Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991
PL 101-517 (H.R.5257), enacted 11/05/1990

104 STAT. 2190 
PUBLIC LAW 101-517—NOV. 5, 1990 
Nov. 5, 1990 
[H.R. 5257] 
Departments of 
Labor, Health 
and Human 
Services, and 
Education, and 
Related 
Agencies 
Appropriations 
Act, 1991. 
Department of 
Labor 
Appropriations 
Act, 1991. 
Public Law 101-517 
101st Congress 
An Act 
Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, 
and Education, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1991, 
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 Departments of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1991, and for other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION 
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION 
For expenses of administering employment and training pro-
grams, $71,480,000, together with not to exceed $54,301,000, which 
may be expended from the Employment Security Administration 
account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. 
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES 
For expenses necessary to carry into effect the Job Training 
Partnership Act, including the purchase and hire of passenger 
motor vehicles, the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings 
and other facilities, and the purchase of real property for training 
centers as authorized by the Job Training Partnership Act, 
$4,098,236,000, plus reimbursements, to be available for obligation 
for the period July 1, 1991, through June 30, 1992, of which 
$61,097,000 shall be for carrying out section 401, $72,024,000 shall be 
for carrying out section 402, $9,345,000 shall be for carrying out 
section 441, $1,894,000 shall be for the National Commission for 
Employment Policy, $4,250,000 shall be for all activities conducted 
by and through the National Occupational Information Coordinat-
ing Committee under the Job Training Partnership Act, and 
$4,000,000 shall be for service delivery areas under section 
101(a)(4)(A)(iii) of the Job Training Partnership Act in addition to 
amounts otherwise provided under sections 202 and 2510?) of the 
Act; and, in addition, $68,920,000 is appropriated for the Job Corps, 
in addition to amounts otherwise provided herein for the Job Corps, 
to be available for obligation for the period July 1, 1991 through 
June 30, 1994; and in addition, $11,500,000 is appropriated for 
activities authorized by title VII, subtitle C of the Stewart B. 
McKinney Homeless Assistance Act: Provided, That no funds from 
any other appropriation shall be used to provide meal services at or 
for Job Corps centers. 
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104 STAT. 2191 
None of the funds in this Act shall be obligated to renovate or 
relocate the Job Corps center in Detroit, Michigan. 
COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT FOR OLDER AMERICANS 
To carry out the activities for national grants or contracts with 
public agencies and public or private nonprofit organizations under 
paragraph (1)(A) of section 506(a) of title V of the Older Americans 
Act of 1965, as amended, $312,000,000. 
To carry out the activities for grants to States under paragraph (3) 
of section 506(a) of title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as 
amended, $88,000,000. 
FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND ALLOWANCES 
For payments during the current fiscal year of benefits and 
payments as authorized by title II of Public Law 95-250, as 
amended, and of trade adjustment benefit payments and allowances 
under part I, and for training, for allowances for job search and 
relocation, and for related State administrative expenses under part 
II, subchapter B, chapter 2, title II of the Trade Act of 1974, as 
amended, $269,500,000, together with such amounts as may be 
necessary to be charged to the subsequent appropriation for pay-
ments for any period subsequent to September 15 of the current 
year: Provided, That amounts received or recovered pursuant to 
section 208(e) of Public Law 95-250 shall be available for payments. 
STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICE 
OPERATIONS 
For activities authorized by the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended 
(29 U.S.C. 49-491-1; 39 U.S.C. 3202(a)(1)(E)); title III of the Social 
Security Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 502-504); necessary administra-
tive expenses for carrying out 5 U.S.C. 8501-8523, and sections 225, 
231-235 and 243-244, title II of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended; 
as authorized by section 7c of the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended, 
necessary administrative expenses under sections 101(a)(15)(H)(ii), 
212(a)(14), and 216(g) (1), (2), and (3) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act, as amended (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.); and necessary 
administrative expenses to carry out the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit 
Program under section 51 of the Internal Revenue code of 1986, 
$25,600,000, together with not to exceed $2,914,246,000 (including 
not to exceed $2,000,000 which may be used for amortization pay-
ments to States which had independent retirement plans in their 
State employment service agencies prior to 1980), which may be 
expended from the Employment Security Administration account in 
the Unemployment Trust Fund, and of which the sums available in 
the basic allocation for activities authorized by title III of the Social 
Security Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 502-504), and the sums avail-
able in the basic allocation for necessary administrative expenses 
for carrying out 5 U.S.C. 8501-8523, shall be available for obligation 
by the States through December 31, 1991, and of which $18,882,000 
of the amount which may be expended from said trust fund shall be 
available for obligation for the period April 1, 1991, through Decem-
ber 31, 1991, for automation of the State activities under title III of 
the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 502-504 and 5 U.S.C. 
8501-8523), and of which $21,700,000 together with not to exceed 
$803,300,000 of the amount which may be expended from said trust 
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fund shall be available for obligation for the period July 1, 1991, 
through June 30, 1992, to fund activities under section 6 of the Act 
of June 6, 1933, as amended, including the cost of penalty mail made 
available to States in lieu of allotments for such purpose, and of 
which $12,500,000 of the amount which may be expended from said 
trust fund shall be available for obligation for the period October 1, 
1991 through June 30, 1992, for automation of the State activities 
under section 6 of the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended, and of which 
$247,509,000 shall be available only to the extent necessary to 
administer unemployment compensation laws to meet increased 
costs of administration resulting from changes in a State law or 
increases in the number of unemployment insurance claims filed 
and claims paid or increased salary costs resulting from changes in 
State salary compensation plans embracing employees of the State 
generally over those upon which the State's basic allocation was 
based, which cannot be provided for by normal budgetary adjust-
ments based on State obligations as of December 31, 1991: Provided, 
That of the amounts appropriated under "School Improvement 
Programs" herein, $1,000,000 shall be available, to remain available 
until expended, for payment of the expenses incurred by the School 
Year Extension Study Commission if such a Commission is au-
thorized by law, and of the amounts appropriated under "Education 
Research, Statistics, and Improvement" herein, $2,000,000 shall be 
available, if authorized in law, to remain available through fiscal 
year 1993, for expenses to be incurred in the operation of an 
independent National Council on Educational Goals, or any similar 
panel, council, commission, or other entity whose function shall 
include monitoring progress toward achieving the national edu-
cation goals for 2000 or publishing a report that describes such 
progress, if— 
(A) such entity has a majority of voting members who are 
neither Federal appointed or elected officials nor Governors of 
the States but who are citizens distinguished by training or 
experience in analyzing educational data or widely recognized 
experience in, knowledge of, and commitment to education and 
educational excellence; 
(B) such entity has members appointed by the leadership of 
the National Governors' Association, the President, and the 
leadership of both Houses of Congress; and 
(C) all action of such entity is taken by a simple majority of 
the members attending a duly called and constituted meeting. 
ADVANCES TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT TRUST FUND AND OTHER FUNDS 
For repayable advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund as 
authorized by sections 905(d) and 1203 of the Social Security Act, as 
amended, and to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund as au-
thorized by section 9501(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, 
as amended; and for nonrepayable advances to the Unemployment 
Trust Fund as authorized by section 8509 of title 5, United States 
Code, and to the "Federal unemployment benefits and allowances" 
account, to remain available until September 30, 1992, $328,000,000. 
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104 STAT. 2193 
LABOR-MANAGEMENT SERVICES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For 
necessary 
expenses 
for 
Labor-Management 
Services, 
$90,051,000. 
PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION 
PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION FUND 
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is authorized to make 
such expenditures, including financial assistance authorized by sec-
tion 104 of Public Law 96-364, within limits of funds and borrowing 
authority available to such Corporation, and in accord with law, and 
to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal 
year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government 
Corporation Control Act, as amended (31 U.S.C. 9104), as may be 
necessary in carrying out the program through September 30, 1991, 
for such Corporation: Provided, That not to exceed $42,669,000 shall 
be available for administrative expenses of the Corporation: Pro-
vided further, That contractual expenses of such Corporation for 
legal and financial services in connection with the termination of 
pension plans, for the acquisition, protection or management, and 
investment of trust assets, and for benefits administration services 
shall be considered as non-administrative expenses for the purposes 
hereof, and excluded from the above limitation. 
EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Employment Standards Adminis-
tration, including reimbursement to State, Federal, and local agen-
cies and their 
employees for 
inspection 
services 
rendered, 
$222,388,000, together with $1,016,000 which may be expended from 
the Special Fund in accordance with sections 39(c) and 44(j) of the 
Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act. 
SPECIAL BENEFITS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the payment of compensation, benefits, and expenses (except 
administrative expenses) accruing during the current or any prior 
fiscal year authorized by title V, chapter 81 of the United States 
Code; continuation of benefits as provided for under the head "Ci-
vilian War Benefits" in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation 
Act, 1947; the Employees' Compensation Commission Appropriation 
Act, 1944; and sections 4(c) and 5(f) of the War Claims Act of 1948 (50 
U.S.C. App. 2012); and 50 per centum of the additional compensation 
and benefits required by section 10(h) of the Longshore and Harbor 
Workers' Compensation Act, as amended, $322,000,000, together 
with such amounts as may be necessary to be charged to the 
subsequent year appropriation for the payment of compensation and 
other benefits for any period subsequent to August 15 of the current 
year: Provided, That balances of reimbursements from Federal 
Government agencies unobligated on September 30, 1990, shall 
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remain available for the payment of compensation, benefits, and 
expenses through September 30, 1991: Provided further, That in 
addition there shall be transferred from the Postal Service fund to 
this appropriation such sums as the Secretary of Labor determines 
to be the cost of administration for Postal Service employees 
through September 30,1991. 
