[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2099 Engrossed in House (EH)]






104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2099

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                                 AN ACT


 
   Making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
  Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, 
  boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 1996, 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 Veterans Affairs and Housing and 
Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, 
commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1996, and for other purposes, namely:
                                TITLE I

                     DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

                    Veterans Benefits Administration

                       compensation and pensions

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the payment of compensation benefits to or on behalf of 
veterans as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 107, chapters 11, 13, 51, 53, 
55, and 61); pension benefits to or on behalf of veterans as authorized 
by law (38 U.S.C. chapters 15, 51, 53, 55, and 61; 92 Stat. 2508); and 
burial benefits, emergency and other officers' retirement pay, 
adjusted-service credits and certificates, payment of premiums due on 
commercial life insurance policies guaranteed under the provisions of 
Article IV of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, as 
amended, and for other benefits as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 107, 
1312, 1977, and 2106, chapters 23, 51, 53, 55, and 61; 50 U.S.C. App. 
540-548; 43 Stat. 122, 123; 45 Stat. 735; 76 Stat. 1198); 
$17,649,972,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That not 
to exceed $25,180,000 of the amount appropriated shall be reimbursed to 
``General operating expenses'' and ``Medical care'' for necessary 
expenses in implementing those provisions authorized in the Omnibus 
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, and in the Veterans' Benefits Act of 
1992, (38 U.S.C. chapters 51, 53, and 55) the funding source for which 
is specifically provided as the ``Compensation and pensions'' 
appropriation: Provided further, That such sums as may be earned on an 
actual qualifying patient basis, shall be reimbursed to ``Medical 
facilities revolving fund'' to augment the funding of individual 
medical facilities for nursing home care provided to pensioners as 
authorized by the Veterans' Benefits Act of 1992 (38 U.S.C. chapter 
55): Provided further, That $12,000,000 previously transferred from 
``Compensation and pensions'' to ``Medical facilities revolving fund'' 
shall be transferred to this heading.
                         readjustment benefits

    For the payment of readjustment and rehabilitation benefits to or 
on behalf of veterans as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. chapters 21, 30, 
31, 34, 35, 36, 39, 51, 53, 55, and 61), $1,345,300,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That funds shall be available to 
pay any court order, court award or any compromise settlement arising 
from litigation involving the vocational training program authorized by 
section 18 of Public Law 98-77, as amended.

                   veterans insurance and indemnities

    For military and naval insurance, national service life insurance, 
servicemen's indemnities, service-disabled veterans insurance, and 
veterans mortgage life insurance as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 
chapter 19; 70 Stat. 887; 72 Stat. 487) $24,890,000, to remain 
available until expended.
                 guaranty and indemnity program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out the purpose of the program, as authorized by 38 
U.S.C. chapter 37, as amended: Provided, That such costs, including the 
cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended.
    In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the direct 
and guaranteed loan programs, $65,226,000, which may be transferred to 
and merged with the appropriation for ``General operating expenses''.
                     loan guaranty program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out the purpose of the program, as authorized by 38 
U.S.C. chapter 37, as amended: Provided, That such costs, including the 
cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended.
    In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the direct 
and guaranteed loan programs, $52,138,000, which may be transferred to 
and merged with the appropriation for ``General operating expenses''.
                      direct loan program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the cost of direct loans, such sums as may be necessary to 
carry out the purpose of the program, as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 
chapter 37, as amended: Provided, That such costs, including the cost 
of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That 
during 1996, within the resources available, not to exceed $300,000 in 
gross obligations for direct loans are authorized for specially adapted 
housing loans (38 U.S.C. chapter 37).
    In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the direct 
loan program, $459,000, which may be transferred to and merged with the 
appropriation for ``General operating expenses''.
                  education loan fund program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the cost of direct loans, $1,000, as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 
3698, as amended: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of 
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That 
these funds are available to subsidize gross obligations for the 
principal amount of direct loans not to exceed $4,000.
    In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry out the 
direct loan program, $195,000, which may be transferred to and merged 
with the appropriation for ``General operating expenses''.
            vocational rehabilitation loans program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the cost of direct loans, $54,000, as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 
chapter 31, as amended: Provided, That such costs, including the cost 
of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That 
these funds are available to subsidize gross obligations for the 
principal amount of direct loans not to exceed $1,964,000.
    In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry out the 
direct loan program, $377,000, which may be transferred to and merged 
with the appropriation for ``General operating expenses''.
          native american veteran housing loan program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For administrative expenses to carry out the direct loan program 
authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, subchapter V, as amended, $205,000, 
which may be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
``General operating expenses''.
                     Veterans Health Administration

                              medical care

    For necessary expenses for the maintenance and operation of 
hospitals, nursing homes, and domiciliary facilities; for furnishing, 
as authorized by law, inpatient and outpatient care and treatment to 
beneficiaries of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including care and 
treatment in facilities not under the jurisdiction of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, and furnishing recreational facilities, supplies, and 
equipment; funeral, burial, and other expenses incidental thereto for 
beneficiaries receiving care in Department of Veterans Affairs 
facilities; administrative expenses in support of planning, design, 
project management, real property acquisition and disposition, 
construction and renovation of any facility under the jurisdiction or 
for the use of the Department of Veterans Affairs; oversight, 
engineering and architectural activities not charged to project cost; 
repairing, altering, improving or providing facilities in the several 
hospitals and homes under the jurisdiction of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, not otherwise provided for, either by contract or by 
the hire of temporary employees and purchase of materials; uniforms or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902); aid to 
State homes as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 1741); and not to exceed 
$8,000,000 to fund cost comparison studies as referred to in 38 U.S.C. 
8110(a)(5); $16,777,474,000, plus reimbursements: Provided, That of the 
funds made available under this heading, $789,000,000 is for the 
equipment and land and structures object classifications only, which 
amount shall not become available for obligation until August 1, 1996, 
and shall remain available for obligation until September 30, 1997.
                    medical and prosthetic research

    For necessary expenses in carrying out programs of medical and 
prosthetic research and development as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 
chapter 73), to remain available until September 30, 1997, 
$251,743,000, plus reimbursements.

                health professional scholarship program

    For payment of health professional scholarship program grants, as 
authorized by law, to students who agree to a service obligation with 
the Department of Veterans Affairs at one of its medical facilities, 
$10,386,000.
      medical administration and miscellaneous operating expenses

    For necessary expenses in the administration of the medical, 
hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, construction, supply, and research 
activities, as authorized by law; administrative expenses in support of 
planning, design, project management, architectural, engineering, real 
property acquisition and disposition, construction and renovation of 
any facility under the jurisdiction or for the use of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, including site acquisition; engineering and 
architectural activities not charged to project cost; and research and 
development in building construction technology; $63,602,000, plus 
reimbursements.
                   transitional housing loan program

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the cost of direct loans, $7,000, as authorized by Public Law 
102-54, section 8, which shall be transferred from the ``General post 
fund'': Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying such 
loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds are 
available to subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of 
direct loans not to exceed $70,000. In addition, for administrative 
expenses to carry out the direct loan program, $54,000, which shall be 
transferred from the ``General post fund'', as authorized by Public Law 
102-54, section 8.

                      Departmental Administration

                       general operating expenses

    For necessary operating expenses of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, not otherwise provided for, including uniforms or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by law; not to exceed $25,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; and reimbursement of the General Services Administration for 
security guard services, and the Department of Defense for the cost of 
overseas employee mail; $821,487,000: Provided, That funds under this 
heading shall be available to administer the Service Members 
Occupational Conversion and Training Act: Provided further, That the 
$25,500,000 earmarked in Public Law 103-327 for the acquisition of 
automated data processing equipment and services to support the 
modernization program of the Veterans Benefits Administration is 
available for any expense authorized to be funded under this heading: 
Provided further, That none of the funds under this heading (including 
funds referred to in the preceding proviso) may be obligated or 
expended for the acquisition of automated data processing equipment and 
services for Department of Veterans Affairs regional offices to support 
Stage III of the automated data equipment modernization program of the 
Veterans Benefits Administration.
                        national cemetery system

    For necessary expenses for the maintenance and operation of the 
National Cemetery System not otherwise provided for, including uniforms 
or allowances therefor, as authorized by law; cemeterial expenses as 
authorized by law; purchase of three passenger motor vehicles, for use 
in cemeterial operations; and hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
$72,604,000.

                      office of inspector general

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $30,900,000.
                      construction, major projects

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For constructing, altering, extending and improving any of the 
facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, or for any of the purposes set forth in sections 316, 
2404, 2406, 8102, 8103, 8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, and 8122 of title 38, 
United States Code, including planning, architectural and engineering 
services, maintenance or guarantee period services costs associated 
with equipment guarantees provided under the project, services of 
claims analysts, offsite utility and storm drainage system construction 
costs, and site acquisition, where the estimated cost of a project is 
$3,000,000 or more or where funds for a project were made available in 
a previous major project appropriation, $183,455,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That except for advance planning of 
projects funded through the advance planning fund and the design of 
projects funded through the design fund, none of these funds shall be 
used for any project which has not been considered and approved by the 
Congress in the budgetary process: Provided further, That funds 
provided in this appropriation for fiscal year 1996, for each approved 
project shall be obligated (1) by the awarding of a construction 
documents contract by September 30, 1996, and (2) by the awarding of a 
construction contract by September 30, 1997: Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall promptly report in writing to the Comptroller General 
and to the Committees on Appropriations any approved major construction 
project in which obligations are not incurred within the time 
limitations established above; and the Comptroller General shall review 
the report in accordance with the procedures established by section 
1015 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (title X of Public Law 93-
344): Provided further, That no funds from any other account except the 
``Parking revolving fund'', may be obligated for constructing, 
altering, extending, or improving a project which was approved in the 
budget process and funded in this account until one year after 
substantial completion and beneficial occupancy by the Department of 
Veterans Affairs of the project or any part thereof with respect to 
that part only: Provided further, That of the funds made available 
under this heading in Public Law 103-327, $7,000,000 shall be 
transferred to the ``Parking revolving fund''.
                      construction, minor projects

    For constructing, altering, extending, and improving any of the 
facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, including planning, architectural and engineering 
services, maintenance or guarantee period services costs associated 
with equipment guarantees provided under the project, services of 
claims analysts, offsite utility and storm drainage system construction 
costs, and site acquisition, or for any of the purposes set forth in 
sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102, 8103, 8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, and 8122 
of title 38, United States Code, where the estimated cost of a project 
is less than $3,000,000, $152,934,000, to remain available until 
expended, along with unobligated balances of previous ``Construction, 
minor projects'' appropriations which are hereby made available for any 
project where the estimated cost is less than $3,000,000: Provided, 
That funds in this account shall be available for (1) repairs to any of 
the nonmedical facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs which are necessary because of loss or 
damage caused by any natural disaster or catastrophe, and (2) temporary 
measures necessary to prevent or to minimize further loss by such 
causes.

