[Appendix]
[Detailed Budget Estimates by Agency]
[Department of Commerce]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]


                     THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999

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                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 
                         GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

                              Federal Funds

General and special funds:

                          Salaries and Expenses

    For expenses necessary for the general administration of the 
Department of Commerce provided for by law, including not to exceed 
$3,000 for official entertainment, [$27,490,000] $32,187,000. 
(Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)

              Unavailable Collections (in millions of dollars)

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    Balance, start of year:
01.99 Balance, start of year............
    Receipts:
02.01 Gifts and bequests................           1
    Appropriation:
05.01 Salaries and expenses.............          -1
07.99 Total balance, end of year........
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               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
      Direct program:

00.01   Executive direction.............          12          12          13
00.02   Departmental staff services.....          17          17          19
00.03   Gifts and bequests..............           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
00.91     Total direct program..........          30          29          32
09.01 Reimbursable program..............          42          47          47
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............          72          76          79
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......           2           2
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......          72          74          79
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......          74          76          79
23.95 New obligations...................         -72         -76         -79
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           2
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

40.00   Appropriation...................          28          27          32
42.00   Transferred from other accounts.           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
43.00     Appropriation (total).........          29          27          32
      Permanent:

60.27   Appropriation (trust fund, 
          indefinite)...................           1
        Spending authority from 
            offsetting collections:
68.00     Offsetting collections (cash).          41          47          47
68.10     Change in orders on hand from 
            Federal sources.............           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
68.90       Spending authority from 
              offsetting collections 
              (total)...................          42          47          47
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................          72          74          79
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
      Unpaid obligations, start of year:

72.40   Obligated balance: Uninvested...           6           5           4
72.95   Orders on hand from Federal 
          sources.......................           2           3           3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
72.99     Total unpaid obligations, 
            start of year...............           8           8           7
73.10 New obligations...................          72          76          79
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............         -72         -78         -79
      Unpaid obligations, end of year:

74.40   Obligated balance: Uninvested...           5           4           4
74.95   Orders on hand from Federal 
          sources.......................           3           3           3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
74.99     Total unpaid obligations, end 
            of year.....................           8           7           7
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority          28          24          28
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....           2           7           4
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................          42          47          47
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........          72          78          79
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    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

88.00   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Federal sources.........         -41         -47         -47
88.95 Change in orders on hand from 
        Federal sources.................          -1
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................          30          27          32
90.00 Outlays...........................          30          31          32
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    Executive direction.--Provides for the formulation of Department of 
Commerce policy on National and Governmental issues affecting programs 
and functions assigned to the Department.

    Departmental staff services.--Provides for the formulation of 
internal Departmental policy establishing the framework for Departmental 
operations.

    Performance measures.--Activities conducted through the General 
Administration accounts provide policy and administrative support across 
the Department. Management initiatives used to monitor performance 
include projects to:

    (1) Develop and implement a new goal-based plan for the Commerce 
Administrative Management System to evaluate the pilot implementation of 
the core Financial System, before continuing with a Department-wide 
implementation;

    (2) Monitor progress in working with a dozen agencies to use a 
survey-based tool (Performance Measurement Assessment Tool--PMAT) to 
measure efficiency, effectiveness and quality of Departmental 
procurement; and,

    (3) Develop and implement a reengineered acquisition process, called 
Concept of Operations (CONOPS), to make and measure major reductions in 
acquisition time, reductions in total project costs, speed the process 
of program implementation and aid contractors in responding to needs.

    Reimbursable program.--Provides a centralized collection source for 
special tasks or costs and their billing to users. 

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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      Direct obligations:

11.1    Personnel compensation: Full-
          time permanent................          15          16          18
12.1    Civilian personnel benefits.....           3           3           4
23.1    Rental payments to GSA..........           3           3           3
23.3    Communications, utilities, and 
          miscellaneous charges.........           1           1           1
25.2    Other services..................           1           1           1
25.3    Purchases of goods and services 
          from Government accounts......           6           5           5
31.0    Equipment.......................           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..          30          29          32
99.0  Reimbursable obligations..........          42          47          47
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............          72          76          79
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                              Personnel Summary

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    Direct:
1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......         196         226         248

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    Reimbursable:
2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......          44          48          48
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                       Office of Inspector General

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended (5 U.S.C. App. 1-11 as amended by Public Law 100-504), 
[$20,140,000] $21,662,000. (Department of Commerce and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
00.01 Direct program....................          20          21          22
09.01 Reimbursable program..............           1           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............          21          22          23
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......          21          21          23
23.95 New obligations...................         -21         -22         -23
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

40.00   Appropriation...................          21          20          22
      Permanent:

68.00   Spending authority from 
          offsetting collections: 
          Offsetting collections (cash).           1           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................          22          21          23
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           3           3           2
73.10 New obligations...................          21          20          22
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............         -21         -22         -23
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           3           2           2
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority          20          18          19
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....                       3           2
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................           1           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........          21          22          23
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    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

88.00   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Federal sources.........          -1          -1          -1
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................          21          20          22
90.00 Outlays...........................          20          21          22
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    This appropriation provides for agency-wide audits, inspections, and 
investigative functions to identify and recommend corrections for 
management and administrative deficiencies that create conditions for 
existing or potential instances of fraud, waste, and mismanagement. The 
audit function provides for internal audits and contract audits. 
Contract audits provide professional advice to agency contracting 
officials on accounting and financial matters related to negotiation, 
award, administration, repricing, and settlement of contracts. Internal 
audits review and evaluate all facets of agency operations. Inspections 
services provide detailed technical evaluations of agency operations. 
The investigative function provides for the detection and investigation 
of improper and illegal activities involving programs, personnel, and 
operations.

    Activities under the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) account 
support all three themes of the Commerce Strategic Plan: U.S. 
competitiveness in the global marketplace; American competitiveness 
through science and technology and an unrivaled information base; and 
effective stewardship of our Nation's resources and assets to ensure 
sustainable economic opportunities.

    The OIG concentrates on programs and operations that have the 
greatest potential for identifying fraud, recovering funds, precluding 
unnecessary outlays, and improving management. The OIG identifies the 
audit, inspection, and investigative universe and determines how it will 
focus its work on areas that significantly affect the Department's 
ability to prevent and detect fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.

    The OIG's Semiannual Report to the Congress provides the following 
Statistical Highlights:

     LValue of questioned costs identified in audit reports.

     LValue of audit recommendations that funds be put to better 
use.

     LValue of audit recommendations agreed to by management.

     LArrests, indictments, convictions, personnel actions, 
administrative actions, and fines, restitutions, judgments, and civil 
and administrative recoveries.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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      Direct obligations:

11.1    Personnel compensation: Full-
          time permanent................          12          12          13
12.1    Civilian personnel benefits.....           2           3           3
21.0    Travel and transportation of 
          persons.......................           1           1           1
23.1    Rental payments to GSA..........           2           1           1
25.2    Other services..................           2           3           3
25.3    Purchases of goods and services 
          from Government accounts......           1           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..          20          21          22
99.0  Reimbursable obligations..........           1           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............          21          22          23
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                              Personnel Summary

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1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......         192         210         218
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Intragovernmental funds:

                          Working Capital Fund

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
09.01 Departmental staff services.......          51          59          61
09.02 General counsel...................          17          18          18
09.03 Public affairs....................           1           2           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
09.99   Total reimbursable program......          69          79          81
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............          69          79          81
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......           1           4           4
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......          72          79          81
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......          73          83          84
23.95 New obligations...................         -69         -79         -81
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           4           4           4
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Spending authority from offsetting 
          collections:

68.00   Offsetting collections (cash)...          64          79          81
68.10   Change in orders on hand from 
          Federal sources...............           8
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
68.90     Spending authority from 
            offsetting collections 
            (total).....................          72          79          81
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................          72          79          81
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
      Unpaid obligations, start of year:

72.40   Obligated balance: Uninvested...          -6          -6          -6
72.95   Orders on hand from Federal 
          sources.......................          14          22          22
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
72.99     Total unpaid obligations, 
            start of year...............           8          16          16
73.10 New obligations...................          69          79          81
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............         -62         -79         -81
      Unpaid obligations, end of year:

74.40   Obligated balance: Uninvested...          -6          -6          -6
74.95   Orders on hand from Federal 
          sources.......................          22          22          22
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
74.99     Total unpaid obligations, end 
            of year.....................          16          16          16
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................          67          79          81
86.98 Outlays from permanent balances...          -5
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........          62          79          81
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    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

88.00   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Federal sources.........         -64         -79         -81
88.95 Change in orders on hand from 
        Federal sources.................          -8
88.96 Adjustment to orders on hand from 
        Federal sources.................
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................
90.00 Outlays...........................          -3
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    This fund finances, on a reimbursable basis, Department-wide 
administrative functions that are more efficiently and economically 
performed on a centralized basis.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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      Personnel compensation:

11.1    Full-time permanent.............          27          32          33
11.3    Other than full-time permanent..           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
11.9      Total personnel compensation..          28          32          33
12.1  Civilian personnel benefits.......           6           6           6
13.0  Benefits for former personnel.....           1
23.1  Rental payments to GSA............           5           5           5
23.3  Communications, utilities, and 
        miscellaneous charges...........           4           3           3
24.0  Printing and reproduction.........          -1           1           1
25.2  Other services....................          15          19          20
25.3  Purchases of goods and services 
        from Government accounts........           7           9           9
26.0  Supplies and materials............           2           3           3
31.0  Equipment.........................           2           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............          69          79          81
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                              Personnel Summary

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2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......         479         566         583
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                             Franchise Fund

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
09.01 NOAA-Administrative Service 
        Centers.........................           5          29          21
09.02 O/S Office of Computer Services...           8          12          12
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............          13          41          33
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......                       1
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......          14          41          33
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......          14          42          33
23.95 New obligations...................         -13         -41         -33
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           1
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Spending authority from offsetting 
          collections:

68.00   Offsetting collections (cash)...          10          41          33
68.10   Change in orders on hand from 
          Federal sources...............           4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
68.90     Spending authority from 
            offsetting collections 
            (total).....................          14          41          33
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................          14          41          33
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
      Unpaid obligations, start of year:

72.40   Obligated balance: Uninvested...                       1           1
72.95   Orders on hand from Federal 
          sources.......................                       4           4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
72.99     Total unpaid obligations, 
            start of year...............                       5           5
73.10 New obligations...................          13          41          33
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............          -8         -41         -33
      Unpaid obligations, end of year:

74.40   Obligated balance: Uninvested...           1           1           1
74.95   Orders on hand from Federal 
          sources.......................           4           4           4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
74.99     Total unpaid obligations, end 
            of year.....................           5           5           5
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................          13          41          33
86.98 Outlays from permanent balances...          -5
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........           8          41          33
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    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

88.00   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Federal sources.........         -10         -41         -33
88.95 Change in orders on hand from 
        Federal sources.................          -4
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................
90.00 Outlays...........................          -1
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    This fund finances computer services and other administrative 
support services on a fully competitive and cost reimbursable basis to 
Federal customers.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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11.1  Personnel compensation: Full-time 
        permanent.......................           2           3           3
23.3  Communications, utilities, and 
        miscellaneous charges...........                       1           1
25.2  Other services....................           9          37          29
26.0  Supplies and materials............           1
31.0  Equipment.........................           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............          13          41          33
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                              Personnel Summary

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2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......          29          41          41
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                   ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION

                              Federal Funds

General and special funds:

                          Salaries and Expenses

    For necessary expenses of administering the economic development 
assistance programs as provided for by law, [$21,028,000]

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$29,590,000: Provided, That these funds may be used to monitor projects 
approved pursuant to title I of the Public Works Employment Act of 1976, 
as amended, title II of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, and the 
Community Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1977. (19 U.S.C. 2346(b), 42 
U.S.C. 3218(c), 3219, 5184, and 6701; Department of Commerce and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
00.01 Direct program....................          22          25          30
09.01 Reimbursable program..............           3           2           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............          25          27          31
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......           4           4
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......          25          23          31
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......          29          27          31
23.95 New obligations...................         -25         -27         -31
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           4
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

40.00   Appropriation...................          20          21          30
42.00   Transferred from other accounts.           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
43.00     Appropriation (total).........          22          21          30
      Permanent:

68.00   Spending authority from 
          offsetting collections: 
          Offsetting collections (cash).           3           2           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................          25          23          31
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           3           1           2
73.10 New obligations...................          25          27          31
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............         -26         -26         -30
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           1           2           1
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority          22          19          27
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....           1           5           2
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................           3           2           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........          26          26          30
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    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

88.00   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Federal sources.........          -3          -2          -1
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................          22          21          30
90.00 Outlays...........................          23          24          29
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    During the 105th Congress, the Administration has submitted a 
legislative proposal to reauthorize the Economic Development 
Administration's (EDA's) programs. The Administration strongly 
encourages the Congress to consider and approve this legislation during 
the 2nd session of the 105th Congress.

