 3009-22) is amended 
by striking "12 months" and inserting in lieu thereof "2 years": 
Provided further. That the Office of Foreign Assets Control shall 
be funded at no less than $4,500,000: Provided further, That chapter 
9 of the fiscal year 1997 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Recov-
ery from Natural Disasters, and for Overseas Peacekeeping Efforts, 
including those in Bosnia, Public Law 105-18 (111 Stat. 195-
96) is amended by inserting after the "County of Denver" in each 
instance "the County of Arapahoe": Provided further. That $200,000 
are provided to conduct a comprehensive study of gambling's effects 
on bankruptcies in the United States: Provided further, That for 
necessary expenses of the Office of Enforcement, including, but 
not limited to, making transfers of funds to Treasury bureaus 
and offices for programs, projects or initiatives directed as the 
investigation or prosecution of violent crime, $1,600,000, to remain 
*Note: This law contains an iteta that was cancelled by the President pursuant to the Line 
Item Veto Act. For more information, see the Federal Register entry imder "LEGISLATIVE 
HISTORY" at the end of this law. 
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111 STAT. 1273 
available until expended, to be derived from balances available 
in the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund. 
OFFICE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Professional Responsibil-
ity, including purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
$1,250,000: Provided, That the Under Secretary of Treasury for 
Enforcement shall task the Office of Professional Responsibility 
to conduct a comprehensive review of integrity issues and other 
matters related to the potential vulnerability of the United States 
Customs Service to corruption, to include examination of charges 
of professional misconduct and corruption as well as analysis of 
the efficacy of departmental and bureau internal affairs systems. 
AUTOMATION ENHANCEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the development and acquisition of automatic data process-
ing equipment, software, and services for the Department of the 
Treasury, $25,889,000, of which $11,000,000 shall be available to 
the United States Customs Service for the Automated Commercial 
Environment project, of which $6,100,000 shall be available to 
Departmental Offices for the International Trade Data System, 
and of which $8,789,000 shall be avEiilable to Departmental Offices 
to modernize its information technology infrastructure and for busi-
ness solution software: Provided, That these funds shall remain 
available until September 30, 1999: Provided further. That these 
funds shall be transferred to accounts and in amounts as necessary 
to satisfy the requirements of the Department's offices, bureaus, 
and other organizations: Provided further, That this transfer author-
ity shall be in addition to any other transfer authority provided 
in this Act: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated 
shall be used to support or supplement Internal Revenue Service 
appropriations for Information Systems: Provided further, That of 
the $27,000,000 provided under this heading in Public Law 104-
208, $12,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 1999: 
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated for the Inter- Reports, 
national Trade Data System may be obligated until the Department 
has submitted a report on its system development plan to the 
Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That the funds 
appropriated for the Automated Commercial Environment project 
may not be obligated until the Commissioner of Customs has 
submitted a systems architecture plan and a milestone schedule 
for the development and implementation of all projects included 
in the systems architecture plan, and the plan and schedule have 
been reviewed by the General Accounting Office and approved by 
the Committees on Appropriations. 
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
as amended, not to exceed $2,000,000 for official travel expenses; 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles; eind not to exceed 
$100,000 for \inforeseen emergencies of a confidential nature, to 
be allocated and expended under the direction of the Inspector 
General of the Treasury; $29,719,000, of which $26,034 shall be 
transferred to the "Departmental Offices" appropriation for the 
reimbursement of Secret Service personnel in accordance with sec-
tion 115 of this Act. 
TREASURY BUILDING AND ANNEX REPAIR AND RESTORATION 
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the Treasury 
Building and Annex, $10,484,000, to remain available until Septem-
ber 30,1999. 
FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Financial Crimes Enforcement 
Network, including hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel expenses 
of non-Federal law enforcement personnel to attend meetings con-
cerned with financial intelligence activities, law enforcement, and 
financial regulation; not to exceed $14,000 for official reception 
and representation expenses; and for assistance to Federal law 
enforcement agencies, with or without reimbursement; $22,835,000: 
Provided, That funds appropriated in this account may be used 
to procure personal services contracts. 
VIOLENT CRIME REDUCTION PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For activities authorized by Public Law 103-322, to remain 
available until expended, which shall be derived from the Violent 
Crime Reduction Trust Fund, as follows: 
(1) As authorized by section 190001(e), $131,000,000; of which 
$19,421,000 shall be available to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco 
and Firearms, including $3,000,000 for administering the Gang 
Resistance Education and Training program, $3,974,000 for the 
canine explosives detection program, $5,200,000 for CEASEFIRE/ 
IBIS, $5,639,000 for vehicles and communications systems, and 
$1,608,000 for collection of information on arson and explosives; 
of which $1,000,000 shall be available to the Financial Crimes 
Enforcement Network for the Secure Outreach/Encrypted Trans-
mission Program; of which $15,731,000 shsdl be avsdlable to the 
United States Secret Service, including $6,700,000 for vehicle 
replacement, $1,460,000 to provide technical assistance and to 
assess the effectiveness of new technology intended to combat iden-
tity-based crimes, $5,000,000 for investigations of counterfeiting, 
and $2,571,000 for forensic and related support of investigations 
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111 STAT. 1275 
of missing and exploited children, of which $571,000 shall be avail-
able as a gTEint for activities related to the investigations of exploited 
children and shall remain available until expended; of which 
$60,648,000 shall be available for the United States Customs 
Service, including $15,000,000 for high energy container x-ray sys-
tems and automated targeting systems, $5,735,000 for laboratory 
modernization, $7,400,000 for vehicle replacement, $8,413,000 for 
anti-smuggling inspectors, $9,500,000 for the passenger processing 
initiative, $4,000,000 for redeploying agents and inspectors to high 
threat 
drug zones, $4,500,000 for Forward-Looking 
Infrared 
capabilities, $1,100,000 for construction of canopies for inspection 
of outbound vehicles along the Southwest border, and $5,000,000 
to acquire vehicle and container inspection systems; of which 
$20,200,000 shall be available to the Office of National Drug Control 
Policy, including $13,000,000 to the Counterdrug Technology 
Assessment Center for a program to transfer technology to State 
and local law enforcement agencies, $6,000,000 for a Federal Drug 
Free-Prison Zone demonstration project, and $1,200,000 for Model 
State Drug Law Conferences; and of which $3,000,000 is provided 
to Federal Drug Control Programs for the Rocky Mountain HIDTA; 
(2) As authorized by section 32401, $10,000,000 to the Bureau 
of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for disbursement through grants, 
cooperative a^eements, or contracts to local governments for Gang 
Resistance Education and Training: Provided, That notwithstanding 
sections 32401 and 310001, such funds shall be allocated to State 
and local law enforcement and prevention organizations; 
(3) As authorized by section 180103, $1,000,000 to the Federal 
Law Enforcement Training Center for specialized training for rural 
law enforcement officers. 
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforcement 
Training Center, as a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, 
including materials and support costs of Federal law enforcement 
basic training; purchase (not to exceed 52 for police-type use, with-
out regard to the general purchase price limitation) and hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; for expenses for student athletic and 
related activities; uniforms without regard to the general purchase 
price limitation for the current fiscal year; the conducting of and 
participating in firearms matches and presentation of awards; for 
public awareness and enhancing community support of law enforce-
ment training; not to exceed $9,500 for official reception and 
representation expenses; room and board for student interns; and 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; $64,663,000, of which 
up to $13,034,000 for materials and support costs of Federal law 
enforcement basic training shall remain available until September 
30, 2000: Provided, That the Center is authorized to accept and 42USC3771 
use gifts of property, both real and personal, and to accept services, note. 
for authorized purposes, including funding of a gift of intrinsic 
value which shall be awarded sinnually by the Director of the 
Center to the outstanding student who graduated from a basic 
training program at the Center during the previous fiscal year, 
which shall be funded only by gifts received through the Center's 
gift authority: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, students attending training at any Federal Law 
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Enforcement Training Center site shall reside in on-Center or Cen-
ter-provided housing, insofar as available and in accordance with 
Center policy: Provided further, That funds appropriated in this 
account shall be available, at the discretion of the Director, for: 
training United States Postal Service law enforcement personnel 
and Postal police officers; State and local government law enforce-
ment training on a space-available basis; training of foreign law 
enforcement officials on a space-available basis with reimbursement 
of actual costs to this appropriation, except that reimbursement 
may be waived by the Secretary for law enforcement training activi-
ties in foreign countries undertaken pursuant to section 801 of 
the Antiterrorism £ind Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Public 
Law 104-32; training of private sector security officials on a 
space-available basis with reimbursement of actual costs to this 
appropriation; and travel expenses of non-Federal personnel to 
attend course development meetings and training at the Center: 
Provided further, That the Center is authorized to obligate funds 
in anticipation of reimbursements from agencies receiving training 
at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, except that total 
obligations at the end of the fiscal year shall not exceed total 
budgetary resources available at the end of the fiscal year: Provided 
further. That the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is 
authorized to provide short-term medical services for students 
imdergoing training at the Center. 
ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENTS, AND RELATED 
EXPENSES 
For expansion of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 
for acquisition of necessary additional real property and facilities, 
and for ongoing maintenance, facility improvements, and related 
expenses, $32,548,000, to remain available until expended. 
INTERAGENCY LAW ENFORCEMENT 
INTERAGENCY CRIME AND DRUG ENFORCEMENT 
For expenses necessary for the detection and investigation of 
individuals involved in organized crime drug trafficking, including 
cooperative 
efforts 
with 
State 
and 
local 
law 
enforcement, 
$73,794,000, of which $7,827,000 shall remain available until 
expended. 
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Financial Management Service, 
$202,490,000, of which not to exceed $13,235,000 shall remain 
available until September 30, 2000 for information systems mod-
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emization initiatives: Provided, That beginning in fiscal year 1998 
and thereafter, there are appropriated such sums as may be nec-
essary to reimburse Federal Reserve Banks in their capacity as 
depositaries and fiscal agents for the United States for all services 
required or directed by the Secretary of the Treasury to be per-
formed by such banks on behalf of the Treasury or other Federal 
agencies. 
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111 STAT. 1277 
BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms, including purchase of not to exceed 650 vehicles for 
police-type use for replacement only and hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; hire of aircraft; services of expert witnesses at such rates 
as may be determined by the Director; for payment of per diem 
and/or subsistence allowances to employees where an assignment 
to the National Response Team during the investigation of a bomb-
ing or arson incident requires an employee to work 16 hours or 
more per day or to remain overnight at his or her post of duty; 
not to exceed $12,500 for official reception and representation 
expenses; for training of State and local law enforcement agencies 
with or without reimbursement, including training in connection 
with the training and acquisition of canines for explosives and 
fire accelerants detection; and provision of laboratory assistance 
to State and local agencies, with or without reimbursement; 
$478,934,000, of which $1,250,000 may be used for the Youth Crime 
Gun Interdiction Initiative; of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall 
be available for the payment of attorneys' fees as provided by 
18 U.S.C. 924(d)(2); and of which $1,000,000 shall be available 
for the equipping of any vessel, vehicle, equipment, or aircraft 
available for official use by a State or local law enforcement agency 
if the conveyance will be used in drug-related joint law enforcement 
operations with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and 
for the payment of overtime salaries, travel, fuel, training, equip-
ment, and other simileir costs of State and local law enforcement 
officers that are incurred in joint operations with the Bureau of 
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms: Provided, That no funds made avail-
able by this or any other Act may be used to transfer the functions, 
missions, or activities of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire-
arms to other agencies or Departments in the fiscal year ending 
on September 30, 1998: Provided further, That no funds appro-
priated herein shall be available for salaries or administrative 
expenses in connection with consolidating or centralizing, within 
the Department of the Treasury, the records, or any portion thereof, 
of acquisition £ind disposition of firearms maintained by Federal 
firearms licensees: Provided further. That no funds appropriated 
herein shall be used to pay administrative expenses or the 
compensation of any officer or employee of the United States to 
implement an amendment or amendments to 27 CFR 178.118 or 
to change the definition of "Curios or relics" in 27 CFR 178.11 
or remove any item fi'om ATF Publication 5300.11 as it existed 
on January 1, 1994: Provided further. That none of the fimds 
appropriated herein shall be available to investigate or act upon 
applications for relief fi*om Federal firearms disabilities under 18 
U.S.C. 925(c): Provided further. That such fimds shall be available 
to investigate and act upon applications filed by corporations for 
relief from Federal firearms disabilities under 18 U.S.C. 925(c): 
Provided further. That no funds in this Act may be used to provide 
ballistics imaging equipment to any State or local authority who 
has obtained similar equipment through a Federal grant or subsidy 
unless the State or local authority agrees to return that equipment 
or to repay that grant or subsidy to the Federal Government: 
Provided further. That no funds imder this Act may be used to 
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electronically retrieve information gathered pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 
923(g)(4) by name or any personal identification code. 
LABORATORY FACILITIES 
For necessary expenses for construction of a new facility or 
facilities to house the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms 
National Laboratory Center and the Fire Investigation Research 
and Development Center, not to exceed 185,000 occupiable square 
feet, $55,022,000 to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That these funds shall not be available until a prospectus for 
the Laboratory Facilities is reviewed and resolutions of authoriza-
tion are approved by the House Committee on Transportation gind 
Infrastructure and the Senate Committee on Environment and Pub-
lic Works. 
UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the United States Customs Service, 
including purchase and lease of up to 1,050 motor vehicles of 
which 985 are for replacement only and of which 1,030 are for 
police-type use and commercial operations; hire of motor vehicles; 
contracting with individuals for personal services abroad; not to 
exceed $30,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 
and awards of compensation to informers, as authorized by any 
Act enforced by the United States Customs Service; $1,522,165,000, 
of which such sums as become available in the Customs User 
Fee Account, except sums subject to section 13031(f)(3) of the 
Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (19 
U.S.C. 58c(f)(3)), shall be derived from that Account; of the total, 
not to exceed $150,000 shall be available for payment for rental 
space in connection with preclearance operations, and not to exceed 
$4,000,000 shall be available until expended for research, not to 
exceed $5,000,000 shall be available until expended for conducting 
special operations pursuEint to 19 U.S.C. 2081, and up to $6,000,000 
shall be available until expended for the procurement of automation 
infrastructure items, including hardware, software, and installation: 
Provided, That uniforms may be purchased without regard to the 
general purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year: Pro-
vided further. That $1,250,000 shall be available to fund the Global 
Trade and Research Program at the Montana World Trade Center: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the fiscal year aggregate overtime limitation prescribed in sub-
section 5(c)(1) of the Act of February 13, 1911 (19 U.S.C. 261 
and 267) shall be $30,000. 
OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE AND PROCUREMENT, AIR AND MARINE 
INTERDICTION PROGRAMS 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
operation and maintenance of marine vessels, aircraft, and other 
related equipment of the Air and Marine Programs, including oper-
ational training and mission-related travel, and rental payments 
for facilities occupied by the air or marine interdiction and demand 
reduction programs, the operations of which include: the interdiction 
of narcotics and other goods; the provision of support to Customs 
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111 STAT. 1279 
and other Federal, State, and local agencies in the enforcement 
or administration of laws enforced by the Customs Service; and, 
at the discretion of the Commissioner of Customs, the provision 
of assistance to Federal, State, and local agencies in other law 
enforcement and emergency humanitarian efforts; $92,758,000, 
which shall remain available until expended: Provided, That no 
aircraft or other related equipment, with the exception of aircraft 
which is one of a kind and has been identified as excess to Customs 
requirements and aircraft which has been damaged beyond repair, 
shall be transferred to any other Federal agency, department, or 
office outside of the Department of the Treasury, during fiscal 
year 1998 without the prior approval of the Committees on Appro-
priations. 
CUSTOMS SERVICES AT SMALL AIRPORTS 
(TO BE DERIVED FROM FEES COLLECTED) 
Beginning in fiscal year 1998 and thereafter, such sums as 
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may be necessary for expenses for the provision of Customs services 
at certain small airports or other facilities when authorized by 
law and designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, including 
expenditures for the salary and expenses of individuals employed 
to provide such services, to be derived from fees collected by the 
Secretary pursuant to section 236 of Public Law 98-573 for each 
of these £iirports or other facilities when authorized by law and 
designated by the Secretary, and to remain available until 
expended. 
HARBOR MAINTENANCE FEE COLLECTION 
For administrative expenses related to the collection of the 
Harbor Maintenance Fee, pursuant to Public Law 103-182, 
$3,000,000, to be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund 
and to be transferred to and merged with the Customs "Salaries 
and Expenses" account for such purposes. 
BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 
ADMINISTERING THE PUBLIC DEBT 
For necessary expenses connected with any public-debt issues 
of the United States, $173,826,000, of which not to exceed $2,500 
shall be available for official reception and representation expenses, 
and of which $2,000,000 shall remain available until September 
30, 2000 for information systems modernization initiatives: Pro-
vided, That the sum appropriated herein from the General Fund 
for fiscEd year 1998 shall be reduced by not more than $4,400,000 
as definitive security issue fees and Treasury Direct Investor 
Account Maintenance fees are collected, so as to result in a final 
fiscal year 1998 appropriation from the General Fimd estimated 
at $169,426,000, and in addition, $20,000, to be derived from the 
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to reimburse the Bureau for adminis-
trative and personnel expenses for financial management of the 
Fund, as authorized by section 102 of Public Law 101-380: Provided 
further. That notwithstanding any other provisions of law, effective 
upon enactment, the Bureau of the Public Debt shall be fully 
£ind directly reimbursed by the funds described in Public Law 
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101-136, title I, section 104, 103 Stat. 789 for costs and services 
performed by the Bureau in the administration of such funds. 
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE 
PROCESSING, ASSISTANCE, AND MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service, not 
otherwise provided for; including processing tax returns; revenue 
accounting; providing tax law and account assistance to taxpayers 
by telephone and correspondence; matching information returns 
and tax returns; management services; rent and utilities; and 
inspection; including purchase (not to exceed 150 for replacement 
only for police-tjrpe use) and hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 
U.S.C. 1343(b)); and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at 
such 
rates 
as 
may 
be 
determined 
by the 
Commissioner; 
$2,925,874,000, of which up to $3,700,000 shall be for the Tax 
Counseling for the Elderly Program, and of which not to exceed 
$25,000 shall be for official reception and representation expenses. 
TAX LAW ENFORCEMENT 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION) 
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service for 
determining and establishing tax liabilities; tax and enforcement 
litigation; technical rulings; examining employee plans and exempt 
organizations; investigation and enforcement activities; securing 
unfiled tax returns; collecting impaid accounts; statistics of income 
and compliance research; the purchase (for police-type use, not 
to exceed 850), and hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 
1343(b)); and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such 
rates as may be determined by the Commissioner, $3,142,822,000: 
Provided, That of the funds appropriated under this heading in 
Public Law 104-208, $26,000,000 is rescinded and in Public Law 
104-52, $6,000,000 is rescinded. 
EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT COMPLIANCE INITIATIVE 
For funding essential earned income tax credit compliance and 
error reduction initiatives pursuant to section 5702 of the Balanced 
Budget Act of 1997 (PubUc Law 105-33), $138,000,000, of which 
not to exceed $10,000,000 may be used to reimburse the Social 
Security Administration for the costs of implementing section 1090 
of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. 
INFORMATION SYSTEMS 
For necessary expenses for data processing and telecommuni-
cations support for Internal Revenue Service activities, including 
developmental information systems and operational information 
systems; the hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); 
and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as 
may be determined by the Commissioner, $1,272,487,000, which 
shall be available until September 30, 1999: Provided, That under 
the heading "Information Systems" in Public Law 104-208 (110 
Stat. 3009), the following is deleted: "of which no less than 
$130,075,000 shall be available for Tax Systems Modernization 
(TSM) development and deplo5maent": Provided further, That the 
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111 STAT. 1281 
Internal Revenue Service shall submit a reprogramming request, 
of which no less than $87,000,000 shall be available for Year 2000 
conversion: Provided further. That none of the funds under this 
heading, or funds made available under this heading in any previous 
Acts, may be obligated to award or otherwise initiate a Prime 
contract to implement the Internal Revenue Service's Modernization 
Blueprint submitted to Congress on May 15, 1997, although funds 
may be used to develop a Request for Proposals for the Prime 
contract. 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS 
For necessary expenses for the capital asset acquisition of 
information technology systems, including management and related 
contractual costs of said acquisition, including contractual costs 
associated with operations as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$325,000,000, which shall remain available until September 30, 
2000: Provided, That none of these funds is available for obligation 
until September 1, 1998: Provided further. That none of these 
funds shall be obligated until the Internal Revenue Service and 
the Department of the Treasury submits to Congress for approval, 
a plan for expenditure that: (1) implements the Internal Revenue 
Service's Modernization Blueprint submitted to Congress on May 
15, 1997; (2) meets the information systems investment guidelines 
established by the Office of Management and Budget in the fiscal 
year 1998 budget; (3) has been reviewed and approved by the 
Internal Revenue Service's Investment Review Board, the Office 
of Management and Budget, and the Department of the Treasury's 
Modernization Management Board, and has been reviewed by the 
General Accoimting Office; (4) meets the requirements of the May 
15, 1997 Internal Revenue Service's Systems Life Cycle program; 
EUid (5) is in compliance with acquisition rules, requirements, guide-
lines, and systems acquisition management practices of the Federal 
Government. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE 
SECTION 101. Not to exceed 5 percent of smy appropriation 
made available in this Act to the Internal Revenue Service may 
be transferred to any other Internal Revenue Service appropriation 
upon the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations. 
SEC. 102. The Internal Revenue Service shall maintain a train- 26 USC 7803 
ing program to ensure that Internal Revenue Service employees note. 
are trained in taxpayers' rights, in dealing courteously with the 
taxpayers, and in cross-cultural relations. 
SEC. 103. The fimds provided in this Act for the Internal 
Revenue Service shall be used to provide, as a minimum, the 
fiscal year 1995 level of service, staffing, and funding for Taxpayer 
Services. 
SEC. 104. None of the funds appropriated by this title shall 
be used in connection with the collection of any underpayment 
of any tax imposed by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 unless 
the conduct of officers and employees of the Internal Revenue 
Service in connection with such collection, including any private 
sector employees under contract to the Internal Revenue Service, 
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Confidentiality. 
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note. 
Reports. 
Certification. 
complies with subsection (a) of section 805 (relating to communica-
tions in connection with debt collection), and section 806 (relating 
to harassment or abuse), of the Fair Debt Collection Practices 
Act (15 U.S.C. 1692). 
SEC. 105. The Internal Revenue Service shall institute and 
enforce policies and procedures which will safeguard the confiden-
tiality of taxpayer information. 
SEC. 106. Funds made available by this or any other Act to 
the Internal Revenue Service shall be available for improved facili-
ties and increased manpower to provide sufficient and effective 
1-800 help line for taxpayers. The Commissioner shall continue 
to make tne improvement of the Internal Revenue Service 1-800 
help line service a priority and allocate resources necessary to 
increase phone lines and staff to improve the Internal Revenue 
Service 1-800 help line service. 
SEC. 107. Hereafter, no field support reorganization of the 
Internal Revenue Service shall be undertaken in Aberdeen, South 
Dakota until the Internal Revenue Service toll-free help phone 
line assistance program reaches at least an 80 percent service 
level. The Commissioner shall submit to Congress a report and 
the General Accounting Office shall certify to Congress that the 
80 percent service level has been met. 
SEC. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
reorganization of the field office structure of the Internal Revenue 
Service Criminal Investigation division will result in a reduction 
of criminal investigators in Wisconsin and South Dakota from the 
1996 level. 
UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessEuy expenses of the United States Secret Service, 
including purchase not to exceed 705 vehicles for police-type use, 
of which 675 shall be for replacement only, and hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; hire of aircraft; training and assistance requested 
by State and local governments, which may be provided without 
reimbursement; services of expert witnesses at such rates as may 
be determined by the Director; rental of buildings in the District 
of Columbia, and fencing, lighting, guard booths, £ind other facilities 
on private or other property not in Government ownership or 
control, as may be necessary to perform protective functions; for 
payment of per diem and/or subsistence allowances to employees 
where a protective assignment during the actusil day or days of 
the visit of a protectee require an employee to work 16 hours 
per day or to remain overnight at his or her post of duty; the 
conducting of £ind participating in firearms matches; presentation 
of awards; for travel of Secret Service employees on protective 
missions without regard to the limitations on such expenditures 
in this or any other Act if approval is obtained in advance from 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; for repairs, 
alterations, and minor construction at the James J. Rowley Secret 
Service Training Center; for research and development; for making 
grants to conduct behavioral research in support of protective 
research and operations; not to exceed $20,000 for official reception 
and representation expenses; for sponsorship of a conference for 
the Women in Federal Law Enforcement, to be held during fiscal 
year 1998; not to exceed $50,000 to provide technical assistance 
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111 STAT. 1283 
and equipment to foreign law enforcement organizations in counter-
feit investigations; for payment in advance for 
commercial 
accommodations as may be necessary to perform protective func-
tions; and for uniforms without regard to the general purchase 
price limitation for the current fiscal year; $564,348,000. 
ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENT, AND RELATED 
EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of construction, repair, alteration, and 
improvement of facilities, $8,799,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
DEPARTMENT 
OF 
THE 
TREASURY 
SEC. 110. Any obligation or expenditure by the Secretary in 
connection with law enforcement activities of a Federal agency 
or a Department of the Treasury law enforcement organization 
in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 9703(g)(4)(B) from unobligated bal-
ances remaining in the Fund on September 30, 1998, shall be 
made in complieince with reprogramming guidelines. 
SEC. 111. Appropriations to the Department of the Treasury 
in this Act shall be available for uniforms or allowances therefor, 
as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901), including maintenance, 
repairs, and cleaning; purchase of insurance for official motor 
vehicles operated in foreign countries; purchase of motor vehicles 
without regard to the general purchase price limitations for vehicles 
purchased and used overseas for the current fiscal year; entering 
into contracts with the Department of State for the 
fiimishing 
of health and medical services to employees and their dependents 
serving in foreign countries; and services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109. 
SEC. 112. The funds provided to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco 
and Firearms for fiscal year 1998 in this Act for the enforcement 
of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act shall be expended in 
a manner so as not to diminish enforcement efforts with respect 
to section 105 of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act. 
SEC. 113. Not to exceed 2 percent of any appropriations in 
this Act made available to the Federal Law Enforcement Training 
Center, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Bureau of Alcohol, 
Tobacco and Firearms, United States Customs Service, and United 
States Secret Service may be transferred between such appropria-
tions upon the advance approval of the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations. No transfer may increase or decrease any 
such appropriation by more than 2 percent. 
SEC. 114. Not to exceed 2 percent of any appropriations in 
this Act made available to the Departmental Offices, Office of 
Inspector General, Fingmcial Management Service, and Bureau of 
the Public Debt, may be transferred between such appropriations 
upon the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations. No transfer may increase or decrease any such 
appropriation by more than 2 percent. 
SEC. 115. The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay from amounts 
transferred to the "Departmental Offices" appropriation, up to 
$26,034 to reimburse Secret Service personnel for any attorney 
fees and costs they incurred with respect to investigation by the 
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Department of the Treasury Inspector General concerning testimony 
provided to Congress: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury 
shall pay an individual in full upon submission by the individual 
of documentation verifying the attorney fees and costs: Provided 
further, That the liability of the United States shall not be inferred 
from enactment of or payment under this provision: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall not pay any claim 
filed under this section that is filed later than 120 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That payment 
under this provision, when accepted, shall be in full satisfaction 
of all claims of, or on behalf of, the individual Secret Service 
agents who were the subjects of said investigation. 
31 use 301 note. 
SEC. 116. (a)(1) Effective beginning on the date determined 
under paragraph (2), the compensation and other emoluments 
attached to the Office of Secretary of the Treasury shall be those 
that would then apply if Public Law 103-2 (107 Stat. 4; 31 U.S.C. 
301 note) had never been enacted. 
Effective date. 
(2) Paragraph (1) shall become effective on the later of— 
(A) the day after the date on which the individual holding 
the Office of Secretary of the Treasury on January 1, 1997, 
ceases to hold that office; or 
(B) the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(3) Nothing in this subsection shall be considered to affect 
the compensation or emoluments due to any individual in connection 
with any period preceding the date determined under paragraph 
(2). 