BLACK LUNG DISABILITY TRUST FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For payments from the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, 
$918,796,000, of which $866,019,000 shall be available until Septem-
ber 30, 1992, for payment of all benefits as authorized by section 
9501(d) (1), (2), (4), and (7), of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as 
amended, and interest on advances as authorized by section 
9501(c)(2) of that Act, and of which $29,051,000 shall be available for 
transfer to Employment Standards Administration, Salaries and 
Expenses, and $23,355,000 for transfer to Departmental Manage-
ment, Salaries and Expenses, and $371,000 for transfer to Depart-
mental Management, Office of Inspector General, for expenses of 
operation and administration of the Black Lung Benefits program as 
authorized by section 9501(d)(5)(A) of that Act: Provided, That in 
addition, such amounts as may be necessary may be charged to the 
subsequent year appropriation for the payment of compensation, 
interest, or other benefits for any period subsequent to June 15 of 
the current year: Provided further. That in addition such amounts 
shall be paid from this fund into miscellaneous receipts as the 
Secretary of the Treasury determines to be the administrative 
expenses of the Department of the Treasury for administering the 
fund during the current fiscal year, as authorized by section 
9501(d)(5)(B) of that Act. 
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration, $293,743,000, including not to exceed $66,220,000, 
which shall be the maximum amount available for grants to States 
under section 23(g) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 
which grants shall be no less than fifty percent of the costs of State 
occupational safety and health programs required to be incurred 
under plans approved by the Secretary under section 18 of the 
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970: Provided, That none of 
the funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be obligated or 
expended to prescribe, issue, administer, or enforce any standard, 
rule, regulation, or order under the Occupational Safety and Health 
Act of 1970 which is applicable to any person who is engaged in a 
farming operation which does not maintain a temporary labor camp 
and employs ten or fewer employees: Provided further. That none of 
the funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be obligated or 
expended to prescribe, issue, administer, or enforce any standard, 
rule, regulation, order or administrative action under the Occupa-
tional Safety and Health Act of 1970 affecting any work activity by 
reason of recreational hunting, shooting, or fishing: Provided fur-
ther. That no funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be 
obligated or expended to administer or enforce any standard, rule. 
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104 STAT. 2195 
regulation, or order under the Occupational Safety and Health Act 
of 1970 with respect to any employer of ten or fewer employees who 
is included within a category having an occupational injury lost 
work day case rate, at the most precise Standard Industrial Classi-
fication Code for which such data are published, less than the 
national average rate as such rates are most recently published by 
the Secretary, acting through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 
accordance with section 24 of that Act (29 U.S.C. 673), except— 
(1) to provide, as authorized by such Act, consultation, tech-
nical assistance, educational and training services, and to 
conduct surveys and studies; 
(2) to conduct an inspection or investigation in response to an 
employee complaint, to issue a citation for violations found 
during such inspection, and to assess a penalty for violations 
which are not corrected within a reasonable abatement period 
and for any willful violations found; 
(3) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect to 
imminent dangers; 
(4) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect to 
health hazards; 
(5) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect to a 
report of an employment accident which is fatal to one or more 
employees or which results in hospitalization of five or more 
employees, and to take any action pursuant to such investiga-
tion authorized by such Act; and 
(6) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect to 
complaints of discrimination against employees for exercising 
rights under such Act: 
Provided further, That the foregoing proviso shall not apply to any 
person who is engaged in a farming operation which does not 
maintain a temporary labor camp and employs ten or fewer 
employees. 
MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Mine Safety and Health Adminis-
tration, $179,267,000, including purchase and bestowal of certificates 
and trophies in connection with mine rescue and first-aid work, and 
the purchase of not to exceed twenty passenger motor vehicles for 
replacement only; the Secretary is authorized to accept lands, build- 
30 USC 962. 
ings, equipment, and other contributions from public and private 
sources and to prosecute projects in cooperation with other agencies. 
Federal, State, or private; the Mine Safety and Health Administra-
tion is authorized to promote health and safety education and 
training in the mining community through cooperative programs 
with States, industry, and safety associations; and any funds avail-
able to- the Department may be used, with the approval of the 
Secretary, to provide for the costs of mine rescue and survival 
operations in the event of major disaster: Provided, That none of the 
funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be obligated or ex-
pended to carry out section 115 of the Federal Mine Safety and 
Health Act of 1977 or to carry out that portion of section 104(g)(1) of 
such Act relating to the enforcement of any training requirements, 
with respect to shell dredging, or with respect to any sand, gravel. 
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surface stone, surface clay, colloidal phosphate, or surface limestone 
mine. 
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, includ-
ing advances or reimbursements to State, Federal, and local 
agencies and their employees for services rendered, $210,274,000, 
together with not to exceed $52,760,000, which may be expended 
from the Employment Security Administration account in the Un-
employment Trust Fund. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for Departmental Management, including 
the hire of 5 sedans, and including $4,200,000 for the President's 
Committee 
on 
Emplo5anent 
of 
People 
With 
Disabilities, 
$135,359,000, together with not to exceed $285,000, which may be 
expended from the Employment Security Administration account in 
the Unemployment Trust Fund. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
Funds received for services rendered to any entity or person for 
use of Departmental facilities, including associated utilities and 
security services, shall be credited to and merged with this fund. 
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR VETERANS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING 
Not to exceed $172,031,000 may be derived from the Employment 
Security Administration account in the Unemployment Trust Fund 
to carry out the provisions of 38 U.S.C. 2001-10 and 2021-26. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $45,713,000, together with not to exceed $4,195,000, which 
may be expended from the Employment Security Administration 
account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
District of 
SEC. 101. Appropriations in this Act available for salaries and 
Columbia. 
expenses shall be available for supplies, services, and rental of 
conference space within the District of Columbia, as the Secretary of 
Labor shall deem necessary for settlement of labor-management 
disputes. 
SEC. 102. None of the funds appropriated under this Act shall be 
used to grant variances, interim orders or letters of clarification to 
employers which will allow exposure of workers to chemicals or 
other workplace hazards in excess of existing Occupational Safety 
and Health Administration standards for the purpose of conducting 
experiments on workers health or safety. 
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104 STAT. 2197 
SEC. 103. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, no 
funds appropriated by this Act may be used to execute or carry out 
any contract with a non-governmental entity to administer or 
manage a Civilian Conservation Center of the Job Corps. 
SEC. 104. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used 
by the Job Corps program to pay the expenses of legal counsel or 
representation in any criminal case or proceeding for a Job Corps 
participant, unless certified to and approved by the Secretary of 
Labor that a public defender is not available. 
This title may be cited as the "Department of Labor Appropria-
tions Act, 1991". 
TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
SERVICES 
HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
Department of 
Health and 
Human Services 
Appropriations 
Act, 1991. 
PROGRAM OPERATIONS 
For carrying out titles III, VII, VIII, X, XVI, XIX, XXVI, and 
XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, section 427(a) of the 
Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, title V of the Social 
Security Act, the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, as 
amended, and the Native Hawaiian Health Care Act of 1988, 
$2,139,382,000, of which $2,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, shall be available for renovating facilities related to the 
activities of the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center, 42 U.S.C. 
247e, of which $488,000 shall remain available until expended for 
interest subsidies on loan guarantees made prior to fiscal year 1981 
under part B of title VII of the Public Health Service Act, of which 
$4,129,000 shall be made available until expended to make grants 
under section 1610(b) of the Public Health Service Act for renova-
tion or construction of nonacute care intermediate and long-term 
care facilities for AIDS patients, of which $1,000,000 shall be avail-
able until expended under section 1610(b) of the Public Health 
Service Act to make grants to be awarded competitively for the 
renovation or construction of tertiary perinatal facilities in those 
States whose infant mortality rate is significantly above the na-
tional average, and of which $226,000,000 shall be available for title 
XXVI of the Public Health Service Act: Provided, That the Sec-
retary shall retain and distribute from the total provided for title 
XXVI of the Act such amounts as may be necessary to ensure the 
continuation of health care services through September 30, 1991 
provided by grantees whose project periods extend through that 
date: Provided further, That when the Department of Health and 
Human Services administers or operates an employee health pro-
gram for any Federal department or agency, payment for the full 
estimated cost shall be made by way of reimbursement or in ad-
vances to this appropriation: Provided further. That user fees au-
thorized by 31 U.S.C. 9701 may be credited to appropriations under 
this heading, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302: Provided further. That 
during fiscal year 1991, the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices may enter into commitments of not to exceed $260,000,000 for 
fiscal year 1991 to guarantee Health Education and Assistance 
Loans under subpart 1 of part C of title VII of the Public Health 
Service Act: Provided further. That none of the funds made avail-
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able under this heading shall be used to carry out sections 638, 704 
and 705 of Public Law 100-607. 
MEDICAL FACILITIES GUARANTEE AND LOAN FUND 
FEDERAL INTEREST SUBSIDIES FOR MEDICAL FACILITIES 
For carrying out subsections (d) and (e) of section 1602 of the 
Public Health Service Act, $20,000,000, together with any amounts 
received by the Secretary in connection with loans and loan guaran-
tees under title VI of the Public Health Service Act, to be available 
without fiscal year limitation for the payment of interest subsidies. 
