[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3058 Engrossed in House (EH)]

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3058

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                                 AN ACT


 
Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, Treasury, 
and Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, District of Columbia, 
and independent agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums 
are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for the Departments of Transportation, Treasury, and 
Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, District of Columbia, and 
independent agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and 
for other purposes, namely:

                                TITLE I

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                        Office of the Secretary

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary, $84,913,000 
(increased by $250,000) (reduced by $17,339,000), of which not to 
exceed $2,198,000 shall be available for the immediate Office of the 
Secretary; not to exceed $698,000 shall be available for the immediate 
Office of the Deputy Secretary; not to exceed $15,183,000 (increased by 
$250,000) shall be available for the Office of the General Counsel; not 
to exceed $11,680,000 shall be available for the Office of the Under 
Secretary of Transportation for Policy; not to exceed $7,593,000 shall 
be available for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Budget and 
Programs; not to exceed $2,052,000 (reduced by $2,052,000) shall be 
available for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental 
Affairs; not to exceed $23,139,000 shall be available for the Office of 
the Assistant Secretary for Administration; not to exceed $1,910,000 
(reduced by $1,910,000) shall be available for the Office of Public 
Affairs; not to exceed $1,442,000 (reduced by $1,422,000) shall be 
available for the Office of the Executive Secretariat; not to exceed 
$697,000 shall be available for the Board of Contract Appeals; not to 
exceed $1,265,000 shall be available for the Office of Small and 
Disadvantaged Business Utilization; not to exceed $2,033,000 for the 
Office of Intelligence and Security; not to exceed $3,128,000 shall be 
available for the Office of Emergency Transportation; and not to exceed 
$11,895,000 (reduced by $11,895,000) shall be available for the Office 
of the Chief Information Officer: Provided, That the Secretary of 
Transportation is authorized to transfer funds appropriated for any 
office of the Office of the Secretary to any other office of the Office 
of the Secretary: Provided further, That no appropriation for any 
office shall be increased or decreased by more than 5 percent by all 
such transfers: Provided further, That notice of any change in funding 
greater than 5 percent shall be submitted for approval to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That not to 
exceed $60,000 (reduced by $60,000) shall be for allocation within the 
Department for official reception and representation expenses as the 
Secretary may determine: Provided further, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, excluding fees authorized in Public Law 107-71, 
there may be credited to this appropriation up to $2,500,000 in funds 
received in user fees: Provided further, That none of the funds 
provided in this Act shall be available for the position of Assistant 
Secretary for Public Affairs.

                         office of civil rights

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, $8,550,000.

           transportation planning, research, and development

    For necessary expenses for conducting transportation planning, 
research, systems development, development activities, and making 
grants, to remain available until expended, $40,613,000 (reduced by 
$31,583,000).

                          working capital fund

    Necessary expenses for operating costs and capital outlays of the 
Working Capital Fund, not to exceed $120,014,000, shall be paid from 
appropriations made available to the Department of Transportation: 
Provided, That such services shall be provided on a competitive basis 
to entities within the Department of Transportation: Provided further, 
That the above limitation on operating expenses shall not apply to non-
DOT entities: Provided further, That no funds appropriated in this Act 
to an agency of the Department shall be transferred to the Working 
Capital Fund without the approval of the agency modal administrator: 
Provided further, That no assessments may be levied against any 
program, budget activity, subactivity or project funded by this Act 
unless notice of such assessments and the basis therefor are presented 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and are approved 
by such Committees.

               minority business resource center program

    For the cost of guaranteed loans, $500,000, as authorized by 49 
U.S.C. 332: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That these funds are available to 
subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, 
not to exceed $18,367,000. In addition, for administrative expenses to 
carry out the guaranteed loan program, $400,000.

                       minority business outreach

    For necessary expenses of Minority Business Resource Center 
outreach activities, $3,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2007: Provided, That notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 332, these funds may 
be used for business opportunities related to any mode of 
transportation.

                        payments to air carriers

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

    In addition to funds made available from any other source to carry 
out the essential air service program under 49 U.S.C. 41731-41742, 
$54,000,000 to remain available until expended: Provided, That the 
Secretary may transfer amounts appropriated to the Federal Aviation 
Administration under any heading in this Act or otherwise available to 
the Federal Aviation Administration, to make such amounts available for 
obligation and expenditure for the essential air service program, in 
satisfaction of the requirements of section 41742(a)(1) of title 49, 
United States Code, in advance of the collection of fees under section 
45301 of title 49, United States Code: Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall reimburse such amounts to the Federal Aviation 
Administration proportionally by transfer, to the extent possible, from 
amounts credited to the account established under section 45303 of 
title 49, United States Code, as such fees are collected during the 
fiscal year: Provided further, That, in determining between or among 
carriers competing to provide service to a community, the Secretary may 
consider the relative subsidy requirements of the carriers.

                       new headquarters building

    For necessary expenses of the Department of Transportation's new 
headquarters building and related services, $100,000,000 (reduced by 
$25,000,000) (reduced by $20,000,000), to remain available until 
expended.

                    Federal Aviation Administration

                               operations

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration, not 
otherwise provided for, including operations and research activities 
related to commercial space transportation, administrative expenses for 
research and development, establishment of air navigation facilities, 
the operation (including leasing) and maintenance of aircraft, 
subsidizing the cost of aeronautical charts and maps sold to the 
public, lease or purchase of passenger motor vehicles for replacement 
only, in addition to amounts made available by Public Law 108-176, 
$8,042,920,000 (increased by $263,000,000), of which $4,986,000,000 
shall be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, of which not 
to exceed $6,424,229,000 shall be available for air traffic services 
activities; not to exceed $951,042,000 (increased by $263,000,000) 
shall be available for aviation regulation and certification 
activities; not to exceed $222,171,000 shall be available for research 
and acquisition activities; not to exceed $11,759,000 shall be 
available for commercial space transportation activities; not to exceed 
$50,583,000 shall be available for financial services activities; not 
to exceed $69,943,000 shall be available for human resources program 
activities; not to exceed $150,744,000 shall be available for region 
and center operations and regional coordination activities; not to 
exceed $140,337,000 shall be available for staff offices; and not to 
exceed $36,612,000 shall be available for information services: 
Provided, That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for the 
Federal Aviation Administration to finalize or implement any regulation 
that would promulgate new aviation user fees not specifically 
authorized by law after the date of the enactment of this Act: Provided 
further, That there may be credited to this appropriation funds 
received from States, counties, municipalities, foreign authorities, 
other public authorities, and private sources, for expenses incurred in 
the provision of agency services, including receipts for the 
maintenance and operation of air navigation facilities, and for 
issuance, renewal or modification of certificates, including airman, 
aircraft, and repair station certificates, or for tests related 
thereto, or for processing major repair or alteration forms: Provided 
further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, not less 
than $7,500,000 shall be for the contract tower cost-sharing program: 
Provided further, That funds may be used to enter into a grant 
agreement with a nonprofit standard-setting organization to assist in 
the development of aviation safety standards: Provided further, That 
none of the funds in this Act shall be available for new applicants for 
the second career training program: Provided further, That none of the 
funds in this Act shall be available for paying premium pay under 5 
U.S.C. 5546(a) to any Federal Aviation Administration employee unless 
such employee actually performed work during the time corresponding to 
such premium pay: Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act 
may be obligated or expended to operate a manned auxiliary flight 
service station in the contiguous United States: Provided further, That 
none of the funds in this Act for aeronautical charting and cartography 
are available for activities conducted by, or coordinated through, the 
Working Capital Fund: Provided further, That none of the funds in this 
Act may be obligated or expended for an employee of the Federal 
Aviation Administration to purchase a store gift card or gift 
certificate through use of a Government-issued credit card. In 
addition, $150,000,000 (reduced by $59,000,000) for transition costs 
associated with OMB Circular A-76 Flight Service Station competition.

                        facilities and equipment

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for 
acquisition, establishment, technical support services, improvement by 
contract or purchase, and hire of air navigation and experimental 
facilities and equipment, as authorized under part A of subtitle VII of 
title 49, United States Code, including initial acquisition of 
necessary sites by lease or grant; engineering and service testing, 
including construction of test facilities and acquisition of necessary 
sites by lease or grant; construction and furnishing of quarters and 
related accommodations for officers and employees of the Federal 
Aviation Administration stationed at remote localities where such 
accommodations are not available; and the purchase, lease, or transfer 
of aircraft from funds available under this heading; to be derived from 
the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, $3,053,000,000, of which 
$2,618,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2008, and of 
which $435,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2006: 
Provided, That there may be credited to this appropriation funds 
received from States, counties, municipalities, other public 
authorities, and private sources, for expenses incurred in the 
establishment and modernization of air navigation facilities: Provided 
further, That upon initial submission to the Congress of the fiscal 
year 2007 President's budget, the Secretary of Transportation shall 
transmit to the Congress a comprehensive capital investment plan for 
the Federal Aviation Administration which includes funding for each 
budget line item for fiscal years 2007 through 2011, with total funding 
for each year of the plan constrained to the funding targets for those 
years as estimated and approved by the Office of Management and Budget.

                 research, engineering, and development

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for research, 
engineering, and development, as authorized under part A of subtitle 
VII of title 49, United States Code, including construction of 
experimental facilities and acquisition of necessary sites by lease or 
grant, $130,000,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust 
Fund and to remain available until September 30, 2008: Provided, That 
there may be credited to this appropriation funds received from States, 
counties, municipalities, other public authorities, and private 
sources, for expenses incurred for research, engineering, and 
development.

                       grants-in-aid for airports

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

                         (including rescission)

    For liquidation of obligations incurred for grants-in-aid for 
airport planning and development, and noise compatibility planning and 
programs as authorized under subchapter I of chapter 471 and subchapter 
I of chapter 475 of title 49, United States Code, and under other law 
authorizing such obligations; for procurement, installation, and 
commissioning of runway incursion prevention devices and systems at 
airports of such title; $3,600,000,000 to be derived from the Airport 
and Airway Trust Fund and to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That none of the funds under this heading shall be available for the 
planning or execution of programs the obligations for which are in 
excess of $3,600,000,000 in fiscal year 2006, notwithstanding section 
47117(g) of title 49, United States Code: Provided further, That none 
of the funds under this heading shall be available for the replacement 
of baggage conveyor systems, reconfiguration of terminal baggage areas, 
or other airport improvements that are necessary to install bulk 
explosive detection systems: Provided further, That of the amount 
authorized for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, under 
sections 48103 and 48112 of title 49, United States Code, $469,000,000 
are rescinded.

       administrative provisions--federal aviation administration

    Sec. 101. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, airports may 
transfer without consideration to the Federal Aviation Administration 
(FAA) instrument landing systems (along with associated approach 
lighting equipment and runway visual range equipment) which conform to 
FAA design and performance specifications, the purchase of which was 
assisted by a Federal airport-aid program, airport development aid 
program or airport improvement program grant: Provided, That, the 
Federal Aviation Administration shall accept such equipment, which 
shall thereafter be operated and maintained by FAA in accordance with 
agency criteria.
    Sec. 102. None of the funds in this Act may be used to compensate 
in excess of 375 technical staff-years under the federally funded 
research and development center contract between the Federal Aviation 
Administration and the Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development 
during fiscal year 2005.
    Sec. 103. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to pursue or 
adopt guidelines or regulations requiring airport sponsors to provide 
to the Federal Aviation Administration without cost building 
construction, maintenance, utilities and expenses, or space in airport 
sponsor-owned buildings for services relating to air traffic control, 
air navigation, or weather reporting: Provided, That the prohibition of 
funds in this section does not apply to negotiations between the agency 
and airport sponsors to achieve agreement on ``below-market'' rates for 
these items or to grant assurances that require airport sponsors to 
provide land without cost to the FAA for air traffic control 
facilities.
    Sec. 104. None of the funds appropriated or limited by this Act may 
be used to change weight restrictions or prior permission rules at 
Teterboro Airport in Teterboro, New Jersey.
    Sec. 105. (a) Section 44302(f)(1) of title 49, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ``2005,'' each place it appears and inserting 
``2006,''.
    (b) Section 44303(b) of such title is amended by striking ``2005,'' 
and inserting ``2006,''.
    Sec. 106. None of the funds made available in this Act shall be 
used for engineering work related to an additional runway at Louis 
Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.

                     Federal Highway Administration

                 limitation on administrative expenses

    Necessary expenses for administration and operation of the Federal 
Highway Administration, not to exceed $359,529,000 shall be paid in 
accordance with law from appropriations made available by this Act to 
the Federal Highway Administration together with advances and 
reimbursements received by the Federal Highway Administration.

                          federal-aid highways

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    None of the funds in this Act shall be available for the 
implementation or execution of programs, the obligations for which are 
in excess of $36,287,100,000 for Federal-aid highways and highway 
safety construction programs for fiscal year 2006: Provided, That 
within the $36,287,100,000 obligation limitation on Federal-aid 
highways and highway safety construction programs, not more than 
$485,000,000 shall be available for the implementation or execution of 
programs for transportation research (as authorized by title 23, United 
States Code, as amended; section 5505 of title 49, United States Code, 
as amended; and sections 5112 and 5204-5209 of Public Law 105-178, as 
amended) for fiscal year 2006: Provided further, That this limitation 
on transportation research programs shall not apply to any authority 
previously made available for obligation: Provided further, That the 
Secretary may, as authorized by sections 183 and 184 of title 23, 
United States Code, charge and collect a fee, from the applicant for a 
direct loan, guaranteed loan, or line of credit to cover the cost of 
the financial and legal analyses performed on behalf of the Department: 
Provided further, That such fees are available until expended to pay 
for such costs: Provided further, That such amounts are in addition to 
administrative expenses that are also available for such purpose, and 
are not subject to any obligation limitation or the limitation on 
administrative expenses under 23 U.S.C. 188.

                          federal-aid highways

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For carrying out the provisions of title 23, United States Code, 
that are attributable to Federal-aid highways, including the National 
Scenic and Recreational Highway as authorized by 23 U.S.C. 148, not 
otherwise provided, including reimbursement for sums expended pursuant 
to the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 308, $36,000,000,000 or so much thereof 
as may be available in and derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other 
than the Mass Transit Account), to remain available until expended.

       administrative provisions--federal highway administration

    Sec. 110. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds received by the 
Bureau of Transportation Statistics from the sale of data products, for 
necessary expenses incurred pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 111 may be credited 
to the Federal-aid highways account for the purpose of reimbursing the 
Bureau for such expenses: Provided, That such funds shall be subject to 
the obligation limitation for Federal-aid highways and highway safety 
construction.

              Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

              motor carrier safety operations and programs

                      (limitation on obligations)

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                          (highway trust fund)

                     (including transfer of funds)

    None of the funds provided for expenses for administration of motor 
carrier safety programs and motor carrier safety research shall be 
available for fiscal year 2006, the obligations for which are in excess 
of $215,000,000: Provided, That for payment of obligations incurred to 
pay administrative expenses of and motor carrier research by the 
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, $215,000,000, to be 
derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit 
Account), together with advances and reimbursements received by the 
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the sum of which shall 
remain available until expended.

                 national motor carrier safety program

                 liquidation of contract authorization

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out motor carrier 
safety grant programs in accordance with title 49, United States Code, 
$286,000,000, to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the 
Mass Transit Account) and to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That none of the funds provided for the implementation or execution of 
motor carrier safety grant programs authorized by title 49, United 
States Code, shall be available for fiscal year 2006, the obligations 
for which are in excess of $286,000,000.

 administrative provision--federal motor carrier safety administration

    Sec. 120. Funds appropriated or limited in this Act shall be 
subject to the terms and conditions stipulated in section 350 of Public 
Law 107-87, including that the Secretary submit a report to the House 
and Senate Appropriations Committees annually on the safety and 
security of transportation into the United States by Mexico-domiciled 
motor carriers.

             National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

                        operations and research

    For expenses necessary to discharge the functions of the Secretary, 
with respect to traffic and highway safety under chapter 301 of title 
49, United States Code, and part C of subtitle VI of title 49, United 
States Code, $152,367,000, of which $135,367,000 is to remain available 
until September 30, 2008, and $17,000,000 is to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
be obligated or expended to plan, finalize, or implement any rulemaking 
to add to section 575.104 of title 49 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations any requirement pertaining to a grading standard that is 
different from the three grading standards (treadwear, traction, and 
temperature resistance) already in effect.

                        operations and research

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out the provisions 
of 23 U.S.C. 403, to remain available until expended, $75,000,000, to 
be derived from the Highway Trust Fund: Provided, That none of the 
funds in this Act shall be available for the planning or execution of 
programs the total obligations for which, in fiscal year 2006, are in 
excess of $75,000,000 for programs authorized under 23 U.S.C. 403.

                        national driver register

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out chapter 303 of 
title 49, United States Code, $4,000,000, to be derived from the 
Highway Trust Fund: Provided, That none of the funds in this Act shall 
be available for the implementation or execution of programs the 
obligations for which are in excess of $4,000,000 for the National 
Driver Register authorized under chapter 303 of title 49, United States 
Code.

                     highway traffic safety grants

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out the provisions 
of 23 U.S.C. 402, 405, and 410, to remain available until expended, 
$551,000,000 to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund and to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That none of the funds in this Act 
shall be available for the planning or execution of programs the total 
obligations for which, in fiscal year 2006, are in excess of 
$551,000,000 for programs authorized under 23 U.S.C. 402, 405, and 410, 
and the State Traffic Safety Information Systems Improvements, High 
Visibility Enforcement, Child Safety and Booster Seat, and Motorcyclist 
Safety grants programs, to be allocated as follows: $229,000,000 shall 
be for ``Highway Safety Programs'' under 23 U.S.C. 402, $136,000,000 
shall be for ``Occupant Protection Incentive Grants'' under 23 U.S.C. 
405, $129,000,000 shall be for ``Alcohol-Impaired Driving 
Countermeasures Grants'' under 23 U.S.C. 410, $30,000,000 shall be for 
State Traffic Safety Information Systems Improvement grants, 
$15,000,000 shall be for High Visibility Enforcement grants, $6,000,000 
shall be for Child Safety and Booster Seat grants, and $6,000,000 shall 
be for Motorcyclist Safety grants: Provided further, That none of these 
funds shall be used for construction, rehabilitation, or remodeling 
costs, or for office furnishings and fixtures for State, local, or 
private buildings or structures: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$10,000,000 of the funds made available for section 402, not to exceed 
$3,306,000 of the funds made available for section 405, and not to 
exceed $3,000,000 of the funds made available for section 410 shall be 
available to NHTSA for administering highway safety grants under 
chapter 4 of title 23, United States Code: Provided further, That not 
to exceed $500,000 of the funds made available for section 410 
``Alcohol-Impaired Driving Countermeasures Grants'' shall be available 
for technical assistance to the States.

                    Federal Railroad Administration

                         safety and operations

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Railroad Administration, not 
otherwise provided for, $145,949,000, of which $13,856,000 shall remain 
available until expended.

                   railroad research and development

    For necessary expenses for railroad research and development, 
$26,325,000 (reduced by $26,325,000), to remain available until 
expended.

            railroad rehabilitation and improvement program

    The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to issue to the 
Secretary of the Treasury notes or other obligations pursuant to 
section 512 of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 
1976 (Public Law 94-210), as amended, in such amounts and at such times 
as may be necessary to pay any amounts required pursuant to the 
guarantee of the principal amount of obligations under sections 511 
through 513 of such Act, such authority to exist as long as any such 
guaranteed obligation is outstanding: Provided, That pursuant to 
section 502 of such Act, as amended, no new direct loans or loan 
guarantee commitments shall be made using Federal funds for the credit 
risk premium during fiscal year 2006.

                    next generation high-speed rail

    For necessary expenses for the Next Generation High-Speed Rail 
program as authorized under 49 U.S.C. 26101 and 26102, $10,165,000, to 
remain available until expended.

         grants to the national railroad passenger corporation

    To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make quarterly grants 
to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, $550,000,000 (increased 
by $626,248,000), to remain available until September 30, 2006: 
Provided, That of the funds provided, $50,000,000 shall be used by the 
Secretary of Transportation to enter into contracts to make 
improvements to the Northeast Corridor, as authorized under chapters 
241 and 249 of title 49, United States Code.

       administrative provision--federal railroad administration

    Sec. 140. The Secretary may purchase promotional items of nominal 
value for use in public outreach activities to accomplish the purposes 
of 49 U.S.C. 20134: Provided, That the Secretary shall prescribe 
guidelines for the administration of such purchases and use.

                     Federal Transit Administration

                        administrative expenses

    For necessary administrative expenses of the Federal Transit 
Administration's programs authorized by chapter 53 of title 49, United 
States Code, $12,000,000: Provided, That no more than $80,000,000 of 
budget authority shall be available for these purposes: Provided 
further, That of the funds available not to exceed $989,000 shall be 
available for the Office of the Administrator; not to exceed $7,284,000 
shall be available for the Office of Administration; not to exceed 
$4,140,000 shall be available for the Office of the Chief Counsel; not 
to exceed $1,276,000 shall be available for the Office of Communication 
and Congressional Affairs; not to exceed $7,916,000 shall be available 
for the Office of Program Management; not to exceed $7,123,000 shall be 
available for the Office of Budget and Policy; not to exceed $4,712,000 
shall be available for the Office of Demonstration and Innovation; not 
to exceed $3,113,000 shall be available for the Office of Civil Rights; 
not to exceed $4,155,000 shall be available for the Office of Planning; 
not to exceed $21,408,000 shall be available for regional offices; and 
not to exceed $17,884,000 shall be available for the central account: 
Provided further, That the Administrator is authorized to transfer 
funds appropriated for an office of the Federal Transit Administration: 
Provided further, That no appropriation for an office shall be 
increased or decreased by more than a total of 5 percent during the 
fiscal year by all such transfers: Provided further, That any change in 
funding greater than 5 percent shall be submitted for approval to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That 
any funding transferred from the central account shall be submitted for 
approval to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided 
further, That none of the funds provided or limited in this Act may be 
used to create a permanent office of transit security under this 
heading: Provided further, That of the funds in this Act available for 
the execution of contracts under section 5327(c) of title 49, United 
States Code, $2,000,000 shall be reimbursed to the Department of 
Transportation's Office of Inspector General for costs associated with 
audits and investigations of transit-related issues, including reviews 
of new fixed guideway systems: Provided further, That upon submission 
to the Congress of the fiscal year 2007 President's budget, the 
Secretary of Transportation shall transmit to Congress the annual 
report on new starts, proposed allocations of funds for fiscal year 
2007.

                             formula grants

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5307, 5308, 5310, 
5311, 5327, 5335 and section 3038 of Public Law 105-178, $662,550,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That no more than 
$4,417,000,000 of budget authority shall be available for these 
purposes: Provided further, That of the amount available, $2,500,000 
shall be available for the National Transit database.

                   university transportation research

    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5505, $1,200,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That no more than $8,000,000 
of budget authority shall be available for these purposes.

                     transit planning and research

    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5303, 5304, 5305, 
5311(b)(2), 5312, 5313(a), 5314, 5315, and 5322, $24,049,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That no more than $160,325,000 of 
budget authority shall be available for these purposes.

                      trust fund share of expenses

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out 49 U.S.C. 5303-
5308, 5310-5315, 5317(b), 5322, 5327, 5334, 5505, and sections 3037 and 
3038 of Public Law 105-178, $7,209,700,000, to remain available until 
expended, and to be derived from the Mass Transit Account of the 
Highway Trust Fund: Provided, That $3,754,450,000 shall be paid to the 
Federal Transit Administration's formula grants account: Provided 
further, That $136,276,000 shall be paid to the Federal Transit 
Administration's transit planning and research account: Provided 
further, That $68,000,000 shall be paid to the Federal Transit 
Administration's administrative expenses account: Provided further, 
That $6,800,000 shall be paid to the Federal Transit Administration's 
university transportation research account: Provided further, That 
$148,750,000 shall be paid to the Federal Transit Administration's job 
access and reverse commute grants program: Provided further, That 
$3,095,424,000 shall be paid to the Federal Transit Administration's 
Capital Investment Grants account.

                       capital investment grants

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5308, 5309, 5318, and 
5327, $546,251,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
no more than $3,641,675,000 of budget authority shall be available for 
these purposes.

                 job access and reverse commute grants

    For necessary expenses to carry out section 3037 of the Federal 
Transit Act of 1998, $26,250,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That no more than $175,000,000 of budget authority shall be 
available for these purposes: Provided further, That up to $300,000 of 
the funds provided under this heading may be used by the Federal 
Transit Administration for technical assistance and support and 
performance reviews of the Job Access and Reverse Commute Grants 
program.

       administrative provisions--federal transit administration

    Sec. 150. The limitations on obligations for the programs of the 
Federal Transit Administration shall not apply to any authority under 
49 U.S.C. 5338, previously made available for obligation, or to any 
other authority previously made available for obligation.
    Sec. 151. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any funds 
appropriated before October 1, 2005, under any section of chapter 53 of 
title 49, United States Code, that remain available for expenditure may 
be transferred to and administered under the most recent appropriation 
heading for any such section.

             Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

    The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is hereby 
authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and 
borrowing authority available to the Corporation, and in accord with 
law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to 
fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government 
Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying 
out the programs set forth in the Corporation's budget for the current 
fiscal year.

                       operations and maintenance

                    (harbor maintenance trust fund)

    For necessary expenses for operations and maintenance of those 
portions of the Saint Lawrence Seaway operated and maintained by the 
Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, $16,284,000, to be 
derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to Public Law 
99-662.

                        Maritime Administration

                       maritime security program

    For necessary expenses to maintain and preserve a U.S.-flag 
merchant fleet to serve the national security needs of the United 
States, $156,000,000, to remain available until expended.

                        operations and training

    For necessary expenses of operations and training activities 
authorized by law, $112,336,000, of which $23,750,000 shall remain 
available until September 30, 2006, for salaries and benefits of 
employees of the United States Merchant Marine Academy; of which 
$17,000,000 shall remain available until expended for capital 
improvements at the United States Merchant Marine Academy; and of which 
$11,211,000 shall remain available until expended for the State 
Maritime Schools Schoolship Maintenance and Repair.

                             ship disposal

    For necessary expenses related to the disposal of obsolete vessels 
in the National Defense Reserve Fleet of the Maritime Administration, 
$21,000,000, to remain available until expended.

          maritime guaranteed loan (title xi) program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan 
program, not to exceed $3,526,000, which shall be transferred to and 
merged with the appropriation for Operations and Training.

                           ship construction

                              (rescission)

    Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 
$2,071,280 are rescinded.

           administrative provisions--maritime administration

    Sec. 160. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 
Maritime Administration is authorized to furnish utilities and services 
and make necessary repairs in connection with any lease, contract, or 
occupancy involving Government property under control of the Maritime 
Administration, and payments received therefore shall be credited to 
the appropriation charged with the cost thereof: Provided, That rental 
payments under any such lease, contract, or occupancy for items other 
than such utilities, services, or repairs shall be covered into the 
Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
    Sec. 161. No obligations shall be incurred during the current 
fiscal year from the construction fund established by the Merchant 
Marine Act, 1936, or otherwise, in excess of the appropriations and 
limitations contained in this Act or in any prior appropriations Act.

         Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

                        administrative expenses

    For necessary administrative expenses of the Pipeline and Hazardous 
Materials Safety Administration, $17,027,000, of which $645,000 shall 
be derived from the Pipeline Safety Fund.

                       hazardous materials safety

    For expenses necessary to discharge the hazardous materials safety 
functions of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration, $26,183,000, of which $1,847,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2008: Provided, That up to $1,200,000 in fees 
collected under 49 U.S.C. 5108(g) shall be deposited in the general 
fund of the Treasury as offsetting receipts: Provided further, That 
there may be credited to this appropriation, to be available until 
expended, funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other 
public authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred for 
training, for reports publication and dissemination, and for travel 
expenses incurred in performance of hazardous materials exemptions and 
approvals functions.

                            pipeline safety

                         (pipeline safety fund)

                    (oil spill liability trust fund)

    For expenses necessary to conduct the functions of the pipeline 
safety program, for grants-in-aid to carry out a pipeline safety 
program, as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 60107, and to discharge the 
pipeline program responsibilities of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 
$72,860,000, of which $15,000,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill 
Liability Trust Fund and shall remain available until September 30, 
2008; of which $57,860,000 shall be derived from the Pipeline Safety 
Fund, of which $24,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
2008: Provided, That not less than $1,000,000 of the funds provided 
under this heading shall be for the one-call State grant program.

                     emergency preparedness grants

                     (emergency preparedness fund)

    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5127(c), $200,000, to 
be derived from the Emergency Preparedness Fund, to remain available 
until September 30, 2007: Provided, That not more than $14,300,000 
shall be made available for obligation in fiscal year 2006 from amounts 
made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(i) and 5127(d): Provided further, That 
none of the funds made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(i), 5127(c), and 
5127(d) shall be made available for obligation by individuals other 
than the Secretary of Transportation, or his designee.

           Research and Innovative Technology Administration

                        research and development

    For necessary expenses of the Research and Innovative Technology 
Administration, $4,326,000: Provided, That there may be credited to 
this appropriation, to be available until expended, funds received from 
States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities, and private 
sources for expenses incurred for training.

                      Office of Inspector General

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General to carry 
out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, 
$62,499,000: Provided, That the Inspector General shall have all 
necessary authority, in carrying out the duties specified in the 
Inspector General Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), to investigate 
allegations of fraud, including false statements to the government (18 
U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that is subject to regulation by 
the Department: Provided further, That the funds made available under 
this heading shall be used to investigate, pursuant to section 41712 of 
title 49, United States Code: (1) unfair or deceptive practices and 
unfair methods of competition by domestic and foreign air carriers and 
ticket agents; and (2) the compliance of domestic and foreign air 
carriers with respect to item (1) of this proviso.

                      Surface Transportation Board

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Surface Transportation Board, 
including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $26,622,000: Provided, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, not to exceed 
$1,250,000 from fees established by the Chairman of the Surface 
Transportation Board shall be credited to this appropriation as 
offsetting collections and used for necessary and authorized expenses 
under this heading: Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated 
from the general fund shall be reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis as 
such offsetting collections are received during fiscal year 2006, to 
result in a final appropriation from the general fund estimated at no 
more than $25,372,000.

        administrative provisions--department of transportation

                     (including transfers of funds)

    Sec. 170. During the current fiscal year applicable appropriations 
to the Department of Transportation shall be available for maintenance 
and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles and 
aircraft; purchase of liability insurance for motor vehicles operating 
in foreign countries on official department business; and uniforms or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902).
    Sec. 171. Appropriations contained in this Act for the Department 
of Transportation shall be available for services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem 
rate equivalent to the rate for an Executive Level IV.
    Sec. 172. None of the funds in this Act shall be available for 
salaries and expenses of more than 100 political and Presidential 
appointees in the Department of Transportation: Provided, That none of 
the personnel covered by this provision may be assigned on temporary 
detail outside the Department of Transportation.
    Sec. 173. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to implement 
section 404 of title 23, United States Code.
    Sec. 174. (a) No recipient of funds made available in this Act 
shall disseminate personal information (as defined in 18 U.S.C. 
2725(3)) obtained by a State department of motor vehicles in connection 
with a motor vehicle record as defined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(1), except as 
provided in 18 U.S.C. 2721 for a use permitted under 18 U.S.C. 2721.
    (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary shall not 
withhold funds provided in this Act for any grantee if a State is in 
noncompliance with this provision.
    Sec. 175. Funds received by the Federal Highway Administration, 
Federal Transit Administration, and Federal Railroad Administration 
from States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities, and 
private sources for expenses incurred for training may be credited 
respectively to the Federal Highway Administration's ``Federal-Aid 
Highways'' account, the Federal Transit Administration's ``Transit 
Planning and Research'' account, and to the Federal Railroad 
Administration's ``Safety and Operations'' account, except for State 
rail safety inspectors participating in training pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 
20105.
    Sec. 176. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, rule or 
regulation, the Secretary of Transportation is authorized to allow the 
issuer of any preferred stock heretofore sold to the Department to 
redeem or repurchase such stock upon the payment to the Department of 
an amount determined by the Secretary.
    Sec. 177. None of the funds in this Act to the Department of 
Transportation may be used to make a grant unless the Secretary of 
Transportation notifies the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations not less than 3 full business days before any 
discretionary grant award, letter of intent, or full funding grant 
agreement totaling $1,000,000 or more is announced by the department or 
its modal administrations from: (1) any discretionary grant program of 
the Federal Highway Administration other than the emergency relief 
program; (2) the airport improvement program of the Federal Aviation 
Administration; or (3) any program of the Federal Transit 
Administration other than the formula grants and fixed guideway 
modernization programs: Provided, That no notification shall involve 
funds that are not available for obligation.
    Sec. 178. Rebates, refunds, incentive payments, minor fees and 
other funds received by the Department of Transportation from travel 
management centers, charge card programs, the subleasing of building 
space, and miscellaneous sources are to be credited to appropriations 
of the Department of Transportation and allocated to elements of the 
Department of Transportation using fair and equitable criteria and such 
funds shall be available until expended.
    Sec. 179. Amounts made available in this or any other Act that the 
Secretary determines represent improper payments by the Department of 
Transportation to a third party contractor under a financial assistance 
award, which are recovered pursuant to law, shall be available--
            (1) to reimburse the actual expenses incurred by the 
        Department of Transportation in recovering improper payments; 
        and
            (2) to pay contractors for services provided in recovering 
        improper payments: Provided, That amounts in excess of that 
        required for paragraphs (1) and (2)--
                    (A) shall be credited to and merged with the 
                appropriation from which the improper payments were 
                made, and shall be available for the purposes and 
                period for which such appropriations are available; or
                    (B) if no such appropriation remains available, 
                shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous 
                receipts: Provided, That prior to the transfer of any 
                such recovery to an appropriations account, the 
                Secretary shall notify the House and Senate Committees 
                on Appropriations of the amount and reasons for such 
                transfer: Provided further, That for purposes of this 
                section, the term ``improper payments'', has the same 
                meaning as that provided in section 2(d)(2) of Public 
                Law 107-300.
    Sec. 180. The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to transfer 
the unexpended balances available for the bonding assistance program 
from ``Office of the Secretary, Salaries and expenses'' to ``Minority 
Business Outreach''.
    Sec. 181. None of the funds made available in this Act to the 
Department of Transportation may be obligated for the Office of the 
Secretary of Transportation to approve assessments or reimbursable 
agreements pertaining to funds appropriated to the modal 
administrations in this Act, except for activities underway on the date 
of enactment of this Act, unless such assessments or agreements have 
completed the normal reprogramming process for Congressional 
notification.
    Sec. 182. None of the funds made available under this Act may be 
obligated or expended to establish or implement a pilot program under 
which not more than 10 designated essential air service communities 
located in proximity to hub airports are required to assume 10 percent 
of their essential air subsidy costs for a 4-year period commonly 
referred to as the EAS local participation program.

                  TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                          Departmental Offices

                         salaries and expenses

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Departmental Offices including 
operation and maintenance of the Treasury Building and Annex; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; maintenance, repairs, and improvements of, 
and purchase of commercial insurance policies for, real properties 
leased or owned overseas, when necessary for the performance of 
official business, not to exceed $3,000,000 for official travel 
expenses; $187,452,000 (reduced by $30,000,000), of which not to exceed 
$7,216,000 for executive direction program activities; not to exceed 
$7,521,000 for general counsel program activities; not to exceed 
$32,011,000 for economic policies and programs activities; not to 
exceed $24,721,000 for financial policies and programs activities; not 
to exceed $16,843,000 for Treasury-wide management policies and 
programs activities; not to exceed $63,731,000 for administration 
programs activities: Provided, That $35,409,000 of the amount provided 
under this heading is for the Office of Terrorism and Financial 
Intelligence as authorized in Public law 108-447, of which $22,032,000 
is for the Office of Foreign Assets Control, $5,882,000 is for the 
Office of Intelligence and Analysis, and $1,998,000 is for the Office 
of the Undersecretary: Provided further, That the Secretary of the 
Treasury is authorized to transfer funds appropriated for any program 
activity of the Departmental Offices to any other program activity of 
the Departmental Offices upon notification to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That no appropriation 
for any program activity shall be increased or decreased by more than 2 
percent by all such transfers: Provided further, That any change in 
funding greater than 2 percent shall be submitted for approval to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That 
of the amount appropriated under this heading, not to exceed 
$3,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007, is for 
information technology modernization requirements; not to exceed 
$100,000 is for official reception and representation expenses; and not 
to exceed $258,000 is for unforeseen emergencies of a confidential 
nature, to be allocated and expended under the direction of the 
Secretary of the Treasury and to be accounted for solely on his 
certificate: Provided further, That of the amount appropriated under 
this heading, $5,173,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007, 
is for the Treasury-wide Financial Statement Audit Program and internal 
control programs, of which such amounts as may be necessary may be 
transferred to accounts of the Department's offices and bureaus to 
conduct audits: Provided further, That this transfer authority shall be 
in addition to any other provided in this Act.

        department-wide systems and capital investments programs

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For development and acquisition of automatic data processing 
equipment, software, and services for the Department of the Treasury, 
$21,412,000, to remain available until September 30, 2008: Provided, 
That these funds shall be transferred to accounts and in amounts as 
necessary to satisfy the requirements of the Department's offices, 
bureaus, and other organizations: Provided further, That this transfer 
authority shall be in addition to any other transfer authority provided 
in this Act: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated 
shall be used to support or supplement ``Internal Revenue Service, 
Information Systems'' or ``Internal Revenue Service, Business Systems 
Modernization''.

                      office of inspector general

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, not to exceed $2,000,000 for official travel expenses, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles; and not to exceed $100,000 
for unforeseen emergencies of a confidential nature, to be allocated 
and expended under the direction of the Inspector General of the 
Treasury, $17,000,000, of which not to exceed $2,500 shall be available 
for official reception and representation expenses.

           treasury inspector general for tax administration

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax 
Administration in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, including purchase (not to exceed 150 for replacement only for 
police-type use) and hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 
1343(b)); services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be 
determined by the Inspector General for Tax Administration; not to 
exceed $6,000,000 for official travel expenses; and not to exceed 
$500,000 for unforeseen emergencies of a confidential nature, to be 
allocated and expended under the direction of the Inspector General for 
Tax Administration, $133,286,000; and of which not to exceed $1,500 
shall be available for official reception and representation expenses.

            air transportation stabilization program account

    For necessary expenses to administer the Air Transportation 
Stabilization Board established by section 102 of the Air 
Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act (Public Law 107-42), 
$2,500,000 (reduced by $2,500,000) to remain available until expended.

           treasury building and annex repair and restoration

    For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the Treasury 
Building and Annex, $10,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2008.

                  Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel expenses of non-
Federal law enforcement personnel to attend meetings concerned with 
financial intelligence activities, law enforcement, and financial 
regulation; not to exceed $14,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses; and for assistance to Federal law enforcement 
agencies, with or without reimbursement, $73,630,000 of which not to 
exceed $6,944,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2008; and 
of which $8,521,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2007: 
Provided, That funds appropriated in this account may be used to 
procure personal services contracts.

                      Financial Management Service

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Financial Management Service, 
$236,243,000, of which not to exceed $9,220,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2008, for information systems modernization 
initiatives; and of which not to exceed $2,500 shall be available for 
official reception and representation expenses.

                Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of carrying out section 1111 of the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002, including hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
$91,126,000; of which not to exceed $6,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses; not to exceed $50,000 for cooperative research 
and development programs for laboratory services; and provision of 
laboratory assistance to State and local agencies with or without 
reimbursement.

                           United States Mint

               united states mint public enterprise fund

    Pursuant to section 5136 of title 31, United States Code, the 
United States Mint is provided funding through the United States Mint 
Public Enterprise Fund for costs associated with the production of 
circulating coins, numismatic coins, and protective services, including 
both operating expenses and capital investments. The aggregate amount 
of new liabilities and obligations incurred during fiscal year 2006 
under such section 5136 for circulating coinage and protective service 
capital investments of the United States Mint shall not exceed 
$36,900,000.

                       Bureau of the Public Debt

                     administering the public debt

    For necessary expenses connected with any public-debt issues of the 
United States, $179,923,000, of which not to exceed $2,500 shall be 
available for official reception and representation expenses, and of 
which not to exceed $2,000,000 shall remain available until expended 
for systems modernization: Provided, That the sum appropriated herein 
from the General Fund for fiscal year 2006 shall be reduced by not more 
than $3,000,000 as definitive security issue fees and Treasury Direct 
Investor Account Maintenance fees are collected, so as to result in a 
final fiscal year 2006 appropriation from the General Fund estimated at 
$176,923,000. In addition, $70,000 to be derived from the Oil Spill 
Liability Trust Fund to reimburse the Bureau for administrative and 
personnel expenses for financial management of the Fund, as authorized 
by section 1012 of Public Law 101-380.

              Community Development Financial Institutions

                          fund program account

    To carry out the Community Development Banking and Financial 
Institutions Act of 1994, including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate 
equivalent to the rate for ES-3, $55,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2006, of which up to $13,000,000 may be used for 
administrative expenses, including administration of the New Markets 
Tax Credit, up to $6,000,000 may be used for the cost of direct loans, 
and up to $250,000 may be used for administrative expenses to carry out 
the direct loan program: Provided, That the cost of direct loans, 
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in 
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: 
Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize gross 
obligations for the principal amount of direct loans not to exceed 
$11,000,000.

                        Internal Revenue Service

                 processing, assistance, and management

    For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service for pre-
filing taxpayer assistance and education, filing and account services, 
shared services support, general management and administration; and 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be 
determined by the Commissioner, $4,181,520,000, of which up to 
$4,100,000 shall be for the Tax Counseling for the Elderly Program, of 
which $8,000,000 shall be available for low-income taxpayer clinic 
grants, of which $1,500,000 shall be for the Internal Revenue Service 
Oversight Board; and of which not to exceed $25,000 shall be for 
official reception and representation expenses.

                          tax law enforcement

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service for 
determining and establishing tax liabilities; providing litigation 
support; conducting criminal investigation and enforcement activities; 
securing unfiled tax returns; collecting unpaid accounts; conducting a 
document matching program; resolving taxpayer problems through prompt 
identification, referral and settlement; expanded customer service and 
public outreach programs, strengthened enforcement activities, and 
enhanced research efforts to reduce erroneous filings associated with 
the earned income tax credit; compiling statistics of income and 
conducting compliance research; purchase (for police-type use, not to 
exceed 850) and hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); 
and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be 
determined by the Commissioner, $4,541,466,000 (increased by 
$38,750,000), of which $55,584,000 shall be for the Interagency Crime 
and Drug Enforcement program: Provided, That up to $10,000,000 may be 
transferred as necessary from this account to the IRS Processing, 
Assistance, and Management appropriation or the IRS Information Systems 
appropriation solely for the purposes of management of the Interagency 
Crime and Drug Enforcement Program: Provided further, That up to 
$10,000,000 may be transferred as necessary from this account to the 
IRS Processing, Assistance, and Management appropriation or the IRS 
Information Systems appropriation solely for the purposes of management 
of the Earned Income Tax Credit compliance program and to reimburse the 
Social Security Administration for the cost of implementing section 
1090 of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-33): Provided 
further, That this transfer authority shall be in addition to any other 
transfer authority provided in this Act.

                          information systems

    For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service for 
information systems and telecommunications support, including 
developmental information systems and operational information systems; 
the hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); and services 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be determined by 
the Commissioner, $1,606,846,000 (reduced by $24,000,000) (reduced by 
$7,700,000), of which $75,000,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2007.

                     business systems modernization

    For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service, 
$199,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2008, for the 
capital asset acquisition of information technology systems, including 
management and related contractual costs of said acquisitions, 
including contractual costs associated with operations authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109: Provided, That none of these funds may be obligated until 
the Internal Revenue Service submits to the Committees on 
Appropriations, and such Committees approve, a plan for expenditure 
that: (1) meets the capital planning and investment control review 
requirements established by the Office of Management and Budget, 
including Circular A-11; (2) complies with the Internal Revenue 
Service's enterprise architecture, including the modernization 
blueprint; (3) conforms with the Internal Revenue Service's enterprise 
life cycle methodology; (4) is approved by the Internal Revenue 
Service, the Department of the Treasury, and the Office of Management 
and Budget; (5) has been reviewed by the Government Accountability 
Office; and (6) complies with the acquisition rules, requirements, 
guidelines, and systems acquisition management practices of the Federal 
Government.

               health insurance tax credit administration

    For expenses necessary to implement the health insurance tax credit 
included in the Trade Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-210), $20,210,000.

          administrative provisions--internal revenue service

                     (including transfer of funds)

    Sec. 201. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 
available in this Act to the Internal Revenue Service or not to exceed 
3 percent of appropriations under the heading ``Tax Law Enforcement'' 
may be transferred to any other Internal Revenue Service appropriation 
upon the advance approval of the Committees on Appropriations.
    Sec. 202. The Internal Revenue Service shall maintain a training 
program to ensure that Internal Revenue Service employees are trained 
in taxpayers' rights, in dealing courteously with taxpayers, and in 
cross-cultural relations.
    Sec. 203. The Internal Revenue Service shall institute and enforce 
policies and procedures that will safeguard the confidentiality of 
taxpayer information.
    Sec. 204. Funds made available by this or any other Act to the 
Internal Revenue Service shall be available for improved facilities and 
increased manpower to provide sufficient and effective 1-800 help line 
service for taxpayers. The Commissioner shall continue to make the 
improvement of the Internal Revenue Service 1-800 help line service a 
priority and allocate resources necessary to increase phone lines and 
staff to improve the Internal Revenue Service 1-800 help line service.
    Sec. 205. None of the funds in this title may be used to modify the 
number or location of Taxpayer Assistance Centers until the Treasury 
Inspector General for Tax Administration completes a study detailing 
the impact that such closures would have on taxpayer compliance and 
submits such study to the Committees on Appropriatons of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate for review: Provided, That no funds 
shall be obligated by the Internal Revenue Service for such purposes 
for 60 days after receipt of such study: Provided further, That the 
Internal Revenue Service shall consult with stakeholder organizations, 
including but no limited to, the National Taxpayer Advocate, the 
Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board, the Treasury Inspector 
General for Tax Administration, and Internal Revenue Service employees 
with respect to the types of data to be included in the model that will 
determine which Taxpayer Assistance Centers should be closed and the 
relative weight of such data as it relates to such model.

         Administrative Provisions--Department of the Treasury

                     (including transfer of funds)

    Sec. 210. Appropriations to the Department of the Treasury in this 
Act shall be available for uniforms or allowances therefor, as 
authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901), including maintenance, repairs, and 
cleaning; purchase of insurance for official motor vehicles operated in 
foreign countries; purchase of motor vehicles without regard to the 
general purchase price limitations for vehicles purchased and used 
overseas for the current fiscal year; entering into contracts with the 
Department of State for the furnishing of health and medical services 
to employees and their dependents serving in foreign countries; and 
services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
    Sec. 211. Not to exceed 2 percent of any appropriation made 
available in this Act to the Internal Revenue Service may be 
transferred to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration's 
appropriation upon the advance approval of the Committees on 
Appropriations: Provided, That no transfer may increase or decrease any 
such appropriation by more than 2 percent.
    Sec. 212. Of the funds available for the purchase of law 
enforcement vehicles, no funds may be obligated until the Secretary of 
the Treasury certifies that the purchase by the respective Treasury 
bureau is consistent with Departmental vehicle management principles: 
Provided, That the Secretary may delegate this authority to the 
Assistant Secretary for Management.
    Sec. 213. None of the funds appropriated in this Act or otherwise 
available to the Department of the Treasury or the Bureau of Engraving 
and Printing may be used to redesign the $1 Federal Reserve note.
    Sec. 214. The Secretary of the Treasury may transfer funds from 
``Financial Management Services, Salaries and Expenses'' to ``Debt 
Collection Fund'' as necessary to cover the costs of debt collection: 
Provided, That such amounts shall be reimbursed to such salaries and 
expenses account from debt collections received in the Debt Collection 
Fund.
    Sec. 215. Section 122(g)(1) of Public Law 105-119 (5 U.S.C. 3104 
note), is further amended by striking ``7 years'' and inserting `` 8 
years''.
    Sec. 216. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this or any other Act may be used by the United States 
Mint to construct or operate any museum without the explicit approval 
of the House Committee on Financial Services and the Senate Committee 
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
    Sec. 217. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this or any other Act or source to the Department of the 
Treasury, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and the United States 
Mint, individually or collectively, may be used to consolidate any or 
all functions of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the United 
States Mint without the explicit approval of the House Committee on 
Financial Services; the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
Affairs; the House Committee on Appropriations; and the Senate 
Committee on Appropriations.

