That the following sums are appropriated,
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, and for other purposes,
namely:
<enum>I</enum><header display-inline="no-display-inline">Department of transportation</header>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="ID024E9F344E8849109F02F696AE8AEAC0"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Office of the
secretary</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="ID34C581B1799F4D0A8E9AF1B2AD1969D2"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Office of the
Secretary, $108,097,000, of which not to exceed
$2,635,000 shall be available for the immediate
Office of the Secretary; not to exceed $992,000
shall be available for the Immediate Office of the Deputy Secretary; not to
exceed $19,615,000 shall be available for the
Office of the General Counsel; not to exceed
$11,248,000 shall be available for the Office of
the Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy; not to exceed
$12,825,000 shall be available for the Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs; not to exceed
$2,514,000 shall be available for the Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs; not to exceed
$27,095,000 shall be available for the Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Administration; not to exceed
$2,034,000 shall be available for the Office of
Public Affairs; not to exceed $1,608,000 shall
be available for the Office of the Executive Secretariat; not to exceed
$1,539,000 shall be available for the Office of
Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization; not to exceed
$10,875,000 for the Office of Intelligence,
Security, and Emergency Response; and not to exceed
$15,117,000 shall be available for the Office of
the Chief Information Officer:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
no appropriation for any office shall be increased or decreased by more than 5
percent by all such transfers:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
notice of any change in funding greater than 5 percent shall be submitted for
approval to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not to exceed $60,000 shall be for allocation
within the Department for official reception and representation expenses as the
Secretary may determine:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds provided in this Act shall be available for the position of
Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H40406EDDF5534675ABE9C14212BED429"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National Infrastructure
Investments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For capital
investments in surface transportation infrastructure,
$500,000,000, to remain available through
September 30, 2014:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary of
Transportation shall distribute funds provided under this heading as
discretionary grants to be awarded to a State, local government, transit
agency, or a collaboration among such entities on a competitive basis for
projects that will have a significant impact on the Nation, a metropolitan
area, or a region:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
projects eligible for funding provided under this heading shall include, but
not be limited to, highway or bridge projects eligible under title 23, United
States Code; public transportation projects eligible under chapter 53 of title
49, United States Code; passenger and freight rail transportation projects; and
port infrastructure investments:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary may use up to 35 percent of the funds made available under this
heading for the purpose of paying the subsidy and administrative costs of
projects eligible for Federal credit assistance under chapter 6 of title 23,
United States Code, if the Secretary finds that such use of the funds would
advance the purposes of this paragraph:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
in distributing funds provided under this heading, the Secretary shall take
such measures so as to ensure an equitable geographic distribution of funds, an
appropriate balance in addressing the needs of urban and rural areas, and the
investment in a variety of transportation modes:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
a grant funded under this heading shall be not less than
$10,000,000 and not greater than
$200,000,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not more than 25 percent of the funds made available under this heading may be
awarded to projects in a single State:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Federal share of the costs for which an expenditure is made under this
heading shall be, at the option of the recipient, up to 80 percent:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall give priority to projects that require a contribution of
Federal funds in order to complete an overall financing package:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not less than $120,000,000 of the funds provided
under this heading shall be for projects located in rural areas:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
for projects located in rural areas, the minimum grant size shall be
$1,000,000 and the Secretary may increase the
Federal share of costs above 80 percent:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the amount made available under this heading, the Secretary may use an
amount not to exceed $35,000,000 for the
planning, preparation or design of projects eligible for funding under this
heading:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
grants awarded under the previous proviso shall not be subject to a minimum
grant size:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
projects conducted using funds provided under this heading must comply with the
requirements of subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United States Code:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall conduct a new competition to select the grants and credit
assistance awarded under this heading:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary may retain up to $20,000,000 of
the funds provided under this heading, and may transfer portions of those funds
to the Administrators of the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal
Transit Administration, the Federal Railroad Administration and the Federal
Maritime Administration, to fund the award and oversight of grants and credit
assistance made under this heading.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HC0269697C26C42DBB2C6C7628498F9A5"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Financial management capital</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses for upgrading and
enhancing the Department of Transportation's financial systems and
re-engineering business processes, $10,000,000,
to remain available through September 30, 2014.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H1E34C4F067FA466EBA665E476B80CD92"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cyber Security Initiatives</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses for cyber security
initiatives, including necessary upgrades to wide area network and information
technology infrastructure, improvement of network perimeter controls and
identity management, testing and assessment of information technology against
business, security, and other requirements, implementation of Federal cyber
security initiatives and information infrastructure enhancements,
implementation of enhanced security controls on network devices, and
enhancement of cyber security workforce training tools,
$6,000,000, to remain available through
September 30, 2014.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H84310314636A4F87BF993F8D662A6F98"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Office of civil rights</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Office of
Civil Rights,
$9,773,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H030B35D082584A8FA2133263C6D2836C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transportation planning, research, and
development</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary
expenses for conducting transportation planning, research, systems development,
development activities, and making grants, to remain available until expended,
$8,000,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H65C29B5F77724E03A86E9F2CDBBBD250"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Working capital fund</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses for operating costs
and capital outlays of the Working Capital Fund, not to exceed
$174,128,000 shall be paid from appropriations
made available to the Department of Transportation:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That such services shall
be provided on a competitive basis to entities within the Department of
Transportation:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the above limitation on operating expenses shall not apply to non-DOT entities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HBB7FDEF3124B4A34A0B0FE8CD81BA8BF"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Minority business resource center
program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the cost of
guaranteed loans, $333,000, as authorized by 49
U.S.C. 332:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That such costs,
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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, $589,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HF662A15FC66B4A59ADED0FFC23F3073C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Minority business outreach</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of Minority Business
Resource Center outreach activities, $3,234,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2013:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That notwithstanding 49
U.S.C. 332, these funds may be used for business opportunities related to any
mode of transportation.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HDCD2B65252FD45BB8D32A02856EA19DE"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Payments to air
carriers</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H353D59A39A484E50A2427E7DDB3ECA27"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(airport and airway trust
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HF90DE0FB49A84654B2E2DB90C0611E09"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In addition to funds made available from any
other source to carry out the essential air service program under 49 U.S.C.
41731 through 41742, $114,000,000, to be derived
from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, to remain available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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:<proviso><italic> Provided further,</italic></proviso>
That basic essential air service minimum requirements shall not include the
15-passenger capacity requirement under subsection 41732(b)(3) of title 49,
United States Code:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
if the funds under this heading are insufficient to meet the costs of the
essential air service program in the current fiscal year, the Secretary shall
transfer such sums as may be necessary to carry out the essential air service
program from any available amounts appropriated to or directly administered by
the Office of the Secretary for such fiscal year.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idB98FDCE66EAF4373BB86F2BDAF35FA45"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Research and technology</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses related to the Office
of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology,
$13,500,000, of which
$6,953,000 shall remain available until
September 30, 2015:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the powers and duties, functions,
authorities and personnel of the Research and Innovative Technology
Administration are hereby transferred to the Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Research and Technology in the Office of the Secretary:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
notwithstanding section 102 of title 49 and section 5315 of title 5, there
shall be an Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology within the Office
of the Secretary, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the
Senate, to lead such office:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
any reference in law, regulation, judicial proceedings, or elsewhere to the
Research and Innovative Technology Administration shall be deemed to be a
reference to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
of the Department of Transportation.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H5DB61ABD8F264C45A9DA2C2046504135"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative provisions—office of the
secretary of transportation</header>
</appropriations-small><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDB8E52CE968D4ED899539BB78733D951" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>101.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBE6B4EE9DB034F288982D89AEDF4D5CF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>102.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available under this
Act may be obligated or expended to establish or implement a program under
which essential air service communities are required to assume subsidy costs
commonly referred to as the EAS local participation program.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAE200B9388344525811148EB3BBBAEFB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>103.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary or his designee may engage in
activities with States and State legislators to consider proposals related to
the reduction of motorcycle fatalities.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H89214E9572A54778939203CB5CAC1743" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>104.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding section 3324 of title 31,
United States Code, in addition to authority provided by section 327 of title
49, United States Code, the Department's Working Capital Fund is hereby
authorized to provide payments in advance to vendors that are necessary to
carry out the Federal transit pass transportation fringe benefit program under
Executive Order 13150 and section 3049 of Public Law 109–59:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Department
shall include adequate safeguards in the contract with the vendors to ensure
timely and high-quality performance under the contract.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0F035AC346C04B6AA4953008AC346C2C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>105.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall post on the Web site of
the Department of Transportation a schedule of all meetings of the Credit
Council, including the agenda for each meeting, and require the Credit Council
to record the minutes of each meeting.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id17C372F0F9BF4AB59CE8EAAB83B5598A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>106.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Transportation is
authorized to carry out a program that establishes uniform standards for
developing and supporting agency transit pass and transit benefits authorized
under section 7905 of title 5, United States Code, including distribution of
transit benefits by various paper and electronic media.</text>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HDCB645474FE44383B4F539D851C2D72E"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal aviation
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H3A6A14842655494AAA4F9111815FA36D"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operations</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9B928B2D1CDE44D0B0D1AB2E6C8E8518"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(airport and airway trust
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HC1115DB741F843BFA352A0EFE6186B0D"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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,
$9,698,396,000, of which
$5,340,000,000 shall be derived from the Airport
and Airway Trust Fund, of which not to exceed
$7,496,279,000 shall be available for air
traffic organization activities; not to exceed
$1,255,000,000 shall be available for aviation
safety activities; not to exceed $16,271,000
shall be available for commercial space transportation activities; not to
exceed $573,591,000 shall be available for
finance and management activities; not to exceed
$60,064,000 shall be available for NextGen and
operations planning activities; and not to exceed
$297,191,000 shall be available for staff
offices:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That not to exceed 2
percent of any budget activity, except for aviation safety budget activity, may
be transferred to any budget activity under this heading:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
no transfer may increase or decrease any appropriation by more than 2 percent:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
any transfer in excess of 2 percent shall be treated as a reprogramming of
funds under section 405 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation
or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that
section:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not later than March 31 of each fiscal year hereafter, the Administrator of the
Federal Aviation Administration shall transmit to Congress an annual update to
the report submitted to Congress in December 2004 pursuant to section 221 of
Public Law 108–176:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the amount herein appropriated shall be reduced by
$100,000 for each day after March 31 that such
report has not been submitted to the Congress:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not later than March 31 of each fiscal year hereafter, the Administrator shall
transmit to Congress a companion report that describes a comprehensive strategy
for staffing, hiring, and training flight standards and aircraft certification
staff in a format similar to the one utilized for the controller staffing plan,
including stated attrition estimates and numerical hiring goals by fiscal year:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the amount herein appropriated shall be reduced by
$100,000 per day for each day after March 31
that such report has not been submitted to Congress:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds in this Act shall be available for new applicants for the
second career training program:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
there may be credited to this appropriation as offsetting collections 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the funds appropriated under this heading, not less than
$10,350,000 shall be for the contract tower
cost-sharing program:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HFF60AEE7AA70413EA09BB77F45C439CE"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Facilities and
equipment</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H588C1FF170D043389020AD215C9C24A5"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(airport and airway trust
fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses,
not otherwise provided for, for acquisition, establishment, technical support
services, improvement by contract or purchase, and hire of national airspace
systems 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, including aircraft for aviation regulation and
certification; to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund,
$2,750,000,000, of which
$480,000,000 shall remain available until
September 30, 2013; $2,195,000,000 shall remain
available until September 30, 2015; and
$75,000,000 shall remain available until
September 30, 2016:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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, improvement, and modernization of
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>national airspace
systems<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
upon initial submission to the Congress of the fiscal year 2014 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 2014 through
2018, 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.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H79D7340C66614B53A810D31B2D1BEC2B"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Research, engineering, and
development</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id6C2EFDD3CFE2448BA12F8DF39CA68F4E"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(airport and airway trust
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HBE9D71786FC44DD4A499FA1ACF0E9D3A"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including rescission)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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, $160,000,000, to be derived from the
Airport and Airway Trust Fund and to remain available until September 30, 2015:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That there may be
credited to this appropriation as offsetting collections, funds received from
States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities, and private
sources, which shall be available for expenses incurred for research,
engineering, and development:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the unobligated balances from prior year appropriations available under this
heading, $26,183,998 are
rescinded.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HB6C9EE8F201E4BA386550719434A14CB"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants-in-aid for
airports</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HA989B24246484723AE8096761951FF56"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(liquidation of contract
authorization)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HF9D0D5C41C6A4CE2AB227B78CFF0BFC7"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(limitation on
obligations)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H17B5E00C0B58415C86167FE9BA9F3D53"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(airport and airway trust
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H70D668D6833B43AFA18C2DFB4FB25AB0"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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; for grants authorized under section 41743 of title 49, United
States Code; and for inspection activities and administration of airport safety
programs, including those related to airport operating certificates under
section 44706 of title 49, United States Code,
$3,400,000,000 to be derived from the Airport
and Airway Trust Fund and to remain available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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
$3,350,000,000 in fiscal year 2013,
notwithstanding section 47117(g) of title 49, United States Code:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
notwithstanding section 137 of Public Law 112–95, for unfinished projects at
airports that are not large hub airports or medium hub airports and for which
prior to February 14, 2012, the project sponsor had received a grant for one or
more phases of the project or supporting infrastructure project funds, funds
limited under this heading shall be used to pay for 95 percent of allowable
project costs:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, of funds limited under this
heading, not more than $103,000,000 shall be
obligated for administration, not less than
$15,000,000 shall be available for the airport
cooperative research program, not less than
$29,300,000 shall be for Airport Technology
Research and $6,000,000, to remain available
until expended, shall be available and transferred to <quote>Office of the
Secretary, Salaries and Expenses</quote> to carry out the Small Community Air
Service Development Program.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HF4E7A5E12487494FA6C7A85BAB7CCB9C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative provisions—federal aviation
administration</header>
</appropriations-small></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H98B32962DE404041A54C2C0B681091CD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>110.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act may be used
to compensate in excess of 600 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 2013.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H32155F9A021B4FB79232D461E72AD451" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>111.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the prohibition of
funds in this section does not apply to negotiations between the agency and
airport sponsors to achieve agreement on <quote>below-market</quote> 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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8260990A28F04328873A2CAD34B68D24" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>112<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administration may reimburse amounts made available to satisfy 49 U.S.C.
