[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2577 Reported in House (RH)]

                                                  Union Calendar No. 92
114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2577

                          [Report No. 114-129]

   Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and 
Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 27, 2015

  Mr. Diaz-Balart, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the 
following bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House 
          on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

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                                 A BILL


 
   Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and 
Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.


 


    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums 
are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and 
Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2016, and for other purposes, namely:

                                TITLE I

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                        Office of the Secretary

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary, 
$105,000,000, of which not to exceed $2,734,000 shall be available for 
the immediate Office of the Secretary; not to exceed $1,025,000 shall 
be available for the immediate Office of the Deputy Secretary; not to 
exceed $20,066,000 shall be available for the Office of the General 
Counsel; not to exceed $9,310,000 shall be available for the Office of 
the Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy; not to exceed 
$12,808,000 shall be available for the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Budget and Programs; not to exceed $2,500,000 shall be 
available for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental 
Affairs; not to exceed $26,029,000 shall be available for the Office of 
the Assistant Secretary for Administration; not to exceed $2,029,000 
shall be available for the Office of Public Affairs; not to exceed 
$1,769,000 shall be available for the Office of the Executive 
Secretariat; not to exceed $10,793,000 shall be available for the 
Office of Intelligence, Security, and Emergency Response; and not to 
exceed $15,937,000 shall be available for the Office of the Chief 
Information Officer: Provided, That the Secretary of Transportation is 
authorized to transfer funds appropriated for any office of the Office 
of the Secretary to any other office of the Office of the Secretary: 
Provided further, That no appropriation for any office shall be 
increased or decreased by more than 5 percent by all such transfers: 
Provided further, That notice of any change in funding greater than 5 
percent shall be submitted for approval to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$60,000 shall be for allocation within the Department for official 
reception and representation expenses as the Secretary may determine: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
excluding fees authorized in Public Law 107-71, there may be credited 
to this appropriation up to $2,500,000 in funds received in user fees: 
Provided further, That none of the funds provided in this Act shall be 
available for the position of Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs.

                        research and technology

    For necessary expenses related to the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Research and Technology, $11,386,000, of which $8,218,000 
shall remain available until September 30, 2018: Provided, That there 
may be credited to this appropriation, to be available until expended, 
funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other public 
authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred for training: 
Provided further, That any reference in law, regulation, judicial 
proceedings, or elsewhere to the Research and Innovative Technology 
Administration shall continue to be deemed to be a reference to the 
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology of the 
Department of Transportation.

                  national infrastructure investments

                     (including transfer of funds)

     For capital investments in surface transportation infrastructure, 
$100,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2018: Provided, 
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: 
Provided further, 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 (including inland port infrastructure 
and land ports of entry): Provided further, That the Secretary may use 
up to 20 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: Provided further, 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: 
Provided further, That a grant funded under this heading shall be not 
less than $2,000,000 and not greater than $15,000,000: Provided 
further, That not more than 20 percent of the funds made available 
under this heading may be awarded to projects in a single State: 
Provided further, 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 50 percent: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
give priority to projects that require a contribution of Federal funds 
in order to complete an overall financing package: Provided further, 
That not less than 10 percent of the funds provided under this heading 
shall be for projects located in rural areas: Provided further, 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: Provided further, 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: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall conduct a new competition to select 
the grants and credit assistance awarded under this heading: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may retain up to $5,000,000 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 Maritime Administration, to fund the award and oversight of grants 
and credit assistance made under the National Infrastructure 
Investments program.

                      financial management capital

    For necessary expenses for upgrading and enhancing the Department 
of Transportation's financial systems and re-engineering business 
processes, $1,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2017.

                       cyber security initiatives

    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, $7,000,000 to 
remain available through September 30, 2017.

                         office of civil rights

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, $9,600,000.

           transportation planning, research, and development

    For necessary expenses for conducting transportation planning, 
research, systems development, development activities, and making 
grants, to remain available until expended, $5,976,000.

                          working capital fund

    For necessary expenses for operating costs and capital outlays of 
the Working Capital Fund, not to exceed $181,500,000 shall be paid from 
appropriations made available to the Department of Transportation: 
Provided, That such services shall be provided on a competitive basis 
to entities within the Department of Transportation: Provided further, 
That the above limitation on operating expenses shall not apply to non-
DOT entities: Provided further, That no funds appropriated in this Act 
to an agency of the Department shall be transferred to the Working 
Capital Fund without majority approval of the Working Capital Fund 
Steering Committee and approval of the Secretary: Provided further, 
That no assessments may be levied against any program, budget activity, 
subactivity or project funded by this Act unless notice of such 
assessments and the basis therefor are presented to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations and are approved by such 
Committees.

               minority business resource center program

    For the cost of guaranteed loans, $336,000, as authorized by 49 
U.S.C. 332: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That these funds are available to 
subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, 
not to exceed $18,367,000.
    In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
guaranteed loan program, $597,000.

       small and disadvantaged business utilization and outreach

    For necessary expenses for small and disadvantaged business 
utilization and outreach activities, $4,518,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2017: Provided, That notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 332, 
these funds may be used for business opportunities related to any mode 
of transportation.

                        payments to air carriers

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

    In addition to funds made available from any other source to carry 
out the essential air service program under 49 U.S.C. 41731 through 
41742, $155,000,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust 
Fund, to remain available until expended: Provided, 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:  Provided further, 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: Provided 
further, That none of the funds in this Act or any other Act shall be 
used to enter into a new contract with a community located less than 40 
miles from the nearest small hub airport before the Secretary has 
negotiated with the community over a local cost share: Provided 
further, That amounts authorized to be distributed for the essential 
air service program under subsection 41742(b) of title 49, United 
States Code, shall be made available immediately from amounts otherwise 
provided to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration: 
Provided further, That the Administrator may reimburse such amounts 
from fees credited to the account established under section 45303 of 
title 49, United States Code.

                       administrative provisions

    Sec. 101.  None of the funds made available in this Act to the 
Department of Transportation may be obligated for the Office of the 
Secretary of Transportation to approve assessments or reimbursable 
agreements pertaining to funds appropriated to the modal 
administrations in this Act, except for activities underway on the date 
of enactment of this Act, unless such assessments or agreements have 
completed the normal reprogramming process for Congressional 
notification.
    Sec. 102.  The Secretary or his designee may engage in activities 
with States and State legislators to consider proposals related to the 
reduction of motorcycle fatalities.
    Sec. 103.  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: Provided, That the Department shall include adequate safeguards in 
the contract with the vendors to ensure timely and high-quality 
performance under the contract.
    Sec. 104.  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 decisions and actions of each meeting.
    Sec. 105.  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 partial or full payments in advance and 
accept subsequent reimbursements from all Federal agencies for transit 
benefit distribution services 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: Provided, 
That the Department shall maintain a reasonable operating reserve in 
the Working Capital Fund, to be expended in advance to provide 
uninterrupted transit benefits to Government employees, provided that 
such reserve will not exceed one month of benefits payable: Provided 
further, that such reserve may be used only for the purpose of 
providing for the continuation of transit benefits, provided that the 
Working Capital Fund will be fully reimbursed by each customer agency 
for the actual cost of the transit benefit.

                    Federal Aviation Administration

                               operations

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

    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 112-95, 
$9,847,700,000 of which $8,831,250,000 shall be derived from the 
Airport and Airway Trust Fund, of which not to exceed $7,505,293,000 
shall be available for air traffic organization activities; not to 
exceed $1,258,411,000 shall be available for aviation safety 
activities; not to exceed $16,605,000 shall be available for commercial 
space transportation activities; not to exceed $725,000,000 shall be 
available for finance and management activities; not to exceed 
$60,089,000 shall be available for NextGen and operations planning 
activities; and not to exceed $282,302,000 shall be available for staff 
offices: Provided, 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: Provided further, That no transfer 
may increase or decrease any appropriation by more than 2 percent: 
Provided further, 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: Provided 
further, 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: Provided 
further, 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: Provided further, 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: Provided further, 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: Provided further, That funds may be used to enter into a 
grant agreement with a nonprofit standard-setting organization to 
assist in the development of aviation safety standards: Provided 
further, That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for new 
applicants for the second career training program: Provided further, 
That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for the Federal 
Aviation Administration to finalize or implement any regulation that 
would promulgate new aviation user fees not specifically authorized by 
law after the date of the enactment of this Act: Provided further, That 
there may be credited to this appropriation 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: Provided 
further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, not less 
than $154,400,000 shall be for the contract tower program, including 
the contract tower cost share program: Provided further, That none of 
the funds in this Act for aeronautical charting and cartography are 
available for activities conducted by, or coordinated through, the 
Working Capital Fund.

                        facilities and equipment

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for 
acquisition, establishment, technical support services, improvement by 
contract or purchase, and hire of 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, 
$2,500,000,000, of which $460,000,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2016, and $2,040,000,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2018: Provided, That there may be credited to this 
appropriation funds received from States, counties, municipalities, 
other public authorities, and private sources, for expenses incurred in 
the establishment, improvement, and modernization of national airspace 
systems: Provided further, That upon initial submission to the Congress 
of the fiscal year 2017 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 2017 through 2021, 
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: Provided further, That the amount herein 
appropriated shall be reduced by $100,000 per day for each day after 
the initial submission of the fiscal year 2017 President's budget that 
such report has not been submitted to Congress.

                 research, engineering, and development

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for research, 
engineering, and development, as authorized under part A of subtitle 
VII of title 49, United States Code, including construction of 
experimental facilities and acquisition of necessary sites by lease or 
grant, $156,750,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust 
Fund and to remain available until September 30, 2018: Provided, 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.

                       grants-in-aid for airports

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

    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, $3,600,000,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway 
Trust Fund and to remain available until expended: Provided, That none 
of the funds under this heading shall be available for the planning or 
execution of programs the obligations for which are in excess of 
$3,350,000,000 in fiscal year 2016, notwithstanding section 47117(g) of 
title 49, United States Code: Provided further, That none of the funds 
under this heading shall be available for the replacement of baggage 
conveyor systems, reconfiguration of terminal baggage areas, or other 
airport improvements that are necessary to install bulk explosive 
detection systems: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, of funds limited under this heading, not more than 
$107,100,000 shall be obligated for administration, not less than 
$15,000,000 shall be available for the Airport Cooperative Research 
Program, and not less than $31,000,000 shall be available for Airport 
Technology Research.

                       administrative provisions

    Sec. 110.  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 2016.
    Sec. 111.  None of the funds in this Act shall be used to pursue or 
adopt guidelines or regulations requiring airport sponsors to provide 
to the Federal Aviation Administration without cost building 
construction, maintenance, utilities and expenses, or space in airport 
sponsor-owned buildings for services relating to air traffic control, 
air navigation, or weather reporting: Provided, That the prohibition of 
funds in this section does not apply to negotiations between the agency 
and airport sponsors to achieve agreement on below-market rates for 
these items or to grant assurances that require airport sponsors to 
provide land without cost to the FAA for air traffic control 
facilities.
    Sec. 112.  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 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.
    Sec. 113.  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.
    Sec. 114.  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.
    Sec. 115.  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.
    Sec. 116.  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 Assistant 
Secretary for Administration of the Department of Transportation.
    Sec. 117.  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.
    Sec. 118.  None of the funds in this Act shall be available for 
salaries and expenses of more than 9 political and Presidential 
appointees in the Federal Aviation Administration.
    Sec. 119.  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 provides to the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations a report that justifies all fees related to 
aeronautical navigation products and explains how such fees are 
consistent with Executive Order 13642.
    Sec. 119A.  None of the funds in this Act may be used to close a 
regional operations center of the Federal Aviation Administration or 
reduce its services unless the Administrator notifies the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 90 full business days 
in advance.
    Sec. 119B.  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.