         TITLE III--DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                       Public and Indian Housing

                     tenant-based rental assistance

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For activities and assistance for the provision of tenant-based 
rental assistance authorized under the United States Housing act of 
1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (``the Act'' herein), not 
otherwise provided for, $15,531,400,000 (increased by $100,000,000), to 
remain available until expended, of which $11,331,400,000 (increased by 
$100,000,000) shall be available on October 1, 2005, and $4,200,000,000 
shall be available on October 1, 2006: Provided, That the amounts made 
available under this heading are provided as follows:
            (1) $14,089,755,725 (increased by $100,000,000) for 
        renewals of expiring section 8 tenant-based annual 
        contributions contracts (including renewals of enhanced 
        vouchers under any provision of law authorizing such assistance 
        under section 8(t) of the Act: Provided, That notwithstanding 
        any other provision of law, from amounts provided under this 
        paragraph, the Secretary for the calendar year 2006 funding 
        cycle shall provide renewal funding for each public housing 
        agency based on each public housing agency's 2005 annual budget 
        for renewal funding as calculated by HUD, prior to prorations, 
        and by applying the 2006 Annual Adjustment Factor as 
        established by the Secretary, and by making any necessary 
        adjustments for the costs associated with the first-time 
        renewal of tenant protection or HOPE VI vouchers: Provided 
        further, That the Secretary shall, to the extent necessary to 
        stay within the amount provided under this paragraph, pro rate 
        each public housing agency's allocation otherwise established 
        pursuant to this paragraph: Provided further, That except as 
        provided in the following proviso, the entire amount provided 
        under this paragraph shall be obligated to the public housing 
        agencies based on the allocation and pro rata method described 
        above: Provided further, That up to $45,000,000 shall be 
        available only: (1) to adjust the allocations for public 
        housing agencies, after application for an adjustment by a 
        public housing agency and verification by HUD, whose 
        allocations under this heading for contract renewals for the 
        calendar year 2005 funding cycle were based on verified VMS 
        leasing and cost data averaged for the months of May, June, and 
        July of 2004 and solely because of temporarily low leasing 
        levels during such 3-month period did not accurately reflect 
        leasing levels and costs for the 2004 fiscal year of the 
        agencies; and (2) for adjustments for public housing agencies 
        that experienced a significant increase, as determined by the 
        Secretary, in renewal costs resulting from the portability 
        under section 8(r) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 of 
        tenant-based rental assistance: Provided further, That none of 
        the funds provided in this paragraph may be used to support a 
        total number of unit months under lease which exceeds a public 
        housing agency's authorized level of units under contract;
            (2) $165,700,000 for section 8 rental assistance for 
        relocation and replacement of housing units that are demolished 
        or disposed of pursuant to the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions 
        and Appropriations Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-134), conversion 
        of section 23 projects to assistance under section 8, the 
        family unification program under section 8(x) of the Act, 
        relocation of witnesses in connection with efforts to combat 
        crime in public and assisted housing pursuant to a request from 
        a law enforcement or prosecution agency, enhanced vouchers 
        under any provision of law authorizing such assistance under 
        section 8(t) of the Act, HOPE VI vouchers, mandatory and 
        voluntary conversions, vouchers necessary to complete the 
        consent decree requirements in Walker vs. U.S. Department of 
        Housing and Urban Development, and tenant protection assistance 
        including replacement and relocation assistance;
            (3) $45,000,000 for family self-sufficiency coordinators 
        under section 23 of the Act;
            (4) $5,900,000 shall be transferred to the Working Capital 
        Fund; and
            (5) $1,225,000,000 for administrative and other expenses of 
        public housing agencies in administering the section 8 tenant-
        based rental assistance program, of which up to $25,000,000 
        shall be available to the Secretary to allocate to public 
        housing agencies that need additional funds to administer their 
        section 8 programs: Provided, That $1,200,000,000 of the amount 
        provided in this paragraph shall be allocated for the calendar 
        year 2006 funding cycle on a pro rata basis to public housing 
        agencies based on the amount public housing agencies were 
        eligible to receive in calendar year 2005: Provided further, 
        That all amounts provided under this paragraph shall be only 
        for activities related to the provision of tenant-based rental 
        assistance authorized under section 8, including related 
        development activities, except that up to $200,000,000 of funds 
        made available on October 1, 2006, to this account may be 
        transferred to the ``Project Based Rental Assistance Account'' 
        at the discretion of the Secretary.

                        housing certificate fund

                              (rescission)

    Of the unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, 
remaining from funds appropriated to the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development under this heading or the heading ``Annual 
contributions for assisted housing'' or any other heading for fiscal 
year 2005 and prior years, $2,493,600,000 is rescinded, to be effected 
by the Secretary no later than September 30, 2006: Provided, That any 
such balances governed by reallocation provisions under the statute 
authorizing the program for which the funds were originally 
appropriated shall be available for the rescission: Provided further, 
That any obligated balances of contract authority from fiscal year 1974 
and prior that have been terminated shall be cancelled: Provided 
further, That no amounts recaptured from amounts appropriated in prior 
years under this heading or the heading ``Annual contributions for 
assisted housing'' and no carryover of such appropriated amounts for 
project-based assistance shall be available for the calendar year 2006 
funding cycle for activities provided for under the heading ``Tenant-
based rental assistance''.

                    project-based rental assistance

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For activities and assistance for the provision of project-based 
subsidy contracts under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (``the Act'' herein), not otherwise 
provided for, $5,088,300,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That the amounts made available under this heading are 
provided as follows:
            (1) $4,940,100,000 for expiring or terminating section 8 
        project-based subsidy contracts (including section 8 moderate 
        rehabilitation contracts), for amendments to section 8 project-
        based subsidy contracts (including section 8 moderate 
        rehabilitation contracts), for contracts entered into pursuant 
        to section 441 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, 
        for renewal of section 8 contracts for units in projects that 
        are subject to approved plans of action under the Emergency Low 
        Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 or the Low-Income 
        Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990, 
        and for administrative and other expenses associated with 
        project-based activities and assistance funded under this 
        paragraph.
            (2) $147,200,000 for performance-based contract 
        administrators for section 8 project-based assistance: 
        Provided, That the Secretary may also use such amounts for 
        performance-based contract administrators for: interest 
        reduction payments pursuant to section 236(a) of the National 
        Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1(a)); rent supplement payments 
        pursuant to section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development 
        Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s); Section 236(f)(2) rental 
        assistance payments (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1(f)(2)); project rental 
        assistance contracts for the elderly under section 202(c)(2) of 
        the Housing Act of 1959, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701q, 1701q-1); 
        project rental assistance contracts for supportive housing for 
        persons with disabilities under section 811(d)(2) of the 
        Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act; project 
        assistance contracts pursuant to section 202(h) of the Housing 
        Act of 1959 (Public Law 86-372; 73 Stat. 667); and loans under 
        section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (Public Law 86-372; 73 
        Stat. 667).
            (3) $1,000,000 shall be transferred to the Working Capital 
        Fund: Provided further, That amounts recaptured under this 
        heading, the heading, `Annual Contributions for Assisted 
        Housing,' or the heading, `Housing Certificate Fund,' for 
        project-based section 8 activities may be used for renewals of 
        or amendments to section 8 project-based subsidy contracts or 
        for performance-based contract administrators, notwithstanding 
        the purposes for which such amounts were appropriated.

                      public housing capital fund

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For the Public Housing Capital Fund Program to carry out capital 
and management activities for public housing agencies, as authorized 
under section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended 
(42 U.S.C. 1437g) (the ``Act''), $2,600,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2009: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law or regulation, during fiscal year 2006, the Secretary 
may not delegate to any Department official other than the Deputy 
Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing any 
authority under paragraph (2) of section 9(j) regarding the extension 
of the time periods under such section: Provided further, That for 
purposes of such section 9(j), the term ``obligate'' means, with 
respect to amounts, that the amounts are subject to a binding agreement 
that will result in outlays, immediately or in the future: Provided 
further, That of the total amount provided under this heading, up to 
$11,000,000 shall be for carrying out activities under section 9(h) of 
such Act: Provided further, That $10,000,000 shall be transferred to 
the Working Capital Fund: Provided further, That no funds may be used 
under this heading for the purposes specified in section 9(k) of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended: Provided further, That 
of the total amount provided under this heading, up to $17,000,000 
shall be available for the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
to make grants, notwithstanding section 305 of this Act, to public 
housing agencies for emergency capital needs resulting from unforeseen 
emergencies and natural disasters occurring in fiscal year 2006: 
Provided further, That of the total amount provided under this heading, 
$24,000,000 shall be for supportive services, service coordinators and 
congregate services as authorized by section 34 of the Act and the 
Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996: 
Provided further, That up to $8,820,000 is to support the costs of 
administrative and judicial receiverships.

                     public housing operating fund

    For 2006 payments to public housing agencies for the operation and 
management of public housing, as authorized by section 9(e) of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)), 
$3,600,000,000: Provided, That all funds made available under this 
heading shall be allocated to public housing agencies in accordance 
with the terms, conditions, criteria and methodology set forth in the 
``Post 4th Session Rule'' issued on June 10, 2004 and shall not be 
allocated using any other formula unless approved by the Committee: 
Provided further, That of the total amount provided under this heading, 
up to $50,000,000 shall be for assistance for the conversion to asset 
management including project-based accounting, budgeting and management 
for public housing agencies operating three or more public housing 
projects, which will under the ``Post 4th Session Rule'' formula 
experience a loss of subsidy greater than 5 percent from the amount 
which would otherwise have been receivable under the Performance 
Funding System regulations superceded by such formula: Provided 
further, That, in fiscal year 2006 and all fiscal years hereafter, no 
amounts under this heading in any appropriations Act may be used for 
payments to public housing agencies for the costs of operation and 
management of public housing for any year prior to the current year of 
such Act: Provided further, That no funds may be used under this 
heading for the purposes specified in section 9(k) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937, as amended.

     revitalization of severely distressed public housing (hope vi)

     For grants to public housing agencies for demolition, site 
revitalization, replacement housing, and tenant-based assistance grants 
to projects, as authorized by section 24 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937, as amended, and the amounts otherwise provided by this Act 
for ``INDEPENDENT AGENCIES--General Services Administration--federal 
buildings fund'' and for building operations under such item are hereby 
reduced by, $60,000,000.

                  native american housing block grants

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the Native American Housing Block Grants program, as authorized 
under title I of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-
Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) (25 U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), 
$600,000,000, to remain available until expended. Notwithstanding the 
Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996, 
to determine the amount of the allocation under title I of such Act for 
each Indian tribe, the Secretary shall apply the formula under section 
302 of such Act with the need component based on single-race Census 
data and with the need component based on multi-race Census data, and 
the amount of the allocation for each Indian tribe shall be the greater 
of the two resulting allocation amounts. Of funds made available under 
this heading, $1,200,000 shall be contracted through the Secretary as 
technical assistance and capacity building to be used by the National 
American Indian Housing Council in support of the implementation of 
NAHASDA; of which $2,308,000 shall be to support the inspection of 
Indian housing units, contract expertise, training, and technical 
assistance in the training, oversight, and management of Indian housing 
and tenant-based assistance, including up to $300,000 for related 
travel; of which $45,000,000 shall be for the Indian Community 
Development Block Grant program under title I of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), 
for grants to Indian tribes notwithstanding section 106(a)(1) of such 
Act, to be allocated using the same methodology as fiscal year 2005 
funds of which up to $4,000,000 may be used for emergencies that 
constitute imminent threats to health and safety, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law (including section 205 of the Act): Provided, 
That of the amount provided under this heading, $2,000,000 shall be 
made available for the cost of guaranteed notes and other obligations, 
as authorized by title VI of NAHASDA: Provided further, That such 
costs, including the costs of modifying such notes and other 
obligations, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds are 
available to subsidize the total principal amount of any notes and 
other obligations, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed 
$17,926,000: Provided further, That for administrative expenses to 
carry out the guaranteed loan program, up to $150,000 from amounts in 
the first proviso, which shall be transferred to and merged with the 
appropriation for ``Salaries and Expenses''.

                  native hawaiian housing block grant

    For the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant program, as authorized 
under title VIII of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-
Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), $8,815,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which $352,606 shall be for 
training and technical assistance activities.

           indian housing loan guarantee fund program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by section 184 of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z-
13a), $2,645,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
such costs, including the costs of modifying such loans, shall be as 
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as 
amended: Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize 
total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to 
exceed $98,966,942.
    In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
guaranteed loan program, up to $250,000 from amounts in the first 
paragraph, which shall be transferred to and merged with the 
appropriation for ``Salaries and Expenses''.

      native hawaiian housing loan guarantee fund program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by section 184A of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z-
13b), $882,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That such 
costs, including the costs of modifying such loans, shall be as defined 
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: 
Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize total 
loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed 
$35,000,000.
    In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
guaranteed loan program, up to $35,000 from amounts in the first 
paragraph, which shall be transferred to and merged with the 
appropriation for ``Salaries and Expenses''.

                   Community Planning and Development

              housing opportunities for persons with aids

    For carrying out the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS 
program, as authorized by the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 
12901 et seq.), $285,000,000 (increased by $5,000,000) to remain 
available until September 30, 2007, except that amounts allocated 
pursuant to section 854(c)(3) of such Act shall remain available until 
September 30, 2008: Provided, That the Secretary shall renew all 
expiring contracts for permanent supportive housing that were funded 
under section 854(c)(3) of such Act that meet all program requirements 
before awarding funds for new contracts and activities authorized under 
this section: Provided further, That the Secretary may use up to 
$1,000,000 of the funds under this heading for training, oversight, and 
technical assistance activities.

                 rural housing and economic development

    For the Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development in the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, $10,000,000 to remain 
available until expended, which amount shall be competitively awarded 
by September 1, 2006, to Indian tribes, State housing finance agencies, 
State community and/or economic development agencies, local rural 
nonprofits and community development corporations to support innovative 
housing and economic development activities in rural areas.

                       community development fund

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For assistance to units of State and local government, and to other 
entities, for economic and community development activities, and for 
other purposes, $4,151,500,000 (increased by $67,500,000) (increased by 
$24,000,000), to remain available until September 30, 2008, unless 
otherwise specified: Provided, That of the amount provided, 
$3,859,900,000 (increased by $17,500,000) is for carrying out the 
community development block grant program under title I of the Housing 
and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (the ``Act'' herein) 
(42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.): Provided further, That unless explicitly 
provided for under this heading not to exceed 20 percent of any grant 
made with funds appropriated under this heading shall be expended for 
planning and management development and administration: Provided 
further, That $1,600,000 shall be transferred to the Working Capital 
Fund.
    Of the amount made available under this heading, $290,000,000 shall 
be available for grants for the Economic Development Initiative (EDI) 
to finance a variety of targeted economic investments in accordance 
with the terms and conditions specified in the statement of managers 
accompanying this Act: Provided, That none of the funds provided under 
this paragraph may be used for program operations.

                  home investment partnerships program

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the HOME investment partnerships program, as authorized under 
title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, as 
amended, $1,850,000,000 to remain available until September 30, 2008: 
Provided, That of the total amount provided in this paragraph, up to 
$41,700,000 shall be available for housing counseling under section 106 
of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and $1,000,000 shall 
be transferred to the Working Capital Fund.
    In addition to amounts otherwise made available under this heading, 
$50,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2008, for 
assistance to homebuyers as authorized under title I of the American 
Dream Downpayment Act.

        self-help and assisted homeownership opportunity program

    For the Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Opportunity Program, 
$60,800,000, to remain available until September 30, 2008: Provided, 
That of the total amount provided in this heading $23,800,000 shall be 
made available to the Self Help Homeownership Opportunity Program as 
authorized under section 11 of the Housing Opportunity Program 
Extension Act of 1996 as amended: Provided further, That $28,000,000 
shall be made available for capacity building, of which $27,000,000 
shall be for capacity building for Community Development and affordable 
Housing for LISC and the Enterprise Foundation for activities 
authorized by Section 4 of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 (42 USC 
9816 note), as in effect immediately before June 12, 1997 and 
$1,000,000 shall be made available for capacity building activities 
administered by Habitat for Humanity International: Provided further, 
That $3,000,000 shall be made available to the Housing Assistance 
Council, $1,000,000 shall be made available to the Native American 
Indian Housing Council, $4,000,000 shall be made available to the 
Housing Partnership Network, and $1,000,000 shall be made available to 
the Special Olympics, to remain available until September 30, 2008.

                       homeless assistance grants

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the emergency shelter grants program as authorized under 
subtitle B of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, 
as amended; the supportive housing program as authorized under subtitle 
C of title IV of such Act; the section 8 moderate rehabilitation single 
room occupancy program as authorized under the United States Housing 
Act of 1937, as amended, to assist homeless individuals pursuant to 
section 441 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act; and the 
shelter plus care program as authorized under subtitle F of title IV of 
such Act, $1,340,000,000, of which $1,320,000,000 shall remain 
available until September 30, 2008, and of which $20,000,000 shall 
remain available until expended: Provided, That not less than 30 
percent of funds made available, excluding amounts provided for 
renewals under the shelter plus care program, shall be used for 
permanent housing: Provided further, That all funds awarded for 
services shall be matched by 25 percent in funding by each grantee: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall renew on an annual basis 
expiring contracts or amendments to contracts funded under the shelter 
plus care program if the program is determined to be needed under the 
applicable continuum of care and meets appropriate program requirements 
and financial standards, as determined by the Secretary: Provided 
further, That all awards of assistance under this heading shall be 
required to coordinate and integrate homeless programs with other 
mainstream health, social services, and employment programs for which 
homeless populations may be eligible, including Medicaid, State 
Children's Health Insurance Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy 
Families, Food Stamps, and services funding through the Mental Health 
and Substance Abuse Block Grant, Workforce Investment Act, and the 
Welfare-to-Work grant program: Provided further, That up to $11,674,000 
of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be available for the 
national homeless data analysis project and technical assistance: 
Provided further, That $1,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this 
heading shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund: Provided 
further, That all balances for Shelter Plus Care renewals previously 
funded from the Shelter Plus Care Renewal account and transferred to 
this account be available, if recaptured, for Shelter Plus Care 
renewals in fiscal year 2006.

                            Housing Programs

                        housing for the elderly

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For capital advances, including amendments to capital advance 
contracts, for housing for the elderly, as authorized by section 202 of 
the Housing Act of 1959, as amended, and for project rental assistance 
for the elderly under section 202(c)(2) of such Act, including 
amendments to contracts for such assistance and renewal of expiring 
contracts for such assistance for up to a 1-year term, and for 
supportive services associated with the housing, $741,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2009, of which amount $49,600,000 
shall be for service coordinators and the continuation of existing 
congregate service grants for residents of assisted housing projects, 
and of which amount up to $24,800,000 shall be for grants under section 
202b of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q-2) for conversion of 
eligible projects under such section to assisted living or related use 
and for emergency capital repairs as determined by the Secretary: 
Provided, That amounts made available under this heading shall be 
available for Real Estate Assessment Center inspections and inspection-
related activities associated with section 202 capital advance 
projects: Provided further, That $400,000 shall be transferred to the 
Working Capital Fund: Provided further, That the Secretary may waive 
the provisions of section 202 governing the terms and conditions of 
project rental assistance, except that the initial contract term for 
such assistance shall not exceed 5 years in duration.

                 housing for persons with disabilities

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For capital advance contracts, including amendments to capital 
advance contracts, for supportive housing for persons with 
disabilities, as authorized by section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez 
National Affordable Housing Act, for project rental assistance for 
supportive housing for persons with disabilities under section 
811(d)(2) of such Act, including amendments to contracts for such 
assistance and renewal of expiring contracts for such assistance for up 
to a 1-year term, and for supportive services associated with the 
housing for persons with disabilities as authorized by section 
811(b)(1) of such Act, and for tenant-based rental assistance contracts 
entered into pursuant to section 811 of such Act, $238,100,000 to 
remain available until September 30, 2009: Provided, That $400,000 
shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund: Provided further, 
That, of the amount provided under this heading $78,300,000 shall be 
for amendments or renewal of tenant-based assistance contracts entered 
into prior to fiscal year 2005 (only one amendment authorized for any 
such contract): Provided further, That of the amount provided under 
this heading, the Secretary may make available up to $5,000,000 for 
incremental tenant-based rental assistance, as authorized by section 
811 of such Act (which assistance is 5 years in duration): Provided 
further, That all tenant-based assistance made available under this 
heading shall continue to remain available only to persons with 
disabilities: Provided further, That the Secretary may waive the 
provisions of section 811 governing the terms and conditions of project 
rental assistance and tenant-based assistance, except that the initial 
contract term for such assistance shall not exceed 5 years in duration: 
Provided further That amounts made available under this heading shall 
be available for Real Estate Assessment Center Inspections and 
inspection-related activities associated with Section 811 Capital 
Advance Projects.

                    other assisted housing programs

                       rental housing assistance

    For amendments to contracts under section 101 of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s) and section 236(f)(2) 
of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1) in State-aided, non-
insured rental housing projects, $26,400,000, to remain available until 
expended.

                         flexible subsidy fund

                          (transfer of funds)

    From the Rental Housing Assistance Fund, all uncommitted balances 
of excess rental charges as of September 30, 2005, and any collections 
made during fiscal year 2006 and all subsequent fiscal years, shall be 
transferred to the Flexible Subsidy Fund, as authorized by section 
236(g) of the National Housing Act, as amended.

            payment to manufactured housing fees trust fund

    For necessary expenses as authorized by the National Manufactured 
Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, as amended (42 
U.S.C. 5401 et seq.), up to $12,896,000 to remain available until 
expended, to be derived from the Manufactured Housing Fees Trust Fund: 
Provided, That not to exceed the total amount appropriated under this 
heading shall be available from the general fund of the Treasury to the 
extent necessary to incur obligations and make expenditures pending the 
receipt of collections to the Fund pursuant to section 620 of such Act: 
Provided further, That the amount made available under this heading 
from the general fund shall be reduced as such collections are received 
during fiscal year 2006 so as to result in a final fiscal year 2006 
appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more than $0 and 
fees pursuant to such section 620 shall be modified as necessary to 
ensure such a final fiscal year 2006 appropriation.

                     Federal Housing Administration

               mutual mortgage insurance program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

    During fiscal year 2006, commitments to guarantee loans to carry 
out the purposes of section 203(b) of the National Housing Act, as 
amended, shall not exceed a loan principal of $185,000,000,000.
    During fiscal year 2006, obligations to make direct loans to carry 
out the purposes of section 204(g) of the National Housing Act, as 
amended, shall not exceed $50,000,000: Provided, That the foregoing 
amount shall be for loans to nonprofit and governmental entities in 
connection with sales of single family real properties owned by the 
Secretary and formerly insured under the Mutual Mortgage Insurance 
Fund.
    For administrative expenses necessary to carry out the guaranteed 
and direct loan program, $355,000,000, of which not to exceed 
$351,000,000 shall be transferred to the appropriation for ``Salaries 
and expenses''; and not to exceed $4,000,000 shall be transferred to 
the appropriation for ``Office of Inspector General''. In addition, for 
administrative contract expenses, $62,600,000, of which $18,281,000 
shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund: Provided, That to the 
extent guaranteed loan commitments exceed $65,500,000,000 on or before 
April 1, 2006, an additional $1,400 for administrative contract 
expenses shall be available for each $1,000,000 in additional 
guaranteed loan commitments (including a pro rata amount for any amount 
below $1,000,000), but in no case shall funds made available by this 
proviso exceed $30,000,000.

                general and special risk program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by sections 238 and 
519 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-3 and 1735c), 
including the cost of loan guarantee modifications, as that term is 
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as 
amended, $8,800,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
commitments to guarantee loans shall not exceed $35,000,000,000 in 
total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed.
    Gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans, as 
authorized by sections 204(g), 207(l), 238, and 519(a) of the National 
Housing Act, shall not exceed $50,000,000, of which not to exceed 
$30,000,000 shall be for bridge financing in connection with the sale 
of multifamily real properties owned by the Secretary and formerly 
insured under such Act; and of which not to exceed $20,000,000 shall be 
for loans to nonprofit and governmental entities in connection with the 
sale of single-family real properties owned by the Secretary and 
formerly insured under such Act.
    In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry out the 
guaranteed and direct loan programs, $231,400,000, of which 
$211,400,000 shall be transferred to the appropriation for ``Salaries 
and Expenses''; and of which $20,000,000 shall be transferred to the 
appropriation for ``Office of Inspector General''.
    In addition, for administrative contract expenses necessary to 
carry out the guaranteed and direct loan programs, $71,900,000, of 
which $10,800,000 shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund: 
Provided, That to the extent guaranteed loan commitments exceed 
$8,426,000,000 on or before April 1, 2006, an additional $1,980 for 
administrative contract expenses shall be available for each $1,000,000 
in additional guaranteed loan commitments over $8,426,000,000 
(including a pro rata amount for any increment below $1,000,000), but 
in no case shall funds made available by this proviso exceed 
$14,400,000.

                Government National Mortgage Association

guarantees of mortgage-backed securities loan guarantee program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

    New commitments to issue guarantees to carry out the purposes of 
section 306 of the National Housing Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 
1721(g)), shall not exceed $200,000,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2007.
    For administrative expenses necessary to carry out the guaranteed 
mortgage-backed securities program, $10,700,000, to be derived from the 
GNMA guarantees of mortgage-backed securities guaranteed loan receipt 
account, of which not to exceed $10,700,000, shall be transferred to 
the appropriation for ``Salaries and Expenses''.