(b) Subsection (b) of the first section of the public law referred 
to in subsection (a)(1) of this section shall not apply in the case 
of any appointment the consent of the Senate to which occurs 
on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(c) This section shall not be limited (for purposes of determining 
whether a provision of this section applies or continues to apply) 
to fiscal year 1998. 
SEC. 117. (a) 
REQUIREMENT OF ADVANCE 
SUBMISSION OF 
TREASURY TESTIMONY.—During the fiscal year covered by this Act, 
any officer or employee of the Department of the Treasury who 
is scheduled to testify before the Committee on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives or the Senate, or any of its 
subcommittees, shall, not less than 7 calendar days (excluding 
Saturdays, Sundays, and Federal legal public holidays) preceding 
the scheduled date of the testimony, submit to the commitftee or 
subcommittee— 
(1) a written statement of the testimony to be presented, 
regardless of whether such statement is to be submitted for 
inclusion in the record of the hearing; and 
(2) any other written information to be submitted for inclu-
sion in the record of the hearing. 
(b) LIMITATION ON TREASURY CLEARANCE PROCESS.—None of 
the funds made available in this Act may be used for any clearance 
process within the Department of the Treasury that could cause 
a submission beyond the specified time, as officially transmitted 
by the committee, o
f
— 
(1) any corrections to the transcript copy of testimony given 
before the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives or the Senate, or any of its subcommittees; 
or 
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111 STAT. 1285 
(2) any information to be provided in writing in response 
to an oral or written request by such committee or subcommit-
tee for specific information for inclusion in the record of the 
hearing. 
(c) EXCEPTION.—The time periods established in subsections 
(a) and (b) shall not apply to any specific testimony, or corrections, 
if the Secretary of the Treasury— 
(1) determines that special circumstances prevent compli-
ance; and 
(2) submits to the committee or subcommittee involved 
a written notification of such determination, including the 
Secretarj^s estimate of the time periods required for specific 
testimony, information, or corrections. 
SEC. 118. (a) NEW RATES OF BASIC PAY.—Section 501 of the 
3USC204note. 
District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 (Dis-
trict of Columbia Code, section 4-416), is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(1), by striking "Interior" and all that 
follows through "Treasury," and inserting "Interior"; 
(2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (b)(3); 
(3) in subsection (b)(3) (as redesignated)— 
(A) by striking "or to officers and members of the 
United States Secret Service Uniformed Division"; and 
(B) by striking "subsection (b) of this section" and 
inserting "this subsection"; and 
(4) by adding after subsection (b) the following new sub-
section: 
"(c)(1) The annual rates of basic compensation of officers and 
members of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division, 
serving in classes corresponding or similar to those in the salary 
schedule in section 101 (District of Columbia Code, section 4-
406), shall be fixed in accordance with the following schedule of 
rates: 
"SALARY SCHEDULE 
Salary class and title 
Class 1: Private 
Class 4: Sergeant 
Class 5: Lieutenant 
Class 8: Inspector 
Class 9: Deputy Chief .... 
Class 10: Assistant Chief 
Class 11: Chief of the 
United States Secret 
Service Uniformed Di-
Service steps 
1 
29,215 
39,769 
45,148 
52,523 
60,886 
71,433 
84,694 
98,383 
2 
30,088 
41,747 
47,411 
55,155 
63,918 
76,260 
90,324 
104,923 
3 
31,559 
43,728 
49,663 
57,788 
66,977 
81,113 
95,967 
4 
33,009 
45,718 
51,924 
60,388 
70,029 
85,950 
5 
35,331 
47,715 
54,180 
6 
37,681 
49,713 
7 
39,128 
8 
40,593 
9 
42,052 
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Effective date. 
"(2) Effective at the beginning of the first applicable pay period 
commencing on or after the first day of the month in which an 
adjustment takes effect under section 5303 of title 5, United States 
Code (or any subsequent similar provision of law), in the rates 
of pay under the General Schedule (or any pay system that may 
supersede such schedule), the annual rates of basic compensation 
of officers and members of the United States Secret Service Uni-
formed Division shall be adjusted by the Secretary of the Treasury 
by an amount equal to the percentage of such annual rate of 
pay which corresponds to the overall percentage of the adjustment 
made in the rates of pay under the General Schedule. 
"(3) Locality-based comparability pajnnents authorized under 
section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, shall be applicable 
to the basic pay under this section, except locality-based comparabil-
ity pajnnents may not be paid at a rate which, when added to 
the rate of basic pay otherwise payable to the officer or member, 
would cause the total to exceed the rate of basic pay payable 
for level IV of the Executive Schedule. 
"(4) Basic pay, and any locality pay combined with basic pay 
may not be paid by reason of any provision of this subsection 
(disregarding any locality-based comparability pajonent payable 
under Federal law) at a rate in excess of the rate of basic pay 
payable for level V of the Executive Schedule contained in sub-
chapter II of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code. 
"(5) Any reference in any law to the salary schedule in section 
101 (District of Columbia Code, section 4-406) with respect to 
officers and members of the United States Secret Service Uniformed 
Division shall be considered to be a reference to the salary schedule 
in paragraph (1) of this subsection as adjusted in accordance with 
this subsection. 
"(6)(A) Except as otherwise permitted by or under law, no 
allowance, differential, bonus, award, or other similar cash pajmient 
under this title or under title 5, United States Code, may be 
paid to an officer or member of the United States Secret Service 
Uniformed Division in a calendar year if, or to the extent that, 
when added to the total basic pay paid or payable to such officer 
or member for service performed in such calendar year as an 
officer or member, such payment would cause the total to exceed 
the annual rate of basic pay payable for level I of the Executive 
Schedule, as of the end of such calendar year. 
"(B) This paragraph shall not apply to any payment under 
the following provisions of title 5, United States Code: 
"(i) Subchapter III or VII of chapter 55, or section 5596. 
"(ii) Chapter 57 (other than section 5753, 5754, or 5755). 
"(iii) Chapter 59 (other than section 5928). 
"(7)(A) Any amount which is not paid to an officer or member 
of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division in a calendar 
year because of the limitation under paragraph (6) shall be paid 
to such officer or member in a lump sum at the beginning of 
the following calendar year. 
"(B) Any amount paid under this paragraph in a calendar 
year shall be taken into account for purposes of applying the limita-
tions under paragraph (6) with respect to such calendar year. 
Regulations. 
"(8) The Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe regula-
tions as may be necessary (consistent with section 5582 of title 
5, United States Code) concerning how a lump-sum payment under 
paragraph (7) shall be made with respect to any employee who 
PUBLIC LAW 105-61—OCT. 10, 1997 
111 STAT. 1287 
dies before an amount payable to such employee under paragraph 
(7) is made.". 
(b) CONVERSION TO NEW SALARY SCHEDULE,— 
(1)(A) Effective on the first day of the first pay period Effective date. 
beginning after the date of enactment of this section, the 
Secretary of the Treasury shall fix the rates of basic pay for 
members of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Divi-
sion in accordance with this paragraph. 
(B) Subject to subparagraph (C), each officer and member 
receiving basic compensation, immediately prior to the effective 
date of this section, at one of the scheduled rates in the salary 
schedule in section 101 of the District of Columbia Police and 
Firemen's Salary Act of 1958, as adjusted by law and as in 
effect prior to the effective date of this section, shall be placed 
in and receive basic compensation at the corresponding sched-
uled service step of the salary schedule under subsection (a)(4). 
(C)(i) The Assistant Chief and the Chief of the United 
States Secret Service Uniformed Division shall be placed in 
and receive basic compensation in salary class 10 and salary 
class 11, respectively, in the appropriate service step in the 
new salary class in accordance with section 304 of the District 
of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 (District 
of Columbia Code, section 4-413). 
(ii) Each member whose position is to be converted to 
the salary schedule under section 501(c) of the District of 
Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 (District 
of Columbia Code, section 4-416(c)) as amended by this section, 
in accordance with subsection (a) of this section, and who, 
prior to the effective date of this section has earned, but has 
not been credited with, an increase in his or her rate of pay 
shall be afforded that increase before such member is placed 
in the corresponding service step in the salary schedule under 
section 501(c). 
(2) Except in the cases of the Assistant Chief and the 
Chief of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division, 
the conversion of positions and individuals to appropriate 
classes of the salary schedule under section 501(c) of the District 
of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 (District 
of Columbia Code, section 4-416(c)) as amended by this section, 
and the initial adjustments of rates of basic pay of those posi-
tions and individuals, in accordance with paragraph (1) of this 
subsection, shall not be considered to be transfers or promotions 
within the meaning of section 304 of the District of Columbia 
Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 (District of Columbia 
Code, section 4-413). 
(3) Each member whose position is converted to the salary 
schedule under section 501(c) of the District of Columbia Police 
and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 (District of Columbia Code, 
section 4-416(c)) as amended by this section, in accordemce 
with subsection (a) of this section, shall be granted credit 
for purposes of such member's first service step adjustment 
under the salary schedule in such section 510(c) for all satisfac-
tory service performed by the member since the member's last 
increase in basic pay prior to the adjustment imder that section. 
(c) LIMITATION ON PAY PERIOD EARNINGS.—The Act of August 
15, 1950 (64 Stat. 477), (District of Columbia Code, section 4-
1104), is amended— 
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(1) in subsection (h), by striking "any officer or member" 
each place it appears and inserting "an officer or member 
of the Metropolitan Police force; or of the Fire Department 
of the District of Columbia; or of the United States Park Police"; 
(2) by redesignating subsection (h)(3) as subsection (i); and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new para-
graph: 
"(3)(A) no premium pay provided by this section shall be 
paid to, and no compensatory time is authorized for, any officer 
or member of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Divi-
sion whose rate of basic pay, combined with any applicable 
locality-based comparability payment, equals or exceeds the 
lesser o
f
— 
"(i) 150 percent of the minimum rate payable for grade 
GS-15 of the General Schedule (including any applicable 
locality-based comparability pa5anent under section 5304 
of title 5, United States Code or any similar provision 
of law, and any applicable special rate of pay under section 
5305 of title 5, United States Code or any similar provision 
of law); or 
"(ii) the rate payable for level V of the Executive 
Schedule contained in subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 
5, United States Code. 
"(B) In the case of any officer or member of the United 
States Secret Service Uniformed Division whose rate of basic 
pay, combined with any applicable locality-based comparability 
payment, is less than the lesser of— 
"(i) 150 percent of the minimum rate payable for grade 
GS-15 of the General Schedule (including any applicable 
locality-based comparability payment under section 5304 
of title 5, United States Code or any similar provision 
of law, and any applicable special rate of pay under section 
5305 of title 5, United States Code or any similar provision 
of law); or 
"(ii) the rate payable for level V of the Executive 
Schedule contained in subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 
5, United States Code, 
such premium pay may be paid only to the extent that such 
payment would not cause such officer or member's aggregate 
rate of compensation to exceed such lesser amount with respect 
to any pay period.". 
(d) SAVINGS PROVISION.—On the effective date of this section, 
any existing special salary rates authorized for members of the 
United States Secret Service Uniformed Division under section 
5305 of title 5, United States Code (or any previous similar provision 
of law) and any special rates of pay or special pay adjustments 
under section 403, 404, or 405 of the Federal Law Enforcement 
Pay Reform Act of 1990 applicable to members of the United States 
Secret Service Uniformed Division shall be rendered inapplicable. 
(e) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The Federal Law Enforcement 
5 use 5305 note. Pay Reform Act of 1990 (104 Stat. 1466) is amended by striking 
subsections (b)(1) and (c)(1) of section 405. 
(f) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The provisions of this section shall 
become effective on the first day of the first pay period beginning 
after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC, 119. Section 117 of the Treasury, Postal Service, and 
General Government Appropriations Act, 1997 (as contained in 
PUBLIC LAW 105-61—OCT. 10, 1997 
111 STAT. 1289 
section 101(f) of division A of Public Law 104-208) is hereby 
no Stat. 
repealed. 
3009-325. 
SEC. 120. Based on results of industry response to the Request 
for Proposals, in tax-year 1998, the Internal Revenue Service shall 
initiate a pilot project which would pay qualified returns preparers, 
electronic return originators, or transmitters who electronically for-
ward and file tax returns (form 1040 and related information 
returns) properly formatted and accepted by the Internal Revenue 
Service, up to $3.00 per return so filed if such pa3nnents are deter-
mined by the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service to 
be in the best interest of the Government: Provided, That the 
pajnnent may not be made unless the electronic filing service is 
provided without charge to the taxpayer whose return is so filed: 
Provided further. That the Internal Revenue Service shall use stand-
ard procurement processes to establish this pilot project and 
through these processes, the Internal Revenue Service shall assure 
the security of all electronic transmissions and the full protection 
of the privacy of taxpayer data. 
SEC. 121. Subsection (a) of section 5378 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
"(a) The Secretary of the Department of the Treasury, or his 
designee, in his sole discretion shall fix the rates of basic pay 
for positions within the police forces of the United States Mint 
and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing without regard to the 
pay provisions of title 5, United States Code, except that no entry-
level police officer shall receive basic pay for a calendar year that 
is less than the basic rate of pay for General Schedule GS-7 
and no executive security official shall receive basic compensation 
for a calendar year that exceeds the basic rate of pay for General 
Schedule GS-15.". 
SEC. 122. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to 
receive all unavailable collections transferred from the Special For-
feiture Fund established by section 26073 of the Anti-Drug Abuse 
Act of 1988 (21 U.S.C. 1509) by the Director of the Office of 
Drug Control Policy as a deposit into the Treasury Forfeiture Fund 
(31 U.S.C. 9703(a)), to become available for obligation on October 
1, 1998, as revenue available for purposes identified under 31 
U.S.C. 9703(g)(4)(B). 
(b) Paragraph (3)(C) of section 9703(g) of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended by adding after the last sentence of that para-
graph as amended by Public Law 104-208, the following sentence: 
"Unobligated balances remaining pursuant to section 4(B) of 9703(g) 
shall also be carried forward.". 
(c) Paragraph (4)(B) of section 9703(g) of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended by striking ", subject to subparagraph (C)," from 
the first and only sentence of that paragraph. 
SEC. 123. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Alaska. 