                     Federal Highway Administration

                 limitation on administrative expenses

                          (highway trust fund)

                     (including transfer of funds)

    Contingent upon enactment of authorization legislation, not to 
exceed $426,100,000, together with advances and reimbursements received 
by the Federal Highway Administration, shall be obligated for necessary 
expenses for administration and operation of the Federal Highway 
Administration. In addition, not to exceed $3,248,000 shall be 
transferred to the Appalachian Regional Commission in accordance with 
section 104 of title 23, United States Code.

                          federal-aid highways

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    Contingent upon enactment of authorization legislation, funds 
available for the implementation or execution of Federal-aid highway 
and highway safety construction programs authorized under titles 23 and 
49, United States Code, and the provisions of such authorization 
legislation shall not exceed total obligations of $40,256,000,000 for 
fiscal year 2016: Provided, That the Secretary may collect and spend 
fees, as authorized by title 23, United States Code, 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: 
Provided further, That such fees are available until expended to pay 
for such costs: Provided further, That such amounts are in addition to 
administrative expenses that are also available for such purpose, and 
are not subject to any obligation limitation or the limitation on 
administrative expenses under section 608 of title 23, United States 
Code.

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                          (highway trust fund)

    Contingent upon enactment of authorization legislation, for the 
payment of obligations incurred in carrying out Federal-aid highway and 
highway safety construction programs authorized under title 23, United 
States Code, $40,995,000,000 derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other 
than the Mass Transit Account), to remain available until expended.

       administrative provisions--federal highway administration

    Sec. 120.  Contingent upon enactment of authorization legislation:
    (a) For fiscal year 2016, the Secretary of Transportation shall--
            (1) not distribute from the obligation limitation for 
        Federal-aid highways--
                    (A) amounts authorized for administrative expenses 
                and programs by section 104(a) of title 23, United 
                States Code; and
                    (B) amounts authorized for the Bureau of 
                Transportation Statistics;
            (2) not distribute an amount from the obligation limitation 
        for Federal-aid highways that is equal to the unobligated 
        balance of amounts--
                    (A) made available from the Highway Trust Fund 
                (other than the Mass Transit Account) for Federal-aid 
                highway and highway safety construction programs for 
                previous fiscal years the funds for which are allocated 
                by the Secretary (or apportioned by the Secretary under 
                sections 202 or 204 of title 23, United States Code); 
                and
                    (B) for which obligation limitation was provided in 
                a previous fiscal year;
            (3) determine the proportion that--
                    (A) the obligation limitation for Federal-aid 
                highways, less the aggregate of amounts not distributed 
                under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection; bears 
                to
                    (B) the total of the sums authorized to be 
                appropriated for the Federal-aid highway and highway 
                safety construction programs (other than sums 
                authorized to be appropriated for provisions of law 
                described in paragraphs (1) through (11) of subsection 
                (b) and sums authorized to be appropriated for section 
                119 of title 23, United States Code, equal to the 
                amount referred to in subsection (b)(12) for such 
                fiscal year), less the aggregate of the amounts not 
                distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this 
                subsection;
            (4) distribute the obligation limitation for Federal-aid 
        highways, less the aggregate amounts not distributed under 
        paragraphs (1) and (2), for each of the programs (other than 
        programs to which paragraph (1) applies) that are allocated by 
        the Secretary under such authorization legislation and title 
        23, United States Code, or apportioned by the Secretary under 
        sections 202 or 204 of that title, by multiplying--
                    (A) the proportion determined under paragraph (3); 
                by
                    (B) the amounts authorized to be appropriated for 
                each such program for such fiscal year; and
            (5) distribute the obligation limitation for Federal-aid 
        highways, less the aggregate amounts not distributed under 
        paragraphs (1) and (2) and the amounts distributed under 
        paragraph (4), for Federal-aid highway and highway safety 
        construction programs that are apportioned by the Secretary 
        under such authorization legislation or title 23, United States 
        Code (other than the amounts apportioned for the National 
        Highway Performance Program in section 119 of title 23, United 
        States Code, that are exempt from the limitation under 
        subsection (b)(12) and the amounts apportioned under sections 
        202 and 204 of that title) in the proportion that--
                    (A) amounts authorized to be appropriated for the 
                programs that are apportioned under title 23, United 
                States Code, or such authorization legislation to each 
                State for such fiscal year; bears to
                    (B) the total of the amounts authorized to be 
                appropriated for the programs that are apportioned 
                under title 23, United States Code, or such 
                authorization legislation to all States for such fiscal 
                year.
    (b) Exceptions From Obligation Limitation.--The obligation 
limitation for Federal-aid highways shall not apply to obligations 
under or for--
            (1) section 125 of title 23, United States Code;
            (2) section 147 of the Surface Transportation Assistance 
        Act of 1978 (23 U.S.C. 144 note; 92 Stat. 2714);
            (3) section 9 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981 (95 
        Stat. 1701);
            (4) subsections (b) and (j) of section 131 of the Surface 
        Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (96 Stat. 2119);
            (5) subsections (b) and (c) of section 149 of the Surface 
        Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 
        (101 Stat. 198);
            (6) sections 1103 through 1108 of the Intermodal Surface 
        Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2027);
            (7) section 157 of title 23, United States Code (as in 
        effect on June 8, 1998);
            (8) 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);
            (9) Federal-aid highway programs for which obligation 
        authority was made available under the Transportation Equity 
        Act for the 21st Century (112 Stat. 107) or subsequent Acts for 
        multiple years or to remain available until expended, but only 
        to the extent that the obligation authority has not lapsed or 
        been used;
            (10) section 105 of title 23, United States Code (as in 
        effect for fiscal years 2005 through 2012, but only in an 
        amount equal to $639,000,000 for each of those fiscal years);
            (11) section 1603 of SAFETEA-LU (23 U.S.C. 118 note; 119 
        Stat. 1248), 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; and
            (12) section 119 of title 23, United States Code (but, for 
        each of fiscal years 2013 through 2016, only in an amount equal 
        to $639,000,000).
    (c) Redistribution of Unused Obligation Authority.--Notwithstanding 
subsection (a), the Secretary shall, after August 1 of such fiscal 
year--
            (1) revise a distribution of the obligation limitation made 
        available under subsection (a) if an amount distributed cannot 
        be obligated during that fiscal year; and
            (2) 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 
        144 (as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of 
        Public Law 112-141) and 104 of title 23, United States Code.
    (d) Applicability of Obligation Limitations to Transportation 
Research Programs.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
        obligation limitation for Federal-aid highways shall apply to 
        contract authority for transportation research programs carried 
        out under--
                    (A) chapter 5 of title 23, United States Code; and
                    (B) the transportation research programs sections 
                of such authorization legislation.
            (2) Exception.--Obligation authority made available under 
        paragraph (1) shall--
                    (A) remain available for a period of 4 fiscal 
                years; and
                    (B) 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.
    (e) Redistribution of Certain Authorized Funds.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
        distribution of obligation limitation under subsection (a), the 
        Secretary shall distribute to the States any funds (excluding 
        funds authorized for the program under section 202 of title 23, 
        United States Code) that--
                    (A) are authorized to be appropriated for such 
                fiscal year for Federal-aid highway programs; and
                    (B) the Secretary determines will not be allocated 
                to the States (or will not be apportioned to the States 
                under section 204 of title 23, United States Code), and 
                will not be available for obligation, for such fiscal 
                year because of the imposition of any obligation 
                limitation for such fiscal year.
            (2) Ratio.--Funds shall be distributed under paragraph (1) 
        in the same proportion as the distribution of obligation 
        authority under subsection (a)(5).
            (3) Availability.--Funds distributed to each State under 
        paragraph (1) shall be available for any purpose described in 
        section 133(b) of title 23, United States Code.
    Sec. 121.  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 chapter 63 of title 49, United 
States Code, may be credited to the Federal-aid highways account for 
the purpose of reimbursing the Bureau for such expenses: Provided, That 
such funds shall be subject to the obligation limitation for Federal-
aid highway and highway safety construction programs.
    Sec. 122.  Not less than 15 days prior to waiving, under his or her 
statutory authority, any Buy America requirement for Federal-aid 
highways 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: Provided, 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.
    Sec. 123.  None of the funds in this Act to the Department of 
Transportation may be used to provide credit assistance unless not less 
than 3 days before any application approval to provide credit 
assistance under sections 603 and 604 of title 23, United States Code, 
the Secretary of Transportation provides notification in writing to the 
following committees: the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations; the Committee on Environment and Public Works and the 
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
Representatives: Provided, That such notification shall include, but 
not be limited to, the name of the project sponsor; a description of 
the project; whether credit assistance will be provided as a direct 
loan, loan guarantee, or line of credit; and the amount of credit 
assistance.
    Sec. 124.  Section 127 of title 23, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end the following:
    ``(m) Longer Combination Vehicles in Idaho.--No limit or other 
prohibition under this section, except as provided in this subsection, 
applies to a longer combination vehicle operating on a segment of the 
Interstate System in the State of Idaho if such vehicle--
            ``(1) has a gross vehicle weight of 129,000 pounds or less;
            ``(2) complies with the single axle, tandem axle, and 
        bridge formula limits set forth in subsection (a); and
            ``(3) is authorized to operate on such segment under Idaho 
        State Law.''.
    Sec. 125.  Section 31111(b)(1)(A) of title 49, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ``or of less than 28 feet on a semitrailer or 
trailer operating in a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer combination,'' 
and inserting ``or, notwithstanding section 31112, of less than 33 feet 
on a semitrailer or trailer operating in a truck tractor-semitrailer-
trailer combination,''.
    Sec. 126. Exemption.--
    (a) In General.--Section 31112(c)(5) of title 49, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Nebraska may'' and inserting ``Nebraska 
        and Kansas may''; and
            (2) by striking ``the State of Nebraska'' and inserting 
        ``the relevant state''.
    (b) Conforming and Technical Amendments.--Section 31112(c) of such 
title is amended--
            (1) by striking the subsection designation and heading and 
        inserting the following:
    ``(c) Special Rules for Wyoming, Ohio, Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, and 
Kansas.--'';
            (2) by striking ``; and'' at the end of paragraph (3) and 
        inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (4) and 
        inserting ``; and''.
    Sec. 127.  Section 130(e)(1) of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ``$220,000,000'' and inserting ``$350,000,000''.

              Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

              motor carrier safety operations and programs

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    Contingent upon enactment of authorization legislation, 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, as amended by Public Law 112-141, and as 
extended by Public Law 113-159, $259,000,000, 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: Provided, That funds available for implementation, execution 
or administration of motor carrier safety operations and programs 
authorized under title 49, United States Code, and sections 4127 and 
4134 of Public Law 109-59, as amended by Public Law 112-141, and as 
extended by Public Law 113-159, shall not exceed total obligations of 
$259,000,000 for ``Motor Carrier Safety Operations and Programs'' for 
fiscal year 2016, of which $9,000,000, to remain available for 
obligation until September 30, 2018, is for the research and technology 
program, and of which $34,545,000, to remain available for obligation 
until September 30, 2018, is for information management: Provided 
further, That $1,000,000 shall be made available for commercial motor 
vehicle operator grants to carry out section 4134 of Public Law 109-59, 
as amended by Public Law 112-141, and as extended by Public Law 113-
159.

                      motor carrier safety grants

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    Contingent upon enactment of authorization legislation, 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, as amended by Public Law 
112-141, as extended by Public Law 113-159, $313,000,000, to be derived 
from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) and 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That funds available for 
the implementation or execution of motor carrier safety programs shall 
not exceed total obligations of $313,000,000 in fiscal year 2016 for 
``Motor Carrier Safety Grants''; of which $218,000,000 shall be 
available for the motor carrier safety assistance program, $30,000,000 
shall be available for commercial driver's license program improvement 
grants, $32,000,000 shall be available for border enforcement grants, 
$5,000,000 shall be available for performance and registration 
information system management grants, $25,000,000 shall be available 
for the commercial vehicle information systems and networks deployment 
program, and $3,000,000 shall be available for safety data improvement 
grants: Provided further, That, of the funds made available herein for 
the motor carrier safety assistance program, $32,000,000 shall be 
available for audits of new entrant motor carriers.

