[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3579 Public Print (PP)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 3579


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 31, 1998

    Ordered to be printed with the amendments of the Senate numbered

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                                 AN ACT


 
Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending 
              September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
(1)<DELETED>That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money 
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1998, and for other purposes, namely:

                       <DELETED>TITLE I</DELETED>

        <DELETED>EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS</DELETED>

                      <DELETED>CHAPTER 1</DELETED>

              <DELETED>DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE</DELETED>

                 <DELETED>Farm Service Agency</DELETED>

           <DELETED>emergency conservation program</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Emergency Conservation 
Program'' for expenses resulting from ice storms, flooding, and other 
natural disasters, $20,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
which shall be available only to the extent that an official budget 
request that includes designation of the entire amount of the request 
as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by 
the President to Congress: Provided, That the entire amount is 
designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.</DELETED>

               <DELETED>tree assistance program</DELETED>

<DELETED>    An amount of $4,700,000 is provided for assistance to 
replace or rehabilitate trees and vineyards damaged by natural 
disasters: Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to 
the extent that an official budget request of $4,700,000, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of such Act.</DELETED>

 <DELETED>agricultural credit insurance fund program account</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For additional gross obligations for the principal amount 
of emergency insured loans authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1928-1929, to be 
available from funds in the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund, for 
losses in fiscal year 1998 resulting from ice storms, flooding and 
other natural disasters, $87,000,000.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    For the additional cost of emergency insured loans, 
including the cost of modifying loans as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, $21,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That the entire amount shall be available 
only to the extent that an official budget request for $21,000,000 that 
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985, as amended.</DELETED>

          <DELETED>Commodity Credit Corporation Fund</DELETED>

         <DELETED>livestock disaster assistance fund</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Effective only for losses incurred beginning on November 
27, 1997, through the date of enactment of this Act, $4,000,000, to 
implement a livestock indemnity program to compensate producers for 
losses of livestock (including ratites) due to natural disasters 
designated pursuant to a Presidential or Secretarial declaration 
requested during such period in a manner similar to catastrophic loss 
coverage available for other commodities under 7 U.S.C. 1508(b): 
Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent 
that an official budget request of $4,000,000, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.</DELETED>

    <DELETED>Dairy Production Indemnity Assistance Program</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Effective only for losses incurred beginning on November 
27, 1997, through the date of enactment of this Act, $6,800,000 to 
implement a dairy production indemnity program to compensate producers 
for losses of milk that had been produced but not marketed or for 
diminished production (including diminished future production due to 
mastitis) due to natural disasters designated pursuant to a 
Presidential or Secretarial declaration requested during such period: 
Provided, That payments for diminished production shall be determined 
on a per head basis derived from a comparison to a like production 
period from the previous year, the disaster period is 180 days starting 
with the date of the disaster and the payment rate shall be $4.00 per 
hundredweight of milk: Provided further, That the entire amount shall 
be available only to the extent that an official budget request of 
$6,800,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted 
by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.</DELETED>

       <DELETED>Natural Resources Conservation Service</DELETED>

      <DELETED>watershed and flood prevention operations</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Watershed and Flood 
Prevention Operations'' to repair damages to the waterways and 
watersheds resulting from ice storms, flooding, tornadoes and other 
natural disasters, $65,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent 
that an official budget request for $65,000,000, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of such Act.</DELETED>

                      <DELETED>CHAPTER 2</DELETED>

                <DELETED>DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE</DELETED>

           <DELETED>DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--MILITARY</DELETED>

                 <DELETED>MILITARY PERSONNEL</DELETED>

              <DELETED>Military Personnel, Army</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Military Personnel, Army'', 
$184,000,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by Congress as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.</DELETED>

              <DELETED>Military Personnel, Navy</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Military Personnel, Navy'', 
$22,300,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.</DELETED>

          <DELETED>Military Personnel, Marine Corps</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Military Personnel, Marine 
Corps'', $5,100,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.</DELETED>

            <DELETED>Military Personnel, Air Force</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Military Personnel, Air 
Force'', $10,900,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.</DELETED>

               <DELETED>Reserve Personnel, Navy</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Reserve Personnel, Navy'', 
$4,100,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.</DELETED>

              <DELETED>OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE</DELETED>

           <DELETED>Operation and Maintenance, Army</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Army'', $2,586,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended: Provided further, That of this amount, $700,000 shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for a 
specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount 
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to Congress.</DELETED>

           <DELETED>Operation and Maintenance, Navy</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Navy'', $53,800,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended: Provided further, That of this amount, $5,700,000 shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for a 
specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount 
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to Congress.</DELETED>

       <DELETED>Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Marine Corps'', $26,810,000: Provided, That such amount is designated 
by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for a 
specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount 
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to Congress.</DELETED>

        <DELETED>Operation and Maintenance, Air Force</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Air Force'', $49,200,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended: Provided further, That of this amount, $21,800,000 shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for a 
specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount 
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to Congress.</DELETED>

       <DELETED>Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Defense-Wide'', $1,390,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.</DELETED>

       <DELETED>Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Army Reserve'', $650,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.</DELETED>

    <DELETED>Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Air Force Reserve'', $229,000: Provided, That such amount is designated 
by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985, as amended.</DELETED>

   <DELETED>Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Army National Guard'', $5,925,000: Provided, That such amount is 
designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That of this amount, $5,750,000 
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget request 
for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire 
amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, 
is transmitted by the President to Congress.</DELETED>

    <DELETED>Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Air National Guard'', $975,000: Provided, That such amount is 
designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for a 
specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount 
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to Congress.</DELETED>

    <DELETED>Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund</DELETED>

            <DELETED>(including transfer of funds)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Overseas Contingency 
Operations Transfer Fund'', $1,829,900,000: Provided, That such amount 
is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the Secretary 
of Defense may transfer these funds to fiscal year 1998 appropriations 
for operation and maintenance, working capital funds, the Defense 
Health Program, procurement, and research, development, test and 
evaluation: Provided further, That the funds transferred shall be 
merged with and shall be available for the same purposes and for the 
same time period as the appropriation to which transferred: Provided 
further, That the transfer authority provided in this paragraph is in 
addition to any other transfer authority contained in Public Law 105-
56.</DELETED>

           <DELETED>REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS</DELETED>

              <DELETED>Navy Working Capital Fund</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Navy Working Capital 
Fund'', $30,467,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended: Provided further, That of this amount, $7,450,000 shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for a 
specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount 
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to Congress.</DELETED>

          <DELETED>Defense-Wide Working Capital Fund</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Defense-Wide Working 
Capital Fund'', $1,000,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.</DELETED>

        <DELETED>OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS</DELETED>

               <DELETED>Defense Health Program</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Defense Health Program'', 
$1,900,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.</DELETED>

          <DELETED>General Provisions--This Chapter</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 201. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
chapter shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal 
year, unless expressly so provided herein.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 202. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made 
available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence 
activities are deemed to be specifically authorized by the Congress for 
purposes of section 504 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
414).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 203. In addition to the amounts appropriated to the 
Department of Defense under Public Law 105-56, there is hereby 
appropriated $37,000,000 for the ``Reserve Mobilization Income 
Insurance Fund'', to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
such amount is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the 
entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an official 
budget request for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation 
of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to 
Congress.</DELETED>

            <DELETED>(including transfer of funds)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 204. (a) Quality Assurance Report on Military Health 
Care.--The Secretary of Defense shall appoint an independent panel of 
experts to evaluate recent measures taken by the Acting Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and the Surgeons General of the 
Army, Navy and Air Force to improve the quality of care provided by the 
Military Health Services System.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Membership.--(1) The panel shall be composed of nine 
members appointed by the Secretary of Defense. At least five of those 
members shall be persons who are highly qualified in the medical arts, 
have experience in setting health care standards, and possess a 
demonstrated understanding of the military health care system and its 
unique mission requirements. The remaining members shall be persons who 
are current beneficiaries of the Military Health Services 
System.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (2) The Secretary shall designate one member to serve as 
chairperson of the panel.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (3) The Secretary shall appoint the members of this panel 
not later than 45 days after enactment of this Act.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (c) Functions of the Panel.--The panel shall review the 
Department of Defense Access and Quality Improvement Initiative 
announced in early 1998 (together with other related quality 
improvement actions) to assess whether all reasonable measures have 
been taken to ensure that the Military Health Services System delivers 
health care services in accordance with consistently high professional 
standards. The panel shall specifically assess actions of the 
Department to accomplish the following objectives of that initiative 
and related management actions:</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) Upgrade professional education and training 
        requirements for military physicians and other health care 
        providers;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) Establish ``Centers of Excellence'' for 
        complicated surgical procedures;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) Make timely and complete reports to the 
        National Practitioner Data Bank and eliminate associated 
        reporting backlogs;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) Assure that Military Health Services System 
        providers are properly licensed and have appropriate 
        credentials;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) Reestablish the Quality Management Report to 
        aid in early identification of compliance problems;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (6) Improve communications with beneficiaries to 
        provide comprehensive and objective information on the quality 
        of care being provided;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (7) Strengthen the National Quality Management 
        Program;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (8) Ensure that all laboratory work meets 
        professional standards; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (9) Ensure the accuracy of patient data and 
        information.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (d) Report.--Not later than six months after the date on 
which the panel is established, the panel shall submit to the Secretary 
a report setting forth its findings and conclusions, and the reasons 
therefor, and such recommendations it deems appropriate. The Secretary 
shall forward the report of the panel to Congress not later than 15 
days after the date on which the Secretary receives it, together with 
the Secretary's comments on the report.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (e) Panel Administration.--(1) The members of the panel 
shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 
subsistence, at rates authorized by law for employees of agencies while 
away from their homes or regular places of business in the performance 
of services for the panel.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (2) Upon request of the chairperson of the panel, the 
Secretary of Defense may detail to the panel, on a nonreimbursable 
basis, personnel of the Department of Defense to assist the panel in 
carrying out its duties. The Secretary of Defense shall furnish to the 
panel such administrative and support services as may be requested by 
the chairman of the panel.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (f) Panel Financing.--Of the funds appropriated in Public 
Law 105-56 for ``Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy'', 
$5,000,000 shall be transferred to ``Defense Health Program'', to be 
available through fiscal year 1999, only for administrative costs of 
this panel and for the express purpose of initiating or accelerating 
any activity identified by the panel that will improve the quality of 
health care provided by the Military Health Services System.</DELETED>

                      <DELETED>CHAPTER 3</DELETED>

            <DELETED>DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL</DELETED>

               <DELETED>DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY</DELETED>

              <DELETED>CORPS OF ENGINEERS--CIVIL</DELETED>

         <DELETED>Operation and Maintenance, General</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For emergency repairs due to flooding and other natural 
disasters, $84,457,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
such amounts for eligible navigation projects which may be derived from 
the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund pursuant to Public Law 99-662, shall 
be derived from that Fund: Provided, That the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent an official budget request for a specific 
dollar amount that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted 
by the President to Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount 
is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.</DELETED>

             <DELETED>DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR</DELETED>

                <DELETED>BUREAU OF RECLAMATION</DELETED>

             <DELETED>Water and Related Resources</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Water and Related 
Resources'' to repair damage caused by floods and other natural 
disasters, $4,520,000, to remain available until expended, which shall 
be available only to the extent that an official budget request for a 
specific dollar amount that includes designation of the entire amount 
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to Congress: Provided, That the entire 
amount is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.</DELETED>

          <DELETED>General Provisions--This Chapter</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 301. The Secretary of the Army shall not authorize, 
permit, or undertake any activity to stabilize, cover, or permanently 
alter the site where the Kennewick Man remains were discovered prior to 
the final disposition of the lawsuit entitled Bonnichsen, et al. v. 
United States, et al. and designated as United States District Court, 
District of Oregon CV No. 96-1481, unless such district court makes a 
determination that such activity is reasonable and necessary in light 
of potential adverse impacts on scientific investigation of the site or 
other relevant considerations. For the purposes of this section, the 
term ``site'' means any land, beach, or river bank within 100 yards of 
the location where any portion of the Kennewick Man remains were 
discovered.</DELETED>

                      <DELETED>CHAPTER 4</DELETED>

             <DELETED>DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR</DELETED>

       <DELETED>UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE</DELETED>

                    <DELETED>Construction</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Construction'', 
$28,938,000, to remain available until expended, to repair damage 
caused by floods and other acts of nature: Provided, That the entire 
amount is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That of such amount, 
$25,000,000 shall be available only to the extent that an official 
budget request for a specific dollar amount that includes designation 
of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
defined in such Act is transmitted by the President to 
Congress.</DELETED>

                <DELETED>NATIONAL PARK SERVICE</DELETED>

                    <DELETED>Construction</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Construction'', to repair 
damage caused by floods and other acts of nature, $8,500,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is 
designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That such amount shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for a 
specific dollar amount that includes designation of the entire amount 
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in such Act is 
transmitted by the President to Congress.</DELETED>

           <DELETED>UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY</DELETED>

        <DELETED>Surveys, Investigations, and Research</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Surveys, Investigations, 
and Research'' for emergency expenses resulting from floods and other 
acts of nature, $1,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That the entire amount is designated by Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
further, That such amount shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for a specific dollar amount that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in such Act is transmitted by the President to 
Congress.</DELETED>

              <DELETED>DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE</DELETED>

                   <DELETED>FOREST SERVICE</DELETED>

             <DELETED>State and Private Forestry</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``State and Private 
Forestry'' for emergency expenses resulting from damages from ice 
storms, tornadoes and other natural disasters, $48,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is 
designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That of such amount, $28,000,000 
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget request 
for a specific dollar amount that includes designation of the entire 
amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in such 
Act is transmitted by the President to Congress.</DELETED>

               <DELETED>National Forest System</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``National Forest System'' 
for emergency expenses resulting from damages from ice storms, 
tornadoes and other natural disasters, $10,461,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended: Provided further, That of such amount, $5,461,000 shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for a 
specific dollar amount that includes designation of the entire amount 
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in such Act is 
transmitted by the President to Congress.</DELETED>

                      <DELETED>CHAPTER 5</DELETED>

    <DELETED>DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION</DELETED>

   <DELETED>Base Realignment and Closure Account, Part III</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Base Realignment and 
Closure Account, Part III'' to cover costs arising from El Nino related 
damage, $1,020,000, to be available only to the extent that an official 
budget request for a specific dollar amount that includes designation 
of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to Congress: 
Provided, That the entire amount is designated by Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.</DELETED>

        <DELETED>Family Housing, Navy and Marine Corps</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Family Housing, Navy and 
Marine Corps'' to cover costs arising from Typhoon Paka related damage, 
$15,600,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Family Housing, Navy and 
Marine Corps'' to cover costs arising from El Nino related damage, 
$1,000,000, to be available only to the extent that an official budget 
request for a specific dollar amount that includes designation of the 
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended, is transmitted by the President to Congress: Provided, That 
the entire amount is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.</DELETED>

              <DELETED>Family Housing, Air Force</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Family Housing, Air Force'' 
to cover costs arising from Typhoon Paka related damage, $1,500,000: 
Provided, That such amount is designated by Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Family Housing, Air Force'' 
to cover costs arising from El Nino related damage, $900,000, to be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for a 
specific dollar amount that includes designation of the entire amount 
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to Congress: Provided, That the entire 
amount is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.</DELETED>