Secretary of the Treasury shall establish the port of Kodiak, Alaska 
as a port of entry and United States Customs Service personnel 
in Anchorage, Alaska shall serve such port of entry. There are 
authorized to be appropriated such sums as necessary to cover 
the costs associated with the performance of customs functions 
using such United States Customs Service personnel. 
SEC. 124. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used by the Inspector General to contract for advisory and 
assistance services that has the meaning given such term in section 
1105(g) of title 31, United States Code. 
31 use 9703 
note. 
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Postal Service 
Appropriations 
Act, 1998. 
39 u s e 403 note. 
Executive Office 
Appropriations 
Act, 1998. 
This title may be cited as the "Treasury Department Appropria-
tions Act, 1998". 
TITLE II—POSTAL SERVICE 
PAYMENTS TO THE POSTAL SERVICE FUND 
For payment to the Postal Service Fund for revenue forgone 
on free and reduced rate mail, pursuant to subsections (c) and 
(d) of section 2401 of title 39, United States Code, $86,274,000: 
Provided, That mail for overseas voting and mail for the blind 
shall continue to be free: Provided further. That 6-day delivery 
and rural delivery of mail shall continue at not less than the 
1983 level: Provided further, That none of the funds made available 
to the Postal Service by this Act shall be used to implement any 
rule, regulation, or policy of charging any officer or employee of 
any State or local child support enforcement agency, or any 
individual participating in a State or local program of child support 
enforcement, a fee for information requested or provided concerning 
an address of a postal customer: Provided further. That none of 
the funds provided in this Act shall be used to consolidate or 
close small rural and other small post offices in the fiscal year 
ending on September 30, 1998. 
This title may be cited as the "Postal Service Appropriations 
Act, 1998". 
TITLE III—EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 
COMPENSATION OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE 
COMPENSATION OF THE PRESIDENT 
For compensation of the President, including an expense allow-
ance at the rate of $50,000 per annum as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 
3 use 102 note. 
102; $250,000: Provided, That none of the funds made available 
for official expenses shall be expended for any other purpose and 
any unused amount shall revert to the Treasury pursuant to section 
1552 of title 31, United States Code: Provided further. That none 
of the funds made available for official expenses shall be considered 
as taxable to the President. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the White House as authorized 
by law, including not to exceed $3,850,000 for services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 105; including subsistence expenses 
as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 105, which shall be expended and 
accounted for as provided in that section; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles, newspapers, periodicals, teletype news service, and travel 
(not to exceed $100,000 to be expended and accounted for as 
provided by 3 U.S.C. 103); not to exceed $19,000 for official 
entertainment expenses, to he available for allocation within the 
Executive Office of the President; $51,199,000: Provided, 
That 
$9,800,000 of the funds appropriated shall be available for 
reimbursements to the White House Communications Agency. 
PUBLIC LAW 105-61—OCT. 10, 1997 
111 STAT. 1291 
EXECUTIVE RESIDENCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing, 
improvement, heating and hghting, including electric power and 
fixtures, of the Executive Residence at the White House and official 
entertainment expenses of the President, $8,045,000, to be expended 
and accounted for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 105, 109, 110, and 
112-114. 
REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES 
For the reimbursable expenses of the Executive Residence at 
the White House, such sums as may be necessary: Provided, That 
all reimbursable operating expenses of the Executive Residence 
shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph: 
Provided farther, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
such amount for reimbursable operating expenses shall be the exclu-
sive authority of the Executive Residence to incur obligations and 
to receive offsetting collections, for such expenses: Provided further. 
That the Executive Residence shall require each person sponsoring 
a reimbursable political event to pay in advance an amount equal 
to the estimated cost of the event, and all such advance payments 
shall be credited to this account and remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That the Executive Residence shall 
require the national committee of the political party of the President 
to maintain on deposit $25,000, to be separately accounted for 
and available for expenses relating to reimbursable political events 
sponsored by such committee during such fiscal year: Provided 
further. That the Executive Residence shall ensure that a written 
notice of any amount owed for a reimbursable operating expense 
under this paragraph is submitted to the person owing such amount 
within 60 days after such expense is incurred, and that such amount 
is collected within 30 days after the submission of such notice: 
Provided further, That the Executive Residence shall charge interest 
and assess penalties and other charges on any such amount that 
is not reimbursed within such 30 days, in accordance with the 
interest and penalty provisions applicable to an outstanding debt 
on a United States Government claim imder section 3717 of title 
31, United States Code: Provided further. That each such amount 
that is reimbursed, and any accompanying interest and charges, 
shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Pro-
vided further, That the Executive Residence shall prepare and 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations, by not later than 
90 days after the end of the fiscal year covered by this Act, a 
report setting forth the reimbursable operating expenses of the 
Executive Residence during the preceding fiscal year, including 
the total amount of such expenses, the amount of such total that 
consists of reimbursable official and ceremonial events, the amount 
of such total that consists of reimbursable political events, and 
the portion of each such amount that has been reimbursed as 
of the date of the report: Provided further. That the Executive 
Residence shall: (1) implement a system for the tracking of expenses 
related to reimbursable events within the Executive Residence that 
includes a standard for the classification of any such expense as 
political or nonpolitical; and (2) prepare and submit to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations, by not later than December 1, 1997, a 
Notice. 
Reports. 
Records. 
Reports. 
Ill STAT. 1292 
PUBLIC LAW 105-61—OCT. 10, 1997 
report setting forth a detailed description of such system and a 
schedule for its implementation: Provided further, That no provision 
of this paragraph may be construed to exempt the Executive 
Residence from any other applicable requirement of subchapter 
I or II of chapter 37 of title 31, United States Code. 
WHITE HOUSE REPAIR AND RESTORATION 
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the Executive 
Residence at the White House, $200,000, to remain available until 
expended for renovation and relocation of the White House laundry, 
to be expended and accounted for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 105, 
109,110, and 112-114. 
SPECIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE OFFICIAL 
RESIDENCE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to enable the Vice President to provide 
assistance to the President in connection with specially assigned 
functions, services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 
106, including subsistence expenses as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 106, 
which shall be expended and accounted for as provided in that 
section; and hire of passenger motor vehicles; $3,378,000. 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For the care, operation, refurnishing, improvement, heating 
and lighting, including electric power and fixtures, of the official 
residence of the Vice President, the hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
and not to exceed $90,000 for official entertainment expenses of 
the Vice President, to be accounted for solely on his certificate; 
$334,000: Provided, That advances or repajonents or transfers fi*om 
this appropriation may be made to any department or agency for 
expenses of carrying out such activities. 
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Council in carrying out its func-
tions under the Employment Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1021), 
$3,542,000. 
OFFICE OF POLICY DEVELOPMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Policy Development, 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and 3 U.S.C. 
107; $3,983,000. 
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Security Council, includ-
ing services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $6,648,000. 
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111 STAT. 1293 
OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Administration, includ-
ing services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 107, 
and hire of passenger motor vehicles $28,883,000, of which 
$2,000,000 shall remain available until expended for a capital 
investment plan which provides for the modernization of the 
information technology infrastructure. 
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Management and 
Budget, including hire of passenger motor vehicles, services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $57,440,000, of which not to exceed 
$5,000,000 shall be available to carry out the provisions of chapter 
35 of title 44, United States Code: Provided, That, as provided 
in 31 U.S.C. 1301(a), appropriations shall be applied only to the 
objects for which appropriations were made except as otherwise 
provided by law: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-
priated in this Act for the Office of Management and Budget may 
be used for the purpose of reviewing any agricultural marketing 
orders or any activities or regulations under the provisions of the 
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 (7 U.S.C. 601 et 
seq.): Provided further, That none of the funds made available 
for the Office of Management and Budget by this Act may be 
expended for the altering of the transcript of actual testimony 
of witnesses, except for testimony of officials of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget, before the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations or the House and Senate Committees on Veterans' 
Affairs or their subcommittees: Provided further, That this proviso 
shall not apply to printed hearings released by the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations or the House and Senate 
Committees on Veterans' Affairs. 
OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of National Drug Control 
Policy; for research activities pursuant to title I of Public Law 
100-690; not to exceed $8,000 for official reception gind representa-
tion expenses; and for participation in joint projects or in the 
provision of services on matters of mutual interest with nonprofit, 
research, or public organizations or agencies, with or without 
reimbursement; $35,016,000, of which $17,000,000 shall remain 
available until expended, consisting of $1,000,000 for policy research 
and evaluation and $16,000,000 for the Counterdrug Technology 
Assessment Center for countemarcotics research and development 
projects: Provided, That the $16,000,000 for the Counterdrug Tech-
nology Assessment Center shall be available for transfer to other 
Federal departments or agencies: Provided further. That the Office 
is authorized to accept, hold, administer, and utilize gifts, both 
real and personal, for the purpose of aiding or facilitating the 
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work of the Office: Provided further, That not before December 
31, 1997, the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy 
shall transfer all balances in the Special Forfeiture Fund estab-
lished by section 6073 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (21 
U.S.C. 1509) to the Treasury Forfeiture Fund (31 U.S.C. 9703(a)). 
FEDERAL DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMS 
HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS PROGRAM 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of National Drug Control 
Policy's 
High 
Intensity 
Drug 
Trafficking 
Areas 
Program, 
$159,007,000 for drug control activities consistent with the approved 
strategy for each of the designated High Intensity Drug Trafficking 
Areas, of which $3,000,000 shall be used for a newly designated 
High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area in Milwaukee, Wisconsin 
should the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy 
determine the location meets the designated criteria; of which 
$7,300,000 shall be used for national efforts related to methamphet-
amine reduction; of which $1,500,000 shall be used for methamphet-
amine reduction efforts within the Rocky Mountain High Intensity 
Drug Trafficking Area; of which $6,000,000 shall be used for a 
newly designated High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area in the three-
State area of Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia; of which 
$1,000,000 shall be used for a newly designated High Intensity 
Drug Trafficking Area in central Florida; of which no less than 
$80,000,000 shall be transferred to State and local entities for 
drug control activities, which shall be obligated within 120 days 
of the date of enactment of this Act and up to $79,007,000 may 
be transferred to Federal agencies and departments at a rate to 
be determined by the Director: Provided, That funding shall be 
provided for existing High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas at 
no less than the fiscal year 1997 level. 
SPECIAL FORFEITURE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For activities to support a national anti-drug campaign for 
youth, and other purposes, authorized by Public Law 100-690, 
as amended, $211,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That such funds may be transferred to other Federal 
departments and agencies to carry out such activities: Provided 
further. That of the funds provided, $195,000,000 shall be to support 
a national media campaign to reduce and prevent drug use among 
young Americans: Provided further. That none of the funds provided 
for the support of a national media campaign may be obligated 
until the Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy, submits 
a strategy for approval to the Committees on Appropriations and 
the Senate Judiciary Committee that includes: (1) guidelines to 
ensure and certify that funds will supplement and not supplant 
current anti-drug community based coalitions; (2) guidelines to 
ensure and certify that funds will supplement and not supplant 
current pro bono public service time donated by national and local 
broadcasting networks; (3) guidelines to ensure and certify that 
none of the funds will be used for partisan political purposes; 
(4) guidelines to ensure and certify that no media campaigns to 
PUBLIC LAW 105-61—OCT. 10, 1997 
111 STAT. 1295 
be funded pursuant to this campaign shall feature any elected 
officials, persons seeking elected office, cabinet-level officials, or 
other Federal officials employed pursuant to Schedule C of title 
5, Code of Federal Regulations, section 213, absent advance notice 
to the Committees on Appropriations and the Senate Judiciary 
Committee; (5) a detailed implementation plan to be submitted 
to the Committees on Appropriations and the Senate Judiciary 
Committee for securing private sector contributions including but 
not limited to in-kind contributions; (6) a detailed implementation 
plan to be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations and 
the Senate Judiciary Committee of the qualifications necessary 
for any organization, entity, or individual to receive funding for 
or otherwise be provided broadcast media time; and (7) a system 
to measure outcomes of success of the national media campaign: 
Provided further, That the Director shall report to Congress quar-
terly on the obligation of funds as well as the specific parameters 
of the national media campaign and report to Congress within 
two years on the effectiveness of the national media campaign 
based upon the measurable outcomes provided to Congress pre-
viously: Provided further, That of the funds provided for the support 
of a national media campaign, $17,000,000 shall not be obligated 
prior to September 30, 1998: Provided further. That of the funds 
provided, $6,000,000 shall be used to continue the drug use reduc-
tion program for those involved in the criminal justice system: 
Provided further, That of the funds provided, $10,000,000 shall 
be to initiate a program of matching grants to drug-free commu-
nities, as authorized in the Drug-Free Communities Act of 1997. 
This title may be cited as the "Executive Office Appropriations 
Act, 1998". 
TITLE IV—INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 
SEVERELY DISABLED 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Committee for Purchase From 
People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled established by the 
Act of June 23,1971, Public Law 92-28, $1,940,000. 
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 
SALARIES A N D EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Fed-
eral Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended, $31,650,000, 
of which no less than $3,800,000 shall be available for internal 
automated data processing systems, £uid of which not to exceed 
$5,000 shall be available for reception and representation expenses: 
Provided, 
That of the amounts appropriated for salaries and 
expenses, $750,000 shall be transferred to the General Accounting 
Office for the sole purpose of entering into a contract with the 
private sector for a management review, and technology and 
performance audit, of the Federal Election Commission, and 
$300,000 may be tremsferred to the Government Printing Office. 
Reports. 
Independent 
Agencies 
Appropriations 
Act, 1998. 
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FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Federal 
Labor Relations Authority, pursuant to Reorganization 
Plan 
Numbered 2 of 1978, and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, including hire 
of experts and consultants, hire of passenger motor vehicles, rental 
of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; 
$22,039,000: Provided, That pubhc members of the Federal Service 
Impasses Panel may be paid travel expenses and per diem in 
lieu of subsistence as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5703) for 
persons employed intermittently in the Government service, and 
compensation as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided 
further, 
That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds received from fees 
charged to non-Federal participants at labor-management relations 
conferences shall be credited to and merged with this account, 
to be available without further appropriation for the costs of carry-
ing out these conferences. 