 administrative provisions--federal motor carrier safety administration

    Sec. 130.  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.
    Sec. 131.  The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shall 
send notice of 49 CFR section 385.308 violations by certified mail, 
registered mail, or another manner of delivery, which records the 
receipt of the notice by the persons responsible for the violations.
    Sec. 132.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act or any other Act may be used to implement, 
administer, or enforce sections 395.3(c) and 395.3(d) of title 49, Code 
of Federal Regulations, and such section shall have no force or effect 
on submission of the final report issued by the Secretary, as required 
by section 133 of Division K of Public Law 113-235, unless the 
Secretary and the Inspector General of the Department of Transportation 
each review and determine that the final report--
            (1) meets the statutory requirements set forth in such 
        section; and
            (2) establishes that commercial motor vehicle drivers who 
        operated under the restart provisions in effect between July 1, 
        2013, and the day before the date of enactment of such Public 
        Law demonstrated statistically significant improvement in all 
        outcomes related to safety, operator fatigue, driver health and 
        longevity, and work schedules, in comparison to commercial 
        motor vehicle drivers who operated under the restart provisions 
        in effect on June 30, 2013.
    Sec. 133.  None of the funds limited or otherwise made available 
under the heading ``Motor Carrier Safety Operations and Programs'' may 
be used to deny an application to renew a Hazardous Materials Safety 
Program permit for a motor carrier based on that carrier's Hazardous 
Materials Out-of-Service rate, unless the carrier has the opportunity 
to submit a written description of corrective actions taken, and other 
documentation the carrier wishes the Secretary to consider, including 
submitting a corrective action plan, and the Secretary determines the 
actions or plan is insufficient to address the safety concerns that 
resulted in that Hazardous Materials Out-of-Service rate.
    Sec. 134.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to develop, issue, or implement any regulation that increases levels of 
minimum financial responsibility for transporting passengers or 
property as in effect on January 1, 2014, under regulations issued 
pursuant to sections 31138 and 31139 of title 49, United States Code.
    Sec. 135.  None of the funds made available by this Act or previous 
appropriations Acts under the heading ``Motor Carrier Safety Operations 
and Programs'' shall be used to pay for costs associated with design, 
development, testing, or implementation of a wireless roadside 
inspection program until 180 days after the Secretary of Transportation 
certifies to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations that 
such program does not conflict with existing non-Federal electronic 
screening systems, create capabilities already available, or require 
additional statutory authority to incorporate generated inspection data 
into safety determinations or databases, and has restrictions to 
specifically address privacy concerns of affected motor carriers and 
operators: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed as 
affecting the Department's ongoing research efforts in this area.

             National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

                        operations and research

    For expenses necessary to discharge the functions of the Secretary, 
with respect to traffic and highway safety authorized under chapter 301 
and part C of subtitle VI of title 49, United States Code, 
$150,000,000, of which $20,000,000 shall remain available through 
September 30, 2017.

                        operations and research

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    Contingent upon enactment of authorization legislation, 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, $125,000,000, to 
be derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit 
Account) and to remain available until expended: Provided, That none of 
the funds in this Act shall be available for the planning or execution 
of programs the total obligations for which, in fiscal year 2016, are 
in excess of $125,000,000, of which $120,000,000 shall be for programs 
authorized under 23 U.S.C. 403 and $5,000,000 shall be for the National 
Driver Register authorized under chapter 303 of title 49, United States 
Code: Provided further, That within the $120,000,000 obligation 
limitation for operations and research, $20,000,000 shall remain 
available until September 30, 2017, and shall be in addition to the 
amount of any limitation imposed on obligations for future years: 
Provided further, That $6,500,000 of the total obligation limitation 
for operations and research in fiscal year 2016 shall be applied toward 
unobligated balances of contract authority provided in prior Acts for 
carrying out the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 403, and chapter 303 of title 
49, United States Code.

                     highway traffic safety grants

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    Contingent on the enactment of authorization legislation, for 
payment of obligations incurred in carrying out provisions of 23 U.S.C. 
402 and 405, section 2009 of Public Law 109-59, as amended by Public 
Law 112-141, and section 31101(a)(6) of Public Law 112-141, to remain 
available until expended, $561,500,000, to be derived from the Highway 
Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account): Provided, That none 
of the funds in this Act shall be available for the planning or 
execution of programs the total obligations for which, in fiscal year 
2016, are in excess of $561,500,000 for programs authorized under 23 
U.S.C. 402 and 405, section 2009 of Public Law 109-59, as amended by 
Public Law 112-141, and section 31101(a)(6) of Public Law 112-141, of 
which $235,000,000 shall be for ``Highway Safety Programs'' under 23 
U.S.C. 402; $272,000,000 shall be for ``National Priority Safety 
Programs'' under 23 U.S.C. 405; $29,000,000 shall be for the ``High 
Visibility Enforcement Program'' under section 2009 of Public Law 109-
59, as amended by Public Law 112-141; $25,500,000 shall be for 
``Administrative Expenses'' under section 31101(a)(6) of Public Law 
112-141: Provided further, That none of these funds shall be used for 
construction, rehabilitation, or remodeling costs, or for office 
furnishings and fixtures for State, local or private buildings or 
structures: Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000 of the funds 
made available for ``National Priority Safety Programs'' under 23 
U.S.C. 405 for ``Impaired Driving Countermeasures'' (as described in 
subsection (d) of that section) shall be available for technical 
assistance to the States: Provided further, That with respect to the 
``Transfers'' provision under 23 U.S.C. 405(a)(1)(G), any amounts 
transferred to increase the amounts made available under section 402 
shall include the obligation authority for such amounts: Provided 
further, That the Administrator shall notify the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations of any exercise of the authority granted 
under the previous proviso or under 23 U.S.C. 405(a)(1)(G) within 60 
days.

      administrative provisions--national highway traffic safety 
                             administration

    Sec. 140.  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.
    Sec. 141.  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.
    Sec. 142.  None of the funds in this Act shall be used to implement 
section 404 of title 23, United States Code.
    Sec. 143.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to obligate or award funds for the National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration's National Roadside Survey.
    Sec. 144.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to mandate global positioning system (GPS) tracking in private 
passenger motor vehicles without providing full and appropriate 
consideration of privacy concerns under 5 U.S.C. chapter 5, subchapter 
II.

                    Federal Railroad Administration

                         safety and operations

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Railroad Administration, not 
otherwise provided for, $186,870,000, of which $15,400,000 shall remain 
available until expended.

                   railroad research and development

    For necessary expenses for railroad research and development, 
$39,100,000, to remain available until expended.

       railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing program

    The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to issue direct loans 
and loan guarantees pursuant to sections 501 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 or loan guarantee is outstanding. Provided, That pursuant to 
section 502 of such Act, as amended, no new direct loans or loan 
guarantee commitments shall be made using Federal funds for the credit 
risk premium during fiscal year 2016.

    operating grants to the national railroad passenger corporation

    To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make quarterly grants 
to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, in amounts based on the 
Secretary's assessment of the Corporation's seasonal cash flow 
requirements, 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), 
$288,500,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 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: Provided further, 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: Provided further, That not 
later than 60 days after enactment of this Act, the Corporation shall 
transmit, in electronic format, to the Secretary and the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations the annual budget, business plan, 
the 5-Year Financial Plan for fiscal year 2016 required under section 
204 of the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 and 
the comprehensive fleet plan for all Amtrak rolling stock: Provided 
further, 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: Provided further, That the Corporation 
shall provide monthly performance reports in an electronic format which 
shall describe the work completed to date, any changes to the business 
plan, and the reasons for such changes as well as progress against the 
milestones and target dates of the 2012 performance improvement plan: 
Provided further, That the Corporation's budget, business plan, 5-Year 
Financial Plan, semiannual reports, monthly reports, comprehensive 
fleet plan and all supplemental reports or plans comply with 
requirements in Public Law 112-55: Provided further, That none of the 
funds provided in this Act may be used to support any route on which 
Amtrak offers a discounted fare of more than 50 percent off the normal 
peak fare: Provided further, That the preceding proviso does not apply 
to routes where the operating loss as a result of the discount is 
covered by a State and the State participates in the setting of fares.

  capital and debt service grants to the national railroad passenger 
                              corporation

    To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to the 
National Railroad Passenger Corporation for capital investments as 
authorized by sections 101(c), 102, and 219(b) of the Passenger Rail 
Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (division B of Public Law 110-
432), $850,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which not to 
exceed $160,200,000 shall be for debt service obligations as authorized 
by section 102 of such Act: Provided, That of the amounts made 
available under this heading, not less than $50,000,000 shall be made 
available to bring Amtrak-served facilities and stations into 
compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act: Provided further, 
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: Provided further, That of the amounts made available under this 
heading, up to $20,000,000 may be used by the Secretary to subsidize 
operating losses of the Corporation should the funds provided under the 
heading ``Operating Grants to the National Railroad Passenger 
Corporation'' be insufficient to meet operational costs for fiscal year 
2016: Provided further, 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 and oversight of activities authorized by 
subsections 101(a) and 101(c) of division B of Public Law 110-432: 
Provided further, 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: Provided further, That except as otherwise 
provided herein, none of the funds under this heading may be used to 
subsidize operating losses of the Corporation: Provided further, That 
none of the funds under this heading may be used for capital projects 
not approved by the Secretary of Transportation or on the Corporation's 
fiscal year 2016 business plan: Provided further, 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 $3,000,000 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: Provided further, That 
Amtrak shall conduct a business case analysis on capital investments 
that exceed $10,000,000 in life-cycle costs: Provided further, That 
each contract for a capital acquisition that exceeds $10,000,000 in 
life cycle costs shall state that funding is subject to the 
availability of appropriated funds provided by an appropriations Act.

       administrative provisions--federal railroad administration

    Sec. 150.  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 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.
    Sec. 151.  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: Provided, 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: Provided 
further, That Amtrak shall report to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations each quarter of the calendar year on waivers granted to 
employees and amounts paid above the cap for each month within such 
quarter and delineate the reasons each waiver was granted: Provided 
further, That the President of Amtrak shall report to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations by March 1, 2016, a summary of all 
overtime payments incurred by the Corporation for 2015 and the three 
prior calendar years: Provided further, That such summary shall include 
the total number of employees that received waivers and the total 
overtime payments the Corporation paid to those employees receiving 
waivers for each month for 2015 and for the three prior calendar years.

                     Federal Transit Administration

                        administrative expenses

    For necessary administrative expenses of the Federal Transit 
Administration's programs authorized by chapter 53 of title 49, United 
States Code, $102,933,000, of which not more than $4,000,000 shall be 
available to carry out the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 5329 and not less 
than $750,000 shall be available to carry out the provisions of 49 
U.S.C. 5326: Provided, That none of the funds provided or limited in 
this Act may be used to create a permanent office of transit security 
under this heading: Provided further, That upon submission to the 
Congress of the fiscal year 2017 President's budget, the Secretary of 
Transportation shall transmit to Congress the annual report on New 
Starts, including proposed allocations for fiscal year 2017.

                         transit formula grants

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    Contingent upon enactment of authorization legislation, for payment 
of obligations incurred in the Federal Public Transportation Assistance 
Program in this account, and for payment of obligations incurred in 
carrying out the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 5305, 5307, 5310, 5311, 5318, 
5322(d), 5329(e)(6), 5335, 5337, 5339, and 5340, as amended by Public 
Law 112-141, and section 20005(b) of Public Law 112-141, 
$9,500,000,000, to be derived from the Mass Transit Account of the 
Highway Trust Fund and to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That funds available for the implementation or execution of programs 
authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5305, 5307, 5310, 5311, 5318, 5322(d), 
5329(e)(6), 5335, 5337, 5339, and 5340, as amended by Public Law 112-
141, and section 20005(b) of Public Law 112-141, shall not exceed total 
obligations of $8,595,000,000 in fiscal year 2016.