41742(a)(1) from fees credited under 49 U.S.C. 45303:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That during fiscal year
2013, 49 U.S.C. 41742(b) shall not apply, and any amount remaining in such
account at the close of that fiscal year may be made available to satisfy
section 41742(a)(1) for the subsequent fiscal year.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7C427C0024DF4EE186BD20D8678EA4DC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>113<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts collected under section 40113(e) of
title 49, United States Code, shall be credited to the appropriation current at
the time of collection, to be merged with and available for the same purposes
of such appropriation.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H58E2F434BE5C4B038B24901F0218482D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>114.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act shall be
available for paying premium pay under subsection 5546(a) of title 5, United
States Code, to any Federal Aviation Administration employee unless such
employee actually performed work during the time corresponding to such premium
pay.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB4EEA4AA83C04D7F8A6C75321B54CCDA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>115.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB71886B7BEEA4C1482350CE0C812FAA4" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>116.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall apportion to the
sponsor of an airport that received scheduled or unscheduled air service from a
large certified air carrier (as defined in part 241 of title 14 Code of Federal
Regulations, or such other regulations as may be issued by the Secretary under
the authority of section 41709) an amount equal to the minimum apportionment
specified in 49 U.S.C. 47114(c), if the Secretary determines that airport had
more than 10,000 passenger boardings in the preceding calendar year, based on
data submitted to the Secretary under part 241 of title 14, Code of Federal
Regulations.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0E0A1A0ABAE0419998DBB194C6E9F0F2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>117.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act may be
obligated or expended for retention bonuses for an employee of the Federal
Aviation Administration without the prior written approval of the Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Administration of the Department of
Transportation.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id96743D415F73492CB4AAB390A4ABD605" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>118.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subparagraph (D) of section 47124(b)(3) of
title 49, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>benefit.</quote>
and inserting <quote>benefit, with the maximum allowable local cost share
capped at 20 percent.</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6055447B3F4B499ABDBBD55667631AC4" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>119.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
none of the funds made available under this Act or any prior Act may be used to
implement or to continue to implement any limitation on the ability of any
owner or operator of a private aircraft to obtain, upon a request to the
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, a blocking of that
owner's or operator’s aircraft registration number from any display of the
Federal Aviation Administration’s Aircraft Situational Display to Industry data
that is made available to the public, except data made available to a
Government agency, for the noncommercial flights of that owner or
operator.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDAC95CF0EBD14ECA9BAC8136D0B0C17D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>119A.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act shall be
available for salaries and expenses of more than 7 political and Presidential
appointees in the Federal Aviation Administration.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE265DB4FDE59484BA859EF028C3E8CC6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>119B.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available under this
Act may be used to increase fees pursuant to section 44721 of title 49, United
States Code, until the FAA conducts a public outreach that is designed to
elicit feedback from aviation stakeholders, and until the FAA has reported the
justification of its fees on paper and digital products to the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCA06442CB2644C1AB2AB23AA46047644" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>119C.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H4CB3B32855BC4ECD9D06F54766D69A8B"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal highway
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idF6799C81B2E744DE887650A3580A6F8F"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal-aid
highways</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H7C23FBF4180347CAA11C9A550EC7DDAD"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on administrative
expenses</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id2A027EB363144BD8897D73EA55339E0A"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(Highway Trust
Fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HE3978F380D7641CCA78CAB264F9EF5BD"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not to exceed
$426,476,000, together with advances and
reimbursements received by the Federal Highway Administration, shall be paid in
accordance with law from appropriations made available by this Act to the
Federal Highway Administration for necessary expenses for administration and
operation. In addition, not to exceed $3,220,000
shall be paid from appropriations made available by this Act and transferred to
the Appalachian Regional Commission in accordance with section 104 of title 23,
United States Code.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H0D643CAEC9064536B3343CFCA46F4FFA"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">limitation on
obligations</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HA0317A405BDB4803A2D25810F47C498C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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 $39,143,583,000 for
Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for fiscal year
2013:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That within the
$39,143,583,000 obligation limitation on
Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs, not more than
$429,800,000 shall be available for the
implementation or execution of programs for transportation research (chapter 5
of title 23, United States Code; sections 111, 5505, and 5506 of title 49,
United States Code; and title 5 of Public Law 109–59) for fiscal year 2013:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
this limitation on transportation research programs shall not apply to any
authority previously made available for obligation:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary may, as authorized by section 605(b) of title 23, United States
Code, collect and spend fees to cover the costs of services of expert firms,
including counsel, in the field of municipal and project finance to assist in
the underwriting and servicing of Federal credit instruments and all or a
portion of the costs to the Federal Government of servicing such credit
instruments:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
such fees are available until expended to pay for such costs:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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 section 608 of title 23, United
States Code.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H476300E42D3D4E5EAF1FD185E3800B19"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Liquidation of contract
authorization</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id47100BE31C0E4108AF9593FE37045AD2"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(Highway Trust
Fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H0B8DF8F8623D463FA9D88AC4712A2B43"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For carrying out the provisions of title 23,
United States Code, that are attributable to Federal-aid highways, not
otherwise provided, including reimbursement for sums expended pursuant to the
provisions of 23 U.S.C. 308, $39,882,583,000 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.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9EC66728F24345878BCC46B8E7010984"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative provisions—federal highway
administration</header>
</appropriations-small></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEE743482F19B42B9B1A41ABBE245918B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>120.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H2C116533AEE549199DF038D8563729E5"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For fiscal year 2013, the Secretary of
Transportation shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H58ACDE0C6C424A17829E38AE7240FCE5"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not distribute from the obligation
limitation for Federal-aid highways amounts authorized for administrative
expenses and programs by section 104(a) of title 23, United States Code;
programs funded from the administrative takedown authorized by section
104(a)(1) of title 23, United States Code (as in effect on the date before the
date of enactment of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation
Equity Act: A Legacy for Users); the highway use tax evasion program; and the
Bureau of Transportation Statistics;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF5C7774489584598B09DF66D1FB59C69"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not distribute an amount from the
obligation limitation for Federal-aid highways that is equal to the unobligated
balance of amounts made available from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the
Mass Transit Account) for Federal-aid highways and highway safety programs for
previous fiscal years the funds for which are allocated by the
Secretary;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H251CEE337EDE4F00BA8543B11BCCADDE"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">determine the ratio that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0000A5EA563641508949F013B06888E8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the obligation limitation for Federal-aid
highways, less the aggregate of amounts not distributed under paragraphs (1)
and (2), bears to</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE2767B6B8ED04D6681A7D382D072E2F6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the total of the sums authorized to be
appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs
(other than sums authorized to be appropriated for provisions of law described
in paragraphs (1) through (9) of subsection (b) and sums authorized to be
appropriated for section 105 of title 23, United States Code, equal to the
amount referred to in subsection (b)(10) for such fiscal year), less the
aggregate of the amounts not distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this
subsection;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2E7FD71F0DFC4134B50FF5FB0C86136F"><enum>(4)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HD7DDD792754E49C4BED09CAAFE318B63"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">distribute the obligation limitation for
Federal-aid highways, less the aggregate amounts not distributed under
paragraphs (1) and (2), for sections 1301, 1302, and 1934 of the Safe,
Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users;
sections 117 and section 144(g) of title 23, United States Code; and section
14501 of title 40, United States Code, so that the amount of obligation
authority available for each of such sections is equal to the amount determined
by multiplying the ratio determined under paragraph (3) by the sums authorized
to be appropriated for that section for the fiscal year; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2C31FE8EB7F9440D9DC755F14461F37F" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">distribute
$2,000,000,000 for section 105 of title 23,
United States Code;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H67605ACA5FBB46F5B109EE3EB4DD3A54"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">distribute the obligation limitation
provided for Federal-aid highways, less the aggregate amounts not distributed
under paragraphs (1) and (2) and amounts distributed under paragraph (4), for
each of the programs that are allocated by the Secretary under the Safe,
Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users
and title 23, United States Code (other than to programs to which paragraphs
(1) and (4) apply), by multiplying the ratio determined under paragraph (3) by
the amounts authorized to be appropriated for each such program for such fiscal
year; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCB62A8B657304F9E8C07081373DFB10F"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">distribute the obligation limitation
provided for Federal-aid highways, less the aggregate amounts not distributed
under paragraphs (1) and (2) and amounts distributed under paragraphs (4) and
(5), for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs (other
than the amounts apportioned for the equity bonus program, but only to the
extent that the amounts apportioned for the equity bonus program for the fiscal
year are greater than $2,639,000,000, and the
Appalachian development highway system program) that are apportioned by the
Secretary under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation
Equity Act: A Legacy for Users and title 23, United States Code, in the ratio
that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H22264C1A4CEE461D9F7EDEFDFCF27481"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">amounts authorized to be appropriated for
such programs that are apportioned to each State for such fiscal year, bear
to</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1B111F83ECCF41469FCC970138F49885"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the total of the amounts authorized to be
appropriated for such programs that are apportioned to all States for such
fiscal year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5FF99E4948D946B691D4622D8C67C349"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exceptions From Obligation
Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The obligation
limitation for Federal-aid highways shall not apply to obligations:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD3B70BF89BD54367A177452D12399744"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">under section 125 of title 23, United
States Code;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0289E989F4DB4E29BBE5417EB9A83404"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">under section 147 of the Surface
Transportation Assistance Act of 1978;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id180040AD8B174BA9ABCF76903FA63977"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">under section 9 of the Federal-Aid Highway
Act of 1981;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id79A363665D534CAFA2950B7B38C00F9D"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">under subsections (b) and (j) of section
131 of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id91F488ADA17F4CF587048CD25513BCF0"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">under subsections (b) and (c) of section
149 of the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of
1987;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5C1866435BA14B809BF7A3625992073E"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">under sections 1103 through 1108 of the
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2BB87F42148E4FC5B2CDE844F6207F54"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">under section 157 of title 23, United
States Code, as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of the
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA97C23A522B8442A9DB56421C4CB5CDA"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">under section 105 of title 23, United
States Code, as in effect for fiscal years 1998 through 2004, but only in an
amount equal to $639,000,000 for each of those
fiscal years;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD0A734B9FF18475883394A2FE4BE827B"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Federal-aid highway programs for which
obligation authority was made available under the Transportation Equity Act for
the 21st Century or subsequent public laws for multiple years or to remain
available until used, but only to the extent that the obligation authority has
not lapsed or been used;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id05F1A93FF1434B0E89BB927554BC5092"><enum>(10)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">under section 105 of title 23, United
States Code, but only in an amount equal to
$639,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2005
through 2010; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA243015397574ECBB61E5025347FB893"><enum>(11)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">under section 1603 of the Safe,
Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users,
to the extent that funds obligated in accordance with that section were not
subject to a limitation on obligations at the time at which the funds were
initially made available for obligation.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1759793BE6DD4614BA426575EF05863F"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Redistribution of Unused Obligation
Authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding
subsection (a), the Secretary shall, after August 1 of such fiscal year, revise
a distribution of the obligation limitation made available under subsection (a)
if the amount distributed cannot be obligated during that fiscal year, and
redistribute sufficient amounts to those States able to obligate amounts in
addition to those previously distributed during that fiscal year, giving
priority to those States having large unobligated balances of funds apportioned
under sections 104 and 144 of title 23, United States Code.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H754FEF63FF96430C98718F51335877A4"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applicability of Obligation Limitations to
Transportation Research Programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The obligation limitation shall apply to
transportation research programs carried out under chapter 5 of title 23,
United States Code, and title V (research title) of the Safe, Accountable,
Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users, except that
obligation authority made available for such programs under such limitation
shall remain available for a period of 3 fiscal years and shall be in addition
to the amount of any limitation imposed on obligations for Federal-aid highway
and highway safety construction programs for future fiscal years.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7B7F63952AF24D0CAC15E93B88711BBF"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Redistribution of Certain Authorized
Funds</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H740EB254650F4E8097AC959E2D4477E4"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date of
the distribution of obligation limitation under subsection (a), the Secretary
shall distribute to the States any funds that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4E75700D51534E10AE0D6885CCCAFE99"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are authorized to be appropriated for such
fiscal year for Federal-aid highways programs; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEB0E749226A64EBFA5942BC1A33220C7"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary determines will not be
allocated to the States, and will not be available for obligation, in such
fiscal year due to the imposition of any obligation limitation for such fiscal
year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAA92EB0CFBC64A4BA950C0C3CFDFD090"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Ratio</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds shall be distributed under paragraph
(1) in the same ratio as the distribution of obligation authority under
subsection (a)(6).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC074CC40D9FB4BFA9DCC24588CA666A4"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Availability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds distributed under paragraph (1) shall
be available for any purposes described in section 133(b) of title 23, United
States Code.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3A238E3B76E446DEB82B352A5FBF7FF5"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Special Limitation
Characteristics</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Obligation
limitation distributed for a fiscal year under subsection (a)(4) for the
provision specified in subsection (a)(4) shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H84227B4D614644C78C128D2F9BE600E6"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">remain available until used for obligation
of funds for that provision; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3052A66ED0EF48A98ACF7FC6E333E190"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be in addition to the amount of any
limitation imposed on obligations for Federal-aid highway and highway safety
construction programs for future fiscal years.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC46FC54CF5CD4BA6B045DA548AA70A4E"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on Statutory
Construction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this
section shall be construed to limit the distribution of obligation authority
under subsection (a)(4)(A) for each of the individual projects numbered greater
than 3676 listed in the table contained in section 1702 of the Safe,
Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for
Users.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5F91F24CF445433E9A953D33693A00D0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>121.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That such funds shall
be subject to the obligation limitation for Federal-aid Highways and highway
safety construction programs.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H08D55E04097C4A32A1FDFF5630A97388" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>122.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not less than 15 days prior to waiving,
under his statutory authority, any Buy America requirement for Federal-aid
highway projects, the Secretary of Transportation shall make an informal public
notice and comment opportunity on the intent to issue such waiver and the
reasons therefor:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary
shall provide an annual report to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations on any waivers granted under the Buy America
requirements.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9C91707C49294894907CEFF3C10671FA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>123.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H6318AE141D9748929E3D0B8896EB1600"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subsection (b), none
of the funds made available, limited, or otherwise affected by this Act shall
be used to approve or otherwise authorize the imposition of any toll on any
segment of highway located on the Federal-aid system in the State of Texas
that—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAC9A4920FF49402E90C6DDA8C54A7226"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">as of the date of enactment of this Act, is
not tolled;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF40DFD22A1114E15AF79F1559706C78E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is constructed with Federal assistance
provided under title 23, United States Code; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id75F713B11F9244C1AE02F0C43FA979DF"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is in actual operation as of the date of
enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3A000E15270641FBBBF660414DC7B443"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exceptions</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id62DE0D6EC0E74A2C9DE51A579FC5342B"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Number of toll lanes</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a) shall not apply to any
segment of highway on the Federal-aid system described in that subsection that,
as of the date on which a toll is imposed on the segment, will have the same
number of nontoll lanes as were in existence prior to that date.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id95CCB9910D3645E1812119446D8720EE"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">High-occupancy vehicle lanes</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A high-occupancy vehicle lane that is
converted to a toll lane shall not be subject to this section, and shall not be
considered to be a nontoll lane for purposes of determining whether a highway
will have fewer nontoll lanes than prior to the date of imposition of the toll,
if—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id394524D0214A497DAB5446817F77B488"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">high-occupancy vehicles occupied by the
number of passengers specified by the entity operating the toll lane may use
the toll lane without paying a toll, unless otherwise specified by the
appropriate county, town, municipal or other local government entity, or public
toll road or transit authority; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8FB9428177D740EF8BBCE7B1806534F2"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">each high-occupancy vehicle lane that was
converted to a toll lane was constructed as a temporary lane to be replaced by
a toll lane under a plan approved by the appropriate county, town, municipal or
other local government entity, or public toll road or transit authority.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC28B0D0BD8314FEDBF741FE354F66B8F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>124.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding subsection 101(d) of Public
Law 112–102, the level of contract authority for administrative expenses of the
Federal-aid highway program for fiscal year 2013 shall be
$426,476,000.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6FE0F3C7B84E4354B75A7E933BE2C07E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>125.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding subsection 111(d)(3) of
Public Law 112–30, funds limited by this Act and made available for purposes
under section 1960 of Public Law 109–59 shall be allocated in accordance with
such section.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id70E929C22CA1491B85EC0776111BD5D6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>126.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idF3C6D365AA7E4B77BE3FF48FEED03E89"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 127 of title 23, United States
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id78EF66CDB8014C1789F4E6218FB39AC6" style="appropriations">
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1F19BA9D1CA64C5F84EA2A97964B4640"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operation of Vehicles on Certain Wisconsin
Highways</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If any segment of
the United States Route 41 corridor described in section 1105(c)(57) of the
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (Public Law 102–240;
105 Stat. 2032; 119 Stat. 1209), is designated as a route on the Interstate
System, a vehicle that could operate legally on the segment before the date of
the designation may continue to operate on the segment without regard to any
requirement under subsection
(a).</text>
</clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD304705095BD493286D59BE62A7DE051" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>127.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id064F3544AC18444A9FF8705CF861D480"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in consultation with each relevant State
and other applicable Federal agencies, shall commence a comprehensive truck
size and weight limits study. The study shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id56d715fbd71a42dd9bbfd5eaf509e717"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide data on accident frequency and
factors related to accident risk of each route of the National Highway System
in each State that allows a vehicle to operate with size and weight limits that
are in excess of the Federal law and regulations and its correlation to truck
size and weight limits;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf6f9f28f642a446d8d3b147546f10071"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">evaluate the impacts to the infrastructure
of each route of the National Highway System in each State that allows a
vehicle to operate with size and weight limits that are in excess of the
Federal law and regulations, including—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3b7ec16097644f52906db0a8e231aa0d"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an analysis that quantifies the cost and
benefits of the impacts in dollars;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id11b2ff8e9d884c1f94ecb68c45982b01"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an analysis of the percentage of trucks
operating in excess of the Federal size and weight limits; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb28c4bb37c3f48d3ba01161443329822"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an analysis that examines the ability of
each State to recover the cost for the impacts, or the benefits
incurred;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9ff9e2522ff14ffbb0dfad7570847ecd"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">evaluate the impacts and frequency of
violations in excess of the Federal size and weight law and regulations to
determine the cost of the enforcement of the law and regulations, and the
effectiveness of the enforcement methods;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id723e6cb76f6d4025899263a11ee0bb54"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">examine the relationship between truck
performance and crash involvement and its correlation to Federal size and
weight limits, including the impacts on crashes;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id23d216fe192440c2bd75b0654a490cf7"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assess the impacts that truck size and
weight limits in excess of the Federal law and regulations have in the risk of
bridge failure contributing to the structural deficiencies of bridges or in the
useful life of a bridge, including the impacts resulting from the number of
bridge loadings;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc4f14bf64c8c4550ae556136da88b60d"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">analyze the impacts on safety and
infrastructure in each State that allows a truck to operate in excess of
Federal size and weight limitations in truck-only lanes;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6bfa32a1b4d64a4f89df6a9fc5331a1f"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">compare and contrast the safety and
infrastructure impacts of the Federal limits regarding truck size and weight
limits in relation to—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idac65199b725f4278ae1fc8fd34fff483"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">six-axle and other alternative
configurations of tractor-trailers; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8c570a7ea9e148d5ac36b17282be12e7"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">safety records of foreign nations with
truck size and weight limits and tractor-trailer configurations that differ
from the Federal law and regulations; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3e206bf755254c498345463b9a8e81b0"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">estimate—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id53fe001fb4844bc09c61c9499a70a751"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the extent to which freight would be
diverted from other surface transportation modes to principal arterial routes
and National Highway System intermodal connectors if each covered truck
configuration is allowed to operate and the effect that any such diversion
would have on other modes of transportation;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc9bf32bdccbf42d590e3b4896056bafb"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the effect that any such diversion would
have on public safety, infrastructure, cost responsibilities, fuel efficiency,
and the environment;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd0635951f0b74eba885b5936dde8b0db"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the effect on the transportation network of
the United States that allowing each covered truck configuration to operate
would have; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id061c83e7a6d74c9588ca65b3f05bfe83"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether allowing each covered truck
configuration to operate would result in an increase or decrease in the total
number of trucks operating on principal arterial routes and National Highway
System intermodal connectors; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id79009ea317d844f0897f11c85fc9e8a8"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identify all Federal rules and regulations
impacted by changes in truck size and weight limits.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida5c124febb5348ec83e919510585ef8d"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 2 years after the date that
the study is commenced under subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit a final
report on the study, including all findings and recommendations, to the House
and Senate Committees on Appropriations, the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the
Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of
Representatives.</text>
</subsection></section><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H4D671C4DF785425C8350887345430DB8"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal motor carrier safety
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H5B6B4777B68C4C8FBD474852BB52BF43"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Motor carrier safety operations and
programs</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HD866F77059534FAE885FAED7181CB540"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(liquidation of contract
authorization)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H03E09937EBEB48F4A4D86EAFD316BC13"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(limitation on
obligations)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HE590DA73E30447718FE7A9C03FFE3250"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H02D5AC8BA8A34FD8A2C62D1ED6E77C73"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For payment of obligations incurred in the
implementation, execution and administration of motor carrier safety operations
and programs pursuant to section 31104(i) of title 49, United States Code, and
sections 4127 and 4134 of Public Law 109–59,
$247,594,000, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That none of the funds
derived from the Highway Trust Fund in this Act shall be available for the
implementation, execution or administration of programs, the obligations for
which are in excess of $247,594,000, for
<quote>Motor Carrier Safety Operations and Programs</quote> of which
$8,543,000, to remain available for obligation
until September 30, 2015, is for the research and technology program and
$1,000,000 shall be available for commercial
motor vehicle operator's grants to carry out section 4134 of Public Law 109–59:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds under this
heading for outreach and education shall be available for transfer:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shall transmit to Congress a
report by March 29, 2013, on the agency's ability to meet its requirement to
conduct compliance reviews on mandatory carriers:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shall transmit to Congress a
report not later than March 29, 2013 on the implementation of a risk-based
vetting methodology to identify chameleon motor carriers applying for operating
authority that includes timelines and performance goals for expanding vetting
to the freight sector, the modification of information systems to improve the
vetting program consistent with the recommendations of GAO Report 12–364, and
other relevant information as deemed appropriate by the Administrator:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shall transmit to Congress a
report not later than December 10, 2012 on the enforcement actions the agency
has taken against motor coach operators that failed to comply with the American
with Disability Act during the previous fiscal year, including the number of
denials or revocations:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s obligation limitation shall
be reduced by $100,000 per day for each day any
report required under this heading is past the deadlines specified
here.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id605787552D0B434E83580D2D5B2E003A"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National Motor Carrier
safety</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id71947D8C17C04098A0C50394DB7D9ED3"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(liquidation of contract
authorization)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id8C7026A02950409F965F03B478AFC591"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(limitation of