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
FEDERAL BUILDINGS FUND 
LIMITATIONS ON AVAILABILITY OF REVENUE 
To carry out the purpose of the Fund established pursuant 
to section 210(f) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services 
Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 490(f)), the revenues and 
collections deposited into the Fund shall be available for necessary 
expenses of real property management and related activities not 
otherwise provided for, including operation, maintenance, and 
protection of federally owned and leased buildings; rental of build-
ings in the District of Columbia; restoration of leased premises; 
moving governmental agencies (including space adjustments and 
telecommunications relocation expenses) in connection with the 
assignment, allocation and transfer of space; contractual services 
incident to cleaning or servicing buildings, and moving; repair and 
alteration 
of federally 
owned 
buildings 
including 
grounds, 
approaches and appurtenances; care and safeguarding of sites; 
maintenance, preservation, demolition, and equipment; acquisition 
of buildings and sites by purchase, condemnation, or as otherwise 
authorized by law; acquisition of options to purchase buildings 
and sites; conversion and extension of federally owned buildings; 
preliminary planning and design of projects by contract or other-
wise; construction of new buildings (including equipment for such 
buildings); and pa)mient of principal, interest, and any other obliga-
tions for public buildings acquired by installment purchase and 
purchase contract, in the aggregate amount of $4,835,934,000, of 
which: (1) $300,000,000 shall remain available until expended, for 
repairs and alterations which includes associated design and 
construction services: Provided, That additional projects for which 
prospectuses have been fully approved may be funded under this 
category only if adv£ince approval is obtained from the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House and Senate: Provided further, That 
the amounts provided in this or any prior Act for "Repairs and 
PUBLIC LAW 105-61—OCT. 10, 1997 
111 STAT. 1297 
Alterations" may be used to fund costs associated with implement-
ing security improvements to buildings necessary to meet the mini-
mum standards for security in accordance with current law and 
in compliance with the reprogramming guidelines of the appropriate 
Committees of the House and Senate: Provided further. That funds 
made available in this Act or any previous Act for "Repairs and 
Alterations" shall, for prospectus projects, be limited to the amount 
originally made available, except each project may be increased 
by an amount not to exceed 10 percent when advance approval 
is obtained from the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
and Senate of a greater amount: Provided further, That the dif-
ference between the funds appropriated and expended on any 
projects in this or any prior Act, under the heading "Repairs and 
Alterations", may be transferred to Basic Repairs and Alterations 
or used to fund authorized increases in prospectus projects: Provided 
further. 
That all funds for repairs and alterations prospectus Expiration date, 
projects shall expire on September 30, 2000 and remain in the 
Federal Building Fund except funds for projects as to which funds 
for design or other funds have been obligated in whole or in part 
prior to such date: Provided further. That the amount provided 
in this or any prior Act for Basic Repairs and Alterations may 
be used to pay claims against the Government arising from Einy 
projects under the heading "Repairs and Alterations" or used to 
fund authorized increases in prospectus projects; (2) $142,542,000 
for installment acquisition payments including payments on pur-
chase contracts which shall remain available until expended; (3) 
$2,275,340,000 for rental of space which shall remain available 
until expended; (4) $1,331,789,000 for building operations which 
shall remain available until expended; and (5) $680,543,000 which 
shall remain available until expended for projects and activities 
previously requested and approved under this heading in prior 
fiscal years: Provided further, 
That for the purposes of this 40USC490i. 
authorization, and hereEdfter, buildings constructed pursuant to the 
purchase contract authority of the Public Buildings Amendments 
of 1972 (40 U.S.C. 602a), buildings occupied pursuant to installment 
purchase contracts, and buildings under the control of another 
department or agency where alterations of such buildings are 
required in connection with the moving of such other department 
or agency from buildings then, or thereafter to be, under the control 
of the General Services Administration shall be considered to be 
federally owned buildings: Provided further. That funds available 
in the Federal Buildings Fund may be expended for emergency 
repairs when advance approval is obtained from the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House and Senate: Provided further. That 
amounts necessary to provide reimbursable special services to other 
agencies under section 210(f)(6) of the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 
490(f)(6)) and amounts to provide such reimbursable fencing, light-
ing, guard booths, and other facilities on private or other property 
not in Government ownership or control as may be appropriate 
to enable the United States Secret Service to perform its protective 
functions pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 3056, as amended, shall be available 
from such revenues and collections: Provided further. That revenues 
and collections and any other sums accruing to this Fund during 
fiscal year 1998, excluding reimbursements under section 210(f)(6) 
of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 
(40 U.S.C. 490(f)(6)) in excess of $4,835,934,000 shall remain in 
I l l STAT. 1298 
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the Fund £ind shall not be available for expenditure except as 
authorized in appropriations Acts. 
POLICY AND OPERATIONS 
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise provided for, 
for Government-wide policy and oversight activities associated with 
asset management activities; utilization and donation of surplus 
personal property; transportation; procurement and supply; Govern-
ment-wide and internal responsibilities relating to automated data 
management, telecommunications, information resources manage-
ment, and related technology activities; utilization survey, deed 
compliance inspection, appraisal, environmental 
and 
cultural 
analysis, and land use planning functions pertaining to excess and 
surplus real property; agency-wide policy direction; Board of Con-
tract Appeals; accounting, records management, and other support 
services incident to adjudication of Indian Tribal Claims by the 
United States Court of Federal Claims; services as authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109; and not to exceed $5,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses; $107,487,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General and 
services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $33,870,000: Provided, That 
not to exceed $10,000 shall be available for pa5mient for information 
and detection of fraud against the Government, including pajmaent 
for recovery of stolen Government property: Provided further, That 
not to exceed $2,500 shall be available for awards to employees 
of other Federal agencies £ind private citizens in recognition of 
efforts and initiatives resulting in enhanced Office of Inspector 
General effectiveness. 
ALLOWANCES AND OFFICE STAFF FOR FORMER PRESIDENTS 
For carrjdng out the provisions of the Act of August 25, 1958, 
as amended (3 U.S.C. 102 note), and Public Law 95-138, $2,208,000: 
Provided, That the Administrator of General Services shall transfer 
to the Secretary of the Treasury such sums as may be necessary 
to carry out the provisions of such Acts. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 401. The appropriate appropriation or fund available to 
the General Services Administration shall be credited with the 
cost of operation, protection, maintenance, upkeep, repair, and 
improvement, included as part of rentals received from Government 
corporations pursuant to law (40 U.S.C. 129). 
SEC. 402. Funds available to the General Services Administra-
tion shall be available for the hire of passenger motor vehicles. 
SEC. 403. Funds in the Federal Buildings Fund made available 
for fiscal year 1998 for Federal Buildings Fund activities may 
be transferred between such activities only to the extent necessary 
to meet program requirements: Provided, 
That any proposed 
transfers shall be approved in advance by the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House and Senate. 
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111 STAT. 1299 
SEC. 404. No funds made available by this Act shall be used 
to trgmsmit a fiscal year 1999 request for United States Courthouse 
construction that: (1) does not meet the design guide standards 
for construction as established and approved by the General Serv-
ices Administration, the Judicial Conference of the United States, 
and the Office of Management and Budget; and (2) does not reflect 
the priorities of the Judicial Conference of the United States as 
set out in its approved 5-year construction plan: Provided, That 
the fiscal year 1999 request must be accompanied by a standardized 
courtroom utilization study of each facility to be constructed, 
replaced, or expanded. 
SEC. 405. None of the funds provided in this Act may be 
used to increase the amount of occupiable square feet, provide 
cleaning services, security enhancements, or any other service usu-
ally provided through the Federal Buildings Fund, to any agency 
which does not pay the rate per square foot assessment for space 
and services as determined by the General Services Administration 
in compliance with the Public Buildings Amendments Act of 1972 
(Public Law 92-313). 
SEC. 406. Section 10 of the General Services Administration 
General Provisions, Public Law 100-440, is hereby repealed. 
102 Stat. 1742. 
SEC. 407. Funds provided to other Government agencies by 
the Information Technology Fund, General Services Administration, 
under 40 U.S.C. 757 and sections 5124(b) and 5128 of Public Law 
104-106, Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996, 
for performance of pilot information technology projects which have 
potential for Government-wide benefits and savings, may be repaid 
to this Fund from any savings actually incurred by these projects 
or other funding, to the extent feasible. 
SEC. 408. The Administrator of General Services is directed 
to ensure that the materials used for the facade on the United 
States Courthouse Annex, Savannah, Georgia project are compatible 
with the existing Savannah Federal Building-United States Court-
house facade, in order to ensure compatibility of this new facility 
with the Savannah historic district and to ensure that the Annex 
will not endanger the National Lsmdmark status of the Savannah 
historic district. 
SEC. 409. (a) The Act approved August 25, 1958, as amended 
(Public Law 85-745; 3 U.S.C. 102 note), is amended by striking 
section 2. 
(b) Section 3214 of title 39, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a) by striking "(a) Subject to subsection 
(b), a" and inserting "A"; and 
(2) by striking subsection (b). 
SEC. 410. There is hereby appropriated to the General Services 
Administration such sums as may be necessary to repay debts 
to the United States Treasury incurred pursuant to section 6 of 
the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation Act of 1972, 
as amended (Public Law 92-578, 86 Stat. 1266, 40 U.S.C. 875), 
and in addition such amounts as are necessary for payment of 
interest £ind premiums, if any, related to such debts. 
SEC. 411. From funds made available under the heading "Fed-
eral Buildings Fund Limitations on Revenue", claims against the 
Government of less than $250,000 arising fi*om direct construction 
projects and acquisition of buildings may be liquidated from savings 
effected in other construction projects with prior notification to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate. 
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SEC. 412. (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the Administrator of General Services shall sell the 
property described in subsection (b) through a process of competitive 
bidding, in accordance with procedures and requirements applicable 
to such a sale under section 203(e) of the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 484(e)). 
(b) PROPERTY DESCRIBED.—The property referred to in sub-
section (a) is the property known as the Bakersfield Federal 
Building, located at 800 Truxton Avenue in Bakersfield, California, 
including the land on which the building is situated and all improve-
ments to such building and land. 
SEC. 413. Section 201(b) of the Federal Property and Adminis-
trative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 481) is amended to read 
as follows: 
"(b)(1) The Administrator shall as far as practicable provide 
any of the services specified in subsection (a) of this section to 
any other Federal agency, mixed ownership corporation (as defined 
in section 9101 of title 31, United States Code), or the District 
of Columbia, upon its request. 
"(2)(A) Upon the request of a qualified nonprofit agency for 
the blind or other severely handicapped that is to provide a commod-
ity or service to the Federal Government under the Javits-Wagner-
O'Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46 et seq.), the Administrator may provide 
any of the services specified in subsection (a) to such agency to 
the extent practicable. 
"(B) A nonprofit agency receiving services under the authority 
of subparagraph (A) shall use the services directly in making or 
providing an approved commodity or approved service to the Federal 
Government. 
"(C) In this paragraph— 
"(i) The term 'qualified nonprofit agency for the blind or 
other severely handicapped' means— 
"(I) a qualified nonprofit agency for the blind, as 
defined in section 5(3) of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act 
(41 U.S.C. 48b(3)); and 
"(II) a qualified nonprofit agency for other severely 
handicapped, as defined in section 5(4) of such Act (41 
U.S.C. 48b(4)). 
"(ii) The term 'approved commodity' and 'approved service' 
means a commodity and a service, respectively, that has been 
determined by the Committee for Purchase from the Blind 
and Other Severely Handicapped under section 2 of the Javits-
Wagner-O'Day Act (41 U.S.C. 47) to be suitable for procurement 
by the Federal Government.". 
FEDERAL PAYMENT TO MORRIS K. UDALL SCHOLARSHIP AND 
EXCELLENCE IN NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY FOUNDATION 
For payment to the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence 
in National Environmental Trust Fund, to be available for purposes 
of PubUc Law 102-259, $1,750,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
JOHN F . KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD 
For the necessary expenses to carry out the John F. Kennedy 
Termination 
Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, $1,600,000: Provided, 
date. 
That $100,000 shall be available only for the purposes of the prompt 
PUBLIC LAW 105-61—OCT. 10, 1997 
111 STAT. 1301 
and orderly termination of the John F. Kennedy Assassination 
Records Review Board, to be concluded no later than September 
30, 1998. 
MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Merit 
Systems 
Protection 
Board 
pursuant 
to Reorganization 
Plan 
Numbered 2 of 1978 and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, rental of con-
ference rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, hire 
of passenger motor vehicles, and direct procurement of survey 
printing, $25,290,000, together with not to exceed $2,430,000 for 
administrative expenses to adjudicate retirement appeals to be 
transferred from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund 
in amounts determined by the Merit Systems Protection Board. 
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATING E X P E N S E S 
For necessary expenses in connection with the administration 
of the National Archives (including the Information Security Over-
sight Office) and records and related activities, as provided by 
law, and for expenses necessary for the review and declassification 
of documents, and for the hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
$205,166,500: Provided, That the Archivist of the United States 
is authorized to use any excess funds available from the amount 
borrowed for construction of the National Archives facility, for 
expenses necessary to provide adequate storage for holdings. 
ARCHIVES FACILITIES AND PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES REPAIRS AND 
RESTORATION 
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of archives facilities 
and presidential libraries., and to provide adequate storage for hold-
ings, $14,650,000, to remain available until expended. 
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDS COMMISSION 
GRANTS PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses for allocations and grants for historical 
publications and records as authorized by 44 U.S.C. 2504, as 
amended, $5,500,000, to remain available until expended. 
OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office 
of Government Ethics pursuant to the Ethics in Government Act 
of 1978, as amended by Public Law 100-598, and the Ethics Reform 
Act of 1989, Public Law 101-194, including services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, rental of conference rooms in the District of 
Columbia and elsewhere, hire of passenger motor vehicles, and 
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not to exceed $1,500 for official reception and representation 
expenses; $8,265,000. 