                         parking revolving fund

    For the parking revolving fund as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 
8109), income from fees collected, to remain available until expended. 
Resources of this fund shall be available for all expenses authorized 
by 38 U.S.C. 8109 except operations and maintenance costs which will be 
funded from ``Medical care''.
       grants for construction of state extended care facilities

    For grants to assist the several States to acquire or construct 
State nursing home and domiciliary facilities and to remodel, modify or 
alter existing hospital, nursing home and domiciliary facilities in 
State homes, for furnishing care to veterans as authorized by law (38 
U.S.C. 8131-8137), $47,397,000, to remain available until expended.

        grants for the construction of state veterans cemeteries

    For grants to aid States in establishing, expanding, or improving 
State veteran cemeteries as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 2408), 
$1,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1998.

                       administrative provisions

                     (including transfer of funds)

    Sec. 101. Any appropriation for 1996 for ``Compensation and 
pensions'', ``Readjustment benefits'', and ``Veterans insurance and 
indemnities'' may be transferred to any other of the mentioned 
appropriations.
    Sec. 102. Appropriations available to the Department of Veterans 
Affairs for 1996 for salaries and expenses shall be available for 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
    Sec. 103. No part of the appropriations in this Act for the 
Department of Veterans Affairs (except the appropriations for 
``Construction, major projects'', ``Construction, minor projects'', and 
the ``Parking revolving fund'') shall be available for the purchase of 
any site for or toward the construction of any new hospital or home.
    Sec. 104. No part of the foregoing appropriations shall be 
available for hospitalization or examination of any persons except 
beneficiaries entitled under the laws bestowing such benefits to 
veterans, unless reimbursement of cost is made to the appropriation at 
such rates as may be fixed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
    Sec. 105. Appropriations available to the Department of Veterans 
Affairs for fiscal year 1996 for ``Compensation and pensions'', 
``Readjustment benefits'', and ``Veterans insurance and indemnities'' 
shall be available for payment of prior year accrued obligations 
required to be recorded by law against the corresponding prior year 
accounts within the last quarter of fiscal year 1995.
    Sec. 106. Appropriations accounts available to the Department of 
Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1996 shall be available to pay prior 
year obligations of corresponding prior year appropriations accounts 
resulting from title X of the Competitive Equality Banking Act, Public 
Law 100-86, except that if such obligations are from trust fund 
accounts they shall be payable from ``Compensation and pensions''.
    Sec. 107. (a) Effective October 1, 1995, section 5505 of title 38, 
United States Code, as in effect when repealed by section 1201(g)(4)(A) 
of Public Law 103-446 (108 Stat. 4687), is hereby reenacted and, as so 
reenacted, is amended by striking out ``September 30, 1992'' in 
subsection (c) and inserting in lieu thereof ``September 30, 1996''.
    (b) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 55 of such 
title is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``5505. Limitation on compensation payments for certain incompetent 
                            veterans.''.
    Sec. 108. Chapter 19 of title 38, United States Code, is amended as 
follows:
            (1) Section 1920 is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a), by inserting ``, and for the 
                reimbursement of administrative costs under subsection 
                (c)'' before the period at the end of the second 
                sentence; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                subsection:
    ``(c)(1) For each fiscal year for which this subsection is in 
effect, the Secretary shall, from the National Service Life Insurance 
Fund, reimburse the `General operating expenses' account of the 
Department for the amount of administrative costs determined under 
paragraph (2) for that fiscal year. Such reimbursement shall be made 
from any surplus earnings for that fiscal year that are available for 
dividends on such insurance after claims have been paid and actuarially 
determined reserves have been set aside. However, if the amount of such 
administrative costs exceeds the amount of such surplus earnings, such 
reimbursement shall be made only to the extent of such surplus 
earnings.
    ``(2) The Secretary shall determine the administrative costs to the 
Department for a fiscal year for which this subsection is in effect 
which, in the judgment of the Secretary, are properly allocable to the 
provision of National Service Life Insurance (and to the provision of 
any total disability income insurance added to the provision of such 
insurance).
    ``(3) This subsection shall be in effect only with respect to 
fiscal year 1996.''.
            (2) Section 1923 is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a), by inserting ``, and for the 
                reimbursement of administrative costs under subsection 
                (d)'' before the period at the end of the last 
                sentence; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                subsection:
    ``(d)(1) For each fiscal year for which this subsection is in 
effect, the Secretary shall, from the Veterans' Special Life Insurance 
Fund, reimburse the `General operating expenses' account of the 
Department for the amount of administrative costs determined under 
paragraph (2) for that fiscal year. Such reimbursement shall be made 
from any surplus earnings for that fiscal year that are available for 
dividends on such insurance after claims have been paid and actuarially 
determined reserves have been set aside. However, if the amount of such 
administrative costs exceeds the amount of such surplus earnings, such 
reimbursement shall be made only to the extent of such surplus 
earnings.
    ``(2) The Secretary shall determine the administrative costs to the 
Department for a fiscal year for which this subsection is in effect 
which, in the judgment of the Secretary, are properly allocable to the 
provision of Veterans' Special Life Insurance (and to the provision of 
any total disability income insurance added to the provision of such 
insurance).
    ``(3) This subsection shall be in effect only with respect to 
fiscal year 1996.''.
            (3) Section 1955 is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a), by inserting ``, and for the 
                reimbursement of administrative costs under subsection 
                (c)'' before the period at the end of the first 
                sentence; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                subsection:
    ``(c)(1) For each fiscal year for which this subsection is in 
effect, the Secretary shall, from the United States Government Life 
Insurance Fund, reimburse the `General operating expenses' account of 
the Department for the amount of administrative costs determined under 
paragraph (2) for that fiscal year. Such reimbursement shall be made 
from any surplus earnings for that fiscal year that are available for 
dividends on such insurance after claims have been paid and actuarially 
determined reserves have been set aside. However, if the amount of such 
administrative costs exceeds the amount of such surplus earnings, such 
reimbursement shall be made only to the extent of such surplus 
earnings.
    ``(2) The Secretary shall determine the administrative costs to the 
Department for a fiscal year for which this subsection is in effect 
which, in the judgment of the Secretary, are properly allocable to the 
provision of United States Government Life Insurance (and to the 
provision of any total disability income insurance added to the 
provision of such insurance).
    ``(3) This subsection shall be in effect only with respect to 
fiscal year 1996.''.
            (4) Section 1982 is amended by striking out ``The United 
        States'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``Except as provided in 
        sections 1920(c), 1923(d), and 1955(c) of this title, the 
        United States''.

                                TITLE II

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                            Housing Programs

               annual contributions for assisted housing

    For assistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as 
amended (``the Act'' herein) (42 U.S.C. 1437), not otherwise provided 
for, $10,182,359,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That none of the funds made available under the head ``Annual 
contributions for assisted housing'' in this Act or any prior Act shall 
be expended if such expenditure would cause total fiscal year 1996 
expenditures to exceed $19,939,311,000: Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall report to the Committees on Appropriations every 90 
days on the implementation of the spending limitation in the preceding 
proviso: Provided further, That of the total amount provided under this 
head, $100,000,000 shall be for the development or acquisition cost of 
public housing for Indian families, including amounts for housing under 
the mutual help homeownership opportunity program under section 202 of 
the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437bb): Provided further, That of the total amount 
provided under this head, $2,500,000,000 shall be for modernization of 
existing public housing projects pursuant to section 14 of the Act (42 
U.S.C. 1437l): Provided further, That during fiscal year 1996, the 
Secretary may direct any public housing agency that receives any part 
of the foregoing amount, to use such amount, or any other amount that 
has been made available in this or any other prior Act for public 
housing under this head or for the HOPE VI/Urban Revitalization 
Demonstration Program, and that has not been obligated by the agency, 
to demolish, reconfigure, or reduce the density of any public housing 
project owned by the agency: Provided further, That of the amounts 
earmarked under this head for modernization of existing public housing 
projects, $15,000,000 shall be used for the Tenant Opportunity Program: 
Provided further, That of the total amount provided under this head, 
$862,125,000 shall be available for non-incremental rental assistance 
under the section 8 housing voucher program under section 8(o) of the 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)): Provided further, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, voucher assistance provided under the preceding 
proviso may be used in connection with legislation enacted after the 
effective date of this Act that authorizes assistance for such purpose, 
as determined by the Secretary: Provided further, That of the total 
amount provided under this head, $1,440,770,000 shall be for special 
needs housing: Provided further, That the amount earmarked under the 
preceding proviso shall be for capital advances, including amendments 
to capital advance contracts, for housing for the elderly, as 
authorized by section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended, and 
for project rental assistance, and amendments to contracts for project 
rental assistance, for supportive housing for the elderly under section 
202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended; capital advances, 
including amendments to capital advance contracts, and project rental 
assistance, including amendments to contracts for project rental 
assistance, for supportive housing for persons with disabilities, as 
authorized by section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
Housing Act; and housing opportunities for persons with AIDS under 
title VIII, subtitle D of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
Housing Act: Provided further, That of the funds earmarked in this 
appropriations Act for special needs housing, the Secretary may waive 
any provision of section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 and section 811 
of the National Affordable Housing Act (including the provisions 
governing the terms and conditions of project rental assistance) that 
the Secretary determines is not necessary to achieve the objectives of 
these programs, or that otherwise impedes the ability to develop, 
operate or administer projects assisted under these programs, and may 
make provision for alternative conditions or terms where appropriate: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may use up to $200,000,000 from 
unobligated carryover balances under this heading as of September 30, 
1995, for assistance for State or local units of government, tenant and 
nonprofit organizations to purchase projects where owners have 
indicated an intention to prepay mortgages and for assistance to be 
used as an incentive to prevent prepayment or for vouchers to aid 
eligible tenants adversely affected by mortgage prepayment, as 
authorized under preservation legislation enacted subsequent to this 
Act: Provided further, That of the total amount provided under this 
head, $10,000,000 shall be for the lead-based paint hazard reduction 
program as authorized under section 1053 of the Residential Lead-Based 
Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992: Provided further, That of the total 
amount provided under this head, $17,300,000 shall be available for 
fees for coordinators under section 23(h)(1) for the Family Self-
sufficiency Program (42 U.S.C. 1437u): Provided further, That of the 
total amount provided under this head, $4,641,589,000 shall be for 
assistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437) 
for use in connection with expiring or terminating section 8 subsidy 
contracts: Provided further, That such amounts shall be merged with 
funds referenced in section 204 of this title: Provided further, That 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may reserve amounts 
available for the renewal of assistance under section 8 of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 and may use such amounts, upon the 
termination or expiration of a contract for assistance under section 8 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (other than a contract for 
tenant-based assistance and notwithstanding section 8(v) of such Act 
for loan management assistance), to provide voucher assistance under 
section 8(o) of such Act in the market area for a number of eligible 
families equal to the number of units covered by the terminated or 
expired contract, which assistance shall be in accordance with terms 
and conditions prescribed by the Secretary: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, assistance reserved under 
the preceding proviso may be used in connection with any provision of 
Federal law enacted after the enactment of this Act that authorizes the 
use of rental assistance amounts in connection with such terminated or 
expired contracts: Provided further, That of the total amount provided 
under this head, $610,575,000 shall be for amendments to section 8 
contracts other than contracts for projects developed under section 202 
of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended.
                         flexible subsidy fund