    The administration of EDA's economic development assistance programs 
is carried out through a network of headquarters and regional personnel.

    Direct program.--These activities include preapplication 
development, application processing (completed within a 60-day 
timeframe) and project monitoring as well as general support functions 
such as economic development research, information dissemination, legal, 
civil rights, environmental compliance, budgeting and debt management.

    Reimbursable program.--EDA provides both data processing and 
accounting services to other Federal agencies on a reimbursable basis. 
Funds received cover the cost of performing this work.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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      Direct obligations:

11.1    Personnel compensation: Full-
          time permanent................          13          16          17
12.1    Civilian personnel benefits.....           2           3           4
21.0    Travel and transportation of 
          persons.......................           1           1           1
23.1    Rental payments to GSA..........           3           2           2
25.2    Other services..................           2           1           4
25.3    Purchases of goods and services 
          from Government accounts......           1           2           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..          22          25          30
99.0  Reimbursable obligations..........           3           2           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............          25          27          31
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                              Personnel Summary

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    Direct:
1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......         220         253         278
    Reimbursable:
2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......          29           7           7
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                Economic Development Assistance Programs

    For grants for economic development assistance as provided by the 
Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, as amended, Public 
Law 91-304, and such laws that were in effect immediately before 
September 30, 1982, and for trade adjustment assistance, [$340,000,000] 
$368,379,000: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available under this heading may be used directly or indirectly for 
attorneys' or consultants' fees in connection with securing grants and 
contracts made by the Economic Development Administration: Provided 
further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary 
of Commerce may provide financial assistance for projects to be located 
on military installations closed or scheduled for closure or realignment 
to grantees eligible for assistance under the Public Works and Economic 
Development Act of 1965, as amended, without it being required that the 
grantee have title or ability to obtain a lease for the property, for 
the useful life of the project, when in the opinion of the Secretary of 
Commerce, such financial assistance is necessary for the economic 
development of the area: Provided further, That the Secretary of 
Commerce may, as the Secretary considers appropriate, consult with the 
Secretary of Defense regarding the title to land on military 
installations closed or scheduled for closure or realignment. (19 U.S.C. 
2343, 2355; 42 U.S.C. 3131, 3135, 3144, 3151-53, 3171, 3241, 3243 and 
3245; Department of Commerce Appropriations Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
      Direct program:

00.01   Planning grants.................          24          24          24
00.02   Technical assistance grants.....          10           9           9
00.03   Public works grants.............         165         178         160
00.04   Economic adjustment grants......          31          30          79
00.05   Research and evaluation.........           1           1           1
00.06   Defense economic conversion.....          90          89          85
00.07   Trade adjustment assistance.....           9           9          10
00.08   Hurricanes Fran and Hortense....           9          16
00.09   1996 Floods.....................          11           1
00.10   Hurricane Andrew................           1           2
00.11   Northeast Fishing...............           1
00.12   Tri-State floods................           1           1
00.13   Midwest Floods..................          10          40
09.01 Reimbursable program..............           9          12
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............         372         412         368
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......          15          60
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......         413         352         368
22.10 Resources available from 
        recoveries of prior year 
        obligations.....................           4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......         432         412         368
23.95 New obligations...................        -372        -412        -368
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............          60
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

40.00   Appropriation...................         329         340         368
40.15   Appropriation (emergency).......          77
41.00   Transferred to other accounts...          -2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
43.00     Appropriation (total).........         404         340         368
      Permanent:

68.00   Spending authority from 
          offsetting collections: 
          Offsetting collections (cash).           9          12
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................         413         352         368
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...       1,022         967         950
73.10 New obligations...................         372         412         368
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............        -409        -429        -401
73.40 Adjustments in expired accounts...         -14
73.45 Adjustments in unexpired accounts.          -4
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...         967         950         917
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority          77          17          18
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....         323         400         383
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................           9          12
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........         409         429         401
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    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

88.00   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Federal sources.........          -9         -12
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................         404         340         368
90.00 Outlays...........................         400         417         401
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    The Economic Development Administration (EDA) provides grants for 
public works facilities, other financial assistance, and planning and 
coordination assistance needed to alleviate conditions of substantial 
and persistent unemployment and underemployment in economically 
distressed areas and regions. EDA assistance stimulates job creation and 
increases income in distressed communities, promotes greater national 
productivity and balanced economic growth.

    EDA responds to community priorities and strives to meet its 
objectives through the use of a broad range of program tools:

    Planning grants.--Support the design and implementation of effective 
economic development policies and programs by local organizations.

    Technical assistance grants.--Provide for local feasibility and 
industry studies, funding for a network of university centers that 
assist public bodies, nonprofit organizations and businesses to plan and 
implement activities designed to generate jobs and income in distressed 
areas.

    Public works grants.--Provide for infrastructure projects that 
foster the establishment or expansion of industrial and commercial 
businesses generating employment in communities experiencing high 
unemployment, low per-capita income, and out-migration.

    Economic adjustment grants.--Provide a package of assistance tools, 
including planning, technical assistance, revolving loan funds and 
infrastructure development, to help communities counteract either a 
gradual erosion or a sudden dislocation of their local economic 
structure, as a result of natural disasters, international trade 
competition, or major plant closings and in support of Brownfields 
redevelopment.

    In 1999, EDA will establish an Office of Community and Economic 
Adjustment Assistance to coordinate Federal economic development 
programs and activities designed to assist localities experiencing major 
plant closings and/or adversely affected by trade agreements.

    Research evaluation grants.--Support studies about the causes of 
economic distress and approaches to alleviating and preventing such 
problems and national demonstrations of innovative economic development 
techniques and dissemination of economic development information.

    Defense economic adjustment grants.--Provide communities impacted by 
DOD and DOE downsizing, as well as defense contract reductions, with 
tools for developing integrated plans to adjust to economic dislocations 
and assist in the implementation of these plans.

    Trade adjustment assistance.--Provides technical assistance, through 
a national network of 12 Trade Adjustment Assistance Centers, to 
certified U.S. manufacturing firms and industries economically injured 
as the result of international trade competition.

    Performance measures.--All program activities under this account 
support all three themes of the Commerce Strategic Plan, including goals 
on stimulating the creation of private sector jobs, helping distressed 
communities build capacity for economic growth, providing new knowledge 
and technical information to help solve economic development problems, 
helping communities incorporate technology as economic development 
tools, helping communities recover from defense downsizing and natural 
disasters, and helping communities implement sustainable economic 
development.

    For investments made in 1998 and 1999, as in other years, outcomes 
are generated after projects are completed and businesses are 
established in the project area, estimated at six years after 
completion. Below are a few of the performance measures that EDA is 
using for its programs with projections of performance outcomes expected 
in or about 2004 and 2005, respectively.

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                                                    Projected outcomes  
              Goal                 Performance  ------------------------
                                    measures         1998        1999   
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    Theme I--Economic Infrastructure                    
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To stimulate the creation of     Jobs created    40,500       36,500    
 private sector jobs.             and/or          direct       direct   
                                  retained.      6,000        5,500     
                                                  nonproject   nonprojec
                                                 7,500         t        
                                                  indirect    7,000     
                                                               indirect 
                                                ------------------------
                                                 54,000 jobs  49,000    
                                                               jobs     
                                 Private         $1.3         $1.0      
                                  dollars         billion      billion  
                                  invested in                           
                                  EDA project.                          
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                    Theme II--Science and Technology                    
------------------------------------------------------------------------
To use technology as an          Extent of       8.5*         8.5       
 economic development tool.       community                             
                                  participation                         
                                  in planning.                          
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                Theme III--Resource and Asset Management                
------------------------------------------------------------------------
To achieve long-term economic    Impact of       8.7          8.7       
 recovery from natural            feasibility                           
 disasters.                       study                                 
                                  conducted.                            
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* Grantee Self-evaluation: 1 to 10 (10-best).                           

    A more detailed presentation of goals, objectives, and performance 
measures is found in the Commerce Strategic Plan.

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               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code 13-2050-0-1-452      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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41.0  Direct obligations: Grants, 
        subsidies, and contributions....         363         400         368
99.0  Reimbursable obligations: 
        Subtotal, reimbursable 
        obligations.....................           9          12
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............         372         412         368
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Public enterprise funds:

         Economic Development Revolving Fund Liquidating Account

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Identification code 13-4406-0-3-452      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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    Obligations by program activity:
00.01 Interest expense..................           4           3
00.02 Defaults and care and protection 
        of collateral...................           2           9           7
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............           6          12           7
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......         102
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......          12          13           7
22.40 Capital transfer to general fund..        -108
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......           6          12           7
23.95 New obligations...................          -6         -12          -7
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

40.05   Appropriation (indefinite)......                       6
41.00   Transferred to other accounts...          -3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
43.00     Appropriation (total).........          -3           6
      Permanent:

68.00   Spending authority from 
          offsetting collections: 
          Offsetting collections (cash).          15           7           7
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................          12          13           7
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           1           6          12
73.10 New obligations...................           6          12           7
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............          -2          -6          -6
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           6          12          13
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.98 Outlays from permanent balances...           2           6           6
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

88.40   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Non-Federal sources.....         -15          -7          -7
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................          -3           6
90.00 Outlays...........................         -13          -1          -1
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               Status of Direct Loans (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code 13-4406-0-3-452      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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    Cumulative balance of direct loans 
                outstanding:
1210  Outstanding, start of year........          62          58          53
1251  Repayments: Repayments and 
        prepayments.....................         -15          -4          -3
      Write-offs for default:

1263    Direct loans....................                      -1          -1
1264    Other adjustments, net..........          11
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
1290    Outstanding, end of year........          58          53          49
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             Status of Guaranteed Loans (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code 13-4406-0-3-452      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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    Cumulative balance of guaranteed loans 
                outstanding:
2210  Outstanding, start of year........          15          14          13
2251  Repayments and prepayments........          -1          -1          -1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
2290    Outstanding, end of year........          14          13          12
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    Memorandum:
2299  Guaranteed amount of guaranteed 
        loans outstanding, end of year..          14          13          12
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    As required by the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, this account 
records, for these programs, all cash flows to and from the Government 
resulting from direct loans obligated and loan guarantees committed 
prior to 1992. This includes interest loans outstanding; principal 
repayments from loans made under the Area Redevelopment Act, the Public 
Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, and the Trade Act of 1974; 
and proceeds from the sale of collateral are deposited in this fund.