obligations)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id935A81EAA0194050AE485339E61DEF74"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For payment of obligations incurred in the
implementation, execution, and administration of national motor carrier safety
programs pursuant to section 31104(i) of title 49, United States Code, and
sections 4127 and 4134 of Public Law 109–59,
$16,000,000, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That none of the funds
derived from the Highway Trust Fund under this heading shall be available for
the implementation, execution or administration of programs, the obligations
for which are in excess of $16,000,000, of which
$3,000,000 shall be made available for the use
of border facilities, $1,000,000 shall be made
available for oversight of the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program and
$12,000,000 shall be made available for
information technology and data analysis activities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
of the $16,000,000 of unobligated contract
authority provided in the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
(Public Law 105–178) or other appropriation or authorization acts for the
national motor carrier safety program,
$3,000,000 shall be made available for the use
of border facilities, $1,000,000 shall be made
available for oversight of the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program and
$12,000,000 shall be made available for
information technology and data analysis
activities.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H26265F78F9F740098EEEF757C366E2EE"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Motor carrier safety
grants</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HDDCD71A81839431BB26EDE6053AB00BD"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(liquidation of contract
authorization)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H75DF5E7480AD4BE08C103595BD796BA2"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(limitation on
obligations)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H21D33E3863F6498690E581DF463949AB"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HE371F8F023B445C8A910A55E77EE20A2"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For payment of obligations incurred in
carrying out sections 31102, 31104(a), 31106, 31107, 31109, 31309, 31313 of
title 49, United States Code, and sections 4126 and 4128 of Public Law 109–59,
$308,624,000, to be derived from the Highway
Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) and to remain available until
expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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
$308,624,000, for <quote>Motor Carrier Safety
Grants</quote>; of which $213,624,000 shall be
available for the motor carrier safety assistance program to carry out sections
31102 and 31104(a) of title 49, United States Code;
$30,000,000 shall be available for the
commercial driver's license improvements program to carry out section 31313 of
title 49, United States Code; $32,000,000 shall
be available for the border enforcement grants program to carry out section
31107 of title 49, United States Code;
$5,000,000 shall be available for the
performance and registration information system management program to carry out
sections 31106(b) and 31109 of title 49, United States Code;
$25,000,000 shall be available for the
commercial vehicle information systems and networks deployment program to carry
out section 4126 of Public Law 109–59; and
$3,000,000 shall be available for the safety
data improvement program to carry out section 4128 of Public Law 109–59:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the funds made available for the motor carrier safety assistance program,
$29,000,000 shall be available for audits of new
entrant motor carriers.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id4BF85244AE3C4E8D8C4F5A2BC850795E"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—FEDERAL MOTOR
CARRIER SAFETY ADMINISTRATION</header>
</appropriations-small><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id662A0411ABF741F1A34F8DFB65E668BC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>130.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds appropriated or limited in this Act
shall be subject to the terms and conditions stipulated in section 350 of
Public Law 107–87 and section 6901 of Public Law 110–28.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H76BD3E4D10064AEBB0D185692DB73642" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>131.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id7BB13B477FC246F6BBCDA649BF48D8F1"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H770F5D75760845D2AD34931E9413756B"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
</subsection></section><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H679C14B5B70A4DF99945B038263A50CC"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National highway traffic safety
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HDF6F8EFEF8D24947AA26B8DA816557EA"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operations and research</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary to discharge the
functions of the Secretary, with respect to traffic and highway safety under
subtitle C of title X of Public Law 109–59 and chapter 301 and part C of
subtitle VI of title 49, United States Code,
$136,686,000, of which
$20,000,000 shall remain available through
September 30, 2014.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H7439503027EB4F14BE378362F947CED9"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operations and
research</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HF817138415104515B64C1F481838605F"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(liquidation of contract
authorization)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H83963A922280440EA1409256BCC769F8"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(limitation on
obligations)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HA1A320A7F6E7416EAD7E248EB2C0F314"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For payment of obligations incurred in
carrying out the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 403, and chapter 303 of title 49,
United States Code, $122,360,000, to be derived
from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) and to remain
available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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 2013, are in excess of
$122,360,000, of which
$118,360,000 shall be for programs authorized
under 23 U.S.C. 403 and $4,000,000 shall be for
the National Driver Register authorized under and chapter 303 of title 49,
United States Code:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
within the $118,360,000 obligation limitation
for operations and research, $20,000,000 shall
remain available until September 30, 2014 and shall be in addition to the
amount of any limitation imposed on obligations for future years:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
$10,000,000 of the total obligation limitation
for operations and research in fiscal year 2013 shall be derived from
unobligated balances in prior appropriation Acts for payment of obligations
incurred in carrying out the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 403, and chapter 303 of
title 49, United States Code.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HFBEF55F4E4D24AA0B695C90B7764542C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Highway traffic safety
grants</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9D3C2839AF234434A840B44CF77F0BCF"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(liquidation of contract
authorization)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9289F8805CF74023899201817142E648"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(limitation on
obligations)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H288D37435C994A68A27E5D9AE0C4470E"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For payment of obligations incurred in
carrying out the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 402, 405, 406, 408, and 410 and
sections 2001(a)(11), 2009, 2010, and 2011 of Public Law 109–59, to remain
available until expended, $550,328,000 to be
derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account):
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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 2013, are in excess of
$550,328,000 for programs authorized under 23
U.S.C. 402, 405, 406, 408, and 410 and sections 2001(a)(11), 2009, 2010, and
2011 of Public Law 109–59, of which $235,000,000
shall be for <quote>Highway Safety Programs</quote> under 23 U.S.C. 402;
$25,000,000 shall be for <quote>Occupant
Protection Incentive Grants</quote> under 23 U.S.C. 405;
$48,500,000 shall be for <quote>Safety Belt
Performance Grants</quote> under 23 U.S.C. 406, and such obligation limitation
shall remain available until September 30, 2014 in accordance with subsection
(f) of such section 406 and shall be in addition to the amount of any
limitation imposed on obligations for such grants for future fiscal years, of
which up to $40,000,000 may be made available by
the Secretary as grants to States that enact and enforce laws to prevent
distracted driving; $34,500,000 shall be for
<quote>State Traffic Safety Information System Improvements</quote> under 23
U.S.C. 408; $139,000,000 shall be for
<quote>Alcohol-Impaired Driving Countermeasures Incentive Grant Program</quote>
under 23 U.S.C. 410; $25,328,000 shall be for
<quote>Administrative Expenses</quote> under section 2001(a)(11) of Public Law
109–59; $29,000,000 shall be for <quote>High
Visibility Enforcement Program</quote> under section 2009 of Public Law 109–59;
$7,000,000 shall be for <quote>Motorcyclist
Safety</quote> under section 2010 of Public Law 109–59; and
$7,000,000 shall be for <quote>Child Safety and
Child Booster Seat Safety Incentive Grants</quote> under section 2011 of Public
Law 109–59:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the funds made available for grants to States that enact and enforce laws to
prevent distracted driving, up to $5,000,000 may
be available for the development, production, and use of broadcast and print
media advertising for distracted driving prevention:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not to exceed $500,000 of the funds made
available for section 410 <quote>Alcohol-Impaired Driving Countermeasures
Grants</quote> shall be available for technical assistance to the States:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not to exceed $750,000 of the funds made
available for the <quote>High Visibility Enforcement Program</quote> shall be
available for the evaluation required under section 2009(f) of Public Law
109–59:<proviso><italic> Provided further,</italic></proviso> That
of the amounts made available under this heading for <quote>Safety Belt
Performance Grants</quote>, $8,500,000 shall be
available for the development of the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety
(DADSS) and other alcohol-impaired prevention
measures.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H69C00146E80045AABC57D42BFE2791C5"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative provisions—national highway
traffic safety administration</header>
</appropriations-small><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1630EAFB535C4592BC6FDA9CC0317F6F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>140.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law
or limitation on the use of funds made available under section 403 of title 23,
United States Code, an additional $130,000 shall
be made available to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, out of
the amount limited for section 402 of title 23, United States Code, to pay for
travel and related expenses for State management reviews and to pay for core
competency development training and related expenses for highway safety
staff.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7F95C17EF3034F1AA358E5B4084B59E9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>141.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The limitations on obligations for the
programs of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration set in this Act
shall not apply to obligations for which obligation authority was made
available in previous public laws but only to the extent that the obligation
authority has not lapsed or been used.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID873E31024453420CAE404E8149B703A5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>142.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act shall be used
to implement section 404 of title 23, United States Code.</text>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H1EAC9E90ECD44A6A94D86F6410EFF217"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal railroad
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H8C5CEBFF73944EF4BCC206A618B46CBD"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Safety and operations<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase></header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Federal
Railroad Administration, not otherwise provided for,
$179,000,000, of which
$12,860,000 shall remain available until
expended.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H1282C12E42454256A9566DE15AB01A26"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Railroad research and
development</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary
expenses for railroad research and development,
$35,000,000, to remain available until
expended.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H05C155D7E070455A93E572DC945303BC"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Railroad rehabilitation and improvement
financing program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The
Secretary of Transportation is authorized to issue direct loans and loan
guarantees pursuant to sections 502 through 504 of the Railroad Revitalization
and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–210), as amended, such
authority to exist as long as any such direct loan and loan guarantee is
outstanding:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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 2013.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HFE6C552B773A47F8A911C1A64A77D081"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operating subsidy grants to the national
railroad passenger corporation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">To enable the Secretary of Transportation to
make quarterly grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation for the
operation of intercity passenger rail, as authorized by section 101 of the
Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (division B of Public Law
110–432), $400,000,000, to remain available
until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the amounts
available under this paragraph shall be available for the Secretary to approve
funding to cover operating losses for the Corporation only after receiving and
reviewing a grant request for each specific train route:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
each such grant request shall be accompanied by a detailed financial analysis,
revenue projection, and capital expenditure projection justifying the Federal
support to the Secretary’s satisfaction:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not later than 60 days after enactment of this Act, the Corporation shall
transmit, in electronic format, to the Secretary, the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations, the House Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation the annual budget and business plan and the 5-Year Financial
Plan for fiscal year 2013 required under section 204 of the Passenger Rail
Investment and Improvement Act of 2008:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the budget, business plan, and the 5-Year Financial Plan shall also include a
separate accounting of ridership, revenues, and capital and operating expenses
for the Northeast Corridor; commuter service; long-distance Amtrak service;
State-supported service; each intercity train route, including Autotrain; and
commercial activities including contract operations:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the budget, business plan and the 5-Year Financial Plan shall include a
description of work to be funded, along with cost estimates and an estimated
timetable for completion of the projects covered by these plans:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the budget, business plan and the 5-Year Financial Plan shall include annual
information on the maintenance, refurbishment, replacement, and expansion for
all Amtrak rolling stock consistent with the comprehensive fleet plan:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Corporation shall provide semiannual reports in electronic format regarding
the pending business plan, which shall describe the work completed to date, any
changes to the business plan, and the reasons for such changes, and shall
identify all sole-source contract awards which shall be accompanied by a
justification as to why said contract was awarded on a sole-source basis, as
well as progress against the milestones and target dates of the 2012
performance improvement plan:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Corporation’s budget, business plan, 5-Year Financial Plan, semiannual
reports, and all subsequent supplemental plans shall be displayed on the
Corporation’s Web site within a reasonable timeframe following their submission
to the appropriate entities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
these plans shall be accompanied by a comprehensive fleet plan for all Amtrak
rolling stock which shall address the Corporation’s detailed plans and
timeframes for the maintenance, refurbishment, replacement, and expansion of
the Amtrak fleet:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
said fleet plan shall establish year-specific goals and milestones and discuss
potential, current, and preferred financing options for all such activities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds under this heading may be obligated or expended until the
Corporation agrees to continue abiding by the provisions of paragraphs 1, 2, 5,
9, and 11 of the summary of conditions for the direct loan agreement of June
28, 2002, in the same manner as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Corporation shall submit to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations a budget request for fiscal year 2014 in similar format and
substance to those submitted by executive agencies of the Federal
Government.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HE0B6D9CEBB7C441F8F34F0CD87497A07"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Capital and debt service grants to the
national railroad passenger corporation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">To enable the Secretary of Transportation to
make grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation for capital
investments as authorized by section 101(c) and 219(b) of the Passenger Rail
Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (division B of Public Law 110–432),
$1,050,000,000, to remain available until
expended, of which not to exceed $271,000,000
shall be for debt service obligations as authorized by section 102 of such Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That after an initial
distribution of up to $200,000,000, which shall
be used by the Corporation as a working capital account, all remaining funds
shall be provided to the Corporation only on a reimbursable basis:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary may retain up to one-half of 1 percent of the funds provided
under this heading to fund the costs of project management oversight of capital
projects funded by grants provided under this heading, as authorized by
subsection 101(d) of division B of Public Law 110–432:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall approve funding for capital expenditures, including advance
purchase orders of materials, for the Corporation only after receiving and
reviewing a grant request for each specific capital project justifying the
Federal support to the Secretary's satisfaction:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds under this heading may be used to subsidize operating losses
of the Corporation:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds under this heading may be used for capital projects not
approved by the Secretary of Transportation or in the Corporation's fiscal year
2013 business plan:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
in addition to the project management oversight funds authorized under section
101(d) of division B of Public Law 110–432, the Secretary may retain up to an
additional one-half of one percent of the funds provided under this heading to
fund expenses associated with implementing section 212 of division B of Public
Law 110–432, including the amendments made by section 212 to section 24905 of
title 49, United States Code.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idB309BF43B3F64356B1256CDA3ADE516A"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Capital assistance for high performance
passenger rail service</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">To
enable the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for projects that solely
improve existing passenger rail corridor services as authorized under sections
26106, 24406, and 24105 of title 49, United States Code,
$100,000,000, to remain available until
expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That up to
$20,000,000 of the funds provided under this
paragraph may be used for planning activities that lead directly to the
development of a passenger rail corridor investment plan consistent with the
requirements established by the Administrator or a state rail plan consistent
with chapter 227 of title 49, United States Code:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary may retain a portion of the funds made available for planning
activities under the previous proviso to facilitate the preparation of a
service development plan and related environmental impact statement for high
performance rail corridors located in multiple States:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall issue a notice of funding availability that shall provide
interim guidance to applicants covering application procedures and administer
the grants provided under this heading pursuant to that guidance:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Federal share payable of the costs for which a grant or cooperative
agreements is made under this heading shall not exceed 80 percent:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
in addition to the provisions of title 49, United States Code, that apply to
each of the individual programs funded under this heading, subsections
24402(f), 24402(i), and 24403(a), (b), and (c) of title 49, United States Code,
shall also apply to the provision of funds provided under this heading:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
a project need not be in a State rail plan developed under Chapter 227 of title
49, United States Code, to be eligible for assistance under this heading:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
up to 2 percent of the funds provided under this paragraph are available to the
Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration to fund the award and
oversight by the Administrator of grants and cooperative agreements for
intercity and high performance rail:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
recipients of grants under this paragraph shall conduct all procurement
transactions using such grant funds in a manner that provides full and open
competition, as determined by the Secretary, in compliance with existing labor
agreements.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id2DEBFDC11F254883BB6FB67CBA76DB44"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Northeast corridor improvement
program</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id361D0308E0A645E78ED052E9AC6DD684"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(rescission)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Of the funds made available for the
Northeast Corridor Improvement Program, as authorized by Public Law 94–210,
$4,419,000 are hereby permanently
rescinded.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id7F12E41770954169BB14819A77D64C4B"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Next generation high speed
rail</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id0B4DB912D1984F2BB42E2F31078CC973"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(rescission)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Of the funds made available for Next
Generation High Speed Rail, as authorized by sections 1103 and 7201 of Public
Law 105–178, $1,973,000 are hereby permanently
rescinded.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9593EFCDA8CE4FF99DC89DB75462748E"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative provisions—federal railroad
administration</header>
</appropriations-small></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H13133C1136DE4310ADD336AC74E8AE0C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>150.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Hereafter, notwithstanding any other
provision of law, funds provided in this Act for the National Railroad
Passenger Corporation shall immediately cease to be available to said
Corporation in the event that the Corporation contracts to have services
provided at or from any location outside the United States. For purposes of
this section, the word <quote>services</quote> shall mean any service that was,
as of July 1, 2006, performed by a full-time or part-time Amtrak employee whose
base of employment is located within the United States.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2F7ADD3977DD424098B68A662118D460" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>151.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Transportation may receive
and expend cash, or receive and utilize spare parts and similar items, from
non-United States Government sources to repair damages to or replace United
States Government owned automated track inspection cars and equipment as a
result of third-party liability for such damages, and any amounts collected
under this section shall be credited directly to the Railroad Safety and
Operations account of the Federal Railroad Administration, and shall remain
available until expended for the repair, operation and maintenance of automated
track inspection cars and equipment in connection with the automated track
inspection program.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3A879B3F0FB743D88E879C3E56521CAC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>152.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFC76E88AC06546DB9F85BCC8D747172D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>153.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds provided to the National
Railroad Passenger Corporation may be used to fund any overtime costs in excess
of $35,000 for any individual employee:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the president of
Amtrak may waive the cap set in the previous proviso for specific employees
when the president of Amtrak determines such a cap poses a risk to the safety
and operational efficiency of the system:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That Amtrak shall notify House and Senate Committees in Appropriations in the
monthly report within 30 days of waiving such cap and delineate the reasons for
such waiver.</text>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HFB2A54DCE15F4C90BDE76B45B27909C9"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal transit
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H854F46018C3D4DFC9C425B4AD2A7B5EE"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative
expenses</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H1D83B9D845DE4ABD9B313C7E322F45C3"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary administrative expenses of the
Federal Transit Administration's programs authorized by chapter 53 of title 49,
United States Code, $99,875,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
upon submission to the Congress of the fiscal year 2014 President's budget, the
Secretary of Transportation shall transmit to Congress the annual report on New
Starts, including proposed allocations of funds for fiscal year
2014.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H5FCD1D8B843441A39BC245AA083158D5"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Formula and Bus
Grants</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H0F5DDB560C1548B8A6CC1B62DED7BC1C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(liquidation of contract
authority)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HC2E95A9420954A9B8A72FFBC0FC4269A"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(limitation on
obligations)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HAB9787A18A53445EBD901B6EC0B17E80"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H12412F75C03545A39A1501E0B42AEE4B"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For payment of obligations incurred in
carrying out the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 5305, 5307, 5308, 5309, 5310, 5311,
5316, 5317, 5320, 5335, 5339, and 5340 and section 3038 of Public Law 105–178,
as amended, $9,400,000,000 to be derived from
the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund and to remain available
until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That funds available for
the implementation or execution of programs authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5305,
5307, 5308, 5309, 5310, 5311, 5316, 5317, 5320, 5335, 5339, and 5340 and
section 3038 of Public Law 105–178, as amended, shall not exceed total
obligations of $8,360,565,000 in fiscal year
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>2013.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HCB276BDB0D154043B2A7FFD60BF40E65"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Research and university research
centers<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase></header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses to carry out 49
U.S.C. <added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>5306,
5312–5315, 5322<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>,
and 5506, $50,000,000, to remain available until
expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That
$5,000,000 is available to carry out the transit
cooperative research program under section 5313 of title 49, United States
Code, $3,000,000 is available for the National
Transit Institute under section 5315 of title 49, United States Code, and up to
$5,000,000 is available for university
transportation centers program under section 5506 of title 49, United States
Code:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
$20,000,000 is available to carry out innovative
research and demonstrations of national significance under section 5312 of
title 49, United States Code.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H347DCD9193FC4094BBE5EF6BC9FDBB9F"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Capital investment
grants</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id4BF6EE21EEE54CCDA1A7A435F905D69E"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses to carry out section
5309 of title 49, United States Code,
$2,043,520,000, to remain available until
expended, of which $20,000,000 shall be
available to carry out section 5309(e) of such title:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That not less than
$120,000,000 shall be available for preliminary
engineering, final design, and construction of projects expected to receive a
Full Funding Grant Agreements during calendar year 2013:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
the funds awarded for preliminary engineering and final design under such a
grant shall be made available to cover those costs immediately upon grant
award.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idE4B8451CCF8C4FCFA8FC7AA9B38E2F4D"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline"> WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT
AUTHORITY</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For grants to the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority as authorized under section 601
of division B of Public Law 110–432,
$150,000,000, to remain available until
expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary shall
approve grants for capital and preventive maintenance expenditures for the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority only after receiving and
reviewing a request for each specific project:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
prior to approving such grants, the Secretary shall determine that the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has placed the highest priority
on those investments that will improve the safety of the
system.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H5E6C5EFE223E48D081680228DFE704C9"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative provisions—federal transit
administration</header>
</appropriations-small></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE255C1731E124F2181105BACA5F06B1E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>160.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1A40BB9AEFCC425BB087A4E9BE28A112" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>161.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
funds appropriated or limited by this Act under the Federal Transit
Administration's discretionary program appropriations headings for projects
specified in this Act or identified in reports accompanying this Act not
obligated by September 30, 2015, and other recoveries, shall be directed to
projects eligible to use the funds for the purposes for which they were
originally provided.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCF8C918397214CD6AA55AD57B690BF50" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>162.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
any funds appropriated before October 1, 2012, 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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5741ADAD8AFC4D6299771086C6E248D3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>163.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
unobligated funds made available for new fixed guideway system projects under
the heading <quote>Federal Transit Administration, Capital Investment
Grants</quote> in any appropriations Act prior to this Act may be used during
this fiscal year to satisfy expenses incurred for such projects.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id33777E9A663444C2A505FF2238FEBCBB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>164.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to the amounts made available
under section 5327(c)(1) of title 49, United States Code, the Secretary may
use, for program management activities described in section 5327(c)(2), 1
percent of the amount made available to carry out section 5316 of title 49,
United States Code:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That funds made
available for program management oversight shall be used to oversee the
compliance of a recipient or subrecipient of Federal transit assistance
consistent with activities identified under section 5327(c)(2) and for purposes
of enforcement.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE097D01ED1CE4350A6E45723A7D175CF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>165.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds made available for Alaska or Hawaii
ferry boats or ferry terminal facilities pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 5309(m)(6)(B)
may be used to construct new vessels and facilities, or to improve existing
vessels and facilities, including both the passenger and vehicle-related
elements of such vessels and facilities, and for repair facilities.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4B4EE8B6F36F414E94D709A9E6226E72" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>166.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Hereafter, the Secretary may not enforce
regulations related to charter bus service under part 604 of title 49, Code of
Federal Regulations, for any transit agency who during fiscal year 2008 was
both initially granted a 60-day period to come into compliance with part 604,
and then was subsequently granted an exception from said part.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA00F6A5AD0204FE29F77F98879C75B6D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>167.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of applying the project
justification and local financial commitment criteria of 49 U.S.C. 5309(d) to a
New Starts project, the Secretary may consider the costs and ridership of any
connected project in an instance in which private parties are making
significant financial contributions to the construction of the connected
project; additionally, the Secretary may consider the significant financial
contributions of private parties to the connected project in calculating the
non-Federal share of net capital project costs for the New Starts
project.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1A35FBAAFF2A4B939A98FC584E42761B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>168.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All bus new fixed guideway capital projects
recommended in the President’s fiscal year 2013 budget request for funds
appropriated under the Capital Investment Grants heading in this Act or any
other Act shall be funded instead from amounts allocated under 49 U.S.C.