                     (including transfer of funds)

    From the fund established by section 236(g) of the National Housing 
Act, as amended, all uncommitted balances of excess rental charges as 
of September 30, 1995, and any collections during fiscal year 1996 
shall be transferred, as authorized under such section, to the fund 
authorized under Section 201 (j) of the Housing and Community 
Development Amendments of 1978, as amended.

                       rental housing assistance

                              (rescission)

    The limitation otherwise applicable to the maximum payments that 
may be required in any fiscal year by all contracts entered into under 
section 236 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1) is reduced 
in fiscal year 1996 by not more than $2,000,000 in uncommitted balances 
of authorizations provided for this purpose in appropriations Acts: 
Provided, That up to $163,000,000 of recaptured section 236 budget 
authority resulting from the prepayment of mortgages subsidized under 
section 236 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1) shall be 
rescinded in fiscal year 1996.
         payments for operation of low-income housing projects

    For payments to public housing agencies and Indian housing 
authorities for operating subsidies for low-income housing projects as 
authorized by section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 1437g), $2,500,000,000.
                  home investment partnerships program

    For the HOME investment partnerships program, as authorized under 
title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act 
(Public Law 101-625), as amended, $1,400,000,000, to remain available 
until expended.
                     housing counseling assistance

    For contracts, grants, and other assistance, other than loans, not 
otherwise provided for, for providing counseling and advice to tenants 
and homeowners--both current and prospective--with respect to property 
maintenance, financial management, and such other matters as may be 
appropriate to assist them in improving their housing conditions and 
meeting the responsibilities of tenancy or homeownership, including 
provisions for training and for support of voluntary agencies and 
services as authorized by section 106 of the Housing and Urban 
Development Act of 1968, as amended, $12,000,000, notwithstanding 
section 106(c)(9) and section 106(d)(13), of such Act.

           indian housing loan guarantee fund program account

    For the cost of guaranteed loans, $3,000,000, as authorized by 
section 184 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (106 
Stat. 3739): Provided, That such costs, including the costs of 
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That 
these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, any part 
of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $36,900,000.
                          Homeless Assistance

                       homeless assistance grants

    For the emergency shelter grants program (as authorized under 
subtitle B of title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance 
Act (Public Law 100-77), as amended); the supportive housing program 
(as authorized under subtitle C of title IV of such Act); the section 8 
moderate rehabilitation single room occupancy program (as authorized 
under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended) to assist 
homeless individuals pursuant to section 441 of the Stewart B. McKinney 
Homeless Assistance Act; the shelter plus care program (as authorized 
under subtitle F of title IV of such Act); and the innovative homeless 
initiatives demonstration program (as described in sections 2(a)-2(f) 
of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 (Public Law 103-120)), 
$676,000,000, to remain available until expended.
                   Community Planning and Development

                      community development grants

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For grants to States and units of general local government and for 
related expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for carrying 
out a community development grants program as authorized by title I of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (42 
U.S.C. 5301), $4,600,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
1998: Provided, That $46,000,000 shall be available for grants to 
Indian tribes pursuant to section 106(a)(1) of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 5301), and 
$19,500,000 shall be available for ``special purpose grants'' pursuant 
to section 107 of such Act: Provided further, That not to exceed 20 per 
centum of any grant made with funds appropriated herein (other than a 
grant using funds under section 107(b)(3) of such Act shall be expended 
for ``Planning and Management Development'' and ``Administration'' as 
defined in regulations promulgated by the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development.
    For the cost of guaranteed loans, $10,500,000, as authorized by 
section 108 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974: 
Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, 
shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds are available to 
subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, 
not to exceed $1,000,000,000. In addition, for administrative expenses 
to carry out the guaranteed loan program, $225,000 which shall be 
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for departmental 
salaries and expenses.

                    Policy Development and Research

                        research and technology

    For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of programs of 
research and studies relating to housing and urban problems, not 
otherwise provided for, as authorized by title V of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1970, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701z-1 et seq.), 
including carrying out the functions of the Secretary under section 
1(a)(1)(i) of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1968, $34,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 1997.

                   Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity

                        fair housing activities

    For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not otherwise provided 
for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as 
amended by the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, $30,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 1997.
                     Management and Administration

                         salaries and expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary administrative and nonadministrative expenses of the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, not otherwise provided 
for, including not to exceed $7,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses, $951,988,000, of which $505,745,000 shall be 
provided from the various funds of the Federal Housing Administration, 
and $8,824,000 shall be provided from funds of the Government National 
Mortgage Association, and $225,000 shall be provided from the Community 
Development Grants Program account.

                      office of inspector general

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $47,388,000, of which $10,961,000 shall be transferred from 
the various funds of the Federal Housing Administration.

             Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight

                         salaries and expenses

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For carrying out the Federal Housing Enterprise Financial Safety 
and Soundness Act of 1992, $14,895,000, to remain available until 
expended, from the Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight Fund: Provided, 
That such amounts shall be collected by the Director as authorized by 
section 1316 (a) and (b) of such Act, and deposited in the Fund under 
section 1316(f) of such Act.
                     Federal Housing Administration

             fha--mutual mortgage insurance program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

    During fiscal year 1996, commitments to guarantee loans to carry 
out the purposes of section 203(b) of the National Housing Act, as 
amended, shall not exceed a loan principal of $110,000,000,000.
    During fiscal year 1996, obligations to make direct loans to carry 
out the purposes of section 204(g) of the National Housing Act, as 
amended, shall not exceed $200,000,000: Provided, That the foregoing 
amount shall be for loans to nonprofit and governmental entities in 
connection with sales of single family real properties owned by the 
Secretary and formerly insured under section 203 of such Act.
    For administrative expenses necessary to carry out the guaranteed 
and direct loan program, $308,846,000, to be derived from the FHA-
mutual mortgage insurance guaranteed loans receipt account, of which 
not to exceed $308,290,000 shall be transferred to the appropriation 
for departmental salaries and expenses; and of which not to exceed 
$6,790,000 shall be transferred to the appropriation for the Office of 
Inspector General.
             fha--general and special risk program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

    Total loan principal any part of which is to be guaranteed shall 
not exceed $15,000,000,000: Provided, That any amounts made available 
in any prior appropriation Act for the cost (as such term is defined in 
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974) of guaranteed 
loans that are obligations of the funds established under section 238 
or 519 of the National Housing Act that have not been made available 
for obligation or that are deobligated shall be available to the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in connection with the 
making of such guarantees and shall remain available until expended, 
notwithstanding the expiration of any period of availability otherwise 
applicable to such amounts: Provided further, That any amounts of 
negative subsidy resulting in fiscal year 1996 from the sales of 
assigned mortgage notes or insurance actions that exceed the amounts of 
negative subsidy determined to be generated during such fiscal year, 
based on the assumptions specified in the President's Budget for such 
fiscal year, shall be available to the Secretary for the costs of any 
note sales or insurance actions, without regard to whether the source 
of the negative subsidy amount is a note sale or insurance action, and 
the last proviso of this paragraph shall not apply to such amounts so 
used in connection with insurance actions: Provided further, That 
during fiscal year 1996, the Secretary shall sell assigned mortgage 
notes having an unpaid principal balance of up to $2,600,000,000, which 
notes were originally obligations of the funds established under 
sections 238 and 519 of the National Housing Act: Provided further, 
That of the amount appropriated herein, an amount equal to the lesser 
of $52,000,000 or the excess of net proceeds above the value of holding 
the loans to maturity, such value established using assumptions 
specified in the President's fiscal year 1996 Budget adjusted for 
interest rates at the time of the sale, shall become available only 
after such sale has been completed.
    In addition, for the cost of guarantees for loans, as authorized by 
sections 238 and 519 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-3 and 
1735c), $69,620,000, Provided, That such costs, including the cost of 
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
    Gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans, as 
authorized by sections 204(g), 207(l), 238(a), and 519(a) of the 
National Housing Act, shall not exceed $120,000,000; of which not to 
exceed $100,000,000 shall be for bridge financing in connection with 
the sale of multifamily real properties owned by the Secretary and 
formerly insured under such Act; and of which not to exceed $20,000,000 
shall be for loans to nonprofit and governmental entities in connection 
with the sale of single-family real properties owned by the Secretary 
and formerly insured under such Act.
    In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry out the 
guaranteed and direct loan programs, $197,470,000, of which 
$197,455,000 shall be transferred to the appropriation for departmental 
salaries and expenses; and of which $4,171,000 shall be transferred to 
the appropriation for the Office of Inspector General.
                Government National Mortgage Association

guarantees of mortgage-backed securities loan guarantee program account

                      (includes transfer of funds)