                            transit research

    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5312, $26,000,000.

                   technical assistance and training

    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5314 $3,000,000.

                       capital investment grants

    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5309, $1,921,395,000, 
to remain available until expended.

      grants to the washington metropolitan area transit authority

    For grants to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority as 
authorized under section 601 of division B of Public Law 110-432, 
$100,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 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: 
Provided further, That prior to approving such grants, the Secretary 
shall certify that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority 
is making significant progress in eliminating the material weaknesses, 
significant deficiencies, and minor control deficiencies identified in 
the most recent Financial Management Oversight Review: Provided 
further, That 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 before 
approving such grants:  Provided further, That the Secretary, in order 
to ensure safety throughout the rail system, may waive the requirements 
of section 601(e)(1) of title VI of Public Law 110-432 (112 Stat. 
4968).

       administrative provisions--federal transit administration

    Sec. 160.  The limitations on obligations for the programs of the 
Federal Transit Administration shall not apply to any authority under 
49 U.S.C. 5338, previously made available for obligation, or to any 
other authority previously made available for obligation.
    Sec. 161.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
appropriated or limited by this Act under the heading Fixed Guideway 
Capital Investment of the Federal Transit Administration for projects 
specified in this Act or identified in reports accompanying this Act 
not obligated by September 30, 2020, and other recoveries, shall be 
directed to projects eligible to use the funds for the purposes for 
which they were originally provided.
    Sec. 162.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any funds 
appropriated before October 1, 2015, 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.
    Sec. 163.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds made available in this Act shall be used to enter into a full 
funding grant agreement for a project with a New Starts share greater 
than 50 percent.
    Sec. 164. (a) Loss of Eligibility.--Except as provided in 
subsection (b), none of the funds in this or any other Act may be 
available to advance in any way a new light or heavy rail project 
towards a full funding grant agreement as defined by 49 U.S.C. 5309 for 
the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas if the 
proposed capital project is constructed on or planned to be constructed 
on Richmond Avenue west of South Shepherd Drive or on Post Oak 
Boulevard north of Richmond Avenue in Houston, Texas.
    (b) Exception for a New Election.--The Metropolitan Transit 
Authority of Harris County, Texas, may attempt to construct or 
construct a new fixed guideway capital project, including light rail, 
in the locations referred to in subsection (a) if--
            (1) voters in the jurisdiction that includes such locations 
        approve a ballot proposition that specifies routes on Richmond 
        Avenue west of South Shepherd Drive or on Post Oak Boulevard 
        north of Richmond Avenue in Houston, Texas; and
            (2) the proposed construction of such routes is part of a 
        comprehensive, multi-modal, service-area wide transportation 
        plan that includes multiple additional segments of fixed 
        guideway capital projects, including light rail for the 
        jurisdiction set forth in the ballot proposition. The ballot 
        language shall include reasonable cost estimates, sources of 
        revenue to be used and the total amount of bonded indebtedness 
        to be incurred as well as a description of each route and the 
        beginning and end point of each proposed transit project.

             Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

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

                       operations and maintenance

                    (harbor maintenance trust fund)

    For necessary expenses to conduct the operations, maintenance, and 
capital asset renewal activities of those portions of the Saint 
Lawrence Seaway owned, operated, and maintained by the Saint Lawrence 
Seaway Development Corporation, $32,042,000, to be derived from the 
Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to Public Law 99-662.

                        Maritime Administration

                       maritime security program

    For necessary expenses to maintain and preserve a U.S.-flag 
merchant fleet to serve the national security needs of the United 
States, $186,000,000, to remain available until expended.

                        operations and training

    For necessary expenses of operations and training activities 
authorized by law, $164,158,000, of which $22,000,000 shall remain 
available until expended for maintenance and repair of training ships 
at State Maritime Academies, and of which $5,000,000 shall remain 
available until expended for National Security Multi-Mission Vessel 
design for State Maritime Academies and National Security, and of which 
$2,400,000 shall remain available through September 30, 2017, for the 
Student Incentive Program at State Maritime Academies, and of which 
$1,200,000 shall remain available until expended for training ship fuel 
assistance payments, and of which $19,700,000 shall remain available 
until expended for facilities maintenance and repair, equipment, and 
capital improvements at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, and 
of which $3,000,000 shall remain available through September 30, 2017, 
for Maritime Environment and Technology Assistance grants, contracts, 
and cooperative agreement: Provided, 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: Provided further, That the 
Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent and the Director of the Office of 
Resource Management of the United States 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: Provided 
further, 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.

                             ship disposal

    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.

          maritime guaranteed loan (title xi) program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary administrative expenses of the maritime guaranteed 
loan program, $3,135,000 shall be paid to the appropriations for 
``Maritime Administration--Operations and Training''.

           administrative provisions--maritime administration

    Sec. 170.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, in 
addition to any existing authority, 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: 
Provided, That payments received therefor shall be credited to the 
appropriation charged with the cost thereof and shall remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That rental payments under any such 
lease, contract, or occupancy for items other than such utilities, 
services, or repairs shall be covered into the Treasury as 
miscellaneous receipts.
    Sec. 171.  None of the funds available or appropriated in this Act 
shall be used by the United States Department of Transportation or the 
United States Maritime Administration to negotiate or otherwise 
execute, enter into, facilitate or perform fee-for-service contracts 
for vessel disposal, scrapping or recycling, unless there is no 
qualified domestic ship recycler that will pay any sum of money to 
purchase and scrap or recycle a vessel owned, operated or managed by 
the Maritime Administration or that is part of the National Defense 
Reserve Fleet: Provided, That such sales offers must be consistent with 
the solicitation and provide that the work will be performed in a 
timely manner at a facility qualified within the meaning of section 
3502 of Public Law 106-398: Provided further, That nothing contained 
herein shall affect the Maritime Administration's authority to award 
contracts at least cost to the Federal Government and consistent with 
the requirements of 54 U.S.C. 308704, section 3502, or otherwise 
authorized under the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

         Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

                          operational expenses

    For necessary operational expenses of the Pipeline and Hazardous 
Materials Safety Administration, $20,725,000.

                       hazardous materials safety

    For expenses necessary to discharge the hazardous materials safety 
functions of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration, $60,500,000, of which $7,570,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2018: Provided, 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: Provided further, That 
there may be credited to this appropriation, to be available until 
expended, funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other 
public authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred for 
training, for reports publication and dissemination, and for travel 
expenses incurred in performance of hazardous materials exemptions and 
approvals functions.

                            pipeline safety

                         (pipeline safety fund)

                    (oil spill liability trust fund)

    For expenses necessary to conduct the functions of the pipeline 
safety program, for grants-in-aid to carry out a pipeline safety 
program, as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 60107, and to discharge the 
pipeline program responsibilities of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 
$145,870,000, of which $19,500,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill 
Liability Trust Fund and shall remain available until September 30, 
2018; and of which $124,500,000 shall be derived from the Pipeline 
Safety Fund, of which $66,309,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2018: Provided, That not less than $1,000,000 of the 
funds provided under this heading shall be for the One-Call state grant 
program.

                     emergency preparedness grants

                     (emergency preparedness fund)

    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5128(b), $188,000, to 
be derived from the Emergency Preparedness Fund, to remain available 
until September 30, 2017: Provided, That notwithstanding the fiscal 
year limitation specified in 49 U.S.C. 5116, not more than $28,318,000 
shall be made available for obligation in fiscal year 2016 from amounts 
made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(i), and 5128(b) and (c): Provided 
further, That notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 5116(i)(4), not more than 4 
percent of the amounts made available from this account shall be 
available to pay administrative costs: Provided further, 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 or her designee.

                      Office of Inspector General

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General to 
carry out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $86,223,000: Provided, That the Inspector General shall have 
all necessary authority, in carrying out the duties specified in the 
Inspector General Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), to investigate 
allegations of fraud, including false statements to the government (18 
U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that is subject to regulation by 
the Department: Provided further, That the funds made available under 
this heading may 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: Provided further, 
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.

                      Surface Transportation Board

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Surface Transportation Board, 
including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $31,375,000: Provided, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, not to exceed 
$1,250,000 from fees established by the Chairman of the Surface 
Transportation Board shall be credited to this appropriation as 
offsetting collections and used for necessary and authorized expenses 
under this heading: Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated 
from the general fund shall be reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis as 
such offsetting collections are received during fiscal year 2016, to 
result in a final appropriation from the general fund estimated at no 
more than $30,125,000.

            General Provisions--Department of Transportation

    Sec. 180.  During the current fiscal year, applicable 
appropriations to the Department of Transportation shall be available 
for maintenance and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles and aircraft; purchase of liability insurance for motor 
vehicles operating in foreign countries on official department 
business; and uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 
U.S.C. 5901-5902).
    Sec. 181.  Appropriations contained in this Act for the Department 
of Transportation shall be available for services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem 
rate equivalent to the rate for an Executive Level IV.
    Sec. 182.  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: Provided, That none of 
the personnel covered by this provision may be assigned on temporary 
detail outside the Department of Transportation.
    Sec. 183. (a) No recipient of funds made available in this Act 
shall disseminate personal information (as defined in 18 U.S.C. 
2725(3)) obtained by a State department of motor vehicles in connection 
with a motor vehicle record as defined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(1), except as 
provided in 18 U.S.C. 2721 for a use permitted under 18 U.S.C. 2721.
    (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary shall not 
withhold funds provided in this Act for any grantee if a State is in 
noncompliance with this provision.
    Sec. 184.  Funds received by the Federal Highway Administration, 
Federal Transit Administration, and Federal Railroad Administration 
from States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities, and 
private sources for expenses incurred for training may be credited 
respectively to the Federal Highway Administration's ``Federal-Aid 
Highways'' account, the Federal Transit Administration's ``Technical 
Assistance and Training'' account, and to the Federal Railroad 
Administration's ``Safety and Operations'' account, except for State 
rail safety inspectors participating in training pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 
20105.
    Sec. 185.  None of the funds in this Act to the Department of 
Transportation may be used to make a loan, loan guarantee, line of 
credit, or 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, loan commitment, loan guarantee commitment, line of credit 
commitment, or full funding grant agreement totaling $750,000 or more 
is announced by the department or its modal administrations from:
            (1) any discretionary grant or federal credit program of 
        the Federal Highway Administration including the emergency 
        relief program;
            (2) the airport improvement program of the Federal Aviation 
        Administration;
            (3) any program of the Federal Railroad Administration;
            (4) any program of the Federal Transit Administration other 
        than the formula grants and fixed guideway modernization 
        programs;
            (5) any program of the Maritime Administration; or
            (6) any funding provided under the headings ``National 
        Infrastructure Investments'' in this Act: 
    Provided, That the Secretary gives concurrent notification to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations for any ``quick release'' 
of funds from the emergency relief program: Provided further, That no 
notification shall involve funds that are not available for obligation.
    Sec. 186.  Rebates, refunds, incentive payments, minor fees and 
other funds received by the Department of Transportation from travel 
management centers, charge card programs, the subleasing of building 
space, and miscellaneous sources are to be credited to appropriations 
of the Department of Transportation and allocated to elements of the 
Department of Transportation using fair and equitable criteria and such 
funds shall be available until expended.
    Sec. 187.  Amounts made available in this or any other Act that the 
Secretary determines represent improper payments by the Department of 
Transportation to a third-party contractor under a financial assistance 
award, which are recovered pursuant to law, shall be available--
            (1) to reimburse the actual expenses incurred by the 
        Department of Transportation in recovering improper payments; 
        and
            (2) to pay contractors for services provided in recovering 
        improper payments or contractor support in the implementation 
        of the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002: Provided, 
        That amounts in excess of that required for paragraphs (1) and 
        (2)--
                    (A) shall be credited to and merged with the 
                appropriation from which the improper payments were 
                made, and shall be available for the purposes and 
                period for which such appropriations are available: 
                Provided further, That where specific project or 
                accounting information associated with the improper 
                payment or payments is not readily available, the 
                Secretary may credit an appropriate account, which 
                shall be available for the purposes and period 
                associated with the account so credited; or
                    (B) if no such appropriation remains available, 
                shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous 
                receipts: Provided further, That prior to the transfer 
                of any such recovery to an appropriations account, the 
                Secretary shall notify the House and Senate Committees 
                on Appropriations of the amount and reasons for such 
                transfer: Provided further, That for purposes of this 
                section, the term ``improper payments'' has the same 
                meaning as that provided in section 2(d)(2) of Public 
                Law 107-300.
    Sec. 188.  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, transmission of said reprogramming notice 
shall be provided solely to the Committees on Appropriations, and said 
reprogramming action shall be approved or denied solely by the 
Committees on Appropriations: Provided, 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.
    Sec. 189.  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.
    Sec. 190.  Funds appropriated in this Act to the modal 
administrations may be obligated for the Office of the Secretary for 
the costs related to assessments or reimbursable agreements only when 
such amounts are for the costs of goods and services that are purchased 
to provide a direct benefit to the applicable modal administration or 
administrations.
    Sec. 191.  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.
    Sec. 192.  None of the funds made available by this Act shall be 
used by the Surface Transportation Board to take any actions with 
respect to the construction of a high speed rail project in California 
unless the permit is issued by the Board with respect to the project in 
its entirety.
    Sec. 193.  None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to facilitate new scheduled air transportation originating from the 
United States if such flights would land on, or pass through, property 
confiscated by the Cuban Government, including property in which a 
minority interest was confiscated, as the terms confiscated, Cuban 
Government, and property are defined in paragraphs (4), (5), and 
(12)(A), respectively, of section 4 of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic 
Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6023 (4), (5), and 
(12)(A)): Provided, That for this section, new scheduled air 
transportation shall include any flights not already regularly 
scheduled prior to March 31, 2015.
    This title may be cited as the ``Department of Transportation 
Appropriations Act, 2016''.