    No new loan or guarantee activity is proposed for 1999. 

                        Statement of Operations (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code   13-4406-0-3-452    1996 actual    1997 actual     1998 est.      1999 est.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0101  Revenue...........................           4              3             3              3
0102  Expense...........................          -3             -2            -9             -7
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
0109  Net income or loss (-)............           1              1            -6             -4
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                             Balance Sheet (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code   13-4406-0-3-452    1996 actual    1997 actual     1998 est.      1999 est.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ASSETS:
1101  Federal assets: Fund balances with 
        Treasury........................         103              6             6              6
      Net value of assets related to 
          pre-1992 direct loans 
          receivable and acquired 
          defaulted guaranteed loans 
          receivable:

1601    Direct loans, gross.............          63             57            52             48
1603    Allowance for estimated 
          uncollectible loans and 
          interest (-)..................          -6             -7            -6             -6
1604    Direct loans and interest 
          receivable, net...............          57             50            46             42
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
1699      Value of assets related to 
            direct loans................          57             50            46             42
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
1999    Total assets....................         160             56            52             48
    LIABILITIES:
2102  Federal liabilities: Interest 
        payable.........................           4              3             3              3
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
2999    Total liabilities...............           4              3             3              3
    NET POSITION:
3100  Appropriated capital..............         156             53            49             45
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
3999    Total net position..............         156             53            49             45
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
4999  Total liabilities and net position         160             56            52             48
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               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code 13-4406-0-3-452      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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25.2  Other services....................           2           3           3
33.0  Investments and loans.............                       6           4
43.0  Interest and dividends............           4           3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............           6          12           7
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                          BUREAU OF THE CENSUS

                              Federal Funds

General and special funds:

                          Salaries and Expenses

    For expenses necessary for collecting, compiling, analyzing, 
preparing, and publishing statistics, provided for by law, 
[$137,278,000] $160,102,000. (13 U.S.C. 4, 6, 8(b), 12, 61-63, 181, 182, 
301-307, 401; 15 U.S.C. 1516, 4901 et seq.; 19 U.S.C. 1484(e), 2354, 
2393; 44 U.S.C. 1343; Department of Commerce and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Identification code 13-0401-0-1-376      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Obligations by program activity:
      Direct program:

        Current economic statistics:
00.01     Current economic statistics...          84          86         102
00.02     Current demographic statistics          58          58          64
00.03     Survey development and data 
            services....................           3           3           4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
00.91       Total direct program........         145         147         170
09.01 Reimbursable program..............         156
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............         301         147         170
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......         301         147         170
23.95 New obligations...................        -301        -147        -170
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

40.00   Appropriation...................         135         137         160
      Permanent:

60.00   Appropriation...................          10          10          10
68.00   Spending authority from 
          offsetting collections: 
          Offsetting collections (cash).         156
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................         301         147         170
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          41          69          54
73.10 New obligations...................         301         147         170
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............        -272        -162        -169
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          69          54          55
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority         104         101         118
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....           2          53          42
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................         156
86.98 Outlays from permanent balances...          10           8           9
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........         272         162         169
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

        Offsetting collections (cash) 
            from:
88.00     Federal sources...............        -154
88.40     Non-Federal sources...........          -2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
88.90       Total, offsetting 
              collections (cash)........        -156
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................         145         147         170
90.00 Outlays...........................         116         162         169
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    The activities of this appropriation provide for the collection, 
compilation, and publication of a broad range of current economic, 
demographic, and social statistics.

    Current surveys and statistics.--
        Current economic statistics.--The business statistics program 
    provides current information on sales and related measures of retail 
    and wholesale trade and selected service industries.
        Construction statistics reports are provided on significant 
    construction activity such as housing permits and starts, value of 
    new construction, residential alterations and repairs, and quarterly 
    price indexes for new single-family houses.
        Manufacturing statistics survey key industrial commodities and 
    manufacturing activities, providing current statistics on the 
    quantity and value of industrial output.
        General economic statistics provide a Standard Statistical 
    Establishment List (SSEL) of all U.S. business firms and their 
    establishments, uniform classification data, annual county business 
    data, and corporate financial data. The 1999 program will implement 
    the North American industry classification system (NAICS) in current 
    surveys and will improve the quality of Gross Domestic Product 
    estimates.
        Foreign trade statistics provide for publication of monthly, 
    cumulative, and annual reports on the quantity, shipping weight, and 
    dollar value of imports and exports, by mode of transportation, 
    detailed commodity category, customs districts, and country of 
    origin or destination. This program covers the Census Bureau 
    responsibilities under the Trade Act of 1974.
        Government statistics reports provide information on the 
    revenue, expenditures, indebtedness and debt transactions, financial 
    assets, employment, and payrolls of State and local governments. The 
    Census Bureau provides quarterly information on State and local tax 
    revenue on the national level by type of tax and governmental level, 
    and provides information on financial assistance programs of the 
    Federal government.
        Current demographic statistics.--Household surveys provide 
    information on the number, geographic distribution, and the social 
    and economic characteristics of the population. The 1999 program 
    includes a significant initiative for steps to improve the 
    measurement of poverty.
        Population and housing analyses provide current demographic 
    reports on the geographic distribution and on the demographic, 
    social, and economic characteristics of the population, as well as 
    current estimates and future projections of the population of the 
    United States, and special analyses of demographic, social and 
    economic trends. International statistics provide estimates of 
    population, labor force, and economic activity, including spatial 
    distribution, and analyses concerning aspects of demographic 
    policies, economic policies, and trends for various countries. The 
    Census Bureau compiles housing statistics on the Nation's housing 
    inventory and provides national and regional estimates of housing 
    vacancy rates.
        Survey development and data services.--The Statistical Abstract 
    that the Census Bureau prepares annually summarizes Government and 
    private statistics of the industrial, social, political, and 
    economic activities of the United States. The Bureau conducts 
    general research on survey methods and techniques to find ways of 
    improving the efficiency, accuracy, and timeliness of statistical 
    programs. Data systems development provides advanced data capture, 
    data processing, and information retrieval technology to meet Census 
    Bureau program requirements.
        Survey of Program Dynamics.--The Personal Responsibility and 
    Work Opportunity Act of 1996 required that the Survey of Income and 
    Program Participation be expanded to evaluate the impact of welfare 
    reforms made by this Act. The Survey of Program Dynamics will 
    collect data necessary to determine the impact of these provisions. 
    $10 million per year for 7 years (1996-2002) was made available for 
    this study.

    Performance measures.--Activities under the Salaries and expenses 
account support two Strategic Themes of the Department of Commerce. The 
Strategic Theme ``Economic Infrastructure'' of the Department of 
Commerce includes the Bureau of the Census' goal to ``Improve national 
and local census and survey data through better business practices and 
public

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cooperation,'' and the Department's Strategic Theme ``Science/
Technology/Information'' includes the Bureau's Goal to ``Provide 
products and services of greater value and satisfaction to Census 
national and local information base customers.''

                                        1997         1998        1999
Goals:
Outcome measures:
  Convert Current Economic Surveys 
    to North American Industry 
    Classification System (NAICS):
    Number of Surveys Converted.....                       1         150
  Release Principal Federal Economic 
    Indicators:
    Number of monthly releases......          10          10          10
    Number of quarterly releases....           3           3           3
  Describe economic status of all US 
    Households:
    Number of data releases.........          16          16          16

    A more detailed presentation of the goals, objectives, and 
performance measures is found in the Commerce Strategic Plan.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code 13-0401-0-1-376      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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      Direct obligations:

        Personnel compensation:
11.1      Full-time permanent...........          79          80          91
11.3      Other than full-time permanent           6           7           8
11.5      Other personnel compensation..           1                       1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
11.9        Total personnel compensation          86          87         100
12.1    Civilian personnel benefits.....          19          20          24
21.0    Travel and transportation of 
          persons.......................           4           5           5
23.1    Rental payments to GSA..........           6           7           7
23.3    Communications, utilities, and 
          miscellaneous charges.........           7           3           4
24.0    Printing and reproduction.......                       1           2
25.1    Advisory and assistance services           3           1           1
25.2    Other services..................           6           7           9
25.3    Purchases of goods and services 
          from Government accounts......           6           6           7
25.4    Operation and maintenance of 
          facilities....................                       1           1
25.5    Research and development 
          contracts.....................                       1           1
25.7    Operation and maintenance of 
          equipment.....................                       1           1
26.0    Supplies and materials..........           3           3           3
31.0    Equipment.......................           5           4           5
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..         145         147         170
99.0  Reimbursable obligations..........         156
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............         301         147         170
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                              Personnel Summary

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Identification code 13-0401-0-1-376      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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    Direct:
1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......       2,125       2,187       2,442
    Reimbursable:
2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......       2,482
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                     Periodic Censuses and Programs

    For expenses necessary [to conduct the decennial census, 
$389,887,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That of this 
amount, $4,000,000 shall be transferred to the Census Monitoring Board 
for necessary expenses as authorized by section 210 of this Act.]
    [In addition, for expenses] to collect and publish statistics for 
[other] periodic censuses and programs provided for by law, 
[$165,926,000] $1,027,784,000, to remain available until expended. (13 
U.S.C. 4, 6, 12, 131, 141, 161, 181, 191; 15 U.S.C. 1516; 42 U.S.C. 
1973aa-5; Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Identification code 13-0450-0-1-376      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Obligations by program activity:
      Economic statistics programs:

00.01   Economic censuses...............          29          66          52
00.02   Census of governments...........           2           3           5
      Demographic statistics programs:

00.06   Intercensal demographic 
          estimates.....................           5           6           5
00.08   2000 Decennial census...........          86         391         856
00.09 Continuous measurement............          17          17          39
00.10 Demographic surveys sample 
        redesign........................           4           4           6
00.11 Electronic information collection.           6           6           9
00.12 Geographic support................          44          44          43
00.13 Data processing...................          26          25          25
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............         219         562       1,040
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......           1           1
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......         216         556       1,028
22.10 Resources available from 
        recoveries of prior year 
        obligations.....................           3           5          12
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......         220         562       1,040
23.95 New obligations...................        -219        -562      -1,040
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    New budget authority (gross), detail:
40.00 Appropriation.....................         210         556       1,028
42.00 Transferred from other accounts...           6
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
43.00   Appropriation (total)...........         216         556       1,028
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................         216         556       1,028
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          30          48         118
73.10 New obligations...................         219         562       1,040
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............        -198        -487        -927
73.45 Adjustments in unexpired accounts.          -3          -5         -12
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          48         118         219
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority         168         439         810
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....          30          48         117
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........         198         487         927
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................         216         556       1,028
90.00 Outlays...........................         198         487         927
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    This appropriation funds legislatively mandated economic and 
periodic demographic censuses and other authorized activities.

    Economic statistics programs.--
        Economic censuses.--The economic censuses provide data on 
    manufactures, retail and wholesale trade and service industries, 
    construction, and transportation. The censuses are taken every fifth 
    year, covering calendar years ending in two and seven. 1999 is the 
    fifth year in the six year cycle of the 1997 Economic Census. The 
    Bureau will review, edit and prepare data collected for publication 
    and dissemination.
        Census of governments.--This census collects State and local 
    government data on taxes, tax valuations, governmental receipts, 
    expenditures, indebtedness, and number of employees. This census is 
    taken every fifth year for calendar years ending in two and seven. 
    1999 is the final year in the five-year cycle of the 1997 Census of 
    governments. The focus for 1999 is to complete the data review, 
    develop a data release program, and publish reports from the 1997 
    census of governments.