                      <DELETED>CHAPTER 6</DELETED>

            <DELETED>DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION</DELETED>

           <DELETED>Federal Highway Administration</DELETED>

                <DELETED>federal-aid highways</DELETED>

                <DELETED>(highway trust fund)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for the Emergency Relief Program 
for emergency expenses resulting from floods and other natural 
disasters, as authorized by 23 U.S.C. 125, $259,000,000, to be derived 
from the Highway Trust Fund and to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That the entire amount is designated by Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
further, That of such amount, $35,000,000 shall be available only to 
the extent that an official budget request for a specific dollar amount 
that includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in such Act is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That any obligations for 
the Emergency Relief Program shall not be subject to the prohibition 
against obligations in section 2(e)(3)(A) and (D) of the Surface 
Transportation Extension Act of 1997: Provided further, That 23 U.S.C. 
125(b)(1) shall not apply to projects resulting from flooding during 
the fall of 1997 through the winter of 1998 in California.</DELETED>

           <DELETED>Federal Railroad Administration</DELETED>

    <DELETED>emergency railroad rehabilitation and repair</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses to repair and rebuild freight rail 
lines of regional and short line railroads or a State entity damaged by 
floods, $9,000,000, to be awarded to the States subject to the 
discretion of the Secretary on a case-by-case basis: Provided, That not 
more than $2,650,000 shall be solely for damage incurred in the 
Northern Plains States in March and April 1997: Provided further, That 
not more than $6,350,000 shall be solely for damage incurred as a 
result of El Nino in the fall of 1997 through the winter of 1998: 
Provided further, That funds provided under this head shall be 
available for rehabilitation of railroad rights-of-way, bridges, and 
other facilities which are part of the general railroad system of 
transportation, and primarily used by railroads to move freight 
traffic: Provided further, That railroad rights-of-way, bridges, and 
other facilities owned by class I railroads are not eligible for 
funding under this head, unless the rights-of-way, bridges, or other 
facilities are under contract lease to a class II or class III railroad 
under which the lessee is responsible for all maintenance costs of the 
line: Provided further, That railroad rights-of-way, bridges, and other 
facilities owned by passenger railroads or by tourist, scenic, or 
historic railroads are not eligible for funding under this head: 
Provided further, That these funds shall be available only to the 
extent an official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that 
includes designation of the entire amount as an emergency requirement 
as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: 
Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by Congress as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
Provided further, That all funds made available under this head are to 
remain available until September 30, 1998.</DELETED>

                      <DELETED>CHAPTER 7</DELETED>

     <DELETED>DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT</DELETED>

         <DELETED>Community Planning and Development</DELETED>

       <DELETED>community development block grants fund</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For an additional amount for ``Community Development Block 
Grants Fund'', as authorized under title I of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974, $20,000,000, which shall remain available 
until September 30, 2001, for use in States affected by the January, 
1998 Northeast ice storm for which a Presidential disaster declaration 
under title IV of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act has been issued, to assist in the long-term recovery and 
mitigation from the effects of that ice storm: Provided, That such 
funds may be used for eligible activities, except those activities by 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency or the Small Business 
Administration: Provided further, That in administering these amounts, 
the Secretary may waive, or specify alternative requirements for any 
provision of any statute or regulation that the Secretary administers 
in connection with the obligation by the Secretary or the use by the 
recipient of these funds, except for statutory requirements related to 
civil rights, fair housing and nondiscrimination, the environment, and 
labor standards, upon a finding that such waiver is required to 
facilitate the use of such funds: Provided further, That the entire 
amount shall be available only to the extent that an official budget 
request of $20,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount 
of the budget request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, 
is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That 
the entire amount is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.</DELETED>

                      <DELETED>TITLE II</DELETED>

                     <DELETED>RESCISSIONS</DELETED>

               <DELETED>DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION</DELETED>

          <DELETED>Bilingual and Immigrant Education</DELETED>

                    <DELETED>(rescission)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Of the amounts made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-78, $75,000,000 are rescinded: Provided, That, to the extent 
necessary to carry out such rescission, the Secretary of Education 
shall deobligate funds that have been obligated but have not been 
expended.</DELETED>

            <DELETED>DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION</DELETED>

           <DELETED>Federal Aviation Administration</DELETED>

             <DELETED>Grants-in-Aid for Airports</DELETED>

           <DELETED>(airport and airway trust fund)</DELETED>

       <DELETED>(rescission of contract authorization)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Of the available contract authority balances under this 
heading, $610,000,000 (reduced by $243,600,000) are 
rescinded.</DELETED>

             <DELETED>Grants-in-Aid for Airports</DELETED>

             <DELETED>(limitation on obligations)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Notwithstanding the provisions of Public Law 105-66, none 
of the funds in this or any other Act shall be available for the 
planning or execution of programs the obligations for which are in 
excess of $1,425,000,000 (increased by $243,600,000) in fiscal year 
1998 for grants-in-aid for airport planning and development, and noise 
compatibility planning and programs, notwithstanding section 47117(h) 
of title 49, United States Code.</DELETED>

     <DELETED>DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT</DELETED>

              <DELETED>Public and Indian Housing</DELETED>

       <DELETED>Section 8 Reserve Preservation Account</DELETED>

                    <DELETED>(rescission)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Of the amounts recaptured under this heading during fiscal 
year 1998 and prior years, $2,193,600,000 are rescinded: Provided, That 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall recapture 
$2,193,600,000 in amounts heretofore maintained as section 8 reserves 
made available to housing agencies for tenant-based assistance under 
the section 8 existing housing certificate and housing voucher 
programs.</DELETED>

                 <DELETED>INDEPENDENT AGENCY</DELETED>

   <DELETED>Corporation for National and Community Service</DELETED>

      <DELETED>National and Community Service Programs Operating 
                           Expenses</DELETED>

                    <DELETED>(rescission)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Of the amounts made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-65, $250,000,000 are rescinded.</DELETED>

                      <DELETED>TITLE III</DELETED>

            <DELETED>GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS ACT</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 3001. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal 
year unless expressly so provided herein.</DELETED>

 <DELETED>prohibition on use of funds for military operations against 
                             iraq</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 3002. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be made available for the conduct of 
offensive operations by United States Armed Forces against Iraq for the 
purpose of obtaining compliance by Iraq with United Nations Security 
Council Resolutions relating to inspection and destruction of weapons 
of mass destruction in Iraq unless such operations are specifically 
authorized by a law enacted after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.</DELETED>

     <DELETED>sense of the house on spending offsets for emergency 
                 supplemental appropriations</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 3003. (a) Findings.--The House of Representatives 
finds that--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) the House has worked diligently to balance the 
        Federal budget for the first time in 30 years;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) the House is committed to fiscal 
        responsibility and continued balanced budgets and will not 
        allow Washington to return to the days of deficit 
        spending;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) the House is committed to ensuring that the 
        current level of Federal discretionary spending does not 
        increase as a result of any emergency supplemental 
        appropriations; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) reducing spending to offset emergency 
        supplemental appropriations will send a clear message to the 
        American people that the Congress is serious about preventing 
        uncontrolled Federal spending.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Sense of the House.--It is the sense of the House of 
Representatives that any emergency supplemental appropriations 
considered in the 105th Congress shall not result in an increased level 
of total Federal discretionary spending.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    This Act may be cited as the ``1998 Emergency Supplemental 
Appropriations Act''.</DELETED>
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for recovery from natural 
disasters, and for overseas peacekeeping efforts, for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes, namely:

   TITLE I--EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR RECOVERY FROM 
   NATURAL DISASTERS, AND FOR OVERSEAS PEACEKEEPING EFFORTS, FOR THE 
     FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1998, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

                               CHAPTER 1

  SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                      Departmental Administration

    For an additional amount for ``Departmental Administration'', 
$2,000,000.

                     Office of the General Counsel

    For an additional amount for the ``Office of the General Counsel'', 
$235,000.

                          Farm Service Agency

           agricultural credit insurance fund program account

    For an additional amount for the ``Agricultural Credit Insurance 
Fund Program Account'', for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans 
authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1928-1929, including the cost of modifying such 
loans as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974, as follows: farm ownership loans, $3,574,197, of which $966,197 
shall be for guaranteed loans; direct operating loans, $3,162,000; and 
for boll weevil eradication program loans as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 
1989, $222,000.
    For an additional amount for the ``Agricultural Credit Insurance 
Fund Program Account'' for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans 
authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1928-29, including the cost of modifying such 
loans as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974, for losses resulting from ice storms, flooding, tornadoes and 
other natural disasters as follows: operating loans, $8,600,000, of 
which $5,400,000 shall be for subsidized guaranteed loans; emergency 
insured loans, $21,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That the entire amounts shall be available only to the extent 
that an official budget request for $29,600,000, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of such Act.

                     emergency conservation program

    For an additional amount for the ``Emergency Conservation Program'' 
for expenses resulting from ice storms, flooding, tornadoes and other 
natural disasters, $60,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent 
that an official budget request for $60,000,000, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of such Act.
    For necessary expenses to carry out the emergency conservation 
program authorized under sections 401, 402, and 404 of the Agricultural 
Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2201, 2202, 2204) to provide cost-sharing 
assistance to maple producers to replace taps and tubing that were 
damaged by ice storms in northeastern States in 1998, $4,480,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount shall 
be available only to the extent that an official budget request for 
$4,480,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted 
by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

                        tree assistance program

    An amount of $8,700,000 is provided for assistance to replace or 
rehabilitate trees and vineyards damaged by natural disasters: 
Provided, That the entire amount is available only to the extent that 
an official budget request for $8,700,000, that includes designation of 
the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined 
in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

                   Commodity Credit Corporation Fund

                 livestock disaster assistance program

    Effective only for losses incurred beginning on November 27, 1997, 
through the date of enactment of this Act, $4,000,000 to implement a 
livestock indemnity program to compensate producers for losses of 
livestock due to natural disasters designated pursuant to a 
Presidential or Secretarial declaration requested during such a period 
in a manner similar to catastrophic loss coverage available for other 
commodities under 7 U.S.C. 1508(b): Provided, That in establishing a 
program described in the preceding sentence, the Secretary shall, to 
the extent practicable, utilize gross income and payment limitations 
conditions established for the Disaster Reserve Assistance Program for 
the 1996 crop year: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for 
$4,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted 
by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

              dairy production disaster assistance program

    Effective only for natural disasters beginning on November 27, 
1997, through the date of enactment of this Act, $10,000,000 to 
implement a dairy production indemnity program to compensate producers 
for losses of milk that had been produced but not marketed or for 
diminished production (including diminished future production due to 
mastitis) due to natural disasters designated pursuant to a 
Presidential or Secretarial declaration requested during such period: 
Provided, That payments for diminished production shall be determined 
on a per head basis derived from a comparison to a like production 
period from the previous year, the disaster period is 180 days starting 
with the date of the disasters and the payment rate shall be $4.00 per 
hundredweight of milk: Provided further, That in establishing this 
program, the Secretary shall, to the extent practicable, utilize gross 
income and payment limitations established for the Disaster Reserve 
Assistance Program for the 1996 crop year: Provided further, That the 
entire amount is available only to the extent that an official budget 
request for $10,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount 
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That 
the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

                 Natural Resources Conservation Service

               watershed and flood prevention operations

    For an additional amount for ``Watershed and Flood Prevention 
Operations'' to repair damages to the waterways and watersheds 
resulting from ice storms, flooding, tornadoes and other natural 
disasters, $100,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for $100,000,000, that includes designation of 
the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined 
in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

                           Food Stamp Program

    Of the amounts made available under this head in Public Law 105-86, 
funds for employment and training shall remain available until expended 
as authorized by section 16(h)(1) of the Food Stamp Act.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                      Food and Drug Administration

                         salaries and expenses

    For an additional amount for ``Salaries and expenses'' from fees 
collected pursuant to section 736 of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act, not to exceed $25,918,000, to remain available until 
expended.

                      GENERAL PROVISION, CHAPTER 1

    Sec. 101. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, permanent 
employees of county committees employed during fiscal year 1998 
pursuant to 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act 
(16 U.S.C. 590h(b)) shall be considered as having Federal Civil Service 
status only for the purpose of applying for United States Department of 
Agriculture Civil Service vacancies.

                               CHAPTER 2

                        SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEFENSE

                    DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--MILITARY

                           MILITARY PERSONNEL

                        Military Personnel, Army

    For an additional amount for ``Military Personnel, Army'', 
$184,000,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                        Military Personnel, Navy

    For an additional amount for ``Military Personnel, Navy'', 
$22,300,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                    Military Personnel, Marine Corps

    For an additional amount for ``Military Personnel, Marine Corps'', 
$5,100,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                     Military Personnel, Air Force

    For an additional amount for ``Military Personnel, Air Force'', 
$10,900,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                        Reserve Personnel, Navy

    For an additional amount for ``Reserve Personnel, Navy'', 
$4,100,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                       OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

                    Operation and Maintenance, Army

    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Army'', 
$1,886,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                    Operation and Maintenance, Navy

    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'', 
$33,272,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                  Operation and Maintenance, Air Force

    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Air 
Force'', $21,509,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.

                Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-
wide'', $1,390,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.
    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-
wide'', $44,000,000, for emergency expenses resulting from natural 
disasters in the United States: Provided, That the entire amount shall 
be available only to the extent that an official budget request for 
$44,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted 
by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act: Provided further, That 
the Secretary of Defense may transfer these funds to current applicable 
operation and maintenance appropriations, to be merged with and 
available for the same purposes and for the same time period as the 
appropriation to which transferred: Provided further, That the transfer 
authority provided in this provision is in addition to any transfer 
authority available to the Department.

                Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve

    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Army 
Reserve'', $650,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.

              Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve

    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Air Force 
Reserve'', $229,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.

             Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard

    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, Army 
National Guard'', $175,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by 
the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985, as amended.

             Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For an additional amount for ``Overseas Contingency Operations 
Transfer Fund'', $1,556,000,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $46,000,000 shall be available for classified programs: Provided, 
That such amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, 
That the Secretary of Defense may transfer these funds to fiscal year 
1998 appropriations for operation and maintenance, working capital 
funds, and the Defense Health Program: Provided further, That the funds 
transferred shall be merged with and shall be available for the same 
purposes and for the same time period as the appropriation to which 
transferred: Provided further, That funds appropriated under this 
heading, or made available by transfer of such funds, to any 
intelligence agency or activity of the United States Government shall 
be deemed to be specifically authorized by the Congress for purposes of 
section 504 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414): 
Provided further, That the transfer authority provided under this 
heading is in addition to any other transfer authority contained in 
Public Law 105-56.

                     REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS

                       Navy Working Capital Fund

    For an additional amount for ``Navy Working Capital Fund'', 
$23,017,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                   Defense-wide Working Capital Fund

    For an additional amount for ``Defense-wide Working Capital Fund'', 
$1,000,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                  OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS

                         Defense Health Program

    For an additional amount for the ``Defense Health Program'', 
$1,900,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                     GENERAL PROVISIONS, CHAPTER 2

    Sec. 201. In addition to the amounts provided in Public Law 105-56, 
$36,500,000 is appropriated under the heading ``Overseas Humanitarian, 
Disaster, and Civic Aid'': Provided, That from the funds made available 
under that heading, the Secretary of Defense shall make a grant in the 
amount of $16,500,000 to the American Red Cross for Armed Forces 
emergency services: Provided further, That from the funds made 
available under that heading, the Secretary of Defense shall make a 
grant in the amount of $20,000,000 to the American Red Cross for 
reimbursement for disaster relief and recovery expenditures at overseas 
locations: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available 
only to the extent that an official budget request for $36,500,000, 
that includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 202. The Secretary of the Army shall comply with the 
memorandum of agreement entitled ``Yakima Training Center Proposed Land 
Acquisition: Recreational Mitigation Requirements'' that was entered 
into between the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission and 
the Department of the Army (with the Commanding General of I Corps, 
United States Army, acting for the Department of the Army) on September 
27, 1991.
    Sec. 203. The President is urged to encourage other nations who are 
allies and friends of the United States to contribute to the burden 
being borne by the United States in preventing the government of Iraq 
from using Weapons of Mass Destruction, which pose a threat to the 
world community. The President is also urged to seek financial, in-kind 
and other contributions to help defray the costs being incurred by the 
United States in this operation. For this purpose, a special account 
shall be established in the Treasury which will accept such financial 
contributions, and from which funds will be subject to obligation 
through the normal appropriations process. The Secretary of Defense, 
after consultation with the Secretary of State, shall provide a report 
to the Congress within 60 days after enactment as to the status of this 
effort, and shall make a comprehensive account of the efforts made and 
results obtained to share the burden of the common defense. The 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall report to the 
Congress within 30 days as to the establishment of such burden-sharing 
account in the Department of the Treasury.