                    Policy Development and Research

                        Research and Technology

    For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of programs of 
research and studies relating to housing and urban problems, not 
otherwise provided for, as authorized by title V of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1970, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701z-1 et seq.), 
including carrying out the functions of the Secretary under section 
1(a)(1)(i) of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1968, $60,600,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2007: Provided, That of the total amount 
provided under this heading, $5,000,000 shall be for the Partnership 
for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) Initiative: Provided 
further, That of the amounts made available for PATH under this 
heading, $2,500,000 shall not be subject to the requirements of section 
305 of this title: Provided further, That of funds made available under 
this heading, $750,000 shall be transferred to the National Research 
Council for a study in accordance with the accompanying Report: 
Provided further, That $29,038,000 is for grants pursuant to section 
107 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, 
as follows: $2,989,000 to support Alaska Native serving institutions 
and Native Hawaiian serving institutions as defined under the Higher 
Education Act, as amended; $2,562,000 for tribal colleges and 
universities to build, expand, renovate, and equip their facilities and 
to expand the role of the colleges into the community through the 
provision of needed services such as health programs, job training and 
economic development activities; $8,967,000 for Historically Black 
Colleges and Universities program, of which up to $2,000,000 may be 
used for technical assistance; $5,979,000 for the Community Outreach 
Partnership Program; $5,979,000 for the Hispanic Serving Institutions 
Program; and $2,562,000 for the Community Development Work Study 
Program.

                   Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity

                        fair housing activities

    For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not otherwise provided 
for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as 
amended by the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, and section 561 of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987, as amended, 
$38,800,000 (increased by $7,700,000), to remain available until 
September 30, 2007, of which $16,100,000 (increased by $3,900,000) 
shall be to carry out activities pursuant to such section 561: 
Provided, That no funds made available under this heading shall be used 
to lobby the executive or legislative branches of the Federal 
Government in connection with a specific contract, grant or loan.

                     Office of Lead Hazard Control

                         lead hazard reduction

    For the Lead Hazard Reduction Program, as authorized by section 
1011 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992, 
$119,000,000 (increased by $47,656,000), to remain available until 
September 30, 2007, of which $8,800,000 shall be for the Healthy Homes 
Initiative, pursuant to sections 501 and 502 of the Housing and Urban 
Development Act of 1970 that shall include research, studies, testing, 
and demonstration efforts, including education and outreach concerning 
lead-based paint poisoning and other housing-related diseases and 
hazards: Provided, That for purposes of environmental review, pursuant 
to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 
seq.) and other provisions of law that further the purposes of such 
Act, a grant under the Healthy Homes Initiative, Operation Lead 
Elimination Action Plan (LEAP), or the Lead Technical Studies program 
under this heading or under prior appropriations Acts for such purposes 
under this heading, shall be considered to be funds for a special 
project for purposes of section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing 
Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994.

                     Management and Administration

                         salaries and expenses

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary administrative and non-administrative expenses of the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, not otherwise provided 
for, including purchase of uniforms, or allowances therefore, as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and not to exceed $25,000 for 
official reception and representation expenses, $1,152,535,000, of 
which $562,400,000 shall be provided from the various funds of the 
Federal Housing Administration, $10,700,000 shall be provided from 
funds of the Government National Mortgage Association, $150,000 shall 
be provided by transfer from the ``Native American housing block 
grants'' account, $250,000 shall be provided by transfer from the 
``Indian housing loan guarantee fund program'' account and $35,000 
shall be transferred from the ``Native Hawaiian housing loan guarantee 
fund'' account: Provided, That funds made available under this heading 
shall only be allocated in the manner specified in the Report 
accompanying this Act unless the Committees on Appropriations of both 
the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified of any changes 
in an operating plan or reprogramming: Provided further, That no 
official or employee of the Department shall be designated as an 
allotment holder unless the Office of the Chief Financial Officer 
(OCFO) has determined that such allotment holder has implemented an 
adequate system of funds control and has received training in funds 
control procedures and directives: Provided further, That the Chief 
Financial Officer shall establish positive control of and maintain 
adequate systems of accounting for appropriations and other available 
funds as required by 31 U.S.C. 1514: Provided further, That for 
purposes of funds control and determining whether a violation exists 
under the Anti-Deficiency Act (31 U.S.C. 1341 et seq.), the point of 
obligation shall be the executed agreement or contract, except with 
respect to insurance and guarantee programs, certain types of salaries 
and expenses funding, and incremental funding that is authorized under 
an executed agreement or contract, and shall be designated in the 
approved funds control plan: Provided further, That the Chief Financial 
Officer shall: (1) appoint qualified personnel to conduct 
investigations of potential or actual violations; (2) establish minimum 
training requirements and other qualifications for personnel that may 
be appointed to conduct investigations; (3) establish guidelines and 
timeframes for the conduct and completion of investigations; (4) 
prescribe the content, format and other requirements for the submission 
of final reports on violations; and (5) prescribe such additional 
policies and procedures as may be required for conducting 
investigations of, and administering, processing, and reporting on, 
potential and actual violations of the Anti-Deficiency Act and all 
other statutes and regulations governing the obligation and expenditure 
of funds made available in this or any other Act: Provided further, 
That up to $15,000,000 may be transferred to the Working Capital Fund.

                          working capital fund

    For additional capital for the Working Capital Fund (42 U.S.C. 
3535) for the development of, modifications to, and infrastructure for 
Department-wide information technology systems, for the continuing 
operation of both Department-wide and program-specific information 
systems, and for program-related development activities, $165,000,000 
(reduced by $120,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000), to remain available 
until September 30, 2007: Provided, That any amounts transferred to 
this Fund under this Act shall remain available until expended: 
Provided further, That any amounts transferred to this Fund from 
amounts appropriated by previously enacted appropriations Acts or from 
within this Act may be used for the purposes specified under this Fund, 
in addition to the purposes for which such amounts were appropriated.

                      office of inspector general

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, 
$103,000,000, of which $24,000,000 shall be provided from the various 
funds of the Federal Housing Administration: Provided, That the 
Inspector General shall have independent authority over all personnel 
issues within this office.

             Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight

                         salaries and expenses

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For carrying out the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety 
and Soundness Act of 1992, including not to exceed $500 for official 
reception and representation expenses, $60,000,000, to remain available 
until expended, to be derived from the Federal Housing Enterprises 
Oversight Fund: Provided, That of the amount made available under this 
heading, $5,000,000 is for litigation and to continue ongoing special 
investigations of the Federal housing enterprises: Provided further, 
That the Director shall submit a spending plan for the amounts provided 
under this heading no later than January 15, 2005: Provided further, 
That not less than 80 percent of total amount made available under this 
heading shall be used only for examination, supervision, and capital 
oversight of the enterprises (as such term is defined in section 1303 
of the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act 
of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 4502)) to ensure that the enterprises are operating 
in a financially safe and sound manner and complying with the capital 
requirements under Subtitle B of such Act: Provided further, That not 
to exceed the amount provided herein shall be available from the 
general fund of the Treasury to the extent necessary to incur 
obligations and make expenditures pending the receipt of collections to 
the Fund: Provided further, That the general fund amount shall be 
reduced as collections are received during the fiscal year so as to 
result in a final appropriation from the general fund estimated at not 
more than $0.

                       Administrative Provisions

    Sec. 301. Fifty percent of the amounts of budget authority, or in 
lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts associated with such budget 
authority, that are recaptured from projects described in section 
1012(a) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act 
of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 1437 note) shall be rescinded, or in the case of 
cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury, and such amounts of budget 
authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to the 
Treasury shall be used by State housing finance agencies or local 
governments or local housing agencies with projects approved by the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for which settlement 
occurred after January 1, 1992, in accordance with such section. 
Notwithstanding the previous sentence, the Secretary may award up to 15 
percent of the budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or 
remitted to the Treasury to provide project owners with incentives to 
refinance their project at a lower interest rate.
    Sec. 302. None of the amounts made available under this Act may be 
used during fiscal year 2006 to investigate or prosecute under the Fair 
Housing Act any otherwise lawful activity engaged in by one or more 
persons, including the filing or maintaining of a non-frivolous legal 
action, that is engaged in solely for the purpose of achieving or 
preventing action by a Government official or entity, or a court of 
competent jurisdiction.
    Sec. 303. (a) Notwithstanding section 854(c)(1)(A) of the AIDS 
Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)(1)(A)), from any amounts 
made available under this title for fiscal year 2006 that are allocated 
under such section, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall allocate and make a grant, in the amount determined under 
subsection (b), for any State that--
            (1) received an allocation in a prior fiscal year under 
        clause (ii) of such section; and
            (2) is not otherwise eligible for an allocation for fiscal 
        year 2006 under such clause (ii) because the areas in the State 
        outside of the metropolitan statistical areas that qualify 
        under clause (i) in fiscal year 2006 do not have the number of 
        cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) required 
        under such clause.
    (b) The amount of the allocation and grant for any State described 
in subsection (a) shall be an amount based on the cumulative number of 
AIDS cases in the areas of that State that are outside of metropolitan 
statistical areas that qualify under clause (i) of such section 
854(c)(1)(A) in fiscal year 2006, in proportion to AIDS cases among 
cities and States that qualify under clauses (i) and (ii) of such 
section and States deemed eligible under subsection (a).
    (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the amount 
allocated for fiscal year 2006 under section 854(c) of the AIDS Housing 
Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)), to the City of New York, New 
York, on behalf of the New York-Wayne-White Plains, New York-New Jersey 
Metropolitan Division (hereafter ``metropolitan division'') of the New 
York-Newark-Edison, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, shall be 
adjusted by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by: (1) 
allocating to the City of Jersey City, New Jersey, the proportion of 
the metropolitan area's or division's amount that is based on the 
number of cases of AIDS reported in the portion of the metropolitan 
area or division that is located in Hudson County, New Jersey, and 
adjusting for the proportion of the metropolitan division's high 
incidence bonus if this area in New Jersey also has a higher than 
average per capita incidence of AIDS; and (2) allocating to the City of 
Paterson, New Jersey, the proportion of the metropolitan area's or 
division's amount that is based on the number of cases of AIDS reported 
in the portion of the metropolitan area or division that is located in 
Bergen County and Passaic County, New Jersey, and adjusting for the 
proportion of the metropolitan division's high incidence bonus if this 
area in New Jersey also has a higher than average per capita incidence 
of AIDS. The recipient cities shall use amounts allocated under this 
subsection to carry out eligible activities under section 855 of the 
AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12904) in their respective 
portions of the metropolitan division that is located in New Jersey.
    (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the amount 
allocated for fiscal year 2006 under section 854(c) of the AIDS Housing 
Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)) to areas with a higher than 
average per capita incidence of AIDS, shall be adjusted by the 
Secretary on the basis of area incidence reported over a three year 
period.
    Sec. 304. (a) During fiscal year 2006, in the provision of rental 
assistance under section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) in connection with a program to demonstrate the 
economy and effectiveness of providing such assistance for use in 
assisted living facilities that is carried out in the counties of the 
State of Michigan notwithstanding paragraphs (3) and (18)(B)(iii) of 
such section 8(o), a family residing in an assisted living facility in 
any such county, on behalf of which a public housing agency provides 
assistance pursuant to section 8(o)(18) of such Act, may be required, 
at the time the family initially receives such assistance, to pay rent 
in an amount exceeding 40 percent of the monthly adjusted income of the 
family by such a percentage or amount as the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development determines to be appropriate.
    Sec. 305. Except as explicitly provided in law, any grant, 
cooperative agreement or other assistance made pursuant to title III of 
this Act shall be made on a competitive basis and in accordance with 
section 102 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform 
Act of 1989.
    Sec. 306. Funds of the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
subject to the Government Corporation Control Act or section 402 of the 
Housing Act of 1950 shall be available, without regard to the 
limitations on administrative expenses, for legal services on a 
contract or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment for 
services and facilities of the Federal National Mortgage Association, 
Government National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage 
Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Federal Reserve banks or any 
member thereof, Federal Home Loan banks, and any insured bank within 
the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, as 
amended (12 U.S.C. 1811-1831).
    Sec. 307. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act or through a 
reprogramming of funds, no part of any appropriation for the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development shall be available for any program, 
project or activity in excess of amounts set forth in the budget 
estimates submitted to Congress.
    Sec. 308. Corporations and agencies of the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development which are subject to the Government Corporation 
Control Act, as amended, are hereby authorized to make such 
expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority 
available to each such corporation or agency and in accordance with 
law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to 
fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of such Act as may 
be necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in the budget for 
2006 for such corporation or agency except as hereinafter provided: 
Provided, That collections of these corporations and agencies may be 
used for new loan or mortgage purchase commitments only to the extent 
expressly provided for in this Act (unless such loans are in support of 
other forms of assistance provided for in this or prior appropriations 
Acts), except that this proviso shall not apply to the mortgage 
insurance or guaranty operations of these corporations, or where loans 
or mortgage purchases are necessary to protect the financial interest 
of the United States Government.
    Sec. 309. None of the funds provided in this title for technical 
assistance, training, or management improvements may be obligated or 
expended unless HUD provides to the Committees on Appropriations a 
description of each proposed activity and a detailed budget estimate of 
the costs associated with each program, project or activity as part of 
the Budget Justifications. For fiscal year 2006, HUD shall transmit 
this information to the Committees by March 15, 2006 for 30 days of 
review.
    Sec. 310. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
provide quarterly reports to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations regarding all uncommitted, unobligated, recaptured and 
excess funds in each program and activity within the jurisdiction of 
the Department and shall submit additional, updated budget information 
to these Committees upon request.
    Sec. 311. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in fiscal 
year 2006, in managing and disposing of any multifamily property that 
is owned or held by the Secretary and is occupied primarily by elderly 
or disabled families, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall maintain any rental assistance payments under section 8 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 that are attached to any dwelling 
units in the property. To the extent the Secretary determines that such 
a multifamily property owned or held by the Secretary is not feasible 
for continued rental assistance payments under such section 8, the 
Secretary may, in consultation with the tenants of that property, 
contract for project-based rental assistance payments with an owner or 
owners of other existing housing properties or provide other rental 
assistance.
    Sec. 312. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
amount allocated for fiscal year 2006 under section 854(c) of the AIDS 
Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)), to the City of 
Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of the Wilmington, Delaware-Maryland-
New Jersey Metropolitan Division (hereafter ``metropolitan division''), 
shall be adjusted by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by 
allocating to the State of New Jersey the proportion of the 
metropolitan division's amount that is based on the number of cases of 
AIDS reported in the portion of the metropolitan division that is 
located in New Jersey, and adjusting for the proportion of the 
metropolitan division's high incidence bonus if this area in New Jersey 
also has a higher than average per capita incidence of AIDS. The State 
of New Jersey shall use amounts allocated to the State under this 
subsection 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 division that is located in New Jersey.
    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development shall allocate to Wake County, North 
Carolina, the amounts that otherwise would be allocated for fiscal year 
2006 under section 854(c) of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 
U.S.C. 12903(c)) to the City of Raleigh, North Carolina, on behalf of 
the Raleigh-Cary, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. Any 
amounts allocated to Wake County shall be used to carry out eligible 
activities under section 855 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 12904) within such 
metropolitan statistical area.
    (c) Notwithstanding section 854(c) of the AIDS Housing Opportunity 
Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)), the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development may adjust the allocation of the amounts that otherwise 
would be allocated for fiscal year 2006 under section 854(c) of such 
Act, upon the written request of an applicant, in conjunction with the 
State(s), for a formula allocation on behalf of a metropolitan 
statistical area, to designate the State or States in which the 
metropolitan statistical area is located as the eligible grantee(s) of 
the allocation. In the case that a metropolitan statistical area 
involves more than one State, such amounts allocated to each State 
shall be in proportion to the number of cases of AIDS reported in the 
portion of the metropolitan statistical area located in that State. Any 
amounts allocated to a State under this section shall be used to carry 
out eligible activities within the portion of the metropolitan 
statistical area located in that State.
    Sec. 313. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for this 
fiscal year and every fiscal year thereafter, funds appropriated for 
housing for the elderly, as authorized by section 202 of the Housing 
Act of 1959, as amended, and for supportive housing for persons with 
disabilities, as authorized by section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez 
National Affordable Housing Act, shall be available for the cost of 
maintaining and disposing of such properties that are acquired or 
otherwise become the responsibility of the Department.
    Sec. 314. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
submit an annual report no later than August 30, 2006 and annually 
thereafter to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
regarding the number of Federally assisted units under lease and the 
per unit cost of these units to the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development.
    Sec. 315. The Department of Housing and Urban Development shall 
submit the Department's fiscal year 2006 congressional budget 
justifications to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate using the identical structure provided 
under this Act and only in accordance with the direction specified in 
the report accompanying this Act.
    Sec. 316. That incremental vouchers previously made available under 
the heading ``Housing Certificate Fund'' or renewed under the heading, 
``Tenant-Based Rental Assistance,'' for non-elderly disabled families 
shall, to the extent practicable, continue to be provided to non-
elderly disabled families upon turnover.
    Sec. 317. A public housing agency or such other entity that 
administers Federal housing assistance in the States of Alaska, Iowa, 
and Mississippi shall not be required to include a resident of public 
housing or a recipient of assistance provided under section 8 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 on the board of directors or a 
similar governing board of such agency or entity as required under 
section (2)(b) of such Act. Each public housing agency or other entity 
that administers Federal housing assistance under section 8 in the 
States of Alaska, Iowa and Mississippi shall establish an advisory 
board of not less than 6 residents of public housing or recipients of 
section 8 assistance to provide advice and comment to the public 
housing agency or other administering entity on issues related to 
public housing and section 8. Such advisory board shall meet not less 
than quarterly.
    Sec. 318. The funds made available for Native Alaskans under the 
heading ``Native American Housing Block Grants'' in title II of this 
Act shall be allocated to the same Native Alaskan housing block grant 
recipients that received funds in fiscal year 2005.
    Sec. 319. No funds provided under this title may be used for an 
audit of the Government National Mortgage Association that makes 
applicable requirements under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 
U.S.C. 661 et seq.).
    Sec. 320. Clarification Regarding Mortgage Insurance for Purchase 
of Existing Health Care Facilities.--Section 223(f)(1) of the National 
Housing Act is amended by inserting ``purchase or'' immediately before 
``refinancing of existing debt''.
    Sec. 321. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for fiscal 
year 2006 and thereafter, all mortgagees receiving interest reduction 
payments under section 236 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 
1715z-1) shall submit only electronic invoices to the Department of 
Housing and Development in order to receive such payments.The 
mortgagees shall comply with this requirement no later than 90 days 
from the date of enactment of this provision.
    Sec. 322. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the recipient 
of a grant under section 202b of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 
1701q-2) after December 26, 2000, in accordance with the unnumbered 
paragraph at the end of section 202b(b) of such Act, may, at its 
option, establish a single-asset nonprofit entity to own the project 
and may lend the grant funds to such entity, which may be a private 
nonprofit organization described in section 831 of the American 
Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000.

                        TITLE IV--THE JUDICIARY

                   Supreme Court of the United States

                         salaries and expenses

    For expenses necessary for the operation of the Supreme Court, as 
required by law, excluding care of the building and grounds, including 
purchase or hire, driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile 
for the Chief Justice, not to exceed $10,000 for the purpose of 
transporting Associate Justices, and hire of passenger motor vehicles 
as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 and 1344; not to exceed $10,000 for 
official reception and representation expenses; and for miscellaneous 
expenses, to be expended as the Chief Justice may approve, $60,730,000, 
of which $2,000,000 shall remain available until expended.

                    care of the building and grounds

    For such expenditures as may be necessary to enable the Architect 
of the Capitol to carry out the duties imposed upon the Architect by 
the Act approved May 7, 1934 (40 U.S.C. 13a-13b), $5,624,000, which 
shall remain available until expended.

         United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

                         salaries and expenses

    For salaries of the chief judge, judges, and other officers and 
employees, and for necessary expenses of the court, as authorized by 
law, $24,613,000.

               United States Court of International Trade

                         salaries and expenses

    For salaries of the chief judge and eight judges, salaries of the 
officers and employees of the court, services, and necessary expenses 
of the court, as authorized by law, $15,480,000.

    Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services

                         salaries and expenses

    For the salaries of circuit and district judges (including judges 
of the territorial courts of the United States), justices and judges 
retired from office or from regular active service, judges of the 
United States Court of Federal Claims, bankruptcy judges, magistrate 
judges, and all other officers and employees of the Federal Judiciary 
not otherwise specifically provided for, and necessary expenses of the 
courts, as authorized by law, $4,348,780,000 (including the purchase of 
firearms and ammunition); of which not to exceed $27,817,000 shall 
remain available until expended for space alteration projects and for 
furniture and furnishings related to new space alteration and 
construction projects; of which $1,300,000 of the funds provided for 
the Judiciary Information Technology Fund will be for the Edwin L. 
Nelson Local Initiatives Program, within which $1,000,000 will be 
reserved for local court grants.
    In addition, for expenses of the United States Court of Federal 
Claims associated with processing cases under the National Childhood 
Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, not to exceed $3,833,000, to be 
appropriated from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund.

                           defender services

    For the operation of Federal Defender organizations; the 
compensation and reimbursement of expenses of attorneys appointed to 
represent persons under the Criminal Justice Act of 1964, as amended 
(18 U.S.C. 3006A); the compensation and reimbursement of expenses of 
persons furnishing investigative, expert and other services under the 
Criminal Justice Act of 1964 as amended (18 U.S.C. 3006A(e)); the 
compensation (in accordance with Criminal Justice Act maximums) and 
reimbursement of expenses of attorneys appointed to assist the court in 
criminal cases where the defendant has waived representation by 
counsel; the compensation and reimbursement of travel expenses of 
guardians ad litem acting on behalf of financially eligible minor or 
incompetent offenders in connection with transfers from the United 
States to foreign countries with which the United States has a treaty 
for the execution of penal sentences; the compensation of attorneys 
appointed to represent jurors in civil actions for the protection of 
their employment, as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 1875(d); and for necessary 
training and general administrative expenses, $721,919,000, to remain 
available until expended.

                    fees of jurors and commissioners

    For fees and expenses of jurors as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 1871 and 
1876; compensation of jury commissioners as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 
1863; and compensation of commissioners appointed in condemnation cases 
pursuant to rule 71A(h) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (28 
U.S.C. Appendix Rule 71A(h)), $60,053,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That the compensation of land commissioners shall 
not exceed the daily equivalent of the highest rate payable under 
section 5332 of title 5, United States Code.

                             court security

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, incident to the 
provision of protective guard services for United States courthouses 
and other facilities housing Federal court operations, and the 
procurement, installation, and maintenance of security systems and 
equipment for United States courthouses and other facilities housing 
Federal court operations, including building ingress-egress control, 
inspection of mail and packages, directed security patrols, perimeter 
security, basic security services provided by the Federal Protective 
Service, and other similar activities as authorized by section 1010 of 
the Judicial Improvement and Access to Justice Act (Public Law 100-
702), $379,461,000, of which not to exceed $15,000,000 shall remain 
available until expended, to be expended directly or transferred to the 
United States Marshals Service, which shall be responsible for 
administering the Judicial Facility Security Program consistent with 
standards or guidelines agreed to by the Director of the Administrative 
Office of the United States Courts and the Attorney General.

           Administrative Office of the United States Courts

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Administrative Office of the United 
States Courts as authorized by law, including travel as authorized by 
31 U.S.C. 1345, hire of a passenger motor vehicle as authorized by 31 
U.S.C. 1343(b), advertising and rent in the District of Columbia and 
elsewhere, $70,262,000, of which not to exceed $8,500 is authorized for 
official reception and representation expenses.

                        Federal Judicial Center

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Judicial Center, as 
authorized by Public Law 90-219, $22,249,000; of which $1,800,000 shall 
remain available through September 30, 2007, to provide education and 
training to Federal court personnel; and of which not to exceed $1,500 
is authorized for official reception and representation expenses.

                       Judicial Retirement Funds

                    payment to judiciary trust funds

    For payment to the Judicial Officers' Retirement Fund, as 
authorized by 28 U.S.C. 377(o), $36,800,000; to the Judicial Survivors' 
Annuities Fund, as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 376(c), $600,000; and to the 
United States Court of Federal Claims Judges' Retirement Fund, as 
authorized by 28 U.S.C. 178(l), $3,200,000.

                  United States Sentencing Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For the salaries and expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 
of chapter 58 of title 28, United States Code, $14,046,000, of which 
not to exceed $1,000 is authorized for official reception and 
representation expenses.

                Administrative Provisions--The Judiciary

    Sec. 401. Appropriations and authorizations made in this title 
which are available for salaries and expenses shall be available for 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
    Sec. 402. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 
available for the current fiscal year for the Judiciary in this Act may 
be transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation, 
except ``Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial 
Services, Defender Services'' and ``Courts of Appeals, District Courts, 
and Other Judicial Services, Fees of Jurors and Commissioners'', shall 
be increased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: Provided, 
That any transfer pursuant to this section shall be treated as a 
reprogramming of funds under section 810 of this Act and shall not be 
available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the 
procedures set forth in that section.
    Sec. 403. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the salaries 
and expenses appropriation for Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and 
Other Judicial Services shall be available for official reception and 
representation expenses of the Judicial Conference of the United 
States: Provided, That such available funds shall not exceed $11,000 
and shall be administered by the Director of the Administrative Office 
of the United States Courts in the capacity as Secretary of the 
Judicial Conference.