                                TITLE II

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                     Management and Administration

                           executive offices

    For necessary salaries and expenses for Executive Offices, which 
shall be comprised of the offices of the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, 
Adjudicatory Services, Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, 
Public Affairs, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, and the 
Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, $14,500,000: 
Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 of the amount made available under 
this heading shall be available to the Secretary for official reception 
and representation expenses as the Secretary may determine.

                     administrative support offices

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary salaries and expenses for Administrative Support 
Offices, $547,000,000, of which $45,600,000, to remain available until 
expended, in addition to amounts made available under this heading for 
the Office of the Chief Financial Officer and the Office of the Chief 
Human Capital Officer, shall be for funding shared service agreements 
between the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the 
Department of the Treasury; $39,000,000 shall be available for the 
Office of the Chief Financial Officer; $93,000,000 shall be available 
for the Office of the General Counsel; $199,000,000 shall be available 
for the Office of Administration; $40,000,000 shall be available for 
the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer; $49,000,000 shall be 
available for the Office of Field Policy and Management; $16,000,000 
shall be available for the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer; 
$3,000,000 shall be available for the Office of Departmental Equal 
Employment Opportunity; $4,000,000 shall be available for the Office of 
Strategic Planning and Management; $44,000,000 shall be available for 
the Office of the Chief Information Officer; and of which the remaining 
amount shall be available through September 30, 2017, for transfer to 
the appropriations for offices specified under this heading or the 
heading ``Program Office Salaries and Expenses'' in this title: 
Provided, That funds provided under this heading may be used for 
necessary administrative and non-administrative expenses of the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, not otherwise provided 
for, including purchase of uniforms, or allowances therefor, as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; hire of passenger motor vehicles; and 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appropriated under 
this heading may be used for advertising and promotional activities 
that directly support program activities funded in this title: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall provide the Committees on 
Appropriations quarterly written notification regarding the status of 
pending congressional reports: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall provide in electronic form all signed reports required by 
Congress.

                  Program Office Salaries and Expenses

                       public and indian housing

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Public and 
Indian Housing, $203,000,000.

                   community planning and development

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Community 
Planning and Development, $102,000,000.

                                housing

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Housing, 
$372,000,000.

                    policy development and research

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Policy 
Development and Research, $22,700,000.

                   fair housing and equal opportunity

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Fair Housing 
and Equal Opportunity, $73,000,000.

            office of lead hazard control and healthy homes

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Lead Hazard 
Control and Healthy Homes, $6,700,000.

                   Public and Indian Housing Programs

                     tenant-based rental assistance

    For activities and assistance for the provision of tenant-based 
rental assistance authorized under the United States Housing Act of 
1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (``the Act'' herein), not 
otherwise provided for, $15,918,643,000 to remain available until 
September 30, 2018, shall be available on October 1, 2015 (in addition 
to the $4,000,000,000 previously appropriated under this heading that 
became available on October 1, 2015), and $4,000,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2019, shall be available on October 1, 
2016: Provided, That the amounts made available under this heading are 
provided as follows:
    (1) $18,151,000,000 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 or incremental vouchers: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, from amounts provided under 
this paragraph and any carryover, the Secretary for the calendar year 
2016 funding cycle shall provide renewal funding for each public 
housing agency based on validated 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 the first-time renewal of vouchers under this 
paragraph including tenant protection, HOPE VI, and Choice 
Neighborhoods vouchers: Provided further, That in determining calendar 
year 2016 funding allocations under this heading for public housing 
agencies, including agencies participating in the Moving To Work (MTW) 
demonstration, the Secretary may take into account the anticipated 
impact of changes in targeting and utility allowances, on public 
housing agencies' contract renewal needs: Provided further, 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 MTW demonstration, which are 
instead governed by the terms and conditions of their MTW agreements: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall, to the extent necessary to 
stay within the amount specified under this paragraph (except as 
otherwise modified under this paragraph), prorate each public housing 
agency's allocation otherwise established pursuant to this paragraph: 
Provided further, That except as provided in the following provisos, 
the entire amount specified under this paragraph (except as otherwise 
modified 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, 
2016: Provided further, That the Secretary may extend the notification 
period with the prior written approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, 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: Provided further, That 
the Secretary may offset public housing agencies' calendar year 2016 
allocations based on the excess amounts of public housing agencies' net 
restricted assets accounts, including HUD held programmatic reserves 
(in accordance with VMS data in calendar year 2015 that is verifiable 
and complete), as determined by the Secretary: Provided further, That 
public housing agencies participating in the MTW demonstration shall 
also be subject to the offset, as determined by the Secretary, 
excluding amounts subject to the single fund budget authority 
provisions of their MTW agreements, from the agencies' calendar year 
2016 MTW funding allocation: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
use any offset referred to in the previous two provisos throughout the 
calendar year to prevent the termination of rental assistance for 
families as the result of insufficient funding, as determined by the 
Secretary, and to avoid or reduce the proration of renewal funding 
allocations: Provided further, 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; (3) for adjustments for costs associated with HUD-
Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) vouchers; (4) for 
adjustments for public housing agencies with voucher leasing rates at 
the end of the calendar year that exceed the average leasing for the 
12-month period used to establish the allocation, and for additional 
leasing of vouchers that were issued but not leased prior to the end of 
such calendar year; (5) for public housing agencies that despite taking 
reasonable cost savings measures, as determined by the Secretary, would 
otherwise be required to terminate rental assistance for families as a 
result of insufficient funding; and (6) for adjustments in the 
allocations for public housing agencies that experienced a significant 
increase, as determined by the Secretary, in renewal costs as a result 
of participation in the Small Area Fair Market Rent demonstration: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall allocate amounts under the 
previous proviso based on need, as determined by the Secretary;
    (2) $130,000,000 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 and Choice Neighborhood 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: Provided, 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: Provided further, 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: Provided further, 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 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 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: Provided further, 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)): Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall issue guidance to implement the previous provisos, 
including, but not limited to, requirements for defining eligible at-
risk households within 120 days of the enactment of this Act: Provided 
further, That any tenant protection voucher made available from amounts 
under this paragraph shall not be reissued by any public housing 
agency, except the replacement vouchers as defined by the Secretary by 
notice, when the initial family that received any such voucher no 
longer receives such voucher, and the authority for any public housing 
agency to issue any such voucher shall cease to exist: Provided 
further, That the Secretary, for the purpose under this paragraph, may 
use unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryovers, 
remaining from amounts appropriated in prior fiscal years under this 
heading for voucher assistance for nonelderly disabled families and for 
disaster assistance made available under Public Law 110-329;
    (3) $1,530,000,000 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 $10,000,000 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 special purpose incremental 
vouchers: Provided, That no less than $1,520,000,000 of the amount 
provided in this paragraph shall be allocated to public housing 
agencies for the calendar year 2016 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): Provided further, 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, excluding special purpose vouchers, 
notwithstanding the purposes for which such amounts were appropriated: 
Provided further, 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: Provided further, 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;
    (4) $107,643,210 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: Provided, That administrative and other 
expenses of public housing agencies in administering the special 
purpose vouchers in this paragraph shall be funded under the same terms 
and be subject to the same pro rata reduction as the percent decrease 
for administrative and other expenses to public housing agencies under 
paragraph (3) of this heading;
    (5) The Secretary shall separately track all special purpose 
vouchers funded under this heading.

                        housing certificate fund

                        (including rescissions)

    Unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining 
from funds appropriated to the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development under this heading, the heading ``Annual Contributions for 
Assisted Housing'' and the heading ``Project-Based Rental Assistance'', 
for fiscal year 2016 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: Provided, That any obligated balances of 
contract authority from fiscal year 1974 and prior that have been 
terminated shall be rescinded: Provided further, 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.

                      public housing capital fund

    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 Act''), $1,681,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2019: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law or regulation, during fiscal year 2016 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: 
Provided further, That for purposes of such section 9(j), the term 
``obligate'' means, with respect to amounts, that the amounts are 
subject to a binding agreement that will result in outlays, immediately 
or in the future: Provided further, That up to $3,000,000 shall be to 
support ongoing Public Housing Financial and Physical Assessment 
activities: Provided further, 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 2016: Provided further, That of the total amount provided under 
this heading $30,000,000 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.): Provided 
further, That of the total amount made available under this heading, up 
to $15,000,000 may be used for a Jobs-Plus initiative modeled after the 
Jobs-Plus demonstration: Provided further, 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: Provided further, That applicants must demonstrate 
the ability to provide services to residents, partner with workforce 
investment boards, and leverage service dollars: Provided further, 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 Pilot initiative: Provided further, 
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 initiative as a voluntary program for residents: Provided 
further, 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: Provided further, That for funds provided under this 
heading, the limitation in section 9(g)(1) of the Act shall be 25 
percent: Provided further, That the Secretary may waive the limitation 
in the previous proviso to allow public housing agencies to fund 
activities authorized under section 9(e)(1)(C) of the Act: Provided 
further, That from the funds made available under this heading, the 
Secretary shall provide bonus awards in fiscal year 2016 to public 
housing agencies that are designated high performers: Provided further, 
That the Department shall notify public housing agencies of their 
formula allocation within 60 days of enactment of this Act.

                     public housing operating fund

    For 2016 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)), $4,440,000,000.

                    choice neighborhoods initiative

    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, $20,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2018: 
Provided, 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: Provided further, That the use of funds made 
available under this heading shall not be deemed to be public housing 
notwithstanding section 3(b)(1) of such Act: Provided further, That 
grantees shall commit to an additional period of affordability 
determined by the Secretary of not fewer than 20 years: Provided 
further, 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: 
Provided further, That grantees may include local governments, tribal 
entities, public housing authorities, and nonprofits: Provided further, 
That for-profit developers may apply jointly with a public entity: 
Provided further, That for purposes of environmental review, a grantee 
shall be treated as a public housing agency under section 26 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437x), and grants under 
this heading shall be subject to the regulations issued by the 
Secretary to implement such section: Provided further, That such 
grantees shall create partnerships with other local organizations 
including assisted housing owners, service agencies, and resident 
organizations: Provided further, That the Secretary shall consult with 
the Secretaries of Education, Labor, Transportation, Health and Human 
Services, Agriculture, and Commerce, the Attorney General, and the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to coordinate and 
leverage other appropriate Federal resources: Provided further, That 
unobligated balances, including recaptures, remaining from funds 
appropriated under the heading ``Revitalization of Severely Distressed 
Public Housing (HOPE VI)'' in fiscal year 2011 and prior fiscal years 
may be used for purposes under this heading, notwithstanding the 
purposes for which such amounts were appropriated.