                          (transfer of funds)

    Sec. 204. Of the funds appropriated in Public Law 105-56, under the 
heading ``Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction, Defense'' for 
Operation and maintenance, $40,000,000 shall be transferred to 
``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide''.
    Sec. 205. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Department of the Army is hereby prohibited from moving forward with 
civilian personnel reductions at all Army Test Ranges resulting from 
proposed reductions in their fiscal year 1999 budget, until such time 
as the Congress has the opportunity to consider the merits of such 
action during the fiscal year 1999 defense appropriations process. 
Where civilian personnel are concerned, the Army is required to offer 
such Voluntary Separation Incentive Pay (VSIP) and Voluntary Early 
Retirement Authority benefits as are currently being offered, should 
such benefits be necessary at a future date.
    Sec. 206. (a) Congress urges the President to enter into an 
agreement with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that sets 
forth--
            (1) the benchmarks that are detailed in the report 
        accompanying the certification that was made by the President 
        to Congress on March 3, 1998;
            (2) a schedule for achieving the benchmarks; and
            (3) a process for NATO to carry out a formal review of each 
        failure, if any, to achieve any such benchmark on schedule.
    (b) The President shall submit to Congress--
            (1) not later than June 30, 1998, a report on the results 
        of the efforts to obtain an agreement described in subsection 
        (a); and
            (2) semiannually after that report, a report on the 
        progress made toward achieving the benchmarks referred to in 
        subsection (a)(1), including a discussion of each achievement 
        of a benchmark referred to in that subsection, each failure to 
        achieve a benchmark on schedule, and the results of NATO's 
        formal review of each such failure.
    (c) The enactment of this section does not reflect approval or 
disapproval of the benchmarks submitted by the President in the 
certification to Congress transmitted on March 3, 1998.
    Sec. 207. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case 
of a person who is selected for training in a State program conducted 
under the National Guard Challenge Program and who obtains a general 
education diploma in connection with such training, the general 
education diploma shall be treated as equivalent to a high school 
diploma for purposes of determining the eligibility of the person for 
enlistment in the Armed Forces.
    Sec. 208. In addition to the amounts provided in Public Law 105-56, 
$151,000,000 is appropriated under the heading ``Research, Development, 
Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide'': Provided, That the additional 
amount shall be made available for enhancements to selected theater 
missile defense programs to counter enhanced ballistic missile threats: 
Provided further, That of the additional amount appropriated, 
$45,000,000 shall be made available only for the procurement of items 
and equipment required for a third Arrow missile defense battery: 
Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available only to the 
extent that an official budget request for $151,000,000, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of such Act.
    Sec. 209. (a)(1) The Secretary of Defense may enter into a lease or 
acquire any other interest in the parcels of land described in 
paragraph (2). The parcels consist in aggregate of approximately 90 
acres.
    (2) The parcels of land referred to in paragraph (1) are the 
following land used for the commercial production of cranberries:
            (A) The parcels known as the Mashpee bogs, located on the 
        Quashnet River adjacent to the Massachusetts Military 
        Reservation, Massachusetts.
            (B) The parcels known as the Falmouth bogs, located on the 
        Coonamessett River adjacent to the Massachusetts Military 
        Reservation, Massachusetts.
    (3) The term of any lease or other interest acquired under 
paragraph (1) may not exceed two years.
    (4) Any lease or other real property interest acquired under 
paragraph (1) shall be subject to such other terms and conditions as 
are agreed upon jointly by the Secretary and the person or entity 
entering into the lease or extending the interest.
    (b) Of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for the 
Department of Defense for fiscal year 1998, up to $2,000,000 may be 
available to acquire interest under subsection (a).
    Sec. 210. (a) Section 924(j) of Public Law 104-201 (110 Stat. 2628) 
is amended to read as follows:
    ``(j) Duration of Panel.--The Panel shall exist until September 30, 
1998, and shall terminate at the end of the day on such date.''.
    (b) The National Defense Panel established under section 924 of 
Public Law 104-201 shall be deemed to have continued in existence after 
the Panel submitted its report under subsection (e) of such section 
until the Panel terminates under subsection (j) of such section as 
amended by subsection (a).
    Sec. 211. In addition to the amounts provided in Public Law 105-56, 
$272,500,000 is appropriated under the heading ``Aircraft Procurement, 
Navy'': Provided, That the additional amount shall be made available 
only for the procurement of eight F/A-18 aircraft for the United States 
Marine Corps: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for 
$272,500,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted 
by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

                               CHAPTER 3

              SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT

                      DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL

                         DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil

                         construction, general

    For emergency repairs due to flooding and other natural disasters, 
$8,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That the 
Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to obligate and expend 
the funds appropriated under this heading to proceed with engineering 
and design and construction to repair and upgrade the Archusa Dam and 
appurtenant structures located in Quitman, Mississippi if the Secretary 
of the Army certifies that such repair is necessary to provide flood 
control benefits downstream of the dam: Provided further, That a non-
Federal sponsor shall enter into a binding agreement with the Secretary 
wherein the non-Federal sponsor shall pay 50 percent of the cost of the 
project, provide all lands, easements, rights of way, relocations, and 
dredged material disposal areas required for the project, and pay 100 
percent of the costs of operation, maintenance, repair, replacement or 
rehabilitation of the project: Provided further, That the entire amount 
shall be available only to the extent an official budget request for 
$8,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
    An additional amount for emergency levee and waterway repairs at 
Elba and Geneva, Alabama, $25,000,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That the Secretary of the Army is authorized and 
directed to obligate and expend the funds appropriated for the Elba and 
Geneva, Alabama levees and waterway repair to proceed with engineering 
and design and reconstruction if the Secretary of the Army certifies 
that such work is necessary to provide flood control benefits in the 
vicinity of Elba and Geneva, Alabama: Provided further, That the Corps 
of Engineers shall not be responsible for the future costs of 
operation, repair, replacement or rehabilitation of the project: 
Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available only to the 
extent an official budget request of $25,000,000, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of such Act.
    An additional amount for emergency river and shoreline repairs 
along the Missouri River in South Dakota to be conducted at full 
Federal expense, $2,500,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That the Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to 
obligate and expend the funds appropriated for South Dakota emergency 
river and shoreline repair if the Secretary of the Army certifies that 
such work is necessary to provide flood-related benefits: Provided 
further, That the Corps of Engineers shall not be responsible for the 
future costs of operation, repair, replacement or rehabilitation of the 
project: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available 
only to the extent an official budget request of $2,500,000, that 
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    An additional amount for emergency levee repairs at Suisun Marsh, 
California to be conducted at full Federal expense, $1,100,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary of the 
Army is authorized and directed to obligate and expend the funds 
appropriated for the Suisun Marsh, California levee repair to proceed 
with engineering and design and reconstruction if the Secretary of the 
Army certifies that such work is necessary to provide flood control 
benefits in the vicinity of Suisun Marsh, California: Provided further, 
That the Corps of Engineers shall not be responsible for the future 
costs of operation, repair, replacement or rehabilitation of the 
project: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available 
only to the extent an official budget request of $1,100,000, that 
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    An additional amount for emergency maintenance dredging at Apra 
Harbor, Guam to be conducted at full Federal expense, $1,400,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary of the 
Army is authorized and directed to obligate and expend the funds 
appropriated for the Apra Harbor, Guam emergency maintenance dredging 
if the Secretary of the Army certifies that such work is in the 
national interest: Provided further, That the Corps of Engineers shall 
not be responsible for the future costs of operation, repair, 
replacement or rehabilitation of the project: Provided further, That 
the entire amount shall be available only to the extent an official 
budget request of $1,400,000, that includes designation of the entire 
amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, 
is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That 
the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    An additional amount for emergency construction to repair the 
Mackville Dam in Hardwick, Vermont, $500,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That the Secretary of the Army may obligate and 
expend the funds appropriated for repair of the Mackville Dam if the 
Secretary of the Army certifies that the repair is necessary to provide 
flood control benefits: Provided further, That the Corps of Engineers 
shall not be responsible for the future costs of operation, repair, 
replacement or rehabilitation of the project: Provided further, That 
the entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request of $500,000 that includes designation of the 
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(A)) is transmitted by the 
President to Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of that Act.

                   operation and maintenance, general

    For emergency repairs due to flooding and other natural disasters, 
$30,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which such amounts 
for eligible navigation projects which may be derived from the Harbor 
Maintenance Trust Fund pursuant to Public Law 99-662, shall be derived 
from that Fund, and the remainder shall be derived by transfer from the 
``Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies'' account: Provided, That the 
entire amount shall be available only to the extent an official budget 
request for $30,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount 
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That 
the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

                    Atomic Energy Defense Activities

                           weapons activities

                          (transfer of funds)

    For an additional amount for atomic energy defense weapons 
activities, including the purchase, construction, and acquisition of 
plant and capitol equipment, and other necessary expenses, $4,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, to be derived from funds 
appropriated in the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 
1998, or prior year Acts, as follows: $4,000,000 from ``Other Defense 
Activities''.

                      Departmental Administration

    Such additional amounts as necessary, not to exceed $5,408,000, to 
cover increases in the estimated amount of cost of Work For Others 
notwithstanding the provisions of the Anti-Deficiency Act (31 U.S.C. 
1511, et seq.): Provided, That such increases in cost of Work For 
Others are offset by revenue increases of the same or greater amount 
derived from fees authorized by sections 31 and 33 of the Atomic Energy 
Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2051 and 2053), to remain available until 
expended.

                     GENERAL PROVISIONS, CHAPTER 3

    Sec. 301. Section 303 of the Energy and Water Development 
Appropriations Act, 1998 (Public Law 105-62), does not apply to the 
worker transition plan for the Pinellas Plant site.
    Sec. 302. Section 2 of the Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1996 
(Public Law 104-318; 110 Stat. 3862) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new section:
     ``(c) Extension of Periods for Repayment.--Notwithstanding any 
provision of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 485 et 
seq.), the Secretary of the Interior--
            ``(1) shall extend the period for repayment by the City of 
        Corpus Christi, Texas, and the Nueces River Authority under 
        contract No. 6-07-01-x0675, relating to the Nueces River 
        reclamation project, Texas, until--
                    ``(A) August 1, 2029 for repayment pursuant to the 
                municipal and industrial water supply benefits portion 
                of the contract; and
                    ``(B) until August 1, 2044 for repayment pursuant 
                to the fish and wildlife and recreation benefits 
                portion of the contract, and
            ``(2) shall extend the period for repayment by the Canadian 
        River Municipal Water Authority under contract No. 14-06-500-
        485 relating to the Canadian River reclamation project, Texas, 
        until October 1, 2021.''.
    Sec. 303. Action With Respect to the Kennewick Man Discovery 
Site.--Before final disposition of the civil action, Bonnichsen v. 
United States, CV No. 96-1481 (D. Ore.), the Army Corps of Engineers 
shall not authorize, permit, or undertake any action to stabilize, 
cover, or permanently alter the land (including land submerged by 
water) within 100 yards of the place where any part of the Kennewick 
Man remains was found unless the court determines that such an action 
is reasonable and necessary in light of any potential adverse impact on 
scientific investigation of the site and other relevant considerations.

                               CHAPTER 4

             SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                       Bureau of Land Management

                              construction

    For an additional amount for ``Construction'', $1,837,000, to 
remain available until expended, to repair damage caused by floods and 
other natural disasters: Provided, That the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for 
$1,837,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted 
by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                United States Fish and Wildlife Service

                              construction

    For an additional amount for ``Construction'', $32,818,000, to 
remain available until expended, to repair damage caused by floods and 
other natural disasters: Provided, That the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for 
$32,818,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted 
by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                         National Park Service

                              construction

    For an additional amount for ``Construction'' to repair damage 
caused by floods and other natural disasters, $9,506,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for 
$9,506,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted 
by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

                    United States Geological Survey

                 surveys, investigations, and research

    For an additional amount for ``Surveys, Investigations, and 
Research'' for emergency expenses resulting from floods and other 
natural disasters, $1,198,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent 
that an official budget request for $1,198,000, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of such Act.

                      Minerals Management Service

                royalty and offshore minerals management

    For an additional amount for ``Royalty and Offshore Minerals 
Management'' to meet increased demand and workload requirements 
stemming from higher than anticipated leasing activity in the Gulf of 
Mexico, $6,675,000, to remain available until expended, to be derived 
from increased receipts resulting from increases to rates in effect on 
August 5, 1993, from rate increases to fee collections for Outer 
Continental Shelf administrative activities performed by the Minerals 
Management Service over and above the rates in effect on September 30, 
1993, and from additional fees for Outer Continental Shelf 
administrative activities established after September 30, 1993.

          Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

                    abandoned mine reclamation fund

                          (transfer of funds)

    For an additional amount for the ``Abandoned Mine Reclamation 
Fund'', $3,163,000, to be derived by transfer from amounts available in 
Public Law 105-83 under the heading, ``Regulation and Technology'', and 
to be subject to the same terms and conditions of the account to which 
transferred.

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs

                      operation of indian programs

    For an additional amount for ``Operation of Indian Programs'', 
$1,050,000, to remain available until expended, for the cost of 
document collection and production, including electronic imaging, 
required to support litigation involving individual Indian trust fund 
accounts.

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs

                              construction

    For an additional amount for ``Construction'', $700,000, to remain 
available until expended, to repair damage caused by floods and other 
natural disasters: Provided, That the entire amount shall be available 
only to the extent that an official budget request for $700,000, that 
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.
    For an additional amount for ``Construction, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs'', $365,000, to remain available until expended, for 
replacement of fixtures and testing for and remediation of 
Polylchlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Bureau of Indian Affairs schools 
and administrative facilities: Provided, That the entire amount shall 
be available only to the extent that an official budget request for 
$365,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of the request 
as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by 
the President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount 
is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

             Office of Special Trustee for American Indians

                         federal trust programs

    For an additional amount for ``Federal Trust Programs'', 
$4,650,000, to remain available until expended, for the cost of 
document collection and production, including electronic imaging, 
required to support litigation involving individual Indian trust fund 
accounts.

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                             Forest Service

                       state and private forestry

    For an additional amount for ``State and Private Forestry'' for 
emergency expenses resulting from damages from ice storms, tornadoes 
and other natural disasters, $48,000,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to 
the extent that an official budget request for $48,000,000, that 
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                         national forest system

    For an additional amount for the ``National Forest System'' for 
emergency expenses resulting from damages from ice storms, tornadoes 
and other natural disasters, $10,000,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to 
the extent that an official budget request for $10,000,000, that 
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.
    For an additional amount for the ``National Forest System'' for 
expenses associated with payments to states as specified in subsection 
(b)(2) of section 405 of this chapter of this Act, $2,000,000, to 
remain available until expended.