5309(m)(2)(C):
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That all such projects
shall remain subject to the appropriate requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5309(d) and
(e).</text>
<appropriations-small commented="no" id="idAF0399F9676744779E8995164B90949D"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(rescissions)</header>
</appropriations-small></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9D80A1DA26744229934B2D8900D6536F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>169.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the funds made available for the Formula
Grants program, as authorized by Public Law 97–424, as amended,
$70,867,394 are hereby permanently rescinded:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of the funds made
available for the Formula Grants program, as authorized by Public Law 91–43, as
amended, $699,307 are hereby permanently
rescinded:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That of the funds made available for the Formula Grants program as authorized
by Public Law 95–599, as amended, $928,838 are
hereby permanently rescinded:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That of the funds made available for the University Transportation Research
program, as authorized by Public Law 91–453, as amended, and by Public Law
102–240, as amended, $292,554 are hereby
permanently rescinded:<proviso><italic> Provided
further,</italic></proviso> That of the funds made available for the Job Access
and Reverse Commute program, as authorized by Public Law 105–178, as amended,
$14,661,719 are hereby permanently rescinded:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That of the funds made available for the Capital Investment Grants program, as
authorized by Public Law 105–178, as amended,
$11,429,055 are hereby permanently rescinded:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That of the funds made available for the Research, Training, and Human
Resources program, as authorized by Public Law 95–599, as amended,
$247,579 are hereby permanently rescinded:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That of the funds made available for the Interstate Transfer Grants program, as
authorized by 23 U.S.C. 103(e)(4), $2,661,568
are hereby permanently rescinded:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That of the funds made available for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority, as authorized by section 14 of Public Law 96–184, as amended, and by
Public Law 101–551, as amended, $523,000 are
hereby permanently rescinded:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That of the funds made available for the Urban Discretionary Grants program, as
authorized by Public Law 88–365, as amended,
$578,353 are hereby permanently rescinded:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the
budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended.</text>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H0250D3C086434497AAC46A65DCCC0842"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Saint lawrence seaway development
corporation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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.</text>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H90B31743C7D9445096BE0B930B0616FD"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operations and
maintenance</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H8D77BFC96C7A4309867450E78B0042A0"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(harbor maintenance trust
fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses
for operations, maintenance, and capital asset renewal of those portions of the
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>St.<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> Lawrence Seaway owned,
operated, and maintained by the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation,
$32,500,000, to be derived from the Harbor
Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to Public Law
99–662.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HD88A12AEF79A4C16B6E38A30F89B9634"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maritime
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H00AB60185ED34A2580CFDB266E1BEF53"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maritime security program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses to maintain and
preserve a U.S.-flag merchant fleet to serve the national security needs of the
United States, $184,000,000, to remain available
until expended.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idF15DE4198A304BE082A898E88BC05295"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operations and
training</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H772E38BE6B334E84B20503836D4DCC12"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of operations and
training activities authorized by law,
$150,896,000, of which
$11,100,000 shall remain available until
expended for maintenance and repair of training ships at State Maritime
Academies, and of which $2,400,000 shall remain
available through September 30, 2014 for Student Incentive Program payments at
State Maritime Academies, and of which
$16,604,000 shall remain available until
expended for facilities maintenance and repair, equipment, and capital
improvements at the United State Merchant Marine Academy:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That amounts apportioned
for the United States Merchant Marine Academy shall be available only upon
allotments made personally by the Secretary of Transportation or the Assistant
Secretary for Budget and Programs:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
the Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent and the Director of the Office of
Resource Management of the United State Merchant Marine Academy may not be
allotment holders for the United States Merchant Marine Academy, and the
Administrator of the Maritime Administration shall hold all allotments made by
the Secretary of Transportation or the Assistant Secretary for Budget and
Programs under the previous proviso:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
50 percent of the funding made available for the United States Merchant Marine
Academy under this heading shall be available only after the Secretary, in
consultation with the Superintendent and the Maritime Administrator, completes
a plan detailing by program or activity how such funding will be expended at
the Academy, and this plan is submitted to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HBC2DB5C7AE6448EE94FC61FD35F931EF"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Ship disposal</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses related to the
disposal of obsolete vessels in the National Defense Reserve Fleet of the
Maritime Administration, $4,000,000, to remain
available until expended.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HC4BDEC75A480458DB55C494A7B41E196"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Assistance to small shipyards</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">To make grants to qualified shipyards as
authorized under section 3508 of Public Law 110–417 or section 54101 of title
46, United States Code, $9,000,000, to remain
available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That to be considered for
assistance, a qualified shipyard shall submit an application for assistance no
later than 60 days after enactment of this Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
from applications submitted under the previous proviso, the Secretary of
Transportation shall make grants no later than 120 days after enactment of this
Act in such amounts as the Secretary determines.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9EBBEB3801E04E6998B659A6A405755A"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maritime guaranteed loan (title xi) program
account</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H67996A1C0AA24B02BDBDB739C3D79424"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the cost of guaranteed loans, as
authorized, $38,750,000, of which
$35,000,000 shall remain available until
expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That such costs,
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not to exceed $3,750,000 shall be available for
administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan program, which shall
be transferred to and merged with the appropriations for <quote>Operations and
Training</quote>, Maritime Administration.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H11449CA1357240739069D665DB254EDA"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative provisions—maritime
administration</header>
</appropriations-small></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC909582F1ABA4DDFB9B3049262E4A71C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>170.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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 therefor shall be credited to the
appropriation charged with the cost thereof:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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.</text>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H1467C5C406AE4F169FA820866F8ED837"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pipeline and hazardous materials safety
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H75283F9312ED4951B749E41728188E87"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline"> Operational
expenses</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9127764AE3724DF29B3C65AF171E24D5"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(pipeline safety
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H6E7534CA1DBF47A3AA1EC31EB5A8EEF1"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary operational expenses of the
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration,
$21,047,000, of which
$639,000 shall be derived from the Pipeline
Safety Fund:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That
$1,000,000 shall be transferred to
<quote>Pipeline Safety</quote> in order to fund <quote>Pipeline Safety
Information Grants to Communities</quote> as authorized under section 60130 of
title 49, United States Code.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idC65137D9F43441E8B1DCC03D279E1BD3"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Hazardous materials safety</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary to discharge the
hazardous materials safety functions of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration, $43,025,000, of which
$1,725,000 shall remain available until
September 30, 2015:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That up to
$800,000 in fees collected under 49 U.S.C.
5108(g) shall be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury as offsetting
receipts:<proviso><italic> Provided further,</italic></proviso>
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 incurred in performance
of hazardous materials exemptions and approvals
functions.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H7DA3465665B2460995222CE220D409EA"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pipeline
safety</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HBB028E471F8C44E091BB9570660C822D"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(pipeline safety
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id9B236F88824C4F009B318B3BB97BEB86"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(oil spill liability trust
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id130834FB2CB641539514562CBCF553DB"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(pipeline safety design review
fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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, $131,844,000, of which
$18,573,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill
Liability Trust Fund and shall remain available until September 30, 2015; of
which $111,271,000 shall be derived from the
Pipeline Safety Fund, of which $72,458,000 shall
remain available until September 30, 2015; and of which
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended,
shall be derived as authorized by the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty,
and Job Creation Act of 2011, 49 U.S.C. 60117(n).</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HB0076844816144879B512AEC45E48A27"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Emergency preparedness
grants</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idB72E207546FE44D8AA84BB01D6783A31"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(emergency preparedness fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses to carry out 49
U.S.C. 5128(b), $188,000, to be derived from the
Emergency Preparedness Fund, to remain available until September 30, 2014:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That not more than
$28,318,000 shall be made available for
obligation in fiscal year 2013 from amounts made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(i)
and 5128(b)–(c):
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(i), 5128(b), or 5128(c)
shall be made available for obligation by individuals other than the Secretary
of Transportation, or his designee:<proviso><italic> Provided
further,</italic></proviso> That unobligated balances of funds provided under
this paragraph not needed for fiscal year 2013 from the sum made available
herein shall remain available until expended to invest in the data management
and information technology modernization efforts, including related equipment
and non-payroll administrative expenses associated solely with this information
technology and telecommunications infrastructure.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idD2EA87BB69C84C7F813EF5342E7D0642"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—pipeline and
hazardous materials safety administration</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"></text>
</appropriations-small></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8634C6424CB443A4870A918A6095A968" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>180.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In administering the assessment and
collection of fees for Cost Recovery for Design Reviews authorized in section
60117(n)(1)(B) of title 49, the definition of <quote>project</quote> shall
include all costs associated with all components, segments or phases of such
project:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That if the cost
recovery for hazardous liquid pipeline projects is based on the project costs
provided to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or other applicable
regulatory agency for determinations of transportation tariffs, no good faith
estimate under section 60117(n)(1)(B)(i)(II) is required.</text>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="id26E72F24D80142049CF841DC9F5A399E"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Office of inspector
general</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idDD8D277E5FA74B20ABD6F0DB3DFC5E88"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Office of
Inspector General to carry out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of
1978, as amended, $84,499,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the funds made available under this heading
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>may<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
hereafter funds transferred to the Office of the Inspector General through
forfeiture proceedings or from the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund
or the Department of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund, as a participating agency,
as an equitable share from the forfeiture of property in investigations in
which the Office of Inspector General participates, or through the granting of
a Petition for Remission or Mitigation, shall be deposited to the credit of
this account for law enforcement activities authorized under the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended, to remain available until
expended.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H59D77C95861C4C05BE63B03A5D5D1D92"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Surface transportation
board</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idFDB43AF1B4DB4822A6693E44C1F8245A"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Surface
Transportation Board, including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109,
$29,300,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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 2013, to result in a final appropriation from the general fund
estimated at no more than
$28,050,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H5F9227399058477098E1BBADE8FCE8EA"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">General provisions—Department of
transportation</header>
</appropriations-intermediate></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H01EC10FEF28C4E7A829CB7478F2BA9CA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>190.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3D2A8336DE924E9698E7AD55A07345DA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>191.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID09833B0F5BC44017AF1E45F8A3A16FCF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>192.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act shall be
available for salaries and expenses of more than 110 political and Presidential
appointees in the Department of Transportation:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That none of the
personnel covered by this provision may be assigned on temporary detail outside
the Department of Transportation.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4AA26E98D6A34491A638114A5A72D749" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>193.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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 <quote>Federal-Aid
Highways</quote> account, the Federal Transit Administration's <quote>Research
and University Research Centers</quote> account, and to the Federal Railroad
Administration's <quote>Safety and Operations</quote> account, except for State
rail safety inspectors participating in training pursuant to 49 U.S.C.
20105.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1EF90967E8C94526A7458305E291E71E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>194.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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 project competitively selected to
receive a discretionary grant award, 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:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD12C102425A64DD3B7AFD4C0295ECB5B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any discretionary grant program of the
Federal Highway Administration including the emergency relief program;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3FF866D9268D42DFB41254E0593153B2"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the airport improvement program of the
Federal Aviation Administration;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0B8BDAB544DB44A0B8405D47A9DA672E"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any program of the Federal Railroad
Administration;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id19A8AB1B1D64488D8674291965CB1798"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any program of the Federal Transit
Administration other than the formula grants and fixed guideway modernization
programs; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9E607C16EC1149219F7D17DB220E56BB"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any funding provided under the headings
<quote>National Infrastructure Investments</quote> and <quote>Assistance to
Small Shipyards</quote> in this Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary
gives concurrent notification to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations for any <quote>quick release</quote> of funds from the emergency
relief program:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That no notification shall involve funds that are not available for
obligation.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8FC4F59EFF4A4CA69EBFEADA3C4F3E38" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>195.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2DD267D20D474E389ED25917B12DD3C6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>196.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE19C68403ACA444D8F6C288BBC1B2E9D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to reimburse the actual expenses incurred
by the Department of Transportation in recovering improper payments; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5DD8F9954B5E43118465645AADB209E6"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to pay contractors for services provided in
recovering improper payments or contractor support in the implementation of the
Improper Payments Information Act of 2002:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That amounts in excess
of that required for paragraphs (1) and (2)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5290A838957F4C2BAD6DF155367901A7"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H07631A4B116E42E89A114738AD804EF4"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if no such appropriation remains available,
shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That prior to the transfer of any such recovery to an appropriations account,
the Secretary shall notify to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations
of the amount and reasons for such transfer:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That for purposes of this section, the term <quote>improper payments</quote>,
has the same meaning as that provided in section 2(d)(2) of Public Law
107–300.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1DEE5FC4C1494F9FBC822A32EB320495" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>197.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
if any funds provided in or limited by this Act are subject to a reprogramming
action that requires notice to be provided to the House and Senate Committees
on Appropriations, said reprogramming action shall be approved or denied solely
by the Committees on Appropriations:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary may
provide notice to other congressional committees of the action of the
Committees on Appropriations on such reprogramming but not sooner than 30 days
following the date on which the reprogramming action has been approved or
denied by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2C812EB33F994C35B6DE91A3B9C138A9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>198.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available under this Act may be used by the Surface Transportation Board
of the Department of Transportation to charge or collect any filing fee for
rate or practice complaints filed with the Board in an amount in excess of the
amount authorized for district court civil suit filing fees under section 1914
of title 28, United States Code.</text>
<appropriations-small commented="no" id="H3DF89350F72D4BFC8DC61521212FCE9A"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the
<quote><short-title>Department of Transportation
Appropriations Act, 2013</short-title></quote>.</text>
</appropriations-small></section><enum>II</enum><header display-inline="no-display-inline">Department of housing and urban
development</header>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="IDF1FC8500CCA44AF2982B212A9B18C51E"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Management and
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HA5FB2AFD0A31406FA3F80EAF2E1A8CB7"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administration, Operations, and
Management</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary
salaries and expenses for administration, management and operations of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development,
$527,690,000, of which not to exceed
$3,623,000 shall be available for the immediate
Office of the Secretary; not to exceed
$1,206,000 shall be for the Office of Deputy
Secretary and Chief Operating Officer; not to exceed
$1,711,000 shall be available for the Office of
Hearings and Appeals; not to exceed $705,000
shall be available for the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business
Utilization; not to exceed $48,321,000 shall be
available for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer; not to exceed
$94,433,000 shall be available for the Office of
the General Counsel; not to exceed $2,411,000
shall be available to the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental
Relations; not to exceed $3,502,000 shall be
available for the Office of Public Affairs; not to exceed
$248,950,000 shall be available for the Office
of the Chief Human Capital Officer; not to exceed
$54,965,000 shall be available for the Office of
Field Policy and Management; not to exceed
$16,563,000 shall be available for the Office of
the Chief Procurement Officer; not to exceed
$3,500,000 shall be available for the Office of
Departmental Equal Employment Opportunity; not to exceed
$1,404,000 shall be available for the Center for
Faith-Based and Community Initiatives; not to exceed
$2,642,000 shall be available for the Office of
Sustainable Housing and Communities; not to exceed
$4,884,000 shall be available for the Office of
Strategic Planning and Management; and not to exceed
$38,870,000 shall be available for the Office of
the Chief Information Officer:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That funds provided under
this heading may be used for necessary administrative and nonadministrative
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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appropriated under this
heading may be used for advertising and promotional activities that support the
housing mission area:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall provide the Committees on Appropriations quarterly written
notification regarding the status of pending congressional reports:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall provide all signed reports required by Congress
electronically:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not to exceed $25,000 of the amount made
available under this paragraph for the immediate Office of the Secretary shall
be available for official reception and representation expenses as the
Secretary may determine.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H26A0E847B60D48C1A576EF1A66FB0DC0"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Program Office Salaries and
Expenses</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H63D6E698251241789C4D0AD0D71F0612"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Public and indian housing</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary salaries and expenses of the
Office of Public and Indian Housing,
$206,500,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9DC61FAC83544461A34E25887C4F412C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Community planning and
development</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary
salaries and expenses of the Office of Community Planning and Development
mission area,
$103,500,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HDBA3B41098A041BABEAB86A78517B6A7"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Housing</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary salaries and expenses of the
Office of Housing, $398,500,000, of which at
least $8,500,000 shall be for the Office of Risk
and Regulatory Affairs.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H5027CC92109447679E6FCBDA174A15EC"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Policy development and
research</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary
salaries and expenses of the Office of Policy Development and Research,
$22,326,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HE45FE60F18AB4AC3B986CDE4385B6065"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fair housing and equal
opportunity</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary
salaries and expenses of the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity,
$72,904,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H663536F58B3F428E82A53CA00136940B"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Office of healthy homes and lead hazard
control</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary salaries
and expenses of the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control,
$7,433,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="id23935BD75C544D01AC6E2F2998F8B07D"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Public and Indian
housing</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H400F0256D5584330815AFC546B892CC2"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Tenant-based rental
assistance</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H80DAB0FC7133434BB965F75E2DD0AB81"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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.) (<quote>the
Act</quote> herein), not otherwise provided for,
$15,396,335,000, to remain available until
expended, shall be available on October 1, 2012 (in addition to the
$4,000,000,000 previously appropriated under
this heading that will become available on October 1, 2012), and
$4,000,000,000, to remain available until
expended, shall be available on October 1, 2013:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of the amounts made
available under this heading are provided as
follows:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2F88C3349E2447B99B1E7B2F07EDD4B6"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$17,495,000,000
shall be available 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) and
including renewal of other special purpose incremental vouchers:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That notwithstanding
any other provision of law, from amounts provided under this paragraph and any
carryover, the Secretary for the calendar year
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>2013<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> funding cycle shall provide
renewal funding for each public housing agency based on
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>validated<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> voucher management system (VMS)
leasing and cost data for the prior calendar year and by applying an inflation
factor as established by the Secretary, by notice published in the Federal
Register, and by making any necessary adjustments for the costs associated with
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>the<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> first-time
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>renewal of
vouchers under this paragraph<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> including tenant protection
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>and<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> HOPE VI vouchers:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That none of the funds provided under this paragraph may be used to fund a
total number of unit months under lease which exceeds a public housing agency's
authorized level of units under contract, except for public housing agencies
participating in the Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration, which are instead
governed by the terms and conditions of their MTW agreements:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary shall, to the extent necessary to stay within the amount
specified under this paragraph, pro rate each public housing agency's
allocation otherwise established pursuant to this paragraph:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That except as provided in the <added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>following<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> provisos, the entire amount
specified under this paragraph shall be obligated to the public housing
agencies based on the allocation and pro rata method described above, and the
Secretary shall notify public housing agencies of their annual budget by the
latter of 60 days after enactment of this Act or March 1, 2013:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary may extend the 60-day notification period with the prior
written approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That public housing agencies participating in the MTW demonstration shall be
funded pursuant to their MTW agreements and shall be subject to the same pro
rata adjustments under the previous provisos:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That up to $75,000,000 shall be available only:
(1) for adjustments in the allocations for public housing agencies, after
application for an adjustment by a public housing agency that experienced a
significant increase, as determined by the Secretary, in renewal costs of
vouchers resulting from unforeseen circumstances or from portability under
section 8(r) of the Act; (2) for vouchers that were not in use during the
12-month period in order to be available to meet a commitment pursuant to
section 8(o)(13) of the Act; and (3) for adjustments for costs associated with
HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD–VASH) vouchers;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4683388305214C4CAAD72348CB8E0991"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$80,000,000
shall be for section 8 rental assistance for relocation and replacement of
housing units that are demolished or disposed of pursuant to section 18 of the
Act, 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,
and tenant protection assistance including replacement and relocation
assistance or for project-based assistance to prevent the displacement of
unassisted elderly tenants currently residing in section 202 properties
financed between 1959 and 1974 that are refinanced pursuant to Public Law
106–569, as amended, or under the authority as provided under this Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That when a public
housing development is submitted for demolition or disposition under section 18
of the Act, the Secretary may provide section 8 rental assistance when the
units pose an imminent health and safety risk to residents:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary may only provide replacement vouchers for units that were
occupied within the previous 24 months that cease to be available as assisted
housing, subject only to the availability of funds:<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That of the amounts
made available under this paragraph, $5,000,000
may be available to provide tenant protection assistance, not otherwise
provided under this paragraph, to residents residing in low-vacancy areas and
who pay or may have to pay rents greater than 30 percent of household income,
as the result of (1) the maturity of a HUD-insured, HUD-held, or section 202 of
the Housing Act of 1959 loan that requires the permission of the Secretary
prior to loan prepayment; (2) the expiration of a rental assistance contract
for which the tenants are not eligible for enhanced voucher or tenant
protection assistance under existing law; or (3) the expiration of
affordability restrictions accompanying a mortgage or preservation program
administered by the Secretary:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That such tenant protection assistance made available under the previous