During the fiscal year, no commitments for direct loans or loan 
guarantees shall be made. 
VACCINE INJURY COMPENSATION 
For payments from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund, 
such sums as may be necessary for claims associated with vaccine-
related injury or death with respect to vaccines administered after 
September 30, 1988, pursuant to subtitle 2 of title XXI of the Public 
Health Service Act as amended, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That for necessary administrative expenses, not to exceed 
$1,500,000 shall be available from the Trust Fund to the Secretary of 
the Department of Health and Human Services. 
For compensation of claims resolved by the United States Claims 
Court related to the administration of vaccines before October 1, 
1988, $62,920,000, to remain available until expended. 
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL 
DISEASE CONTROL, RESEARCH, AND TRAINING 
To carry out titles III, VII, XVII, XIX, XXVII, and section 1102 of 
the Public Health Service Act, sections 101, 102, 103, 201, 202, and 
203 of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, Public Law 
101-354 and sections 20, 21, and 22 of the Occupational Safety and 
Health Act of 1970; including insurance of official motor vehicles in 
foreign countries; and hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft, 
$1,350,747,000 of which $32,740,000 shall remain available until 
expended for equipment and construction and renovation of facili-
ties: Provided, That training of private persons shall be made sub-
ject to reimbursement or advances to this appropriation for not in 
excess of the full cost of such training: Provided further. That funds 
appropriated under this heading shall be available for payment of 
the costs of medical care, related expenses, and burial expenses 
hereafter incurred by or on behalf of any person who had partici-
pated in the study of untreated syphilis initiated in Tuskegee, 
Alabama, in 1932, in such amounts and subject to such terms and 
conditions as prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services and for payment, in such amounts and subject to such 
terms and conditions, of such costs and expenses hereafter incurred 
by or on behalf of such person's wife or offspring determined by the 
Secretary to have suffered injury or disease from syphilis contracted 
from such person: Provided further, That collections from user fees 
may be credited to this appropriation: Provided further. 
That 
amounts received by the National Center for Health Statistics from 
reimbursable and interagency agreements and the sale of data tapes 
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104 STAT. 2199 
may be credited to this appropriation and shall remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That in addition to amounts pro-
vided herein, up to $19,000,000 shall be available from amounts 
available under section 2711 of the Public Health Service Act, to 
carry out the National Center for Health Statistics surveys: Pro-
vided further. That employees of the Public Health Service, both 
civilian and Commissioned Officer, detailed to States or municipali-
ties as assignees under authority of section 214 of the Public Health 
Service Act in the instance where in excess of 50 percent of salaries 
and benefits of the assignee is paid directly or indirectly by the State 
or municipality, and employees of the National Center for Health 
Statistics, who are assisting other Federal organizations on data 
collection and analysis and whose salaries are fully reimbursed by 
the organizations requesting the services, shall be treated as non-
Federal employees for reporting purposes only. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 
NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to cancer, $1,766,324,000. 
NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE 
For carrying out sections 301 and 1105 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to cardiovascular, lung, and blood 
diseases, and blood and blood products, $1,158,650,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL RESEARCH 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to dental disease, $153,272,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY 
DISEASES 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to diabetes and digestive and kidney dis-
eases, $632,272,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to neurological disorders and stroke, 
$556,864,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to allergy and infectious diseases, 
$933,235,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to general medical sciences, $779,250,000. 
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to child health and human development, 
$492,745,000. 
NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to eye diseases and visual disorders, 
$260,159,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES 
For carrying out sections 301 and 311 and title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to environmental health sciences, 
$249,092,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to aging, $332,782,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN 
DISEASES 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to arthritis, and musculoskeletal and skin 
diseases, $198,442,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION 
DISORDERS 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to deafness and other communication 
disorders, $138,497,000. 
NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH RESOURCES 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to research resources and general research 
support grants, $343,796,000: Provided, That none of these funds 
shall be used to pay recipients of the general research support 
grants program any amount for indirect expenses in connection 
with such grants. 
NATIONAL CENTER FOR NURSING RESEARCH 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to nursing research, $40,768,000. 
NATIONAL CENTER FOR HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to human genome research, $89,731,000. 
JOHN E. FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL CENTER 
For carrying out the activities of the John E. Fogarty Inter-
national Center, $18,059,000. 
PUBLIC LAW 101-517—NOV. 5, 1990 
104 STAT. 2201 
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to health information communications, 
$94,416,000. 
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR 
For carrying out the responsibilities of the Office of the Director, 
National Institutes of Health, $100,575,000, including purchase of 
not to exceed five passenger motor vehicles for replacement only: 
Provided, That $15,000,000 of this amount shall be available for 
extramural facilities construction grants if awarded competitively: 
Provided further, That the funds for the AIDS Research Loan 
Repayment Program remain available through September 30, 1992: 
Provided further. That the Director may direct up to one percent of 
the total amount made available in this Act to all National In-
stitutes of Health appropriations to high-priority activities the 
Director may so designate: Provided further. That no such appro-
priation shall be increased or decreased by more than one percent 
by any such transfers and that the Congress is promptly notified of 
the transfer. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For construction of, and acquisition of equipment for, facilities of 
or used by the National Institutes of Health, $172,853,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
ALCOHOL, DRUG ABUSE, AND MENTAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
ALCOHOL, DRUG ABUSE, AND MENTAL HEALTH 
For carrying out the Public Health Service Act with respect to 
mental health, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and alcoholism, section 
3521 of Public Law 100-690, section 621 of Public Law 100-628, and 
the Protection and Advocacy for Mentally 111 Individuals Act of 
1986, $2,966,898,000, of which $3,126,000 for renovation of govern-
ment owned or leased intramural research facilities shall remain 
available until expended and of which $5,000,000 shall be available 
for grants on a competitive basis for the construction, renovation, 
operation and maintenance of research facilities: Provided, That 
funds available under this heading for block grants under subpart 1, 
part B of title XIX of the Public Health Service Act shall be 
expended by States in accordance with the same criteria and limita-
tions as were applied to such grants for the fiscal year 1990. 
FEDERAL SUBSIDY FOR SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL 
To' carry out the Saint Elizabeths Hospital and District of Colum-
bia Mental Health Services Act, $12,000,000, which shall be avail-
able in fiscal year 1991 for payments to the District of Columbia as 
authorized by section 9(a) of the Act: Provided, That any amounts 
determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to be in 
excess of the amounts requested and estimated to be necessary to 
carry out sections 6 and 9(f)(2) of the Act shall be returned to the 
Treasury. 
104 STAT. 2202 
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HEALTH 
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HEALTH 
For the expenses necessary for the Office of Assistant Secretary 
for Health and for carrying out titles III, XVII, XX, and XXI of the 
Public Health Service Act, $69,540,000, and, in addition, amounts 
received by the Public Health Service from Freedom of Information 
Act fees, reimbursable and interagency agreements and the sale of 
data tapes shall be credited to this appropriation and shall remain 
available until expended. 
RETIREMENT PAY AND MEDICAL BENEFITS FOR COMMISSIONED OFFICERS 
For retirement pay and medical benefits of Public Health Service 
Commissioned Officers as authorized by law, and for payments 
under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection Plan and Survi-
vor Benefit Plan and for medical care of dependents and retired 
personnel under the Dependents' Medical Care Act (10 U.S.C. ch. 
55), and for payments pursuant to section 22903) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 429(b)), such amounts as may be required 
during the current fiscal year. 
AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE POLICY AND RESEARCH 
HEALTH CARE POLICY AND RESEARCH 
For carrying out titles III and IX of the Public Health Service Act, 
and Part A of title XI of the Social Security Act, $98,887,000 
together with not to exceed $5,000,000 to be transferred from the 
Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal Supplementary Medical 
Insurance Trust Funds, as authorized by section 1142 of the Social 
Security Act and not to exceed $1,037,000 to be transferred from the 
Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal Supplementary Medical 
Insurance Trust Funds, as authorized by section 201(g) of the Social 
Security Act; and, in addition, amounts received from Freedom of 
Information Act fees, reimbursable and interagency agreements, 
and the sale of data tapes shall be credited to this appropriation and 
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That the amount 
made available pursuant to section 926(b) of the Public Health 
Service Act shall not exceed $13,776,000. 
HEALTH CARE FINANCING ADMINISTRATION 
GRANTS TO STATES FOR MEDICAID 
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles XI and XIX 
of the Social Security Act, $36,966,394,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
For making, after May 31, 1991, payments to States under title 
XIX of the Social Security Act for the last quarter of fiscal year 1991 
for unanticipated costs, incurred for the current fiscal year, such 
sums as may be necessary. 
For making payments to States under title XIX of the Social 
Security Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 1992, $13,500,000,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
Payment under title XIX may be made for any quarter with 
respect to a State plan or plan amendment in effect during such 
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104 STAT. 2203 
quarter, if submitted in or prior to such quarter and approved in 
that or any subsequent quarter. 
PAYMENTS TO HEALTH CARE TRUST FUNDS 
For payment to the Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal 
Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds, as provided under 
sections 217(g) and 1844 of the Social Security Act, sections 103(c) 
and 111(d) of the Social Security Amendments of 1965, and section 
278(d) of Public Law 97-248, $35,335,000,000. 