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF TRUST FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office 
of Personnel Management pursuEint to Reorganization Plan Num-
bered 2 of 1978 and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; medical examinations 
performed for veterans by private physicians on a fee basis; rental 
of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed $2,500 for official 
reception and representation expenses; advances for reimburse-
ments to applicable funds of the Office of Personnel Management 
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for expenses incurred 
under Executive Order No. 10422 of January 9, 1953, as amended; 
and pa3anent of per diem and/or subsistence allowances to employ-
ees where Voting Rights Act activities require an employee to 
remain overnight at his or her post of duty; $85,350,000; and 
in addition $91,236,000 for administrative expenses, to be trans-
ferred firom the appropriate trust funds of the Office of Personnel 
Management without regard to other statutes, including direct 
procurement of printed materials, for the retirement and insurance 
programs: Provided, That the provisions of this appropriation shall 
not affect the authority to use applicable trust funds as provided 
by section 8348(a)(1)(B) of title 5, United States Code: Provided 
further. That, except as may be consistent with 5 U.S.C. 8902a(f)(l) 
and (i), no payment may be made from the Employees Health 
Benefits Fund to any physician, hospital, or other provider of health 
care services or supplies who is, at the time such services or 
supplies are provided to an individual covered under chapter 89 
of title 5, United States Code, excluded, pursuant to section 1128 
or 1128A of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320a-7 through 
1320a-7a), fi*om participation in any program under title XVIII 
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.): Provided further. 
That no part of this appropriation shall be available for salaries 
and expenses of the Legal Examining Unit of the Office of Personnel 
Management established pursuant to Executive Order No. 9358 
of July 1, 1943, or any successor unit of like purpose: Provided 
further, That the President's Commission on White House Fellows, 
established by Executive Order No. 11183 of October 3, 1964, may, 
during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, accept donations 
of money, property, and personal services in connection with the 
development of a publicity brochure to provide information about 
the White House Fellows, except that no such donations shall 
be accepted for travel or reimbursement of travel expenses, or 
for the salaries of employees of such Commission. 
PUBLIC LAW 105-61—OCT. 10, 1997 
111 STAT. 1303 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF TRUST FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrjdng out the provisions of the Inspector General Act, as 
amended, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, hire 
of passenger motor vehicles, $960,000; and in addition, not to exceed 
$8,645,000 for administrative expenses to audit the Office of 
Personnel Management's retirement £ind insurance programs, to 
be transferred from the appropriate trust funds of the Office of 
Personnel Management, as determined by the Inspector General: 
Provided, That the Inspector General is authorized to rent con-
ference rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere. 
GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR ANNUITANTS, EMPLOYEES HEALTH 
BENEFITS 
For pa3m[ient of Government contributions with respect to 
retired employees, as authorized by chapter 89 of title 5, United 
States Code, and the Retired Federal Employees Health Benefits 
Act (74 Stat. 849), as amended, such sums as may be necessary. 
GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR ANNUITANTS, EMPLOYEE LIFE 
INSURANCE 
For pa3anent of Government contributions with respect to 
employees retiring after December 31, 1989, as required by chapter 
87 of title 5, United States Code, such sums as may be necessary. 
PAYMENT TO CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND 
For fineincing the unfunded liability of new and increased annu-
ity benefits becoming effective on or after October 20, 1969, as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 8348, £ind annuities under special Acts 
to be credited to the Civil Service Retirement £ind Disability Fund, 
such sums as may be necessary: Provided, That annuities author- 
33 USC 776. 
ized by the Act of May 29, 1944, as amended, and the Act of 
August 19, 1950, as amended (33 U.S.C. 771-775), may hereafter 
be paid out of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. 
OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office 
of Special Counsel pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 
of 1978, the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (Public Law 
95-454), the Whistleblower 
Protection Act of 1989 (PubHc 
Law 101-12), PubHc Law 103-424, and the Uniformed Services 
Employment and Reemplojnnent Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-
353), including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, payment 
of fees and expenses for witnesses, rental of conference rooms 
in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; $8,450,000. 
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note. 
Contracts. 
Public 
information. 
PUBLIC LAW 105-61—OCT. 10, 1997 
UNITED STATES TAX COURT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including contract reporting and other 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $33,921,000: Provided, 
That travel expenses of the judges shall be paid upon the written 
certificate of the judge. 
This title may be cited as the "Independent Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 1998". 
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
THIS ACT 
SEC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year 
unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 502. The expenditure of any appropriation under this 
Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, 
pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts 
where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available 
for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under exist-
ing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to 
existing law. 
SEC. 503. None of the funds made available by this Act shall 
be available for any activity or for pa3dng the salary of any Govern-
ment employee where funding an activity or pajdng a salary to 
a Government employee would result in a decision, determination, 
rule, regulation, or policy that would prohibit the enforcement of 
section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930. 
SEC. 504. None of the funds made available by this Act shall 
be available in fiscal year 1998, for the purpose of transferring 
control over the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center located 
at Glynco, Georgia, and Artesia, New Mexico, out of the Department 
of the Treasury. 
SEC. 505. The Office of Personnel Management may, during 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and hereafter, accept 
donations of supplies, services, land, and equipment for the Federal 
Executive Institute and Management Development Centers to assist 
in enhancing the quality of Federal msinagement. 
SEC. 506. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be available to pay the salary for any person filling a position, 
other than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee 
who has left to enter the Armed Forces of the United States and 
has satisfactorily completed his period of active military or naval 
service, and has within 90 days after his release from such service 
or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of 
not more than 1 year, made application for restoration to his former 
position and has been certified by the Office of Personnel Manage-
ment as still qualified to perform the duties of his former position 
and has not been restored thereto. 
SEC. 507. No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act may 
be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in expending 
the assistance the entity will comply with sections 2 through 4 
of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a-10c, popularly known 
as the "Buy American Act"). 
PUBLIC LAW 105-61—OCT. 10, 1997 
111 STAT. 1305 
SEC. 508. (a) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT AND 
PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equipment or products that may 
be authorized to be purchased with financial assistance provided 
under this Act, it is the sense of the Congress that entities receiving 
such assistance should, in expending the assistance, purchase only 
American-made equipment and products. 
(b) NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF ASSISTANCE.—In providing finan-
cial assistance under this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
provide to each recipient of the assistance a notice describing the 
statement made in subsection (a) by the Congress. 
SEC. 509. If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal 
agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing a 
"Made in America" inscription, or any inscription with the same 
meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States 
that is not made in the United States, such person shall be ineligible 
to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds provided 
pursuant to this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and 
ineligibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 
of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 510. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, 
not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining available 
at the end of fiscal year 1998 from appropriations made available 
for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 1998 in this Act, shall 
remain available through September 30, 1999, for each such account 
for the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall be 
submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
for approval prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided further, 
That these requests shall be made in compliance with reprogram-
ming guidelines. 
SEC. 511. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used by the Executive Office of the President to request from 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation any official background inves-
tigation report on any individual, except when it is made known 
to the Federal official having authority to obligate or expend such 
funds that— 
(1) such individual has given his or her express written 
consent for such request not more than 6 months prior to 
the date of such request and during the same presidential 
administration; or 
(2) such request is required due to extraordinary cir-
cumstances involving national security. 
SEC. 
512. 
(a) PROHIBITING REAPPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS OF 
FEDERAL 
ELECTION COMMISSION.—Section 306(a)(2)(A) of the 
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 437c(a)(2)(A)) 
is amended by striking "for terms of 6 years" and inserting "for 
a single term of 6 years". 
(b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendment made by subsection (a) 
2 USC 437c note. 
shall apply with respect to individuals nominated by the President 
to be members of the Federal Election Commission after December 
31, 1997. 
SEC. 513. No funds appropriated by this Act shall be available 
to pay for an abortion, or the administrative expenses in connection 
with any health plan under the Federal employees health benefit 
program which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions. 
SEC. 514. The provision of section 513 shall not apply where 
the life of the mother would be endeuigered if the fetus were carried 
to term, or the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest. 
39-194 O - 97 - 8 : QL 3 Part 2 
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5 u s e 8343a. 
SEC. 515. Section 1 under the subheading "GENERAL PROVISION" 
under the heading "OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT" under 
title IV of the Treasury, Postal Service and General Government 
Appropriations Act, 1992 (Public Law 102-141; 105 Stat. 861; 5 
U.S.C. 5941 note), as amended by section 532 of the Treasury, 
Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1995 
(Public Law 103-329; 108 Stat. 2413), and by section 5 under 
the heading 
"GENERAL 
PROVISIONS—OFFICE 
OF 
PERSONNEL 
MANAGEMENT" under title IV of the Treasury, Postal Service, and 
General Government Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public Law 104-
52; 109 Stat. 490), is further amended by striking "1998" both 
places it appears and inserting "2000". 
SEC. 516. (a) Title 5, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in section 8334 by adding at the end the following 
new subsection: 
"(m) A Member who has served in a position in the executive 
branch for which the rate of basic pay was reduced for the duration 
of the service of the Member to remove the impediment to the 
appointment of the Member imposed by article I, section 6, clause 
2 of the Constitution, or the survivor of such a Member, may 
deposit to the credit of the Fund an amount equal to the difference 
between the amount deducted from the basic pay of the Member 
during that period of service and the amount that would have 
been deducted if the rate of basic pay which would otherwise 
have been in effect during that period had been in effect, plus 
interest computed under subsection (e)."; 
(2) in section 8337(a) by striking "or (q)" and inserting 
"(q), or (r)"; 
(3) in section 8339— 
(A) in subsections (f) and (i) through (m) by striking 
"and (q) of this section" and "and (q)" each time either 
appears and inserting "(q), and (r)"; 
(B) in subsection (g) by striking "or (q) of this section" 
each time it appears and inserting "(q), or (r)"; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new subsection: 
"(r) The annuity of a Member who has served in a position 
in the executive branch for which the rate of basic pay was reduced 
for the duration of the service of the Member in that position 
to remove the impediment to the appointment of the Member 
imposed by article I, section 6, clause 2 of the Constitution, shall, 
subject to a deposit in the Fund as provided under section 8334(m), 
be computed as though the rate of basic pay which would otherwise 
have been in effect during that period of service had been in 
effect."; 
(4) in section 8341(b)(1) and (d) by striking "and (q) of 
this title" each place it appears and inserting "(q), and (r)"; 
(5) in section 8334a(c) by striking "and (q) of section 8339 
of this title" and inserting "(q), and (r) of section 8339"; 
(6) in section 8344(a)(A) by striking "and (q) of this title" 
and inserting "(q), and (r)"; 
(7) in section 8415 by adding at the end the following 
new subsection: 
"(h) The annuity of a Member who has served in a position 
in the executive branch for which the rate of basic pay was reduced 
for the duration of the service of the Member in that position 
to remove the impediment to the appointment of the Member 
imposed by article I, section 6, clause 2 of the Constitution, shall. 
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111 STAT. 1307 
subject to a deposit in the Fund as provided under section 8422(g), 
be computed as though the rate of basic pay which would otherwise 
have been in effect during that period of service had been in 
effect.". 
(8) in section 8422 by adding at the end the following 
new subsection: 
"(g) A Member who has served in a position in the executive 
branch for which the rate of basic pay was reduced for the duration 
of the service of the Member to remove the impediment to the 
appointment of the Member imposed by article I, section 6, clause 
2 of the Constitution, or the survivor of such a Member, may 
deposit to the credit of the Fund an amount equal to the difference 
between the amount deducted from the basic pay of the Member 
during that period of service and the amount that would have 
been deducted if the rate of basic pay which would otherwise 
have been in effect during that period had been in effect, plus 
interest computed under section 8334(e)."; and 
(9) in section 8468 by striking "through (f)" and inserting 
"through (g)". 
(b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall be applicable 
to any annuity commencing before, on, or after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, and shall be effective with regard to any pajrment 
made after the first month following the date of enactment. 
SEC. 517. (a) Section 5948 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (d) by striking the second sentence and 
inserting the following: "No agreement shall be entered into 
under this section later than September 30, 2000, nor shall 
any agreement cover a period of service extending beyond 
September 30, 2002."; and 
(2) in subsection (jX2)(A) by striking "September 30, 1997" 
and inserting "September 30, 2000". 
(b) Section 3 of the Federal Physicians Comparability Allowance 
Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. 5948 note) is amended by striking "September 
30, 1999" and inserting "September 30, 2002". 
(c) The amendments made by this section shall take effect 
on the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 518. (a)(1) Section 8341 of title 5, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
"(k)(l) Subsections (b)(3)(B), (d)(ii), and (h)(3)(B)(i) (to the extent 
that they provide for termination of a survivor annuity because 
of a remarriage before age 55) shall not apply if the widow, widower, 
or former spouse was married for at least 30 years to the individual 
on whose service the survivor annuity is based. 
"(2) A remarriage described in paragraph (1) shall not be taken 
into account for purposes of section 8339(j)(5)(B) or (C) or any 
other provision of this chapter which the Office may by regulation 
identify in order to carry out the purposes of this subsection.". 
(2) Such section 8341 is further amended— 
(A) in 
subsections 
(b)(3)(B) and 
(d)(ii) by 
striking 
"remarries" and inserting "except as provided in subsection 
(k), remarries"; and 
(B) in subsection (h)(3)(BXi) by striking "in" and inserting 
"except as provided in subsection (k), in". 
(b)(1)(A) Section 8442(d) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
Applicability. 
Effective date. 
5 u s e 8334a. 
Effective date. 
5 u s e 5948 note. 
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"(3) Paragraph (1)(B) (relating to termination of a survivor 
annuity because of a remarriage before age 55) shall not apply 
if the widow or widower was married for at least 30 years to 
the individual on whose service the survivor annuity is based.". 
(B) Subsection (d)(1)(B) of such section 8442 is amended by 
striking "remarries" and inserting "except as provided in paragraph 
(3), remarries". 
(2)(A) Section 8445 of title 5, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
"(h)(1) Subsection (c)(2) (to the extent that it provides for termi-
nation of a survivor annuity because of a remarriage before age 
55) shall not apply if the former spouse was married for at least 
30 years to the individual on whose service the survivor annuity 
is based. 
"(2) A remarriage described in paragraph (1) shall not be taken 
into account for purposes of section 8419(b)(1)(B) or any other 
provision of this chapter which the Office may by regulation identify 
in order to carry out the purposes of this subsection.". 
(B) Subsection (c)(2) of such section 8445 is amended by striking 
"shall" and inserting "except as provided in subsection (h), shall". 
Applicability. 
(c) The amendments made by this section shall apply with 
5 use 8341 note, respect to remarriages occurring on or after January 1, 1995. 
TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS 
SEC. 601. Funds appropriated in this or any other Act may 
be used to pay travel to the United States for the immediate 
family of employees serving abroad in cases of death or life threaten-
ing illness of said employee. 