    During fiscal year 1996, new commitments to issue guarantees to 
carry out the purposes of section 306 of the National Housing Act, as 
amended (12 U.S.C. 1721(g)), shall not exceed $110,000,000,000.
    For administrative expenses necessary to carry out the guaranteed 
mortgage-backed securities program, $8,824,000, to be derived from the 
GNMA--guarantees of mortgage-backed securities guaranteed loan receipt 
account, of which not to exceed $8,824,000 shall be transferred to the 
appropriation for departmental salaries and expenses.

                       administrative provisions

                     (including transfer of funds)

    Sec. 201. Public Housing. (a) Ceiling Rents.--Notwithstanding 
section 3(a) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, 
public housing agencies shall provide that the amount of rent paid by a 
family occupying a dwelling unit in public housing during fiscal year 
1996 does not exceed the maximum monthly rental amount, which shall be 
established for the dwelling unit by the public housing agency that 
owns or administers the unit and may not exceed an amount determined by 
the agency based upon--
            (1) the average, for dwelling units of similar size in 
        public housing developments owned and operated by such agency, 
        of any monthly amount of debt service and operating expenses 
        attributable to such units;
            (2) the reasonable rental value of the unit; or
            (3) the local market rent for comparable units of similar 
        size.
    (b) Demolition and Disposition.--
            (1) Inapplicability of replacement rule.--With respect to 
        any application under section 18 of the United States Housing 
        Act of 1937, as amended, for the demolition or disposition of 
        public housing, including an application submitted under 
        paragraph (3), that is approved during fiscal year 1996, the 
        provisions of subsection (b)(3) of such section shall not apply 
        with respect to--
                    (A) the approval of such application; or
                    (B) the demolition or disposition of any public 
                housing pursuant to such application.
            (2) Conforming provision.--The requirement under section 
        18(d) of such Act that a public housing agency satisfy the 
        conditions specified in section 18(b)(3) of such Act as a 
        condition of taking action to demolish or dispose of public 
        housing shall not apply with respect to any application under 
        such section 18 approved during such fiscal year.
            (3) Authority to resubmit applications.--Any public housing 
        agency that, before fiscal year 1996, submitted to the 
        Secretary an application under section 18 of such Act for 
        demolition or disposition of public housing may (regardless of 
        whether such application has been approved) at any time during 
        fiscal year 1996 submit an application subject to the 
        provisions of this subsection that covers some or all of the 
        property covered by such previous application and, to the 
        extent the same property is covered by both applications, the 
        Secretary shall treat the latter application as replacing the 
        previous application.
    (c) Applicability.--In accordance with section 201(b)(2) of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, the provisions of this 
section shall apply to public housing developed or operated pursuant to 
a contract between the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and 
an Indian housing authority.
    Sec. 202. Rental Assistance Under Section 8 of United States 
Housing Act of 1937. (a) Increase of Family Rental Payment.--
Notwithstanding sections 3(a) and 8(o)(2) of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937, as amended, effective for fiscal year 1996--
            (1) public housing agencies shall increase to 32 percent 
        the percentage of the family's monthly adjusted income used in 
        determining--
                    (A) the amount of monthly rent required to be paid 
                by each family who is assisted under the certificate or 
                moderate rehabilitation program under section 8 of such 
                Act; and
                    (B) the amount of the monthly assistance payment 
                for each family who is assisted under the voucher 
                program under section 8 of such Act; and
            (2) owners of housing assisted under other programs for 
        rental assistance under section 8 of such Act shall increase to 
        32 percent the percentage of a family's adjusted monthly income 
        used in determining the rent required to be paid by each family 
        assisted under any such program.
    (b) Minimum Rents.--Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section 
or sections 3(a) and 8(o)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 
as amended, effective for fiscal year 1996 and no later than October 
30, 1995--
            (1) public housing agencies shall require each family who 
        is assisted under the certificate or moderate rehabilitation 
        program under section 8 of such Act to pay for monthly rent an 
        amount that is not less than the sum of $50 for the unit;
            (2) public housing agencies shall reduce the monthly 
        assistance payment on behalf of each family who is assisted 
        under the voucher program under section 8 of such Act so that 
        the family pays for monthly rent an amount that is not less 
        than the sum of $50 for the unit; and
            (3) owners of housing assisted under other programs for 
        rental assistance under section 8 of such Act shall require 
        each family who is assisted under such program to pay for 
        monthly rent an amount that is not less than the sum of $50 for 
        the unit.
    (c) Fair Market Rentals.--The Secretary shall establish fair market 
rentals for purposes of section 8(c)(1) of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937, as amended, that shall be effective for fiscal year 1996 
and shall be based on the 40th percentile rent of rental distributions 
of standard quality rental housing units. In establishing such fair 
market rentals, the Secretary shall consider only the rents for 
dwelling units occupied by recent movers and may not consider the rents 
for public housing dwelling units or newly constructed rental dwelling 
units.
    (d) Annual Adjustments.--Section 8(c)(2)(A) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437f(c)(2)(A)) is further 
amended--
            (1) in the third sentence by inserting ``and fiscal year 
        1996'' after ``1995''; and
            (2) in the last sentence by inserting ``and fiscal year 
        1996'' after ``1995''.
    (e) Administrative Fees.--Notwithstanding the second sentence of 
section 8(q)(1) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, 
for fiscal year 1996, the portions of the fees for costs incurred by 
public housing agencies in administering the certificate, voucher, and 
moderate rehabilitation programs under section 8 shall not exceed 7.0 
percent of the fair market rental established for a 2-bedroom existing 
rental dwelling unit in the market area of the public housing agency.
    (f) Delay of Issuance and Reissuance of Vouchers and 
Certificates.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a public 
housing agency administering certificate or voucher assistance provided 
under subsection (b) or (o) of section 8 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937, as amended, shall delay--
            (1) until October 1, 1996, the initial issuance of any such 
        tenant-based assistance representing incremental assistance 
        allocated in fiscal year 1996; and
            (2) for 6 months, the use of any amounts of such assistance 
        (or the certificate or voucher representing assistance amounts) 
        made available by the termination during fiscal year 1996 of 
        such assistance on behalf of any family for any reason, but not 
        later than October 1, 1996.
    Sec. 203. Preferences for Housing Assistance. (a) Public Housing.--
            (1) In general.--During fiscal year 1996, dwelling units in 
        public housing that are available for occupancy shall be made 
        available--
                    (A) without regard to the requirements regarding 
                preferences set forth in section 6(c)(4)(A) of the 
                United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended; and
                    (B) subject to a system of preferences that the 
                public housing agency for the public housing may 
                establish, which shall be based upon local housing 
                needs and priorities, as determined by the agency.
            (2) Applicability.--Paragraph (1)(B) shall not apply to 
        projects or portions of projects designated for occupancy 
        pursuant to section 7(a) of the United States Housing Act of 
        1937, as amended, for which the Secretary has determined that 
        application of such paragraph would result in excessive delays 
        in meeting the housing need of such families. In accordance 
        with section 201(b)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 
        1937, as amended, the provisions of this subsection shall apply 
        to public housing developed or operated pursuant to a contract 
        between the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and an 
        Indian housing authority.
    (b) Section 8 Assistance.--During fiscal year 1996, the selection 
of families for assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937, as amended--
            (1) shall not be subject to the requirements regarding 
        preferences set forth in sections 8(d)(1)(A) and 8(o)(3)(B) of 
        the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended; and
            (2) shall be subject to a system of preferences that may be 
        established by the public housing agency administering such 
        assistance, which shall be based upon local housing needs and 
        priorities, as determined by the agency.
    (c) Conforming Provisions.--Each reference in sections 6(o), 
7(a)(2), 7(a)(3), 8(d)(2)(A), 8(d)(2)(H), 16(c), and 24(e)(2) of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, sections 212(a)(3), 
217(c)(2)(B), 225(d)(3), 455(a)(2)(D)(iii), 522(f)(6)(B), and 
522(j)(2)(A) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, 
section 226(b)(6)(B) of the Low-Income Housing Preservation and 
Resident Homeownership Act of 1990, section 203(g)(2) of the Housing 
and Community Development Amendments of 1978, and section 655 of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, to the preferences under 
section 6(c)(4)(A), 8(d)(1)(A), or 8(o)(3)(B) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937, as amended, shall be considered, during fiscal 
year 1996, to refer to the applicable preferences established (if any) 
under the subsections (a)(1)(B) and (b)(2).
    (d) New Construction/Substantial Rehabilitation Housing.--During 
fiscal year 1996, dwelling units in housing constructed or 
substantially rehabilitated pursuant to assistance provided under 
section 8(b)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended 
(as such section existed before October 1, 1983) and projects financed 
under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (as such section existed 
before the enactment of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
Housing Act) shall be made available for occupancy without regard to 
section 545(c) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act 
and no other provision of law relating to Federal tenant selection 
preferences shall apply to such housing.
    (e) Rent Supplements.--During fiscal year 1996, section 101(k) of 
the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 shall not be effective.
    Sec. 204. Merger Language for Assistance for the Renewal of 
Expiring Section 8 of Subsidy Contracts and Annual Contributions for 
Assisted Housing.--All remaining obligated and unobligated balances in 
the Renewal of Expiring Section 8 Subsidy Contracts account on 
September 30, 1995, shall immediately thereafter be transferred to and 
merged with the obligated and unobligated balances, respectively, of 
the Annual Contributions for Assisted Housing account.
    Sec. 205. Extension of Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Program.--
Section 255(g) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-20(g)) is 
amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``September 30, 
        1995'' and inserting ``September 30, 1996''; and
            (2) in the second sentence, by striking ``25,000'' and 
        inserting ``30,000''.
    Sec. 206. Debt Forgiveness.--(a) The Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development shall cancel the indebtedness of the Hubbard Hospital 
Authority of Hubbard, Texas, relating to the public facilities loan for 
Project Number PFL-TEX-215, issued under title II of the Housing 
Amendments of 1955. Such hospital authority is relieved of all 
liability to the Government for the outstanding principal balance on 
such loan, for the amount of accrued interest on such loan, and for any 
fees and charges payable in connection with such loan.
    (b) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall cancel the 
indebtedness of the Groveton Texas Hospital Authority relating to the 
public facilities loan for Project Number TEX-41-PFL0162, issued under 
title II of the Housing Amendments of 1955. Such hospital authority is 
relieved of all liability to the Government for the outstanding 
principal balance on such loan, for the amount of accrued interest on 
such loan, and for any fees and charges payable in connection with such 
loan.
    Sec. 207. Delaying Outlays for Public Housing Development.--During 
fiscal year 1996, a public housing agency or Indian housing authority 
may slow the rate at which it develops a project that the Secretary has 
approved under 24 C.F.R. Part 941 in order to slow the rate at which 
such agency or authority takes actions resulting in outlays of amounts 
appropriated under the head ``Annual contributions for assisted 
housing'' in this title or any prior appropriation Act, and the 
Secretary may allow such agency or authority to develop a project at 
such a slow rate, notwithstanding 24 C.F.R. Sec. 941.405(d).
    Sec. 208. Assessment Collection Dates for Office of Federal Housing 
Enterprise Oversight.--Section 1316(b) of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 4516(b)) is amended by striking 
paragraph (2) and inserting the following new paragraph:
            ``(2) Timing of payment.--The annual assessment shall be 
        payable semiannually for each fiscal year, on October 1st and 
        April 1st.''.
    Sec. 209. Spending Limitations.--(a) None of the funds provided in 
this Act may be used during fiscal year 1996 to sign, promulgate, 
implement, or enforce any requirement or regulation relating to the 
application of the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3601, et seq.) to the 
business of property insurance, or for any activity pertaining to 
property insurance.
    (b) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be expended by 
the Department for the purpose of finalizing the Department's proposed 
rule dated July 21, 1994 regarding amendments to Regulation X, the Real 
Estate Settlement Procedures Regulation, or for the purpose of 
developing or issuing any interpretive rule with respect to any of the 
four issues denominated in the preamble to the proposed rule.
    (c) None of the funds provided in this Act may be used in fiscal 
year 1996 for the remuneration of more than seven Assistant Secretaries 
at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, notwithstanding 
section 4(a) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act.
    (d) None of the funds provided in this Act may be used in fiscal 
year 1996 for the remuneration of more than 94 schedule C and non-
career senior executive service employees at the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development.
    (e) None of the funds made available in this Act may be used by the 
Secretary to take, impose, or enforce, or to investigate taking, 
imposing, or enforcing any action, sanction, or penalty against any 
State or unit of general local government (or any entity or agency 
thereof) because of the enactment, enforcement, or effectiveness of any 
State or local law or regulation requiring the spoken or written use of 
the English language or declaring English as the official language.
    (f) No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be 
used for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by the 
Congress.
    Sec. 210. Clarifications.--For purposes of Federal law, the Paul 
Mirabile Center in San Diego, California, including areas within such 
Center that are devoted to the delivery of supportive services, has 
been determined to satisfy the ``continuum of care'' requirements of 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and shall be treated 
as:
            (a) consisting solely of residential units that (i) contain 
        sleeping accommodations and kitchen and bathroom facilities, 
        (ii) are located in a building that is used exclusively to 
        facilitate the transition of homeless individuals (within the 
        meaning of section 103 of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless 
        Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11302)) to independent living within 
        24 months, (iii) are suitable for occupancy, with each cubicle 
        constituting a separate bedroom and residential unit, (iv) are 
        used on other than a transient basis, and (v) shall be 
        originally placed in service on August 1, 1995; and
            (b) property that is entirely residential rental property, 
        namely, a project for residential rental property.
    Sec. 211. Extension of Multifamily Housing Finance Programs.--(a) 
Section 542(b)(5) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 
(12 U.S.C. 1707 note) is amended by striking ``on not more than 15,000 
units over fiscal years 1993 and 1994'' and inserting ``on not more 
than 7,500 units during fiscal year 1996''.
    (b) Section 542(c)(4) of the Housing and Community Development Act 
of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1707 note) is amended by striking ``on not to exceed 
30,000 units over fiscal years 1993, 1994, and 1995'' and inserting 
``on not more than 10,000 units during fiscal year 1996''.
    Sec. 212. Documentation of Multifamily Refinancings.--
Notwithstanding the 16th paragraph under the item relating to 
``administrative provisions'' in title II of the Departments of 
Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1995 (Public Law 103-327; 108 Stat. 2316), 
the amendments to section 223(a)(7) of the National Housing Act made by 
the 15th paragraph of such Act shall be effective during fiscal years 
1996 and thereafter.