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    Demographic statistics programs.--
        Intercensal demographic estimates.--This program develops 
    updated population estimates, in years between decennial censuses, 
    for states, counties, metropolitan areas and urban places; and, 
    prepares a variety of data to meet diverse legislative needs.
        Decennial census.--1999 is the final year of preparation for 
    Census 2000. The Bureau must complete several preparatory activities 
    to launch a successful mobilization in 2000. Including: completion 
    of all address-listing work, establishment of the field 
    infrastructure, printing questionnaires, and development and 
    manufacture of the data capture technology. These and other 
    activities help ensure that the Bureau is fully prepared for 
    conducting the Census in the year 2000.
        Funding in the decennial census request assumes the use of 
    sampling in the 2000 Census. Funding is also requested for planning 
    and testing census methodologies and acquiring additional field 
    offices in compliance with the Administration's agreement with 
    Congress to maintain ``two tracks'' and allow for a final decision 
    on the use of sampling by March 1, 1999. The Administration has not 
    included additional funding for non-sampling census activities 
    because that funding is not required by the agreement. The 
    Administration remains fully committed to the use of sampling in the 
    decennial census. Without sampling, the cost of the decennial census 
    will increase and its accuracy, especially with regard to groups 
    that are traditionally undercounted, will decrease.

    Continuous measurement.--The Continuous measurement program will 
allow the Census Bureau to collect and disseminate, on an annual basis, 
the types of data collected on the Decennial census long-form. The 
Continuous measurement program will make the Census Bureau the premier 
source for current population and housing data needed for both near and 
long-term economic development. The Bureau will continue developing and 
testing the program in 1999.

    Demographic Surveys Sample Redesign.--This program provides for 
revisions to all of the monthly, quarterly and annual household survey 
samples to conform to the redistribution of population measured in the 
decennial census. This is done to update the accuracy of the ongoing 
surveys.

    Electronic Information Collection (EIC).--EIC is the Bureau's 
program to transform the Bureau's business processes--the collection, 
processing, and dissemination of information. Making the greatest 
possible use of automation and telecommunications, EIC seeks to provide 
the tools and systems to deliver to our customers accurate information, 
quickly and efficiently, with as little burden as possible on those who 
provide the data to the Bureau. The 1999 program includes a government-
wide initiative to standardize reporting of international trade data.

    Geographic support.--The activity's goal is to determine the correct 
location of every business establishment, farm, and residence in the 
U.S. and its territories. The activity's major components include the 
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) 
data base and the Master Address File (MAF). TIGER provides maps and 
other geographic information; MAF provides residential addresses for the 
Nation. TIGER and MAF are important because they provide essential 
information and products for conducting many of the Bureau's programs.

    Data processing systems.--This activity provides for the purchasing 
or renting of hardware and software needed for the Bureau's general 
purpose computing facilities. In 1999, data processing systems will 
continue to provide automated systems support for the 1997 Economic 
Censuses and the 2000 Decennial Census.

    Performance measures.--Activities under the Periodic Censuses and 
Program account support two Stragetic Themes of the Department of 
Commerce. The Strategic Theme ``Economic Infrastructure'' of the 
Department of Commerce includes the Bureau of the Census' goal to 
``Improve national and local census and survey data through better 
business practices and public cooperation,'' and the Department's 
Strategic Theme ``Science/Technology/Information'' includes the Bureau's 
Goal to ``Provide products and services of greater value and 
satisfaction to Census national and local information base customers.''
                                        1997         1998        1999
Goals:
Outcome measures:
Decennial Census:
  Establish Processing Centers:
    Number of Centers established...                       1           4
  Establish Regional Census Centers:
    Number outfitted and staffed....                      12          12
  Canvass Addresses (City style 
    addresses, including 100% block 
    canvassing):
    Percent completed...............                                 100
  Canvass Addresses (Non-City style 
    addresses):
    Percent completed...............                      25         100
  Establish Field Partnerships:
    Percent established.............           3          42          89
  Print Census forms:
    Percent printed.................                                 100
  Continuous Measurement:
  Establish American Community 
    Survey Sites:
    Number of sites established.....           8           9          37
  Economic Censuses:
  Release NAICS-based data products:
    Number of reports released......                                 200

    A more detailed presentation of the goals, objectives, and 
performance measures is found in the Commerce Strategic Plan.

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      Personnel compensation:

11.1    Full-time permanent.............          82         141         198
11.3    Other than full-time permanent..           6          80         189
11.5    Other personnel compensation....                       2           5
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
11.9      Total personnel compensation..          88         223         392
12.1  Civilian personnel benefits.......          19          43          99
13.0  Benefits for former personnel.....                                   8
21.0  Travel and transportation of 
        persons.........................           4          30          61
22.0  Transportation of things..........           1           3           3
23.1  Rental payments to GSA............           6          12          13
23.2  Rental payments to others.........           4           7          29
23.3  Communications, utilities, and 
        miscellaneous charges...........           3          11          10
24.0  Printing and reproduction.........           3          17         120
25.1  Advisory and assistance services..          24           4           5
25.2  Other services....................          18          97         190
25.3  Purchases of goods and services 
        from Government accounts........          11          21          26
25.4  Operation and maintenance of 
        facilities......................                       4           1
25.5  Research and development contracts                       4           8
25.7  Operation and maintenance of 
        equipment.......................           7           3          11
26.0  Supplies and materials............           8          17          18
31.0  Equipment.........................          23          66          46
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............         219         562       1,040
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1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......       2,166       6,237      12,108
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                       Census Working Capital Fund

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
      Reimbursable program:

09.01   Current economic statistics.....                     127         136

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09.02   Current demographic statistics..          32          37          29
09.03   Other...........................                      21          20
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............          32         185         185
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......          32         185         185
23.95 New obligations...................         -32        -185        -185
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
68.00 Spending authority from offsetting 
        collections (gross): Offsetting 
        collections (cash)..............          32         185         185
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...                      32          32
73.10 New obligations...................          32         185         185
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............                    -185        -185
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          32          32          32
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................                     185         185
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    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

88.00   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Federal sources.........         -32        -185        -185
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................
90.00 Outlays...........................         -32
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    The Working Capital Fund finances, on a reimbursable basis, 
functions within the Bureau of the Census which are more efficiently and 
economically performed on a centralized basis. The fund also finances 
reimbursable work that the Bureau performs for other public and private 
entities.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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      Personnel compensation:

11.1    Full-time permanent.............                      90          90
11.3    Other than full-time permanent..                      11          11
11.5    Other personnel compensation....                       2           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
11.9      Total personnel compensation..                     103         103
12.1  Civilian personnel benefits.......           6          20          20
21.0  Travel and transportation of 
        persons.........................           1          13          13
22.0  Transportation of things..........                       1           1
23.1  Rental payments to GSA............                       8           8
23.3  Communications, utilities, and 
        miscellaneous charges...........           7           5           5
24.0  Printing and reproduction.........                       4           4
25.1  Advisory and assistance services..           3           2           2
25.2  Other services....................           4           6           6
25.3  Purchases of goods and services 
        from Government accounts........           1           7           7
25.4  Operation and maintenance of 
        facilities......................           4           2           2
25.5  Research and development contracts                       1           1
25.7  Operation and maintenance of 
        equipment.......................           1
26.0  Supplies and materials............           2           5           5
31.0  Equipment.........................           3           8           8
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............          32         185         185
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2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......                   2,632       1,960
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                 ECONOMIC AND INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE

                    ECONOMIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

                              Federal Funds

General and special funds:

                          Salaries and Expenses

    For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, of economic and 
statistical analysis programs of the Department of Commerce, 
[$47,499,000] $53,701,000, to remain available until September 30, 
[1999] 2000. (15 U.S.C. 171 et seq., 1501 et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 286f, 3101 
et seq.; Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
      Direct program:

00.01   Bureau of Economic Analysis.....          41          43          48
00.02   Policy support..................           5           6           6
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
00.91     Total direct program..........          46          49          54
09.01 Reimbursable program..............           2           2           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............          48          51          56
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......           1           1
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......          48          49          56
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......          49          50          56
23.95 New obligations...................         -48         -51         -56
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

40.00   Appropriation...................          46          47          54
      Permanent:

68.00   Spending authority from 
          offsetting collections: 
          Offsetting collections (cash).           2           2           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................          48          49          56
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           5           5           6
73.10 New obligations...................          48          50          56
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............         -47         -50         -55
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           5           6           6
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority          40          42          47
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....           5           6           6
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................           2           2           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........          47          50          55
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    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

88.00   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Reimbursable projects...          -2          -2          -2
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................          46          47          54
90.00 Outlays...........................          45          48          53
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    Bureau of Economic Analysis.--The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), 
a principal Federal statistical agency, provides the most comprehensive 
statistical picture available of U.S. economic activity. It prepares, 
develops, and interprets the national, international, and regional 
economic accounts of the United States. These accounts provide key 
information on economic growth, regional development, and the Nation's 
position in the world economy.

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    BEA's statistics are used in formulating and evaluating national 
economic policy; in planning and formulating Federal budgets, and in 
allocating over $120 billion in Federal funds annually. They are used by 
state and local governments for a variety of planning and analytical 
activities. Because they can have a major impact on interest rates, 
exchange rates, and cost-of-living adjustments, they are also of vital 
interest to businesses for market analysis and decisionmaking and to 
households for financial planning.

    To prepare the accounts, BEA assembles thousands of monthly, 
quarterly, and annual economic data series--ranging from national level 
retail sales to county level wages and salaries--produced largely by 
other government agencies and trade sources, and combines them into 
consistent and comprehensive sets of accounts.
        National economic accounts.--The national accounts are a system 
    of economic accounts that detail the relationship between production 
    and the incomes generated in production and trace the principal 
    economic flows among the major sectors and industries of the 
    economy. They are best known by the summary measures gross domestic 
    product (GDP), corporate profits, and personal saving. In addition, 
    they provide information on the U.S. capital stock by type and 
    industry; GDP-by-industry; and through the input-output accounts, 
    information on how industries interact--providing inputs to, and 
    taking outputs from, each other to produce GDP. The national 
    accounts statistics are regarded as the mainstay of macroeconomic 
    analysis.
        International economic accounts.--The international transactions 
    accounts are a system of economic accounts that provide information 
    on international transactions in goods, services, investment income, 
    and government and private financial flows. They are best known by 
    summary measures such as the balance on goods and services. In 
    addition, the accounts provide information on the U.S. international 
    investment position, which measures the value of U.S. international 
    assets and liabilities and changes in those values. The 
    international transactions accounts and the international investment 
    position are critical statistical tools used in formulating and 
    evaluating international economic policy. BEA's data on direct 
    investment--the most detailed data set on the operations of 
    multinational companies available among the major industrialized 
    nations of the world--are used to assess the vital role these 
    companies play in the global economy.
        Regional economic accounts.--The regional accounts are 
    consistent with the national accounts and provide detail on economic 
    activity by region, state, metropolitan area, and county. More 
    specifically, they provide data on total and per capita personal 
    income by region, state, metropolitan area, and county and on gross 
    state product. The regional accounts statistics are essential to 
    state government revenue forecasting and to the allocation of 
    Federal funds to the States.
        Analysis and dissemination of data on economic trends.--This 
    work consists of the analysis of BEA data on the current economic 
    situation, the publication of the Survey of Current Business and 
    other BEA publications, the electronic dissemination of data, and 
    the provision of BEA information to customers.
        Policy support.--The Economics and Statistics Administration's 
    headquarters operation advises the Secretary of Commerce and other 
    Government officials on matters related to economic developments and 
    forecasts, and the development of options and positions relating to 
    both macroeconomic and microeconomic policy.
        Implementing BEA's Strategic Plan.--The dynamic economy of the 
    1990's with its dramatic growth in information technology and 
    services, has changed so rapidly that our data system has been 
    unable to keep pace. Evidence of the serious gaps in our knowledge 
    of how the economy is performing is the statistical discrepancy, 
    which is the difference between GDP as measured by the final 
    expenditures for goods and services produced by the U.S. economy and 
    GDP as measured by the costs incurred and incomes earned in the 
    production of those goods and services (also described as gross 
    domestic income). In theory, these measures should be equal, but in 
    recent years, the divergence between them has grown significantly. 
    In 1999, BEA will focus on improving its economic accounts by 
    updating and expanding the coverage of rapidly changing and hard-to-
    measure economic activities and, in light of changes in tax laws, by 
    improving the conversion of payroll and income tax return data to 
    match the accounting concepts used to measure gross domestic income.
        Moving to a new computer environment.--Although BEA completed 
    the migration from its aging mainframe computer to a new local area 
    network (LAN) on schedule, the actual re-engineering of systems is 
    still underway. In 1999, BEA will continue to re-engineer work 
    processes on the LAN to take full advantage of the efficiencies of 
    the new microcomputer environment. The new LAN and the re-engineered 
    systems will improve the accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of 
    BEA's data and will improve accessibility of the data to customers 
    through expanded use of the Internet and other electronic gateways.
        Reimbursable.--ESA provides economic and statistical data and 
    analyses on a reimbursable and advance payment basis to other 
    Federal agencies, individuals, and firms requesting such 
    information. Funds received for these services cover the cost of 
    performing this work.