                   TITLE V--THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

                             Federal Funds

              federal payment for resident tuition support

    For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia, to be deposited 
into a dedicated account, for a nationwide program to be administered 
by the Mayor, for District of Columbia resident tuition support, 
$33,200,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That such 
funds, including any interest accrued thereon, may be used on behalf of 
eligible District of Columbia residents to pay an amount based upon the 
difference between in-State and out-of-State tuition at public 
institutions of higher education, or to pay up to $2,500 each year at 
eligible private institutions of higher education: Provided further, 
That the awarding of such funds may be prioritized on the basis of a 
resident's academic merit, the income and need of eligible students and 
such other factors as may be authorized: Provided further, That the 
District of Columbia government shall maintain a dedicated account for 
the Resident Tuition Support Program that shall consist of the Federal 
funds appropriated to the Program in this Act and any subsequent 
appropriations, any unobligated balances from prior fiscal years, and 
any interest earned in this or any fiscal year: Provided further, That 
the account shall be under the control of the District of Columbia 
Chief Financial Officer, who shall use those funds solely for the 
purposes of carrying out the Resident Tuition Support Program: Provided 
further, That the Office of the Chief Financial Officer shall provide a 
quarterly financial report to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and Senate for these funds showing, by object 
class, the expenditures made and the purpose therefor: Provided 
further, That not more than $1,200,000 of the total amount appropriated 
for this program may be used for administrative expenses.

   federal payment for emergency planning and security costs in the 
                          district of columbia

    For necessary expenses, as determined by the Mayor of the District 
of Columbia in written consultation with the elected county or city 
officials of surrounding jurisdictions, $15,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, to reimburse the District of Columbia for the 
costs of providing public safety at events related to the presence of 
the national capital in the District of Columbia and for the costs of 
providing support to respond to immediate and specific terrorist 
threats or attacks in the District of Columbia or surrounding 
jurisdictions: Provided, That any amount provided under this heading 
shall be available only after notice of its proposed use has been 
transmitted by the President to Congress and such amount has been 
apportioned pursuant to chapter 15 of title 31, United States Code.

           federal payment to the district of columbia courts

    For salaries and expenses for the District of Columbia Courts, 
$221,693,000, to be allocated as follows: for the District of Columbia 
Court of Appeals, $9,198,000, of which not to exceed $1,500 is for 
official reception and representation expenses; for the District of 
Columbia Superior Court, $87,342,000, of which not to exceed $1,500 is 
for official reception and representation expenses; for the District of 
Columbia Court System, $41,643,000, of which not to exceed $1,500 is 
for official reception and representation expenses; and $83,510,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2007, for capital improvements for 
District of Columbia courthouse facilities: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, a single contract or 
related contracts for development and construction of facilities may be 
employed which collectively include the full scope of the project: 
Provided further, That the solicitation and contract shall contain the 
clause ``availability of Funds'' found at 48 CFR 52.232-18: Provided 
further, That funds made available for capital improvements shall be 
expended consistent with the General Services Administration master 
plan study and building evaluation report: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, all amounts under this 
heading shall be apportioned quarterly by the Office of Management and 
Budget and obligated and expended in the same manner as funds 
appropriated for salaries and expenses of other Federal agencies, with 
payroll and financial services to be provided on a contractual basis 
with the General Services Administration (GSA), and such services shall 
include the preparation of monthly financial reports, copies of which 
shall be submitted directly by GSA to the President and to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
Senate, the Committee on Government Reform of the House of 
Representatives, and the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate: Provided further, That 30 days after providing written notice 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
Senate, the District of Columbia Courts may reallocate not more than 
$1,000,000 of the funds provided under this heading among the items and 
entities funded under this heading for operations, and not more than 4 
percent of the funds provided under this heading for facilities.

            defender services in district of columbia courts

    For payments authorized under section 11-2604 and section 11-2605, 
D.C. Official Code (relating to representation provided under the 
District of Columbia Criminal Justice Act), payments for counsel 
appointed in proceedings in the Family Court of the Superior Court of 
the District of Columbia under chapter 23 of title 16, D.C. Official 
Code, or pursuant to contractual agreements to provide guardian ad 
litem representation, training, technical assistance and such other 
services as are necessary to improve the quality of guardian ad litem 
representation, payments for counsel appointed in adoption proceedings 
under chapter 3 of title 16, D.C. Code, and payments for counsel 
authorized under section 21-2060, D.C. Official Code (relating to 
representation provided under the District of Columbia Guardianship, 
Protective Proceedings, and Durable Power of Attorney Act of 1986), 
$45,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That the 
funds provided in this Act under the heading ``Federal Payment to the 
District of Columbia Courts'' (other than the $83,510,000 provided 
under such heading for capital improvements for District of Columbia 
courthouse facilities) may also be used for payments under this 
heading: Provided further, That in addition to the funds provided under 
this heading, the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration in the 
District of Columbia may use funds provided in this Act under the 
heading ``Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Courts'' (other 
than the $83,510,000 provided under such heading for capital 
improvements for District of Columbia courthouse facilities), to make 
payments described under this heading for obligations incurred during 
any fiscal year: Provided further, That funds provided under this 
heading shall be administered by the Joint Committee on Judicial 
Administration in the District of Columbia: Provided futher, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, this appropriation shall be 
apportioned quarterly by the Office of Management and Budget and 
obligated and expended in the same manner as funds appropriated for 
expenses of other Federal agencies, with payroll and financial services 
to be provided on a contractual basis with the General Services 
Administration (GSA), and such services shall include the preparation 
of monthly financial reports, copies of which shall be submitted 
directly by GSA to the President and to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate, the 
Committee on Government Reform of the House of Representatives, and the 
Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate.

 federal payment to the court services and offender supervision agency 
                      for the district of columbia

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For salaries and expenses, including the transfer and hire of motor 
vehicles, of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the 
District of Columbia and the Public Defender Service for the District 
of Columbia, as authorized by the National Capital Revitalization and 
Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997, $203,388,000, of which not to 
exceed $2,000 is for official receptions and representation expenses 
related to Community Supervision and Pretrial Services Agency programs; 
of which not to exceed $25,000 is for dues and assessments relating to 
the implementation of the Court Services and Offender Supervision 
Agency Interstate Supervision Act of 2002; of which $131,360,000 shall 
be for necessary expenses of Community Supervision and Sex Offender 
Registration, to include expenses relating to the supervision of adults 
subject to protection orders or the provision of services for or 
related to such persons; of which $42,195,000 shall be available to the 
Pretrial Services Agency; and of which $29,833,000 shall be transferred 
to the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia: Provided, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, all amounts under this 
heading shall be apportioned quarterly by the Office of Management and 
Budget and obligated and expended in the same manner as funds 
appropriated for salaries and expenses of other Federal agencies: 
Provided further, That the Director is authorized to accept and use 
gifts in the form of in-kind contributions of space and hospitality to 
support offender and defendant programs, and equipment and vocational 
training services to educate and train offenders and defendants: 
Provided further, That the Director shall keep accurate and detailed 
records of the acceptance and use of any gift or donation under the 
previous proviso, and shall make such records available for audit and 
public inspection: Provided further, That the Court Services and 
Offender Supervision Agency Director is authorized to accept and use 
reimbursement from the D.C. Government for space and services provided 
on a cost reimbursable basis: Provided further, That the Public 
Defender Service is authorized to charge fees to cover costs of 
materials distributed and training provided to attendees of educational 
events, including conferences, sponsored by the Public Defender 
Service, and notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, United States 
Code, said fees shall be credited to the Public Defender Service 
account to be available for use without further appropriation.

              Federal Payment to the District of Columbia

                       water and sewer authority

    For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia Water and Sewer 
Authority, $10,000,000, to remain available until expended, to continue 
implementation of the Combined Sewer Overflow Long-Term Plan: Provided, 
That the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority provides a 100 
percent match for this payment.

        federal payment for the anacostia waterfront initiative

    For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia Department of 
Transportation, $5,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2007, for design and construction of a continuous pedestrian and 
bicycle trail system from the Potomac River to the District's border 
with Maryland.

      federal payment to the criminal justice coordinating council

    For a Federal payment to the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, 
$1,300,000, to remain available until expended, to support initiatives 
related to the coordination of Federal and local criminal justice 
resources in the District of Columbia.

  federal payment to the office of the chief financial officer of the 
                          district of columbia

    For a Federal payment to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer 
of the District of Columbia, $20,000,000: Provided, That each entity 
that receives funding under this heading shall submit to the Office of 
the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia (CFO) a report 
on the activities to be carried out with such funds no later than March 
15, 2006, and the CFO shall submit a comprehensive report to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate no later June 1, 2006.

                 federal payment for school improvement

    For a Federal payment for a school improvement program in the 
District of Columbia, $41,616,000, to be allocated as follows: for the 
District of Columbia Public Schools, $13,525,000 to improve public 
school education in the District of Columbia; for the State Education 
Office, $13,525,000 to expand quality public charter schools in the 
District of Columbia, to remain available until September 30, 2007; for 
the Secretary of the Department of Education, $14,566,000 to provide 
opportunity scholarships for students in the District of Columbia in 
accordance with division C, title III of the District of Columbia 
Appropriations Act, 2004 (Public Law 108-199; 118 Stat. 126), of which 
up to $1,000,000 may be used to administer and fund assessments.

       federal payment for bioterrorism and forensics laboratory

    For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia, $7,200,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2007, for design, planning, and 
procurement costs associated with the construction of a bioterrorism 
and forensics laboratory: Provided, That the District of Columbia shall 
provide an additional $1,500,000 with local funds as a condition of 
receiving this payment.

                       District of Columbia Funds

    The following amounts are appropriated for the District of Columbia 
for the current fiscal year out of the general fund of the District of 
Columbia, except as otherwise specifically provided: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in 
section 450A of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (D.C. Official 
Code, sec. 1-204.50a) and provisions of this Act, the total amount 
appropriated in this Act for operating expenses for the District of 
Columbia for fiscal year 2006 under this heading shall not exceed the 
lesser of the sum of the total revenues of the District of Columbia for 
such fiscal year or $8,700,158,000 (of which $5,007,344,000 shall be 
from local funds, $1,921,287,000 shall be from Federal grant funds, 
$1,754,399,000 shall be from other funds, and $17,129,000 shall be from 
private funds), in addition, $163,116,000 from funds previously 
appropriated in this Act as Federal payments: Provided further, That of 
the local funds, $466,830,000 shall be derived from the District's 
general fund balance: Provided further, That of these funds the 
District's intradistrict authority shall be $468,486,000: Provided 
further, That the amounts provided under this heading are to be 
allocated and expended as proposed under ``Title II-District of 
Columbia Funds'' of the Fiscal Year 2006 Proposed Budget and Financial 
Plan submitted to the Congress of the United States by the District of 
Columbia on June 6, 2005: Provided further,  That this amount may be 
increased by proceeds of one-time transactions, which are expended for 
emergency or unanticipated operating or capital needs: Provided 
further, That such increases shall be approved by enactment of local 
District law and shall comply with all reserve requirements contained 
in the District of Columbia Home Rule Act as amended by this Act: 
Provided further, That the Chief Financial Officer of the District of 
Columbia shall take such steps as are necessary to assure that the 
District of Columbia meets these requirements, including the 
apportioning by the Chief Financial Officer of the appropriations and 
funds made available to the District during fiscal year 2006, except 
that the Chief Financial Officer may not reprogram for operating 
expenses any funds derived from bonds, notes, or other obligations 
issued for capital projects.

                   governmental direction and support

            Administrative Provisions--District of Columbia

    Sec. 501. Whenever in this title, an amount is specified within an 
appropriation for a particular purposes or objects of expenditure, such 
amount, unless otherwise specified, shall be considered as the maximum 
amount that may be expended for said purpose or object rather than an 
amount set apart exclusively therefor.
    Sec. 502. Appropriations in this title shall be available for 
expenses of travel and for the payment of dues of organizations 
concerned with the work of the District of Columbia government, when 
authorized by the Mayor, or, in the case of the Council of the District 
of Columbia, funds may be expended with the authorization of the 
Chairman of the Council.
    Sec. 503. There are appropriated from the applicable funds of the 
District of Columbia such sums as may be necessary for making refunds 
and for the payment of legal settlements or judgments that have been 
entered against the District of Columbia government.
    Sec. 504. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), no part of this 
appropriation shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes or 
implementation of any policy including boycott designed to support or 
defeat legislation pending before Congress or any State legislature.
    (b) The District of Columbia may use local funds provided in this 
title to carry out lobbying activities on any matter other than--
            (1) the promotion or support of any boycott; or
            (2) statehood for the District of Columbia or voting 
        representation in Congress for the District of Columbia.
    (c) Nothing in this section may be construed to prohibit any 
elected official from advocating with respect to any of the issues 
referred to in subsection (b).
    Sec. 505. (a) None of the funds provided under this title to the 
agencies funded by this title, both Federal and District government 
agencies, that remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal 
year 2006, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United 
States derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies 
funded by this title, shall be available for obligation or expenditures 
for an agency through a reprogramming of funds which--
            (1) creates new programs;
            (2) eliminates a program, project, or responsibility 
        center;
            (3) establishes or changes allocations specifically denied, 
        limited or increased under this Act;
            (4) increases funds or personnel by any means for any 
        program, project, or responsibility center for which funds have 
        been denied or restricted;
            (5) reestablishes any program or project previously 
        deferred through reprogramming;
            (6) augments any existing program, project, or 
        responsibility center through a reprogramming of funds in 
        excess of $3,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or
            (7) increases by 20 percent or more personnel assigned to a 
        specific program, project or responsibility center,
unless the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and Senate are notified in writing 15 days in advance of the 
reprogramming.
    (b) None the local funds contained in this title may be available 
for obligation or expenditure for an agency through a transfer of any 
local funds in excess of $3,000,000 from one appropriation heading to 
another unless the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and Senate are notified in writing 15 days in advance 
of the transfer, except that in no event may the amount of any funds 
transferred exceed 4 percent of the local funds in the appropriations.
    Sec. 506. Consistent with the provisions of section 1301(a) of 
title 31, United States Code, appropriations under this title shall be 
applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were made 
except as otherwise provided by law.
    Sec. 507. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the 
provisions of the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit 
Personnel Act of 1978 (D.C. Law 2-139; D.C. Official Code, sec. 1-
601.01 et seq.), enacted pursuant to section 422(3) of the District of 
Columbia Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1-204l.22(3)), shall 
apply with respect to the compensation of District of Columbia 
employees. For pay purposes, employees of the District of Columbia 
government shall not be subject to the provisions of title 5, United 
States Code.
    Sec. 508. No later than 30 days after the end of the first quarter 
of fiscal year 2006, the Mayor of the District of Columbia shall submit 
to the Council of the District of Columbia and the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate the new 
fiscal year 2006 revenue estimates as of the end of such quarter. These 
estimates shall be used in the budget request for fiscal year 2007. The 
officially revised estimates at midyear shall be used for the midyear 
report.
    Sec. 509. No sole source contract with the District of Columbia 
government or any agency thereof may be renewed or extended without 
opening that contract to the competitive bidding process as set forth 
in section 303 of the District of Columbia Procurement Practices Act of 
1985 (D.C. Law 6-85; D.C. Official Code, sec. 2-303.03), except that 
the District of Columbia government or any agency thereof may renew or 
extend sole source contracts for which competition is not feasible or 
practical, but only if the determination as to whether to invoke the 
competitive bidding process has been made in accordance with duly 
promulgated rules and procedures and has been reviewed and certified by 
the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia.
    Sec. 510. None of the Federal funds provided in this title may be 
used by the District of Columbia to provide for salaries, expenses, or 
other costs associated with the offices of United States Senator or 
United States Representative under section 4(d) of the District of 
Columbia Statehood Constitutional Convention Initiatives of 1979 (D.C. 
Law 3-171; D.C. Official Code, sec. 1-123).
    Sec. 511. None of the Federal funds made available in this title 
may be used to implement or enforce the Health Care Benefits Expansion 
Act of 1992 (D.C. Law 9-114; D.C. Official Code, sec. 32-701 et seq.) 
or to otherwise implement or enforce any system of registration of 
unmarried, cohabiting couples, including but not limited to 
registration for the purpose of extending employment, health, or 
governmental benefits to such couples on the same basis that such 
benefits are extended to legally married couples.
    Sec. 512. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, 
the Mayor, in consultation with the Chief Financial Officer of the 
District of Columbia may accept, obligate, and expend Federal, private, 
and other grants received by the District government that are not 
reflected in the amounts appropriated in this title.
    (b)(1) No such Federal, private, or other grant may be obligated, 
or expended pursuant to subsection (a) until--
            (A) the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
        submits to the Council a report setting forth detailed 
        information regarding such grant; and
            (B) the Council has reviewed and approved the obligation, 
        and expenditure of such grant.
    (2) For purposes of paragraph (1)(B), the Council shall be deemed 
to have reviewed and approved the obligation, and expenditure of a 
grant if--
            (A) no written notice of disapproval is filed with the 
        Secretary of the Council within 14 calendar days of the receipt 
        of the report from the Chief Financial Officer under paragraph 
        (1)(A); or
            (B) if such a notice of disapproval is filed within such 
        deadline, the Council does not by resolution disapprove the 
        obligation, or expenditure of the grant within 30 calendar days 
        of the initial receipt of the report from the Chief Financial 
        Officer under paragraph (1)(A).
    (c) No amount may be obligated or expended from the general fund or 
other funds of the District of Columbia government in anticipation of 
the approval or receipt of a grant under subsection (b)(2) or in 
anticipation of the approval or receipt of a Federal, private, or other 
grant not subject to such subsection.
    (d) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia may 
adjust the budget for Federal, private, and other grants received by 
the District government reflected in the amounts appropriated in this 
title, or approved and received under subsection (b)(2) to reflect a 
change in the actual amount of the grant.
    (e) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia shall 
prepare a quarterly report setting forth detailed information regarding 
all Federal, private, and other grants subject to this section. Each 
such report shall be submitted to the Council of the District of 
Columbia and to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and Senate not later than 15 days after the end of the 
quarter covered by the report.
    Sec. 513. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, none of 
the funds made available by this title or by any other title may be 
used to provide any officer or employee of the District of Columbia 
with an official vehicle unless the officer or employee uses the 
vehicle only in the performance of the officer's or employee's official 
duties. For purposes of this paragraph, the term ``official duties'' 
does not include travel between the officer's or employee's residence 
and workplace, except in the case of--
            (1) an officer or employee of the Metropolitan Police 
        Department who resides in the District of Columbia or is 
        otherwise designated by the Chief of the Department;
            (2) at the discretion of the Fire Chief, an officer or 
        employee of the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical 
        Services Department who resides in the District of Columbia and 
        is on call 24 hours a day or is otherwise designated by the 
        Fire Chief;
            (3) the Mayor of the District of Columbia; and
            (4) the Chairman of the Council of the District of 
        Columbia.
    (b) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia shall 
submit by March 1, 2006, an inventory, as of September 30, 2005, of all 
vehicles owned, leased or operated by the District of Columbia 
government. The inventory shall include, but not be limited to, the 
department to which the vehicle is assigned; the year and make of the 
vehicle; the acquisition date and cost; the general condition of the 
vehicle; annual operating and maintenance costs; current mileage; and 
whether the vehicle is allowed to be taken home by a District officer 
or employee and if so, the officer or employee's title and resident 
location.
    Sec. 514. None of the funds contained in this title may be used for 
purposes of the annual independent audit of the District of Columbia 
government for fiscal year 2006 unless--
            (1) the audit is conducted by the Inspector General of the 
        District of Columbia, in coordination with the Chief Financial 
        Officer of the District of Columbia, pursuant to section 
        208(a)(4) of the District of Columbia Procurement Practices Act 
        of 1985 (D.C. Official Code, sec. 2-302.8); and
            (2) the audit includes as a basic financial statement a 
        comparison of audited actual year-end results with the revenues 
        submitted in the budget document for such year and the 
        appropriations enacted into law for such year using the format, 
        terminology, and classifications contained in the law making 
        the appropriations for the year and its legislative history.
    Sec. 515. (a) None of the funds contained in this title may be used 
by the District of Columbia Corporation Counsel or any other officer or 
entity of the District government to provide assistance for any 
petition drive or civil action which seeks to require Congress to 
provide for voting representation in Congress for the District of 
Columbia.
    (b) Nothing in this section bars the District of Columbia 
Corporation Counsel from reviewing or commenting on briefs in private 
lawsuits, or from consulting with officials of the District government 
regarding such lawsuits.
    Sec. 516. (a) None of the funds contained in this title may be used 
for any program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the 
hypodermic injection of any illegal drug.
    (b) Any individual or entity who receives any funds contained in 
this title and who carries out any program described in subsection (a) 
shall account for all funds used for such program separately from any 
funds contained in this title.
    Sec. 517. None of the funds contained in this title may be used 
after the expiration of the 60-day period that begins on the date of 
the enactment of this title to pay the salary of any chief financial 
officer of any office of the District of Columbia government (including 
any independent agency of the District of Columbia) who has not filed a 
certification with the Mayor and the Chief Financial Officer of the 
District of Columbia that the officer understands the duties and 
restrictions applicable to the officer and the officer's agency as a 
result of this title (and the amendments made by this title), including 
any duty to prepare a report requested either in the title or in any of 
the reports accompanying the title and the deadline by which each 
report must be submitted: Provided, That the Chief Financial Officer of 
the District of Columbia shall provide to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate by the 10th 
day after the end of each quarter a summary list showing each report, 
the due date, and the date submitted to the Committees.
    Sec. 518. Nothing in this title may be construed to prevent the 
Council or Mayor of the District of Columbia from addressing the issue 
of the provision of contraceptive coverage by health insurance plans, 
but it is the intent of Congress that any legislation enacted on such 
issue should include a ``conscience clause'' which provides exceptions 
for religious beliefs and moral convictions.
    Sec. 519. The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall submit to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
Senate, the Committee on Government Reform of the House of 
Representatives, and the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate quarterly reports addressing--
            (1) crime, including the homicide rate, implementation of 
        community policing, the number of police officers on local 
        beats, and the closing down of open-air drug markets;
            (2) access to substance and alcohol abuse treatment, 
        including the number of treatment slots, the number of people 
        served, the number of people on waiting lists, and the 
        effectiveness of treatment programs;
            (3) management of parolees and pre-trial violent offenders, 
        including the number of halfway houses escapes and steps taken 
        to improve monitoring and supervision of halfway house 
        residents to reduce the number of escapes to be provided in 
        consultation with the Court Services and Offender Supervision 
        Agency for the District of Columbia;
            (4) education, including access to special education 
        services and student achievement to be provided in consultation 
        with the District of Columbia Public Schools and the District 
        of Columbia public charter schools;
            (5) improvement in basic District services, including rat 
        control and abatement;
            (6) application for and management of Federal grants, 
        including the number and type of grants for which the District 
        was eligible but failed to apply and the number and type of 
        grants awarded to the District but for which the District 
        failed to spend the amounts received; and
            (7) indicators of child well-being.
    Sec. 520. (a) No later than 30 calendar days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Chief Financial Officer of the District of 
Columbia shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress, the 
Mayor, and the Council of the District of Columbia a revised 
appropriated funds operating budget in the format of the budget that 
the District of Columbia government submitted pursuant to section 442 
of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1-
204.42), for all agencies of the District of Columbia government for 
fiscal year 2006 that is in the total amount of the approved 
appropriation and that realigns all budgeted data for personal services 
and other-than-personal-services, respectively, with anticipated actual 
expenditures.
    (b) This section shall apply only to an agency where the Chief 
Financial Officer of the District of Columbia certifies that a 
reallocation is required to address unanticipated changes in program 
requirements.
    Sec. 521. None of the Federal funds made available in this title 
may be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or 
transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriation 
Act.
    Sec. 522. Notwithstanding any other law, in fiscal year 2006 and in 
each subsequent fiscal year, the District of Columbia Courts shall 
transfer to the general treasury of the District of Columbia all fines 
levied and collected by the Courts under section 10(b)(1) and (2) of 
the District of Columbia Traffic Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 50-
2201.05(b)(1) and (2)): Provided, that the transferred funds are hereby 
made available and shall remain available until expended and shall be 
used by the Office of the Attorney General of the District of Columbia 
for enforcement and prosecution of District traffic alcohol laws in 
accordance with section 10(b)(3) of the District of Columbia Traffic 
Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 50-2201.05(b)(3)).
    Sec. 523. (a) None of the funds contained in this Act may be made 
available to pay--
            (1) the fees of an attorney who represents a party in an 
        action or an attorney who defends an action brought against the 
        District of Columbia Public Schools under the Individuals with 
        Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.) in excess 
        of $4,000 for that action; or
            (2) the fees of an attorney or firm whom the Chief 
        Financial Officer of the District of Columbia determines to 
        have a pecuniary interest, either through an attorney, officer, 
        or employee of the firm, in any special education diagnostic 
        services, schools, or other special education service 
        providers.
    (b) In this section, the term ``action'' includes an administrative 
proceeding and any ensuing or related proceedings before a court of 
competent jurisdiction.
    Sec. 524. The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
shall require attorneys in special education cases brought under the 
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in the District of 
Columbia to certify in writing that the attorney or representative 
rendered any and all services for which they receive awards, including 
those received under a settlement agreement or as part of an 
administrative proceeding, under the IDEA from the District of 
Columbia. As part of the certification, the Chief Financial Officer of 
the District of Columbia shall require all attorneys in IDEA cases to 
disclose any financial, corporate, legal, memberships on boards of 
directors, or other relationships with any special education diagnostic 
services, schools, or other special education service providers to 
which the attorneys have referred any clients as part of this 
certification. The Chief Financial Officer shall prepare and submit 
quarterly reports to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and Senate on the certification of and the amount paid 
by the government of the District of Columbia, including the District 
of Columbia Public Schools, to attorneys in cases brought under IDEA. 
The Inspector General of the District of Columbia may conduct 
investigations to determine the accuracy of the certifications.
    Sec. 525. The amount appropriated by this title may be increased by 
no more than $42,000,000 from funds identified in the comprehensive 
annual financial report as the District's fiscal year 2005 unexpended 
general fund surplus. The District may obligate and expend these 
amounts only in accordance with the following conditions:
            (1) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
        shall certify that the use of any such amounts is not 
        anticipated to have a negative impact on the District's long-
        term financial, fiscal, and economic vitality.
            (2) The District of Columbia may only use these funds for 
        the following expenditures:
                    (A) One-time expenditures.
                    (B) Expenditures to avoid deficit spending.
                    (C) Debt Reduction.
                    (D) Program needs.
                    (E) Expenditures to avoid revenue shortfalls.
            (3) The amounts shall be obligated and expended in 
        accordance with laws enacted by the Council in support of each 
        such obligation or expenditure.
            (4) The amounts may not be used to fund the agencies of the 
        District of Columbia government under court ordered 
        receivership.
            (5) The amounts may not be obligated or expended unless the 
        Mayor notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
        Representatives and Senate not fewer than 30 days in advance of 
        the obligation or expenditure.
    Sec. 526. (a) The fourth proviso in the item relating to ``Federal 
Payment for School Improvement'' in the District of Columbia 
Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108-335; 118 Stat. 1327) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``$4,000,000'' and inserting ``$4,000,000, 
        to remain available until expended,''; and
            (2) by striking ``$2,000,000 shall be for a new incentive 
        fund'' and inserting ``$2,000,000, to remain available until 
        expended, shall be for a new incentive fund''.
    (b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if 
included in the enactment of the District of Columbia Appropriations 
Act, 2005.
    Sec. 527. (a) To account for an unanticipated growth of revenue 
collections, the amount appropriated as District of Columbia Funds 
pursuant to this Act may be increased--
            (1) by an aggregate amount of not more than 25 percent, in 
        the case of amounts proposed to be allocated as ``Other-Type 
        Funds'' in the Fiscal Year 2006 Proposed Budget and Financial 
        Plan submitted to Congress by the District of Columbia on June 
        6, 2005; and
            (2) by an aggregate amount of not more than 6 percent, in 
        the case of any other amounts proposed to be allocated in such 
        Proposed Budget and Financial Plan.
    (b) The District of Columbia may obligate and expend any increase 
in the amount of funds authorized under this section only in accordance 
with the following conditions:
            (1) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
        shall certify--
                    (A) the increase in revenue; and
                    (B) that the use of the amounts is not anticipated 
                to have a negative impact on the long-term financial, 
                fiscal, or economic health of the District.
            (2) The amounts shall be obligated and expended in 
        accordance with laws enacted by the Council of the District of 
        Columbia in support of each such obligation and expenditure, 
        consistent with the requirements of this Act.
            (3) The amounts may not be used to fund any agencies of the 
        District government operating under court-ordered receivership.
            (4) The amounts may not be obligated or expended unless the 
        Mayor has notified the Committees on Appropriations of the 
        House of Representatives and Senate not fewer than 30 days in 
        advance of the obligation or expenditure.
    Sec. 528. (a) Notwithstanding section 450A of the District of 
Columbia Home Rule Act, during fiscal year 2006 the District of 
Columbia may allocate amounts from the emergency reserve fund 
established under section 450A(a) of such Act and the contingency 
reserve fund established under section 450A(b) of such Act and use such 
amounts to fund the operations of the District government during such 
fiscal year (consistent with the requirements of this Act and other 
applicable law).
    (b) The aggregate amount allocated from the emergency reserve fund 
or the contingency reserve fund under this section may not exceed 50 
percent of the balance of the fund involved as of October 1, 2005.
    (c) If the District of Columbia allocates any amounts from a 
reserve fund under this section, the District shall fully replenish the 
fund for the amounts allocated not later than February 15, 2007.
    Sec. 529. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, there is 
hereby appropriated for the Office of the Inspector General such 
amounts in local funds, as are consistent with the annual estimates for 
the expenditures and appropriations necessary for the operation of the 
Office of the Inspector General as prepared by the Inspector General 
and submitted to the Mayor and forwarded to the Council pursuant to 
D.C. Official Code 2-302.08(a)(2)(A) for fiscal year 2005: Provided, 
That the Office of the Chief Financial Officer shall take such steps as 
are necessary to implement the provisions of this subsection.
    Sec. 530. (a) None of the funds contained in this title may be used 
to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regulation to legalize or 
otherwise reduce penalties associated with the possession, use, or 
distribution of any schedule I substance under the Controlled 
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802) or any tetrahydrocannabinols derivative.
    (b) The Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative 
of 1998, also known as Initiative 59, approved by the electors of the 
District of Columbia on November 3, 1998, shall not take effect.
    Sec. 531. None of the funds appropriated under this title shall be 
expended for any abortion except where the life of the mother would be 
endangered if the fetus were carried to term or where the pregnancy is 
the result of an act of rape or incest.