                        wildland fire management

    For an additional amount for ``Wildland and Fire Management'' for 
wildland and fire management operations to be carried out to rectify 
damages caused by the windstorms in Texas on February 10, 1998, 
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That the 
entire amount shall be available only at the discretion of the Chief of 
the National Forest Service: Provided further, That the entire amount 
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget request 
for $2,000,000 that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted 
by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

                      Strategic Petroleum Reserve

    For necessary expenses for Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility 
development and operations and program management activities pursuant 
to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, as amended (42 
U.S.C. 6201 et seq.), $207,500,000, to remain available until expended, 
and the sale of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve required by 
Public Law 105-83 shall be prohibited: Provided, That the entire amount 
shall be available and the oil sale prohibited only to the extent that 
an official budget request for $207,500,000, that includes designation 
of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: 
Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such 
Act.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                         Indian Health Service

                         indian health services

    For an additional amount for ``Indian Health Services'', $100,000, 
to remain available until expended, for suicide prevention counseling.

                     GENERAL PROVISIONS, CHAPTER 4

    Sec. 401. Construction of the Trappers Loop connector road, and any 
related actions, by any Federal or state agency or other entity are 
deemed to be non-discretionary actions authorized and directed by 
Congress under Title III, section 304(e)(3) of the Omnibus Parks and 
Public Lands Management Act of 1996 (110 Stat. 4093).
    Sec. 402. Neither the issuance by the United States of an easement 
on and across National Forest lands for the Boulder City Pipeline (also 
known as Lakewood Pipeline) nor the acceptance of such easement by the 
City of Boulder, Colorado, nor the relocation of such pipeline on such 
easement, shall cause, be construed as, or result in the abandonment, 
termination, relinquishment, revocation, limitation, or diminution of 
any rights claimed by such city pursuant to or as a result of any prior 
grant, including the Act of July 26, 1866 (43 U.S.C. 661) and the Acts 
authorizing the conveyance of such city of the Silver Lake Watershed. 
The alignment of the relocated pipeline shall be considered neither 
more nor less within the scope of any prior grants than the alignment 
of the pipeline existing prior to the issuance of such easement.
    Sec. 403. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary 
of the Interior, through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, may hereafter 
directly transfer to Indian tribes in North and South Dakota portable 
housing units at the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota that 
have been declared excess by the Department of Defense and requested 
for transfer by the Department of the Interior.
    Sec. 404. Petroglyph National Monument. (a) Short Title.--This 
section may be cited as the ``Petroglyph National Monument Boundary 
Adjustment Act''.
    (b) Findings.--Congress finds that--
            (1) the purposes for which Petroglyph National Monument 
        (referred to in this section as ``the monument'') was 
        established continue to be valid;
            (2) it is of mutual benefit to the trustee institutions of 
        the New Mexico State Trust lands and the National Park Service 
        for land exchange negotiations to be completed with all due 
        diligence, resulting in the transfer of all State Trust lands 
        within the boundaries of the monument to the United States in 
        accordance with State and Federal law;
            (3) because the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, has 
        acquired substantial acreage within the monument boundaries, 
        purchased with State and municipal funds, the consolidation of 
        land ownership and jurisdiction under the National Park Service 
        will require the consent of the city of Albuquerque, and 
        options for National Park Service acquisition that are not 
        currently available;
            (4) corridors for the development of Paseo del Norte and 
        Unser Boulevard are depicted on the map referred to in section 
        102(a) of the Petroglyph National Monument Establishment Act of 
        1990 (Public Law 101-313; 16 U.S.C. 431 note), and the 
        alignment of the roadways was anticipated by Congress before 
        the date of enactment of the Act;
            (5) it was the expectation of the principal proponents of 
        the monument, including the cities of Albuquerque and Rio 
        Rancho, New Mexico, and the National Park Service, that passage 
        of the Petroglyph National Monument Establishment Act of 1990 
        (Public Law 101-313; 16 U.S.C. 431 note) would allow the city 
        of Albuquerque--
                    (A) to utilize the Paseo del Norte and Unser 
                Boulevard corridors through the monument; and
                    (B) to design and construct infrastructure within 
                the corridors with the cultural and natural resources 
                of the monument in mind;
            (6) the city of Albuquerque has not provided for the 
        establishment of rights-of-way for the Paseo del Norte and 
        Unser Boulevard corridors under the Joint Powers Agreement 
        (JPANO 78-521.81-277A), which expanded the boundary of the 
        monument to include the Piedras Marcadas and Boca Negra units, 
        pursuant to section 104 of the Petroglyph National Monument 
        Establishment Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-313; 16 U.S.C. 431 
        note);
            (7) the National Park Service has identified the 
        realignment of Unser Boulevard, depicted on the map referred to 
        in section 102(a) of the Petroglyph National Monument 
        Establishment Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-313; 16 U.S.C. 431 
        note), as serving a park purpose in the General Management 
        Plan/Development Concept Plan for Petroglyph National Monument;
            (8) the establishment of a citizens' advisory committee 
        prior to construction of the Unser Boulevard South project, 
        which runs along the eastern boundary of the Atrisco Unit of 
        the monument, allowed the citizens of Albuquerque and the 
        National Park Service to provide significant and meaningful 
        input into the parkway design of the road, and that similar 
        proceedings should occur prior to construction within the Paseo 
        del Norte corridor;
            (9) parkway standards approved by the city of Albuquerque 
        for the construction of Unser Boulevard South along the eastern 
        boundary of the Atrisco Unit of the monument would be 
        appropriate for a road passing through the Paseo del Norte 
        corridor;
            (10) adequate planning and cooperation between the city of 
        Albuquerque and the National Park Service is essential to avoid 
        resource degradation within the monument resulting from storm 
        water runoff, and drainage conveyances through the monument 
        should be designed and located to provide sufficient capacity 
        for effective runoff management; and
            (11) the monument will best be managed for the benefit and 
        enjoyment of present and future generations with cooperation 
        between the city of Albuquerque, the State of New Mexico, and 
        the National Park Service.
    (c) Planning Authority.--
            (1) Storm water drainage.--Not later than 180 days after 
        the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the 
        Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park 
        Service (referred to in this section as the ``Secretary''), and 
        the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, shall enter into 
        negotiations to provide for the management of storm water 
        runoff and drainage within the monument, including the design 
        and construction of any storm water corridors, conveyances, and 
        easements within the monument boundaries.
            (2) Road design.--
                    (A) If the city of Albuquerque decides to proceed 
                with the construction of a roadway within the area 
                excluded from the monument by the amendment made by 
                subsection (d), the design criteria shall be similar to 
                those provided for the Unser Boulevard South project 
                along the eastern boundary of the Atrisco Unit, taking 
                into account topographic differences and the lane, 
                speed and noise requirements of the heavier traffic 
                load that is anticipated for Paseo del Norte, as 
                referenced in section A-2 of the Unser Middle 
                Transportation Corridor Record of Decision prepared by 
                the city of Albuquerque dated December 1993.
                    (B) At least 180 days before the initiation of any 
                road construction within the area excluded from the 
                monument by the amendment made by subsection (d), the 
                city of Albuquerque shall notify the Director of the 
                National Park Service (hereinafter ``the Director''), 
                who may submit suggested modifications to the design 
                specifications of the road construction project within 
                the area excluded from the monument by the amendment 
                made by subsection (d).
                    (C) If after 180 days, an agreement on the design 
                specifications is not reached by the city of 
                Albuquerque and the Director, the city may contract 
                with the head of the Department of Civil Engineering at 
                the University of New Mexico, to design a road to meet 
                the design criteria referred to in subparagraph (A). 
                The design specifications developed by the Department 
                of Civil Engineering shall be deemed to have met the 
                requirements of this paragraph, and the city may 
                proceed with the construction project, in accordance 
                with those design specifications.
    (d) Acquisition Authority; Boundary Adjustment; Administration and 
Management of the Monument.--
            (1) Acquisition authority.--Section 103(a) of the 
        Petroglyph National Monument Establishment Act of 1990 (Public 
        Law 101-313, 16 U.S.C. 431 note) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``(a) The Secretary'' and inserting 
                the following:
    ``(a) Authority.--
            ``(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), the 
        Secretary'';
                    (B) by striking ``, except that lands or interests 
                therein owned by the State or a political subdivision 
                thereof may be acquired only by donation or exchange''; 
                and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Land owned by the state or a political subdivision.--
        No land or interest in land owned by the State or a political 
        subdivision of the State may be acquired by purchase before--
                    ``(A) the State or political subdivision holding 
                title to the land or interest in land identifies the 
                land or interest in land for disposal; and
                    ``(B)(i) all private land within the monument 
                boundary for which there is a willing seller is 
                acquired; or
                            ``(ii) 2 years have elapsed after the date 
                        on which the Secretary has made a final offer 
                        (for which funds are available) to acquire all 
                        remaining private land at fair market value.''.
            (2) Boundary adjustment.--Section 104(a) of the Petroglyph 
        National Monument Establishment Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-
        313; 16 U.S.C. 431 note) is amended--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 
                subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and indenting 
                appropriately;
                    (B) by inserting ``(1)'' after ``(a)''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2)(A) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), effective as of the date of 
enactment of this subparagraph--
            ``(i) the boundary of the monument is adjusted to exclude 
        the Paseo Del Norte corridor in the Piedras Marcadas Unit 
        described in Exhibit B of the document described in 
        subparagraph (B); and
            ``(ii) the inclusion of the Paseo Del Norte corridor within 
        the boundary of the monument before the date of enactment of 
        this paragraph shall have no effect on any future ownership, 
        use, or management of the corridor.
    ``(B) The document described in this subparagraph is the document 
entitled `Petroglyph National Monument Roadway/Utility Corridors', 
dated October 30, 1997, on file with the Secretary of the Interior and 
the mayor of the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico.''.
    (e) Administration and management of the monument.--Section 105 of 
the Petroglyph National Monument Establishment Act of 1990 (Public Law 
101-313, 16 U.S.C. 431 note) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(f) Boca Negra and Piedras Marcadas Units.--If the binding 
agreement providing for the expansion of the monument pursuant to 
section 104 is amended, in accordance with the terms of the agreement, 
to transfer to the National Park Service responsibility for operation, 
maintenance, and repair of any or all property within the Boca Negra or 
Piedras Marcadas unit of the monument, the Secretary may employ, at a 
comparable grade and salary within the National Park Service, any 
willing employees of the city assigned to the unit.''.
    (f) Double Eagle II Airport Access Road.--The Administrator of the 
Federal Aviation Administration shall allow the use of the access road 
to the Double Eagle II Airport in existence on the date of enactment of 
this Act for visitor access to the monument.
    Sec. 405. Transportation System Moratorium. (a)(1) The Chief of the 
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, in his sole discretion, may 
offer any timber sales that were previously scheduled to be offered in 
fiscal year 1998 or fiscal year 1999 even if such sales would have been 
delayed or halted as a result of any moratorium on construction of 
roads in roadless areas within the National Forest System adopted as 
policy or by regulation that would otherwise be applicable to such 
sales.
    (2) Any sales authorized pursuant to subsection (a)(1) shall--
            (A) comply with all applicable laws and regulations and be 
        consistent with applicable land and resource management plans, 
        except any regulations or plan amendments which establish or 
        implement the moratorium referred to in subsection (a)(1); and
            (B) be subject to administrative appeals pursuant to part 
        215 of title 36 of the Code of Federal Regulations and to 
        judicial review.
    (b)(1) For any previously scheduled sales that are not offered 
pursuant to subsection (a)(1), the Chief may, to the extent 
practicable, offer substitute sales within the same State in fiscal 
year 1998 or fiscal year 1999. Such substitute sales shall be subject 
to the requirements of subsection (a)(2).
    (2)(A) The Chief shall pay as soon as practicable after fiscal year 
1998 and fiscal year 1999 to any State in which sales previously 
scheduled to be offered that are referred to in, but not offered 
pursuant to, subsection (a)(1) would have occurred, 25 percentum of any 
receipts from such sales that--
            (i) were anticipated from fiscal year 1998 or fiscal year 
        1999 sales in the absence of any moratorium referred to in 
        subsection (a)(1); and
            (ii) are not offset by revenues received in such fiscal 
        years from substitute projects authorized pursuant to 
        subsection (b)(1).
    (B) After reporting the amount of funds required to make any 
payments required by subsection (b)(2)(A), and the source from which 
such funds are to be derived, to the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Chief shall make any 
payments required by subsection (b)(2)(A) from--
            (i) the $2,000,000 appropriated for the purposes of this 
        section in chapter 4 of this Act; or
            (ii) in the event that the amount referred to in subsection 
        (b)(2)(B)(i) is not sufficient to cover the payments required 
        under subsection (b)(2), from any funds appropriated to the 
        Forest Service in fiscal year 1998 or fiscal year 1999, as the 
        case may be, that are not specifically earmarked for another 
        purpose by the applicable appropriation Act or a committee or 
        conference report thereon.
    (C) Any State which receives payments required by subsection 
(b)(2)(A) shall expend such funds only in the manner, and for the 
purposes, prescribed in section 500 of title 16 of the United States 
Code.
    (c)(1) During the term of the moratorium referred to in subsection 
(a)(1), the Chief shall prepare, and submit to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report 
on, each of the following--
            (A) a study of whether standards and guidelines in existing 
        land and resource management plans compel or encourage entry 
        into roadless areas within the National Forest System for the 
        purpose of constructing roads or undertaking any other ground-
        disturbing activities;
            (B) an inventory of all roads within the National Forest 
        System and the uses which they serve, in a format that will 
        inform and facilitate the development of a long-term Forest 
        Service transportation policy; and
            (C) a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the economic 
        and social effects of the moratorium referred to in subsection 
        (a)(1) on county, State, and regional levels.
    (2) The Chief shall fund the study, inventory and analysis required 
by subsection (c)(1) in fiscal year 1998 from funds appropriated for 
Forest Research in such fiscal year that are not specifically earmarked 
for another purpose in the applicable appropriation Act or a committee 
or conference report thereon.
    Sec. 406. Provision of Certain Health Care Services for Alaska 
Natives. Section 203(a) of the Michigan Indian Land Claims Settlement 
Act (Public Law 105-143; 111 Stat. 2666) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``other than community based alcohol 
        services,'' after ``Ketchikan Gateway Borough,''; and
            (2) by inserting at the end the following new sentence: 
        ``Notwithstanding any other provision of law, such contract or 
        compact shall provide services to all Indian and Alaska Native 
        beneficiaries of the Indian Health Service in the Ketchikan 
        Gateway Borough without the need for resolutions of support 
        from any Indian tribe as defined in the Indian Self-
        Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 
        450b(e)).''.
    Sec. 407. Section 326(a) of the Act making Appropriations for the 
Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1998 and for other purposes (Public Law 105-83; 
111 Stat. 1543) is amended by striking ``with any Alaska Native village 
or Alaska Native village corporation'' and inserting ``to any Indian 
tribe as defined in the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(e))''.
    Sec. 408. The Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of the 
Interior shall report to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation and the House Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure not later than April 20, 1998, on the proposed use by 
the New York City Police Department for air and sea rescue and public 
safety purposes of the facility that is to be vacated by the United 
States Coast Guard at Floyd Bennett Field located in the city of New 
York.
    Sec. 409. Prohibition. Notwithstanding section 11(d)(7)(B)(vii) of 
the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2710(d)(7)(B)(vii)), the 
Secretary of the Interior shall not--
            (1) promulgate as final regulations, the proposed 
        regulations published on January 22, 1998, at 63 Fed. Reg. 
        3289; or
            (2) issue a notice of proposed rulemaking for, or 
        promulgate, any similar regulations to provide for procedures 
        for gaming activities under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act 
        (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), in any case in which a State asserts 
        a defense of sovereign immunity to a lawsuit brought by an 
        Indian tribe in a Federal court under section 11(d)(7) of that 
        Act (25 U.S.C. 2710(d)(7)) to compel the State to participate 
        in compact negotiations for class III gaming (as that term is 
        defined in section 4(8) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 2703(8))).