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT 
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles XI, XVIII, 
and XIX of the Social Security Act, title XIII of the Public Health 
Service Act, the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 
1988, and section 4005(e) of Public Law 100-203, as amended, 
$105,466,000, together with not to exceed $2,029,138,000 to be trans-
ferred to this appropriation as authorized by section 201(g) of the 
Social Security Act, from the Federal Hospital Insurance and the 
Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds: Provided, 
That $136,500,000 of said trust funds shall be expended only to the 
extent necessary to meet unanticipated costs of agencies or organiza-
tions with which agreements have been made to participate in the 
administration of title XVIII and after maximum absorption of such 
costs within the remainder of the existing limitation has been 
achieved: Provided further, That all funds derived in accordance 
with 31 U.S.C. 9701 from organizations established under title XIII 
of the Public Health Service Act are to be credited to this appropria-
tion: Provided further, That all funds collected in accordance with 
section 353 of the Public Health Service Act are to be credited to this 
appropriation to remain available until expended. 
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 
PAYMENTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS 
For payment to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and 
the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds, as provided under 
sections 201(m), 228(g), and 1131(b)(2) of the Social Security Act, 
$46,958,000. 
SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR DISABLED COAL MINERS 
For carrying out title IV of the Federal Mine Safety and Health 
Act of 1977, including the payment of travel expenses on an actual 
cost or commuted basis, to an individual, for travel incident to 
medical examinations, and when travel of more than 75 miles is 
required, to parties, their representatives, and all reasonably nec-
essary witnesses for travel within the United States, Puerto Rico, 
and the Virgin Islands, to reconsideration interviews and to proceed-
ings before administrative law judges, $626,081,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That monthly benefit payments shall 
be paid consistent with section 215(g) of the Social Security Act. 
For making, after July 31 of the current fiscal year, benefit 
payments to individuals under title IV of the Federal Mine Safety 
and Health Act of 1977, for costs incurred in the current fiscal year, 
such amounts as may be necessary. 
104 STAT. 2204 
PUBLIC LAW 101-517—NOV. 5, 1990 
For making benefit payments under title IV of the Federal Mine 
Safety and Health Act of 1977 for the first quarter of fiscal year 
1992, $203,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM 
For carrying out the Supplemental Security Income Program, 
title XI of the Social Security Act, section 401 of Public Law 92-603, 
section 212 of Public Law 93-66, as amended, and section 405 of 
Public Law 95-216, including payment to the Social Security trust 
funds for administrative expenses incurred pursuant to section 
201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, $14,031,394,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That any portion of the funds pro-
vided to a State in the current fiscal year and not obligated by the 
State during that year shall be returned to the Treasury: Provided, 
That all collections from repayments of overpayments shall be 
deposited in the general fund of the Treasury. 
For making, after July 31 of the current fiscal year, benefit 
payments to individuals under title XVI of the Social Security Act, 
for unanticipated costs incurred for the current fiscal year, such 
sums as may be necessary. 
For carrying out the Supplemental Security Income Program for 
the first quarter of fiscal year 1992, $3,550,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, not more than $4,316,974,000 may be 
expended, as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security 
Act, from any one or all of the trust funds referred to therein: 
42 use 1383 
Provided, That travel expense payments under section 1631(h) of 
"°*®- 
such Act for travel to hearings may be made only when travel of 
more than seventy-five miles is required: Provided further, That 
$150,000,000 of the foregoing amount shall be apportioned for use 
only to the extent necessary to process workloads not anticipated in 
the budget estimates, for automation projects and their impact on 
the work force, and to meet mandatory increases in costs of agencies 
or organizations with which agreements have been made to partici-
pate in the administration of titles XVI and XVIII and section 221 of 
the Social Security Act, and after maximum absorption of such costs 
within the remainder of the existing limitation has been achieved: 
Provided further. That none of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used for the manufacture, printing, or procuring of social 
security cards, as provided in section 205(c)(2)(D) of the Social Secu-
rity Act, where paper and other materials used in the manufacture 
of such cards are produced, manufactured, or assembled outside of 
the United States. 
FAMILY SUPPORT ADMINISTRATION 
FAMILY SUPPORT PAYMENTS TO STATES 
For making payments to States or other non-Federal entities, 
except as otherwise provided, under titles I, IV-A and -D, X, XI, 
XIV, and XVI of the Social Security Act, and the Act of July 5, 1960 
(24 U.S.C. ch. 9), $10,172,346,000, to remain available until expended. 
For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments to 
States or other non-Federal entities under titles I, IV-A and -D, X, 
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104 STAT. 2205 
XI, XIV, and XVI of the Social Security Act, for the last three 
months of the current year for unanticipated costs, incurred for the 
current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary. 
For making payments to States or other non-Federal entities 
under titles I, IV-A and -D, X, XI, XIV, and XVI of the Social 
Security Act and the Act of July 5, 1960 (24 U.S.C. ch. 9) for the first 
quarter of fiscal year 1992, $3,300,000,000 to remain available until 
expended. 
PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR AFDC WORK PROGRAMS 
For carrying out aid to families with dependent children work 
programs, as authorized by part F of title IV of the Social Security 
Act, $1,000,000,000. 
LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE 
For making payments under title XXVI of the Omnibus Budget 
Reconciliation Act of 1981, $1,450,000,000, of which $74,610,000 shall 
become available for making payments on September 30, 1991. 
ENERGY EMERGENCY CONTINGENCY FUND 
For the purpose of establishing an "Energy Emergency Contin-
gency Fund", in the United States Treasury to be available for 
grants to the fifty States, the District of Columbia, and Indian tribes 
and tribal organizations receiving direct funding in fiscal year 1991 
under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, 
$200,000,000 which shall be available for obligation after January 
15, 1991: Provided, That the national average retail price of home 
heating oil in any of the months December 1990, January 1991, or 
February 1991, as reported for Petroleum Marketing Monthly by the 
Energy Information Administration or the best available data from 
the Department of Energy on the last day of the month following 
such month, exceeds by 20 per centum or more the average of the 
national average retail price for home heating oil for the cor-
responding month as reported by the Department of Energy for 
1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989: Provided further, That these funds shall 
be allotted to the fifty States and the District of Columbia in 
proportion to the consumption by low^income households in such 
jurisdiction (determined on the basis of the best data available at the 
time of allotment) of home heating oil: Provided further, That for 
allotment purposes only, home heating oil includes liquified petro-
leum gas and kerosene: Provided further. That Indian tribes and 
tribal organizations shall receive the same per centum of the allot-
ment of the State or States in which they are located as they receive 
from that State's (or those States') allotment for fiscal year 1991 
under section 2604 of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act. 
REFUGEE AND ENTRANT ASSISTANCE 
For making payments for refugee and entrant assistance activities 
authorized by title IV of the Immigration and Nationality Act and 
section 501 of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980 (Public 
Law 96-422), $420,770,000, of which $240,000,000 shall be available 
for State cash and medical assistance. 
Low-income 
persons. 
Indians. 
104 STAT. 2206 
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INTERIM ASSISTANCE TO STATES FOR LEGALIZATION 
Section 204(a)(1)(B) of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 
8 use 1255a 
1986 is amended by striking the period at the end thereof and 
"°*® 
inserting in its place the following: ", and funds appropriated for 
fiscal year 1991 under this section are reduced by $566,854,000.". 
Section 204(a)(1)(C) of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 
1986 is amended— 
(1) by striking "$1,000,000,000" and inserting in its place 
"$2,000,000,000"; 
(2) by inserting "for each of fiscal years 1990 and 1991" after 
"paragraph (2)"; and 
(3) by striking the period at the end thereof and inserting in 
its place the following: "and fiscal year 1991.". 
COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT 
For making payments under the Community Services Block Grant 
Act and the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, 
$438,300,000, of which $21,000,000 shall be for carrying out section 
681(a)(2)(A), $4,200,000 shall be for carrying out section 681(a)(2)(D), 
$3,100,000 shall be for carrying out section 681(a)(2)(E), $11,100,000 
shall be for carrying out section 681(a)(2)(F), $250,000 shall be for 
carrying out section 681(a)(3), $4,150,000 shall be for carrying out 
section 408 of Public Law 99-425, and $2,500,000 shall be for carry-
ing out section 681A with respect to the community food and 
nutrition program. 
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary administrative expenses to carry out titles I, IV, X, 
XI, XIV, and XVI of the Social Security Act, the Act of July 5, 1960 
(24 U.S.C. ch. 9), title XXVI of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation 
Act of 1981, the Community Services Block Grant Act, title IV of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act, section 501 of the Refugee Edu-
cation Assistance Act of 1980, Public Law 100-77, and section 126 
and titles IV and V of Public Law 100-485, $86,450,000, to be 
reduced by such sums as may be collected, which shall be credited to 
this account as offsetting collections, from fees authorized under 
section 453 of the Social Security Act: Provided, That funds appro-
priated in Public Law 101-166 for the Commission on Interstate 
Child Support shall remain available through September 30, 1991. 
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES 
SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT 
For 
carrying 
out 
the 
Social 
Services 
Block 
Grant 
Act, 
$2,800,000,000. 