proviso may be provided under the authority of section 8(t) or section 8(o)(13)
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(t) or (o)(13)):
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary shall issue guidance to implement the previous two provisos,
including, but not limited to, requirements for defining eligible at-risk
households within 120 days of the enactment of this Act;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3CB90B6A37B94E9183207B15A8FD0589"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$1,575,000,000
shall be for administrative and other expenses of public housing agencies in
administering the section 8 tenant-based rental assistance program, of which up
to $15,000,000 shall be available to the
Secretary to allocate to public housing agencies that need additional funds to
administer their section 8 programs, including fees associated with section 8
tenant protection rental assistance, the administration of disaster related
vouchers, Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing vouchers, and other incremental
vouchers:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That no less than
$1,560,000,000 of the amount provided in this
paragraph shall be allocated to public housing agencies for the calendar year
2013 funding cycle based on section 8(q) of the Act (and related Appropriation
Act provisions) as in effect immediately before the enactment of the Quality
Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–276):
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That if the amounts made available under this paragraph are insufficient to pay
the amounts determined under the previous proviso, the Secretary may decrease
the amounts allocated to agencies by a uniform percentage applicable to all
agencies receiving funding under this paragraph or may, to the extent necessary
to provide full payment of amounts determined under the previous proviso,
utilize unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryovers, remaining
from funds appropriated to the Department of Housing and Urban Development
under this heading from prior fiscal years, notwithstanding the purposes for
which such amounts were appropriated:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso>
That all public housing agencies participating in the MTW demonstration shall
be funded pursuant to their MTW agreements, and shall be subject to the same
uniform percentage decrease as under the previous proviso:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That 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;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA0706ACE0FDD4A79B076D1EBD59CAD5E"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$60,000,000
shall be available for family self-sufficiency coordinators under section 23 of
the Act;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6DBE6B069AF8433B87B8461043A091F3"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$111,335,000
for the renewal of tenant-based assistance contracts under section 811 of the
Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013), including
necessary administrative expenses;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2B4F57D39682415EB3796269534DFCF5"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$75,000,000
for incremental rental voucher assistance for use through a supported housing
program administered in conjunction with the Department of Veterans Affairs as
authorized under section 8(o)(19) of the United States Housing Act of 1937:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development shall make such funding available,
notwithstanding section 204 (competition provision) of this title, to public
housing agencies that partner with eligible VA Medical Centers or other
entities as designated by the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs,
based on geographical need for such assistance as identified by the Secretary
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, public housing agency administrative
performance, and other factors as specified by the Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development in consultation with the Secretary of the Department of
Veterans Affairs:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may waive, or specify
alternative requirements for (in consultation with the Secretary of the
Department of Veterans Affairs), any provision of any statute or regulation
that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development administers in connection
with the use of funds made available under this paragraph (except for
requirements related to fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor standards, and
the environment), upon a finding by the Secretary that any such waivers or
alternative requirements are necessary for the effective delivery and
administration of such voucher assistance:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That assistance made available under this paragraph shall continue to remain
available for homeless veterans upon turn-over<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>;<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase></text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H68DB6DC0E82F4D96B6572254179FB6FB"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall separately track all
special purpose vouchers funded under this heading.</text>
</paragraph></appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H73A14FE32142433EA8658C92B0859796"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Housing certificate
fund</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idFD41627451744E2C83151BAFFEE65577"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline"><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>(includes
rescissions)<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase></header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Unobligated balances, including recaptures
and carryover, remaining from funds appropriated to the Department of Housing
and Urban Development under this heading, the heading <quote>Annual
Contributions for Assisted Housing</quote> and the heading <quote>Project-Based
Rental Assistance</quote>, for fiscal year 2013 and prior years may be used for
renewal of or amendments to section 8 project-based contracts and for
performance-based contract administrators, notwithstanding the purposes for
which such funds were appropriated:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That any obligated
balances of contract authority from fiscal year 1974 and prior that have been
terminated shall be rescinded:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
amounts heretofore recaptured, or recaptured during the current fiscal year,
from section 8 project-based contracts from source years fiscal year 1975
through fiscal year 1987 are hereby rescinded, and an amount of additional new
budget authority, equivalent to the amount rescinded is hereby appropriated, to
remain available until expended, for the purposes set forth under this heading,
in addition to amounts otherwise available.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H216376FD3666439CAC964BAD7AF1B721"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Public housing capital
fund</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HC59B944BEFD142A79D8F809B05B705F1"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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 (42 U.S.C.
1437g) (the <quote>Act</quote>) $1,985,000,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2016:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law or regulation, during fiscal year 2013 the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
for purposes of such section 9(j), the term <term>obligate</term> means, with
respect to amounts, that the amounts are subject to a binding agreement that
will result in outlays, immediately or in the future:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
up to $15,345,000 shall be to support the
ongoing Public Housing Financial and Physical Assessment activities of the Real
Estate Assessment Center (REAC):
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the total amount provided under this heading, not to exceed
$20,000,000 shall be available for the Secretary
to make grants, notwithstanding section 204 of this Act, to public housing
agencies for emergency capital needs including safety and security measures
necessary to address crime and drug-related activity as well as needs resulting
from unforeseen or unpreventable emergencies and natural disasters excluding
Presidentially declared emergencies and natural disasters under the Robert T.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) occurring
in fiscal year 2013:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the total amount provided under this heading
$50,000,000 shall be for supportive services,
service coordinator and congregate services as authorized by section 34 of the
Act (42 U.S.C. 1437z–6) and the Native American Housing Assistance and
Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.):
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the total amount made available under this heading, up to
$15,000,000 may be used for incentives as part
of a Jobs-Plus Pilot initiative modeled after the Jobs-Plus demonstration:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the funding provided under the previous proviso shall provide competitive
grants to partnerships between public housing authorities, local workforce
investment boards established under section 117 of the Workforce Investment Act
of 1998, and other agencies and organizations that provide support to help
public housing residents obtain employment and increase earnings:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
applicants must demonstrate the ability to provide services to residents,
partner with workforce investments boards, and leverage service dollars:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary may set aside a portion of the funds provided for the Resident
Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency program to support the services element of the
Jobs Plus Initiative Pilot:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary may allow PHAs to request exemptions from rent and income
limitation requirements under sections 3 and 6 of the United States Housing Act
of 1937 as necessary to implement the Jobs-Plus program, on such terms and
conditions as the Secretary may approve upon a finding by the Secretary that
any such waivers or alternative requirements are necessary for the effective
implementation of the Jobs-Plus Pilot initiative:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall publish by notice in the Federal Register any waivers or
alternative requirements pursuant to the preceding proviso no later than 10
days before the effective date of such notice:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
of the total amount provided under this heading, up to
$5,000,000 is to support the costs of
administrative and judicial receiverships:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
from the funds made available under this heading, the Secretary shall provide
bonus awards in fiscal year 2013 to public housing agencies that are designated
high performers.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id5CCFC672C8DD4C3FBBEEDBE8661E2A97"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Public housing operating
fund</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id42C8A0A4EA23485EA608CD31425D6AB2"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For 2013 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 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)),
$4,591,000,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That in determining
public housing agencies', including Moving to Work agencies', calendar year
2013 funding allocations under this heading, the Secretary shall take into
account the impact of changes to flat rents on public housing agencies' formula
income levels.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H0139409A5326499E90AB05F6EDFB5807"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Choice neighborhoods</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For competitive grants under the Choice
Neighborhoods Initiative (subject to section 24 of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v), unless otherwise specified under this heading),
for transformation, rehabilitation, and replacement housing needs of both
public and HUD-assisted housing and to transform neighborhoods of poverty into
functioning, sustainable mixed income neighborhoods with appropriate services,
schools, public assets, transportation and access to jobs,
$120,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2015:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That grant funds may be
used for resident and community services, community development, and affordable
housing needs in the community, and for conversion of vacant or foreclosed
properties to affordable housing:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
grantees shall undertake comprehensive local planning with input from residents
and the community, and that grantees shall provide a match in State, local,
other Federal or private funds:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
grantees may include local governments, tribal entities, public housing
authorities, and nonprofits:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
for-profit developers may apply jointly with a public entity:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
of the amount provided, not less than
$80,000,000 shall be awarded to public housing
authorities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
such grantees shall create partnerships with other local organizations
including assisted housing owners, service agencies, and resident
organizations:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall consult with the Secretaries of Education, Labor,
Transportation, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, and Commerce and the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to coordinate and leverage
other appropriate Federal resources:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
no more than $5,000,000 of funds made available
under this heading may be provided to assist communities in developing
comprehensive strategies for implementing this program or implementing other
revitalization efforts in conjunction with community notice and input:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall develop and publish guidelines for the use of such
competitive funds, including but not limited to eligible activities, program
requirements, and performance metrics.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HE68C1FEEDB3940DCBC25921629FDD232"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Native american housing block
grants</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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.), $650,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2017:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the amounts made available under this heading,
$4,000,000 shall be contracted for assistance
for a national organization representing Native American housing interests for
providing training and technical assistance to Indian housing authorities and
tribally designated housing entities as authorized under NAHASDA; and
$4,000,000 shall be to support the inspection of
Indian housing units, contract expertise, training, and technical assistance in
the training, oversight, and management of such Indian housing and tenant-based
assistance, including up to $300,000 for related
travel:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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
$18,332,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
the Department will notify grantees of their formula allocation within 60 days
of the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H7996523B0F394F2D8E945F286830C807"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Native hawaiian housing block
grant</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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.), $13,000,000, to remain available until
expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of this amount,
$300,000 shall be for training and technical
assistance activities, including up to $100,000
for related travel by HUD employees.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HAEB2EC161D16478D92CDE0D4CBD8040B"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Indian housing loan guarantee fund program
account</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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),
$6,000,000, to remain available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That such costs,
including the costs of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of which
is to be guaranteed, up to $633,000,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
up to $750,000 of this amount may be for
administrative contract expenses including management processes and systems to
carry out the loan guarantee program.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H949970ED3C614AEE9E67EAFA463B6991"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Native hawaiian housing loan guarantee fund
program account</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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) and for such costs for loans used for
refinancing, $386,000, to remain available until
expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That such costs,
including the costs of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of which
is to be guaranteed, up to $41,504,000 to remain
available until expended.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HBE7E3C5848C546B980951220C25346E7"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Community planning and
development</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HDEBE98CD3EF54635AE24667476DA6CDF"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Housing opportunities for persons with
aids</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H8297120DE60F40059EEACD2242953A01"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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.), $330,000,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2014, except that amounts allocated
pursuant to section 854(c)(3) of such Act shall remain available until
September 30, 2015:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
the Department will notify grantees of their formula allocation within 60 days
of the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H305F77851BF643F898CA12B393D0D386"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Community development
fund</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H2A05D7D48F9745B0A854D8533453645D"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For assistance to units of State and local
government, and to other entities, for economic and community development
activities, and for other purposes,
$3,210,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2015, unless otherwise specified:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of the total amount
provided, $3,100,000,000 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 <quote>Act</quote> herein)
(42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.):
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
unless explicitly provided for under this heading (except for planning grants
provided in the second paragraph and amounts made available under the third
paragraph), 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
$60,000,000 shall be for grants to Indian tribes
notwithstanding section 106(a)(1) of such Act, of which, notwithstanding any
other provision of law (including section 204 of this Act), up to
$3,960,000 may be used for emergencies that
constitute imminent threats to health and safety.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id412A5453D4CF42C5BDA08D6F233CB366"><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>Of the amounts made available
under this heading, $50,000,000 shall be made
available for a Sustainable Communities Initiative to improve regional planning
efforts that integrate housing and transportation decisions, and increase the
capacity to improve land use and zoning:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the funding provided
shall be for Regional Integrated Planning Grants to support the linking of
transportation and land use planning and for Community Challenge Planning
Grants to foster reform and reduce barriers to achieve affordable, economically
vital, and sustainable communities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not less than $12,500,000 of the funding made
available under this heading shall be awarded to metropolitan areas of less
than 500,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary will consult with the Secretary of Transportation in evaluating
grant proposals.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H41B7D5DAA4DC4E49B8061140DBC076A8"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Community development loan guarantees
program account</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subject to
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, during fiscal year 2013
commitments to guarantee loans under section 108 of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974, any part of which is guaranteed, shall not exceed a
total principal amount of $500,000,000,
notwithstanding any aggregate limitation on outstanding obligations guaranteed
in subsection (k) of such section 108:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary shall
collect fees from borrowers, notwithstanding subsection (m) of such section
108, to result in a credit subsidy cost of zero, and such fees such be
collected in accordance with section 502(7) of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H0AEFC92B53EE44378DA2E7C31192CC17"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Home investment partnerships
program</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HAE61A9F19EF54FB1AE2DCC84BB1B149B"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the HOME investment partnerships
program, as authorized under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National
Affordable Housing Act, as amended,
$1,000,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2015:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That notwithstanding the
amount made available under this heading, the threshold reduction requirements
in sections 216(10) and 217(b)(4) of such Act shall not apply to allocation of
such amount:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
funds made available under this heading used for projects not completed within
4 years of the commitment date, as determined by a signature of each party to
the agreement, shall be repaid:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
the Secretary may extend the deadline for 1 year if the Secretary determines
that the failure to complete the project is beyond the control of the
participating jurisdiction:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
no funds provided under this heading may be committed to any project included
as part of a participating jurisdiction's plan under section 105(b), unless
each participating jurisdiction certifies that it has conducted an underwriting
review, assessed developer capacity and fiscal soundness, and examined
neighborhood market conditions to ensure adequate need for each
project:<proviso><italic> Provided further,</italic></proviso>
That any homeownership units funded under this heading which cannot be sold to
an eligible homeowner within 6 months of project completion shall be rented to
an eligible tenant:<proviso><italic> Provided
further,</italic></proviso> That no funds provided under this heading may be
awarded for development activities to a community housing development
organization that cannot demonstrate that it is has staff with demonstrated
development experience:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
funds provided in prior appropriations Acts for technical assistance, that were
made available for Community Housing Development Organizations technical
assistance, and that still remain available, may be used for HOME technical
assistance notwithstanding the purposes for which such amounts were
appropriated:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
the Department shall notify grantees of their formula allocation within 60 days
of enactment of this Act.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H3F618804441A4461AA39F197DFD0ABFF"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Self-help and assisted homeownership
opportunity program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the
Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Opportunity Program, as authorized under
section 11 of the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996, as
amended, $53,500,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2015:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of the total amount
provided under this heading, $13,500,000 shall
be made available to the Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Opportunity
Program as authorized under section 11 of the Housing Opportunity Program
Extension Act of 1996, as amended:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
$35,000,000 shall be made available for the
second, third and fourth capacity building activities authorized under section
4(a) of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 9816 note), of which not
less than $5,000,000 may be made available for
rural capacity-building activities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
$5,000,000 shall be made available for
capacity-building activities for a national organization with expertise in
rural housing, including experience working with rural housing organizations,
local governments, and Indian tribes.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H718963EF2C7643A6931EE2F173BD4141"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Homeless assistance
grants</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H288E9FB2483A41728EECBF7619AD0333"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the emergency
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>solutions<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> grants program as authorized
under subtitle B of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as
amended; the <added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>continuum of care<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> program as authorized under
subtitle C of title IV of such Act; and the
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>rural housing
stability assistance<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> program as authorized under
subtitle D of title IV of such Act,
$2,146,000,000, of which
$2,141,000,000 shall remain available until
September 30, 2015, and of which $5,000,000
shall remain available until expended
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>for project-based
rental assistance with rehabilitation projects with 10-year grant terms and any
rental assistance amounts that are recaptured under such continuum of care
program shall remain available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That not less than
$286,000,000 of the funds appropriated under
this heading shall be available for such emergency solutions grants program:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not less than $1,841,262,000 of the funds
appropriated under this heading shall be available for such continuum of care
and rural housing stability assistance programs:<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That up to
$8,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this
heading shall be available for the national homeless data analysis project:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
for all match requirements applicable to funds made available under this
heading for this fiscal year and prior years, a grantee may use (or could have
used) as a source of match funds other funds administered by the Secretary and
other Federal agencies unless there is (or was) a specific statutory
prohibition on any such use of any such funds:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall renew on an annual basis expiring contracts or amendments
to contracts funded under the <added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>continuum of<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
all balances for Shelter Plus Care renewals previously funded from the Shelter
Plus Care Renewal account and transferred to this account shall be available,
if recaptured, for continuum of care renewals in fiscal year 2013:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
the term local government includes an instrumentality of a unit of general
purpose local government other than a public housing agency that is established
pursuant to legislation and designated by the chief executive to act on behalf
of the local government with regard to activities funded under this heading and
includes a combination of general purpose local governments, such as an
association of governments, that is recognized by the Secretary:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
the term State includes any instrumentality of any of the several States
designated by the Governor to act on behalf of the State and does not include
Washington, DC:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
for purposes of environmental review, the Secretary shall continue to permit
assistance and projects under this heading to be treated as assistance for
special projects that are subject to section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing
Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994, and subject to the regulations issued
by the Secretary to implement such section:<proviso><italic>
Provided further,</italic></proviso> That a metropolitan city and an urban
county that each receive an allocation under this heading and are located
within a geographic area that is covered by a single continuum of care may
jointly request the Secretary to permit the urban county or the metropolitan
city, as agreed to by such county and city, to receive and administer their
combined allocations under a single grant:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
the Department shall notify grantees of their formula allocation from amounts
allocated (which may represent initial or final amounts allocated) for the
emergency solutions grant program within 60 days of enactment of this
Act.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HFB347262BDF84041A1C1E998AD003461"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Housing
programs</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H8EC83A130943439D92022ECC9768EFD5"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Project-based rental
assistance</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H62D30A05332741B5B4718FA599A83B8A"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For activities and assistance for the
provision of project-based subsidy contracts under the United States Housing
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (<quote>the Act</quote>), not otherwise
provided for, $9,475,795,000, to remain
available until expended, shall be available on October 1,
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>2012 (in addition
to the $400,000,000 previously appropriated
under this heading that will become available October 1, 2012)<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>, and
$400,000,000, to remain available until
expended, shall be available on October 1, 2013:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the amounts made
available under this heading shall be available 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 (42 U.S.C. 11401), 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the total amounts provided under this heading, not to exceed
$260,000,000 shall be available for
performance-based contract administrators for section 8 project-based
assistance:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso><italic> further</italic>,
That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may also use such amounts
in the previous proviso for performance-based contract administrators for the
administration of: 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 (12 U.S.C. 1701q); project rental
assistance contracts for supportive housing for persons with disabilities under
section 811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42
U.S.C. 8013(d)(2)); 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):
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
amounts recaptured under this heading, the heading <quote>Annual Contributions
for Assisted Housing</quote>, or the heading <quote>Housing Certificate
Fund</quote>, may be used for renewals of or amendments to section 8
project-based contracts or for performance-based contract administrators,
notwithstanding the purposes for which such amounts were appropriated:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the request of the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, project funds that are held in
residual receipts accounts for any project subject to a section 8 project-based
Housing Assistance Payments contract that authorizes HUD to require that
surplus project funds be deposited in an interest-bearing residual receipts
account and that are in excess of an amount to be determined by the Secretary,
shall be remitted to the Department and deposited in this account, to be
available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
amounts deposited pursuant to the previous proviso shall be available in
addition to the amount otherwise provided by this heading for uses authorized
under this heading.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H22BBAA53072840E1B04B161587D94F26"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Housing for the
elderly</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H744C5D74A3564356AB9682F724CE4A6D"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For 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 senior preservation rental assistance contracts, as
authorized by section 811(e) of the American Housing and Economic Opportunity
Act of 2000, as amended, and for supportive services associated with the
housing, $375,000,000 to remain available until
September 30, 2016:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That of the amount
provided under this heading, up to $70,000,000
shall be for service coordinators and the continuation of existing congregate
service grants for residents of assisted housing projects, and of which up to
$20,000,000 shall be for grants under section
202(b) of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q–2) for conversion of
eligible projects under such section to assisted living, service-enriched
housing, or related use for substantial and emergency repairs as determined by
the Secretary:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
amounts under this heading shall be available for Real Estate Assessment Center
inspections and inspection-related activities associated with section 202
projects:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> 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.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H0AA25EFBE23D4D8AB482724066AFA4D3"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Housing for persons with