 TITLE VI--EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO 
                             THE PRESIDENT

                     Compensation of the President

    For compensation of the President, including an expense allowance 
at the rate of $50,000 per annum as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 102, 
$450,000: Provided, That none of the funds made available for official 
expenses shall be expended for any other purpose and any unused amount 
shall revert to the Treasury pursuant to section 1552 of title 31, 
United States Code.

                           White House Office

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses for the White House as authorized by law, 
including not to exceed $3,850,000 for services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 105; subsistence expenses as authorized by 3 
U.S.C. 105, which shall be expended and accounted for as provided in 
that section; hire of passenger motor vehicles, newspapers, 
periodicals, teletype news service, and travel (not to exceed $100,000 
to be expended and accounted for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 103); and not 
to exceed $19,000 for official entertainment expenses, to be available 
for allocation within the Executive Office of the President, 
$53,830,000: Provided, That of the funds appropriated under this 
heading, $1,500,000 shall be for the Privacy and Civil Liberties 
Oversight Board.

                 Executive Residence at the White House

                           operating expenses

    For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing, 
improvement, heating, and lighting, including electric power and 
fixtures, of the Executive Residence at the White House and official 
entertainment expenses of the President, $12,436,000, to be expended 
and accounted for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 105, 109, 110, and 112-114.

                         reimbursable expenses

    For the reimbursable expenses of the Executive Residence at the 
White House, such sums as may be necessary: Provided, That all 
reimbursable operating expenses of the Executive Residence shall be 
made in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph: Provided 
further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, such amount 
for reimbursable operating expenses shall be the exclusive authority of 
the Executive Residence to incur obligations and to receive offsetting 
collections, for such expenses: Provided further, That the Executive 
Residence shall require each person sponsoring a reimbursable political 
event to pay in advance an amount equal to the estimated cost of the 
event, and all such advance payments shall be credited to this account 
and remain available until expended: Provided further, That the 
Executive Residence shall require the national committee of the 
political party of the President to maintain on deposit $25,000, to be 
separately accounted for and available for expenses relating to 
reimbursable political events sponsored by such committee during such 
fiscal year: Provided further, That the Executive Residence shall 
ensure that a written notice of any amount owed for a reimbursable 
operating expense under this paragraph is submitted to the person owing 
such amount within 60 days after such expense is incurred, and that 
such amount is collected within 30 days after the submission of such 
notice: Provided further, That the Executive Residence shall charge 
interest and assess penalties and other charges on any such amount that 
is not reimbursed within such 30 days, in accordance with the interest 
and penalty provisions applicable to an outstanding debt on a United 
States Government claim under section 3717 of title 31, United States 
Code: Provided further, That each such amount that is reimbursed, and 
any accompanying interest and charges, shall be deposited in the 
Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, That the 
Executive Residence shall prepare and submit to the Committees on 
Appropriations, by not later than 90 days after the end of the fiscal 
year covered by this Act, a report setting forth the reimbursable 
operating expenses of the Executive Residence during the preceding 
fiscal year, including the total amount of such expenses, the amount of 
such total that consists of reimbursable official and ceremonial 
events, the amount of such total that consists of reimbursable 
political events, and the portion of each such amount that has been 
reimbursed as of the date of the report: Provided further, That the 
Executive Residence shall maintain a system for the tracking of 
expenses related to reimbursable events within the Executive Residence 
that includes a standard for the classification of any such expense as 
political or nonpolitical: Provided further, That no provision of this 
paragraph may be construed to exempt the Executive Residence from any 
other applicable requirement of subchapter I or II of chapter 37 of 
title 31, United States Code.

                   White House Repair and Restoration

    For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the Executive 
Residence at the White House, $1,700,000, to remain available until 
expended, for required maintenance, safety and health issues, and 
continued preventative maintenance.

                      Council of Economic Advisers

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Council of Economic Advisers in 
carrying out its functions under the Employment Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 
1021), $4,040,000.

                      Office of Policy Development

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Policy Development, 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 107, 
$3,500,000.

                       National Security Council

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the National Security Council, including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $8,705,000.

                        Office of Administration

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Administration, including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 107, and hire of 
passenger motor vehicles, $89,322,000, of which $11,768,000 shall 
remain available until expended for the Capital Investment Plan for 
continued modernization of the information technology infrastructure 
within the Executive Office of the President.

                    Office of Management and Budget

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Management and Budget, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles and services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and to carry out the provisions of chapter 35 of title 
44, United States Code, $76,930,000 (reduced by $9,000,000), of which 
not to exceed $3,000 shall be available for official representation 
expenses: Provided, That, as provided in 31 U.S.C. 1301(a), 
appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which 
appropriations were made and shall be allocated in accordance with the 
terms and conditions set forth in the accompanying Report except as 
otherwise provided by law: Provided further, That none of the funds 
appropriated in this Act for the Office of Management and Budget may be 
used for the purpose of reviewing any agricultural marketing orders or 
any activities or regulations under the provisions of the Agricultural 
Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 (7 U.S.C. 601 et seq.): Provided 
further, That none of the funds made available for the Office of 
Management and Budget by this Act may be expended for the altering of 
the transcript of actual testimony of witnesses, except for testimony 
of officials of the Office of Management and Budget, before the 
Committees on Appropriations or their subcommittees: Provided further, 
That the preceding shall not apply to printed hearings released by the 
Committees on Appropriations.

                 Office of National Drug Control Policy

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of National Drug Control 
Policy; for research activities pursuant to the Office of National Drug 
Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998 (21 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.); 
not to exceed $10,000 for official reception and representation 
expenses; and for participation in joint projects or in the provision 
of services on matters of mutual interest with nonprofit, research, or 
public organizations or agencies, with or without reimbursement, 
$26,908,000; of which $1,316,000 shall remain available until expended 
for policy research and evaluation: Provided, That the Office is 
authorized to accept, hold, administer, and utilize gifts, both real 
and personal, public and private, without fiscal year limitation, for 
the purpose of aiding or facilitating the work of the Office.

                counterdrug technology assessment center

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses for the Counterdrug Technology Assessment 
Center for research activities pursuant to the Office of National Drug 
Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998 (21 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), 
$30,000,000, which shall remain available until expended, consisting of 
$18,000,000 for counternarcotics research and development projects, and 
$12,000,000 for the continued operation of the technology transfer 
program: Provided, That the $18,000,000 for counternarcotics research 
and development projects shall be available for transfer to other 
Federal departments or agencies.

                     Federal Drug Control Programs

             high intensity drug trafficking areas program

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Office of National Drug Control 
Policy's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program, $227,000,000 
(increased by $9,000,000), for drug control activities consistent with 
the approved strategy for each of the designated High Intensity Drug 
Trafficking Areas, of which no less than 51 percent shall be 
transferred to State and local entities for drug control activities, 
which shall be obligated within 120 days of the date of the enactment 
of this Act: Provided, That up to 49 percent, to remain available until 
September 30, 2007, may be transferred to Federal agencies and 
departments at a rate to be determined by the Director, of which not 
less than $2,000,000 shall be used for auditing services and associated 
activities, and at least $500,000 of the $2,000,000 shall be used to 
develop and implement a data collection system to measure the 
performance of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program: 
Provided further, That High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Programs 
designated as of September 30, 2005, shall be funded at no less than 
the fiscal year 2005 initial allocation levels unless the Director 
submits to the Committees on Appropriations, and the Committees 
approve, justification for changes in those levels based on clearly 
articulated priorities for the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas 
Programs, as well as published Office of National Drug Control Policy 
performance measures of effectiveness: Provided further, That a request 
shall be submitted in compliance with the reprogramming guidelines to 
the Committees on Appropriations for approval prior to the obligation 
of funds of an amount in excess of the fiscal year 2005 budget request: 
Provided further, That not to exceed $2,000,000 of the funds made 
available under this heading in excess of the fiscal year 2005 budget 
request shall be available for the Consolidated Priority Organization 
Target program.

                  other federal drug control programs

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For activities to support a national anti-drug campaign for youth, 
and for other purposes, authorized by the Office of National Drug 
Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998 (21 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), 
$213,292,000 (increased by $25,000,000), to remain available until 
expended, of which the following amounts are available as follows: 
$120,000,000 (increased by $25,000,000) to support a national media 
campaign, as authorized by the Drug-Free Media Campaign Act of 1998: 
Provided, That ONDCP shall maintain funding for non-advertising 
services for the Media Campaign at no less than the Fiscal Year 2003 
ratio of service funding to total funds and shall continue the 
corporate outreach program as it operated prior to its cancellation: 
$80,000,000 to continue a program of matching grants to drug-free 
communities, of which $750,000 shall be a directed grant to the 
Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America for the National Community 
Anti-Drug Coalition Institute, as authorized in chapter 2 of the 
National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988, as amended; $1,000,000 for 
the National Drug Court Institute; $992,000 for the National Alliance 
for Model State Drug Laws; $7,400,000 for the United States Anti-Doping 
Agency for anti-doping activities; $2,900,000 for the United States 
membership dues to the World Anti-Doping Agency; and $1,000,000 for 
evaluations and research related to National Drug Control Program 
performance measures: Provided further, That such funds may be 
transferred to other Federal departments and agencies to carry out such 
activities: Provided further, That of the amounts appropriated for a 
national media campaign, not to exceed 12 percent shall be for 
administration, advertising production, research and testing, labor and 
related costs of the national media campaign.

                          Unanticipated Needs

                          unanticipated needs

    For expenses necessary to enable the President to meet 
unanticipated needs, in furtherance of the national interest, security, 
or defense which may arise at home or abroad during the current fiscal 
year, as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 108, $1,000,000.

                  Special Assistance to the President

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses to enable the Vice President to provide 
assistance to the President in connection with specially assigned 
functions; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 106, 
including subsistence expenses as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 106, which 
shall be expended and accounted for as provided in that section; and 
hire of passenger motor vehicles, $4,455,000.

                Official Residence of the Vice President

                           operating expenses

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the care, operation, refurnishing, improvement, and to the 
extent not otherwise provided for, heating and lighting, including 
electric power and fixtures, of the official residence of the Vice 
President; the hire of passenger motor vehicles; and not to exceed 
$90,000 for official entertainment expenses of the Vice President, to 
be accounted for solely on his certificate, $325,000: Provided, That 
advances or repayments or transfers from this appropriation may be made 
to any department or agency for expenses of carrying out such 
activities.

                    TITLE VII--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

       Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board

                         salaries and expenses

    For expenses necessary for the Architectural and Transportation 
Barriers Compliance Board, as authorized by section 502 of the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, $5,941,000: Provided, That, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, there may be credited to 
this appropriation funds received for publications and training 
expenses.

                   Consumer Product Safety Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles, services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem 
rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable under 5 U.S.C. 5376, 
purchase of nominal awards to recognize non-Federal officials' 
contributions to Commission activities, and not to exceed $500 for 
official reception and representation expenses, $62,449,000.

                     Election Assistance Commission

                         salaries and expenses

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses to carry out the Help America Vote Act of 
2002, $15,877,000, of which $2,800,000 shall be transferred to the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology for election reform 
activities authorized under the Help America Vote Act of 2002.

                 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

                      office of inspector general

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended $29,965,000, to be derived from the Bank Insurance Fund, the 
Savings Association Insurance Fund, and the FSLIC Resolution Fund.

                      Federal Election Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Federal 
Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended, $54,700,000, of which no 
less than $4,700,000 shall be available for internal automated data 
processing systems, and of which not to exceed $5,000 shall be 
available for reception and representation expenses.

                   Federal Labor Relations Authority

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Federal Labor 
Relations Authority, pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 
1978, and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, including services 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and including hire of experts and 
consultants, hire of passenger motor vehicles, and rental of conference 
rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $25,468,000: Provided, 
That public members of the Federal Service Impasses Panel may be paid 
travel expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by 
law (5 U.S.C. 5703) for persons employed intermittently in the 
Government service, and compensation as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds received 
from fees charged to non-Federal participants at labor-management 
relations conferences shall be credited to and merged with this 
account, to be available without further appropriation for the costs of 
carrying out these conferences.

                      Federal Maritime Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime Commission as 
authorized by section 201(d) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as 
amended (46 U.S.C. App. 1111), including services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 
U.S.C. 1343(b); and uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 5901-5902, $20,499,000: Provided, That not to exceed $2,000 
shall be available for official reception and representation expenses.

                    General Services Administration

                        real property activities

                         federal buildings fund

                 limitations on availability of revenue

                     (including transfer of funds)

    To carry out the purposes of the Fund established pursuant to 
section 210(f) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act 
of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 592), the revenues and collections 
deposited into the Fund shall be available for necessary expenses of 
real property management and related activities not otherwise provided 
for, including operation, maintenance, and protection of federally 
owned and leased buildings; rental of buildings in the District of 
Columbia; restoration of leased premises; moving governmental agencies 
(including space adjustments and telecommunications relocation 
expenses) in connection with the assignment, allocation and transfer of 
space; contractual services incident to cleaning or servicing 
buildings, and moving; repair and alteration of federally owned 
buildings including grounds, approaches and appurtenances; care and 
safeguarding of sites; maintenance, preservation, demolition, and 
equipment; acquisition of buildings and sites by purchase, 
condemnation, or as otherwise authorized by law; acquisition of options 
to purchase buildings and sites; conversion and extension of federally 
owned buildings; preliminary planning and design of projects by 
contract or otherwise; construction of new buildings (including 
equipment for such buildings); and payment of principal, interest, and 
any other obligations for public buildings acquired by installment 
purchase and purchase contract; in the aggregate amount of 
$7,768,795,000 (reduced by $88,789,000) (reduced by $727,909,000) 
(reduced by $25,000,000), of which: (1) $708,106,000 (reduced by 
$67,789,000) (reduced by $9,500,000) shall remain available until 
expended for construction (including funds for sites and expenses and 
associated design and construction services) of additional projects at 
the following locations:
    New Construction:
            California:
                    San Diego, United States Courthouse, $230,803,000.
            Colorado:
                    Lakewood, Denver Federal Center Infrastructure, 
                $4,658,000.
            District of Columbia:
                    Coast Guard Consolidation, $24,900,000.
                    Saint Elizabeths West Campus Infrastructure, 
                $13,095,000.
                    Southeast Federal Center Site Remediation, 
                $15,000,000.
            Maine:
                    Calais, Border Station, $50,146,000.
                    Jackman, Border Station, $12,788,000.
            Maryland:
                    Montgomery County, Food and Drug Administration 
                Consolidation, $127,600,000.
            New York:
                    Champlain, Border Station, $52,510,000.
                    Massena, Border Station, $49,783,000.
            Texas:
                    Austin, United States Courthouse, $3,000,000.
            Washington:
                    Blaine, Peace Arch Border Station, $46,534,000.
            Material Price increases, various projects, $67,789,000 
        (reduced by $67,789,000).
            Nonprospectus Construction, $9,500,000 (reduced by 
        $9,500,000):
Provided, That each of the foregoing limits of costs on new 
construction projects may be exceeded to the extent that savings are 
effected in other such projects, but not to exceed 10 percent of the 
amounts included in an approved prospectus, if required, unless advance 
approval is obtained from the Committees on Appropriations of a greater 
amount: Provided further, That all funds for direct construction 
projects shall expire on September 30, 2007, and remain in the Federal 
Buildings Fund except for funds for projects as to which funds for 
design or other funds have been obligated in whole or in part prior to 
such date; (2) $961,376,000 (reduced by $568,409,000) shall remain 
available until expended for repairs and alterations, which includes 
associated design and construction services:
                    Repairs and Alterations:
            Arizona:
                    Tucson, James A. Walsh Courthouse, $16,136,000.
            District of Columbia:
                    Eisenhower Executive Office Building, $133,417,000 
                (reduced by $133,417,000).
                    Federal Office Building 8, $47,769,000.
                    Heating, Operation, and Transmission District 
                Repair, $18,783,000.
                    Herbert C. Hoover Building, $54,491,000.
                    Main Interior Building, $41,399,000.
            Georgia:
                    Atlanta, Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Building, 
                $30,129,000.
            New York:
                    Brooklyn, Emanuel Celler Courthouse, $96,924,000.
                    New York City, James Watson Federal Building and 
                Courthouse, $9,721,000.
            Special Emphasis Programs:
                    Chlorofluorocarbons Program, $10,000,000.
                    Energy Program, $30,000,000.
                    Glass Fragment Retention, $15,700,000.
            Design Program, $21,915,000.
            Basic Repairs and Alterations, $434,992,000 (reduced by 
        $434,992,000):
Provided further, That funds made available in this or any previous Act 
in the Federal Buildings Fund for Repairs and Alterations shall, for 
prospectus projects, be limited to the amount identified for each 
project, except each project in this or any previous Act may be 
increased by an amount not to exceed 10 percent unless advance approval 
is obtained from the Committees on Appropriations of a greater amount: 
Provided further, That additional projects for which prospectuses have 
been fully approved may be funded under this category only if advance 
approval is obtained from the Committees on Appropriations: Provided 
further, That the amounts provided in this or any prior Act for 
``Repairs and Alterations'' may be used to fund costs associated with 
implementing security improvements to buildings necessary to meet the 
minimum standards for security in accordance with current law and in 
compliance with the reprogramming guidelines of the appropriate 
Committees of the House and Senate: Provided further, That the 
difference between the funds appropriated and expended on any projects 
in this or any prior Act, under the heading ``Repairs and 
Alterations'', may be transferred to Basic Repairs and Alterations or 
used to fund authorized increases in prospectus projects: Provided 
further, That all funds for repairs and alterations prospectus projects 
shall expire on September 30, 2007, and remain in the Federal Buildings 
Fund except funds for projects as to which funds for design or other 
funds have been obligated in whole or in part prior to such date: 
Provided further, That the amount provided in this or any prior Act for 
Basic Repairs and Alterations may be used to pay claims against the 
Government arising from any projects under the heading ``Repairs and 
Alterations'' or used to fund authorized increases in prospectus 
projects; (3) $168,180,000 for installment acquisition payments 
including payments on purchase contracts which shall remain available 
until expended; (4) $4,046,031,000 (reduced by $12,500,000) for rental 
of space which shall remain available until expended; and (5) 
$1,885,102,000 (reduced by $21,000,000) (reduced by $150,000,000) 
(reduced by $12,500,000) for building operations which shall remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That funds available to the 
General Services Administration shall not be available for expenses of 
any construction, repair, alteration and acquisition project for which 
a prospectus, if required by the Public Buildings Act of 1959, as 
amended, has not been approved, except that necessary funds may be 
expended for each project for required expenses for the development of 
a proposed prospectus: Provided further, That funds available in the 
Federal Buildings Fund may be expended for emergency repairs when 
advance approval is obtained from the Committees on Appropriations: 
Provided further, That amounts necessary to provide reimbursable 
special services to other agencies under section 210(f)(6) of the 
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended 
(40 U.S.C. 592(b)(2)) and amounts to provide such reimbursable fencing, 
lighting, guard booths, and other facilities on private or other 
property not in Government ownership or control as may be appropriate 
to enable the United States Secret Service to perform its protective 
functions pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 3056, shall be available from such 
revenues and collections: Provided further, That revenues and 
collections and any other sums accruing to this Fund during fiscal year 
2006, excluding reimbursements under section 210(f)(6) of the Federal 
Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 592(b)(2)) 
in excess of the aggregate new obligational authority authorized for 
Real Property Activities of the Federal Buildings Fund in this Act 
shall remain in the Fund and shall not be available for expenditure 
except as authorized in appropriations Acts.