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES 
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, the Runaway and 
Homeless Youth Act, the Older Americans Act of 1965, the Devel-
opmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, chapter 8-D 
of title VI of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, the 
Head Start Act, the Child Development Associate Scholarship 
Assistance Act of 1985, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment 
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104 STAT. 2207 
Act, chapters 1 and 2 of subtitle B of title III of the Anti-Drug Abuse 
Act of 1988, the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (title 
III of Public Law 98-457), the Native American Programs Act, title 
II of Public Law 95-266 (adoption opportunities), section 206 of the 
Temporary Child Care for Children with Disabilities and Crisis 
Nurseries Act of 1986, the Comprehensive Child Development Cen-
ters Act of 1988, the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1988, 
section 10404 of Public Law 101-239 and part B of title IV and 
section 1110 of the Social Security Act, $3,519,699,000, of which 
$1,000,000 shall remain available until expended for the 1991 White 
House Conference on Aging. 
For carrying out the Child Care and Development Block Grant 
Act of 1990, $750,000,000 which shall become available for obligation 
on September 7, 1991: Provided, That these funds shall only become 
available upon enactment into law of authorizing legislation. 
PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION ASSISTANCE 
For carrying out part E of title IV of the Social Security Act, 
$2,611,281,000, of which $520,911,000 shall be for payment of prior 
years' claims: Provided, 
That of the total amount provided, 
$27,352,000 shall be transferred to the "Human Development Serv-
ices" account for part B of title IV of the Act. 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided, for general de-
partmental management, including hire of six medium sedans, 
$81,350,000, of which $20,995,000 shall be available for expenses 
necessary for the Office of the General Counsel, together with 
$31,100,000, of which $26,881,000 shall be available for expenses 
necessary for the Office of the General Counsel, to be transferred 
and expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Secu-
rity Act from any one or all of the trust funds referred to therein. 
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the Office of the Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $53,500,000, together with not to exceed $43,723,000, to be 
.. , 
transferred and expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the 
Social Security Act from any one or all of the trust funds referred to 
therein. 
OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS 
For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights, $17,585,000, 
together with not to exceed $4,000,000, to be transferred and 
expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security 
Act from any one or all of the trust funds referred to therein. 
POLICY RESEARCH 
For carrjdng out, to the extent not otherwise provided, research 
studies under section 1110 of the Social Security Act, $9,167,000: 
Provided, That not less than $3,150,000 shall be obligated to con-
104 STAT. 2208 
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tinue research on poverty conducted by the Institute for Research 
on Poverty. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 201. None of the funds made available by this Act for the 
National Institutes of Health, except for those appropriated to the 
"Office of the Director", may be used to provide forward funding or 
multiyear funding of research project grants except in those cases 
where the Director of the National Institutes of Health has deter-
mined that such funding is specifically required because of the 
scientific requirements of a particular research project grant. 
SEC. 202. Appropriations in this or any other Act shall be avail-
able for expenses for active commissioned officers in the Public 
Health Service Reserve Corps and for not to exceed 2,400 commis-
sioned officers in the Regular Corps; expenses incident to the 
dissemination of health information in foreign countries through 
exhibits and other appropriate means; advances of funds for com-
pensation, travel, and subsistence expenses (or per diem in lieu 
thereof) for persons coming from abroad to participate in health or 
scientific activities of the Department pursuant to law; expenses of 
primary and secondary schooling of dependents in foreign countries, 
of Public Health Service commissioned officers stationed in foreign 
countries, at costs for any given area not in excess of those of the 
Department of Defense for the same area, when it is determined by 
the Secretary that the schools available in the locality are unable to 
provide adequately for the education of such dependents, and for the 
transportation of such dependents, between such schools and their 
places of residence when the schools are not accessible to such 
dependents by regular means of transportation; expenses for medi-
cal care for civilian and commissioned employees of the Public 
Health Service and their dependents, assigned abroad on a perma-
nent basis in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may 
provide; rental or lease of living quarters (for periods not exceeding 
five years), and provision of heat, fuel, and light and maintenance, 
improvement, and repair of such quarters, and advance payments 
therefor, for civilian officers, and employees of the Public Health 
Service who are United States citizens and who have a permanent 
station in a foreign country; purchase, erection, and maintenance of 
temporary or portable structures; and for the payment of compensa-
tion to consultants or individual scientists appointed for limited 
periods of time pursuant to section 207(f) or section 207(g) of the 
Public Health Service Act, at rates established by the Assistant 
Secretary for Health, or the Secretary where such action is required 
by statute, not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for 
GS-18. 
SEC. 203. None of the funds contained in this Act shall be used to 
perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be 
endangered if the fetus were carried to term. 
SEC. 204. Funds advanced to the National Institutes of Health 
Management Fund from appropriations in this Act shall be avail-
able for the expenses of sharing medical care facilities and resources 
pursuant to section 327 
A of the Public Health Service Act. 
SEC. 205. Funds appropriated in this title shall be available for not 
to exceed $37,000 for official reception and representation expenses 
when specifically approved by the Secretary. 
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104 STAT. 2209 
SEC. 206. Amounts received from employees of the Department in 
payment for room and board may be credited to the appropriation 
accounts which finance the activities of the PubHc Health Service. 
SEC. 207. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be 
used to provide special retention pay O^onuses) under paragraph (4) 
of 37 U.S.C. 302(a) to any regular or reserve medical officer of the 
Public Health Service for any period during which the officer is 
assigned to the clinical, research, or staff associate program 
administered by the National Institutes of Health or the Alcohol, 
Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration. 
SEC. 208. Funds provided in this Act may be used for one-year 
contracts which are to be performed in two fiscal years, so long as 
the total amount for such contracts is obligated in the year for 
which the funds are appropriated. 
SEC. 209. The Secretary shall make available through assignment 
not more than 60 employees of the Public Health Service to assist in 
child survival activities and to work in AIDS programs through and 
with funds provided by the Agency for International Development, 
the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund or the 
World Health Organization. 
SEC. 210. For the purpose of insuring proper management of 
federally supported computer systems and data bases, funds appro-
priated by this Act -are available for the purchase of dedicated 
telephone service between the private residences of employees 
assigned to computer centers funded under this Act, and the com-
puter centers to which such employees are assigned. 
SEC. 211. No funds appropriated under this Act shall be used by 
the National Institutes of Health, or any other Federal agency, or 
recipient of Federal funds on any project that entails the capture or 
procurement of chimpanzees obtained from the wild. For purposes of 
this section, the term "recipient of Federal funds" includes private 
citizens, corporations, or other research institutions located outside 
of the United States that are recipients of Federal funds. 
SEC. 212. None of the funds appropriated by this title shall be used 
to pay for any research program or project or any program, project, 
or course which is of an experimental nature, or any other activity 
involving human participants, which is determined by the Secretary 
or a court of competent jurisdiction to present a danger to the 
physical, mental, or emotional well-being of a participant or subject 
of such program, project, or course, without the written, informed 
consent of each participant or subject, or a participant's parents or 
legal guardian, if such participant or subject is under eighteen years 
of age. The Secretary shall adopt appropriate regulations respecting 
this section. 
SEC. 213. None of the funds appropriated in this title for the 
National Institutes of Health and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and 
Mental Health Administration shall be used to pay the salary of an 
individual, through a grant or other extramural mechanism, at a 
rate in excess of $120,000 per year. 
SEC. 214. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, AIDS 
education programs that receive assistance from the Centers for 
Disease Control and other education curricula dealing with sexual 
activity that receive assistance under this Act— 
(1) shall not be designed to promote or encourage, directly, 
intravenous drug abuse or sexual activity, homosexual or 
heterosexual; and 
Infants and 
children. 
AIDS. 
Tele-
communications. 
Computer 
technology. 
Government 
employees. 
Regulations. 
Educational 
study programs. 
AIDS. 
Appropriations 
Act, 1991. 
104 STAT. 2210 
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(2) with 
regard 
to 
AIDS 
education 
programs 
and 
curricula— 
(A) shall be designed to reduce exposure to and trans-
mission of the etiologic agent for acquired immune defi-
ciency syndrome by providing accurate information; and 
(B) shall provide information on the health risks of 
promiscuous sexual activity and intravenous drug abuse. 
This title may be cited as the "Department of Health and Human 
Services Appropriations Act, 1991". 
Department of 
TITLE III—DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
Education 
COMPENSATORY EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED 
For carrying out the activities authorized by chapter 1 of title I of 
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, 
and by section 418A of the Higher Education Act, $6,378,231,000, of 
which $6,350,158,000 shall become available on July 1, 1991 and 
shall remain available until September 30, 1992: Provided, That 
$5,125,500,000 shall be available for basic grants under section 1005, 
$569,500,000 shall be available for concentration grants under sec-
tion 1006, $301,871,000 shall be available for migrant education 
activities under subpart 1 of part D, $152,537,000 shall be available 
for handicapped education activities under subpart 2 of part D, 
$37,000,000 shall be available for delinquent and neglected edu-
cation activities under subpart 3 of part D, $60,600,000 shall be for 
State administration under section 1404, and $15,150,000 shall be for 
program improvement activities under section 1405: Provided fur-
ther, That no State shall receive less than $340,000 from the 
amounts made available under this appropriation for concentration 
grants under section 1006: Provided further, That no state shall 
receive less than $375,000 from the amounts made available under 
this appropriation for State administration grants under section 
1404. 