disabilities</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HC86E5978EAC8459CAAB7273D2CBE4232"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For 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 (42 U.S.C. 8013)
for project rental assistance for supportive housing for persons with
disabilities under section 811(d)(2) of such Act and for project assistance
contracts pursuant to section 202(h) of the Housing Act of 1959 (Public Law
86–372; 73 Stat. 667), including amendments to contracts for such assistance
and renewal of expiring contracts for such assistance for up to a 1-year term,
for project rental assistance to State housing finance agencies and other
appropriate entities as authorized under section 811(b)(3) of the
Cranston-Gonzalez National Housing Act and for supportive services associated
with the housing for persons with disabilities as authorized by section
811(b)(1) of such Act, $150,000,000 to remain
available until September 30, 2016:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That amounts made
available under this heading shall be available for Real Estate Assessment
Center inspections and inspection-related activities associated with section
811 Projects.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H08432805C1FA41EC8EAEEBFA2FBB8ECC"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Housing counseling assistance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For contracts, grants, and other assistance
excluding loans, as authorized under section 106 of the Housing and Urban
Development Act of 1968, as amended,
$55,000,000, including up to
$3,500,000 for administrative contract services:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That grants made
available from amounts provided under this heading shall be awarded within 120
days of enactment of this Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
funds shall be used for providing counseling and advice to tenants and
homeowners, both current and prospective, with respect to property maintenance,
financial management/literacy, and such other matters as may be appropriate to
assist them in improving their housing conditions, meeting their financial
needs, and fulfilling the responsibilities of tenancy or homeownership; for
program administration; and for housing counselor
training.</text>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HD70546F8800F46539E2A2EB4482787DB"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Payment to manufactured housing fees trust
fund</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses as
authorized by the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety
Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5401 et seq.), up to
$5,500,000, to remain available until expended,
of which $4,000,000 is to be derived from the
Manufactured Housing Fees Trust Fund:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the amount made available under this heading from the general fund shall be
reduced as such collections are received during fiscal year 2013 so as to
result in a final fiscal year 2013 appropriation from the general fund
estimated at not more than $1,500,000 and fees
pursuant to such section 620 shall be modified as necessary to ensure such a
final fiscal year 2013 appropriation:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
for the dispute resolution and installation programs, the Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development may assess and collect fees from any program participant:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
such collections shall be deposited into the Fund, and the Secretary, as
provided herein, may use such collections, as well as fees collected under
section 620, for necessary expenses of such Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
notwithstanding the requirements of section 620 of such Act, the Secretary may
carry out responsibilities of the Secretary under such Act through the use of
approved service providers that are paid directly by the recipients of their
services.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H7B0EA1881B01463E974BCFB14BD50C8F"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal housing
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9F0293D78A9D45EB9C3F3C0CCCBBAC13"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mutual mortgage insurance program
account</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HB835C89D0D604208BF988B3B84FFC806"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>New<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> commitments to guarantee single
family loans insured under the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund shall not exceed
$400,000,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2014:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That during fiscal year
2013, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the foregoing amount in the previous proviso 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 contract expenses of the Federal
Housing Administration,
$215,000,000,<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> to remain available until
September 30,<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>
2014<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>, of which up
to $71,500,000 may be transferred to and merged
with the Working Capital Fund:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
to the extent guaranteed loan commitments exceed
$200,000,000,000 on or before April 1, 2013, 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.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H0F81CF5684124F9EB50615C3E0F50C8C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">General and special risk program
account</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">New commitments to
guarantee loans insured under the General and Special Risk Insurance Funds, as
authorized by sections 238 and 519 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C.
1715z–3 and 1735c), shall not exceed
$25,000,000,000 in total loan principal, any
part of which is to be guaranteed, to remain available until September 30,
2014:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That during fiscal year
2013 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 $20,000,000, which shall be for loans
to nonprofit and governmental entities in connection with the sale of
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>single
family<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> real
properties owned by the Secretary and formerly insured under such
Act.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H7A4E2224B6F14F51B30B4E53E756FEC5"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Government national mortgage
association</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HD872670C6ED84168B0D89DD1D0CDC117"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Guarantees of mortgage-backed securities
loan guarantee program account</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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
$500,000,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2014:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That
$20,500,000 shall be available for necessary
salaries and expenses of the Office of Government National Mortgage
Association:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
to the extent that guaranteed loan commitments will and do exceed
$155,000,000,000 on or before April 1, 2013, an
additional $100 for necessary salaries and
expenses shall be available until expended 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 $3,000,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
receipts from Commitment and Multiclass fees collected pursuant to title III of
the National Housing Act, as amended, shall be credited as offsetting
collections to this account.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H7BD3B3E4768B4ED7979DA838B7D3BEAC"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Policy development and
research</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H7D5599AA8F06426485E76388DB1EDEB6"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Research and technology</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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 (12 U.S.C. 1701z–1 et seq.), including
carrying out the functions of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
under section 1(a)(1)(i) of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1968,
$46,000,000, to remain available until September
30, 2014:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That with respect to
amounts made available under this heading, notwithstanding section 204 of this
title, the Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements funded with
philanthropic entities, other Federal agencies, or State or local governments
and their agencies for research projects:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
with respect to the previous proviso, such partners to the cooperative
agreements must contribute at least a 50 percent match toward the cost of the
project:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
for non-competitive agreements entered into in accordance with the previous two
provisos, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall comply with
section 2(b) of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006
(Public Law 109–282, 31 U.S.C. note) in lieu of compliance with section
102(a)(4)(C) with respect to documentation of award
decisions.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H03E0CA69D62B442896FA844CAB034D3B"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fair housing and equal
opportunity</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H60B44452CAE6460D85E322FADF48D1C6"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fair housing activities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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,
$68,000,000, to remain available until September
30, 2014, of which $42,500,000 shall be to carry
out activities pursuant to such section 561:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That notwithstanding 31
U.S.C. 3302, the Secretary may assess and collect fees to cover the costs of
the Fair Housing Training Academy, and may use such funds to provide such
training:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the funds made available under this heading,
$300,000 shall be available to the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development for the creation and promotion of translated
materials and other programs that support the assistance of persons with
limited English proficiency in utilizing the services provided by the
Department of Housing and Urban Development.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H0431AD6CD36B4C6CA106FF5DA6320B0F"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Office of healthy homes and lead hazard
control</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H49B5CB8E9F8949B8B95CD4EAD830B84A"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Lead hazard reduction</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the Lead Hazard Reduction Program, as
authorized by section 1011 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction
Act of 1992, $120,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2014:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That up to
$30,000,000 of that amount 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> 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 the 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the total amount made available under this heading,
$45,000,000 shall be made available on a
competitive basis for areas with the highest lead paint abatement needs:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
each recipient of funds provided under the second proviso shall make a matching
contribution in an amount not less than 25 percent:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
each applicant shall certify adequate capacity that is acceptable to the
Secretary to carry out the proposed use of funds pursuant to a notice of
funding availability:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
amounts made available under this heading in this or prior appropriations Acts,
and that still remain available, may be used for any purpose under this heading
notwithstanding the purpose for which such amounts were appropriated if a
program competition is undersubscribed and there are other program competitions
under this heading that are oversubscribed.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="id5F1DAA96367B4CC18314A1C9528E4CA8"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Working capital
fund</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id9BD313B84A8B4CE2BAFD40BECA5B8C8F"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For additional capital for the Working
Capital Fund (42 U.S.C. 3535) for the maintenance of infrastructure for
Department-wide information technology systems, for the continuing operation
and maintenance of both Department-wide and program-specific information
systems, and for program-related maintenance activities,
$230,000,000, of which
$170,000,000 shall remain available until
September 30, 2014, and of which $60,000,000
shall remain available until September 30, 2015 for Development Modernization
and Enhancement:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That any amounts
transferred to this Fund under this Act shall remain available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
any amounts transferred to this Fund from amounts appropriated by previously
enacted appropriations Acts may be used for the purposes specified under this
Fund, in addition to any other information technology the purposes for which
such amounts were appropriated:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not more than 25 percent of the funds made available under this heading for
Development, Modernization and Enhancement, including development and
deployment of a Next Generation Management System and development and
deployment of modernized Federal Housing Administration systems may be
obligated until the Secretary submits to the Committees on Appropriations a
plan for expenditure that—(A) identifies for each modernization project: (i)
the functional and performance capabilities to be delivered and the mission
benefits to be realized, (ii) the estimated life-cycle cost, and (iii) key
milestones to be met; (B) demonstrates that each modernization project is: (i)
compliant with the department's enterprise architecture, (ii) being managed in
accordance with applicable life-cycle management policies and guidance, (iii)
subject to the department's capital planning and investment control
requirements, and (iv) supported by an adequately staffed project office; and
(C) has been reviewed by the Government Accountability
Office.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H25885551E7DD45A6B30286EDEEF2D6CF"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Office of inspector general</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary salaries and expenses of the
Office of Inspector General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978,
as amended, $125,194,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Inspector
General shall have independent authority over all personnel issues within this
office.</text>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H6570B61FFB954BF6A4DFAA76636CE4DD"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transformation initiative</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of research,
evaluation, and program metrics activities; program demonstrations; and
technical assistance and capacity building,
$43,000,000, to remain available until September
30, 2015:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That with respect to
amounts made available under this heading for research, evaluation and program
metrics or program demonstrations, the Secretary may make grants or enter into
cooperative agreements if such grants or agreements include a substantial match
contribution, notwithstanding section 204 of this
title.</text>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HBFEAC65AD8B1441FA0CD59AB4DAACC32"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">General provisions—Department of housing
and urban development</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1C4F31CE94F24FF499ED8F73BFFF27EC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7B5F50157CBD4A1288B3CC6B8EFA27D6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>202.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the amounts made available under
this Act may be used during fiscal year 2013 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 nonfrivolous 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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3B14F8E129D149138958C3B63A3A38FD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>203.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H37F6E614B5844311B3DA277E09C6683A"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sections 203 and 209 of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2012 is amended by striking
<quote>fiscal year 2012</quote> each place it appears and inserting
<quote>fiscal years 2012 and 2013</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB7BF27128B9F4B2CB08453BA93BEF3C8"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 203(a)(2) of such Act is amended by
striking <quote>fiscal year 2011</quote> and inserting <quote>fiscal years 2012
and 2013</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID067DE28F288B48BD9EC6FC69DFD15203" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>204.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as explicitly provided in law, any
grant, cooperative agreement or other assistance made pursuant to title II 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 (42
U.S.C. 3545).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5DAE698168EC49CBB82D50BC038FDF94" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>205.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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. 1811–1).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDAD7607B30B8441DF90312D0114891A51" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>206.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID645F70C12C1241CBAE9CB340DF584399" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>207.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Corporations and agencies of the Department
of Housing and Urban Development which are subject to the Government
Corporation Control Act 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 2013 for such corporation or agency except as hereinafter
provided:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4A23BBF1033D474EB51D0C679D1A7628" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>208.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDDA15E6126AB44FCBB17ECB2DE90E921" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>209.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (2)(B)(i) of section 3(a) of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(a)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAF39765B57C54C088CD4D685AE88E722"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding subclause
(I)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id20140AB19B0D4313AC74581243BA0D38"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>Except as otherwise
provided under this clause, each</quote> and inserting <quote>Each</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id50C0F2E1AF41434AA8F5D69EE9637E0F"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after <quote>which
shall</quote> the following: <quote>not be lower than 80 percent of the
applicable fair market rental established under section 8(c) of this Act and
which shall</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDF383E91A34B494C968C5D1681AAD79E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking the undesignated matter
following subclause (II) and inserting the following: <quote>Public housing
agencies must comply by September 30, 2013, with the requirement of this
clause, except that if a new flat rental amount for a dwelling unit will
increase a family's existing rental payment by more than 35 percent, the new
flat rental amount shall be phased in as necessary to ensure that the family's
existing rental payment does not increase by more than 35 percent annually. The
preceding sentence shall not be construed to require establishment of rental
amounts equal to 80 percent of the fair market rental in years when the fair
market rental falls from the prior year.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBA2F32825B9E4827A86BCB495D3F04CF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>210</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The President's formal budget request for
fiscal year 2014, as well as the Department of Housing and Urban Development's
congressional budget justifications to be submitted to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall use the
identical account and sub-account structure provided under this Act.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9525D69E59BE415F8686C463EE58A2B8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>211.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A public housing agency or such other
entity that administers Federal housing assistance for the Housing Authority of
the county of Los Angeles, California, 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 for the Housing Authority of the county of Los Angeles,
California and the States of Alaska, Iowa and Mississippi that chooses not to
include a resident of public housing or a recipient of section 8 assistance on
the board of directors or a similar governing board shall establish an advisory
board of not less than six 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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE6834FB55905441087B0B12F4DA97E0D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>212.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H451AFBEFDE444B5F857E7B3BFE71778D"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
subject to the conditions listed in subsection (b), for fiscal years 2013 and
2014, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may authorize the transfer
of some or all project-based assistance, debt and statutorily required
low-income and very low-income use restrictions, associated with one or more
multifamily housing project to another multifamily housing project or
projects.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id97E797A1253A41F088E43B22926D8919"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Phased Transfers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfers of project-based assistance under
this section may be done in phases to accommodate the financing and other
requirements related to rehabilitating or constructing the project or projects
to which the assistance is transferred, to ensure that such project or projects
meet the standards under section (c).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8DFDF495613B4016BBD605C17A3F4487"><enum>(c)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The transfer authorized in subsection (a)
is subject to the following conditions:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H665ECB76C84244FBBD1EB5F8EDE436A9"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Number and bedroom size of Units</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2DCAEBE2ECE546DDA36F3BE37BA11368"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For occupied units in the transferring
project: the number of low-income and very low-income units and the
configuration (i.e. bedroom size) provided by the transferring project shall be
no less than when transferred to the receiving project or projects and the net
dollar amount of Federal assistance provided by the transferring project shall
remain the same in the receiving project or projects.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id227ACCA956AB42A78F6A4640DE4CA009"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For unoccupied units in the transferring
project: the Secretary may authorize a reduction in the number of dwelling
units in the receiving project or projects to allow for a reconfiguration of
bedroom sizes to meet current market demands, as determined by the Secretary
and provided there is no increase in the project-based section 8 budget
authority.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id50AD5FB122FE44809EAA95FA1AD90335"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The net dollar amount of Federal assistance
provided to the transferring project shall remain the same as the receiving
project or projects.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0D4916AF1644424DABA6A86637B1C17F"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The transferring project shall, as
determined by the Secretary, be either physically obsolete or economically
nonviable.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0C17F1420185459FB9BCC7FB1D039C3E"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The receiving project or projects shall
meet or exceed applicable physical standards established by the
Secretary.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1DDF3F6AD2BC49C48B7AAD1300142335"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The owner or mortgagor of the transferring
project shall notify and consult with the tenants residing in the transferring
project and provide a certification of approval by all appropriate local
governmental officials.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD23683D5B0BA4A35B722DC33F475F2E1"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The tenants of the transferring project who
remain eligible for assistance to be provided by the receiving project or
projects shall not be required to vacate their units in the transferring
project or projects until new units in the receiving project are available for
occupancy.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9E95FBAB1A414557A90D4D14E357EBDB"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary determines that this transfer
is in the best interest of the tenants.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBDEC9DBE29314551BADC69D15D990942"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If either the transferring project or the
receiving project or projects meets the condition specified in subsection
(d)(2)(A), any lien on the receiving project resulting from additional
financing obtained by the owner shall be subordinate to any FHA-insured
mortgage lien transferred to, or placed on, such project by the Secretary,
except that the Secretary may waive this requirement upon determination that
such a waiver is necessary to facilitate the financing of acquisition,
construction, and/or rehabilitation of the receiving project or
projects.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8B8D17CD207D4CC78751B609767EF864"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the transferring project meets the
requirements of subsection (c)(2)(E), the owner or mortgagor of the receiving
project or projects shall execute and record either a continuation of the
existing use agreement or a new use agreement for the project where, in either
case, any use restrictions in such agreement are of no lesser duration than the
existing use restrictions.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1066C57A9B58428CA8FB9A663C7178CD"><enum>(10)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The transfer does not increase the cost (as
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended) of
any FHA-insured mortgage, except to the extent that appropriations are provided
in advance for the amount of any such increased cost.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4127814C92884FB095C9AB6C82683542"><enum>(d)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2B8FBE326E2C411AAB4A584A1C3F0294"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the terms <quote>low-income</quote> and
<quote>very low-income</quote> shall have the meanings provided by the statute
and/or regulations governing the program under which the project is insured or
assisted;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB87E190A0B7D4CC6967D9B045D1652F9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <quote>multifamily housing
project</quote> means housing that meets one of the following
conditions—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCAD3DAAE60C54F3DAFEF08FBAF0DE38F"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">housing that is subject to a mortgage
insured under the National Housing Act;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H989350504A014CF5A552F59FD66EF739"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">housing that has project-based assistance
attached to the structure including projects undergoing mark to market debt
restructuring under the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability
Housing Act;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB56A46E5597A49479563C9A71F3F0632"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">housing that is assisted under section 202
of the Housing Act of 1959 as amended by section 801 of the Cranston-Gonzales
National Affordable Housing Act;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3FA30C8BE7A34233A4AE8E904A99834F"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">housing that is assisted under section 202
of the Housing Act of 1959, as such section existed before the enactment of the
Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id24A7AA4B94904FE99909B9E78EB6DB6E"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">housing that is assisted under section 811
of the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H97701D3B00A24BA5A2550F5BD4D13C21"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">housing or vacant land that is subject to a
use agreement;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H00094E9BE8594E9A9CA9C752BF6C416C"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <quote>project-based
assistance</quote> means—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H91C2E8C406D5420B94A7E94249315F21"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assistance provided under section 8(b) of
the United States Housing Act of 1937;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCA804AB8009F45E18BE613A3F0701165"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assistance for housing constructed or
substantially rehabilitated pursuant to assistance provided under section
8(b)(2) of such Act (as such section existed immediately before October 1,
1983);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H182CE3DF0AFD42AD810B01F52E8ADB34"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">rent supplement payments under section 101
of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC0AF76B9F39843169FE35D3EBEC09224"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">interest reduction payments under section
236 and/or additional assistance payments under section 236(f)(2) of the
National Housing Act;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBDD7D9798D284189AC36CC5DFEB10D22"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assistance payments made under section
202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7B107EA312114463AB0B7DD3C790081C"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assistance payments made under section
811(d)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H393382F859814B4382D3E8B36E051975"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <quote>receiving project or
projects</quote> means the multifamily housing project or projects to which
some or all of the project-based assistance, debt, and statutorily required use
low-income and very low-income restrictions are to be transferred;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE5D4BBF9D4C04B84AE83EF2341A64945"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <quote>transferring
project</quote> means the multifamily housing project which is transferring
some or all of the project-based assistance, debt and the statutorily required
low-income and very low-income use restrictions to the receiving project or
projects; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA2FFE5C9942145149C70662BEC684103"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <quote>Secretary</quote> means the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA7954FD6414F4E32906716676831061F"><enum>(e)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall publish by notice in
the Federal Register the terms and conditions, including criteria for HUD
approval, of transfers pursuant to this section no later than 30 days before
the effective date of such notice.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDDAA3076C913A4CBF80DF3AF106D7FBE7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>213.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The funds made available for Native
Alaskans under the heading <quote>Native American Housing Block Grants</quote>
in title III of this Act shall be allocated to the same Native Alaskan housing
block grant recipients that received funds in fiscal year 2005.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H62EC4C5E3C094478BA32AC991636B383" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>214.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE0B6CEBCA3934C1B959F2DA11B3793D2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>215.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HD01036891DE741BEA2E6ADE638ECBC7F"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No assistance shall be provided under
section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) to any
individual who—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF32E712BDD4A4125848D53789CE81E9B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is enrolled as a student at an institution
of higher education (as defined under section 102 of the Higher Education Act
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002));</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4B3212FEBEEA481A8A32A418C0B7213E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is under 24 years of age;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4C869838FAA14450AD0DC7C75949B7CC"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is not a veteran;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE049B75AA0CF473DB7D652996A8C60AE"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is unmarried;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEC69292A69114F6BAEE422AFEDF5EBE0"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">does not have a dependent child;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H91D0FDC2C1C24A8CB3D0C180A2F079ED"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is not a person with disabilities, as such
term is defined in section 3(b)(3)(E) of the United States Housing Act of 1937
(42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(3)(E)) and was not receiving assistance under such section
8 as of November 30, 2005; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBAAB72487C5E4D489BC5C5643F470970"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is not otherwise individually eligible, or
has parents who, individually or jointly, are not eligible, to receive
assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C.