    Activities under Economic and Statistical Analysis support two 
themes of the Commerce Strategic Plan:

    Performance measures.--

        Theme 1: U.S. competitiveness in the global marketplace

        Goal: Strengthen the public's understanding of the U.S. economy
                                        1997         1998        1999
Outcome measure:
  Wide dissemination of BEA data by 
    major news media:
  Output measure:
    News releases of BEA data.......          49          50          50

        Theme 2: America competitive with cutting-edge science 
    technology and an unrivaled information base

        Goal: Provide economic data in the most accurate, timely, cost-
    effective, and accessible way
                                        1997         1998        1999
Outcome measure: More efficient data 
    transfers within BEA and between 
    BEA and others
    Output measure: Downloads from 
      Electronic Bulletin Board.....      17,396      23,650      23,650

        Goal: Provide information on economic events and the workings of 
    the economy
                                        1997         1998        1999
    Output measures: Analyses on the 
      near-term prospects and 
      composition of economic 
      activity in U.S...............          50          50          50

    A more detailed presentation of goals, objectives and performance 
measures is found in the Commerce Strategic Plan.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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      Direct obligations:

        Personnel compensation:
11.1      Full-time permanent...........          25          28          29
11.3      Other than full-time permanent           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
11.9        Total personnel compensation          26          28          29
12.1    Civilian personnel benefits.....           5           5           6
23.1    Rental payments to GSA..........           5           5           5
23.3    Communications, utilities, and 
          miscellaneous charges.........                       1           1
25.1    Advisory and assistance services           1           1           1

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25.2    Other services..................           2           2           3
25.3    Purchases of goods and services 
          from Government accounts......           5           5           5
26.0    Supplies and materials..........           1           1           1
31.0    Equipment.......................           1           1           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..          46          49          53
99.0  Reimbursable obligations..........           1           1           1
99.5  Below reporting threshold.........           1           1           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............          48          51          56
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                              Personnel Summary

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    Direct:
1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......         454         484         517
    Reimbursable:
2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......          18          18          18
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        [Economics and Statistics Administration Revolving Fund]

    [The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to disseminate economic and 
statistical data products as authorized by sections 1, 2, and 4 of 
Public Law 91-412 (15 U.S.C. 1525-1527) and, notwithstanding section 
5412 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 
4912), charge fees necessary to recover the full costs incurred in their 
production. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, receipts received from these 
data dissemination activities shall be credited to this account, to be 
available for carrying out these purposes without further 
appropriation.] (Department of Commerce and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
09.01 Reimbursable program..............           4           5           6
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............           4           5           6
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......           2           2           1
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......           3           5           6
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......           5           6           7
23.95 New obligations...................          -4          -5          -6
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           2           1           1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    New budget authority (gross), detail:
68.00 Spending authority from offsetting 
        collections (gross): Offsetting 
        collections (cash)..............           3           5           6
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           1           2
73.10 New obligations...................           4           5           6
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............          -3          -5          -6
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           2
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................           3           5           6
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

        Offsetting collections (cash) 
            from:
88.00     Federal sources...............          -1          -2          -2
88.40     Subscription and fee sales....          -2          -3          -4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
88.90       Total, offsetting 
              collections (cash)........          -3          -5          -6
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................
90.00 Outlays...........................
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    Revolving Fund.--The Economics and Statistics Administration 
operates this revolving fund for the payment of all expenses incurred in 
the electronic dissemination of data, including the acquisition and 
public sale of domestic, federally-funded and foreign business, trade, 
and economic information products.

    The measures below reflect the level of activity performed by 
Economics and Statistics Administration Revolving Fund.

    Performance measures.--

        Theme 2: America competitive with cutting-edge science 
    technology and an unrivaled information base

        Goal: Provide information on economic events and the workings of 
    the economy
                                        1997         1998        1999
Output measures:
    STAT-USA Internet subscriptions, 
      individual....................       7,000       8,000       9,300
    STAT-USA Internet subscriptions, 
      site licenses.................         700         800         925

    A more detailed presentation of STAT-USA's goal, objective, and 
performance measures is found in the Commerce Strategic Plan.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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11.1  Personnel compensation: Full-time 
        permanent.......................           1           1           2
25.2  Other services....................           1           2           2
31.0  Equipment.........................           1           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, reimbursable 
            obligations.................           3           4           5
99.5  Below reporting threshold.........           1           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............           4           5           6
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                              Personnel Summary

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2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......          21          16          35
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                   INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION

                              Federal Funds

General and special funds:

                      Operations and Administration

    For necessary expenses for international trade activities of the 
Department of Commerce provided for by law, and engaging in trade 
promotional activities abroad, including expenses of grants and 
cooperative agreements for the purpose of promoting exports of United 
States firms, without regard to 44 U.S.C. 3702 and 3703; full medical 
coverage for dependent members of immediate families of employees 
stationed overseas and employees temporarily posted overseas; travel and 
transportation of employees of the United States and Foreign Commercial 
Service between two points abroad, without regard to 49 U.S.C. 1517; 
employment of Americans and aliens by contract for services; rental of 
space abroad for periods not exceeding ten years, and expenses of 
alteration, repair, or improvement; purchase or construction of 
temporary demountable exhibition structures for use abroad; payment of 
tort claims, in the manner authorized in the first paragraph of 28 
U.S.C. 2672 when such claims arise in foreign countries; not to exceed 
$327,000 for official representation expenses abroad; purchase of 
passenger motor vehicles for official use abroad, not to exceed $30,000 
per vehicle; obtain insurance on official motor vehicles; and rent tie 
lines and teletype equipment; [$283,066,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That of the $287,866,000 provided for in direct 
obligations (of which $283,066,000 is appropriated from the General 
Fund, and $4,800,000

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is derived from unobligated balances and deobligations from prior 
years), $58,986,000 shall be for Trade Development, $17,340,000 shall be 
for Market Access and Compliance, $28,770,000 shall be for the Import 
Administration, $171,070,000 shall be for the United States and Foreign 
Commercial Service, and $11,700,000 shall be for Executive Direction and 
Administration] $292,452,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $6,000,000 will be derived from fees to be retained and used by 
the International Trade Administration, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302: 
Provided, That any fees received in excess of $6,000,000 in fiscal year 
1999 shall remain available until expended, but shall not be made 
available until October 1, 1999: Provided further, That the provisions 
of the first sentence of section 105(f) and all of section 108(c) of the 
Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2455(f) 
and 2458(c)) shall apply in carrying out these activities without regard 
to section 5412 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (15 
U.S.C. 4912); and that for the purpose of this Act, contributions under 
the provisions of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act shall 
include payment for assessments for services provided as part of these 
activities. (15 U.S.C. 637(e), 649, 1501 et seq., 1871, 4001 et seq., 
4011 et seq.; 19 U.S.C. 81a et seq., 1202nt., 1303, 1671 et seq., 1673 
et seq., 1862, 2031, 2155, 2354, 2411 et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 801 et seq., 
2451 et seq., 2651 et seq., 3101 et seq.; 40 U.S.C. 512, 42 U.S.C. 300j; 
50 U.S.C. 98-98h, 401 et seq., 2061 et seq., 2401 et seq.; Public Law 
99-64; Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
      Direct program:

00.01   Trade development...............          61          59          48
00.02   Market access and compliance....          24          27          20
00.03   Import administration...........          31          29          31
00.04   U.S. and foreign commercial 
          services......................         175         179         175
00.05   Administration and executive 
          direction.....................                      12          12
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
01.00   Total direct program............         291         306         286
09.01 Reimbursable program..............          17          36          32
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............         308         342         318
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......          21          26
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......         306         316         318
22.10 Resources available from 
        recoveries of prior year 
        obligations.....................           4
22.22 Unobligated balance transferred 
        from other accounts.............           3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......         334         342         318
23.95 New obligations...................        -308        -342        -318
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............          26
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

40.00   Appropriation...................         270         283         286
41.00   Transferred to other accounts...          -1
42.00   Transferred from other accounts.           5           7
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
43.00     Appropriation (total).........         274         290         286
      Permanent:

        Spending authority from 
            offsetting collections:
68.00     Offsetting collections (cash).          33          26          32
68.10     Change in orders on hand from 
            Federal sources.............          -1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
68.90       Spending authority from 
              offsetting collections 
              (total)...................          32          26          32
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................         306         316         318
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
      Unpaid obligations, start of year:

72.40   Obligated balance: Uninvested...          77          77         113
72.95   Orders on hand from Federal 
          sources.......................          13          12          12
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
72.99     Total unpaid obligations, 
            start of year...............          90          89         125
73.10 New obligations...................         308         342         318
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............        -304        -305        -314
73.45 Adjustments in unexpired accounts.          -4
      Unpaid obligations, end of year:

74.40   Obligated balance: Uninvested...          77         113         117
74.95   Orders on hand from Federal 
          sources.......................          12          12          12
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
74.99     Total unpaid obligations, end 
            of year.....................          89         125         129
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority         195         203         200
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....          77          76          82
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................          32          26          32
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........         304         305         314
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

88.40   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Non-Federal sources.....         -33         -26         -32
88.95 Change in orders on hand from 
        Federal sources.................           1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................         274         290         286
90.00 Outlays...........................         272         279         282
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    The activities of the International Trade Administration in the 
Department of Commerce are intended to develop the export potential of 
U.S. firms in a manner consistent with national security and foreign and 
economic policy and to promote an improved trade posture for U.S. 
industry.

    Working as a key part of the Government-wide Trade Promotion 
Coordinating Committee, the International Trade Administration (ITA) 
will accomplish this objective by achieving its five major Strategic 
Objectives.

    Strengthen trade advocacy, trade promotion, and the Trade Promotion 
Coordinating Committee (TPCC).--Through the Advocacy Center, which is 
the ``nerve center'' of the TPCC's advocacy network initiative, ITA 
leads the Government-wide effort to develop and to implement interagency 
strategies to help U.S. firms win bids for major projects and commercial 
transactions in foreign markets. In 1999, ITA plans to broaden the 
involvement of TPCC agencies in advocacy activities. ITA also plans to 
continue to focus its programmatic activities and resources on select 
trade promotion functions identified in the TPCC's National Export 
Strategy. The efforts of the TPCC are assisted by the TPCC Secretariat--
located in the office of the Under Secretary in ITA. The Secretariat is 
responsible for coordinating the implementation and oversight of the 
National Export Strategy.