                        family self-sufficiency

    For the Family Self-Sufficiency program to support family self-
sufficiency coordinators under section 23 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937, to promote the development of local strategies to 
coordinate the use of assistance under sections 8 and 9 of such Act 
with public and private resources, and enable eligible families to 
achieve economic independence and self-sufficiency, $75,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2017: Provided, That the Secretary 
may, by Federal Register notice, waive or specify alternative 
requirements under sections b(3), b(4), b(5), or c(1) of section 23 of 
such Act in order to facilitate the operation of a unified self-
sufficiency program for individuals receiving assistance under 
different provisions of the Act, as determined by the Secretary: 
Provided further, That owners of multifamily properties with project-
based subsidy contracts under section 8 may compete for funding under 
this heading and/or voluntarily make a Family Self-Sufficiency program 
available to the assisted tenants of such property in accordance with 
procedures established by the Secretary: Provided further, That such 
procedures established pursuant to the previous proviso shall permit 
participating tenants to accrue escrow funds in accordance with section 
23(d)(2) and shall allow owners to use funding from residual receipt 
accounts to hire coordinators for their own Family Self-Sufficiency 
program.

                  native american housing block grants

    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, 2020: Provided, 
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: Provided further, That of the amounts made available under 
this heading, $3,500,000 shall be contracted for assistance for 
national or regional organizations representing Native American housing 
interests for providing training and technical assistance to Indian 
housing authorities and tribally designated housing entities as 
authorized under NAHASDA: Provided further, That of the funds made 
available under the previous proviso, not less than $2,000,000 shall be 
made available for a national organization as authorized under section 
703 of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4212): Provided further, That of the amounts 
made available under this heading, $2,000,000 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: Provided further, That of the amount provided under 
this heading, $2,000,000 shall be made available for the cost of 
guaranteed notes and other obligations, as authorized by title VI of 
NAHASDA: Provided further, That such costs, including the costs of 
modifying such notes and other obligations, shall be as defined in 
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: 
Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize the total 
principal amount of any notes and other obligations, any part of which 
is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $17,452,007: Provided further, That 
the Department will notify grantees of their formula allocation within 
60 days of the date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, 
notwithstanding section 302(d) of NAHASDA, if on January 1, 2016, a 
recipient's total amount of undisbursed block grants in the 
Department's line of credit control system is greater than three times 
the formula allocation it would otherwise receive under this heading, 
the Secretary shall adjust that recipient's formula allocation down by 
the difference between its total amount of undisbursed block grants in 
the Department's line of credit control system on January 1, 2016, and 
three times the formula allocation it would otherwise receive: Provided 
further, That grant amounts not allocated to a recipient pursuant to 
the previous proviso shall be allocated under the need component of the 
formula proportionately among all other Indian tribes not subject to an 
adjustment: Provided further, That the two previous provisos shall not 
apply to any Indian tribe that would otherwise receive a formula 
allocation of less than $5,000,000: Provided further, That to take 
effect, the three previous provisos do not require the issuance of any 
regulation.

           indian housing loan guarantee fund program account

    For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by section 184 of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z-
13a), $8,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
such costs, including the costs of modifying such loans, shall be as 
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: 
Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize total 
loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, up to 
$1,269,841,270, to remain available until expended: Provided further, 
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.

                   Community Planning and Development

              housing opportunities for persons with aids

    For carrying out the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS 
program, as authorized by the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 
12901 et seq.), $332,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2017, except that amounts allocated pursuant to section 854(c)(3) of 
such Act shall remain available until September 30, 2018: Provided, 
That the Secretary shall renew all expiring contracts for permanent 
supportive housing that initially were funded under section 854(c)(3) 
of such Act from funds made available under this heading in fiscal year 
2010 and prior fiscal years that meet all program requirements before 
awarding funds for new contracts under such section: Provided further, 
That the Department shall notify grantees of their formula allocation 
within 60 days of enactment of this Act.

                       community development fund

    For assistance to units of State and local government, and to other 
entities, for economic and community development activities, and for 
other purposes, $3,060,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2018, unless otherwise specified: Provided, That of the total amount 
provided, $3,000,000,000 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 Act'' herein) (42 U.S.C. 
5301 et seq.): Provided further, That unless explicitly provided for 
under this heading, not to exceed 20 percent of any grant made with 
funds appropriated under this heading shall be expended for planning 
and management development and administration: Provided further, That a 
metropolitan city, urban county, unit of general local government, or 
Indian tribe, or insular area that directly or indirectly receives 
funds under this heading may not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer all 
or any portion of such funds to another such entity in exchange for any 
other funds, credits or non-Federal considerations, but must use such 
funds for activities eligible under title I of the Act: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding section 105(e)(1) of the Act, no funds 
provided under this heading may be provided to a for-profit entity for 
an economic development project under section 105(a)(17) unless such 
project has been evaluated and selected in accordance with guidelines 
required under subparagraph (e)(2): Provided further, That none of the 
funds made available under this heading may be used for grants for the 
Economic Development Initiative (``EDI'') or Neighborhood Initiatives 
activities, Rural Innovation Fund, or for grants pursuant to section 
107 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 
5307): Provided further, That the Department shall notify grantees of 
their formula allocation within 60 days of enactment of this Act: 
Provided further, That of the total amount provided under this heading 
$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.

         community development loan guarantees program account

                         (including rescission)

    Subject to section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 
during fiscal year 2016, commitments to guarantee loans under section 
108 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 
5308), any part of which is guaranteed, shall not exceed a total 
principal amount of $300,000,000, notwithstanding any aggregate 
limitation on outstanding obligations guaranteed in subsection (k) of 
such section 108: Provided, That the Secretary shall collect fees from 
borrowers, notwithstanding subsection (m) of such section 108, to 
result in a credit subsidy cost of zero for guaranteeing such loans, 
and any such fees shall be collected in accordance with section 502(7) 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That all 
unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining 
from funds appropriated to the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development under this heading are hereby permanently rescinded.

                  home investment partnerships program

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the HOME investment partnerships program, as authorized under 
title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, as 
amended, $767,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2019: 
Provided, 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 allocations of such amount: 
Provided further, That the requirements under provisos 2 through 6 
under this heading for fiscal year 2012 and such requirements 
applicable pursuant to the ``Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 
2013'', shall not apply to any project to which funds were committed on 
or after August 23, 2013, but such projects shall instead be governed 
by the Final Rule titled ``Home Investment Partnerships Program; 
Improving Performance and Accountability; Updating Property Standards'' 
which became effective on such date: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding paragraphs (1)(B)(i) or (2)(B)(i) of section 1337(a) of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 4567(a)), 
amounts allocated under such paragraphs shall be credited to, made 
available, and merged with this account: Provided further, That no 
amounts made available by any provision of law may be transferred, 
reprogrammed, or credited to the Housing Trust Fund.

        self-help and assisted homeownership opportunity program

    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, $50,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2018: Provided, That of the total amount provided 
under this heading, $10,000,000 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: Provided further, That of the total amount provided under this 
heading, $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 shall be made available for rural capacity 
building activities: Provided further, That of the total amount 
provided under this heading, $5,000,000 shall be made available for 
capacity building by national rural housing organizations with 
experience assessing national rural conditions and providing financing, 
training, technical assistance, information, and research to local 
nonprofits, local governments and Indian Tribes serving high need rural 
communities.

                       homeless assistance grants

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the emergency solutions grants program as authorized under 
subtitle B of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, 
as amended; the continuum of care program as authorized under subtitle 
C of title IV of such Act; and the rural housing stability assistance 
program as authorized under subtitle D of title IV of such Act, 
$2,185,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2018: Provided, 
That any rental assistance amounts that are recaptured under such 
continuum of care program shall remain available until expended: 
Provided further, That not less than $250,000,000 of the funds 
appropriated under this heading shall be available for such emergency 
solutions grants program: Provided further, That not less than 
$1,905,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be 
available for such continuum of care and rural housing stability 
assistance programs: Provided further, That up to $5,000,000 of the 
funds appropriated under this heading shall be available for the 
national homeless data analysis project: Provided further, That all 
funds awarded for supportive services under the continuum of care 
program and the rural housing stability assistance program shall be 
matched by not less than 25 percent in cash or in kind by each grantee: 
Provided further, 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: Provided further, That the Secretary shall establish 
minimum project performance thresholds for each grantee under the 
continuum of care program based on program performance data: Provided 
further, That none of the funds provided under this heading shall be 
available to renew any expiring contract or amendment to a contract 
funded under the continuum of care program unless the Secretary 
determines that the expiring contract or amendment to a contract is 
needed under the applicable continuum of care and meets appropriate 
program requirements, financial standards, and performance measures, 
including the minimum performance thresholds established in the 
previous proviso: Provided further, That the Secretary shall prioritize 
funding under the continuum of care program to grant applications that 
demonstrate a capacity to reallocate funding from lower performing 
projects to higher performing projects: Provided further, That all 
awards of assistance under this heading shall be required to coordinate 
and integrate homeless programs with other mainstream health, social 
services, and employment programs for which homeless populations may be 
eligible: Provided further, That with respect to funds provided under 
this heading for the continuum of care program for fiscal years 2013, 
2014, 2015, and 2016 provision of permanent housing rental assistance 
may be administered by private nonprofit organizations: Provided 
further, That any unobligated amounts remaining from funds appropriated 
under this heading in fiscal year 2012 and prior years for project-
based rental assistance for rehabilitation projects with 10-year grant 
terms may be used for purposes under this heading, notwithstanding the 
purposes for which such funds were appropriated:  Provided further, 
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 2016: Provided further, 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.

                            Housing Programs

                    project-based rental assistance

    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.) (``the Act''), not otherwise provided for, 
$10,254,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be available 
on October 1, 2015 (in addition to the $400,000,000 previously 
appropriated under this heading that became available October 1, 2015), 
and $400,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
available on October 1, 2016: Provided, 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: Provided further, That of the total amounts 
provided under this heading, not to exceed $150,000,000 shall be 
available for performance-based contract administrators for section 8 
project-based assistance, for carrying out 42 U.S.C. 1437(f): Provided 
further, 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): Provided further, That amounts recaptured 
under this heading, the heading ``Annual Contributions for Assisted 
Housing'', or the heading ``Housing Certificate Fund'', 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: Provided further, 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 
or a Housing Finance Agency 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: Provided further, 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.

                        housing for the elderly

    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, including renewals, 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, $414,000,000 to 
remain available until September 30, 2019: Provided, That of the amount 
provided under this heading, up to $77,000,000 shall be for service 
coordinators and the continuation of existing congregate service grants 
for residents of assisted housing projects: Provided further, That 
amounts under this heading shall be available for Real Estate 
Assessment Center inspections and inspection-related activities 
associated with section 202 projects: Provided further, That the 
Secretary may waive the provisions of section 202 governing the terms 
and conditions of project rental assistance, except that the initial 
contract term for such assistance shall not exceed 5 years in duration: 
Provided further, That upon 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 202 project rental 
assistance contract, and that upon termination of such contract 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 September 30, 2019, for purposes under this heading, 
and shall be in addition to the amounts otherwise provided under this 
heading for such purposes: Provided further, That in addition, of the 
prior year unobligated balances of funds, including recaptures and 
carryover, made available under this heading, $47,000,000 shall be used 
for an additional amount for the purposes provided under this heading, 
notwithstanding any purpose for which originally appropriated.

                 housing for persons with disabilities

    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, $152,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2019: 
Provided, 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: Provided 
further, That, in this fiscal year, 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 811 
project rental assistance contract and that upon termination of such 
contract 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 September 30, 2019: Provided further, That amounts 
deposited in this account pursuant to the previous proviso shall be 
available in addition to the amounts otherwise provided by this heading 
for the purposes authorized under this heading: Provided further, That 
unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining 
from funds transferred to or appropriated under this heading may be 
used for the current purposes authorized under this heading 
notwithstanding the purposes for which such funds originally were 
appropriated.