SEC. 602. No department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
United States receiving appropriated fiznds under this or any other 
Act for fiscal year 1998 shall obligate or expend any such funds, 
unless such department, agency, or instrumentality has in place, 
and will continue to administer in good faith, a written policy 
designed to ensure that all of its workplaces are free from the 
illegal use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances (as 
defined in the Controlled Substances Act) by the officers £ind 
employees of such department, agency, or instrumentality. 
SEC. 603. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1345, any agency, depart-
ment, or instrumentality of the United States which provides or 
proposes to provide child care services for Federal employees may 
reimburse any Federal employee or any person employed to provide 
such services for travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses 
incurred for training classes, conferences, or other meetings in 
connection with the provision of such services: Provided, That any 
per diem allowance made pursuant to this section shall not exceed 
the rate specified in regulations prescribed pursuant to section 
5707 of title 5, United States Code. 
31 use 1343 
SEC. 604. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the maximum 
note. 
amount allowable during the current fiscal year in accordance with 
section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 810), for the 
purchase of any passenger motor vehicle (exclusive of buses, ambu-
lances, law enforcement, and undercover surveillance vehicles), is 
hereby fixed at $8,100 except station wagons for which the maxi-
mum shall be $9,100: Provided, That these limits may be exceeded 
PUBLIC LAW 105-61—OCT. 10, 1997 
111 STAT. 1309 
by not to exceed $3,700 for police-type vehicles, and by not to 
exceed $4,000 for special heavy-duty vehicles: Provided 
further, 
That the limits set forth in this section may not be exceeded 
by more than 5 percent for electric or hybrid vehicles purchased 
for demonstration under the provisions of the Electric and Hybrid 
Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1976: 
Provided further, That the limits set forth in this section may 
be exceeded by the incremental cost of clean alternative fuels 
vehicles acquired pursuant to Public Law 101-549 over the cost 
of comparable conventionally fueled vehicles. 
SEC. 605. Appropriations of the executive departments and 
independent establishments for the current fiscal year available 
for expenses of travel, or for the expenses of the activity concerned, 
are hereby made available for quarters allowances and cost-of-
living allowances, in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5922-5924. 
SEC. 606. Unless otherwise specified during the current fiscal 5 USC 3101 note, 
year, no part of any appropriation contained in this or any other 
Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee 
of the Government of the United States (including any agency 
the majority of the stock of which is owned by the Government 
of the United States) whose post of duty is in the continental 
United States unless such person: (1) is a citizen of the United 
States; (2) is a person in the service of the United States on 
the date of enactment of this Act who, being eligible for citizenship, 
has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen of the 
United States prior to such date and is actually residing in the 
United States; (3) is a person who owes allegiance to the United 
States; (4) is an alien from Cuba, Poland, South Vietnam, the 
coimtries of the former Soviet Union, or the Baltic countries lawfully 
admitted to the United States for permanent residence; (5) is a 
South Vietnamese, Cambodisin, or Laotian refugee paroled in the 
United States after January 1, 1975; or (6) is a national of the 
People's Republic of China who qualifies for adjustment of status 
pursuant to the Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992: Provided, 
That for the purpose of this section, an affidavit signed by any 
such person shall be considered prima facie evidence that the 
requirements of this section with respect to his or her status have 
been complied with: Provided further, That any person making 
a false affidavit shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, 
shall be fined no more than $4,000 or imprisoned for not more 
than 1 year, or both: Provided further. That the above penal clause 
shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other 
provisions of existing law: Provided further. That £iny payment 
made to any officer or employee contrary to the provisions of this 
section shall be recoverable in action by the Federal Government. 
This section shall not apply to citizens of Ireland, Israel, or the 
Republic of the Philippines, or to nationals of those countries sillied 
with the United States in a current defense effort, or to inter-
national broadcasters employed by the United States Information 
Agency, or to temporary employment of translators, or to temporary 
employment in the field service (not to exceed 60 days) as a result 
of emergencies. 
SEC. 607. Appropriations available to any department or agency 
during the current fiscal year for necessary expenses, including 
maintenance or operating expenses, shall also be available for pay-
ment to the General Services Administration for charges for space 
and services and those expenses of renovation and alteration of 
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buildings and facilities which constitute public improvements per-
formed in accordance with the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (73 
Stat. 749), the Pubhc Buildings Amendments of 1972 (87 Stat. 
216), or other applicable law. 
SEC. 608. In addition to funds provided in this or any other 
Act, all Federal agencies are authorized to receive and use funds 
resulting from the sale of materials, including Federal records dis-
posed of pursuant to a records schedule recovered through recycling 
or waste prevention programs. Such funds shall be available until 
expended for the following purposes: 
(1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention, and 
recycling programs as described in Executive Order No. 12873 
(October 20, 1993), including any such programs adopted prior 
to the effective date of the Executive order. 
(2) Other Federal agency environmental management pro-
grams, including, but not limited to, the development and 
implementation of hazardous waste management and pollution 
prevention programs. 
(3) Other employee programs as authorized by law or as 
deemed appropriate by the head of the Federal agency. 
SEC. 609. Funds made available by this or any other Act for 
administrative expenses in the current fiscal year of the corpora-
tions and agencies subject to chapter 91 of title 31, United States 
Code, shall be available, in addition to objects for which such 
funds are otherwise available, for rent in the District of Columbia; 
services in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified 
under this head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable 
to the expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in 
the Act by which they are made available: Provided, That in the 
event any functions budgeted as administrative expenses are subse-
quently transferred to or paid from other funds, the limitations 
on administrative expenses shall be correspondingly reduced. 
SEC. 610. No part of any appropriation for the current fiscal 
year contained in this or any other Act shall be paid to any person 
for the filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated 
after the Senate has voted not to approve the nomination of said 
person. 
SEC. 611. No part of any appropriation contained in this or 
any other Act shall be available for interagency financing of boards 
(except Federal Executive Boards), commissions, councils, commit-
tees, or similar groups (whether or not they are interagency entities) 
which do not have a prior and specific statutory approval to receive 
financial support from more than one agency or instrumentality. 
SEC. 612. Funds made available by this or any other Act to 
the Postal Service Fund (39 U.S.C. 2003) shall be available for 
emplojonent of guards for all buildings and areas owned or occupied 
by the Postal Service and under the charge and control of the 
Postal Service, and such guards shall have, with respect to such 
property, the powers of special policemen provided by the first 
section of the Act of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 
40 U.S.C. 318), and, as to property owned or occupied by the 
Postal Service, the Postmaster General may take the same actions 
as the Administrator of General Services may take under the provi-
sions of sections 2 and 3 of the Act of June 1, 1948, as amended 
(62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318a and 318b), attaching thereto penal 
consequences under the authority and within the limits provided 
PUBLIC LAW 105-61—OCT. 10, 1997 
111 STAT. 1311 
in section 4 of the Act of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 
281; 40 U.S.C. 318c). 
SEC. 613. None of the funds made available pursuant to the 
provisions of this Act shall be used to implement, administer, or 
enforce any regulation which has been disapproved pursuant to 
a resolution of disapproval duly adopted in accordance with the 
applicable law of the United States. 
SEC. 614. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and 
5 USC 5343 note. 
except as otherwise provided in this section, no part of any of 
the funds appropriated for the fiscal year ending on September 
30, 1998, by this or any other Act, may be used to pay any prevailing 
rate employee described in section 5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United 
States Code— 
(1) during the period from the date of expiration of the 
limitation imposed by section 616 of the Treasury, Postal Serv-
ice and General Government Appropriations Act, 1997, until 
the normal effective date of the applicable wage survey adjust-
ment that is to take effect in fiscal year 1998, in an amount 
that exceeds the rate payable for the applicable grade and 
step of the applicable wage schedule in accordance with such 
section 616; and 
(2) during the period consisting of the remainder of fiscal 
year 1998, in an amount that exceeds, as a result of a wage 
survey adjustment, the rate payable under paragraph (1) by 
more than the sum o
f
— 
(A) the percentage adjustment taking effect in fiscal 
year 1998 under section 5303 of title 5, United States 
Code, in the rates of pay under the General Schedule; 
and 
(B) the difference between the overall average percent-
age of the locality-based comparability payments taking 
effect in fiscal year 1998 under section 5304 of such title 
(whether by adjustment or otherwise), and the overall aver-
age percentage of such pa3nnents which was effective in 
fiscal year 1997 under such section. 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no prevailing 
rate employee described in subparagraph (B) or (C) of section 
5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code, and no employee covered 
by section 5348 of such title, may be paid during the periods 
for which subsection (a) is in effect at a rate that exceeds the 
rates that would be payable under subsection (a) were subsection 
(a) applicable to such employee. 
(c) For the purposes of this section, the rates payable to an Regulations. 
employee who is covered by this section and who is paid fi'om 
a schedule not in existence on September 30, 1997, shall be deter-
mined under regulations prescribed by the Office of Personnel 
Management. 
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates of pre-
mium pay for employees subject to this section may not be changed 
from the rates in effect on September 30, 1997, except to the 
extent determined by the Office of Personnel Management to be 
consistent with the purpose of this section. 
(e) This section shall apply with respect to pay for service Applicability. 
performed after September 30, 1997. 
(f) For the purpose of administering any provision of law 
(including section 8431 of title 5, United States Code, and any 
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rule or regulation that provides premium pay, retirement, life insur-
ance, or any other employee benefit) that requires any deduction 
or contribution, or that imposes any requirement or limitation on 
the basis of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary or 
basic pay payable after the application of this section shall be 
treated as the rate of salary or basic pay. 
(g) Nothing in this section shall be considered to permit or 
require the payment to any employee covered by this section at 
a rate in excess of the rate that would be payable were this section 
not in effect. 
(h) The Office of Personnel Management may provide for excep-
tions to the limitations imposed by this section if the Office deter-
mines that such exceptions are necessary to ensure the recruitment 
or retention of qualified employees. 
SEC. 615. During the period in which the head of any depart-
ment or agency, or any other officer or civilian employee of the 
Government appointed by the President of the United States, holds 
office, no funds may be obligated or expended in excess of $5,000 
to furnish or redecorate the office of such department head, agency 
head, officer, or employee, or to purchase furniture or make 
improvements for any such office, unless advance notice of such 
furnishing or redecoration is expressly approved by the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House and Senate. For the purposes of 
this section, the word "office" shall include the entire suite of 
offices assigned to the individual, as well as any other space used 
primarily by the individual or the use of which is directly controlled 
by the individual. 
SEC. 616. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no execu-
tive br2inch agency shall purchase, construct, and/or lease any addi-
tional facilities, except within or contiguous to existing locations, 
to be used for the purpose of conducting Federal law enforcement 
training without the advance approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 617. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, United 
States Code, or section 611 of this Act, funds made available for 
fiscal year 1998 by this or any other Act shall be available for 
the interagency fiinding of national security and 
emergency 
preparedness telecommunications initiatives which benefit multiple 
Federal departments, agencies, or entities, as provided by Executive 
Order No. 12472 (April 3, 1984). 
SEC. 618. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this or any 
other Act may be obligated or expended by any Federal department, 
agency, or other instrumentality for the salaries or expenses of 
any employee appointed to a position of a confidential or policy-
determining character excepted from the competitive service 
pursuant to section 3302 of title 5, United States Code, without 
a certification to the Office of Personnel Management from the 
head of the Federal department, agency, or other instrumentality 
employing the Schedule C appointee that the Schedule C position 
was not created solely or primarily in order to detail the employee 
to the White House. 
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to Federal 
employees or members of the armed services detailed to or from— 
(1) the Central Intelligence Agency; 
(2) the National Security Agency; 
(3) the Defense Intelligence Agency; 
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111 STAT. 1313 
(4) the offices within the Department of Defense for the 
collection of specialized national foreign intelligence through 
reconnaissance programs; 
(5) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Depart-
ment of State; 
(6) any agency, office, or unit of the Army, Navy, Air 
Force, and Marine Corps, the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
£ind the Drug Enforcement Administration of the Department 
of Justice, the Department of Transportation, the Department 
of the Treasury, £ind the Department of Energy performing 
intelligence functions; and 
(7) the Director of Central Intelligence. 
SEC. 619. No department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
United States receiving appropriated fiinds under this or any other 
Act for fiscal year 1998 shall obligate or expend any such funds, 
unless such department, agency, or instrumentality has in place, 
and will continue to administer in good faith, a written policy 
designed to ensure that all of its workplaces are free from discrimi-
nation and sexual harassment and that all of its workplaces are 
not in violation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as 
amended, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and 
the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. 
SEC. 620. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
may be used to pay for the expenses of travel of employees, including 
employees of the Executive Office of the President, not directly 
responsible for the discharge of official governmental tasks and 
duties: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply to the family 
of the President, Members of Congress or their spouses, Heads 
of State of a foreign country or their designees, persons providing 
assistance to the President for official purposes, or other individuals 
so designated by the President. 
SEC. 621. Notwithstanding any provision of law, the President, President. 
or his designee, must certify to Congress, annually, that no person 
pT^^'^^qj?]"' 
or persons with direct or indirect responsibility for administering 
5 USC 7301 note. 
the Executive Office of the President's Drug-Free Workplace Plan 
are themselves subject to a program of individual random drug 
testing. 
SEC. 622. (a) None of the funds made available in this or 
any other Act may be obligated or expended for any employee 
training that— 
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, 
£ind abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official 
duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of emo-
tional response or psychological stress in some participants; 
(3) does not require prior employee notification of the con-
tent and methods to be used in the training and written end 
of course evaluation; 
(4) contains any methods or content associated with 
religious or quasi-religious belief systems or "new age" belief 
systems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity Commis-
sion Notice N-915.022, dated September 2,1988; 
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants' 
personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace; or 
(6) includes content related to human immunodeficiency 
virus-acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) other 
than that necessary to make employees more aware of the 
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medical ramifications of HIV/AIDS and the workplace rights 
of HIV-positive employees. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or otherwise 
preclude an agency from conducting training bearing directly upon 
the performance of official duties. 