From the amounts appropriated for part A of chapter 1, an 
amount not to exceed $100,000,000 may be obligated to carry out a 
new Merit Schools program only if such program is specifically 
authorized in law prior to December 31, 1990. 
IMPACT AID 
For carrying out programs of financial assistance to federally 
affected schools as authorized by Public Laws 81-815 and 81-874, as 
amended, $800,000,000, of which $600,000,000 shall be for payments 
under section 3(a), $140,000,000 shall be for payments under section 
3(b), $14,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be for 
disaster assistance payments under section 7, $17,00(),000 shall be 
for Federal property payments under section 2, $2,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, shall be for payments under sec-
tion 3(e) related to shifts in enrollment and $27,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, shall be for construction and renovation of 
school facilities including $10,000,000 for awards under section 10, 
$10,000,000 for awards under sections 14(a) and 14(b), and $7,000,000 
for awards under sections 5 and 14(c): Provided, That, of the 
amounts appropriated for payments under sections 3(a) and 3(b), not 
to exceed $25,000,000 shall be available for payments under section 
3(d)(2)(B): Provided further, That any school district that received a 
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104 STAT. 2211 
payment under section 5(b)i2) of the Act for fiscal year 1986, but 
which the Department of Education has determined to be ineligible 
for section 2 assistance due to a review of the original assessed value 
of the real property involved at the time of acquisition of the 
Federal property, shall be deemed eligible for payments under 
section 2 for fiscal year 1991 only. 
SCHOOL 
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS 
For carrying out the activities authorized by chapter 2 of title I 
and titles II, III, IV, without regard to sections 5112(a) and 
5112(c)(2)(A), V, and VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act of 1965, as amended; the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assist-
ance Act; the Civil Rights Act of 1964; title V of the Higher 
Education Act, as amended; part B of title III and title IV of Public 
Law 100-297; and chapter 5 of subtitle A of title VI of Public Law 
100-418; the Follow Through Act; and title IX of the Education for 
Economic Security Act, $1,621,735,000, of which $1,195,128,000 shall 
become available on July 1, 1991, and remain available until 
September 30, 1992: Provided, That of the amount appropriated, 
$1,000,000 shall be for an evaluation study of the chapter 2 block 
grant program, and $35,407,000 shall be for national programs 
under part B of chapter 2; $12,000,000 shall be for national program 
activities under section 2012 and $207,000,000 shall be for State 
grants under part A of title II of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965, as amended; $5,415,000 shall be for grants for 
schools and teachers under subpart 1 and $3,700,000 shall be for 
family-school partnerships under subpart 2 of part B of title III of 
Public Law 100-297: Provided further, That of the amounts appro-
priated herein, $2,000,000 shall be available for the National Writ-
ing Project, contingent upon enactment of authorizing legislation. 
BILINGUAL AND IMMIGRANT EDUCATION 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, title VII 
and part D of title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act, $202,904,000, of which $36,957,000 shall be for training activi-
ties under part C of title VII including not more than $4,000,000 for 
the support of not to exceed 400 fellowships under section 7043. 
EDUCATION FOR THE HANDICAPPED 
For carrying out the Education of the Handicapped Act, 
$2,528,378,000, of which $1,900,000,000 for section 611, $300,000,000 
for section 619, and $120,000,000 for section 685 shall become avail-
able for obligation on July 1, 1991, and shall remain available 
through September 30,1992. 
REHABILITATION SERVICES AND DISABILITY RESEARCH 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the Re-
habilitation Act of 1973, Public Law 100-407, and the Helen Keller 
National Center Act, as amended, $1,896,499,000, of which 
$18,822,000 shall be for special demonstration programs under sec-
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tions 311 (a), (b), and (c): Provided, That, until October 1, 1991, the 
funds appropriated to carry out section 711 of the Rehabilitation Act 
of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 796e) shall be used to support entities currently 
receiving grants under the section. 
SPECIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES 
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND 
For carrying out the Act of March 3, 1879, as amended (20 U.S.C. 
101 et seq.), $6,288,000. 
NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF 
For the National Technical Institute for the Deaf under titles II 
and IV of the Education of the Deaf Act of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 4301 et 
seq.), $38,131,000, of which $336,000 shall be for the endowment 
program as authorized under section 408 and shall be available until 
expended. 
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY 
For the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, the Model 
Secondary School for the Deaf and the partial support of Gallaudet 
University under titles I and IV of the Education of the Deaf Act of 
1986 (20 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.), $74,047,000, of which $1,000,000 shall be 
for the endowment program as authorized under section 407 and 
shall be available until expended, and $2,500,000 shall be for 
construction and shall be available until expended. 
VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the Carl D. 
Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, the 
Adult Education Act, the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assist-
ance Act, and the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, 
$1,276,293,000 which shall become available for obligation on July 1, 
1991, and shall remain available through September 30, 1992: Pro-
vided, That of the amounts made available under the Carl D. 
Perkins 
Vocational 
and 
Applied Technology Education 
Act 
$25,290,000 shall be for national programs under title IV, including 
$7,000,000 for 
research, 
$13,290,000 for 
demonstrations 
and 
$5,000,000 for data collection and $2,500,000 shall be for tribally 
controlled postsecondary vocational institutions under title III, part 
H: Provided further. That of the amounts made available under the 
Adult Education Act, $1,000,000 shall be available only for dem-
onstration programs under section 372(d), $3,000,000 shall be for 
national programs under section 383, and $5,000,000 shall be for 
literacy clearinghouse activities under section 384: Provided further, 
That $2,000,000 of the total appropriated herein shall be for 
commercial driver literacy if authorized in law. 
STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE 
For carrying out subparts 1, 2, and 3 of part A and parts C, D, and 
E of title IV of the Higher Education Act, as amended, 
$6,879,475,000, which shall remain available until September 30, 
1992, and of which $113,000,000 shall only be available if such funds 
20 use 1070a 
are necessary to pay a maximum grant of $2,400 during the 1991-
note. 
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1992 program year, which shall be the maximum Pell grant that a 
student may receive: Provided, That notwithstanding section 479A 
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 as amended, student financial 
aid administrators shall be authorized, on the basis of adequate 
documentation, to make necessary adjustments to the cost of attend-
ance and the expected student or parent contribution (or both) and 
to use supplementary information about the financial status or 
personal circumstances of eligible applicants only for purposes of 
selecting recipients and determining the amount of awards under 
subpart 2 of part A, and parts B, C, and E of title IV of the Act: 
Provided further, 
That notwithstanding section 411F(1) of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 as amended, the term "annual 
adjusted family income" shall, under special circumstances pre-
scribed by the Secretary, mean the sum received in the first cal-
endar year of the award year from the sources described in that 
section: Provided further. That notwithstanding section 411(b)(6XB) 
of the Higher Education Act of 1965, no Pell grant for award year 
1991-1992 shall be awarded to any student who is attending an 
institution of higher education on a less than half-time basis: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding sections 481(b) and 484 of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 as amended, in order for a student to 
be eligible to receive any student financial aid authorized under title 
IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 as amended, for award year 
1991-1992, a student must have a high school diploma or its recog-
nized equivalent, or, prior to enrollment in the course of study for 
which such assistance is sought, shall have secured a passing grade 
on a test of ability to complete successfully that course, and that the 
test shall be developed, administered, and graded by one or more 
organizations determined by the Secretary to be independent of the 
institutions using the test. 
GUARANTEED STUDENT LOANS 
(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORITY) 
For pajonent of obligations incurred under contract authority 
entered into pursuant to title IV, part B, of the Higher Education 
Act, as amended, $5,381,422,000. 
HIGHER EDUCATION 
For carrjdng out, to the extent not otherwise provided for, titles I, 
III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, and XII of the Higher Education Act 
of 1965, as amended, the Mutual Educational and Cultural Ex-
change Act of 1961, and the Library Services and Construction Act 
Amendments of 1984, section 6120?) of Public Law 101-162, section 
140 of Public Law 100-202, title XIII, part H, subpart 1 of the 
Education Amendments of 1980, $781,470,000, of which $17,893,000 
for endowment activities under section 332 of part C of title III of 
the Higher Education Act, $300,000 for section 777, and $20,900,000 
for interest subsidies under part D of title VII of the Higher 
Education Act, $5,500,000 for section 6120)) of Public Law 101-162, 
$3,000,000 for section 140(a) and $1,000,000 for section 140(b) of 
Public Law 100-202 shall remain available until expended, and of 
which $3,000,000 shall be for carrying out section 304 of Public Law 
98-480: Provided, That of the amounts provided herein, $700,000 
shall be available for subpart 1 of part H of title XIII of the 
Education Amendments of 1980: Provided further. That $9,500,000 
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provided herein for carrying out subpart 6 of part A of title IV shall 
be available notwithstanding sections 419G(b) and 4191(a) of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070d-37(b) and 1070d-
39(a)): Provided further. That $1,000,000 of the amount provided 
herein for subpart 4 of part A of title IV of the Higher Education 
Act shall be for an evaluation of Special Programs for the Disadvan-
taged to examine the effectiveness of current programs and to 
identify program improvements: Provided further, 
That of the 
amounts provided herein, $1,000,000 shall be available to carry out a 
national science scholars program, if authorized in law: Provided 
further. That of the amounts provided herein, $4,000,000 shall 
remain available until expended for an award for carrying out part 
B of title VII of the Higher Education Act. 