                               CHAPTER 5

 SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND 
                            RELATED AGENCIES

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

               Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

                disease control, research, and training

    For an additional amount for the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, ``Disease Control, Research, and Training'', $9,000,000: 
Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent 
that an official budget request for $9,000,000, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of such Act.

                      GENERAL PROVISION, CHAPTER 5

    Sec. 501. School Security. (a) Short Title.--This section may be 
cited as the ``Safe Schools Security Act of 1998''.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to provide for school 
security training and technology, and for local school security 
programs.
    (c) School Security Technology Center.--
            (1) Establishment.--The Attorney General, the Secretary of 
        Education, and the Secretary of Energy shall enter into an 
        agreement for the establishment at the Sandia National 
        Laboratories in partnership with the National Law Enforcement 
        And Corrections Technology Center--Southeast of a center to be 
        known as the ``School Security Technology Center''. The School 
        Security Technology Center shall be administered by the 
        Attorney General.
            (2) Functions.--The School Security Technology Center shall 
        be a resource to local educational agencies for school security 
        assessments, security technology development, technology 
        availability and implementation, and technical assistance 
        relating to improving school security.
            (3) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated to carry out this subsection $2,250,000 for 
        each of the fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001.
    (d) Local School Security Programs.--Subpart 1 of part A of title 
IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
7111 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 4119. Local School Security Programs
    ``(a) In General.--From amounts appropriated under subsection (c), 
the Secretary of Education shall award grants on a competitive basis to 
local educational agencies to enable the agencies to acquire security 
technology, or carry out activities related to improving security at 
the middle and high schools served by the agencies, including obtaining 
school security assessments, and technical assistance for the 
development of a comprehensive school security plan from the School 
Security Technology Center. The Secretary shall give priority to local 
educational agencies showing the highest security needs as reported by 
the agency to the Secretary in application for funding made available 
under this section.
    ``(b) Applicability.--The provisions of this part shall not apply 
to this section.
    ``(c) Authorization of Appropriation.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001.''.
    (e) Safe and Secure School Advisory Panel. There shall be 
established a panel comprised of the Secretary of Education, the 
Attorney General, and the Secretary of Energy, or their designees to 
develop a proposal to further improve school security. Such proposal 
shall be submitted to the Congress within 18 months of the date of 
enactment of this Act.

                               CHAPTER 6

                 SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

                        ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

                      Capitol Building and Grounds

                           capitol buildings

                         salaries and expenses

    For an additional amount for ``Capitol Buildings Salaries and 
Expenses'', $7,500,000, to remain available until expended, to begin 
emergency repairs and rehabilitation of the Capitol Dome: Provided, 
That this additional amount shall be available for obligation without 
regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended.

                            capitol grounds

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses for the design, installation and maintenance 
of the Capitol Square Perimeter Security Plan, $20,000,000, of which 
$4,000,000 shall be transferred to the Capitol Police Board ``General 
Expenses'' for physical security measures associated with the Capitol 
Square Perimeter Security Plan, to remain available until expended, 
subject to the review and approval by the appropriate House and Senate 
authorities: Provided, That this additional amount shall be available 
for obligation without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, 
as amended.

                               CHAPTER 7

                 SUBCOMMITTEE ON MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

                         DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

                      Military Construction, Navy

    For an additional amount for ``Military Construction, Navy'', 
$17,428,000: Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only 
to the extent that an official budget request for $17,428,000, that 
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

                    Military Construction, Air Force

    For an additional amount for ``Military Construction'', $5,891,000: 
Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent 
that an official budget request for $5,891,000, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of such Act.

                 Family Housing, Navy and Marine Corps

    For an additional amount for ``Family Housing, Navy and Marine 
Corps'', $18,100,000: Provided, That the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for 
$18,100,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted 
by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That such amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                       Family Housing, Air Force

    For an additional amount for ``Family Housing, Air Force'', 
$2,400,000: Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to 
the extent that an official budget request for $2,400,000, that 
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That such amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                               CHAPTER 8

          SUBCOMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND RELATED AGENCIES

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                        Office of the Secretary

           transportation planning, research, and development

    For an additional amount for transportation planning, research, and 
development activities and grants, $6,900,000, to remain available 
until expended.

                    Federal Aviation Administration

                               operations

                    (airport and airways trust fund)

    For an additional amount for Operations for expenses relating to 
the Year 2000 computer hardware and software problems, $47,200,000.

                        facilities and equipment

                    (airport and airways trust fund)

    For an additional amount for Facilities and Equipment for expenses 
relating to the Year 2000 computer hardware and software problems, 
$108,800,000.

                     Federal Highway Administration

                          federal-aid highways

                        emergency relief program

                          (highway trust fund)

    For an additional amount for the Emergency Relief Program for 
emergency expenses resulting from flooding and other natural disasters, 
as authorized by 23 U.S.C. 125, $259,000,000, to be derived from the 
Highway Trust Fund and to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent an 
official budget request for $259,000,000, that includes designation of 
the entire amount as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended 
is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That 
the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, 
That any obligations for the Emergency Relief Program shall not be 
subject to the prohibition against obligations in section 2(e)(3) (A) 
and (D) of the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 1997: Provided 
further, That no announcement of any allocation of funds provided under 
this section shall be made prior to 15 days after the notification of 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, the House and Senate 
Transportation Appropriations Subcommittees, the Senate Environment and 
Public Works Committee, and the House Transportation and Infrastructure 
Committee: Provided further, That if sufficient carryover balances for 
the necessary expenses for administration, operation (including motor 
carrier safety program operations), and research of the Federal Highway 
Administration are not available, and pending the reauthorization of 
the Federal-aid highway program, the Secretary of Transportation may 
borrow such sums as may be necessary for such expenses from the 
unobligated balances of discretionary allocations for the Federal-aid 
highway program made available by this Act: Provided further, That 23 
U.S.C. 125(b)(1) shall not apply to projects resulting from the Fall 
1997 and Winter 1998 flooding in the western States.

                    Federal Railroad Administration

              emergency railroad rehabilitation and repair

    For necessary expenses to repair and rebuild freight rail lines of 
regional and short line railroads or a State entity damaged by floods, 
$10,600,000, to be awarded subject to the discretion of the Secretary 
on a case-by-case basis: Provided, That not to exceed $5,250,000 shall 
be solely for damage incurred in the Northern Plains States in March 
and April 1997 and in California in January 1997 and in West Virginia 
in September 1996: Provided further, That not less than $5,350,000 
shall be solely for damage incurred in Fall 1997 and Winter 1998 
storms: Provided further, That funds provided under this head shall be 
available for rehabilitation of railroad rights-of-way, bridges, and 
other facilities which are part of the general railroad system of 
transportation, and primarily used by railroads to move freight 
traffic: Provided further, That railroad rights-of-way, bridges, and 
other facilities owned by class I railroads are not eligible for 
funding under this head unless the rights-of-way, bridges, or other 
facilities are under contract lease to a class II or class III railroad 
under which the lessee is responsible for all maintenance costs of the 
line: Provided further, That railroad rights-of-way, bridges, and other 
facilities owned by passenger railroads, or by tourist, scenic, or 
historic railroads are not eligible for funding under this head: 
Provided further, That these funds shall be available only to the 
extent an official budget request, for a specific dollar amount, that 
includes designation of the entire amount as an emergency requirement 
as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: 
Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by Congress as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
Provided further, That all funds made available under this head are to 
remain available until September 30, 1998: Provided further, That the 
Secretary of Transportation shall report to the House and Senate 
Appropriations Committees not later than December 31, 1998, with 
recommendations on how future emergency railroad repair costs should be 
borne by the railroad industry and their underwriters.

                             RELATED AGENCY

                  National Transportation Safety Board

                         salaries and expenses

    For an additional amount for ``Salaries and Expenses'' for 
necessary expenses resulting from the crash of TWA Flight 800, 
$5,400,000: Provided, That the entire amount is available only for 
costs associated with rental of the Calverton facility, of which not to 
exceed $500,000 is for security expenses: Provided further, That no 
funds or unobligated balances are available to provide for or permit 
flight operations at the Calverton airstrip.

                      GENERAL PROVISION, CHAPTER 8

    Sec. 801. Exemption Authority for Air Service to Slot-Controlled 
Airports. (a) In General.--Section 41714(i) of title 49, United States 
Code, is amended by--
            (1) striking ``Certain'' in the caption;
            (2) striking ``120'' and inserting ``90''; and
            (3) striking ``(a)(2) to improve air service between a 
        nonhub airport (as defined in section 41731(a)(4)) and a high 
        density airport subject to the exemption authority under 
        subsection (a),'' and inserting ``(a) or (c),''.
    (b) Effective Date.--
            (1) In general.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
        apply to applications for slot exemptions pending at the 
        Department of Transportation under section 41714 of title 49, 
        United States Code, on the date of enactment of this Act or 
        filed thereafter.
            (2) Application to pending requests.--For the purpose of 
        applying the amendments made by subsection (a) to applications 
        pending on the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
        Transportation shall take into account the number of days the 
        application was pending before the date of enactment of this 
        Act. If such an application was pending for 80 or more days 
        before the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 
        grant or deny the exemption to which the application relates 
        within 20 calendar days after that date.

                               CHAPTER 9

            SUBCOMMITTEE ON TREASURY AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                         automation enhancement

                year 2000 century date change conversion

    For necessary expenses of the Department of the Treasury for Year 
2000 century date change conversion requirements, $39,410,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2000.

                      Financial Management Service

                         salaries and expenses

    For an additional amount for ``Salaries and Expenses'', for Year 
2000 century date change conversion requirements, $5,300,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2000.

                     United States Customs Service

             customs facilities, construction, improvements

    In addition to the amounts made available for the United States 
Customs Service in Public Law 105-61, $5,512,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2000: Provided, That this amount may be made 
available for construction of a P3-AEW hangar in Corpus Christi, Texas: 
Provided further, That the funds appropriated under this heading may 
only be obligated 30 days after the Commissioner of the Customs Service 
certifies to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations that the 
construction of this facility is necessary for the operation of the P-3 
aircraft for the counternarcotics mission.

                               CHAPTER 10

           SUBCOMMITTEE ON VA, HUD, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                     DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

                    Veterans Benefits Administration

                       compensation and pensions

    For an additional amount for ``Compensation and pensions'', 
$550,000,000, to remain available until expended.

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                   Community Planning and Development

                community development block grant funds

    For an additional amount for ``Community development block grants 
funds'', as authorized under title I of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974, $260,000,000, which shall remain available 
until September 30, 2001, for use only for disaster relief, long-term 
recovery, and mitigation in communities affected by Presidentially-
declared natural disasters designated during fiscal year 1998, except 
for those activities reimbursable or for which funds are made available 
by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Small Business 
Administration, or the Army Corps of Engineers: Provided, That in 
administering these amounts and except as provided in the next proviso, 
the Secretary may waive or specify alternative requirements for, and 
provision of any statute or regulation that the Secretary administers 
in connection with the obligation by the Secretary or the use by the 
recipient of these funds, except for statutory requirements related to 
civil rights, fair housing and nondiscrimination, the environment, and 
labor standards, upon a finding that such waiver is required to 
facilitate the use of such funds and would not be inconsistent with the 
overall purpose of the statute: Provided further, That the Secretary 
may waive the requirements that activities benefit persons of low and 
moderate income, except that at least 50 percent of the funds under 
this head must benefit primarily persons of low and moderate income 
unless the Secretary makes a finding of compelling need: Provided 
further, That all funds under this head shall be allocated by the 
Secretary to States to be administered by each State in conjunction 
with its Federal Emergency Management Agency program or its community 
development block grant program: Provided further, That each State 
shall provide not less than 25 percent in public or private matching 
funds or its equivalent value (other than administrative costs) for any 
funds allocated to the State under this head: Provided further, That, 
in conjunction with the Director of the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, the Secretary shall allocate funds based on the unmet needs 
identified by the Director as those which have not or will not be 
addressed by other Federal disaster assistance programs: Provided 
further, That, in conjunction with the Director, the Secretary shall 
utilize annual disaster cost estimates in order that the funds under 
this head shall be available, to the maximum extent feasible, to assist 
States with all Presidentially declared disasters designated during 
this fiscal year: Provided further, That the Secretary shall publish a 
notice in the Federal Register governing the allocation and use of the 
community development block grants funds made available under this head 
for disaster areas and publish a quarterly list of all allocations of 
funds under this head by State, locality and activity (including all 
uses of waivers and the reasons therefore): Provided further, That the 
Secretary and the Director shall submit quarterly reports to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations on all allocations and use of 
funds under this head, including a review of all unmet needs: Provided 
further, That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent 
an official budget request, that includes designation of the entire 
amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined by the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, 
is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That 
the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                           INDEPENDENT AGENCY

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency

                            disaster relief

    For an additional amount for ``Disaster relief'', $1,600,000,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That these funds shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for a 
specific amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted 
by the President to Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount 
appropriated herein is designated by Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                     GENERAL PROVISIONS, CHAPTER 10

    Sec. 1001. Section 206 of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1998 (Pub. L. 105-65; October 27, 1997) is amended by inserting 
the following before the period: ``, and for loans and grants for 
economic development in and around 18<SUP>th </SUP>and Vine''.
    Sec. 1002. Housing Opportunities for Persons with Aids. (a) 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with respect to the amount 
allocated for fiscal year 1998, and the amounts that would otherwise be 
allocated for fiscal year 1999 or any succeeding fiscal year, to the 
City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on behalf of the Philadelphia, PA-NJ 
Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (in this section referred to as 
the ``metropolitan area''), under section 854(c) of the AIDS Housing 
Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)), the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development shall adjust such amounts by allocating to the State 
of New Jersey the proportion of the metropolitan area's amount that is 
based on the number of cases of AIDS reported in the portion of the 
metropolitan area that is located in New Jersey.
    (b) The State of New Jersey shall use amounts allocated to the 
State under this section to carry out eligible activities under section 
855 of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12904) in the 
portion of the metropolitan area that is located in New Jersey.

                               CHAPTER 11

                        OFFSETS AND RESCISSIONS

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                   Food Safety and Inspection Service

                              (rescission)

    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public Law 105-
86, $502,000 are rescinded.

                          Farm Service Agency

           agricultural credit insurance fund program account

                              (rescission)

    Of the funds made available for the cost of the unsubsidized 
guaranteed operating loans under this heading in Public Law 105-86, 
$6,736,197 are rescinded.

                         Rural Housing Service

                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public Law 105-
86, $846,000 are rescinded.

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                       Bureau of Land Management

                   management of lands and resources

                              (rescission)

    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public Law 104-
208, $1,188,000 are rescinded.

                   Oregon and California Grant Lands

                              (rescission)

    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public Law 104-
208, $2,500,000 are rescinded.

                United States Fish and Wildlife Service

                          resource management

                              (rescission)

    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public Law 105-
18, $250,000 are rescinded.

                              construction

                              (rescission)

    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public Law 104-
208, $1,188,000 are rescinded.

                         National Park Service

                              construction

                              (rescission)

    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public Law 104-
208, $1,638,000 are rescinded.

                            Bureau of Mines

                           mines and minerals

                             (rescissions)

    The following amounts, totaling $1,605,000, are rescinded from 
funds made available under this heading: in Public Law 103-332, 
$1,255,000; in Public Law 103-138, $60,000; in Public Law 102-381, 
$173,000; and in Public Law 102-154, $117,000.