SEC. 623, No funds appropriated in this or any other Act 
for fiscal year 1998 may be used to implement or enforce the 
agreements in Standard Forms 312 and 4355 of the Government 
or any other nondisclosure policy, form, or agreement if such policy, 
form, or agreement does not contain the following provisions: "These 
restrictions are consistent with and do not supersede, conflict with, 
or otherwise alter the employee obligations, rights, or liabilities 
created by Executive Order No. 12356; section 7211 of title 5, 
United States Code (governing disclosures to Congress); section 
1034 of title 10, United States Code, as amended by the Military 
Whistleblower Protection Act (governing disclosure to Congress by 
members of the military); section 2302(b)(8) of title 5, United States 
Code, as amended by the Whistleblower Protection Act (governing 
disclosures of illegality, waste, fi-aud, abuse or public health or 
safety threats); the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 
(50 U.S.C. 421 et seq.) (governing disclosures that cculd expose 
confidential Government agents); and the statutes which protect 
against disclosure that may compromise the national security, 
including sections 641, 793, 794, 798, and 952 of title 18, United 
States Code, and section 4(b) of the Subversive Activities Act of 
1950 (50 U.S.C. 783(b)). The definitions, requirements, obligations, 
rights, sanctions, and liabilities created by said Executive order 
and listed statutes are incorporated into this agreement and are 
controlling.": Provided, That notwithstanding the preceding para-
graph, a nondisclosure policy form or agreement that is to be 
executed by a person connected with the conduct of an intelligence 
or intelligence-related activity, other than an employee or officer 
of the United States Government, may contain provisions appro-
priate to the particular activity for which such document is to 
be used. Such form or agreement shall, at a minimum, require 
that the person will not disclose any classified information received 
in the course of such activity unless specifically authorized to do 
so by the United States Government. Such nondisclosure forms 
shall also make it clear that they do not bar disclosures to Congress 
or to an authorized official of an executive agency or the Department 
of Justice that are essential to reporting a substantial violation 
of law. 
SEC. 624. No part of any funds appropriated in this or any 
other Act shall be used by an agency of the executive branch, 
other than for normal and recognized executive-legislative relation-
ships, for publicity or propaganda purposes, and for the preparation, 
distribution or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, 
television or film presentation designed to support or defeat legisla-
tion pending before the Congress, except in presentation to the 
Congress itself. 
Reports. 
SEC. 625. (a) IN GENERAL.—NO later than September 30, 1998, 
the Director of the Office of Management eind Budget shall submit 
to the Congress a report that provides— 
(1) estimates of the total annual costs and benefits of 
Federal regulatory programs, including quantitative and non-
quantitative measures of regulatory costs and benefits; 
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111 STAT. 1315 
(2) estimates of the costs and benefits (including quan-
titative and nonquantitative measures) of each rule that is 
likely to have a gross annual effect on the economy of 
$100,000,000 or more in increased costs; 
(3) an assessment of the direct and indirect impacts of 
Federal rules on the private sector. State and local government, 
and the Federal Government; and 
(4) recommendations from the Director and a description 
of significant public comments to reform or eliminate any Fed-
eral regulatory program or program element that is inefficient, 
ineffective, or is not a sound use of the Nation's resources, 
(b) NOTICE.—The Director shall provide public notice and an 
opportunity to comment on the report under subsection (a) before 
the report is issued in final form. 
SEC. 626. None of the funds appropriated by this Act or any 
other Act, may be used by an agency to provide a Federal employee's 
home address to any labor organization except when it is made 
known to the Federal official having authority to obligate or expend 
such funds that the employee has authorized such disclosure or 
that such disclosure has been ordered by a court of competent 
jurisdiction. 
SEC. 627. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to estab- 
18 USC 846 note, 
lish scientific certification 
standards for explosives detection 
canines, and shall provide, on a reimbursable basis, for the certifi-
cation of explosives detection canines employed by Federal agencies, 
or other agencies providing explosives detection services at airports 
in the United States. 
SEC. 628. None of the funds made available in this Act or 
any other Act may be used to provide any non-public information 
such as mailing or telephone lists to any person or any organization 
outside of the Federal Government without the approval of the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 629. Notwithstanding section 611, interagency financing 
is authorized to carry out the purposes of the National Bioethics 
Advisory Commission. 
SEC. 630. No part of any appropriation contained in this or 
any other Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes 
within the United States not heretofore authorized by the Congress. 
SEC. 631. None of the funds appropriated in this or any other 
Act shall be used to acquire information technologies which do 
not comply with part 39.106 (Year 2000 compliance) of the Federal 
Acquisition Regulation, unless an agency's Chief Information Officer 
determines that noncompliance with part 39.106 is necessary to 
the function and operation of the requesting agency or the acquisi-
tion is required by a signed contract with the agency in effect 
before the date of enactment of this Act. Any waiver granted by Reports, 
the Chief Information Officer shall be reported to the Office of 
M£inagement and Budget, and copies shall be provided to Congress. 
SEC. 632. For fiscal year 1998, the Secretary of the Treasury 
is authorized to use funds made available to the FSLIC Resolution 
Fund under Pubhc Law 103-327, not to exceed $33,700,000, to 
reimburse the Department of Justice for the reasonable expenses 
of litigation that are incurred in the defense of claims against 
the United States arising from FIRREA and its implementation. 
SEC. 633. Personal Allowance Parity Among NAFTA Parties, 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The United States Trade Representative and 
the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary 
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of Commerce, shall initiate discussions with officials of the Govern-
ments of Mexico and Canada to achieve parity in the duty-free 
personal allowance structure of the United States, Mexico, and 
Canada. 
(b) REPORT.—^The United States Trade Representative and the 
Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress within 90 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act on the progress that is 
being made to correct any disparity between the United States, 
Mexico, and Canada with respect to duty-free personal allowances. 
(c) RECOMMENDATIONS.—If parity with respect to duty-free per-
sonal allow£inces between the United States, Mexico, and Canada 
is not achieved within 180 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the United States Trade Representative and the Secretary 
of the Treasury shall submit recommendations to Congress for 
appropriate legislation and action. 
SEC. 634. None of the funds made available in this Act for 
the United States Customs Service may be used to allow the 
importation into the United States of any good, ware, article, or 
merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured by forced or inden-
tured child labor, as determined pursuant to section 307 of the 
Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307). 
Reports. 
SEC. 635. No later than 30 days after the enactment of this 
5 use 5707 note. Act, the Director of the Office of Management sind Budget shall 
require all Federal departments and agencies to report total obliga-
tions for the expenses of employee relocation. All obligations 
incident to employee relocation authorized under either chapter 
57 of title 5, United States Code, or section 901 of the Foreign 
Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4081; PubUc Law 96-465), shall 
be included. Such information for the past, current, and budget 
years shall be included in the agency budget submission to the 
President. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
shall prepare a table presenting obligations for the expenses of 
employee relocation for all departments and agencies, and such 
table shall be transmitted to Congress each year as part of the 
President's annual budget. 
5 use 5546 note. 
SEC. 636. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no part 
of any appropriation contained in this Act or any other Act for 
any fiscal year shall be available for paying Sunday premium pay 
to any employee unless such employee actually performed work 
during the time corresponding to such premium pay. 
SEC. 637. Section 302(g)(1) of the Federal Election Campaign 
Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 432(g)(1)) is amended— 
(1) by striking "and" after "Senator,"; £ind 
(2) by inserting after "candidate," the following: "and by 
the Republican and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Commit-
tees". 
SEC. 638. (a) Chapter 31 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after section 3112 the following: 
^§3113. Restriction on reemplojnoient after conviction of 
certain crimes 
"An employee shall be separated from service and barred from 
reemplojnnent in the Federal service, if— 
"(1) the employee is convicted of a violation of section 
201(b) oftitle 18; and 
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111 STAT. 1317 
"(2) such violation related to conduct prohibited under sec-
tion 1010(a) of the Controlled Substances Import and Export 
Act (21 U.S.C. 960(a)).". 
(b) The table of sections for chapter 31 of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
3112 the following: 
"3113. Restriction on reemployment after conviction of certain crimes.". 
(c) This section shall apply during fiscal year 1998 and each Applicability. 
fiscal year thereafter. 
5 USC 3113 note. 
SEC. 639. (a) COORDINATION OF COUNTERDRUG INTELLIGENCE 
CENTERS AND ACTIVITIES.—(1) Not later than 120 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of National 
Drug Control Policy shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees, including the Committees on Appropriations, a plgin 
to improve coordination, and eliminate unnecessary duplication, 
among the counterdrug intelligence centers and counterdrug activi-
ties of the Federal Government, including the centers and activities 
of the following departments and agencies: 
(A) Tlie Department of Defense, including the Defense 
Intelligence Agency. 
(B) The Department of the Treasury, including the United 
States Customs Service and the Financial Crimes Enforcement 
Network (FinCEN). 
(C) The Central Intelligence Agency. 
(D) The Coast Guard. 
(E) The Department of Justice, including the National Drug 
Intelligence Center (NDIC); the Drug Enforcement Administra-
tion, including the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC); and 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
(2) The purpose of the plan under paragraph (1) is to maximize 
the effectiveness of the centers and activities referred to in that 
paragraph in achieving the objectives of the national drug control 
strategy. In order to maximize such effectiveness, the plan shall— 
(A) articulate clear and specific mission statements for 
each counterdrug intelligence center and activity, including 
the manner in which responsibility for counterdrug intelligence 
activities will be allocated among the counterdrug intelligence 
centers; 
(B) specify the relationship between such centers; 
(C) specify the means by which proper oversight of such 
centers will be assured; 
(D) specify the means by which counterdrug intelligence 
will be forwarded effectively to all levels of officials responsible 
for United States counterdrug policy; and 
(E) specify mechanisms to ensure that State and local 
law enforcement agencies are apprised of counterdrug intel-
ligence acquired by Federal law enforcement agencies in a 
manner which— 
(i) facilitates effective counterdrug activities by State 
and local law enforcement agencies; and 
(ii) provides such State and local law enforcement agen-
cies with the information relating to the safety of officials 
involved in their counterdrug activities, 
(b) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DEFINED.—In 
this section, the term "appropriate congressional committees" means 
the following: 
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Federal 
Employees' 
Retirement 
System Open 
Enrollment Act 
of 1997. 
5 u s e 8331 note. 
Regulations. 
(1) The Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee 
on the Judiciary, and the Select Committee on Intelligence 
of the Senate. 
(2) The Committee on International Relations, the Commit-
tee on the Judiciary, and the Permanent Select Committee 
on Intelligence of the House of Representatives. 
SEC. 640. No part of any appropriation contained in this or 
any other Act shall be available for the payment of the salary 
of any officer or employee of the Federal Government, who— 
(1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threatens to pro-
hibit or prevent, any other officer or employee of the Federal 
Government from having any direct oral or written communica-
tion or contact with any Member, committee, or subcommittee 
of the Congress in connection with any matter pertaining to 
the employment of such other officer or employee or pertaining 
to the department or agency of such other officer or employee 
in any way, irrespective of whether such communication or 
contact is at the initiative of such other officer or employee 
or in response to the request or inquiry of such Member, 
committee, or subcommittee; or 
(2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, demotes, 
reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or performance of effi-
ciency rating, denies promotion to, relocates, reassigns, trans-
fers, disciplines, or discriminates in regard to any employment 
right, entitlement, or benefit, or any term or condition of 
emplo3mient of, any other officer or employee of the Federal 
Government, or attempts or threatens to commit any of the 
foregoing actions with respect to such other officer or employee, 
by reason of any communication or contact of such other officer 
or employee with any Member, committee, or subcommittee 
of the Congress as described in paragraph (1). 
SEC. 641. Section 5118(d)(2) of title 31, United States Code, 
is amended by striking "This paragraph shall" and all that follows 
through the end of the paragraph. 
SEC. 642. (a) This section may be cited as the "Federal Employ-
ees' Retirement System Open Enrollment Act of 1997". 
(b) Any individual who, as of January 1, 1998, is employed 
by the Federal Government, and on such date is subject to sub-
chapter III of chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code, may elect 
to become subject to chapter 84 of such title in accordance with 
regulations promulgated under subsection (c). 
(c) The Office of Personnel Management shall promulgate regu-
lations to carry out the provisions of this section. Such regulations 
shall— 
(1)(A) subject to subparagraph (B), provide for an election 
under subsection (b) to be made not before July 1, 1998, or 
after December 31, 1998; and 
(B) with respect to a Member of Congress, provide for— 
(i) an election under subsection (b) to be made not 
before July 1, 1998, or after October 31, 1998; and 
(ii) such an election to take effect not before January 
4, 1999; 
(2) provide notice and information to individuals who may 
make such an election, including information on a comparison 
of benefits an individual would receive from coverage under 
chapter 83 or 84 of title 5, United States Code; and 
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111 STAT. 1319 
(3) provide for treatment of such an election similar to 
the applicable provisions of title III of the Federal Employees' 
Retirement System Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-335; 100 Stat. 
599 et seq.). 
(d)(1) Section 210(a)(5)(H)(i) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 410(a)(5)(H)(i)) is amended— 
(A) by striking "or" after "1986" and inserting a comma; 
and 
(B) by inserting "or the Federal Employees' Retirement 
System Open Enrollment Act of 1997" after "(50 U.S.C. 2157),". 
(2) Section 3121(b)(5)(HXi) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 is amended— 
26 U
S
C 3121. 
(A) by striking "or" after "1986" and inserting a comma; 
and 
(B) by inserting "or the Federal Employees' Retirement 
System Open Enrollment Act of 1997" after "(50 U.S.C. 2157),". 
This Act may be cited as the "Treasury and General Grovem-
ment Appropriations Act, 1998". 
Approved October 10, 1997. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 2378 (S. 1023): 
HOUSE REPORTS: Nos. 105-240, Pts. 1-3 (Comm. on Appropriations) and 105-284 
(Comm. of Conference). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 105-49 accompanying S. 1023 (Comm. on Appropriations). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 143 (1997): 
Sept. 17, considered and passed House; passed Senate, amended, in lieu of 
S. 1023. 
Sept. 30, House agreed to conference report. 
Oct. 1, Senate agreed to conference report. 
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 33 (1997): 
Oct. 10, Presidential statement. 
Oct. 16, President's special message on line item veto. 
FEDERAL REGISTER, Vol. 62 (1997): 
Oct. 17, Cancellation of item pursuant to the Line Item Veto Act.