                               TITLE III

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                  American Battle Monuments Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of the American 
Battle Monuments Commission, including the acquisition of land or 
interest in land in foreign countries; purchases and repair of uniforms 
for caretakers of national cemeteries and monuments outside of the 
United States and its territories and possessions; rent of office and 
garage space in foreign countries; purchase (one for replacement only) 
and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and insurance of official motor 
vehicles in foreign countries, when required by law of such countries; 
$20,265,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That where 
station allowance has been authorized by the Department of the Army for 
officers of the Army serving the Army at certain foreign stations, the 
same allowance shall be authorized for officers of the Armed Forces 
assigned to the Commission while serving at the same foreign stations, 
and this appropriation is hereby made available for the payment of such 
allowance: Provided further, That when traveling on business of the 
Commission, officers of the Armed Forces serving as members or as 
Secretary of the Commission may be reimbursed for expenses as provided 
for civilian members of the Commission: Provided further, That the 
Commission shall reimburse other Government agencies, including the 
Armed Forces, for salary, pay, and allowances of personnel assigned to 
it.

                   Consumer Product Safety Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles, services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem 
rate equivalent to the rate for GS-18, purchase of nominal awards to 
recognize non-Federal officials' contributions to Commission 
activities, and not to exceed $500 for official reception and 
representation expenses, $40,000,000.

             Corporation for National and Community Service

       national and community service programs operating expenses

    Of the funds appropriated under this heading in Public Law 103-327, 
the Corporation for National and Community Service shall use such 
amounts of such funds as may be necessary to carry out the orderly 
termination of (1) the programs, activities, and initiatives under the 
National and Community Service Act of 1990 (Public Law 103-82); (2) the 
Corporation; and (3) the Corporation's Office of Inspector General.

                       Court of Veterans Appeals

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses for the operation of the United States Court 
of Veterans Appeals as authorized by 38 U.S.C. sections 7251-7292, 
$9,000,000, of which not to exceed $678,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 1997, shall be available for the purpose of providing 
financial assistance as described, and in accordance with the process 
and reporting procedures set forth, under this head in Public Law 102-
229.

                      Department of Defense--Civil

                       Cemeterial Expenses, Army

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, for maintenance, 
operation, and improvement of Arlington National Cemetery and Soldiers' 
and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, and not to exceed $1,000 for 
official reception and representation expenses; $11,296,000, to remain 
available until expended.

                    Environmental Protection Agency

                        research and development

    For research and development activities, including procurement of 
laboratory equipment and supplies; other operating expenses in support 
of research and development; and construction, alteration, repair, 
rehabilitation and renovation of facilities, not to exceed $75,000 per 
project; $384,052,000, to remain available until September 30, 1997.