                     Housing Counseling Assistance

    For contracts, grants, and other assistance excluding loans, as 
authorized under section 106 of the Housing and Urban Development Act 
of 1968, as amended, $47,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2017, including up to $4,500,000 for administrative contract 
services: Provided, That grants made available from amounts provided 
under this heading shall be awarded within 180 days of enactment of 
this Act: Provided further, 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: Provided further, That for purposes of providing such grants 
from amounts provided under this heading, the Secretary may enter into 
multiyear agreements as is appropriate, subject to the availability of 
annual appropriations.

                       rental housing assistance

    For amendments to contracts under section 101 of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s) and section 236(f)(2) 
of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1) in State-aided, 
noninsured rental housing projects, $30,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That such amount, together with unobligated 
balances from recaptured amounts appropriated prior to fiscal year 2006 
from terminated contracts under such sections of law, and any 
unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining 
from funds appropriated under this heading after fiscal year 2005, 
shall also be available for extensions of up to one year for expiring 
contracts under such sections of law.

            payment to manufactured housing fees trust fund

    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 $11,000,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $11,000,000 is to be derived from the Manufactured Housing Fees 
Trust Fund: Provided, That not to exceed the total amount appropriated 
under this heading shall be available from the general fund of the 
Treasury to the extent necessary to incur obligations and make 
expenditures pending the receipt of collections to the Fund pursuant to 
section 620 of such Act: Provided further, That the amount made 
available under this heading from the general fund shall be reduced as 
such collections are received during fiscal year 2016 so as to result 
in a final fiscal year 2016 appropriation from the general fund 
estimated at zero, and fees pursuant to such section 620 shall be 
modified as necessary to ensure such a final fiscal year 2016 
appropriation: Provided further, That for the dispute resolution and 
installation programs, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
may assess and collect fees from any program participant: Provided 
further, 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: 
Provided further, 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.

                     Federal Housing Administration

               mutual mortgage insurance program account

    New 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, 2017: Provided, That during fiscal 
year 2016, obligations to make direct loans to carry out the purposes 
of section 204(g) of the National Housing Act, as amended, shall not 
exceed $5,000,000: Provided further, 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: Provided Further, That for administrative contract 
expenses of the Federal Housing Administration, $130,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2017.

                general and special risk program account

    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 $30,000,000,000 in total loan principal, any part of which is to 
be guaranteed, to remain available until September 30, 2017: Provided, 
That during fiscal year 2016, 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 $5,000,000, 
which shall be for loans to nonprofit and governmental entities in 
connection with the sale of single family real properties owned by the 
Secretary and formerly insured under such Act.

                Government National Mortgage Association

guarantees of mortgage-backed securities loan guarantee program account

    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, 2017: Provided, That $23,000,000 shall be available for 
necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Government National 
Mortgage Association: Provided further, 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.

                    Policy Development and Research

                        research and technology

    For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of programs of 
research and studies relating to housing and urban problems, not 
otherwise provided for, as authorized by title V of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1970 (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, $52,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2017: 
Provided, 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: Provided further, 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: 
Provided further, 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: Provided further, That 
prior to obligation of technical assistance funding, the Secretary 
shall submit a plan, for approval, to the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations on how it will allocate funding for this activity.

                   Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity

                        fair housing activities

    For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not otherwise provided 
for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as 
amended by the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, and section 561 of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987, as amended, 
$65,300,000, to remain available until September 30, 2017: Provided, 
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: Provided further, 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: Provided further, 
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.

            Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes

                         lead hazard reduction

    For the Lead Hazard Reduction Program, as authorized by section 
1011 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992, 
$75,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2017: Provided, 
That up to $15,000,000 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: Provided further, 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, 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: Provided further, 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.

                      information technology fund

    For the development of, modifications to, and infrastructure for 
Department-wide and program-specific information technology systems, 
for the continuing operation and maintenance of both Department-wide 
and program-specific information systems, and for program-related 
maintenance activities, $100,000,000: Provided, That any amounts 
transferred to this Fund under this Act shall remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That any amounts transferred to this Fund 
from amounts appropriated by previously enacted appropriations Acts may 
be used for the purposes specified under this Fund, in addition to any 
other information technology purposes for which such amounts were 
appropriated.

                      Office of Inspector General

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, 
$126,000,000: Provided, That the Inspector General shall have 
independent authority over all personnel issues within this office.

    General Provisions--Department of Housing and Urban Development

                        (including rescissions)

    Sec. 201.  Eighty five percent of the amounts of budget authority, 
or in lieu thereof 85 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. 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. Any amounts of budget authority 
or cash recaptured and not rescinded, returned to the Treasury, or 
otherwise awarded by September 30, 2016 shall be rescinded or in the 
case of cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury.
    Sec. 202.  None of the amounts made available under this Act may be 
used during fiscal year 2016 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.
    Sec. 203.  Sections 203 and 209 of division C of Public Law 112-55 
(125 Stat. 693-694) shall apply during fiscal year 2016 as if such 
sections were included in this title, except that during such fiscal 
year such sections shall be applied by substituting ``fiscal year 
2016'' for ``fiscal year 2011'' and for ``fiscal year 2012'' each place 
such terms appear, and shall be amended to reflect revised delineations 
of statistical areas established by the Office of Management and Budget 
pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 3504(e)(3), 31 U.S.C. 1104(d), and Executive 
Order No. 10253.
    Sec. 204.  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).
    Sec. 205.  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 the 
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. 1811-11).
    Sec. 206.  Unless otherwise provided for in this Act or through a 
reprogramming of funds, no part of any appropriation for the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development shall be available for any program, 
project or activity in excess of amounts set forth in the budget 
estimates submitted to Congress.
    Sec. 207.  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 2016 for such corporation or 
agency except as hereinafter provided: Provided, That collections of 
these corporations and agencies may be used for new loan or mortgage 
purchase commitments only to the extent expressly provided for in this 
Act (unless such loans are in support of other forms of assistance 
provided for in this or prior appropriations Acts), except that this 
proviso shall not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty 
operations of these corporations, or where loans or mortgage purchases 
are necessary to protect the financial interest of the United States 
Government.
    Sec. 208.  The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
provide quarterly reports to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations regarding all uncommitted, unobligated, recaptured and 
excess funds in each program and activity within the jurisdiction of 
the Department and shall submit additional, updated budget information 
to these Committees upon request.
    Sec. 209.  The President's formal budget request for fiscal year 
2017, 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.
    Sec. 210.  A public housing agency or such other entity that 
administers Federal housing assistance for the Housing Authority of the 
county of Los Angeles, California, and 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.
    Sec. 211.  No funds provided under this title may be used for an 
audit of the Government National Mortgage Association that makes 
applicable requirements under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 
U.S.C. 661 et seq.).
    Sec. 212. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, subject 
to the conditions listed under this section, for fiscal years 2016 and 
2017, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may authorize the 
transfer of some or all project-based assistance, debt held or insured 
by the Secretary and statutorily required low-income and very low-
income use restrictions if any, associated with one or more multifamily 
housing project or projects to another multifamily housing project or 
projects.
    (b) 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 subsection (c).
    (c) The transfer authorized in subsection (a) is subject to the 
following conditions:
            (1) Number and bedroom size of units.--
                    (A) 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 to 
                the transferring project shall remain the same in the 
                receiving project or projects.
                    (B) 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 assistance budget authority.
            (2) The transferring project shall, as determined by the 
        Secretary, be either physically obsolete or economically 
        nonviable.
            (3) The receiving project or projects shall meet or exceed 
        applicable physical standards established by the Secretary.
            (4) 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.
            (5) 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.
            (6) The Secretary determines that this transfer is in the 
        best interest of the tenants.
            (7) 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.
            (8) If the transferring project meets the requirements of 
        subsection (d)(2), 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.
            (9) 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.
    (d) For purposes of this section--
            (1) the terms ``low-income'' and ``very low-income'' shall 
        have the meanings provided by the statute and/or regulations 
        governing the program under which the project is insured or 
        assisted;
            (2) the term ``multifamily housing project'' means housing 
        that meets one of the following conditions--
                    (A) housing that is subject to a mortgage insured 
                under the National Housing Act;
                    (B) 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;
                    (C) 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;
                    (D) 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;
                    (E) housing that is assisted under section 811 of 
                the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act; 
                or
                    (F) housing or vacant land that is subject to a use 
                agreement;
            (3) the term ``project-based assistance'' means--
                    (A) assistance provided under section 8(b) of the 
                United States Housing Act of 1937;
                    (B) 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);
                    (C) rent supplement payments under section 101 of 
                the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965;
                    (D) interest reduction payments under section 236 
                and/or additional assistance payments under section 
                236(f)(2) of the National Housing Act;
                    (E) assistance payments made under section 
                202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959; and
                    (F) assistance payments made under section 
                811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
                Housing Act;
            (4) the term ``receiving project or projects'' means the 
        multifamily housing project or projects to which some or all of 
        the project-based assistance, debt, and statutorily required 
        low-income and very low-income use restrictions are to be 
        transferred;
            (5) the term ``transferring project'' 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
            (6) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Housing 
        and Urban Development.
    (e) Public Notice and Research Report.--
            (1) 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.
            (2) The Secretary shall conduct an evaluation of the 
        transfer authority under this section, including the effect of 
        such transfers on the operational efficiency, contract rents, 
        physical and financial conditions, and long-term preservation 
        of the affected properties.
    Sec. 213. (a) 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--
            (1) 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));
            (2) is under 24 years of age;
            (3) is not a veteran;
            (4) is unmarried;
            (5) does not have a dependent child;
            (6) 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
            (7) 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).
    (b) 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.
    Sec. 214.  The funds made available for Native Alaskans under the 
heading ``Native American Housing Block Grants'' in title II of this 
Act shall be allocated to the same Native Alaskan housing block grant 
recipients that received funds in fiscal year 2005.
    Sec. 215.  Notwithstanding the limitation in the first sentence of 
section 255(g) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-20(g)), the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may, until September 30, 
2016, insure and enter into commitments to insure mortgages under such 
section 255.
    Sec. 216.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in fiscal 
year 2016, 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 (``MAHRAA'') 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.
    Sec. 217.  The commitment authority funded by fees as provided 
under the heading ``Community Development Loan Guarantees Program 
Account'' 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: Provided, 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.
    Sec. 218.  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: Provided, That 
an agency seeking a discontinuance of a reduction of subsidy under the 
operating fund formula shall not be exempt from asset management 
requirements.
    Sec. 219.  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)): 
Provided, 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).
    Sec. 220.  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 there is a trained 
allotment holder for each HUD sub-office under the accounts ``Executive 
Offices'' and ``Administrative Support Offices'', as well as each 
account receiving appropriations for ``Program Office Salaries and 
Expenses'', ``Government National Mortgage Association--Guarantees of 
Mortgage-Backed Securities Loan Guarantee Program Account'', and 
``Office of Inspector General'' within the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development.
    Sec. 221.  The Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development shall, for fiscal year 2016, 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 2016, 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.
    Sec. 222.  Payment of attorney fees in program-related litigation 
must be paid from the individual program office and Office of General 
Counsel personnel funding. The annual budget submissions for program 
offices and Office of General Counsel personnel funding must include 
program-related litigation costs for attorney fees as a separate line 
item request.
    Sec. 223.  The Disaster Housing Assistance Programs, administered 
by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, shall be considered 
a ``program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development'' under 
section 904 of the McKinney Act for the purpose of income verifications 
and matching.
    Sec. 224. (a) 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:
            (1) receives a Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) score 
        of 30 or less; or
            (2) receives a REAC score between 31 and 59 and:
                    (A) fails to certify in writing to HUD within 60 
                days that all deficiencies have been corrected; or
                    (B) receives consecutive scores of less than 60 on 
                REAC inspections.
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).
    (b) The Secretary shall take the following required actions as 
authorized under subsection (a)--
            (1) 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.
            (2) 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:
                    (A) impose civil money penalties;
                    (B) abate the section 8 contract, including partial 
                abatement, as determined by the Secretary, until all 
                deficiencies have been corrected;
                    (C) 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
                    (D) 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.
    (c) 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 (``MAHRAA'') 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:
            (1) 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
            (2) Actions that the Department of Housing and Urban 
        Development is taking to protect tenants of such identified 
        properties.
    Sec. 225.  None of the funds made available by this Act, or any 
other Act, for purposes authorized under section 8 (only with respect 
to the tenant-based rental assistance program) and section 9 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.), may be used 
by any public housing agency for any amount of salary, including 
bonuses, for the chief executive officer of which, or any other 
official or employee of which, that exceeds the annual rate of basic 
pay payable for a position at level IV of the Executive Schedule at any 
time during any public housing agency fiscal year 2016.
    Sec. 226.  None of the funds in this Act may be available for the 
doctoral dissertation research grant program at the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development.
    Sec. 227.  None of the funds in this Act provided to the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development may be used to make a grant award 
unless the Secretary notifies the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations not less than 3 full business days before any project, 
State, locality, housing authority, tribe, nonprofit organization, or 
other entity selected to receive a grant award is announced by the 
Department or its offices.
    Sec. 228.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to require or enforce the Physical Needs Assessment (PNA).
    Sec. 229.  None of the funds made available in this Act shall be 
used by the Federal Housing Administration, the Government National 
Mortgage Administration, or the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development to insure, securitize, or establish a Federal guarantee of 
any mortgage or mortgage backed security that refinances or otherwise 
replaces a mortgage that has been subject to eminent domain 
condemnation or seizure, by a state, municipality, or any other 
political subdivision of a state.
    Sec. 230.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to terminate the status of a unit of general local government as a 
metropolitan city (as defined in section 102 of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) with respect to 
grants under section 106 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5306).
    Sec. 231.  Amounts made available under this Act which are either 
appropriated, allocated, advanced on a reimbursable basis, or 
transferred to the Office of Policy Development and Research in the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development and functions thereof, for 
research, evaluation, or statistical purposes, and which are unexpended 
at the time of completion of a contract, grant, or cooperative 
agreement, may be deobligated and shall immediately become available 
and may be reobligated in that fiscal year or the subsequent fiscal 
year for the research, evaluation, or statistical purposes for which 
the amounts are made available to that Office subject to reprogramming 
requirements in Section 405 of this Act.
    Sec. 232.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to require a 
recipient or sub-recipient of funding for the purpose of land 
acquisition, affordable housing construction, or affordable housing 
rehabilitation to meet Energy Star standards or any other energy 
efficiency standards that exceed the requirements of applicable State 
and local building codes.
    Sec. 233.  Of the unobligated balances, including recaptures and 
carryover, remaining from funds appropriated in section 1497(a) of the 
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Public Law 
111-203; 42 U.S.C. 5301 note) and section 2301(a) of title III of 
division B of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (Public Law 
110-289; 42 U.S.C. 5301 note), $7,000,000 is hereby rescinded.
    Sec. 234. (a) All unobligated balances, including recaptures and 
carryover, remaining from funds appropriated to the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development under the heading ``Rural Housing and 
Economic Development'' are hereby rescinded.
    (b) Effective October 1, 2015, all unobligated balances, including 
recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds appropriated to the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development for accounts under the 
headings ``Management and Administration'' and ``Program Office 
Salaries and Expenses'' in division K of Public Law 113-235 are 
rescinded.
    This title may be cited as the ``Department of Housing and Urban 
Development Appropriations Act, 2016''.