HOWARD UNIVERSITY 
For partial support of Howard University (20 U.S.C. 121 et seq.), 
$200,036,000, of which $3,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, shall be for a matching endowment grant to be adminis-
tered in accordance with the Howard University Endowment Act 
(Public Law 98-480), and $6,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, shall be for emergency construction needs. 
HIGHER EDUCATION FACILITIES LOANS 
The Secretary is hereby authorized to make such expenditures, 
within the limits of funds available under this heading and in accord 
with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without 
regard to fiscal year limitation, as provided by section 104 of the 
Government Corporation Control Act (31 U.S.C. 9104), as may be 
necessary in carrying out the program for the current fiscal year. 
For the fiscal year 1991, no new commitments for loans may be 
made from the fund established pursuant to title VII, section 733 of 
the Higher Education Act, as amended (20 U.S.C. 1132d-2). 
COLLEGE HOUSING AND ACADEMIC FACILITIES LOANS 
Pursuant to title VII, part F of the Higher Education Act, as 
amended, for necessary expenses of the college housing and aca-
demic facilities loans program, the Secretary shall make expendi-
tures, contracts, and commitments without regard to fiscal year 
limitation: Provided, That during fiscal year 1991, gross commit-
ments for the principal amount of direct loans shall be $30,000,000. 
For payment of interest on funds borrowed from the Treasury 
pursuant to section 761(d) of the Higher Education Act, as amended, 
$8,449,000, to remain available until expended. 
COLLEGE HOUSING LOANS 
Government 
Pursuant to title VII, part F of the Higher Education Act, as 
contracts. 
amended, for necessary expenses of the college housing loans pro-
gram, previously carried out under title IV of the Housing Act of 
1950, the Secretary shall make expenditures and enter into 
contracts without regard to fiscal year limitation using loan repay-
ments and other resources available to this account. Any unobli-
gated balances becoming available from fixed fees paid into this 
account pursuant to 12 U.S.C. 1749d, relating to payment of costs for 
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104 STAT. 2215 
inspections and site visits, shall be available for the operating 
expenses of this account. 
EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS, AND IMPROVEMENT 
For necessary expenses to carry out section 405 and section 406 of 
the General Education Provisions Act, as amended, $133,404,000, of 
which $4,000,000 shall be for the rural education program conducted 
by the regional laboratories which shall be in addition to the 
amounts carried forward from fiscal year 1990 for this purpose. In 
addition to these amounts, $5,000,000 shall be available for teaching 
standards activities, if authorized, which shall be awarded to the 
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards if such a grant 
is specifically authorized in law. 
LIBRARIES 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, titles I, II, 
III, IV, V, and VI of the Library Services and Construction Act (20 
U.S.C. ch. 16), and title II of the Higher Education Act, $146,428,000 
of which $19,693,000 shall be used to carry out the provisions of title 
II of the Library Services and Construction Act which shall remain 
available until expended. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the Depart-
ment of Education Organization Act, including rental of conference 
rooms in the District of Columbia and hire of three passenger motor 
vehicles, $331,000,000. 
OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS 
For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights, as au-
thorized by section 203 of the Department of Education Organiza-
tion Act, $50,400,000. 
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the Office of the Inspector General, as 
authorized by section 212 of the Department of Education Organiza-
tion Act, $25,800,000. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 301. Funds appropriated in this Act to the American Printing 
House for the Blind, Howard University, the National Technical 
Institute for the Deaf, and Gallaudet University shall be subject to 
financial and program audit by the Secretary of Education and the 
Secretary may withhold all or any portion of these appropriations if 
he determines that an institution has not cooperated fully in the 
conduct of such audits. 
SEC. 302. No part of the funds contained in this title may be used 
to force any school or school district which is desegregated as that 
term is defined in title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Public Law 
88-352, to take any action to force the busing of students; to force on 
account of race, creed or color the abolishment of any school so 
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Magnet schools. 
Religious 
discrimination. 
desegregated; or to force the transfer or assignment of any student 
attending any elementary or secondary school so desegregated to or 
from a particular school over the protest of his or her parents or 
parent. 
SEC. 303. (a) No part of the funds contained in this title shall be 
used to force any school or school district which is desegregated as 
that term is defined in title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Public 
Law 88-352, to take any action to force the busing of students; to 
require the abolishment of any school so desegregated; or to force on 
account of race, creed or color the transfer of students to or from a 
particular school so desegregated as a condition precedent to obtain-
ing Federal funds otherwise available to any State, school district or 
school. 
(h) No funds appropriated in this Act may be used for the 
transportation of students or teachers (or for the purchase of equip-
ment for such transportation) in order to overcome racial imbalance 
in any school or school system, or for the transportation of students 
or teachers (or for the purchase of equipment for such transpor-
tation) in order to carry out a plan of racial desegregation of any 
school or school system. 
SEC. 304. None of the funds contained in this Act shall be used to 
require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student to a 
school other than the school which is nearest the student's home, 
except for a student requiring special education, to the school 
offering such special education, in order to comply with title VI of 
the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For the purpose of this section an 
indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the 
transportation of students to carry out a plan involving the reorga-
nization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or 
the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, 
pairing or clustering. The prohibition described in this section does 
not include the establishment of magnet schools. 
SEC. 305. No funds appropriated under this Act may be used to 
prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and 
meditation in the public schools. 
IMPACT AID 
SEC. 306. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in carrying 
out the provisions of section 7 of Public Law 81-874 (20 U.S.C. 241-1) 
(as amended) and section 16 of Public Law 81-815 (20 U.S.C. 646) (as 
amended), the Secretary of Education shall reduce or waive the 
administrative guideline of a 25 percent non-Federal share upon a 
showing o
f
— 
(1) financial hardship by the State or political subdivision 
thereof in the provision of; or 
(2) a good faith effort by the State or political subdivision 
thereof to provide; 
the non-Federal share for purposes related to the disaster for which 
Federal assistance is sought. 
This title may be cited as the "Department of Education Appro-
priations Act, 1991". 
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TITLE IV—RELATED AGENCIES 
ACTION 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for Action to carry out the provisions of 
the Domestic Volunteer 
Service Act of 1973, as amended, 
$196,015,000: Provided, That $31,035,000 shall be available for title I, 
section 102, and $2,245,000 shall be available for title I, part C. 
CORPORATION FOR PUBUC BROADCASTING 
^ For payment to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as au-
thorized by the Communications Act of 1934, an amount which shall 
be available within limitations specified by that Act, for the fiscal 
year 1993, $326,505,000, of which $66,940,000 shall be available for 
section 396(k)(10) of said Act: Provided, That no funds made avail-
able to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by this Act shall be 
used to pay for receptions, parties, or similar forms of entertainment 
for Government officials or employees: Provided further. That none 
of the funds contained in this paragraph shall be available or used 
to aid or support any program or activity from which any person is 
excluded, or is denied benefits, or is discriminated against, on the 
basis of race, color, national origin, religion, or sex. 
FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mediation and Concilia-
tion Service to carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor-
Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. 171-180, 182-183), 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles; and for expenses nec-
essary for the Labor-Management Cooperation Act of 1978 (29 U.S.C. 
175a); and for expenses necessary for the Service to carry out the 
functions vested in it by the Civil Service Reform Act, Public Law 
95-454 (5 U.S.C. chapter 71), $27,705,000. 
FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mine Safety and Health 
Review Commission (30 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), $4,292,000. 
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON A.CQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY 
SYNDROME 
For expenses necessary for the National Commission on Acquired 
Immune Deficiency Syndrome as authorized by subtitle D of title II 
of Public Law 100-607, $3,000,000. 
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON CHILDREN 
For necessary expenses of the National Commission on Children 
established by section 9136 of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 
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1987, Public Law 100-203 as amended, $1,100,000, which shall 
remain available until expended. 
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the National Commission on Libraries 
and Information Science, established by the Act of July 20, 1970 
(Public Law 91-845), $750,000. 
NATIONAL COMMISSION TO PREVENT INFANT MORTALITY 
For necessary expenses of the National Commission to Prevent 
Infant Mortality, established by section 203 of the National Commis-
sion to Prevent Infant Mortality Act of 1986, Public Law 99-660, 
$400,000, which shall remain available until expended. 
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the National Council on Disability as 
authorized by title IV of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, 
$1,475,000. 
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the National Labor Relations Board to 
carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor-Management 
Relations Act, 1947, as amended (29 U.S.C. 141-167), and other laws, 
$151,103,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be 
available to organize or assist in organizing agricultural laborers or 
used in connection with investigations, hearings, directives, or 
orders concerning bargaining units composed of agricultural labor-
ers as referred to in section 2(3) of the Act of July 5, 1935 (29 U.S.C. 
152), and as amended by the Labor-Management Relations Act, 
1947, as amended, and as defined in section 3(f) of the Act of June 25, 
1938 (29 U.S.C. 203), and including in said definition employees 
engaged in the maintenance and operation of ditches, canals, res-
ervoirs, and waterways when maintained or operated on a mutual, 
nonprofit basis and at least 95 per centum of the water stored or 
supplied thereby is used for farming purposes. 
NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Railway 
Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 151-188), including emergency 
boards appointed by the President, $6,675,000. 
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104 STAT. 2219 
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For the expenses necessary for the Occupational Safety and 
Health Review Commission (29 U.S.C. 661), $6,401,000. 