                           general activities

                         government-wide policy

    For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise provided for, for 
Government-wide policy and evaluation activities associated with the 
management of real and personal property assets and certain 
administrative services; Government-wide policy support 
responsibilities relating to acquisition, telecommunications, 
information technology management, and related technology activities; 
and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $52,796,000.

                           operating expenses

    For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise provided for, for 
Government-wide activities associated with utilization and donation of 
surplus personal property; disposal of real property; providing 
Internet access to Federal information and services; agency-wide policy 
direction and management, and Board of Contract Appeals; accounting, 
records management, and other support services incident to adjudication 
of Indian Tribal Claims by the United States Court of Federal Claims; 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and not to exceed $7,500 for 
official reception and representation expenses, $99,890,000 (reduced by 
$17,711,000).

                      office of inspector general

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General and 
service authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $43,410,000: Provided, That not to 
exceed $15,000 shall be available for payment for information and 
detection of fraud against the Government, including payment for 
recovery of stolen Government property: Provided further, That not to 
exceed $2,500 shall be available for awards to employees of other 
Federal agencies and private citizens in recognition of efforts and 
initiatives resulting in enhanced Office of Inspector General 
effectiveness.

                       electronic government fund

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses in support of interagency projects that 
enable the Federal Government to expand its ability to conduct 
activities electronically, through the development and implementation 
of innovative uses of the Internet and other electronic methods, 
$3,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That these 
funds may be transferred to Federal agencies to carry out the purposes 
of the Fund: Provided further, That this transfer authority shall be in 
addition to any other transfer authority provided in this Act: Provided 
further, That such transfers may not be made until 10 days after a 
proposed spending plan and justification for each project to be 
undertaken has been submitted to the Committees on Appropriations.

           allowances and office staff for former presidents

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For carrying out the provisions of the Act of August 25, 1958, as 
amended (3 U.S.C. 102 note), and Public Law 95-138, $2,952,000: 
Provided, That the Administrator of General Services shall transfer to 
the Secretary of the Treasury such sums as may be necessary to carry 
out the provisions of such Acts.

                federal citizen information center fund

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Citizen Information Center, 
including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $15,030,000, to be 
deposited into the Federal Citizen Information Center Fund: Provided, 
That the appropriations, revenues, and collections deposited into the 
Fund shall be available for necessary expenses of Federal Citizen 
Information Center activities in the aggregate amount not to exceed 
$32,000,000. Appropriations, revenues, and collections accruing to this 
Fund during fiscal year 2006 in excess of such amount shall remain in 
the Fund and shall not be available for expenditure except as 
authorized in appropriations Acts.

       Administrative Provisions--General Services Administration

    Sec. 701. The appropriate appropriation or fund available to the 
General Services Administration shall be credited with the cost of 
operation, protection, maintenance, upkeep, repair, and improvement, 
included as part of rentals received from Government corporations 
pursuant to law (40 U.S.C. 129).
    Sec. 702. Funds available to the General Services Administration 
shall be available for the hire of passenger motor vehicles.
    Sec. 703. Funds in the Federal Buildings Fund made available for 
fiscal year 2006 for Federal Buildings Fund activities may be 
transferred between such activities only to the extent necessary to 
meet program requirements: Provided, That any proposed transfers shall 
be approved in advance by the Committees on Appropriations.
    Sec. 704. No funds made available by this Act shall be used to 
transmit a fiscal year 2007 request for United States Courthouse 
construction that: (1) does not meet the design guide standards for 
construction as established and approved by the General Services 
Administration, the Judicial Conference of the United States, and the 
Office of Management and Budget; and (2) does not reflect the 
priorities of the Judicial Conference of the United States as set out 
in its approved 5-year construction plan: Provided, That the fiscal 
year 2007 request must be accompanied by a standardized courtroom 
utilization study of each facility to be constructed, replaced, or 
expanded.
    Sec. 705. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used to 
increase the amount of occupiable square feet, provide cleaning 
services, security enhancements, or any other service usually provided 
through the Federal Buildings Fund, to any agency that does not pay the 
rate per square foot assessment for space and services as determined by 
the General Services Administration in compliance with the Public 
Buildings Amendments Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-313).
    Sec. 706. From funds made available under the heading ``Federal 
Buildings Fund, Limitations on Availability of Revenue'', claims 
against the Government of less than $250,000 arising from direct 
construction projects and acquisition of buildings may be liquidated 
from savings effected in other construction projects with prior 
notification to the Committees on Appropriations.
    Sec. 707. No funds in this Act shall be used to dispose of the GSA 
property located at 522 North Central Avenue, on the southwest corner 
of Central Avenue and Fillmore Street in Phoenix, Arizona.

                     Merit Systems Protection Board

                         salaries and expenses

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Merit Systems 
Protection Board pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1978, 
the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, and the Whistleblower Protection 
Act of 1989 (5 U.S.C. 5509 note), as amended, including services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, rental of conference rooms in the District 
of Columbia and elsewhere, hire of passenger motor vehicles, direct 
procurement of survey printing, and not to exceed $2,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses, $35,600,000 together with not to 
exceed $2,605,000 for administrative expenses to adjudicate retirement 
appeals to be transferred from the Civil Service Retirement and 
Disability Fund in amounts determined by the Merit Systems Protection 
Board.

 Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental 
                           Policy Foundation

 morris k. udall scholarship and excellence in national environmental 
                           policy trust fund

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For payment to the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in 
National Environmental Policy Trust Fund, pursuant to the Morris K. 
Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental and Native 
American Public Policy Act of 1992 (20 U.S.C. 5601 et seq.), 
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which up to $50,000 
shall be used to conduct financial audits pursuant to the 
Accountability of Tax Dollars Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-289) 
notwithstanding sections 8 and 9 of Public Law 102-259: Provided, That 
up to 60 percent of such funds may be transferred by the Morris K. 
Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy 
Foundation for the necessary expenses of the Native Nations Institute.

                 environmental dispute resolution fund

    For payment to the Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund to carry 
out activities authorized in the Environmental Policy and Conflict 
Resolution Act of 1998, $1,900,000, to remain available until expended.

              National Archives and Records Administration

                           operating expenses

    For necessary expenses in connection with the administration of the 
National Archives and Records Administration (including the Information 
Security Oversight Office) and archived Federal records and related 
activities, as provided by law, and for expenses necessary for the 
review and declassification of documents, and for the hire of passenger 
motor vehicles, $283,975,000: Provided, That the Archivist of the 
United States is authorized to use any excess funds available from the 
amount borrowed for construction of the National Archives facility, for 
expenses necessary to provide adequate storage for holdings: Provided 
further, That of the funds provided in this paragraph, $2,930,000 shall 
be for initial move of records, staffing, and operations of the Nixon 
Library.

                       electronic records archives

    For necessary expenses in connection with the development of the 
electronic records archives, to include all direct project costs 
associated with research, analysis, design, development, and program 
management, $35,914,000.

                        repairs and restoration

    For the repair, alteration, and improvement of archives facilities, 
and to provide adequate storage for holdings, $6,182,000, to remain 
available until expended.

        national historical publications and records commission

                             grants program

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses for allocations and grants for historical 
publications and records as authorized by 44 U.S.C. 2504, as amended, 
$7,500,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That of the 
funds provided in this paragraph, $2,000,000 shall be transferred to 
the operating expenses account for operating expenses of the National 
Historical Publications and Records Administration.

                  National Credit Union Administration

                       central liquidity facility

                     (including transfer of funds)

    During fiscal year 2006, gross obligations of the Central Liquidity 
Facility for the principal amount of new direct loans to member credit 
unions, as authorized by 12 U.S.C. 1795 et seq., shall not exceed 
$1,500,000,000: Provided, That administrative expenses of the Central 
Liquidity Facility in fiscal year 2006 shall not exceed $323,000.

               community development revolving loan fund

    For the Community Development Revolving Loan Fund program as 
authorized by 42 U.S.C. 9812, 9822, and 9910, $950,000 shall be 
available until September 30, 2007, for technical assistance to low-
income designated credit unions, and amounts of principal and interest 
on loans repaid shall be available until expended for low-income 
designated credit unions.

                  National Transportation Safety Board

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the National Transportation Safety Board, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed 
the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for a GS-15; uniforms, or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902) 
$76,700,000, of which not to exceed $2,000 may be used for official 
reception and representation expenses.

                              (rescission)

    Of the available unobligated balances made available under Public 
Law 106-246, $1,000,000 are rescinded.

                 Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

          payment to the neighborhood reinvestment corporation

    For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for use in 
neighborhood reinvestment activities, as authorized by the Neighborhood 
Reinvestment Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 8101-8107), $118,000,000.

                      Office of Government Ethics

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office of 
Government Ethics pursuant to the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, as 
amended and the Ethics Reform Act of 1989, including services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, rental of conference rooms in the District 
of Columbia and elsewhere, hire of passenger motor vehicles, and not to 
exceed $1,500 for official reception and representation expenses, 
$11,148,000.

                     Office of Personnel Management

                         salaries and expenses

                  (including transfer of trust funds)

    For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office of 
Personnel Management pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1978 
and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, including services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; medical examinations performed for 
veterans by private physicians on a fee basis; rental of conference 
rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; not to exceed $2,500 for official reception and 
representation expenses; advances for reimbursements to applicable 
funds of the Office of Personnel Management and the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation for expenses incurred under Executive Order No. 10422 of 
January 9, 1953, as amended; and payment of per diem and/or subsistence 
allowances to employees where Voting Rights Act activities require an 
employee to remain overnight at his or her post of duty, $119,952,000, 
of which $6,983,000 shall remain available until expended for the 
Enterprise Human Resources Integration project; $1,450,000 shall remain 
available until expended for the Human Resources Line of Business 
project; $500,000 shall remain available until expended for the E-
Training project; and $1,412,000 shall remain available until expended 
until September 30, 2007 for the E-Payroll project; and in addition 
$102,679,000 for administrative expenses, to be transferred from the 
appropriate trust funds of the Office of Personnel Management without 
regard to other statutes, including direct procurement of printed 
materials, for the retirement and insurance programs: Provided, That 
the provisions of this appropriation shall not affect the authority to 
use applicable trust funds as provided by sections 8348(a)(1)(B), and 
9004(f)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code: Provided further, That no 
part of this appropriation shall be available for salaries and expenses 
of the Legal Examining Unit of the Office of Personnel Management 
established pursuant to Executive Order No. 9358 of July 1, 1943, or 
any successor unit of like purpose: Provided further, That the 
President's Commission on White House Fellows, established by Executive 
Order No. 11183 of October 3, 1964, may, during fiscal year 2006, 
accept donations of money, property, and personal services: Provided 
further, That such donations, including those from prior years, may be 
used for the development of publicity materials to provide information 
about the White House Fellows, except that no such donations shall be 
accepted for travel or reimbursement of travel expenses, or for the 
salaries of employees of such Commission.

                      Office of Inspector General

                         salaries and expenses

                  (including transfer of trust funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act, as amended, 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, hire of passenger 
motor vehicles, $1,614,000, and in addition, not to exceed $16,786,000 
for administrative expenses to audit, investigate, and provide other 
oversight of the Office of Personnel Management's retirement and 
insurance programs, to be transferred from the appropriate trust funds 
of the Office of Personnel Management, as determined by the Inspector 
General: Provided, That the Inspector General is authorized to rent 
conference rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere.

      government payment for annuitants, employees health benefits

    For payment of Government contributions with respect to retired 
employees, as authorized by chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, 
and the Retired Federal Employees Health Benefits Act (74 Stat. 849), 
as amended, such sums as may be necessary.

       government payment for annuitants, employee life insurance

    For payment of Government contributions with respect to employees 
retiring after December 31, 1989, as required by chapter 87 of title 5, 
United States Code, such sums as may be necessary.

        payment to civil service retirement and disability fund

    For financing the unfunded liability of new and increased annuity 
benefits becoming effective on or after October 20, 1969, as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 8348, and annuities under special Acts to be credited to 
the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, such sums as may be 
necessary: Provided, That annuities authorized by the Act of May 29, 
1944, as amended, and the Act of August 19, 1950, as amended (33 U.S.C. 
771-775), may hereafter be paid out of the Civil Service Retirement and 
Disability Fund.

                       Office of Special Counsel

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office of 
Special Counsel pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1978, the 
Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-454), as amended, the 
Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 (Public Law 101-12), as amended, 
Public Law 107-304, and the Uniformed Services Employment and 
Reemployment Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-353), including services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, payment of fees and expenses for 
witnesses, rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and 
elsewhere, and hire of passenger motor vehicles; $15,325,000.

                        Selective Service System

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Selective Service System, including 
expenses of attendance at meetings and of training for uniformed 
personnel assigned to the Selective Service System, as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 4101-4118 for civilian employees; purchase of uniforms, or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and 
not to exceed $750 for official reception and representation expenses; 
$24,000,000: Provided, That during the current fiscal year, the 
President may exempt this appropriation from the provisions of 31 
U.S.C. 1341, whenever the President deems such action to be necessary 
in the interest of national defense: Provided further, That none of the 
funds appropriated by this Act may be expended for or in connection 
with the induction of any person into the Armed Forces of the United 
States.

           United States Interagency Council on Homelessness

                           operating expenses

    For necessary expenses (including payment of salaries, authorized 
travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rental of conference 
rooms, and the employment of experts and consultants under section 3109 
of title 5, United States Code) of the United States Interagency 
Council on Homelessness in carrying out the functions pursuant to title 
II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amended, 
$1,499,000.

                      United States Postal Service

                   payment to the postal service fund

    For payment to the Postal Service Fund for revenue forgone on free 
and reduced rate mail, pursuant to subsections (c) and (d) of section 
2401 of title 39, United States Code, $116,350,000, of which 
$73,000,000 shall not be available for obligation until October 1, 
2006: Provided, That mail for overseas voting and mail for the blind 
shall continue to be free: Provided further, That 6-day delivery and 
rural delivery of mail shall continue at not less than the 1983 level: 
Provided further, That none of the funds made available to the Postal 
Service by this Act shall be used to implement any rule, regulation, or 
policy of charging any officer or employee of any State or local child 
support enforcement agency, or any individual participating in a State 
or local program of child support enforcement, a fee for information 
requested or provided concerning an address of a postal customer: 
Provided further, That none of the funds provided in this Act shall be 
used to consolidate or close small rural and other small post offices 
in fiscal year 2006.

                        United States Tax Court

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses, including contract reporting and other 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $48,998,000: Provided, That 
travel expenses of the judges shall be paid upon the written 
certificate of the judge.

                TITLE VIII--GENERAL PROVISIONS THIS ACT

                     (including transfers of funds)

    Sec. 801. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2006 pay 
raises for programs funded in this Act shall be absorbed within the 
levels appropriated in this Act or previous appropriations Acts.
    Sec. 802. None of the funds in this Act shall be used for the 
planning or execution of any program to pay the expenses of, or 
otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or 
adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act.
    Sec. 803. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall remain 
available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, nor may any be 
transferred to other appropriations, unless expressly so provided 
herein.
    Sec. 804. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for 
any consulting service through procurement contract pursuant to section 
3109 of title 5, United States Code, shall be limited to those 
contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and 
available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under 
existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to 
existing law.
    Sec. 805. None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United 
States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer 
authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act.
    Sec. 806. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be 
available for any activity or for paying the salary of any Government 
employee where funding an activity or paying a salary to a Government 
employee would result in a decision, determination, rule, regulation, 
or policy that would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of the 
Tariff Act of 1930.
    Sec. 807. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available to pay the salary for any person filling a position, other 
than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee who has left to 
enter the Armed Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily 
completed his period of active military or naval service, and has 
within 90 days after his release from such service or from 
hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more 
than 1 year, made application for restoration to his former position 
and has been certified by the Office of Personnel Management as still 
qualified to perform the duties of his former position and has not been 
restored thereto.
    Sec. 808. No funds appropriated or otherwise made available under 
this Act shall be made available to any person or entity that has been 
convicted of violating the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a-10c).
    Sec. 809. None of the funds provided in this Act, provided by 
previous appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities funded in this 
Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 
2005, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury derived by the 
collection of fees and available to the agencies funded by this Act, 
shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a 
reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates a new program; (2) eliminates 
a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or personnel for 
any program, project, or activity for which funds have been denied or 
restricted by the Congress; (4) proposes to use funds directed for a 
specific activity by either the House or Senate Committees on 
Appropriations for a different purpose; (5) augments existing programs, 
projects, or activities in excess of $2,000,000 or 10 percent, 
whichever is greater; (6) reduces existing programs, projects, or 
activities by $2,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is greater; or (7) 
creates, reorganizes, or restructures a branch, division, office, 
bureau, board, commission, agency, administration, or department 
different from the budget justifications submitted to the Committees on 
Appropriations or the table accompanying the statement of the managers 
accompanying this Act, whichever is more detailed, unless prior 
approval is received from the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations: Provided, That not later than 60 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, each agency funded by this Act shall submit a 
report to the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and of the 
House of Representatives to establish the baseline for application of 
reprogramming and transfer authorities for the current fiscal year: 
Provided further, That the report shall include: (1) a table for each 
appropriation with a separate column to display the President's budget 
request, adjustments made by Congress, adjustments due to enacted 
rescissions, if appropriate, and the fiscal year enacted level; (2) a 
delineation in the table for each appropriation both by object class 
and program, project, and activity as detailed in the budget appendix 
for the respective appropriation; and (3) an identification of items of 
special congressional interest: Provided further, That the amount 
appropriated or limited for salaries and expenses for an agency shall 
be reduced by $100,000 per day for each day after the required date 
that the report has not been submitted to the Congress.
    Sec. 810. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, not to 
exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining available at the 
end of fiscal year 2006 from appropriations made available for salaries 
and expenses for fiscal year 2006 in this Act, shall remain available 
through September 30, 2007, for each such account for the purposes 
authorized: Provided, That a request shall be submitted to the 
Committees on Appropriations for approval prior to the expenditure of 
such funds: Provided further, That these requests shall be made in 
compliance with reprogramming guidelines.
    Sec. 811. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
by the Executive Office of the President to request from the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation any official background investigation report on 
any individual, except when--
            (1) such individual has given his or her express written 
        consent for such request not more than 6 months prior to the 
        date of such request and during the same presidential 
        administration; or
            (2) such request is required due to extraordinary 
        circumstances involving national security.
    Sec. 812. The cost accounting standards promulgated under section 
26 of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (Public Law 93-400; 
41 U.S.C. 422) shall not apply with respect to a contract under the 
Federal Employees Health Benefits Program established under chapter 89 
of title 5, United States Code.
    Sec. 813. For the purpose of resolving litigation and implementing 
any settlement agreements regarding the nonforeign area cost-of-living 
allowance program, the Office of Personnel Management may accept and 
utilize (without regard to any restriction on unanticipated travel 
expenses imposed in an Appropriations Act) funds made available to the 
Office pursuant to court approval.
    Sec. 814. No funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to 
pay for an abortion, or the administrative expenses in connection with 
any health plan under the Federal employees health benefits program 
which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions.
    Sec. 815. The provision of section 815 shall not apply where the 
life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to 
term, or the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest.
    Sec. 816. In order to promote Government access to commercial 
information technology, the restriction on purchasing nondomestic 
articles, materials, and supplies set forth in the Buy American Act (41 
U.S.C. 10a et seq.), shall not apply to the acquisition by the Federal 
Government of information technology (as defined in section 11101 of 
title 40, United States Code), that is a commercial item (as defined in 
section 4(12) of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 
U.S.C. 403(12)).
    Sec. 817. None of the funds made available in the Act may be used 
to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce--
            (1) the proposed rule relating to the determination that 
        real estate brokerage is an activity that is financial in 
        nature or incidental to a financial activity published in the 
        Federal Register on January 3, 2001 (66 Fed. Reg. 307 et seq.); 
        or
            (2) the revision proposed in such rule to section 1501.2 of 
        title 12 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
    Sec. 818. Of the funds provided in title I of this Act under the 
heading, ``Office of the Secretary, Transportation Planning, Research, 
and Development'', $3,000,000 shall be available for necessary expenses 
to reimburse fixed-based general aviation operators and the providers 
of general aviation ground support services at Ronald Reagan Washington 
National Airport, and airports within 15 miles of Ronald Reagan 
Washington National Airport, for financial losses incurred by these 
operators while such airports were closed due to the actions of the 
Federal Government following the terrorist attacks on the United States 
that occurred on September 11, 2001: Provided, That such funds shall 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That obligation and 
expenditure of these funds shall be made conditional upon full release 
of the United States Government for all claims arising from the closing 
of these general aviation facilities.
    Sec. 819. Section 640(c) of the Treasury and General Government 
Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-58; 2 U.S.C. 437g note), as 
amended by section 642 of the Treasury and General Government 
Appropriations Act, 2002 (Public Law 107-67) and by section 639 of the 
Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2004 (Public Law 108-199), is amended by striking ``December 31, 2005'' 
and inserting ``December 31, 2008''.