                      TITLE III--RELATED AGENCIES

                              Access Board

                         salaries and expenses

    For expenses necessary for the Access Board, as authorized by 
section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, $7,548,000: 
Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, there may 
be credited to this appropriation funds received for publications and 
training expenses.

                      Federal Maritime Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime Commission as 
authorized by section 201(d) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as 
amended (46 U.S.C. 307), 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, $25,660,000: Provided, That not to exceed $2,000 
shall be available for official reception and representation expenses.

  National Railroad Passenger Corporation Office of Inspector General

                         salaries and expenses

    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, $23,999,000: Provided, 
That the Inspector General shall have all necessary authority, in 
carrying out the duties specified in the Inspector General Act, as 
amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), to investigate allegations of fraud, 
including false statements to the government (18 U.S.C. 1001), by any 
person or entity that is subject to regulation by the National Railroad 
Passenger Corporation: Provided further, 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: Provided further, 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: 
Provided further, That concurrent with the President's budget request 
for fiscal year 2017, the Inspector General shall submit to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations a budget request for fiscal 
year 2017 in similar format and substance to those submitted by 
executive agencies of the Federal Government.

                  National Transportation Safety Board

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the National Transportation Safety Board, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed 
the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for a GS-15; uniforms, or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902), 
$103,981,000, 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.

                 Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

          payment to the neighborhood reinvestment corporation

    For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for use in 
neighborhood reinvestment activities, as authorized by the Neighborhood 
Reinvestment Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 8101-8107), $135,000,000, of 
which $5,000,000 shall be for a multi-family rental housing program: 
Provided, That in addition, $42,000,000 shall be made available until 
expended to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for mortgage 
foreclosure mitigation activities, under the following terms and 
conditions:
            (1) The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (NRC) shall 
        make grants to counseling intermediaries approved by the 
        Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (with match 
        to be determined by NRC based on affordability and the economic 
        conditions of an area; a match also may be waived by 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 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 NRC, and shall be approved by 
        HUD or NRC as meeting these requirements.
            (2) 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.
            (3) 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.
            (4) 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 NRC that the procedures for selection do not 
        consist of any procedures or activities that could be construed 
        as a conflict of interest or have the appearance of 
        impropriety.
            (5) 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.
            (6) Of the total amount made available under this 
        paragraph, up to $2,000,000 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.
            (7) Of the total amount made available under this 
        paragraph, up to 5 percent may be used for associated 
        administrative expenses for NRC to carry out activities 
        provided under this section.
            (8) Mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance grants may 
        include a budget for outreach and advertising, and training, as 
        determined by NRC.
            (9) 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.

           United States Interagency Council on Homelessness

                           operating expenses

    For necessary expenses (including payment of salaries, authorized 
travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rental of conference 
rooms, and the employment of experts and consultants under section 3109 
of title 5, United States Code) of the United States Interagency 
Council on Homelessness in carrying out the functions pursuant to title 
II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amended, 
$3,530,000.

                                TITLE IV

                      GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS ACT

    Sec. 401.  None of the funds in this Act shall be used for the 
planning or execution of any program to pay the expenses of, or 
otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or 
adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act.
    Sec. 402.  None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall remain 
available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, nor may any be 
transferred to other appropriations, unless expressly so provided 
herein.
    Sec. 403.  The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for 
any consulting service through a procurement contract pursuant to 
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, shall be limited to those 
contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and 
available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under 
existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to 
existing law.
    Sec. 404. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
obligated or expended for any employee training that--
            (1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, 
        and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official 
        duties;
            (2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of 
        emotional response or psychological stress in some 
        participants;
            (3) does not require prior employee notification of the 
        content and methods to be used in the training and written end 
        of course evaluation;
            (4) contains any methods or content associated with 
        religious or quasi-religious belief systems or ``new age'' 
        belief systems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity 
        Commission Notice N-915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or
            (5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants' 
        personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace.
    (b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or otherwise 
preclude an agency from conducting training bearing directly upon the 
performance of official duties.
    Sec. 405. 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 2016, or provided from any 
accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees and 
available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for 
obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that:
            (1) creates a new program;
            (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity;
            (3) increases funds or personnel for any program, project, 
        or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted by 
        the Congress;
            (4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific activity 
        by either the House or Senate Committees on Appropriations for 
        a different purpose;
            (5) augments existing programs, projects, or activities in 
        excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less;
            (6) reduces existing programs, projects, or activities by 
        $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or
            (7) creates, reorganizes, or restructures a branch, 
        division, office, bureau, board, commission, agency, 
        administration, or department different from the budget 
        justifications submitted to the Committees on Appropriations or 
        the table accompanying the explanatory statement accompanying 
        this Act, whichever is more detailed, unless prior approval is 
        received from the House and Senate Committees on 
        Appropriations: Provided, That not later than 60 days after the 
        date of enactment of this Act, each agency funded by this Act 
        shall submit a report to the 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: Provided further, That 
        the report shall include:
                    (A) a table for each appropriation with a separate 
                column to display the prior year enacted level, the 
                President's budget request, adjustments made by 
                Congress, adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if 
                appropriate, and the fiscal year enacted level;
                    (B) a delineation in the table for each 
                appropriation and its respective prior year enacted 
                level by object class and program, project, and 
                activity as detailed in the budget appendix for the 
                respective appropriation; and
                    (C) an identification of items of special 
                congressional interest.
    Sec. 406.  Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, not to 
exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining available at the 
end of fiscal year 2016 from appropriations made available for salaries 
and expenses for fiscal year 2016 in this Act, shall remain available 
through September 30, 2017, for each such account for the purposes 
authorized: Provided, That a request shall be submitted to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations for approval prior to the 
expenditure of such funds: Provided further, That these requests shall 
be made in compliance with reprogramming guidelines under section 405 
of this Act.
    Sec. 407.  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: Provided, That 
for purposes of this section, public use shall not be construed to 
include economic development that primarily benefits private entities: 
Provided further, 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 brownfields as defined 
in the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization 
Act (Public Law 107-118) shall be considered a public use for purposes 
of eminent domain.
    Sec. 408.  None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United 
States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer 
authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act.
    Sec. 409.  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 or her period of active military or naval service, and 
has within 90 days after his or her 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 or her former 
position and has been certified by the Office of Personnel Management 
as still qualified to perform the duties of his or her former position 
and has not been restored thereto.
    Sec. 410.  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 ``Buy 
American Act'').
    Sec. 411.  No funds appropriated or otherwise made available under 
this Act shall be made available to any person or entity that has been 
convicted of violating the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a -10c).
    Sec. 412.  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.
    Sec. 413. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act may be 
used to approve a new foreign air carrier permit under sections 41301 
through 41305 of title 49, United States Code, or exemption application 
under section 40109 of that title of an air carrier already holding an 
air operators certificate issued by a country that is party to the 
U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agreement where such approval 
would contravene United States law or Article 17 bis of the U.S.-E.U.-
Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agreement.
    (b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict or otherwise 
preclude the Secretary of Transportation from granting a foreign air 
carrier permit or an exemption to such an air carrier where such 
authorization is consistent with the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air 
Transport Agreement and United States law.
    Sec. 414.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
by the Federal Maritime Commission or the Administrator of the Maritime 
Administration to issue a license or certificate for a commercial 
vessel that docked or anchored within the previous 180 days within 7 
miles of a port on property that was confiscated, in whole or in part, 
by the Cuban Government, as the terms confiscated, Cuban Government, 
and property are defined in paragraphs (4), (5), and (12)(A), 
respectively, of section 4 of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic 
Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6023).

                       spending reduction account

    Sec. 415.  The amount by which the applicable allocation of new 
budget authority made by the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives under Section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974 exceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is $0.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Transportation, Housing and Urban 
Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016''.
                                                  Union Calendar No. 92

114th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 2577

                          [Report No. 114-129]

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                                 A BILL

   Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and 
Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.

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                              May 27, 2015

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
                       and ordered to be printed