    Increase trade assistance targeted to small and medium-sized 
businesses.--ITA will continue to provide export assistance to small and 
medium-sized enterprises through a network of domestic and overseas 
field offices.

    More closely align trade objectives with U.S. foreign policy.--Our 
trade and commercial efforts frequently support our foreign policy 
goals. Trade and investment flows can play a significant role in 
facilitating incentives for peace and prospects for sustained economic 
growth and stability. ITA will continue its efforts to provide economic 
incentives to promote these ends.

    Expand trade law enforcement and compliance monitoring.--ITA's 
Import Administration unit impartially enforces U.S. antidumping and 
countervailing duty laws. Our Market Access and Compliance (MAC) unit 
ensures market access, assures full compliance with agreements, and 
identifies priority market access problems, bilaterally or 
multilaterally.

    Continue emphasis on trade with the ``Big Emerging Markets'' without 
losing focus on mature markets.--ITA continues to emphasize field export 
development planning and initiatives in major emerging growth markets. 
In addition, ITA will focus on U.S. companies that are already exporting 
to Western Europe and Canada and assist them in expanding their markets.

    These five major strategic objectives will be accomplished within 
the five major subdivisions of ITA and through a reimbursable program as 
follows:

    Trade Development.--The trade development program assesses the 
competitiveness of various U.S. industries and per

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forms trade and investment analyses; works with manufacturing and 
service industry associations and firms to identify and to capitalize on 
trade opportunities and to pinpoint and to overcome obstacles to 
increased U.S. exports; articulates U.S. industries' needs, interests 
and concerns to American negotiators of international trade agreements 
and assists in the preparation and implementation of negotiating 
strategies; and conducts export promotion programs directed toward 
industry sectors. Increased emphasis will be placed on sector-specific 
initiatives to improve market access and to ensure compliance with 
international trade agreements.

    Market Access and Compliance.--The Market Access and Compliance Unit 
(MAC) is the U.S. Government's front-line offensive team working to 
unlock foreign markets for American goods and services country-by-
country and region-by-region. MAC underwent a significant restructuring 
in 1996, and refocused its goals to concentrate on market access issues 
and the development of strategies to overcome market access obstacles 
faced by U.S. businesses. MAC maintains in-depth knowledge of the trade 
policies of our trading partners. It monitors foreign country compliance 
with numerous multilateral and bilateral trade-related agreements, 
identifying compliance problems and other market access obstacles. MAC's 
specialists work with other Government agencies to address barriers 
rapidly, and to ensure that U.S. firms know how to use the market 
opening agreements. It provides information on foreign trade and 
business practices to U.S. firms and works to find opportunities and to 
develop market strategies in traditional markets, the emerging markets 
and, in particular, those identified as the most promising, the Big 
Emerging Markets. MAC's objective is to develop and to update 
continuously current and long-term market access strategies, including 
developing the information needed to conduct trade negotiations to open 
markets. MAC's specialists work hand-in-hand with U.S. business, trade 
associations and other business organizations, Commerce's industry and 
technical specialists, and the U.S. Commercial Service's domestic and 
overseas offices. This unit will continue to provide support for the 
operation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

    Import Administration.--Import Administration investigates 
antidumping and countervailing duty cases to ensure compliance with 
applicable U.S. statutes and administers certain other statutory 
programs relating to imports and foreign trade zones.

    U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service.--The U.S. and Foreign 
Commercial Service counsels U.S. businesses on exporting through offices 
in the United States and overseas countries. The program's goals are to 
increase the number of U.S. firms that export and the number of foreign 
markets to which they export; to provide export market information; to 
promote and facilitate participation of U.S. firms in trade shows; and 
to encourage and sponsor additional involvement by private, State and 
local organizations.

    Reimbursable program.--This account includes receipts for services 
rendered to other Federal agencies and receipts received on a cost 
recovery basis from private entities for trade events and export 
information services. ITA proposes to raise fees to offset the costs 
associated with services and products provided. Following a study of 
existing fees in 1998, ITA will increase reimbursable collections by $6 
million in 1999.

    Administration and Executive Direction.--Adminstration and Executive 
Direction provide policy leadership and administration services for the 
other ITA subdivisions. Executive Direction includes the Office of the 
Under Secretary for International Trade, the Deputy Under Secretary for 
International Trade, and subordinate offices covering Legislative and 
Intergovernmental Affairs, Public Affairs, and the Trade Promotion 
Coordinating Committee staff. Administration provides office automation 
and information technology support systems, human resources services, 
financial management services, and general administrative assistance for 
the other ITA subdivisions.

    Activities under the ITA account support two themes of the Commerce 
Strategic Plan:

        (1) Theme: Economic Infrastructure

                                        1997         1998        1999
Goals--Performance Measures:
  Implement National Export 
    Strategy:
      Number of trade events........       1,265       1,263       1,263
  Enforce U.S. Trade Laws:
    Number of petitioners counseled.         120         120         120
  Strengthen Trade Advocacy:
    Number of Market Cooperator 
      agreements....................           8           5           5
    $(B) exports supported by 
      advocacy......................           6          10          12

        (2) Theme: Science/Technology/Information

                                        1997         1998        1999
Goals--Performance Measures:
  Employ trade information bases to 
    counsel firms:
    Number of custom agency reports.       9,271       8,400       8,700

    A more detailed presentation of goals, objectives, and performance 
measures can be found in the Commerce Strategic Plan.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code 13-1250-0-1-376      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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      Direct obligations:

        Personnel compensation:
11.1      Full-time permanent...........         111         118         124
11.3      Other than full-time permanent           9           5           5
11.5      Other personnel compensation..           3           3           3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
11.9        Total personnel compensation         123         126         132
12.1    Civilian personnel benefits.....          25          27          29
13.0    Benefits for former personnel...           1                       1
21.0    Travel and transportation of 
          persons.......................          10          10          11
22.0    Transportation of things........           1           1           1
23.1    Rental payments to GSA..........          13          14          14
23.2    Rental payments to others.......           7           8           9
23.3    Communications, utilities, and 
          miscellaneous charges.........          12          10          10
24.0    Printing and reproduction.......           2           2           2
25.1    Advisory and assistance services                       1           1
25.2    Other services..................          35          29          31
25.3    Purchases of goods and services 
          from Government accounts......          25          34          28
26.0    Supplies and materials..........           5           5           5
31.0    Equipment.......................           9           8           9
41.0    Grants, subsidies, and 
          contributions.................          14          15           3
91.0    Unvouchered.....................           9          16
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..         291         306         286
99.0  Reimbursable obligations..........          17          36          32
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............         308         342         318
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                              Personnel Summary

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Identification code 13-1250-0-1-376      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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    Direct:
1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......       2,122       2,240       2,299
    Reimbursable:
2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......          16          30          30
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                        Buying Power Maintenance

    This account will offset losses due to exchange rate and overseas 
wage and price fluctuations unanticipated in the budget. Any gains due 
to fluctuations will be merged with this account to be available to 
offset future losses.

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        Foreign Service National Separation Liability Trust Fund

    This fund is maintained to pay separation costs for Foreign Service 
National employees of the Department of Commerce, in those countries in 
which pay is legally authorized. The fund, as authorized by section 151 
of Public Law 102-138, is maintained by annual government contributions 
which are appropriated in the Department's operating accounts.

                                


 
                          EXPORT ADMINISTRATION

                              Federal Funds

General and special funds:

                      Operations and Administration

    For necessary expenses for export administration and national 
security activities of the Department of Commerce, including costs 
associated with the performance of export administration field 
activities both domestically and abroad; full medical coverage for 
dependent members of immediate families of employees stationed overseas; 
employment of Americans and aliens by contract for services abroad; 
rental of space abroad for periods not exceeding ten years, and expenses 
of alteration, repair, or improvement; payment of tort claims, in the 
manner authorized in the first paragraph of 28 U.S.C. 2672 when such 
claims arise in foreign countries; not to exceed $15,000 for official 
representation expenses abroad; awards of compensation to informers 
under the Export Administration Act of 1979, and as authorized by 22 
U.S.C. 401(b); purchase of passenger motor vehicles for official use and 
motor vehicles for law enforcement use with special requirement vehicles 
eligible for purchase without regard to any price limitation otherwise 
established by law; [$43,900,000] $52,233,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which [$1,900,000] $3,877,000 shall be for inspections and 
other activities related to national security: Provided, That the 
provisions of the first sentence of section 105(f) and all of section 
108(c) of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2455(f) and 2458(c)) shall apply in carrying out these 
activities: Provided further, That payments and contributions collected 
and accepted for materials or services provided as part of such 
activities may be retained for use in covering the cost of such 
activities, and for providing information to the public with respect to 
the export administration and national security activities of the 
Department of Commerce and other export control programs of the United 
States and other governments. (15 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.; 19 U.S.C. 
1339(b), 1862; 22 U.S.C. 401(b), 3901 et seq., app. 2651 et seq.; 42 
U.S.C. 300j; 50 U.S.C. 98-98h, 401 et seq., app. 2061 et seq., app. 2401 
et seq.; Export Administration Act of 1979, as amended; Department of 
Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code 13-0300-0-1-999      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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    Obligations by program activity:
      Direct program:

00.01   Management and policy 
          coordination..................           3           3           5
00.02   Export administration...........          18          22          24
00.03   Export enforcement..............          21          22          23
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
00.91     Total direct program..........          42          47          52
09.01 Reimbursable program..............           3           3           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............          45          50          53
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......           1           3
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......          43          47          53
22.10 Resources available from 
        recoveries of prior year 
        obligations.....................           4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......          48          50          53
23.95 New obligations...................         -45         -50         -53
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           3
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

40.00   Appropriation...................          40          44          52
42.00   Transferred from ITA............           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
43.00     Appropriation (total).........          41          44          52
      Permanent:

68.00   Spending authority from 
          offsetting collections: 
          Offsetting collections (cash).           2           3           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................          43          47          53
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Change in unpaid obligations:
      Unpaid obligations, start of year:

72.40   Obligated balance: Uninvested...           9           7           9
72.95   Orders on hand from Federal 
          sources.......................           2           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
72.99     Total unpaid obligations, 
            start of year...............          11           9           9
73.10 New obligations...................          45          50          53
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............         -43         -48         -52
73.45 Adjustments in unexpired accounts.          -4
      Unpaid obligations, end of year:

74.40   Obligated balance: Uninvested...           7           9          10
74.95   Orders on hand from Federal 
          sources.......................           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
74.99     Total unpaid obligations, end 
            of year.....................           9           9          10
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority          35          38          44
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....           6           8           6
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................           2           3           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........          43          48          52
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

        Offsetting collections (cash) 
            from:
88.00     Federal sources...............          -1          -1
88.40     Non-Federal sources...........          -1          -2          -1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
88.90       Total, offsetting 
              collections (cash)........          -2          -3          -1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................          41          44          52
90.00 Outlays...........................          41          45          51
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    The activities of the Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) are 
designed to enforce U.S. export trade laws consistent with national 
security, foreign policy, and short supply objectives. The program 
strives to achieve a balance between the interests of U.S. exporters, 
the U.S. economy and U.S. national security requirements.