             TITLE IX--GENERAL PROVISIONS, GOVERNMENT-WIDE

                Departments, Agencies, and Corporations

    Sec. 901. Funds appropriated in this or any other Act may be used 
to pay travel to the United States for the immediate family of 
employees serving abroad in cases of death or life threatening illness 
of said employee.
    Sec. 902. No department, agency, or instrumentality of the United 
States receiving appropriated funds under this or any other Act for 
fiscal year 2006 shall obligate or expend any such funds, unless such 
department, agency, or instrumentality has in place, and will continue 
to administer in good faith, a written policy designed to ensure that 
all of its workplaces are free from the illegal use, possession, or 
distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled 
Substances Act) by the officers and employees of such department, 
agency, or instrumentality.
    Sec. 903. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the maximum 
amount allowable during the current fiscal year in accordance with 
section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 810), for the 
purchase of any passenger motor vehicle (exclusive of buses, 
ambulances, law enforcement, and undercover surveillance vehicles), is 
hereby fixed at $8,100 except station wagons for which the maximum 
shall be $9,100: Provided, That these limits may be exceeded by not to 
exceed $3,700 for police-type vehicles, and by not to exceed $4,000 for 
special heavy-duty vehicles: Provided further, That the limits set 
forth in this section may not be exceeded by more than 5 percent for 
electric or hybrid vehicles purchased for demonstration under the 
provisions of the Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development, 
and Demonstration Act of 1976: Provided further, That the limits set 
forth in this section may be exceeded by the incremental cost of clean 
alternative fuels vehicles acquired pursuant to Public Law 101-549 over 
the cost of comparable conventionally fueled vehicles.
    Sec. 904. Appropriations of the executive departments and 
independent establishments for the current fiscal year available for 
expenses of travel, or for the expenses of the activity concerned, are 
hereby made available for quarters allowances and cost-of-living 
allowances, in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5922-5924.
    Sec. 905. Unless otherwise specified during the current fiscal 
year, no part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act 
shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee of the 
Government of the United States (including any agency the majority of 
the stock of which is owned by the Government of the United States) 
whose post of duty is in the continental United States unless such 
person: (1) is a citizen of the United States; (2) is a person in the 
service of the United States on the date of the enactment of this Act 
who, being eligible for citizenship, has filed a declaration of 
intention to become a citizen of the United States prior to such date 
and is actually residing in the United States; (3) is a person who owes 
allegiance to the United States; (4) is an alien from Cuba, Poland, 
South Vietnam, the countries of the former Soviet Union, or the Baltic 
countries lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent 
residence; (5) is a South Vietnamese, Cambodian, or Laotian refugee 
paroled in the United States after January 1, 1975; or (6) is a 
national of the People's Republic of China who qualifies for adjustment 
of status pursuant to the Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992: 
Provided, That for the purpose of this section, an affidavit signed by 
any such person shall be considered prima facie evidence that the 
requirements of this section with respect to his or her status have 
been complied with: Provided further, That any person making a false 
affidavit shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shall be 
fined no more than $4,000 or imprisoned for not more than 1 year, or 
both: Provided further, That the above penal clause shall be in 
addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of 
existing law: Provided further, That any payment made to any officer or 
employee contrary to the provisions of this section shall be 
recoverable in action by the Federal Government. This section shall not 
apply to citizens of Ireland, Israel, or the Republic of the 
Philippines, or to nationals of those countries allied with the United 
States in a current defense effort, or to international broadcasters 
employed by the United States Information Agency, or to temporary 
employment of translators, or to temporary employment in the field 
service (not to exceed 60 days) as a result of emergencies.
    Sec. 906. Appropriations available to any department or agency 
during the current fiscal year for necessary expenses, including 
maintenance or operating expenses, shall also be available for payment 
to the General Services Administration for charges for space and 
services and those expenses of renovation and alteration of buildings 
and facilities which constitute public improvements performed in 
accordance with the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (73 Stat. 749), the 
Public Buildings Amendments of 1972 (87 Stat. 216), or other applicable 
law.
    Sec. 907. In addition to funds provided in this or any other Act, 
all Federal agencies are authorized to receive and use funds resulting 
from the sale of materials, including Federal records disposed of 
pursuant to a records schedule recovered through recycling or waste 
prevention programs. Such funds shall be available until expended for 
the following purposes:
            (1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention, and 
        recycling programs as described in Executive Order No. 13101 
        (September 14, 1998), including any such programs adopted prior 
        to the effective date of the Executive order.
            (2) Other Federal agency environmental management programs, 
        including, but not limited to, the development and 
        implementation of hazardous waste management and pollution 
        prevention programs.
            (3) Other employee programs as authorized by law or as 
        deemed appropriate by the head of the Federal agency.
    Sec. 908. Funds made available by this or any other Act for 
administrative expenses in the current fiscal year of the corporations 
and agencies subject to chapter 91 of title 31, United States Code, 
shall be available, in addition to objects for which such funds are 
otherwise available, for rent in the District of Columbia; services in 
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified under this 
head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable to the 
expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in the Act by 
which they are made available: Provided, That in the event any 
functions budgeted as administrative expenses are subsequently 
transferred to or paid from other funds, the limitations on 
administrative expenses shall be correspondingly reduced.
    Sec. 909. No part of any appropriation for the current fiscal year 
contained in this or any other Act shall be paid to any person for the 
filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated after 
the Senate has voted not to approve the nomination of said person.
    Sec. 910. No part of any appropriation contained in this or any 
other Act shall be available for interagency financing of boards 
(except Federal Executive Boards), commissions, councils, committees, 
or similar groups (whether or not they are interagency entities) which 
do not have a prior and specific statutory approval to receive 
financial support from more than one agency or instrumentality.
    Sec. 911. Funds made available by this or any other Act to the 
Postal Service Fund (39 U.S.C. 2003) shall be available for employment 
of guards for all buildings and areas owned or occupied by the Postal 
Service or under the charge and control of the Postal Service. The 
Postal Service may give such guards with respect to such property, any 
of the powers of special policemen provided under 40 U.S.C. 1315. The 
Postmaster General, or his designee, may take any action that the 
Secretary of Homeland Security may take under such section with respect 
to that property.
    Sec. 912. None of the funds made available pursuant to the 
provisions of this Act shall be used to implement, administer, or 
enforce any regulation which has been disapproved pursuant to a joint 
resolution duly adopted in accordance with the applicable law of the 
United States.
    Sec. 913. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and 
except as otherwise provided in this section, no part of any of the 
funds appropriated for fiscal year 2006, by this or any other Act, may 
be used to pay any prevailing rate employee described in section 
5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code--
            (1) during the period from the date of expiration of the 
        limitation imposed by the comparable section for previous 
        fiscal years until the normal effective date of the applicable 
        wage survey adjustment that is to take effect in fiscal year 
        2006, in an amount that exceeds the rate payable for the 
        applicable grade and step of the applicable wage schedule in 
        accordance with such section; and
            (2) during the period consisting of the remainder of fiscal 
        year 2006, in an amount that exceeds, as a result of a wage 
        survey adjustment, the rate payable under paragraph (1) by more 
        than the sum of--
                    (A) the percentage adjustment taking effect in 
                fiscal year 2006 under section 5303 of title 5, United 
                States Code, in the rates of pay under the General 
                Schedule; and
                    (B) the difference between the overall average 
                percentage of the locality-based comparability payments 
                taking effect in fiscal year 2006 under section 5304 of 
                such title (whether by adjustment or otherwise), and 
                the overall average percentage of such payments which 
                was effective in the previous fiscal year under such 
                section.
    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no prevailing rate 
employee described in subparagraph (B) or (C) of section 5342(a)(2) of 
title 5, United States Code, and no employee covered by section 5348 of 
such title, may be paid during the periods for which subsection (a) is 
in effect at a rate that exceeds the rates that would be payable under 
subsection (a) were subsection (a) applicable to such employee.
    (c) For the purposes of this section, the rates payable to an 
employee who is covered by this section and who is paid from a schedule 
not in existence on September 30, 2005, shall be determined under 
regulations prescribed by the Office of Personnel Management.
    (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates of premium 
pay for employees subject to this section may not be changed from the 
rates in effect on September 30, 2005, except to the extent determined 
by the Office of Personnel Management to be consistent with the purpose 
of this section.
    (e) This section shall apply with respect to pay for service 
performed after September 30, 2005.
    (f) For the purpose of administering any provision of law 
(including any rule or regulation that provides premium pay, 
retirement, life insurance, or any other employee benefit) that 
requires any deduction or contribution, or that imposes any requirement 
or limitation on the basis of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate 
of salary or basic pay payable after the application of this section 
shall be treated as the rate of salary or basic pay.
    (g) Nothing in this section shall be considered to permit or 
require the payment to any employee covered by this section at a rate 
in excess of the rate that would be payable were this section not in 
effect.
    (h) The Office of Personnel Management may provide for exceptions 
to the limitations imposed by this section if the Office determines 
that such exceptions are necessary to ensure the recruitment or 
retention of qualified employees.
    Sec. 914. During the period in which the head of any department or 
agency, or any other officer or civilian employee of the Government 
appointed by the President of the United States, holds office, no funds 
may be obligated or expended in excess of $5,000 to furnish or 
redecorate the office of such department head, agency head, officer, or 
employee, or to purchase furniture or make improvements for any such 
office, unless advance notice of such furnishing or redecoration is 
expressly approved by the Committees on Appropriations. For the 
purposes of this section, the term ``office'' shall include the entire 
suite of offices assigned to the individual, as well as any other space 
used primarily by the individual or the use of which is directly 
controlled by the individual.
    Sec. 915. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, United States 
Code, or section 910 of this Act, funds made available for the current 
fiscal year by this or any other Act shall be available for the 
interagency funding of national security and emergency preparedness 
telecommunications initiatives which benefit multiple Federal 
departments, agencies, or entities, as provided by Executive Order No. 
12472 (April 3, 1984).
    Sec. 916. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this or any other 
Act may be obligated or expended by any Federal department, agency, or 
other instrumentality for the salaries or expenses of any employee 
appointed to a position of a confidential or policy-determining 
character excepted from the competitive service pursuant to section 
3302 of title 5, United States Code, without a certification to the 
Office of Personnel Management from the head of the Federal department, 
agency, or other instrumentality employing the Schedule C appointee 
that the Schedule C position was not created solely or primarily in 
order to detail the employee to the White House.
    (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to Federal 
employees or members of the armed services detailed to or from--
            (1) the Central Intelligence Agency;
            (2) the National Security Agency;
            (3) the Defense Intelligence Agency;
            (4) the offices within the Department of Defense for the 
        collection of specialized national foreign intelligence through 
        reconnaissance programs;
            (5) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the 
        Department of State;
            (6) any agency, office, or unit of the Army, Navy, Air 
        Force, and Marine Corps, the Department of Homeland Security, 
        the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement 
        Administration of the Department of Justice, the Department of 
        Transportation, the Department of the Treasury, and the 
        Department of Energy performing intelligence functions; and
            (7) the Director of National Intelligence or the Office of 
        the Director of National Intelligence.
    Sec. 917. No department, agency, or instrumentality of the United 
States receiving appropriated funds under this or any other Act for the 
current fiscal year shall obligate or expend any such funds, unless 
such department, agency, or instrumentality has in place, and will 
continue to administer in good faith, a written policy designed to 
ensure that all of its workplaces are free from discrimination and 
sexual harassment and that all of its workplaces are not in violation 
of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, the Age 
Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and the Rehabilitation Act of 
1973.
    Sec. 918. No part of any appropriation contained in this or any 
other Act shall be available for the payment of the salary of any 
officer or employee of the Federal Government, who--
            (1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threatens to 
        prohibit or prevent, any other officer or employee of the 
        Federal Government from having any direct oral or written 
        communication or contact with any Member, committee, or 
        subcommittee of the Congress in connection with any matter 
        pertaining to the employment of such other officer or employee 
        or pertaining to the department or agency of such other officer 
        or employee in any way, irrespective of whether such 
        communication or contact is at the initiative of such other 
        officer or employee or in response to the request or inquiry of 
        such Member, committee, or subcommittee; or
            (2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, demotes, 
        reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or performance of 
        efficiency rating, denies promotion to, relocates, reassigns, 
        transfers, disciplines, or discriminates in regard to any 
        employment right, entitlement, or benefit, or any term or 
        condition of employment of, any other officer or employee of 
        the Federal Government, or attempts or threatens to commit any 
        of the foregoing actions with respect to such other officer or 
        employee, by reason of any communication or contact of such 
        other officer or employee with any Member, committee, or 
        subcommittee of the Congress as described in paragraph (1).
    Sec. 919. (a) None of the funds made available in this or any other 
Act may be obligated or expended for any employee training that--
            (1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, 
        and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official 
        duties;
            (2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of 
        emotional response or psychological stress in some 
        participants;
            (3) does not require prior employee notification of the 
        content and methods to be used in the training and written end 
        of course evaluation;
            (4) contains any methods or content associated with 
        religious or quasi-religious belief systems or ``new age'' 
        belief systems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity 
        Commission Notice N-915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or
            (5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants' 
        personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace.
    (b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or otherwise 
preclude an agency from conducting training bearing directly upon the 
performance of official duties.
    Sec. 920. No funds appropriated in this or any other Act may be 
used to implement or enforce the agreements in Standard Forms 312 and 
4414 of the Government or any other nondisclosure policy, form, or 
agreement if such policy, form, or agreement does not contain the 
following provisions: ``These restrictions are consistent with and do 
not supersede, conflict with, or otherwise alter the employee 
obligations, rights, or liabilities created by Executive Order No. 
12958; section 7211 of title 5, United States Code (governing 
disclosures to Congress); section 1034 of title 10, United States Code, 
as amended by the Military Whistleblower Protection Act (governing 
disclosure to Congress by members of the military); section 2302(b)(8) 
of title 5, United States Code, as amended by the Whistleblower 
Protection Act (governing disclosures of illegality, waste, fraud, 
abuse or public health or safety threats); the Intelligence Identities 
Protection Act of 1982 (50 U.S.C. 421 et seq.) (governing disclosures 
that could expose confidential Government agents); and the statutes 
which protect against disclosure that may compromise the national 
security, including sections 641, 793, 794, 798, and 952 of title 18, 
United States Code, and section 4(b) of the Subversive Activities Act 
of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 783(b)). The definitions, requirements, obligations, 
rights, sanctions, and liabilities created by said Executive order and 
listed statutes are incorporated into this agreement and are 
controlling.'': Provided, That notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, 
a nondisclosure policy form or agreement that is to be executed by a 
person connected with the conduct of an intelligence or intelligence-
related activity, other than an employee or officer of the United 
States Government, may contain provisions appropriate to the particular 
activity for which such document is to be used. Such form or agreement 
shall, at a minimum, require that the person will not disclose any 
classified information received in the course of such activity unless 
specifically authorized to do so by the United States Government. Such 
nondisclosure forms shall also make it clear that they do not bar 
disclosures to Congress or to an authorized official of an executive 
agency or the Department of Justice that are essential to reporting a 
substantial violation of law.
    Sec. 921. No part of any funds appropriated in this or any other 
Act shall be used by an agency of the executive branch, other than for 
normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships, for 
publicity or propaganda purposes, and for the preparation, distribution 
or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, television or 
film presentation designed to support or defeat legislation pending 
before the Congress, except in presentation to the Congress itself.
    Sec. 922. None of the funds appropriated by this or any other Act 
may be used by an agency to provide a Federal employee's home address 
to any labor organization except when the employee has authorized such 
disclosure or when such disclosure has been ordered by a court of 
competent jurisdiction.
    Sec. 923. None of the funds made available in this Act or any other 
Act may be used to provide any non-public information such as mailing 
or telephone lists to any person or any organization outside of the 
Federal Government without the approval of the Committees on 
Appropriations.
    Sec. 924. No part of any appropriation contained in this or any 
other Act shall be used directly or indirectly, including by private 
contractor, for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United 
States not heretofor authorized by the Congress.
    Sec. 925. (a) In this section the term ``agency''--
            (1) means an Executive agency as defined under section 105 
        of title 5, United States Code;
            (2) includes a military department as defined under section 
        102 of such title, the Postal Service, and the Postal Rate 
        Commission; and
            (3) shall not include the Government Accountability Office.
    (b) Unless authorized in accordance with law or regulations to use 
such time for other purposes, an employee of an agency shall use 
official time in an honest effort to perform official duties. An 
employee not under a leave system, including a Presidential appointee 
exempted under section 6301(2) of title 5, United States Code, has an 
obligation to expend an honest effort and a reasonable proportion of 
such employee's time in the performance of official duties.
    Sec. 926. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and section 910 of this 
Act, funds made available for the current fiscal year by this or any 
other Act to any department or agency, which is a member of the Joint 
Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP), shall be available to 
finance an appropriate share of JFMIP administrative costs, as 
determined by the JFMIP, but not to exceed a total of $800,000 
including the salary of the Executive Director and staff support.
    Sec. 927. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and section 910 of this 
Act, the head of each Executive department and agency is hereby 
authorized to transfer to or reimburse ``General Services 
Administration, Government-wide Policy'' with the approval of the 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, funds made available 
for the current fiscal year by this or any other Act, including rebates 
from charge card and other contracts: Provided, That these funds shall 
be administered by the Administrator of General Services to support 
Government-wide financial, information technology, procurement, and 
other management innovations, initiatives, and activities, as approved 
by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation 
with the appropriate interagency groups designated by the Director 
(including the Chief Financial Officers Council and the Joint Financial 
Management Improvement Program for financial management initiatives, 
the Chief Information Officers Council for information technology 
initiatives, the Chief Human Capital Officers Council for human capital 
initiatives, and the Federal Acquisition Council for procurement 
initiatives). The total funds transferred or reimbursed shall not 
exceed $10,000,000. Such transfers or reimbursements may only be made 
15 days following notification of the Committees on Appropriations by 
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
    Sec. 928. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a woman may 
breastfeed her child at any location in a Federal building or on 
Federal property, if the woman and her child are otherwise authorized 
to be present at the location.
    Sec. 929. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, United States 
Code, or section 910 of this Act, funds made available for the current 
fiscal year by this or any other Act shall be available for the 
interagency funding of specific projects, workshops, studies, and 
similar efforts to carry out the purposes of the National Science and 
Technology Council (authorized by Executive Order No. 12881), which 
benefit multiple Federal departments, agencies, or entities: Provided, 
That the Office of Management and Budget shall provide a report 
describing the budget of and resources connected with the National 
Science and Technology Council to the Committees on Appropriations, the 
House Committee on Science; and the Senate Committee on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation 90 days after enactment of this Act.
    Sec. 930. Any request for proposals, solicitation, grant 
application, form, notification, press release, or other publications 
involving the distribution of Federal funds shall indicate the agency 
providing the funds, the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number, 
as applicable, and the amount provided: Provided, That this provision 
shall apply to direct payments, formula funds, and grants received by a 
State receiving Federal funds.
    Sec. 931. Subsection (f) of section 403 of Public Law 103-356 (31 
U.S.C. 501 note), as amended, is further amended by striking ``October 
1, 2005'' and inserting ``October 1, 2006''.
    Sec. 932. (a) Prohibition of Federal Agency Monitoring of 
Individuals' Internet Use.--None of the funds made available in this or 
any other Act may be used by any Federal agency--
            (1) to collect, review, or create any aggregation of data, 
        derived from any means, that includes any personally 
        identifiable information relating to an individual's access to 
        or use of any Federal Government Internet site of the agency; 
        or
            (2) to enter into any agreement with a third party 
        (including another government agency) to collect, review, or 
        obtain any aggregation of data, derived from any means, that 
        includes any personally identifiable information relating to an 
        individual's access to or use of any nongovernmental Internet 
        site.
    (b) Exceptions.--The limitations established in subsection (a) 
shall not apply to--
            (1) any record of aggregate data that does not identify 
        particular persons;
            (2) any voluntary submission of personally identifiable 
        information;
            (3) any action taken for law enforcement, regulatory, or 
        supervisory purposes, in accordance with applicable law; or
            (4) any action described in subsection (a)(1) that is a 
        system security action taken by the operator of an Internet 
        site and is necessarily incident to the rendition of the 
        Internet site services or to the protection of the rights or 
        property of the provider of the Internet site.
    (c) Definitions.--For the purposes of this section:
            (1) The term ``regulatory'' means agency actions to 
        implement, interpret or enforce authorities provided in law.
            (2) The term ``supervisory'' means examinations of the 
        agency's supervised institutions, including assessing safety 
        and soundness, overall financial condition, management 
        practices and policies and compliance with applicable standards 
        as provided in law.
    Sec. 933. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
used to enter into or renew a contract which includes a provision 
providing prescription drug coverage, except where the contract also 
includes a provision for contraceptive coverage.
    (b) Nothing in this section shall apply to a contract with--
            (1) any of the following religious plans:
                    (A) Personal Care's HMO; and
                    (B) OSF HealthPlans, Inc.; and
            (2) any existing or future plan, if the carrier for the 
        plan objects to such coverage on the basis of religious 
        beliefs.
    (c) In implementing this section, any plan that enters into or 
renews a contract under this section may not subject any individual to 
discrimination on the basis that the individual refuses to prescribe or 
otherwise provide for contraceptives because such activities would be 
contrary to the individual's religious beliefs or moral convictions.
    (d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require coverage 
of abortion or abortion-related services.
    Sec. 934. The Congress of the United States recognizes the United 
States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) as the official anti-doping agency 
for Olympic, Pan American, and Paralympic sport in the United States.
    Sec. 935. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
appropriated for official travel by Federal departments and agencies 
may be used by such departments and agencies, if consistent with Office 
of Management and Budget Circular A-126 regarding official travel for 
Government personnel, to participate in the fractional aircraft 
ownership pilot program.
    Sec. 936. None of the funds made available under this or any other 
Act for fiscal year 2006 and each fiscal year thereafter shall be 
expended for the purchase of a product or service offered by Federal 
Prison Industries, Inc., unless the agency making such purchase 
determines that such offered product or service provides the best value 
to the buying agency pursuant to governmentwide procurement 
regulations, issued pursuant to section 25(c)(1) of the Office of 
Federal Procurement Act (41 U.S.C. 421(c)(1)) that impose procedures, 
standards, and limitations of section 2410n of title 10, United States 
Code.
    Sec. 937. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds appropriated or made available under this Act or any other 
appropriations Act may be used to implement or enforce restrictions or 
limitations on the Coast Guard Congressional Fellowship Program, or to 
implement the proposed regulations of the Office of Personnel 
Management to add sections 300.311 through 300.316 to part 300 of title 
5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, published in the Federal 
Register, volume 68, number 174, on September 9, 2003 (relating to the 
detail of executive branch employees to the legislative branch).
    Sec. 938. Each Executive department and agency shall evaluate the 
creditworthiness of an individual before issuing the individual a 
government travel charge card. The department or agency may not issue a 
government travel charge card to an individual that either lacks a 
credit history or is found to have an unsatisfactory credit history as 
a result of this evaluation: Provided, That this restriction shall not 
preclude issuance of a restricted-use charge, debit, or stored value 
card made in accordance with agency procedures to: (1) an individual 
with an unsatisfactory credit history where such card is used to pay 
travel expenses and the agency determines there is no suitable 
alternative payment mechanism available before issuing the card; or (2) 
an individual who lacks a credit history. Each Executive department and 
agency shall establish guidelines and procedures for disciplinary 
actions to be taken against agency personnel for improper, fraudulent, 
or abusive use of government charge cards, which shall include 
appropriate disciplinary actions for use of charge cards for purposes, 
and at establishments, that are inconsistent with the official business 
of the Department or agency or with applicable standards of conduct.
    Sec. 939. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no executive 
branch agency shall purchase, construct, and/or lease any additional 
facilities, except within or contiguous to existing locations, to be 
used for the purpose of conducting Federal law enforcement training 
without advance approval of the Committees on Appropriations, except 
that the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is authorized to 
obtain the temporary use of additional facilities by lease, contract, 
or other agreement for training which cannot be accommodated in 
existing Center facilities.
    Sec. 940. From funds made available in this or any other Act under 
the headings ``The White House'', ``Special Assistance to the President 
and the Official Residence of Residence of the Vice President'', 
``Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental 
Quality'', ``Office of Science and Technology Policy'', and ``Office of 
the United States Trade Representative'', the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget (or such other officer as the President may 
designate in writing) may, 15 days after giving notice to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives, transfer not to exceed 10 percent of any such 
appropriation to any other such appropriation, to be merged with and 
available for the same time and for the same purposes as the 
appropriation to which transferred: Provided, That the amount of an 
appropriation shall not be increased by more than 50 percent by such 
transfers: Provided further, That no amount shall be transferred from 
the heading ``Special Assistance to the President and the Official 
Residence of the Vice President'' without approval of the Vice 
President.
    Sec. 941. Section 4(b) of the Federal Activities Inventory Reform 
Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-270) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph:
            ``(5) Executive agencies with fewer than 100 full-time 
        employees as of the first day of the fiscal year. However, such 
        an agency shall be subject to section 2 to the extent it plans 
        to conduct a public-private competition for the performance of 
        an activity that is not inherently governmental.''.
    Sec. 942. (a) No funds shall be available for transfers or 
reimbursements to the E-Government Initiatives sponsored by the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) prior to 15 days following submission of 
a report to the Committees on Appropriations by the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget or receipt of approval to transfer 
funds by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
    (b) The report in (a) shall detail--
            (1) the amount proposed for transfer for any department and 
        agency by program office, bureau, or activity, as appropriate;
            (2) the specific use of funds;
            (3) the relevance of that use to that department or agency 
        and each bureau or office within, which is contributing funds; 
        and
            (4) a description on any such activities for which funds 
        were appropriated that will not be implemented or partially 
        implemented by the department or agency as a result of the 
        transfer.
    Sec. 943. (a) The adjustment in rates of basic pay for employees 
under the statutory pay systems that takes effect in fiscal year 2006 
under sections 5303 and 5304 of title 5, United States Code, shall be 
an increase of 3.1 percent, and this adjustment shall apply to civilian 
employees in the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland 
Security and such adjustments shall be effective as of the first day of 
the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2006.
    (b) Notwithstanding section 913 of this Act, the adjustment in 
rates of basic pay for the statutory pay systems that take place in 
fiscal year 2006 under sections 5344 and 5348 of title 5, United States 
Code, shall be no less than the percentage in paragraph (a) as 
employees in the same location whose rates of basic pay are adjusted 
pursuant to the statutory pay systems under section 5303 and 5304 of 
title 5, United States Code. Prevailing rate employees at locations 
where there are no employees whose pay is increased pursuant to 
sections 5303 and 5304 of title 5 and prevailing rate employees 
described in section 5343(a)(5) of title 5 shall be considered to be 
located in the pay locality designated as ``Rest of US'' pursuant to 
section 5304 of title 5 for purposes of this paragraph.
    (c) Funds used to carry out this section shall be paid from 
appropriations, which are made to each applicable department or agency 
for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2006.
    Sec. 944. Unless otherwise authorized by existing law, none of the 
funds provided in this Act or any other Act may be used by an executive 
branch agency to produce any prepackaged news story intended for 
broadcast or distribution in the United States, unless the story 
includes a clear notification within the text or audio of the 
prepackaged news story that the prepackaged news story was prepared or 
funded by that executive branch agency.
    Sec. 945. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to administer, implement, or enforce the amendment made to section 
515.533 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, that was published in 
the Federal Register on February 25, 2005.
    Sec. 946. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
in contravention of section 552a of title 5, United States Code 
(popularly known as the Privacy Act) or of section 552.224 of title 48 
of the Code of Federal Regulations.
    Sec. 947. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to provide for the competitive sourcing of flight service stations.
    Sec. 948. None of the funds contained in this Act may be used to 
enforce section 702 of the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 
(sec. 7--2507.02, D.C. Official Code).
    Sec. 949. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to enforce the judgment of the United States Supreme Court in the case 
of Kelo v. New London, decided June 23, 2005.
    Sec. 950. The amount otherwise provided under the heading 
``Management and Administration--Working Capital Fund'', in title III 
is hereby increased by $22,000,000.
    Sec. 951. None of the funds made available in this Act to the 
Department of the Treasury may be used to recommended approval of the 
sale of Unocal Corporation to CNOOC Ltd. of China.
    Sec. 952. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
by the General Services Administration to carry out the eTravel Service 
program.
    Sec. 953. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement the revision to Office of Management and Budget Circular 
A-76 made on May 29, 2003.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Transportation, Treasury, Housing 
and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and 
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006''.

            Passed the House of Representatives June 30, 2005.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.
109th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 3058

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                                 AN ACT

Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, Treasury, 
and Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, District of Columbia, 
and independent agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, 
                        and for other purposes.