1437f).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8F4BDB7BD0794D449B44356525D2550D"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of determining the eligibility
of a person to receive assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), any financial assistance (in excess of amounts
received for tuition and any other required fees and charges) that an
individual receives under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et
seq.), from private sources, or an institution of higher education (as defined
under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002)), shall be considered
income to that individual, except for a person over the age of 23 with
dependent children.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2AF55EBC32AD492097E3E5EDBC15B714" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>216.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding the limitation in the first
sentence of section 255(g) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–g), the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may, until September 30, 2013,
insure and enter into commitments to insure mortgages under section 255(g) of
the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–20).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9F831FAAF4B64886905FC17EC11D5BDD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>217.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
in fiscal year 2013, in managing and disposing of any multifamily property that
is owned or has a mortgage held by the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development, and during the process of foreclosure on any property with a
contract for rental assistance payments under section 8 of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 or other Federal programs, the Secretary shall maintain any
rental assistance payments under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of
1937 and other programs that are attached to any dwelling units in the
property. To the extent the Secretary determines, in consultation with the
tenants and the local government, that such a multifamily property owned or
held by the Secretary is not feasible for continued rental assistance payments
under such section 8 or other programs, based on consideration of (1) the costs
of rehabilitating and operating the property and all available Federal, State,
and local resources, including rent adjustments under section 524 of the
Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997
(<quote>MAHRAA</quote>) and (2) environmental conditions that cannot be
remedied in a cost-effective fashion, 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. The Secretary shall also take appropriate
steps to ensure that project-based contracts remain in effect prior to
foreclosure, subject to the exercise of contractual abatement remedies to
assist relocation of tenants for imminent major threats to health and safety
after written notice to and informed consent of the affected tenants and use of
other available remedies, such as partial abatements or receivership. After
disposition of any multifamily property described under this section, the
contract and allowable rent levels on such properties shall be subject to the
requirements under section 524 of MAHRAA.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6302B41651D445B1916CF08E167D54E7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>218.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">During fiscal year 2013, 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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCD15A37569FC46A08881846DA8237C4B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>219.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development shall report quarterly to the House of Representatives and Senate
Committees on Appropriations on HUD's use of all sole-source contracts,
including terms of the contracts, cost, and a substantive rationale for using a
sole-source contract.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6B5BE00DDAE64A709AC296D08DD9BFF6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>220.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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) after December 26, 2000, in accordance with the unnumbered
paragraph at the end of section 202(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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE052EB443CFB46128F25488DC721E3C1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>221.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The commitment authority funded by fees as
provided under the subheading <quote>Program Account</quote> under the heading
<quote>Community Development Loan Guarantees</quote> may be used to guarantee,
or make commitments to guarantee, notes, or other obligations issued by any
State on behalf of non-entitlement communities in the State in accordance with
the requirements of section 108 of the Housing and Community Development Act of
1974:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That any State
receiving such a guarantee or commitment shall distribute all funds subject to
such guarantee to the units of general local government in non-entitlement
areas that received the commitment.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H98FB2C43E6414F7DA62BD7AB3D506B27" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>222.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 24 of the United States Housing Act
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC17A0F46DF234A038931D7D932075E48"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (m)(1), by striking
<quote>fiscal year</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end
and inserting <quote>fiscal year 2013.</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID95EC905C9EE142F48E9F64E893F120CD"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (o), by striking
<quote>September</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and
inserting <quote>September 30, 2013.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID35842060F34048A39EDCCC75C34D7F9C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>223.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Public housing agencies that own and
operate 400 or fewer public housing units may elect to be exempt from any asset
management requirement imposed by the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development in connection with the operating fund rule:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That an agency seeking
a discontinuance of a reduction of subsidy under the operating fund formula
shall not be exempt from asset management requirements.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID15E3F79419654F9EA5F81B717D463B24" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>224.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to the use of amounts provided
in this Act and in future Acts for the operation, capital improvement and
management of public housing as authorized by sections 9(d) and 9(e) of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(d) and (e)), the Secretary
shall not impose any requirement or guideline relating to asset management that
restricts or limits in any way the use of capital funds for central office
costs pursuant to section 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2) of the United States Housing Act
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(g)(1), (2)):
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That a public housing
agency may not use capital funds authorized under section 9(d) for activities
that are eligible under section 9(e) for assistance with amounts from the
operating fund in excess of the amounts permitted under section 9(g)(1) or
9(g)(2).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID59E077D6521F4B3F809A8A645A91D999" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>225.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No official or employee of the Department
of Housing and Urban Development shall be designated as an allotment holder
unless the Office of the Chief Financial Officer has determined that such
allotment holder has implemented an adequate system of funds control and has
received training in funds control procedures and directives. The Chief
Financial Officer shall ensure that, not later than 90 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, a trained allotment holder shall be designated for each
HUD subaccount under the heading <quote>Administration, Operations, and
Management</quote> as well as each account receiving appropriations for
<quote>Program Office Salaries and Expenses</quote> within the Department of
Housing and Urban Development.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF9B83FB9B80C4E648601C42C16CADCAF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>226.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id4E5B824F610F4352B84C980D2668851E"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development shall take the required actions under subsection (b) when a
multifamily housing project with a section 8 contract or contract for similar
project-based assistance:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id95DAA256A253440899C83F8C2F96873B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">receives a Real Estate Assessment Center
(REAC) score of 30 or less; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9D564202709041B7B80CE61CC106DBE0"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">receives a REAC score between 31 and 59
and:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id353C0207DFB9416EBE6BDB0091205820"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fails to certify in writing to HUD within
60 days that all deficiencies have been corrected; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6FFA32008EFF4EC786BC618632D8CC03"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">receives consecutive scores of less than 60
on REAC inspections.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id15AB3DF00C7E45808510E5A40C4DDF63"><enum></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Such requirements shall apply to insured
and noninsured projects with assistance attached to the units under section 8
of the united States housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), but do not apply to
such units assisted under section 8(o)(13) (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(13)) or to
public housing units assisted with capital or operating funds under section 9
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA535FA88D63D4D7A9645110662B15189"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall take the following
required actions as authorized under subsection (a)—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC0948A91782A499CBB3A5E902BCE1568"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall notify the owner and
provide an opportunity for response within 30 days. If the violations remain,
the Secretary shall develop a Compliance, Disposition and Enforcement Plan
within 60 days, with a specified timetable for correcting all deficiencies. The
Secretary shall provide notice of the Plan to the owner, tenants, the local
government, any mortgagees, and any contract administrator.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3E8724ACAECC4B3C9081A3439349A424"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">At the end of the term of the Compliance,
Disposition and Enforcement Plan, if the owner fails to fully comply with such
plan, the Secretary may require immediate replacement of project management
with a management agent approved by the Secretary, and shall take one or more
of the following actions, and provide additional notice of those actions to the
owner and the parties specified above:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFDB779319AD24FB8BDB0B53EF1CA61D3"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">impose civil money penalties;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2D84ACF1F22B4FD6BC604F153BC6B889"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">abate the section 8 contract, including
partial abatement as determined by the Secretary, until all deficiencies have
been corrected;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCB934B94287D4900A908BC09CFAC090D"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">pursue transfer of the project to an owner,
approved by the Secretary under established procedures, which will be obligated
to promptly make all required repairs and to accept renewal of the assistance
contract as long as such renewal is offered; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF9D5C1E5186042F085B5B3046ECD852D"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">seek judicial appointment of a receiver to
manage the property and cure all project deficiencies or seek a judicial order
of specific performance requiring the owner to cure all project
deficiencies.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE743BF42235B47259501394A31262F0E"><enum>(c)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall also take appropriate
steps to ensure that project-based contracts remain in effect, subject to the
exercise of contractual abatement remedies to assist relocation of tenants for
imminent major threats to health and safety after written notice to and
informed consent of the affected tenants and use of other remedies set forth
above. To the extent the Secretary determines, in consultation with the tenants
and the local government, that the property is not feasible for continued
rental assistance payments under such section 8 or other programs, based on
consideration of (1) the costs of rehabilitating and operating the property and
all available Federal, State, and local resources, including rent adjustments
under section 524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability
Act of 1997 (<quote>MAHRAA</quote>) and (2) environmental conditions that
cannot be remedied in a cost-effective fashion, 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. The Secretary shall report
semi-annually on all properties covered by this section that are assessed
through the Real Estate Assessment Center and have physical inspection scores
of less than 30 or have consecutive physical inspection scores of less than 60.
The report shall include:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id05C904D9CDF948D7862B0B57CD233694"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The enforcement actions being taken to
address such conditions, including imposition of civil money penalties and
termination of subsidies, and identify properties that have such conditions
multiple times; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEB16B1A1978940A8B6C3A84469E955A0"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Actions that the Department of Housing and
Urban Development is taking to protect tenants of such identified
properties.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAED54A1930F34CF5ADE8FC6588927CAB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>227.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Payment of attorney fees in program-related
litigation must be paid from individual program office personnel benefits and
compensation funding. The annual budget submission for program office personnel
benefit and compensation funding must include program-related litigation costs
for attorney fees as a separate line item request.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H19EC758AFA5F4C0FA25F85BE51D81C59" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>228.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development shall for fiscal year 2013 and subsequent fiscal years,
notify the public through the Federal Register and other means, as determined
appropriate, of the issuance of a notice of the availability of assistance or
notice of funding availability (NOFA) for any program or discretionary fund
administered by the Secretary that is to be competitively awarded.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for fiscal year 2013 and subsequent
fiscal years, the Secretary may make the NOFA available only on the Internet at
the appropriate Government Web site or through other electronic media, as
determined by the Secretary.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE9BEEBF992C34B169A905B79A6048ACF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>229.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The proviso under the <quote>Community
Development Fund</quote> heading in Public Laws 109–148, 109–234, 110–252, and
110–329 which requires the Secretary to establish procedures to prevent
duplication of benefits and to report to the Committees on Appropriations on
all steps to prevent fraud and abuse is amended by striking
<quote>quarterly</quote> and inserting <quote>annually</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H511894F04CCD41A4BFCB2088268317CD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>230.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development is authorized to transfer up to 5 percent or
$5,000,000, whichever is less, of the funds
appropriated for any office funded under the heading <quote>Administration,
Operations, and Management</quote> to any other office funded under such
heading:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That no appropriation
for any office funded under the heading <quote>Administration, Operations, and
Management</quote> shall be increased or decreased by more than 5 percent or
$5,000,000, whichever is less, without prior
written approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary is authorized to transfer up to 5 percent or
$5,000,000, whichever is less, of the funds
appropriated for any account funded under the general heading <quote>Program
Office Salaries and Expenses</quote> to any other account funded under such
heading:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That no appropriation for any account funded under the general heading
<quote>Program Office Salaries and Expenses</quote> shall be increased or
decreased by more than 5 percent or $5,000,000,
whichever is less, without prior written approval of the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary may transfer funds made available for salaries and expenses
between any office funded under the heading <quote>Administration, Operations
and Management</quote> and any account funded under the general heading
<quote>Program Office Salaries and Expenses</quote>, but only with the prior
written approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H446DDE7B41484E93AA9E6EB5E6A3EC44" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>231.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Disaster Housing Assistance Programs,
administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, shall be
considered a <quote>program of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development</quote> under section 904 of the McKinney Act for the purpose of
income verifications and matching.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF9E9999024B64CC99FB1F0F738BD0882" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>232.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available for salaries
and expenses under all accounts under this title (except for the Office of
Inspector General account), a total of up to
$10,000,000 may be transferred to and merged
with amounts made available in the <quote>Working Capital Fund</quote> account
under this title.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD2DCDDE3371D408584DB9229DABDA143" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>233.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title II of division K of Public Law
110–161 is amended by striking the item related to <quote>Flexible Subsidy
Fund</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2D71D336A59C438BA48F99D17C9183F8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>234.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (1) of section 242(i) of the
National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–7(i)(1)) is amended by striking
<quote>July 31, 2011</quote> and inserting <quote>July 31, 2016</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB552DFA0E13047E28D83B0EA58D2D3D5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>235.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subparagraph (A) of section 3(b)(6) of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(6)(A)) is amended by
inserting before the period at the end the following: <quote>, or a consortium
of such entities or bodies as approved by the Secretary</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id830DA510B5614914B85C32CA3D1A284F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>236.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id9AF8735DCBBA4EA7865747F4E351025D"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3(b) of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id32F9A97CEE6B4E5CA64A17BD5FFAC5AB"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), by designating the first
sentence as subparagraph (A), the second sentence as subparagraph (B), and the
remaining sentences as subparagraph (D), and by inserting after subparagraph
(B) the following new subparagraph (C):</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6D2EC37C800849F894A792B27949D44E" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6D2EC37C800849F894A792B27949D34E"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term extremely low-income families
means very low-income families whose incomes do not exceed the higher
of—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id86B004831ED447F18717469D5B43E42E"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the poverty guidelines updated periodically
by the Department of Health and Human Services under the authority of section
673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant Act applicable to a family of the
size involved (except that this clause shall not apply in the case of public
housing agencies located in Puerto Rico or any other territory or possession of
the United States); or</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id76DEE653F32541A897D6071DB5E18FD7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">30 percent of the median family income for
the area, as determined by the Secretary, with adjustments for smaller and
larger families (except that the Secretary may establish income ceilings higher
or lower than 30 percent of the median for the area on the basis of the
Secretary's findings that such variations are necessary because of unusually
high or low family incomes).</text>
</clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4CAA954A558949DA9BC285DDDDA6A8A4"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 16 of the United States Housing Act
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437n) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCE408F66DEFA42C395E91D97CD0D96C9"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)(2)(A);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id09A603C52C5F441FA22BCE8C8A1D48A4"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b)(1); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id57CDDD0D48DC44A4A1E56D78AC6FAD31"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (c)(3), by striking
<quote>families whose incomes</quote> and all that follows through <quote>low
family incomes</quote> and inserting <quote>extremely low-income
families</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id320DF07575C448DDB2B6C07CD4BD9727" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>237.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idB328545DB91242549CDAA2DD209282DF"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8(o)(8) of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(8)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id65F788E58BE74D7A8CCCC3A83CFB3660"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraph (E) as
subparagraph (G); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id38F5F1D817974533A0DE0C3276D9396C"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subparagraph (D) and inserting
the following new subparagraphs:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id320DF07575C448DDB2B6C07CD2BD9727" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF189388F9FF54DA0A069912AB0591CD1"><enum>(D)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Biennial inspections</header>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAFE3AAB23B854E5D861C2D38DC868E28"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each public housing agency providing
assistance under this subsection (or other entity, as provided in paragraph
(11)) shall, for each assisted dwelling unit, make inspections not less often
than biennially during the term of the housing assistance payments contract for
the unit to determine whether the unit is maintained in accordance with the
requirements under subparagraph (A).</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAE1856DFD7844AC7BC4C56553415F229"><enum>(ii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of alternative inspection
method</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The requirements under
clause (i) may be complied with by use of inspections that qualify as an
alternative inspection method pursuant to subparagraph (E).</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3B85E32296B84A48A14364CD97C9B75D"><enum>(iii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">records</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The public housing agency (or other entity)
shall retain the records of the inspection for a reasonable time and shall make
the records available upon request to the Secretary, the Inspector General for
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and any auditor conducting an
audit under section 5(h) of this Act.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF6C8FF2221A04292BC109A62CD87AF9F"><enum>(E)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Alternative inspection method</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An inspection of a property shall qualify
as an alternative inspection method for purposes of this subparagraph
if—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE479CE6D5E47449E8017AC2877D219BB"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the inspection was conducted pursuant to
requirements under a Federal, State, or local housing program (including the
Home investment partnership program under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez
National Affordable Housing Act and the low-income housing tax credit program
under section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986); and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id84875BD992BF46109BDDD85F8F70F0E2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">pursuant to such inspection, the property
was determined to meet the standards or requirements regarding housing quality
or safety applicable to properties assisted under such program, and, if a
non-Federal standard or requirement was used, the public housing agency has
certified to the Secretary that such standard or requirement provides the same
(or greater) protection to occupants of dwelling units meeting such standard or
requirement as would the housing quality standards under subparagraph
(B).</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAC516D583AF14AD19EE38C5E3BD1196B"><enum>(F)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Interim inspections</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Upon notification to the public housing
agency, by a family (on whose behalf tenant-based rental assistance is provided
under this subsection) or by a government official, that the dwelling unit for
which such assistance is provided does not comply with the housing quality
standards under subparagraph (B), the public housing agency shall inspect the
dwelling unit—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD7610E0566E44B3B8A0999C6DC41D2B4"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of any condition that is
life-threatening, within 24 hours after the agency's receipt of such
notification; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD8F0ED64A3C44DA9B64E6CC75C451E01"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of any condition that is not
life-threatening, within 15 days after the agency's receipt of such
notification.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id44E00714FC7244DDB8792CCA9FE3BDCE"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective
date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments in
subsection (a) shall take effect upon such date as the Secretary determines, in
the Secretary's sole discretion, through the Secretary's publication of such
date in the Federal Register, as part of regulations promulgated, or a notice
issued, by the Secretary to implement such amendments.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE36083FC42284599993011C18E6B46E9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>238.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The fourth proviso under the <quote>Rental
Assistance Demonstration</quote> heading of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development Appropriations Act, 2012 is amended by striking <quote>or section
8(e)(2)</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3A9A7309C4714FCA95E15241A02E5E7F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>239.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idEAFA1D28D8A64272A7007189A4B099AD"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b) of section 225 of the
Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12755) is amended
by inserting at the end the following sentence: <quote>Such 30 day waiting
period is not required if the grounds for the termination or refusal to renew
involve a direct threat to the safety of the tenants or employees of the
housing, or an imminent and serious threat to the property (and the termination
or refusal to renew is in accordance with the requirements of State or local
law).</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id46CA2C43C30B45E5956F9C00FB852EBA"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 231 of the Cranston-Gonzalez
National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12771) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4EAC9C5A5BFE4AEDBC8CBC025920367B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b) by striking <quote>make
such funds available by direct reallocation</quote> and all that follows
through <quote>were recaptured</quote> and inserting <quote>reallocate the
funds by formula in accordance with section 217(d) of this Act (42 U.S.C.