    Management and policy coordination.--The management and policy 
coordination program controls the development, analysis, coordination, 
and consolidation of policy initiatives and responses within the BXA. 
Under BXA's nonproliferation and export control cooperation mission, BXA 
works directly with government leaders in the Newly Independent States 
(NIS) to develop effective controls on their strategic commodities and 
data.

    An increase is being requested to promote export control cooperation 
with the independent states of the former Soviet Union, the Baltics, and 
Central Europe in order to facilitate legitimate trade and to stop the 
proliferation of sensitive items to rogue states and terrorists. These 
efforts were funded by the Departments of Defense and State in the past.

    Export administration.--The export administration program assures 
that export activity is consistent with national security and foreign 
policy requirements.

    An increase is being requested to provide full year funding to 
administer the on-site inspection requirements imposed on commercial 
chemical manufacturing facilities under the Chemical Weapons Convention 
(CWC). This program was started in 1998 and was partially funded in that 
year. A second increase is being requested to fund fully the increase 
that was approved for partial year funding in 1998 (due to delays in 
passage of implementing legislation) to administer and enforce the 
complex inspections and reporting requirements of the CWC.

    Export enforcement.--The export enforcement program detects and 
prevents the illegal distribution of controlled U.S. goods and technical 
data in violation of the export administration provisions of the U.S. 
Code. Responsibilities also include

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enforcement of prohibitions against participating in unsanctioned 
boycotts against countries friendly to the United States.

    An increase is being requested for (1) new responsibilities related 
to encryption controls, which were moved from State to BXA by an 
Executive Order; (2) fully staffing field offices for more intensive 
prevention and deterrent enforcement efforts; (3) enhanced preventive 
enforcement to stop and analyze illegal shipments before they reach 
their point of destination; and (4) Fastener Quality Act public safety 
legislation.

    Activities under this account support two themes of the Commerce 
Strategic Plan:

        Theme: U.S. competitiveness in the global marketplace

                                        1997         1998        1999
Goals and outcome measures:
  Restructure export controls:
    Applications processed..........       99.8%         98%         98%
  Maintain enforcement programs:
    Criminal/admin remedies.........          60          66          73
  Transition of defense industries:
    Facilitated exports ($ billions)         2.3         5.0         5.0

        Theme: American competitiveness through science, technology and 
    an unrivaled information base

                                        1997         1998        1999
Goals and outcome measures:
  Restructure export controls:
    Elements of export control 
      systems established...........          13          20          30

    A more detailed presentation of goals, objectives, and performance 
measures is found in the Commerce Strategic Plan.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code 13-0300-0-1-999      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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      Direct obligations:

        Personnel compensation:
11.1      Full-time permanent...........          18          21          24
11.3      Other than full-time permanent           1
11.5      Other personnel compensation..           1           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
11.9        Total personnel compensation          20          22          25
12.1    Civilian personnel benefits.....           4           5           5
21.0    Travel and transportation of 
          persons.......................           1           1           2
23.1    Rental payments to GSA..........           4           3           4
23.3    Communications, utilities, and 
          miscellaneous charges.........           1           2           2
25.2    Other services..................           3           4           4
25.3    Purchases of goods and services 
          from Government accounts......           7           8           9
26.0    Supplies and materials..........           1           1           1
31.0    Equipment.......................           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..          42          47          52
99.0  Reimbursable obligations..........           3           3           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............          45          50          53
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                              Personnel Summary

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Identification code 13-0300-0-1-999      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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    Direct:
1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......         331         382         429
    Reimbursable:
2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......           4           4           4
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                  MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

                              Federal Funds

General and special funds:

                      Minority Business Development

    For necessary expenses of the Department of Commerce in fostering, 
promoting, and developing minority business enterprise, including 
expenses of grants, contracts, and other agreements with public or 
private organizations, [$25,000,000] $28,087,000. (Department of 
Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Identification code 13-0201-0-1-376      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Obligations by program activity:
00.01 Direct program....................          28          27          28
09.01 Reimbursable program..............                       1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............          28          28          28
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......           4           3
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......          28          25          28
22.30 Unobligated balance expiring......          -2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......          30          28          28
23.95 New obligations...................         -28         -28         -28
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           3
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    New budget authority (gross), detail:
40.00 Appropriation.....................          28          25          28
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          22          23          16
73.10 New obligations...................          28          28          28
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............         -28         -34         -29
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          23          16          15
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority          14          13          14
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....          14          21          15
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........          28          34          29
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................          28          25          28
90.00 Outlays...........................          28          34          29
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) has the lead role in 
the Federal Government of coordinating all minority business development 
programs. The mission of the Agency is to build and to expand minority 
owned businesses which is critical to the national economy. The agency 
was created to promote private and public sector investment in the 
development of competitive minority-owned businesses in this country.

    Minority Business Development.--This activity provides a variety of 
direct and indirect business services through public/private 
partnerships. MBDA coordinates and leverages resources, expands domestic 
and international market opportunities, collects and disseminates vital 
business information, and provides management and technical assistance. 
MBDA also provides support for research, advocacy, and technology to 
reduce information barriers and improve the participation rate of 
minority-owned businesses in the United States.

    In 1999, MBDA will begin to develop databases from a variety of 
public and private sector sources. These databases will provide timely 
on-line market information to minority business owners concerning 
available business opportunities. Additionally, MBDA will initiate 
several projects with the Small Business Administration that are aimed 
at greater coordination of resources. MBDA will continue reorganizing ef

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forts started in 1998 which will enhance the current program of service 
delivery.

    Performance measures.--

    MBDA activities support Theme I of the Department of Commerce 
Strategic Plan: Build for the future and promote United States 
competitiveness in the global market place by strengthening and 
safeguarding the Nation's economic infrastructure. MBDA's activities 
include goals on improving opportunities for minority-owned businesses 
in major growth industries and improving opportunities for minority-
owned businesses to pursue financing.
                                        1997         1998        1999
Goals:
  Improve opportunities for 
    minority-owned businesses in 
    major growth industries 
    according to geographic demands 
    (dollar values for contracts 
    awarded-assisted companies).....         852       1,065       1,300
  Improve opportunities for 
    minority-owned businesses to 
    pursue financing (number of debt 
    equity, merger, and acquisition 
    opportunities facilitated)......           4          25          25

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code 13-0201-0-1-376      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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      Direct obligations:

11.1    Personnel compensation: Full-
          time permanent................           6           7           7
12.1    Civilian personnel benefits.....           1           1           1
13.0    Benefits for former personnel...           1
23.1    Rental payments to GSA..........           2           2           2
25.2    Other services..................           7          10          10
25.3    Purchases of goods and services 
          from Government accounts......           1           1           1
41.0    Grants, subsidies, and 
          contributions.................           9           6           6
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..          27          27          27
99.0  Reimbursable obligations..........                       1
99.5  Below reporting threshold.........           1                       1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............          28          28          28
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                              Personnel Summary

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Identification code 13-0201-0-1-376      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......         100         120         120
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             UNITED STATES TRAVEL AND TOURISM ADMINISTRATION

                              Federal Funds

General and special funds:

                         [Salaries and Expenses]

                             [(rescission)]

    [Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 
$3,000,000 are rescinded.] (Department of Commerce and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Identification code 13-0700-0-1-376      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Obligations by program activity:
10.00 Total obligations (object class 
        25.2)...........................                       1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......           4           4
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......                      -3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......           4           1
23.95 New obligations...................                      -1
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           4
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    New budget authority (gross), detail:
40.36 Unobligated balance rescinded.....                      -3
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           2           1
73.10 New obligations...................                       1
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............          -2          -1
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....           2           1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................                      -3
90.00 Outlays...........................           2           1
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    This program was terminated in 1996.

                                


 
             NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

                              Federal Funds

General and special funds:

                  Operations, Research, and Facilities

                      (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses of activities authorized by law for the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including maintenance, 
operation, and hire of aircraft; [not to exceed 283 commissioned 
officers on the active list as of September 30, 1998;] grants, 
contracts, or other payments to nonprofit organizations for the purposes 
of conducting activities pursuant to cooperative agreements; and 
relocation of facilities as authorized by 33 U.S.C. 883i; 
[$1,512,050,000] $1,486,481,000, to remain available until expended: 
[Provided, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302 but consistent with 
other existing law, fees shall be assessed, collected, and credited to 
this appropriation as offsetting collections to be available until 
expended, to recover the costs of administering aeronautical charting 
programs: Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated from the 
General Fund shall be reduced as such additional fees are received 
during fiscal year 1998, so as to result in a final General Fund 
appropriation estimated at not more than $1,509,050,000: Provided 
further, That any such additional fees received in excess of $3,000,000 
in fiscal year 1998 shall not be available for obligation until October 
1, 1998:] Provided [further], That fees and donations received by the 
National Ocean Service for the management of the national marine 
sanctuaries may be retained and used for the salaries and expenses 
associated with those activities, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302: 
Provided further, That in addition, $62,381,000 shall be derived by 
transfer from the fund entitled ``Promote and Develop Fishery Products 
and Research Pertaining to American Fisheries'': Provided further, That 
beginning in fiscal year 1999 and thereafter, the Secretary, in 
consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall under 31 U.S.C. 
9701, establish and adjust user fees for any navigation services 
provided: Provided further, That such fees shall be implemented by 
publication of an initial fee schedule as an interim final rule in the 
Federal Register not later than 150 days after enactment of this 
provision: Provided further, That not to exceed $2,500,000 of offsetting 
collections from user fees shall be collected and available until 
expended for necessary expenses under this heading: Provided further, 
That any such additional fees received in excess of $2,500,000 shall 
remain available until expended, but shall not be available until 
October 1, 1999: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, beginning in fiscal year 1999 and thereafter, the 
Secretary shall under 31 U.S.C. 9701, establish and adjust user fees for 
any fisheries management and enforcement services provided: Provided 
further, That such fees shall not exceed 1 percent of the ex-vessel 
value of fish harvested and shall be collected in such manner as the 
Secretary may establish: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$19,781,000 of offsetting collections from such fees shall be collected 
and available until expended for necessary expenses under this heading: 
Provided further, That any such additional fees received in excess of 
$19,781,000 shall remain available until expended, but shall not be 
available until October 1, 1999: Provided further, That grants to States 
pursuant to sections 306 and 306A of the Coastal Zone

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Management Act of 1972, as amended, shall not exceed $2,000,000[: 
Provided further, That unexpended balances in the accounts 
``Construction'' and ``Fleet Modernization, Shipbuilding and 
Conversion'' shall be transferred to and merged with this account, to 
remain available until expended for the purposes for which the funds 
were originally appropriated]. (5 U.S.C. 5348; 7 U.S.C. 1622; 12 U.S.C. 
1715m; 15 U.S.C. 313, 313a, 313b, 313nt, 325, 330b, 330e, 1511d, 1514, 
1517, 1537-40, 2904-06; 16 U.S.C. 661 et seq., 1361, 1431 et seq., 1444, 
1447a et seq., 1451 et seq., 1464, 4701, 5001 et seq.; 30 U.S.C. 1412, 
1419, 1424, 1428, 1469, 1470; 33 U.S.C. 706 et seq., 883a et seq., 891 
et seq., 1121, 1251, 1441-44, 1703-05, 2706, 2801 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 
8902-05, 9601 et seq.; 43 U.S.C. 1347e; 44 U.S.C. 1307; 49 U.S.C. 
44720.)

                             [(rescission)]

    [Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 
$20,500,000 are rescinded.]