PHYSICIAN PAYMENT REVIEW COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out section 1845(a) of the Social 
Security Act, $3,871,000, to be transferred to this appropriation from 
the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. 
PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT ASSESSMENT COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out section 1886(e) of the Social 
Security Act, $3,971,000, to be transferred to this appropriation from 
the Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal Supplementary 
Medical Insurance Trust Funds. 
RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD 
DUAL BENEFITS PAYMENTS ACCOUNT 
For payment to the Dual Benefits Payments Account, authorized 
under section 15(d) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, 
$335,000,000, which shall include amounts becoming available in 
fiscal year 1991 pursuant to section 224(c)(1)(B) of Public Law 98-76: 
Provided, That the total amount provided herein shall be imme-
diately credited to the account: Provided further. That the amount 
provided herein plus the interest earned thereon shall be available 
for payments through September 30,1991. 
FEDERAL PAYMENTS TO THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS 
For payment to the accounts established in the Treasury for the 
payment of benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act for interest 
earned on unnegotiated checks, $400,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 1992, which shall be the maximum amount 
available for payment pursuant to section 417 of Public Law 98-76. 
UMITATION ON ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for the Railroad Retirement Board, 
$71,663,000 to be derived from the railroad retirement accounts, of 
which $2,457,000 shall be available for the lease-to-purchase costs 
and contract services related to the installation of a mainframe 
computer only upon the delegation of procurement authority from 
the General Services Administration to the Railroad Retirement 
Bo£ird: Provided, That $200,000 of the foregoing amount shall be 
available only to the extent necessary to process workloads not 
anticipated in the budget estimates and after maximum absorption 
of the costs of such workloads within the remainder of the existing 
limitation has been achieved: JVouidec?/urf/ier, That notwithstand-
ing any other provision of law, no portion of this limitation shall be 
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available for payments of standard level user charges pursuant to 
section 210(j) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services 
Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 490(j); 45 U.S.C. 228a-r). 
LIMITATION ON RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE 
ADMINISTRATION FUND 
For further expenses necessary for the Railroad Retirement 
Board, for administration of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance 
Act, not less than $15,665,000 shall be apportioned for fiscal year 
1991 from moneys credited to the railroad unemployment insurance 
administration fund of which $433,000 shall be available for the 
lease-to-purchase costs and contract services related to the installa-
tion of a mainframe computer only upon the delegation of procure-
ment authority from the General Services Administration to the 
Railroad Retirement Board. 
LIMITATION ON THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General for 
audit, investigatory and review activities, as authorized by the 
Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, not more than 
$6,000,000, to be derived from the railroad retirement accounts and 
railroad unemployment insurance account. 
SOLDIERS' AND AIRMEN'S HOME 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 
For maintenance and operation of the United States Soldiers' and 
Airmen's Home, to be paid from the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home 
permanent fund, $41,583,000: Provided, That this appropriation 
shall not be available for the payment of hospitalization of members 
of the Home in United States Army hospitals at rates in excess of 
those prescribed by the Secretary of the Army upon recommenda-
tion of the Board of Commissioners and the Surgeon General of the 
Army. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY 
For construction and renovation of the physical plant, to be paid 
from the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home permanent fund, $11,500,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the United States Institute of Peace as 
authorized in the United States Institute of Peace Act, $8,600,000. 
WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES 
For carrying out activities under Public Law 100-382, $500,000. 
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Government 
SEC. 501. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for 
contracts. 
- . 
- 
. 
Public 
information. 
contracts. 
^ny consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 
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104 STAT. 2221 
U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such expendi-
tures are a matter of public record and available for public inspec-
tion, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under 
existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 502. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be expended by an executive agency, as referred to in the Office of 
Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 401 et seq.), pursuant to 
any obligation for services by contract, unless such executive agency 
has awarded and entered into such contract in full compliance with 
such Act and regulations promulgated thereunder. 
SEC. 503. Appropriations contained in this Act, available for sala-
ries and expenses, shall be available for services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109 but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem 
rate equivalent to the rate for GS-18. 
SEC. 504. Appropriations contained in this Act, available for sala-
ries and expenses, shall be available for uniforms or allowances 
therefor as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902). 
SEC. 505. Appropriations contained in this Act, available for sala-
ries and expenses, shall be available for expenses of attendance at 
meetings which are concerned with the functions or activities for 
which the appropriation is made or which will contribute to im-
proved conduct, supervision, or management of those functions or 
activities. 
SEC. 506. No part of the funds appropriated under this Act shall be 
used to provide a loan, guarantee of a loan, a grant, the salary of or 
any remuneration whatever to any individual applying for admis-
sion, attending, employed by, teaching at, or doing research at an 
institution of higher education who has engaged in conduct on or 
after August 1, 1969, which involves the use of (or the assistance to 
others in the use of) force or the threat of force or the seizure of 
property under the control of an institution of higher education, to 
require or prevent the availability of certain curricula, or to prevent 
the faculty, administrative officials, or students in such institution 
from engaging in their duties or pursuing their studies at such 
institution. 
SEC. 507. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human Services, 
and Education are authorized to transfer unexpended balances of 
prior appropriations to accounts corresponding to current appropria-
tions provided in this Act: Provided, That such transferred balances 
are used for the same purpose, and for the same periods of time, for 
which they were originally appropriated. 
SEC. 508. 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. 509. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used, other than for normal and recognized executive-legislative 
relationships, for publicity or propaganda purposes, for the prepara-
tion, distribution, or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, 
radio, television, or film presentation designed to support or defeat 
legislation pending before the Congress, except in presentation to 
the Congress itself. 
No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to 
pay the salary or expenses of any grant or contract recipient, or 
agent acting for such recipient, related to any activity designed to 
influence legislation or appropriations pending before the Congress. 
SEC. 510. The Secretaries of Labor and Education are each au-
thorized to make available not to exceed $7,500 from funds available 
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for salaries and expenses under titles I and III, respectively, for 
official reception and representation expenses; the Director of the 
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is authorized to make 
available for official reception and representation expenses not to 
exceed $2,500 from the funds available for "Salaries and expenses, 
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service"; and the Chairman of 
the National Mediation Board is authorized to make available for 
official reception and representation expenses not to exceed $2,500 
from funds available for "Salaries and expenses, National Mediation 
Board". 
SEC. 511. When issuing statements, press releases, requests for 
proposals, bid solicitations and other documents describing projects 
or programs funded in whole or in part with Federal money, all 
grantees receiving Federal funds, including but not limited to State 
and local governments, shall clearly state (1) the percentage of the 
total costs of the program or project which will be financed with 
Federal money, (2) the dollar amount of Federal funds for the 
project or program, and (3) percentage and dollar amount of the 
total costs of the project or program that will be financed by 
nongovernmental sources. 
Wages. 
SEC. 512. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1991 pay 
raises for programs funded by this Act shall be absorbed within the 
levels appropriated in this Act. 
Drugs. 
SEC. 513. None of the funds appropriated under this Act shall be 
Health. 
used to carry out any program of distributing sterile needles for the 
hypodermic injection of any illegal drug unless the President of the 
United States certifies that such programs are effective in stopping 
the spread of HIV and do not encourage the use of illegal drugs. 
SEC. 514. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
funds appropriated for salaries and expenses of the Department of 
Labor are hereby reduced by $9,000,000; salaries and expenses of the 
Department of Education are hereby reduced by $5,000,000; and 
salaries and expenses of the Department of Health and Human 
Services are hereby reduced by $50,000,000: Provided, That no trust 
fund limitation shall be reduced with the exception of the Social 
Security Administration, Limitation on Administrative Expenses, 
which is hereby reduced by $57,000,000. 
Qo) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, funds appro-
priated or otherwise made available which are not mandated by law 
for programs, projects or activities funded by this Act shall be 
reduced by 2.41 per centum. 
SEC. 515. For purposes of section 202 of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987, transfers, if 
any, in the following accounts are a necessary (but secondary) result 
of significant policy changes: State Unemployment Insurance and 
Employment Service Operations; Low Income Home Energy Assist-
ance; Interim Assistance to States for Legalization; and Human 
Development Services. 
IMPACT AID 
SEC. 516. Section 5(e)(1)(D) of Public Law 81-874 (as amended) (20 
U.S.C. 240) (hereafter in this section referred to as the "Act") shall 
not apply to any local educational agency that was an agency 
described in section 5(c)(2)(A)(ii) of the Act in fiscal year 1990 but is 
an agency described in section 5(c)(2)(A)(iii) in fiscal year 1991 as a 
result of families moving off base due to a landfill or health concern 
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or an environmental hazard, or due to risk assessment, investiga-
tion, testing or remediation for such concern or hazard, and any 
such local educational agency shall be deemed to belong to the 
category described in section 5(c)(2)(A)(ii) for fiscal year 1991. 
This Act may be cited as the "Departments of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 1991". 
Approved November 5, 1990. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 5257: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 101-591 (Comm. on Appropriations) and No. 101-908 (Comm. 
of Conference). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 101-516 (Comm. on Appropriations). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 136 (1990): 
July 19, considered and passed House. 
Oct. 12, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Oct. 22, House agreed to conference report; receded and concurred in certain 
Senate amendments, in others with amendments. 
Oct. 25, Senate agreed to conference report; concurred in certain House 
amendments, in others with amendments. 
Oct. 26, House concurred in certain Senate amendment and disagreed to certain 
others. Senate receded from its amendments.