12747(d))</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB803DAAB0EAD4FDD9AFE9F86B07F1462"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subsection (c).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H574199AEF7B44155A61A23EF17601AEC"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the
<quote><short-title>Department of Housing and Urban
Development Appropriations Act,
2013</short-title></quote>.</text>
</appropriations-small><enum>III</enum><header display-inline="no-display-inline">Related agencies</header>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HFA485D64A2C34B93A47699BD1B1C7309"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Access
board</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H8DC7297545844A0B8C6B61AEBD7BE8EC"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for the Access Board,
as authorized by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended,
$7,400,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That, notwithstanding any
other provision of law, there may be credited to this appropriation funds
received for publications and training expenses.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="idAADC39531AB94498B0E9170B974FC665"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal maritime
commission</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id9F260C888B494BBE88672908D2FF7974"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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 therefore, as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
5901–5902,
$25,000,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H7F654F4ED20B4127BA6CC1F3AE7610E2"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National railroad passenger corporation
office of inspector general</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H633C1F8B95EA42FA8044BA1A25A0AF84"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">office of inspector
general</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H831C354128F0409088349B827C464A4E"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Office of
Inspector General for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to carry out
the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended,
$19,000,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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
National Railroad Passenger Corporation:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Inspector General may enter into contracts and other arrangements for
audits, studies, analyses, and other services with public agencies and with
private persons, subject to the applicable laws and regulations that govern the
obtaining of such services within the National Railroad Passenger Corporation:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Inspector General may select, appoint, and employ such officers and
employees as may be necessary for carrying out the functions, powers, and
duties of the Office of Inspector General, subject to the applicable laws and
regulations that govern such selections, appointments, and employment within
Amtrak:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
concurrent with the President's budget request for fiscal year 2014, the
Inspector General shall submit to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations a budget request for fiscal year 2014 in similar format and
substance to those submitted by executive agencies of the Federal
Government.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HB67D308D7A7540D79ED583DB273966DF"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National transportation safety
board</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H8BFD940B166741C6A76E52277309F0DB"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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),
$102,400,000, of which not to exceed
$2,000 may be used for official reception and
representation expenses. The amounts made available to the National
Transportation Safety Board in this Act include amounts necessary to make lease
payments on an obligation incurred in fiscal year 2001 for a capital
lease.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H59D9877F36F64CFEB0AF9E221FD68144"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Neighborhood reinvestment
corporation</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HDD74E58E9F714784B3D2BE110E203C4C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Payment to the neighborhood reinvestment
corporation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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), $135,300,000, of which
$5,000,000 shall be for a multi-family rental
housing program:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That in addition,
$80,000,000 shall be made available until
expended to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for mortgage foreclosure
mitigation activities, under the following terms and
conditions:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H14B1135D3E1040B6AF4F1D51F0486466"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
(<quote>NRC</quote>) shall make grants to counseling intermediaries approved by
the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (with match to be
determined by the NRC based on affordability and the economic conditions of an
area; a match also may be waived by the NRC based on the aforementioned
conditions) to provide mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance primarily to
States and areas with high rates of defaults and foreclosures to help eliminate
the default and foreclosure of mortgages of owner-occupied single-family homes
that are at risk of such foreclosure. Other than areas with high rates of
defaults and foreclosures, grants may also be provided to approved counseling
intermediaries based on a geographic analysis of the Nation by the NRC which
determines where there is a prevalence of mortgages that are risky and likely
to fail, including any trends for mortgages that are likely to default and face
foreclosure. A State Housing Finance Agency may also be eligible where the
State Housing Finance Agency meets all the requirements under this paragraph. A
HUD-approved counseling intermediary shall meet certain mortgage foreclosure
mitigation assistance counseling requirements, as determined by the NRC, and
shall be approved by HUD or the NRC as meeting these requirements.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1FFC6D812FCA45CD8D5453B65169DDBE"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance
shall only be made available to homeowners of owner-occupied homes with
mortgages in default or in danger of default. These mortgages shall likely be
subject to a foreclosure action and homeowners will be provided such assistance
that shall consist of activities that are likely to prevent foreclosures and
result in the long-term affordability of the mortgage retained pursuant to such
activity or another positive outcome for the homeowner. No funds made available
under this paragraph may be provided directly to lenders or homeowners to
discharge outstanding mortgage balances or for any other direct debt reduction
payments.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H416A620B5CFF4C33B4B8AAA1219F6BC8"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The use of Mortgage Foreclosure Mitigation
Assistance by approved counseling intermediaries and State Housing Finance
Agencies shall involve a reasonable analysis of the borrower's financial
situation, an evaluation of the current value of the property that is subject
to the mortgage, counseling regarding the assumption of the mortgage by another
non-Federal party, counseling regarding the possible purchase of the mortgage
by a non-Federal third party, counseling and advice of all likely restructuring
and refinancing strategies or the approval of a work-out strategy by all
interested parties.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9D6AF75450984C2BB9EE064E7EDA47D5"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">NRC may provide up to 15 percent of the
total funds under this paragraph to its own charter members with expertise in
foreclosure prevention counseling, subject to a certification by the NRC that
the procedures for selection do not consist of any procedures or activities
that could be construed as an unacceptable conflict of interest or have the
appearance of impropriety.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H02EBE08E81C941CBB5786D6B836B99CB"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">HUD-approved counseling entities and State
Housing Finance Agencies receiving funds under this paragraph shall have
demonstrated experience in successfully working with financial institutions as
well as borrowers facing default, delinquency and foreclosure as well as
documented counseling capacity, outreach capacity, past successful performance
and positive outcomes with documented counseling plans (including post mortgage
foreclosure mitigation counseling), loan workout agreements and loan
modification agreements. NRC may use other criteria to demonstrate capacity in
underserved areas.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9DE20F4CDF004D63B57F8198CB8E4CD0"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the total amount made available under
this paragraph, up to $3,000,000 may be made
available to build the mortgage foreclosure and default mitigation counseling
capacity of counseling intermediaries through NRC training courses with
HUD-approved counseling intermediaries and their partners, except that private
financial institutions that participate in NRC training shall pay market rates
for such training.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H62D58051C5224BF887D3424D2AEE0F02"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the total amount made available under
this paragraph, up to 5 percent may be used for associated administrative
expenses for the NRC to carry out activities provided under this
section.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0C62CB689DC3479D9542B38C67D13EA3"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance
grants may include a budget for outreach and advertising, and training, as
determined by the NRC.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA206A7066A7E450085A098CEA6106446"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The NRC shall continue to report
bi-annually to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations as well as the
Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services Committee on its efforts
to mitigate mortgage default.</text>
</paragraph></appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H6BD16C833F45451C88C08D13EAC51A40"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">United states interagency council on
homelessness</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H86AB6B1FC4DE40D2B54CAD8FF31CC987"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operating expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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,
$3,600,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><enum>IV</enum><header display-inline="no-display-inline">General provisions—this act</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1B2872B919A542888A85369E306A465E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>401.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal
year 2013 pay raises for programs funded in this Act shall be absorbed within
the levels appropriated in this Act or previous appropriations Acts.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2D4A60DDB74E47589CCBAC74495B7291" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>402.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA22F13D14D4A4370A1C6AAD05A7F8735" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>403.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC86DD2948C294D26A2C79C06D11BC0AA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>404.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID19FEDAEA592A404F891750EF7DD426EA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>405.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as otherwise provided in this Act,
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 2013, 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:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id27020A9836984E3183A4B2119E372D8A"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">creates a new program;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id82C6CD72572D4ECEA1A681A617AE3FEA"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">eliminates a program, project, or
activity;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id53751D61776A4F52B8245C3358444D48"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">increases funds or personnel for any
program, project, or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted by
the Congress;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFB140E656C88458DA3AF236E7640988C"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">proposes to use funds directed for a
specific activity by either the House or Senate Committees on Appropriations
for a different purpose;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id90765D1B74134E83AA57CA0C36992D1B"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">augments existing programs, projects, or
activities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10
percent, whichever is less;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id26B14C9611494067A38909815C0F3AC6"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reduces existing programs, projects, or
activities by $5,000,000 or 10 percent,
whichever is less; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2F9E0A4FD88A4B5487BC122C197C74A2"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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 explanatory statement
accompanying this Act, whichever is more detailed, unless prior approval is
received from the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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 Committees 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the report shall include:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBB7FE804C2FB495E8E364F9FAEE53640"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id22C9ECC26FC8413EADFBB55487D37EB1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id45C2D98B86A8471AA1D7A7F20F2949B5"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an identification of items of special
congressional interest:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
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.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID375A7FA5F610490587D7BB0BEF86A2C7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>406.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as otherwise specifically provided
by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining available at
the end of fiscal year 2013 from appropriations made available for salaries and
expenses for fiscal year 2013 in this Act, shall remain available through
September 30, 2014, for each such account for the purposes authorized:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That a request shall be
submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations for approval
prior to the expenditure of such funds:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That these requests shall be made in compliance with reprogramming guidelines
under section 405 of this Act.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID20089C13882B4874B820FF662658255B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>407.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All Federal agencies and departments that
are funded under this Act shall issue a report to the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations on all sole-source contracts by no later than July
30, 2013. Such report shall include the contractor, the amount of the contract
and the rationale for using a sole-source contract.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6FD35A95EA864DA9BC38790BF38785EE" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>408.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H714AC14F6FCD4CDEA87B8763DC55C739"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this
Act may be obligated or expended for any employee training that—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8CCA8FA27B9E4B4DA5860E01212DAC6F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">does not meet identified needs for
knowledge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of
official duties;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5F630033AC9F489C890F59B86697B31F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">contains elements likely to induce high
levels of emotional response or psychological stress in some
participants;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1EFB2EC060EE4E108583737BA0BA7510"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">does not require prior employee
notification of the content and methods to be used in the training and written
end of course evaluation;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H429BB31FECB44402845C40664B7AA7EF"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">contains any methods or content associated
with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or <quote>new age</quote>
belief systems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Notice
N–915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H80EFAD91AA0340B5AA95C93F1620CFA4"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is offensive to, or designed to change,
participants' personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3E86FEA1533A4300B14AEAB2D149C1F7"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this section shall prohibit,
restrict, or otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training bearing
directly upon the performance of official duties.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7023747F89CC453E8C26E0BE5B61D684" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>409.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No funds in this Act may be used to support
any Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use the power of eminent
domain, unless eminent domain is employed only for a public use:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That for purposes of
this section, public use shall not be construed to include economic development
that primarily benefits private entities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That any use of funds for mass transit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway
projects as well as utility projects which benefit or serve the general public
(including energy-related, communication-related, water-related and
wastewater-related infrastructure), other structures designated for use by the
general public or which have other common-carrier or public-utility functions
that serve the general public and are subject to regulation and oversight by
the government, and projects for the removal of an immediate threat to public
health and safety or brownsfield as defined in the Small Business Liability
Relief and Brownsfield Revitalization Act (Public Law 107–118) shall be
considered a public use for purposes of eminent domain.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2BC26C48F33148EDB0ABC7B57AC5781E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>410.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2ADA21CDC782495CBE9DDE1BF1ABCFC9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>411.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8374D25DAF88480BACB3F7BC642A3F56" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>412.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act
may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in expending the
assistance the entity will comply with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March
3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c, popularly known as the <quote>Buy American
Act</quote>).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID896376C5F71A4C728AD2D8A67A53AECD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>413.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCEE264CB30064A7FA3E5873A0AB61758" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>414.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for first-class airline accommodations in contravention of
sections 301–10.122 and 301–10.123 of title 41, Code of Federal
Regulations.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE5437EB9AEF94032A3FDA9A6E79BD418" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>415.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to purchase a light bulb for an office building unless the
light bulb has, to the extent practicable, an Energy Star or Federal Energy
Management Program designation.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE4075B8EE20C4F04BB9FD2F4C0B2AC85" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>416.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available under this
Act or any prior Act may be provided to the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries,
or allied organizations.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id89AA60E62D344AF4AD3D49D0A0F5BDD1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>417.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Concurrent with the issuance of any notice
of funding availability or any other notice designed to solicit applications
for a program through which grants or credit assistance are awarded through a
competitive process, the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development shall post on their Web sites information about
such program, including, but not limited to, the goals of the program, the
criteria that will be used in awarding grants or credit assistance, and the
process by which applications will be selected for the award of a grant or
credit assistance:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That concurrent with
the public announcement of grants or credit assistance to be awarded through
such competitive program, the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development shall post on their Web sites information on each
applicant to be awarded a grant or credit assistance, including, but not
limited to, the name and address of the applicant, the amount of the grant or
credit assistance to be awarded, the amount of financing expected from other
sources, and an explanation of how such award is consistent with program
goals.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9E9E530AE97B4C659220A62DF2F46380" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>418.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All agencies and departments funded by the
Act shall send to Congress at the end of the fiscal year a report containing a
complete inventory of the total number of vehicles owned, permanently retired,
and purchased during fiscal year 2013 as well as the total cost of the vehicle
fleet, including maintenance, fuel, storage, purchasing, and leasing.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD407B27E957347BF8B68EED3D46F96FE" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>419.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idCBA5516A1B9E4A81ABB10065551517B9"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The head of any department, agency, board
or commission funded by this Act shall submit quarterly reports to the
Inspector General, or the senior ethics official for any entity without an
inspector general, of the appropriate department, agency, board or commission
regarding the costs and contracting procedures relating to each conference held
by the department, agency, board or commission during fiscal year 2013 for
which the cost to the United States Government was more than
$20,000.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida3008300f76a46ce9a5b2738713e69f6"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each report submitted shall include, for
each conference held during the applicable quarter—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7E4D8EBB9828485B8E941146129385CE"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of the purpose of that
conference;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id76D9F9E112A448B8A1A61924B9093AA7"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of participants attending that
conference;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8DF1E05F51F34596A4AF75A8F1D67ED0"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a detailed statement of the costs to the
United States Government relating to that conference, including—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9CBF4F3FDCB4494EAD346F16DB4E1175"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the cost of any food or beverages;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id98F1FEF550A04F47A7ECA5DE1C4E303D"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the cost of any audio-visual services;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7A0396E2AB744D69BF897E3EFBB3E0D1"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a discussion of the methodology used to
determine which costs relate to that conference; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7742EDB259284F4F8EB3477CA180E87E"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of the contracting procedures
relating to that conference, including—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5B7D23B06FA543C58A2F4C158F21284C"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether contracts were awarded on a
competitive basis for that conference; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5BEA5400E1DC439FAEEAD80581C5E89F"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a discussion of any cost comparison
conducted by the department, agency, board or commission in evaluating
potential contractors for that conference.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfd61f23627cf456baeac628486e46cf4"><enum>(c)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A grant or contract funded by amounts
appropriated by this Act may not be used for the purpose of defraying the costs
of a conference that is not directly and programmatically related to the
purpose for which the grant or contract was awarded, such as a banquet or
conference held in connection with planning, training, assessment, review, or
other routine purposes related to a project funded by the grant or
contract.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id973E354D706745838DA2E57E82C9E507" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>420.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than 50
employees of a single agency or department of the United States Government, who
are stationed in the United States, at any single international conference
unless the relevant Secretary reports to the Committees on Appropriations at
least 5 days in advance that such attendance is important to the national
interest:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That for purposes of
this section the term <quote>international conference</quote> shall mean a
conference occurring outside of the United States attended by representatives
of the United States Government and of foreign governments, international
organizations, or nongovernmental organizations.</text>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id093E0C69462B44CC8AEAC25EA71FE031"><enum></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><?t?></text>
</subsection></section><appropriations-small commented="no" id="ID4f40e82cc7b544bf900b49057040f01b"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the
<quote><short-title>Transportation, Housing and Urban
Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2013</short-title></quote>.</text>
</appropriations-small>
April 19, 2012
Read twice and placed on
the calendar