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs

                              construction

                              (rescission)

    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public Law 104-
208, $837,000 are rescinded.

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                        Office of the Secretary

                        payments to air carriers

                              (rescission)

    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public Law 101-
516 and subsequently obligated, $2,499,000 shall be deobligated and are 
hereby rescinded.

                        payments to air carriers

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

                              (rescission)

    Of the budgetary resources provided for ``Small Community Air 
Service'' by Public Law 101-508 for fiscal years prior to fiscal year 
1998, $3,000,000 are rescinded.

                    Federal Aviation Administration

                       grants-in-aid for airports

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

                 (rescission of contract authorization)

    Of the unobligated balances authorized under 49 U.S.C. 48103 as 
amended, $185,893,000 are rescinded.

                    Federal Railroad Administration

                        conrail labor protection

                              (rescission)

    Of the budgetary resources provided by direct appropriation and by 
transfer for ``Conrail Labor Protection'', unobligated balances of 
$508,234 are rescinded.

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                     United States Customs Service

                         salaries and expenses

                              (rescission)

    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public Law 104-
208, $5,300,000, and in Public Law 104-208, as amended by Public Law 
105-18, $6,000,000 are rescinded.

             customs facilities, construction, improvements

                              (rescission)

    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public Law 102-
393, $4,470,000 and Public Law 103-123, $1,041,754 are rescinded.

                        Internal Revenue Service

                   information technology investments

                              (rescission)

    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public Law 105-
61, $33,410,000 are rescinded.

                 TITLE II--GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS ACT

    Sec. 2001. 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. 2002. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available in this or any other Act may be obligated or expended by the 
Patent and Trademark Office to plan for the construction or lease of 
new facilities until 30 days after the submission of a report, to be 
delivered not later than May 1, 1998, to the Committees on 
Appropriations analyzing the cost versus the benefit of relocating to a 
new facility, and the cost associated with leasing versus lease-
purchase, or other alternatives for new space, and shall only be made 
available in accordance with section 605 of Public Law 105-119.
    Sec. 2003. Funds appropriated pursuant to Public Law 105-78 to 
carry out Title XX of the Public Health Service Act are available for 
use for prevention service demonstration grants without application of 
the limitation of section 2010(c) of that Title.
    Sec. 2004. Provisions Relating to Universal Service Support for 
Public Institutional Telecommunications Users. (a) No Inference 
Regarding Existing Universal Service Administrative Mechanism.--Nothing 
in this section may be considered as expressing the approval of the 
Congress of the action of the Federal Communications Commission in 
establishing, or causing to be established, one or more corporations to 
administer the schools and libraries program and the rural health care 
provider program under section 254(h) of the Communications Act of 1934 
(47 U.S.C. 254(h)), or the approval of any provision of such programs.
    (b) FCC to Report to the Congress.--
            (1) Report due date.--Pursuant to the findings of the 
        General Accounting Office (B-278820) dated February 10, 1998, 
        the Federal Communications Commission shall, by May 8, 1998, 
        submit a 2-part report to the Congress under this section.
            (2) Revised structure.--The report shall propose a revised 
        structure for the administration of the programs established 
        under section 254(h) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
        U.S.C. 254(h)). The revised structure shall consist of a single 
        entity.
                    (A) Limitation on administration of programs.--The 
                entity proposed by the Commission to administer the 
                programs--
                            (i) is limited to implementation of the FCC 
                        rules for applications for discounts and 
                        processing the applications necessary to 
                        determine eligibility for discounts under 
                        section 254(h) of the Communications Act of 
                        1934 (47 U.S.C. 254(h)) as determined by the 
                        Commission;
                            (ii) may not administer the programs in any 
                        manner that requires that entity to interpret 
                        the intent of the Congress in establishing the 
                        programs or interpret any rule promulgated by 
                        the Commission in carrying out the programs, 
                        without appropriate consultation and guidance 
                        from the Commission.
                    (B) APA requirements waived.--In preparing the 
                report required by this section, the Commission shall 
                find that good cause exists to waive the requirements 
                of section 553 of title 5, United States Code, to the 
                extent necessary to enable the Commission to submit the 
                report to the Congress by May 8, 1998.
            (3) Report on funding of schools and libraries program and 
        rural health care program.--The report required by this section 
        shall also provide the following information about the 
        contributions to, and requests for funding from, the schools 
        and libraries subsidy program:
                    (A) An estimate of the expected reductions in 
                interstate access charges anticipated on July 1, 1998.
                    (B) An accounting of the total contributions to the 
                universal service fund that are available for use to 
                support the schools and libraries program under section 
                254(h) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
                254(h)) for the second quarter of 1998.
                    (C) An accounting of the amount of the contribution 
                described in subparagraph (B) that the Commission 
                expects to receive from--
                            (i) incumbent local exchange carriers;
                            (ii) interexchange carriers;
                            (iii) information service providers;
                            (iv) commercial mobile radio service 
                        providers; and
                            (v) any other provider.
                    (D) Based on the applications for funding under 
                section 254(h) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
                U.S.C. 254(h)) received as of April 15, 1998, an 
                estimate of the costs of providing universal service 
                support to schools and libraries under that section 
                disaggregated by eligible services and facilities as 
                set forth in the eligibility list of the Schools and 
                Libraries Corporation, including--
                            (i) the amounts requested for costs 
                        associated with telecommunications services;
                            (ii) the amounts requested for costs 
                        described in clause (i) plus the costs of 
                        internal connections under the program;
                            (iii) the amounts requested for the costs 
                        described in clause (ii) plus the cost of 
                        internet access; and
                            (iv) the amount requested by eligible 
                        schools and libraries in each category and 
                        discount level listed in the matrix appearing 
                        at paragraph 520 of the Commission's May 8, 
                        1997 Order, calculated as dollar figures and as 
                        percentages of the total of all requests--
                                    (I) the amount requested by 
                                eligible schools and libraries in each 
                                such category and discount level to 
                                provide telecommunications services;
                                    (II) the amount requested by 
                                eligible schools and libraries in each 
                                such category and discount level to 
                                provide internal connections; and
                                    (III) the amount requested by 
                                eligible schools and libraries in each 
                                such category and discount level to 
                                provide internet access.
                    (E) A justification for the amount, if any, by 
                which the total requested disbursements from the fund 
                described in subparagraph (D) exceeds the amount of 
                available contributions described in subparagraph (B).
                    (F) Based on the amount described in subparagraph 
                (D), an estimate of the amount of contributions that 
                will be required for the schools and libraries program 
                in the third and fourth quarters of 1998, and, to the 
                extent these estimated contributions for the third and 
                fourth quarter exceed the current second-quarter 
                contribution, the Commission shall provide an estimate 
                of the amount of support that will be needed for each 
                of the eligible services and facilities as set forth in 
                the eligibility list of the Schools and Libraries 
                Corporation, and disaggregated as specified in 
                subparagraph (D).
                    (G) An explanation of why restricting the basis of 
                telecommunications carriers' contributions to universal 
                service under section 254(a)(3) of the Communications 
                Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 254(a)(3)) to interstate 
                revenues, while requiring that contributions to 
                universal service under section 254(h) of that Act (47 
                U.S.C. 254(h)) be based on both interstate as well as 
                intrastate revenues, is consistent with the provisions 
                of section 254(d) of that Act (47 U.S.C. 254(d)).
                    (H) An explanation as to whether access charge 
                reductions should be passed through on a dollar-for-
                dollar basis to each customer class on a proportionate 
                basis.
                    (I) An explanation of the contribution mechanisms 
                established by the Commission under the Commission's 
                Report and Order (FCC 97-157), May 8, 1997, and whether 
                any direct end-user charges on consumers are 
                appropriate.
    (c) Imposition of Cap on Compensation of Individuals Employed to 
Carry Out the Programs.--No officer or employee of the entity to be 
proposed to be established under subsection (b)(2) of this section may 
be compensated at an annual rate of pay, including any nonregular, 
extraordinary, or unexpected payment based on specific determinations 
of exceptionally meritorious service or otherwise, bonuses, or any 
other compensation (either monetary or in-kind), which exceeds the rate 
of basic pay in effect from time to time for level I of the Executive 
Schedule under section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.
    (d) Second-Half 1998 Contributions.--Before June 1, 1998, the 
Federal Communications Commission may not--
            (1) adjust the contribution factors for telecommunications 
        carriers under section 254; or
            (2) collect any such contribution due for the third or 
        fourth quarter of calendar year 1998.
    Sec. 2005. Support for Democratic Opposition in Iraq. In addition 
to the amounts appropriated to the President under Public Law 105-118, 
there is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 for the ``Economic Support 
Fund'', to remain available until September 30, 1999, for assistance to 
the Iraqi democratic opposition for such activities as organization, 
training, disseminating information, developing and implementing 
agreements among opposition groups, and for related purposes: Provided, 
That within 30 days of enactment into law of this Act the Secretary of 
State shall submit a detailed report to the appropriate committees of 
Congress on plans to establish a program to support the democratic 
opposition in Iraq: Provided further, That such amount is designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available 
only to the extent that an official budget request for a specific 
dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted 
by the President to Congress.
    Sec. 2006. Establishment of Radio Free Iraq. In addition to the 
amounts appropriated to the United States Information Agency under 
Public Law 105-119, there is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 for 
``International Broadcasting Operations'', to remain available until 
September 30, 1999, for a grant to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty for 
surrogate radio broadcasting to the Iraqi people: Provided, That such 
broadcasting shall be designated ``Radio Free Iraq'': Provided further, 
That within 30 days of enactment into law of this Act the Broadcasting 
Board of Governors shall submit a detailed report to the appropriate 
committees of Congress on plans to establish a surrogate broadcasting 
service to Iraq: Provided further, That such amount is designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available 
only to the extent that an official budget request for a specific 
dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted 
by the President to Congress.
    Sec. 2007. Section 203 of the National Sea Grant College Program 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1122) is amended by--
            (1) striking paragraph (5) and redesignating paragraphs (6) 
        through (17) as paragraphs (5) through (16);
            (2) redesignating subparagraphs (C) through (F) of 
        paragraph (7), as redesignated, as subparagraphs (D) through 
        (G); and
            (3) inserting after subparagraph (B) of paragraph (7), as 
        redesignated, the following:
                    ``(C) Lake Champlain (to the extent that such 
                resources have hydrological, biological, physical, or 
                geological characteristics and problems similar or 
                related to those of the Great Lakes);''.
    Sec. 2008. Notwithstanding section 21(a)(4) of the Small Business 
Act (15 U.S.C. 648(a)(4)) or any other provision of law, of the amount 
made available under the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, 
the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 (Public 
Law 105-119) for the account for salaries and expenses of the Small 
Business Administration, to fund grants for performance in fiscal year 
1998 or fiscal year 1999 as authorized by section 21 of the Small 
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 648), any funds obligated or expended for the 
conduct of a pilot project for a study on the current state of commerce 
on the Internet in Vermont shall not be subject to a non-Federal 
matching requirement.
    Sec. 2009. (a) Any agency listed in section 404(b) of the 
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998, Public Law 105-119, may transfer any 
amount to the Department of State, subject to the limitations of 
subsection (b) of this section, for the purpose of making technical 
adjustments to the amounts transferred by section 404 of such Act.
    (b) Funds transferred pursuant to subsection (a) shall not exceed 
$12,000,000, of which not to exceed $3,500,000 may be transferred from 
the United States Information Agency, of which not to exceed $3,600,000 
may be transferred from the Defense Intelligence Agency, of which not 
to exceed $1,600,000 may be transferred from the Defense Security 
Assistance Agency, of which not to exceed $900,000 may be transferred 
from the Peace Corps, and of which not to exceed $500,000 may be 
transferred from any other single agency listed in section 404(b) of 
Public Law 105-119.
    (c) A transfer of funds pursuant to this section shall not require 
any notification or certification to Congress or any committee of 
Congress, notwithstanding any other provision of law.
    Sec. 2010. United States Taxpayer Support Towards International 
Peace and Security. (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
            (1) 8,500 men and women from the United States Armed Forces 
        are currently serving in and around Bosnia, and 44,200 men and 
        women from the United States Armed Forces are currently serving 
        in and around the Persian Gulf;
            (2) the Department of Defense has spent $2,200,000,000 in 
        fiscal year 1995, $3,300,000,000 in fiscal year 1996, and 
        $2,973,000,000 in fiscal year 1997 for the incremental costs of 
        implementing or supporting United Nations Security Council 
        resolutions for which the United States received no credit at 
        the United Nations;
            (3) as of March 1, 1998, the United States Federal debt 
        totaled $5,537,630,079,097;
            (4) as of the date of enactment of this Act, the United 
        States, according to an audit by the General Accounting Office, 
        has spent more than $6,400,000,000 in incremental costs to the 
        Department of Defense in and around Bosnia for which the United 
        States received no credit at the United Nations;
            (5) the President is now requesting an additional 
        $486,900,000 for United States deployments in and around Bosnia 
        and $1,361,400,000 for United States deployments in and around 
        the Persian Gulf in ``emergency fiscal year 1998 supplemental 
        funds'';
            (6) those funds are in addition to the President's request 
        for $1,020,000,000 in ``arrears'' for all assessed 
        contributions to international organizations, including a 
        request for $658,000,000 for United States ``arrears'' for 
        United Nations peacekeeping operations;
            (7) in response to spiraling United Nations peacekeeping 
        costs and excessively broad mandates, the President on April 
        30, 1994, approved Public Law 103-236, which in section 404 
        limits the payment of the United States assessed contribution 
        for any United Nations peacekeeping operation to 25 percent of 
        the total of all assessed contributions for that operation;
            (8) the United Nations continues to charge the United 
        States for 30.4 percent of the costs of United Nations 
        peacekeeping operations, despite Public Law 103-236;
            (9) the United Nations continues to demand payment from the 
        United States of the difference between 25 percent and 30.4 
        percent of bills for United Nations peacekeeping operations;
            (10) United States law prohibits payment of those amounts 
        as arrears to the United Nations, and the United States is not 
        obligated to pay those amounts.
    (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that--
            (1) United States taxpayers should be commended for their 
        generous and unparalleled support in maintaining international 
        peace and security through these additional contributions in 
        support of United Nations Security Council resolutions, and 
        that the United Nations should acknowledge publicly the 
        financial and military support of the United States in 
        maintaining international peace and stability; and
            (2) the United Nations should immediately reduce the 
        percentage that the United States is assessed for United 
        Nations peacekeeping operations to 25 percent to reflect United 
        States law that limits assessments the United States will pay 
        to support United Nations peacekeeping operations.
    (c) Recognition of United States Support.--
            (1) Report by the security council.--The President should 
        direct the United States Ambassador to the United Nations to 
        introduce a resolution in the United Nations Security Council, 
        requiring that the Security Council publicly report to all 
        United Nations member states on the amount of funds the United 
        States has spent since January 1, 1990, in implementing or 
        supporting United Nations Security Council resolutions, as 
        determined by the Department of Defense.
            (2) Demarche to security council members.--The Secretary of 
        State should issue a demarche to all member countries of the 
        United Nations Security Council, informing them of the amount 
        of funds, both credited and uncredited, the Department of 
        Defense has spent since January 1, 1990, in support of United 
        Nations Security Council resolutions.
    (d) Report to Congress.--Not later than 45 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the President shall submit a report to the 
Committees on Appropriations and International Relations of the House 
of Representatives and the Committees on Appropriations and Foreign 
Relations of the Senate with regard to actions taken to carry out the 
provisions of subsection (c).
    Sec. 2011. Eligibility for Refugee Status. Section 584 of the 
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 1997 (Public Law 104-208; 110 Stat. 3009-171) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``For purposes'' and inserting 
                ``Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
                purposes''; and
                    (B) by striking ``fiscal year 1997'' and inserting 
                ``fiscal years 1998 and 1999''; and
            (2) by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
    ``(b) Aliens Covered.--
            ``(1) In general.-- An alien described in this subsection 
        is an alien who--
                    ``(A) is the son or daughter of a qualified 
                national;
                    ``(B) is 21 years of age or older; and
                    ``(C) was unmarried as of the date of acceptance of 
                the alien's parent for resettlement under the Orderly 
                Departure Program.
            ``(2) Qualified national.--For purposes of paragraph (1), 
        the term `qualified national' means a national of Vietnam who--
                    ``(A)(i) was formerly interned in a reeducation 
                camp in Vietnam by the Government of the Socialist 
                Republic of Vietnam; or
                    ``(ii) is the widow or widower of an individual 
                described in clause (i); and
                    ``(B)(i) qualified for refugee processing under the 
                reeducation camp internees subprogram of the Orderly 
                Departure Program; and
                    ``(ii) on or after April 1, 1995, is accepted--
                            ``(I) for resettlement as a refugee; or
                            ``(II) for admission as an immigrant under 
                        the Orderly Departure Program.''.
    Sec. 2012. Elimination of Secrecy in International Trade 
Organizations. The President shall instruct the United States 
Representatives to the World Trade Organization to seek the adoption of 
procedures that will ensure broader application of the principles of 
transparency and openness in the activities of the organization, 
including by urging the World Trade Organization General Council to--
            (1) permit appropriate meetings of the Council, the 
        Ministerial Conference, dispute settlement panels, and the 
        Appellate Body to be made open to the public; and
            (2) provide for timely public summaries of the matters 
        discussed and decisions made in any closed meeting of the 
        Conference or Council.
    Sec. 2013. In addition to the amounts provided in Public Law 105-
56, $35,000,000 is appropriated and shall be available for deposit in 
the International Trust Fund of the Republic of Slovenia for Demining, 
Mine Clearance, and Assistance to Mine Victims in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina: Provided, That such amount may be deposited in that Fund 
only if the President determines that such amount could be used 
effectively and for objectives consistent with on-going multilateral 
efforts to remove landmines in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Provided 
further, That such amount may be deposited in that Fund only to the 
extent of deposits of matching amounts in that Fund by other 
government, entities, or persons: Provided further, That the amount of 
such amount deposited by the United States in that Fund may be expended 
by the Republic of Slovenia only in consultation with the United States 
Government: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available 
only to the extent an official budget request, for a specific dollar 
amount, that includes a designation of the entire amount as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 is transmitted to Congress by the 
President: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of such Act.