                 environmental programs and compliance

    For environmental programs and compliance activities, including 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of 
aircraft; purchases of reprints; library memberships in societies or 
associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to 
members lower than to subscribers who are not members; construction, 
alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not 
to exceed $75,000 per project; and not to exceed $6,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses; and for necessary expenses, not 
otherwise provided for, for personnel and related costs and for travel 
expenses, including uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; and 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; $1,881,614,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated under this 
heading shall be available to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration pursuant to section 118(h)(3) of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act, as amended: Provided further, That from funds 
appropriated under this heading, the Administrator may make grants to 
federally recognized Indian governments for the development of 
multimedia environmental programs: Provided further, That for this 
fiscal year and thereafter, any industrial discharger to the Kalamazoo 
Water Reclamation Plant is exempt from categorical pretreatment 
standards under section 307(b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act, as amended, if the following conditions are met: (1) the Kalamazoo 
Water Reclamation Plant applies to the State of Michigan for an 
exemption for its industry and (2) the State or the Administrator, as 
applicable, approves such exemption request based upon a determination 
that there exists an operative financial contract between the City of 
Kalamazoo and the industrial user and an approved local pretreatment 
program, including a joint monitoring program and local controls to 
prevent against interference and pass through: Provided further, That 
none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be obligated or 
expended to implement or enforce section 118(c)(2)(C) of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act, as amended: Provided further, That none of 
the funds appropriated under this heading may be made available for the 
implementation or enforcement of the stormwater permitting program 
under section 402(p) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as 
amended: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under 
this heading shall be made available for the enforcement of permit 
limits or compliance schedules for combined sewer overflows or sanitary 
sewer overflows under section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act, as amended: Provided further, That none of the funds 
appropriated under this heading may be used to implement or enforce 
section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended: 
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under this 
heading may be made available for the development and implementation of 
new or revised effluent limitation guidelines and standards, 
pretreatment standards, or new source performance standards under the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended: Provided further, That 
the limitations on the use of funds set forth in the previous five 
provisos shall have no force and effect upon enactment of legislation 
which further amends the named sections of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act, as amended, in each of the previous four provisos: 
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under this 
heading may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency to impose or 
enforce any requirement that a State implement trip reduction measures 
to reduce vehicular emissions. Section 304 of the Clean Air Act, as 
amended, shall not apply with respect to any such requirement: Provided 
further, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading may be 
used to assign less than full credit for automobile emissions 
inspections programs required under section 182 (c), (d), or (e) of the 
Clean Air Act, as amended, on the basis of network design equipment 
unless the Administrator determines, based on data collected from at 
least two full cycles of the program, that less than full credit is 
appropriate: Provided further, That beginning in fiscal year 1996 and 
each fiscal year thereafter, and notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Administrator is authorized to make grants annually from funds 
appropriated under this heading, subject to such terms and conditions 
as the Administrator shall establish, to any State or federally 
recognized Indian tribe for multimedia or single media pollution 
prevention, control and abatement and related environmental activities 
at the request of the Governor or other appropriate State official or 
the tribe: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under 
this heading may be used to develop, propose, promulgate, issue, 
enforce, or to set or enforce compliance deadlines or issuance 
schedules for maximum achievable control technology standards pursuant 
to section 112(d) of the Clean Air Act, as amended, for the category 
proposed to be regulated at Vol. 59, Federal Register, No. 135, page 
36130, dated July 15, 1994, and for purposes of this provision, section 
304 of the Clean Air Act shall not apply: Provided further, That none 
of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be obligated or 
expended to take any action to extend the risk management plan 
requirements under section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act, as amended, to 
the domestic oil and gas exploration and production and natural gas 
processing industry: Provided further, That none of the funds 
appropriated under this heading may be used by the Administrator or the 
Administrator's designee for signing and publishing a national primary 
drinking water regulation for radon and other radionuclei: Provided 
further, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading may be 
used by the Administrator or the Administrator's designee for signing 
and publishing any proposed national primary drinking water regulation 
for arsenic: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated 
under this heading may be used to issue or enforce any requirement not 
otherwise authorized under existing law or regulation with respect to 
combustion of hazardous waste prior to promulgation of final 
regulations pursuant to a rulemaking proceeding under the 
Administrative Procedure Act or to impose or enforce any requirement or 
condition of a permit, including the use of an indirect risk 
assessment, or to deny a permit pursuant to section 3005(c)(3) of the 
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, unless the 
Environmental Protection Agency follows the procedures governing the 
use of authority under such section which it has set forth at 56 Fed. 
Reg. 7145, note 8, February 21, 1991: Provided further, That none of 
the funds appropriated under this heading may be used to issue or 
enforce any regulatory standard for maximum achievable control 
technology (MACT) for hazardous waste combustion under any statute 
other than the Clean Air Act, as amended, issue any such standard 
without first determining that in calculating the MACT floor emission 
levels for existing sources under section 112(d)(3) of the Clean Air 
Act, as amended, one-half of the currently operating facilities in the 
group of sources that make up the floor pool for that category or 
subcategory actually achieve the MACT floor levels for all of the 
hazardous air pollutants to be regulated: Provided further, That none 
of the funds appropriated under this heading may be used to promulgate, 
implement, or enforce sections 502(d)(2), 502(d)(3), or 502(i)(4) of 
the Clean Air Act, as amended, against a State which is involved in 
litigation regarding provisions of title V of the Clean Air Act, as 
amended: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under 
this heading may be obligated or expended to require facilities to 
submit any data pursuant to section 313(a) of the Emergency Planning 
and Community Right-to-Know Act or section 8 of the Toxic Substances 
Control Act, as amended, that is not specifically enumerated in said 
sections, including mass balance, materials accounting, or other 
chemical use data: Provided further, That none of the funds 
appropriated under this heading may be used to revoke, or require the 
issuance of, a food additive regulation under section 409 of the 
Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act for a pesticide in processed food 
where there is a tolerance established under section 408 of said Act 
for the pesticide on the raw commodity from which the processed food 
was made, and may not be used to revoke, or deny the issuance of, a 
section 408 tolerance for a pesticide on a raw agricultural commodity 
solely on the basis that a food additive regulation cannot be issued or 
maintained under section 409 of said Act for the pesticide in a 
processed form of the commodity: Provided further, That none of the 
funds appropriated under this heading may be used to exclusively 
regulate whole agricultural plants subject to regulation by another 
federal agency: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated 
under this heading may be used to obtain a voluntary environmental 
audit report or to assess an administrative, civil or criminal 
negligence penalty, in any matter subject to a state law providing a 
privilege for voluntary environmental audit reports or protections or 
immunities for the voluntary disclosure of environmental concerns.

                      office of inspector general

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, and for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and 
renovation of facilities, not to exceed $75,000 per project, 
$28,542,000.

                        buildings and facilities

    For construction, repair, improvement, extension, alteration, and 
purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, or use by, the 
Environmental Protection Agency, $28,820,000, to remain available until 
expended.

                     hazardous substance superfund

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, 
including sections 111 (c)(3), (c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 
9611), and for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and 
renovation of facilities, not to exceed $75,000 per project; not to 
exceed $1,003,400,000 to remain available until expended, to be derived 
from general revenues: Provided, That funds appropriated under this 
heading may be allocated to other Federal agencies in accordance with 
section 111(a) of CERCLA: Provided further, That $5,000,000 of the 
funds appropriated under this heading shall be transferred to the 
Office of Inspector General appropriation to remain available until 
September 30, 1996: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
111(m) of CERCLA or any other provision of law, not to exceed 
$62,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be 
available to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to 
carry out activities described in sections 104(i), 111(c)(4), and 
111(c)(14) of CERCLA and section 118(f) of the Superfund Amendments and 
Reauthorization Act of 1986: Provided further, That none of the funds 
appropriated under this heading shall be available for the Agency for 
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to issue in excess of 40 
toxicological profiles pursuant to section 104(i) of CERCLA during 
fiscal year 1996: Provided further, That no part of any appropriation 
made under this heading shall remain available for obligation beyond 
December 31, 1995, unless the Comprehensive Environmental Response 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 has been reauthorized.

              leaking underground storage tank trust fund

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses to carry out leaking underground storage 
tank cleanup activities authorized by section 205 of the Superfund 
Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, and for construction, 
alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not 
to exceed $75,000 per project, $45,827,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That no more than $5,285,000 shall be available for 
administrative expenses: Provided further, That $426,000 shall be 
transferred to the Office of Inspector General appropriation to remain 
available until September 30, 1996.

                           oil spill response

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For expenses necessary to carry out the Environmental Protection 
Agency's responsibilities under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 
$20,000,000, to be derived from the Oil Spill Liability trust fund, and 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That not more than 
$8,420,000 of these funds shall be available for administrative 
expenses.

               water infrastructure/state revolving funds

    For necessary expenses for capitalization grants for State 
Revolving Funds to support wastewater infrastructure financing, and to 
carry out the purposes of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as 
amended, the Water Quality Act of 1987, and section 1443(a) of the 
Public Health Service Act, $1,500,175,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which $1,000,000,000 shall be for capitalization grants 
for Clean Water State Revolving Funds under title VI of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act, as amended; $100,000,000 for 
architectural, engineering, design, construction, and related 
activities in connection with the construction of high priority 
wastewater facilities in the area of the United States-Mexico Border, 
after consultation with the appropriate border commissions; $50,000,000 
for grants to the State of Texas, which shall be matched by an equal 
amount of State funds from State sources, for the purpose of improving 
wastewater treatment for colonias; $15,000,000 for grants to the State 
of Alaska, subject to an appropriate cost share as determined by the 
Administrator, to address wastewater infrastructure needs of rural and 
Alaska Native Villages; $22,500,000 for making grants under section 
104(b)(3) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended; 
$100,000,000 for making grants under section 319 of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act, as amended; $75,000,000 for making grants under 
section 1443(a) of the Public Health Service Act; and, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, $137,675,000 for making grants for the 
construction of wastewater treatment facilities and the development of 
groundwater in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in 
the House Report accompanying this Act: Provided, That of the funds 
made available under this heading in Public Law 103-327 and in Public 
Law 103-124 for capitalization grants for State Revolving Funds to 
support water infrastructure financing, $225,000,000 shall be made 
available for capitalization grants for State Revolving Funds under 
title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended: 
Provided further, That of the funds made available under this heading 
for capitalization grants for State Revolving Funds under title VI of 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, $50,000,000 shall 
be for wastewater treatment in impoverished communities pursuant to 
section 102(d) of H.R. 961 as approved by the United States House of 
Representatives on May 16, 1995: Provided further, That except for 
grants made under section 1443(a) of the Public Health Service Act, 
appropriations for programs and projects pursuant to the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act made available under this heading shall be 
available only upon enactment of legislation reauthorizing such Act, 
and appropriations for programs and projects pursuant to other Acts 
made available under this heading shall be available only upon 
enactment of legislation specifically authorizing such appropriations.

                   Executive Office of the President

                office of science and technology policy

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and Technology 
Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the National Science and 
Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 
6601 and 6671), hire of passenger motor vehicles, services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, not to exceed $2,500 for official 
reception and representation expenses, and rental of conference rooms 
in the District of Columbia, $4,981,000: Provided, That the Office of 
Science and Technology Policy shall reimburse other agencies for not 
less than one-half of the personnel compensation costs of individuals 
detailed to it.

  council on environmental quality and office of environmental quality

    To carry out the orderly termination of the programs and activities 
authorized by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the 
Environmental Improvement Act of 1970 and Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 
1977, $1,000,000.

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency

                            disaster relief

    For necessary expenses in carrying out the functions of the Robert 
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
5121 et seq.), $235,500,000, to remain available until expended.

            disaster assistance direct loan program account

    For the cost of direct loans, $2,155,000, as authorized by section 
319 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.): Provided, That such costs, including the 
cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That 
these funds are available to subsidize gross obligations for the 
principal amount of direct loans not to exceed $25,000,000.
    In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the direct 
loan program, $95,000.