          TITLE III--EMERGENCY TRADE DEFICIT REVIEW COMMISSION

    Sec. 3001. Short Title. This title may be cited as the ``Emergency 
Trade Deficit Review Commission Act''.
    Sec. 3002. Findings. Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The United States continues to run substantial 
        merchandise trade and current account deficits.
            (2) Economic forecasts anticipate continued growth in such 
        deficits in the next few years.
            (3) The positive net international asset position that the 
        United States built up over many years was eliminated in the 
        1980s. The United States today has become the world's largest 
        debtor nation.
            (4) The United States merchandise trade deficit is 
        characterized by large bilateral trade imbalances with a 
        handful of countries.
            (5) The United States has one of the most open borders and 
        economies in the world. The United States faces significant 
        tariff and nontariff trade barriers with its trading partners. 
        Current overall trade balances do not reflect the actual 
        competitiveness or productivity of the United States economy.
            (6) Since the last comprehensive review of national trade 
        and investment policies was conducted by a Presidential 
        commission in 1970, there have been massive worldwide economic 
        and political changes which have profoundly affected world 
        trading relationships. Globalization, the increased mobility of 
        capital and technology, the role of transnational corporations, 
        and the outsourcing of production across national boundaries, 
        are reshaping both the comparative and competitive trade 
        advantages among nations.
            (7) The United States is once again at a critical juncture 
        in trade policy development. The nature of the United States 
        trade deficit and its causes and consequences must be analyzed 
        and documented.
    Sec. 3003. Establishment of Commission. (a) Establishment.--There 
is established a commission to be known as the Emergency Trade Deficit 
Review Commission (hereafter in this title referred to as the 
``Commission'').
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of the Commission is to study the causes 
and consequences of the United States merchandise trade and current 
account deficits and to develop trade policy recommendations for the 
21st century. The recommendations shall include strategies necessary to 
achieve United States market access to foreign markets that fully 
reflects the competitiveness and productivity of the United States and 
also improves the standard of living of United States citizens.
    (c) Membership of Commission.--
            (1) Composition.--The Commission shall be composed of 12 
        members of whom--
                    (A) 1 Senator and 2 other persons shall be 
                appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate 
                upon the recommendation of the Majority Leader of the 
                Senate;
                    (B) 1 Senator and 2 other persons shall be 
                appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate 
                upon the recommendation of the Minority Leader of the 
                Senate;
                    (C) 1 Member of the House of Representatives and 2 
                other persons shall be appointed by the Speaker of the 
                House of Representatives; and
                    (D) 1 Member of the House of Representatives and 2 
                other persons shall be appointed by the Minority Leader 
                of the House of Representatives.
            (2) Qualifications of members.--
                    (A) Appointments.--Persons who are appointed under 
                paragraph (1), shall be persons who--
                            (i) have expertise in economics, 
                        international trade, manufacturing, labor, 
                        environment, business, or have other pertinent 
                        qualifications or experience; and
                            (ii) are not officers or employees of the 
                        United States.
                    (B) Other considerations.--In appointing Commission 
                members, every effort shall be made to ensure that the 
                members--
                            (i) are representative of a broad cross-
                        section of economic and trade perspectives 
                        within the United States; and
                            (ii) provide fresh insights to analyzing 
                        the causes and consequences of United States 
                        merchandise trade and current account deficits.
    (d) Period of Appointment; Vacancies.--
            (1) In general.--Members shall be appointed not later than 
        60 days after the date of enactment of this Act and the 
        appointment shall be for the life of the Commission.
            (2) Vacancies.--Any vacancy in the Commission shall not 
        affect its powers, but shall be filled in the same manner as 
        the original appointment.
    (e) Initial Meeting.--Not later than 30 days after the date on 
which all members of the Commission have been appointed, the Commission 
shall hold its first meeting.
    (f) Meetings.--The Commission shall meet at the call of the 
Chairperson.
    (g) Chairperson and Vice Chairperson.--The members of the 
Commission shall elect a chairperson and vice chairperson from among 
the members of the Commission.
    (h) Quorum.--A majority of the members of the Commission shall 
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
    (i) Voting.--Each member of the Commission shall be entitled to 1 
vote, which shall be equal to the vote of every other member of the 
Commission.
    Sec. 3004. Duties of the Commission. (a) In General.--The 
Commission shall be responsible for developing trade policy 
recommendations, by examining the economic, trade, tax, and investment 
policies and laws, and other incentives and restrictions that are 
relevant to addressing the causes and consequences of the United States 
merchandise trade and current account deficits.
    (b) Recommendations.--The Commission shall examine and make 
recommendations to Congress and the President on the following:
            (1) The manner in which the Government of the United States 
        establishes and administers the Nation's fundamental trade 
        policies and objectives, including--
                    (A) the relationship of the merchandise trade and 
                current account balances to the overall well-being of 
                the United States economy and any impact the trade 
                balance may have on wages and employment in various 
                sectors of the United States economy;
                    (B) any effects the merchandise trade and current 
                account deficits may have on the areas of manufacturing 
                and technology and on defense production and innovation 
                capabilities of the United States;
                    (C) the impact that United States monetary and 
                fiscal policies may have on United States merchandise 
                trade and current account deficits; and
                    (D) the coordination, allocation, and 
                accountability of trade responsibilities among Federal 
                agencies and the means for congressional oversight of 
                the trade policy process.
            (2) The causes and consequences of the merchandise trade 
        and current account deficits and specific bilateral trade 
        deficits, including--
                    (A) identification and quantification of the 
                macroeconomic factors and bilateral trade barriers 
                contributing to the United States merchandise trade and 
                current account deficits;
                    (B) identification and quantification of any impact 
                of the merchandise trade and current account deficits 
                on the domestic economy, industrial base, manufacturing 
                capacity, number and quality of jobs, productivity, 
                wages, and the United States standard of living;
                    (C) identification and quantification of trade 
                deficits within individual industrial, manufacturing, 
                and production sectors, and any relationship to 
                intraindustry and intracompany transactions;
                    (D) a review of the adequacy of the current 
                collection and reporting of import and export data, and 
                the identification and development of additional data 
                bases and economic measurements that may be needed to 
                properly quantify the factors described in 
                subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C);
                    (E) the relationship that tariff and nontariff 
                barriers may have to the merchandise trade and current 
                account deficits and the extent to which such deficits 
                have become structural;
                    (F) the extent to which there is reciprocal market 
                access substantially equivalent to that afforded by the 
                United States in each country with which the United 
                States has a persistent and substantial bilateral trade 
                deficit; and
                    (G) the impact of transhipments on bilateral trade.
            (3) Any relationship of United States merchandise trade and 
        current account deficits to both comparative and competitive 
        trade advantages within the global economy, including--
                    (A) a systematic analysis of the United States 
                trade patterns with different trading partners, to what 
                extent the trade patterns are based on comparative and 
                competitive trade advantages, and how the trade 
                advantages relate to the goods that are exported to and 
                imported from various trading partners;
                    (B) the extent to which the increased mobility of 
                capital and technology has changed both comparative and 
                competitive trade advantages;
                    (C) the extent to which differences in the growth 
                rates of the United States and its trading partners may 
                impact on United States merchandise trade and current 
                account deficits;
                    (D) any impact that labor, environmental, or health 
                and safety standards may have on world trade;
                    (E) the impact that currency exchange rate 
                fluctuations and any manipulation of exchange rates may 
                have on United States merchandise trade and current 
                account deficits;
                    (F) the effect that offset and technology transfer 
                agreements have on the long-term competitiveness of the 
                United States manufacturing sectors; and
                    (G) any effect that international trade, labor, 
                environmental, or other agreements may have on United 
                States competitiveness.
            (4) The flow of investments both into and out of the United 
        States, including--
                    (A) any consequences for the United States economy 
                of the current status of the United States as a debtor 
                nation;
                    (B) any relationship between such investments and 
                the United States merchandise trade and current account 
                deficits and living standards of United States workers;
                    (C) any impact such investments may have on United 
                States labor, community, environmental, and health and 
                safety standards, and how such investment flows 
                influence the location of manufacturing facilities; and
                    (D) the effect of barriers to United States foreign 
                direct investment in developed and developing nations, 
                particularly nations with which the United States has a 
                merchandise trade and current account deficit.
    Sec. 3005. Final Report; Congressional Hearings. (a) Final 
Report.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 18 months after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the Commission shall submit to the 
        President and Congress a final report which contains--
                    (A) the findings and conclusions of the Commission 
                described in section 3004;
                    (B) recommendations for addressing the problems 
                identified as part of the Commission's analysis; and
                    (C) any proposals for administrative and 
                legislative actions necessary to implement such 
                recommendations.
            (2) Separate views.--Any member of the Commission may 
        submit additional findings and recommendations as part of the 
        final report.
    (b) Congressional Hearings.--Not later than 6 months after the 
final report described in subsection (a) is submitted, the Committee on 
Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Finance of the Senate shall hold hearings on the report. Other 
committees of the House of Representatives and Senate with relevant 
jurisdiction may also hold hearings on the report.
    Sec. 3006. Powers of Commission. (a) Hearings.--The Commission may 
hold such hearings, sit and act at such times and places, take such 
testimony, and receive such evidence as the Commission may find 
advisable to fulfill the requirements of this title. The Commission 
shall hold at least 1 or more hearings in Washington, D.C., and 4 in 
different regions of the United States.
    (b) Information From Federal Agencies.--The Commission may secure 
directly from any Federal department or agency such information as the 
Commission considers necessary to carry out the provisions of this 
title. Upon request of the Chairperson of the Commission, the head of 
such department or agency shall furnish such information to the 
Commission.
    (c) Postal Services.--The Commission may use the United States 
mails in the same manner and under the same conditions as other 
departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
    Sec. 3007. Commission Personnel Matters. (a) Compensation of 
Members.--Each member of the Commission who is not an officer or 
employee of the Federal Government shall be compensated at a rate equal 
to the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay prescribed for 
level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of title 5, 
United States Code, for each day (including travel time) during which 
such member is engaged in the performance of the duties of the 
Commission. All members of the Commission who are officers or employees 
of the United States shall serve without compensation in addition to 
that received for their services as officers or employees of the United 
States.
    (b) Travel Expenses.--The members of the Commission shall be 
allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, at 
rates authorized for employees of agencies under subchapter I of 
chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code, while away from their homes 
or regular places of business in the performance of services for the 
Commission.
    (c) Staff.--
            (1) In general.--The Chairperson of the Commission may, 
        without regard to the civil service laws and regulations, 
        appoint and terminate an executive director and such other 
        additional personnel as may be necessary to enable the 
        Commission to perform its duties. The employment of an 
        executive director shall be subject to confirmation by the 
        Commission.
            (2) Compensation.--The Chairperson of the Commission may 
        fix the compensation of the executive director and other 
        personnel without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 and 
        subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, 
        relating to classification of positions and General Schedule 
        pay rates, except that the rate of pay for the executive 
        director and other personnel may not exceed the rate payable 
        for level V of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of 
        such title.
    (d) Detail of Government Employees.--Any Federal Government 
employee may be detailed to the Commission without reimbursement, and 
such detail shall be without interruption or loss of civil service 
status or privilege.
    (e) Procurement of Temporary and Intermittent Services.--The 
Chairperson of the Commission may procure temporary and intermittent 
services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United States Code, at rates 
for individuals which do not exceed the daily equivalent of the annual 
rate of basic pay prescribed for level V of the Executive Schedule 
under section 5316 of such title.
    Sec. 3008. Support Services. The Administrator of the General 
Services Administration shall provide to the Commission on a 
reimbursable basis such administrative support services as the 
Commission may request.
    Sec. 3009. Appropriations. There are appropriated $2,000,000 to the 
Commission to carry out the provisions of this title.

                 TITLE IV--AGRICULTURAL CREDIT PROGRAMS

    Sec. 4001. Short Title. This title may be cited as the 
``Agricultural Credit Restoration Act''.
    Sec. 4002. Amendments to the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act. (a) Section 343(a)(12)(B) of the Consolidated Farm and 
Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1991(a)(12)(B)) is amended to read as 
follows:
                    ``(B) Exceptions.--The term `debt forgiveness' does 
                not include--
                            ``(i) consolidation, rescheduling, 
                        reamortization, or deferral of a loan;
                            ``(ii) one debt forgiveness in the form of 
                        a restructuring, write-down, or net recovery 
                        buy-out during the lifetime of the borrower 
                        that is due to a financial problem of the 
                        borrower relating to a natural disaster or a 
                        medical condition of the borrower or of a 
                        member of the immediate family of the borrower 
                        (or, in the case of a borrower that is an 
                        entity, a principal owner of the borrower or a 
                        member of the immediate family of such an 
                        owner); and
                            ``(iii) any restructuring, write-down, or 
                        net recovery buy-out provided as a part of a 
                        resolution of a discrimination complaint 
                        against the Secretary.''.
    (b) Section 353(m) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 2001(m)) is amended by 
striking all that precedes paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
    ``(m) Limitation on Number of Write-Downs and Net Recovery Buy-Outs 
Per Borrower.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary may provide a write-down 
        or net recovery buy-out under this section on not more than 2 
        occasions per borrower with respect to loans made after January 
        6, 1988.''.
    (c) Section 353 of such Act (7 U.S.C. 2001) is amended by striking 
subsection (o).
    (d) Section 355(c)(2) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 2003(c)(2)) is amended 
to read as follows:
            ``(2) Reservation and allocation.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall, to the 
                greatest extent practicable, reserve and allocate the 
                proportion of each State's loan funds made available 
                under subtitle B that is equal to that State's target 
                participation rate for use by the socially 
                disadvantaged farmers or ranchers in that State. The 
                Secretary shall, to the extent practicable, distribute 
                the total so derived on a county by county basis 
                according to the number of socially disadvantaged 
                farmers or ranchers in the county.
                    ``(B) Reallocation of unused funds.--The Secretary 
                may pool any funds reserved and allocated under this 
                paragraph with respect to a State that are not used as 
                described in subparagraph (A) in a State in the first 
                10 months of a fiscal year with the funds similarly not 
                so used in other States, and may reallocate such pooled 
                funds in the discretion of the Secretary for use by 
                socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in other 
                States.''.
    (e) Section 373(b)(1) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 2008h(b)(1)) is amended 
to read as follows:
            ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
        Secretary may not make or guarantee a loan under subtitle A or 
        B to a borrower who on, 2 or more occasions, received debt 
        forgiveness on a loan made or guaranteed under this title.''.
    (f) Section 373(c) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 2008h(c)) is amended to 
read as follows:
    ``(c) No More Than 2 Debt Forgivenesses Per Borrower On Direct 
Loans.--The Secretary may not, on 2 or more occasions, provide debt 
forgiveness to a borrower on a direct loan made under this title.''.
    Sec. 4003. Regulations. Not later than 90 days after the date of 
the enactment of this title, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
promulgate regulations necessary to carry out the amendments made by 
this title, without regard to--
            (1) the notice and comment provisions of section 553 of 
        title 5, United States Code; and
            (2) the statement of policy of the Secretary of Agriculture 
        relating to notices of proposed rulemaking and public 
        participation in rulemaking that became effective on July 24, 
        1971 (36 Fed. Reg. 13804).

                  TITLE V--INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

    That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the International Monetary 
Fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other 
purposes, namely:

                    MULTILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE

                  funds appropriated to the president

                  loans to international monetary fund

                       new arrangements to borrow

    For loans to the International Monetary Fund (Fund) under the New 
Arrangements to Borrow, the dollar equivalent of 2,462,000,000 Special 
Drawing Rights, to remain available until expended; in addition, up to 
the dollar equivalent of 4,250,000,000 Special Drawing Rights 
previously appropriated by the Act of November 30, 1983 (Public Law 98-
181), and the Act of October 23, 1962 (Public Law 87-872), for the 
General Arrangements to Borrow, may also be used for the New 
Arrangements to Borrow.

                          united states quota

    For an increase in the United States quota in the International 
Monetary Fund, the dollar equivalent of 10,622,500,000 Special Drawing 
Rights, to remain available until expended.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 5001. Conditions for the Use of Quota Resources. (a) None of 
the funds appropriated in this Act under the heading ``United States 
Quota, International Monetary Fund'' may be obligated, transferred or 
made available to the International Monetary Fund until 30 days after 
the Secretary of the Treasury certifies that the major shareholders of 
the International Monetary Fund, including the United States, Japan, 
the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and 
Canada have publicly agreed to, and will seek to implement in the Fund, 
policies that provide for conditions in stand-by agreements or other 
arrangements regarding the use of Fund resources, requiring that the 
recipient country--
            (1) liberalize restrictions on trade in goods and services 
        and on investment, at a minimum consistent with the terms of 
        all international trade obligations and agreements; and
            (2) to eliminate the practice or policy of government 
        directed lending on non-commercial terms or provision of market 
        distorting subsidies to favored industries, enterprises, 
        parties, or institutions.
    (b) Subsequent to the certification provided in subsection (a), in 
conjunction with the annual submission of the President's budget, the 
Secretary of the Treasury shall report to the appropriate committees on 
the implementation and enforcement of the provisions in subsection (a).
    (c) The United States shall exert its influence with the Fund and 
its members to encourage the Fund to include as part of its conditions 
of stand-by agreements or other uses of the Fund's resources that the 
recipient country take action to remove discriminatory treatment 
between foreign and domestic creditors in its debt resolution 
proceedings. The Secretary of the Treasury shall report back to the 
Congress six months after the enactment of this Act, and annually 
thereafter, on the progress in achieving this requirement.
    (d) Bankruptcy Law Reform.--The United States shall exert its 
influence with the International Monetary Fund and its members to 
encourage the International Monetary Fund to include as part of its 
conditions of assistance that the recipient country take action to 
adopt, as soon as possible, modern insolvency laws that--
            (1) emphasize reorganization of business enterprises rather 
        than liquidation whenever possible;
            (2) provide for a high degree of flexibility of action, in 
        place of rigid requirements of form or substance, together with 
        appropriate review and approval by a court and a majority of 
        the creditors involved;
            (3) include provisions to ensure that assets gathered in 
        insolvency proceedings are accounted for and put back into the 
        market stream as quickly as possible in order to maximize the 
        number of businesses that can be kept productive and increase 
        the number of jobs that can be saved; and
            (4) promote international cooperation in insolvency matters 
        by including--
                    (A) provisions set forth in the Model Law on Cross-
                Border Insolvency approved by the United Nations 
                Commission on International Trade Law, including 
                removal of discriminatory treatment between foreign and 
                domestic creditors in debt resolution proceedings; and
                    (B) other provisions appropriate for promoting such 
                cooperation.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall report back to Congress six months 
after the enactment of this Act, and annually, thereafter, on the 
progress in achieving this requirement.
    (e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to create any 
private right of action with respect to the enforcement of its terms.
    Sec. 5002. Transparency and Oversight. (a) Not later than 30 days 
after enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
certify to the appropriate committees that the Board of Executive 
Directors of the International Monetary Fund has agreed to provide 
timely access by the Comptroller General to information and documents 
relating to the Fund's operations, program and policy reviews and 
decisions regarding stand-by agreements and other uses of the Fund's 
resources.
    (b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall direct, and the U.S. 
Executive Director to the International Monetary Fund shall agree to--
            (1) provide any documents or information available to the 
        Director that are requested by the Comptroller General;
            (2) request from the Fund any documents or material 
        requested by the Comptroller General; and
            (3) use all necessary means to ensure all possible access 
        by the Comptroller General to the staff and operations of the 
        Fund for the purposes of conducting financial and program 
        audits.
    (c) The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Comptroller General and the U.S. Executive Director of the Fund, shall 
develop and implement a plan to obtain timely public access to 
information and documents relating to the Fund's operations, programs 
and policy reviews and decisions regarding stand-by agreements and 
other uses of the Fund's resources.
    (d) No later than July 1, 1998 and, not later than March 1 of each 
year thereafter, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit a report to 
the appropriate committees on the status of timely publication of 
Letters of Intent and Article IV consultation documents and the 
availability of information referred to in (c).
    Sec. 5003. Advisory Commission. (a) The President shall establish 
an International Financial Institution Advisory Commission (hereafter 
``Commission'').
    (b) The Commission shall include at least five former United States 
Secretaries of the Treasury.
    (c) Within 180 days, the Commission shall report to the appropriate 
committees on the future role and responsibilities, if any, of the 
International Monetary Fund and the merit, costs and related 
implications of consolidation of the organization, management, and 
activities of the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank 
for Reconstruction and Development and the World Trade Organization.
    Sec. 5004. Bretton Woods Conference. Not later than 180 days after 
the Commission reports to the appropriate committees, the President 
shall call for a conference of representatives of the governments of 
the member countries of the International Monetary Fund, the 
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World 
Trade Organization to consider the structure, management and activities 
of the institutions, their possible merger and their capacity to 
contribute to exchange rate stability and economic growth and to 
respond effectively to financial crises.
    Sec. 5005. Reports. (a) Following the extension of a stand-by 
agreement or other uses of the resources by the International Monetary 
Fund, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the U.S. 
Executive Director of the Fund, shall submit a report to the 
appropriate committees providing the following information--
            (1) the borrower's rules and regulations dealing with 
        capitalization ratios, reserves, deposit insurance system and 
        initiatives to improve transparency of information on the 
        financial institutions and banks which may benefit from the use 
        of the Fund's resources;
            (2) the burden shared by private sector investors and 
        creditors, including commercial banks in the Group of Seven 
        Nations, in the losses which have prompted the use of the 
        Fund's resources;
            (3) the Fund's strategy, plan and timetable for completing 
        the borrower's pay back of the Fund's resources including a 
        date by which the borrower will be free from all international 
        institutional debt obligation; and
            (4) the status of efforts to upgrade the borrower's 
        national standards to meet the Basle Committee's Core 
        Principles for Effective Banking Supervision.
    (b) Following the extension of a stand-by agreement or other use of 
the Fund's resources, the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to the 
appropriate committees in conjunction with the annual submission of the 
President's budget, an account--
            (1) of outcomes related to the requirements of section 
        5010; and
            (2) of the direct and indirect institutional recipients of 
        such resources: Provided, That this account shall include the 
        institutions or banks indirectly supported by the Fund through 
        resources made available by the borrower's Central Bank.
    (c) Not later than 30 days after the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary shall submit a report to the appropriate committees of 
Congress providing the information requested in paragraphs (a) and (b) 
for the countries of South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand and the 
Philippines.
    Sec. 5006. Certifications. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall 
certify to the appropriate committees that the following conditions 
have been met--
            (1) No International Monetary Fund resources have resulted 
        in support to the semiconductor, steel, automobile, 
        shipbuilding, or textile and apparel industries in any form;
            (2) The Fund has not guaranteed nor underwritten the 
        private loans of semiconductor, steel, automobile, 
        shipbuilding, or textile and apparel manufacturers; and
            (3) Officials from the Fund and the Department of the 
        Treasury have monitored the implementation of the provisions 
        contained in stabilization programs in effect after July 1, 
        1997, and all of the conditions have either been met, or the 
        recipient government has committed itself to fulfill all of 
        these conditions according to an explicit timetable for 
        completion; which timetable has been provided to and approved 
        by the Fund and the Department of the Treasury.
    (b) Such certifications shall be made 14 days prior to the 
disbursement of any Fund resources to the borrower.
    (c) The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States 
Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund to use the voice 
and vote of the Executive Director to oppose disbursement of further 
funds if such certification is not given.
    (d) Such certifications shall continue to be made on an annual 
basis as long as Fund contributions continue to be outstanding to the 
borrower country.
    (e) After consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the 
United States Trade Representative, the Secretary of Commerce shall 
establish a team composed of employees of the Department of Commerce--
            (1) to collect data on import volumes and prices, and 
        industry statistics in--
                    (A) the steel industry;
                    (B) the semiconductor industry;
                    (C) the automobile industry;
                    (D) the textile and apparel industry; and
                    (E) shipbuilding;
            (2) to monitor the effect of the Asian economic crisis on 
        these industries;
            (3) to collect accounting data from Asian producers; and
            (4) to work to prevent import surges in these industries or 
        to assist United States industries affected by such surges in 
        their efforts to protect themselves under the trade laws of the 
        United States.
    (f) The Secretary of Commerce shall provide administrative support, 
including office space, for the team.
    (g) The Secretary of the Treasury and the United States Trade 
Representative may assign such employees to the team as may be 
necessary to assist the team in carrying out its functions under 
subsection (e).
    Sec. 5007. Limitations on International Monetary Fund Loans to 
Indonesia. The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United 
States Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund to use the 
voice and vote of the United States to prevent the extension of 
International Monetary Fund resources--
            (1) directly to or for the direct benefit of the President 
        of Indonesia or any member of the President's family; and
            (2) the Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the 
        Executive Director to use the United States voice and vote to 
        oppose further disbursement of funds to Indonesia on any 
        International Monetary Fund terms or conditions less stringent 
        than those imposed on the Republic of Korea and the Philippines 
        Republic.
    Sec. 5008. Advocacy of Policies to Enhance the General 
Effectiveness of the International Monetary Fund. The Secretary of the 
Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of the 
International Monetary Fund to use aggressively the voice and vote of 
the United States to vigorously promote policies to encourage the 
opening of markets for agricultural commodities and products by 
requiring recipient countries to make efforts to reduce trade barriers.
    Sec. 5009. Advisory Committee on IMF Policy. (a) In general.--The 
Secretary of the Treasury shall establish an International Monetary 
Fund Advisory Committee (in this section referred to as ``Advisory 
Committee'').
    (b) Membership.--The Advisory Committee shall consist of 8 members 
appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, after appropriate 
consultations with the relevant organizations, as follows--
            (1) at least 2 members shall be representatives from 
        organized labor;
            (2) at least 2 members shall be representatives from 
        nongovernmental environmental organizations;
            (3) at least 2 members shall be representatives from 
        nongovernmental human rights or social justice organizations.
    (c) Duties.--Not less frequently than every six months, the 
Advisory Committee shall meet with the Secretary of the Treasury to 
review and provide advice on the extent to which individual 
International Monetary Fund country programs meet requisite policy 
goals, particularly those set forth as follows--
            (1) in this Act;
            (2) in Article I(2) of the Fund's Articles of Agreements, 
        to promote and maintain high levels of employment and real 
        income and the development of the productive resources of all 
        members;
            (3) in section 1621 of Public Law 103-306, the Frank/
        Sanders amendment on encouragement of fair labor practices;
            (4) in section 1620 of Public Law 95-118, as amended, on 
        respect for, and full protection of, the territorial rights, 
        traditional economies, cultural integrity, traditional 
        knowledge, and human rights of indigenous peoples;
            (5) in section 1502 of Public Law 95-118, as amended, on 
        military spending by recipient countries and military 
        involvement in the economies of recipient countries;
            (6) in section 701 of Public Law 95-118, on assistance to 
        countries that engage in a pattern of gross violations of 
        internationally recognized human rights; and
            (7) in section 1307 of Public Law 95-118, on assessments of 
        the environmental impact and alternatives to proposed actions 
        by the International Monetary Fund which would have a 
        significant effect on the human environment.
    (d) Inapplicability of Termination Provisions of the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act.--Section 14(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act shall not apply to the Advisory Committee.
    Sec. 5010. Borrower Countries. The Secretary of the Treasury shall 
consult with the office of the United States Trade Representative 
regarding prospective International Monetary Fund borrower countries, 
including their status with respect to title III of the Trade Act of 
1974 or any executive order issued pursuant to the aforementioned 
title, and shall take these consultations into account before 
instructing the United States Executive Director of the International 
Monetary Fund on the United States position regarding loans or credits 
to such borrowing countries.
    Sec. 5011. Definitions. For the purposes of this title, 
``appropriate committees'' includes the Appropriations Committee, the 
Committee on Foreign Relations, Committee on Finance and the Committee 
on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee 
on Appropriations and the Committee on Banking and Financial Services 
in the House of Representatives.
    This title may be cited as the ``1998 Supplemental Appropriations 
Act for the International Monetary Fund''.
    This Act may be cited as the ``1998 Emergency Supplemental 
Appropriations Act for Recovery From Natural Disasters, and for 
Overseas Peacekeeping Efforts''.

            Passed the House of Representatives March 31, 1998.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.

            Passed the Senate March 31, 1998.

            Attest:

                                                    GARY SISCO,

                                                             Secretary.