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, including hire 
and purchase of motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343); uniforms, or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed 
the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for GS-18; expenses of 
attendance of cooperating officials and individuals at meetings 
concerned with the work of emergency preparedness; transportation in 
connection with the continuity of Government programs to the same 
extent and in the same manner as permitted the Secretary of a Military 
Department under 10 U.S.C. 2632; and not to exceed $2,500 for official 
reception and representation expenses; $162,000,000.

                    office of the inspector general

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $4,400,000.

              emergency management planning and assistance

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, to carry out 
activities under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended, 
and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
4001 et seq.), the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), the Earthquake Hazards 
Reduction Act of 1977, as amended (42 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), the Federal 
Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974, as amended (15 U.S.C. 2201 et 
seq.), the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. 
App. 2251 et seq.), the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 
U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.), sections 107 and 303 of the National 
Security Act of 1947, as amended (50 U.S.C. 404-405), and 
Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978, $203,044,000.

                   emergency food and shelter program

    There is hereby appropriated $100,000,000 to the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency to carry out an emergency food and shelter program 
pursuant to title III of Public Law 100-77, as amended: Provided, That 
total administrative costs shall not exceed three and one-half per 
centum of the total appropriation.

                     national flood insurance fund

    For activities under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, the 
Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, and the National Flood Insurance 
Reform Act of 1994, not to exceed $20,562,000 for salaries and expenses 
associated with flood mitigation and flood insurance operations, and 
not to exceed $70,464,000 for flood mitigation, including up to 
$12,000,000 for expenses under section 1366 of the National Flood 
Insurance Act of 1968, as amended, which amount shall be available 
until September 30, 1997. In fiscal year 1996, no funds in excess of 
(1) $47,000,000 for operating expenses, (2) $292,526,000 for agents' 
commissions and taxes, and (3) $3,500,000 for interest on Treasury 
borrowings shall be available from the National Flood Insurance Fund 
without prior notice to the Committees on Appropriations: Provided, 
That none of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) shall be available for any further 
work on effective Flood Insurance Rate Maps for the City of Stockton 
and San Joaquin County, California based on FEMA's restudy of flood 
hazards on South Paddy Creek, Middle Paddy Creek, Paddy Creek, Bear 
Creek, Mosher Slough, Calaveras River, Potter A Slough, Potter B 
Slough, Mormon Slough, and the Diversion Channel.

                        administrative provision

    The Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall 
promulgate through rulemaking a methodology for assessment and 
collection of fees to be assessed and collected beginning in fiscal 
year 1996 applicable to persons subject to the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency's radiological emergency preparedness regulations. 
The aggregate charges assessed pursuant to this section during fiscal 
year 1996 shall approximate, but not be less than, 100 per centum of 
the amounts anticipated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to 
be obligated for its radiological emergency preparedness program for 
such fiscal year. The methodology for assessment and collection of fees 
shall be fair and equitable, and shall reflect the full amount of costs 
of providing radiological emergency planning, preparedness, response 
and associated services. Such fees will be assessed in a manner that 
reflects the use of agency resources for classes of regulated persons 
and the administrative costs of collecting such fees. Fees received 
pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the general fund of the 
Treasury as offsetting receipts. Assessment and collection of such fees 
are only authorized during fiscal year 1996.

                    General Services Administration

                      consumer information center

    For necessary expenses of the Consumer Information Center, 
including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $2,061,000, to be 
deposited into the Consumer Information Center Fund: Provided, That the 
appropriations, revenues and collections deposited into the fund shall 
be available for necessary expenses of Consumer Information Center 
activities in the aggregate amount of $7,500,000. Administrative 
expenses of the Consumer Information Center in fiscal year 1996 shall 
not exceed $2,502,000. Appropriations, revenues, and collections 
accruing to this fund during fiscal year 1996 in excess of $7,500,000 
shall remain in the fund and shall not be available for expenditure 
except as authorized in appropriations Acts.

                Department of Health and Human Services

                       office of consumer affairs

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Consumer Affairs, including 
services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $1,811,000: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, that Office may accept and 
deposit to this account, during fiscal year 1996, gifts for the purpose 
of defraying its costs of printing, publishing, and distributing 
consumer information and educational materials; may expend up to 
$1,100,000 of those gifts for those purposes, in addition to amounts 
otherwise appropriated; and the balance shall remain available for 
expenditure for such purposes to the extent authorized in subsequent 
appropriations Acts: Provided further, That none of the funds provided 
under this heading may be made available for any other activities 
within the Department of Health and Human Services.

             National Aeronautics and Space Administration

                           human space flight

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the conduct 
and support of human space flight research and development activities, 
including research; development; operations; services; maintenance; 
construction of facilities including repair, rehabilitation, and 
modification of real and personal property, and acquisition or 
condemnation of real property, as authorized by law; space flight, 
spacecraft control and communications activities including operations, 
production, and services; and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, 
and operation of mission and administrative aircraft; $5,449,600,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 1997: Provided, That of the 
funds made available under this heading, $390,000,000 of funds provided 
for Space Station shall not become available for obligation until 
August 1, 1996 and shall remain available for obligation until 
September 30, 1997.

                  science, aeronautics and technology

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for the conduct 
and support of science, aeronautics, and technology research and 
development activities, including research; development; operations; 
services; maintenance; construction of facilities including repair, 
rehabilitation and modification of real and personal property, and 
acquisition or condemnation of real property, as authorized by law; 
space flight, spacecraft control and communications activities 
including operations, production, and services; and purchase, lease, 
charter, maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative 
aircraft; $5,588,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1997.

                            mission support

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in carrying out 
mission support for human space flight programs and science, 
aeronautical, and technology programs, including research operations 
and support; space communications activities including operations, 
production, and services; maintenance; construction of facilities 
including repair, rehabilitation, and modification of facilities, minor 
construction of new facilities and additions to existing facilities, 
facility planning and design, environmental compliance and restoration, 
and acquisition or condemnation of real property, as authorized by law; 
program management; personnel and related costs, including uniforms or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902); travel 
expenses; purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of 
mission and administrative aircraft; not to exceed $35,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses; and purchase (not to exceed 
thirty-three for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; $2,618,200,000, to remain available until September 30, 1997.

                      office of inspector general

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $16,000,000.

                       administrative provisions

                     (including transfer of funds)

    Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of funds 
appropriated for ``Human space flight'', ``Science, aeronautics and 
technology'', or ``Mission support'' by this appropriations Act, when 
any activity has been initiated by the incurrence of obligations for 
construction of facilities as authorized by law, the amount available 
for such activity shall remain available until expended. This provision 
does not apply to the amounts appropriated in ``Mission support'' 
pursuant to the authorization for repair, rehabilitation and 
modification of facilities, minor construction of new facilities and 
additions to existing facilities, and facility planning and design.
    Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of funds 
appropriated for ``Human space flight'', ``Science, aeronautics and 
technology'', or ``Mission support'' by this appropriations Act, the 
amounts appropriated for construction of facilities shall remain 
available until September 30, 1998.
    Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of funds 
appropriated for ``Mission support'' and ``Office of Inspector 
General'', amounts made available by this Act for personnel and related 
costs and travel expenses of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration shall remain available until September 30, 1996 and may 
be used to enter into contracts for training, investigations, cost 
associated with personnel relocation, and for other services, to be 
provided during the next fiscal year.
    No amount appropriated pursuant to this or any other Act may be 
used for the lease or construction of a new contractor-funded facility 
for exclusive use in support of a contract or contracts with the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration under which the 
Administration would be required to substantially amortize through 
payment or reimbursement such contractor investment, unless an 
appropriations Act specifies the lease or contract pursuant to which 
such facilities are to be constructed or leased or such facility is 
otherwise identified in such Act. The Administrator may authorize such 
facility lease or construction, if he determines, in consultation with 
the Committees on Appropriations, that deferral of such action until 
the enactment of the next appropriations Act would be inconsistent with 
the interest of the Nation in aeronautical and space activities.
    The unexpired balances of prior appropriations to NASA for 
activities for which funds are provided under this Act may be 
transferred to the new account established for the appropriation that 
provides funds for such activity under this Act. Balances so 
transferred may be merged with funds in the newly established account 
and thereafter may be accounted for as one fund to be available for the 
same purposes and under the same terms and conditions.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall convey, without 
reimbursement, to the State of Mississippi, all rights, title and 
interest of the United States in the property known as the Yellow Creek 
Facility and consisting of approximately 1,200 acres near the city of 
Iuka, Mississippi, including all improvements thereon and also 
including any personal property owned by NASA that is currently located 
on-site and which the State of Mississippi requires to facilitate the 
transfer: Provided, That appropriated funds shall be used to effect 
this conveyance: Provided further, That $10,000,000 in appropriated 
funds otherwise available to the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration shall be transferred to the State of Mississippi to be 
used in the transition of the facility: Provided further, That in 
consideration of this conveyance, the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration may require such other terms and conditions as the 
Administrator deems appropriate to protect the interests of the United 
States: Provided further, That the conveyance of the site and the 
transfer of the funds to the State of Mississippi shall occur not later 
than thirty days from the date of enactment of this Act.
    The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration shall conduct a study of the closing or re-structuring 
of Space Flight Centers and Research Centers. The study shall include 
an analysis of functions currently being performed at each Center, the 
cost of performing each function at its current location and at logical 
alternative Centers, the schedule for transitioning functions to 
alternative Centers, and the overall cost savings which will be derived 
from the closing or re-structuring of each Center. The findings of the 
study, including a detailed schedule for completion of the re-
structuring, shall be submitted to the Congress no later than March 31, 
1996. Closure or re-structuring of these Centers shall be completed no 
later than October 1, 1998.

                  National Credit Union Administration

                       central liquidity facility

    During fiscal year 1996, gross obligations of the Central Liquidity 
Facility for the principal amount of new direct loans to member credit 
unions as authorized by the National Credit Union Central Liquidity 
Facility Act (12 U.S.C. 1795) shall not exceed $600,000,000: Provided, 
That administrative expenses of the Central Liquidity Facility in 
fiscal year 1996 shall not exceed $560,000.

                      National Science Foundation

                    research and related activities

    For necessary expenses in carrying out the purposes of the National 
Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861-1875), and 
the Act to establish a National Medal of Science (42 U.S.C. 1880-1881); 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; maintenance and operation of 
aircraft and purchase of flight services for research support; 
acquisition of aircraft; $2,254,000,000, of which not to exceed 
$235,000,000 shall remain available until expended for Polar research 
and operations support, and for reimbursement to other Federal agencies 
for operational and science support and logistical and other related 
activities for the United States Antarctic program; the balance to 
remain available until September 30, 1997: Provided, That receipts for 
scientific support services and materials furnished by the National 
Research Centers and other National Science Foundation supported 
research facilities may be credited to this appropriation: Provided 
further, That to the extent that the amount appropriated is less than 
the total amount authorized to be appropriated for included program 
activities, all amounts, including floors and ceilings, specified in 
the authorizing Act for those program activities or their subactivities 
shall be reduced proportionally.

                        major research equipment

    For necessary expenses in carrying out major construction projects, 
and related expenses, pursuant to the purposes of the National Science 
Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861-1875), $70,000,000, 
to remain available until expended.

                    academic research infrastructure

    For necessary expenses in carrying out an academic research 
infrastructure program pursuant to the purposes of the National Science 
Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861-1875), including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and rental of conference rooms 
in the District of Columbia, $100,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 1997.

                     education and human resources

    For necessary expenses in carrying out science and engineering 
education and human resources programs and activities pursuant to the 
purposes of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 
U.S.C. 1861-1875), including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 
and rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, 
$599,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1997: Provided, 
That to the extent that the amount of this appropriation is less than 
the total amount authorized to be appropriated for included program 
activities, all amounts, including floors and ceilings, specified in 
the authorizing Act for those program activities or their subactivities 
shall be reduced proportionally.

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary salaries and expenses in carrying out the purposes of 
the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
1861-1875); services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; not to exceed $9,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses; uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized 
by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902); rental of conference rooms in the District 
of Columbia; reimbursement of the General Services Administration for 
security guard services; $127,310,000: Provided, That contracts may be 
entered into under salaries and expenses in fiscal year 1996 for 
maintenance and operation of facilities, and for other services, to be 
provided during the next fiscal year.

                      office of inspector general

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $4,490,000, to remain available until September 30, 1997.

          national science foundation headquarters relocation

    For necessary support of the relocation of the National Science 
Foundation, $5,200,000: Provided, That these funds shall be used to 
reimburse the General Services Administration for services and related 
acquisitions in support of relocating the National Science Foundation.

                 Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

          payment to the neighborhood reinvestment corporation

    For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for use in 
neighborhood reinvestment activities, as authorized by the Neighborhood 
Reinvestment Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 8101-8107), $38,667,000.

                        Selective Service System

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Selective Service System, including 
expenses of attendance at meetings and of training for uniformed 
personnel assigned to the Selective Service System, as authorized by 
law (5 U.S.C. 4101-4118) for civilian employees; and not to exceed 
$1,000 for official reception and representation expenses; $22,930,000: 
Provided, That during the current fiscal year, the President may exempt 
this appropriation from the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 1341, whenever he 
deems such action to be necessary in the interest of national defense: 
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated by the Act may be 
expended for or in connection with the induction of any person into the 
Armed Forces of the United States.

                                TITLE IV

                              CORPORATIONS

    Corporations and agencies of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development which are subject to the Government Corporation Control 
Act, as amended, are hereby authorized to make such expenditures, 
within the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each 
such corporation or agency and in accord with law, and to make such 
contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as 
provided by section 104 of the Act as may be necessary in carrying out 
the programs set forth in the budget for 1996 for such corporation or 
agency except as hereinafter provided: Provided, That collections of 
these corporations and agencies may be used for new loan or mortgage 
purchase commitments only to the extent expressly provided for in this 
Act (unless such loans are in support of other forms of assistance 
provided for in this or prior appropriations Acts), except that this 
proviso shall not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty 
operations of these corporations, or where loans or mortgage purchases 
are necessary to protect the financial interest of the United States 
Government.

                      Resolution Trust Corporation

                      office of inspector general

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $11,400,000.

                                TITLE V

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Section 501. Where appropriations in titles I, II, and III of this 
Act are expendable for travel expenses and no specific limitation has 
been placed thereon, the expenditures for such travel expenses may not 
exceed the amounts set forth therefor in the budget estimates submitted 
for the appropriations: Provided, That this section shall not apply to 
travel performed by uncompensated officials of local boards and appeal 
boards of the Selective Service System; to travel performed directly in 
connection with care and treatment of medical beneficiaries of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs; to travel performed in connection with 
major disasters or emergencies declared or determined by the President 
under the provisions of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act; to travel performed by the Offices of 
Inspector General in connection with audits and investigations; or to 
payments to interagency motor pools where separately set forth in the 
budget schedules: Provided further, That if appropriations in titles I, 
II, and III exceed the amounts set forth in budget estimates initially 
submitted for such appropriations, the expenditures for travel may 
correspondingly exceed the amounts therefor set forth in the estimates 
in the same proportion.
    Sec. 502. Appropriations and funds available for the administrative 
expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the 
Selective Service System shall be available in the current fiscal year 
for purchase of uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by law 
(5 U.S.C. 5901-5902); hire of passenger motor vehicles; and services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
    Sec. 503. Funds of the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
subject to the Government Corporation Control Act or section 402 of the 
Housing Act of 1950 shall be available, without regard to the 
limitations on administrative expenses, for legal services on a 
contract or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment for 
services and facilities of Federal National Mortgage Association, 
Government National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage 
Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Resolution Trust Corporation, 
Federal Reserve banks or any member thereof, Federal Home Loan banks, 
and any insured bank within the meaning of the Federal Deposit 
Insurance Corporation Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1811-1831).
    Sec. 504. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein.
    Sec. 505. No funds appropriated by this Act may be expended--
            (1) pursuant to a certification of an officer or employee 
        of the United States unless--
                    (A) such certification is accompanied by, or is 
                part of, a voucher or abstract which describes the 
                payee or payees and the items or services for which 
                such expenditure is being made, or
                    (B) the expenditure of funds pursuant to such 
                certification, and without such a voucher or abstract, 
                is specifically authorized by law; and
            (2) unless such expenditure is subject to audit by the 
        General Accounting Office or is specifically exempt by law from 
        such audit.
    Sec. 506. None of the funds provided in this Act to any department 
or agency may be expended for the transportation of any officer or 
employee of such department or agency between his domicile and his 
place of employment, with the exception of any officer or employee 
authorized such transportation under title 31, United States Code, 
section 1344.
    Sec. 507. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used for 
payment, through grants or contracts, to recipients that do not share 
in the cost of conducting research resulting from proposals not 
specifically solicited by the Government: Provided, That the extent of 
cost sharing by the recipient shall reflect the mutuality of interest 
of the grantee or contractor and the Government in the research.
    Sec. 508. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used, 
directly or through grants, to pay or to provide reimbursement for 
payment of the salary of a consultant (whether retained by the Federal 
Government or a grantee) at more than the daily equivalent of the rate 
paid for Level IV of the Executive Schedule, unless specifically 
authorized by law.
    Sec. 509. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to pay the 
expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties intervening 
in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings. Nothing herein affects the 
authority of the Consumer Product Safety Commission pursuant to section 
7 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2056 et seq.).
    Sec. 510. Except as otherwise provided under existing law or under 
an existing Executive order issued pursuant to an existing law, the 
obligation or expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for 
contracts for any consulting service shall be limited to contracts 
which are (1) a matter of public record and available for public 
inspection, and (2) thereafter included in a publicly available list of 
all contracts entered into within twenty-four months prior to the date 
on which the list is made available to the public and of all contracts 
on which performance has not been completed by such date. The list 
required by the preceding sentence shall be updated quarterly and shall 
include a narrative description of the work to be performed under each 
such contract.
    Sec. 511. Except as otherwise provided by law, no part of any 
appropriation contained in this Act shall be obligated or expended by 
any executive agency, as referred to in the Office of Federal 
Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) for a contract for 
services unless such executive agency (1) has awarded and entered into 
such contract in full compliance with such Act and the regulations 
promulgated thereunder, and (2) requires any report prepared pursuant 
to such contract, including plans, evaluations, studies, analyses and 
manuals, and any report prepared by the agency which is substantially 
derived from or substantially includes any report prepared pursuant to 
such contract, to contain information concerning (A) the contract 
pursuant to which the report was prepared, and (B) the contractor who 
prepared the report pursuant to such contract.
    Sec. 512. Except as otherwise provided in section 506, none of the 
funds provided in this Act to any department or agency shall be 
obligated or expended to provide a personal cook, chauffeur, or other 
personal servants to any officer or employee of such department or 
agency.
    Sec. 513. None of the funds provided in this Act to any department 
or agency shall be obligated or expended to procure passenger 
automobiles as defined in 15 U.S.C. 2001 with an EPA estimated miles 
per gallon average of less than 22 miles per gallon.
    Sec. 514. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1996 pay 
raises for programs funded by this Act shall be absorbed within the 
levels appropriated in this Act.
    Sec. 515. None of the funds appropriated in title I of this Act 
shall be used to enter into any new lease of real property if the 
estimated annual rental is more than $300,000 unless the Secretary 
submits, in writing, a report to the Committees on Appropriations of 
the Congress and a period of 30 days has expired following the date on 
which the report is received by the Committees on Appropriations.
    Sec. 516. (a) Purchase of American-Made Equipment and Products.--It 
is the sense of the Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, 
all equipment and products purchased with funds made available in this 
Act should be American-made.
    (b) Notice Requirement.--In providing financial assistance to, or 
entering into any contract with, any entity using funds made available 
in this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the greatest extent 
practicable, shall provide to such entity a notice describing the 
statement made in subsection (a) by the Congress.
    Sec. 517. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be used to 
implement any cap on reimbursements to grantees for indirect costs, 
except as published in Office of Management and Budget Circular A-21.
    Sec. 518. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
for any program, project, or activity, when it is made known to the 
Federal entity or official to which the funds are made available that 
the program, project, or activity is not in compliance with any Federal 
law relating to risk assessment, the protection of private property 
rights, or unfunded mandates.
    Sec. 519. (a) Contractor Conversion.--The Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency shall cease any further hiring in the 
Agency's Office of Research and Development.
    (b) Report.--Not later than January 1, 1996, the head of the Office 
of Research and Development of the Environmental Protection Agency 
shall submit to the Congress a report on all staffing plans including 
the use of Federal and contract employees.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1996''.
            Passed the House of Representatives July 31, 1995.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.

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  1st Session

                                H. R. 2099

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                                 AN ACT

   Making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
  Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, 
  boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 1996, and for other purposes.