                      Foreign Fishing Observer Fund

    For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Atlantic 
Tunas Convention Act of 1975, as amended (Public Law 96-339), and the 
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, as 
amended (Public Law 100-627), [and the American Fisheries Promotion Act 
(Public Law 96-561),] to be derived from the fees imposed under the 
foreign fishery observer program authorized by these Acts, not to exceed 
$189,000, to remain available until expended. (16 U.S.C. 1824(b)(10), 
1827; Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
      Direct program:

00.01   National Ocean Service..........         213         260         243
00.02   National Marine Fisheries 
          Service.......................         354         387         351
00.03   Oceanic and Atmospheric Research         255         271         251
00.04   National Weather Service........         617         546         564
00.05   National Environmental 
          Satellite, Data, and 
          Information Service...........         368         240         100
00.06   Program support.................          81          67          69
00.07   Facilities......................           5          71          16
00.08   Fleet maintenance and planning..                      20          10
00.09   Construction....................          56
00.10   Fleet modernization, conversion 
          and shipbuilding..............          13
00.12   Aircraft modernization..........           2
00.13   Fees............................                                 -22
00.14   Foreign fishing observer fund...                       1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
01.00   Direct funding..................       1,964       1,863       1,583
09.01 National Ocean Service............          37          53          15
09.02 National Marine Fisheries Service.          37          37          44
09.03 Oceanic and Atomospheric Research.          43          43          43
09.04 National Weather Service..........          55          55          55
09.05 National Environmental Satellite, 
        Data and Information Service....          23          24          26
09.06 Program support...................          40          40          39
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
09.09   Total reimbursable program......         235         252         222
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............       2,199       2,115       1,805
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
      Unobligated balance available, start of year:

21.40   Uninvested......................         213         280
21.41   U.S. Securities: Par value......           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
21.99     Total unobligated balance, 
            start of year...............         214         281
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......       2,208       1,808       1,775
22.10 Resources available from 
        recoveries of prior year 
        obligations.....................          41          24          29
22.22 Unobligated balance transferred 
        from other accounts.............          16           2           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......       2,479       2,115       1,805
23.95 New obligations...................      -2,199      -2,115      -1,805
      Unobligated balance available, end of year:

24.40   Uninvested......................         280
24.41   U.S. Securities: Par value......           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
24.99   Total unobligated balance, end 
          of year.......................         281
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

        Appropriation:
40.00     Operations, research & 
            facilities..................       1,834       1,509       1,486
40.00     Fleet modernization, 
            shipbuilding and conversion.           8
40.00     Construction..................          58
40.15   Appropriation (emergency).......          11
40.36   Unobligated balance rescinded...                     -20
41.00   Transferred to other accounts...          -8
42.00   Transferred from other accounts.          68          62          62
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
43.00     Appropriation (total).........       1,971       1,551       1,549
      Permanent:

62.00   Transferred from DARRF..........           2           5           5
        Spending authority from 
            offsetting collections:
68.00     Offsetting collections (cash).         226         252         222
68.10     Change in orders on hand from 
            Federal sources.............           9
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
68.90       Spending authority from 
              offsetting collections 
              (total)...................         235         252         222
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................       2,208       1,808       1,775
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
      Unpaid obligations, start of year:

72.40   Obligated balance: Uninvested...       1,148       1,080       1,131
72.95   Orders on hand from Federal 
          sources.......................         410         419         419
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
72.99     Total unpaid obligations, 
            start of year...............       1,558       1,499       1,550
73.10 New obligations...................       2,199       2,115       1,805
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............      -2,217      -2,042      -1,854
73.45 Adjustments in unexpired accounts.         -41         -24         -29
      Unpaid obligations, end of year:

74.40   Obligated balance: Uninvested...       1,080       1,131       1,052
74.95   Orders on hand from Federal 
          sources.......................         419         419         419
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
74.99     Total unpaid obligations, end 
            of year.....................       1,499       1,550       1,471
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority       1,165         962         953
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....         824         825         677
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................         227         255         225
86.98 Outlays from permanent balances...           1                       1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........       2,217       2,042       1,854
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    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

        Offsetting collections (cash) 
            from:
88.00     Federal sources...............        -126        -148        -135
88.40     Non-Federal sources...........        -100        -104         -65
88.45     Offsetting governmental 
            collections.................                                 -22
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
88.90       Total, offsetting 
              collections (cash)........        -226        -252        -222
88.95 Change in orders on hand from 
        Federal sources.................          -9
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................       1,973       1,556       1,553
90.00 Outlays...........................       1,991       1,790       1,632
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    National Ocean Service.--These programs provide scientific, 
technical, and management expertise to promote safe navigation; assess 
the health of coastal and marine resources; monitor and protect the 
coastal ocean and global environments; and protect and manage the 
Nation's coastal resources. As part of the Clean Water Initiative, 
increases are proposed for research efforts and Coastal Zone Management 
Enhancement grants to improve support to states and local communities to 
address pollution, pfiesteria and other harmful algal blooms, and other 
symptoms of a degraded coastal ecosystem. Funding within this account 
for the Clean Water Initiative is proposed as part of the Environmental 
Resources Fund for America. This proposal highlights the 
Administration's priority to provide deficit neutral funding for 
investments in many of the Nation's key environmental programs. A 
discussion of the Environmental Resources Fund for America and two other 
funds for research and transportation can be found in Chapter 2 of the 
Budget. A proposal is included for fee collections in conjunction with 
the U.S. Coast Guard for Navigation Services.

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    National Marine Fisheries Service.--These programs provide for the 
management and conservation of the Nation's living marine resources and 
their environment, including marine mammals and endangered species. 
Through conservation and wise use, these resources can be managed to 
benefit the Nation on a sustained basis. Increases are proposed to carry 
out the legislative mandates of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
Conservation and Management Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the 
Marine Mammal Protection Act. These increases will support the NOAA 
Strategic Plan goals to build sustainable fisheries, recover protected 
species and promote healthy coastal ecosystems. A proposal is included 
for fee collections from U.S. commercial fishermen for fisheries 
management and enforcement services.

    Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.--These programs provide 
the critical environmental research and technology needed to improve 
NOAA services (weather warnings and forecasts, solar-terrestrial 
services, climate predictions, and marine services) to enable the Nation 
to balance a growing economy with effective management and prediction of 
our environment and natural resources. To accomplish these goals, OAR 
supports a network of Federal scientists and laboratories (the 
Environmental Research Laboratories) and university/private-sector 
researchers through the National Sea Grant College Program, National 
Undersea Research Program, and Joint Cooperative Institutes. OAR 
provides the scientific basis for national policy formulation in key 
environmental areas e.g., climate change, air quality, stratospheric 
ozone depletion, marine biotechnology, aquaculture, and environmental 
observing technologies. Funding to support Presidential initiatives is 
also proposed for the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the 
Environment program, the Climate and Global Change Program and the High 
Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Program. Funding for the 
Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research is proposed as part of the 
Research Fund for America. This proposal highlights the Administration's 
priority to provide needed and sustained investments in important 
Federal research programs on a deficit neutral basis. A discussion of 
the Research Fund for America, and two other funds for the environment 
and transportation, can be found in Chapter 2 of the Budget.

    National Weather Service.--These programs provide timely and 
accurate meteorologic, hydrologic, and oceanographic warnings, 
forecasts, and planning information to ensure the safety of the 
population, mitigate property losses, and improve the economic 
efficiency of the Nation. NOAA will continue the NWS operational 
transition necessary to assimilate the new technologies and the 
associated work force restructuring for future operations.

    National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service.--
These programs provide for operation of environmental polar-orbiting and 
geostationary satellites; and for the collection and archiving of global 
environmental data and information; and services for distribution to 
users in commerce, industry, agriculture, science and engineering, the 
general public and Federal, State and local agencies.

    Program Support.--These programs provide for overall NOAA 
management, NOAA's share of the regional Administrative Support Centers, 
and aircraft to support NOAA missions.

    Facilities.--This program provides for repair and modification to 
existing facilities; facilities planning and design; and environmental 
compliance.

    Fleet Maintenance and Planning.--This program provides for the 
repair and maintenance of vessels, including related equipment to 
maintain the existing fleet and for the planning of future 
modernization.

    Foreign Fishing Observer Fund.--This fund is financed through 
collections from foreign vessel owners who fish within the U.S. 
Exclusive Economic Zone. Collections to the fund are used by the 
Secretary of Commerce to pay the salaries of observers and program 
support personnel and the costs of data management and analysis of the 
observer program. The observers collect scientific information on the 
foreign catch and monitor compliance with provisions of the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 as amended.

    GOES Satellite Contingency Fund.--This fund was established in 1992 
to cover the procurement of gap filler satellites, launch vehicles, 
payments to foreign governments and other related costs for the 
successful completion of the GOES I-M series of spacecraft. All funds 
will be expended by the end of 1998.

    Aircraft Procurement and Modernization.--This fund was established 
in 1994 to cover the procurement of a high altitude research jet 
aircraft. All funds will be expended by the end of 1998.

    Performance measures.--

    Activities under this account support the three themes and NOAA's 
seven goals within the three themes of the Commerce Strategic Plan. Each 
theme and goal have key performance measures that support the theme and 
goal:

        Theme: Build for the future and promote U.S. competitiveness in 
    the global marketplace by strengthening and safeguarding the 
    Nation's economic infrastructure

        Goal: Advance Short-term Warning and Forecast Services and 
    Promote Safe Navigation
                                        1997         1998        1999
Increased Lead-time of tornado 
warnings (min)......................          10          10          11

        Goal: Promote Safe Navigation
                                        1997         1998        1999
Reduced backlog of surveying and 
charting of critical nautical areas 
(cumulative percentage).............          12          16          19

        Theme: Keep America competitive with cutting-edge science and 
    technology and an unrivaled information base

        Goal: Implement Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasts
                                        1997         1998        1999
Accuracy of El Nino/Southern 
oscillation (ENSO) climate forecasts 
(correlation with actual conditions)        0.81        0.81        0.81

        Goal: Predict and Assess Decadal to Centennial Climate Change
                                        1997         1998        1999
Percentage completion of initial 
state of science assessment of rural 
ozone chemistry.....................          50          75         100

        Theme: Promote effective management and stewardship of our 
    Nation's resources and assets to ensure sustainable economic 
    opportunities

        Goal: Build Sustainable Fisheries

                                        1997         1998        1999
Fisheries stocks fully assessed 
(percent of 201 stocks).............          79          79          79

        Goal: Recover Protected Species

Number of protected species with 
population status improved (annual).          12          16          15

        Goal: Sustain Healthy Coasts

Cumulative acreage of coastal 
habitat area restored...............      12,000      26,000      43,000

    A more detailed listing of goals, objectives, and performance 
measures are found in the Commerce Strategic Plan and the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's budget justification. 

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code 13-1450-0-1-306      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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      Direct obligations:

        Personnel compensation:
11.1      Full-time permanent...........         565         557         574

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11.3      Other than full-time permanent          10          10          10
11.5      Other personnel compensation..          34          34          34
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
11.9        Total personnel compensation         609         601         618
12.1    Civilian personnel benefits.....         129         122         126
13.0    Benefits for former personnel...          16          16          15
21.0    Travel and transportation of 
          persons.......................          30          30          29
22.0    Transportation of things........           8           7           7
23.1    Rental payments to GSA..........          45          47          52
23.2    Rental payments to others.......          12           9           9
23.3    Communications, utilities, and 
          miscellaneous charges.........          49          45          49
24.0    Printing and reproduction.......           7           7           7
25.1    Advisory and assistance services          25          32          14
25.2    Other services..................         216         245         125
25.3    Purchases of goods and services 
          from Government accounts......         289          83          23
25.5    Research and development 
          contracts.....................          29          30          29
26.0    Supplies and materials..........          75          83          84
31.0    Equipment.......................          96          85          82
32.0    Land and structures.............           9          21           2
41.0    Grants, subsidies, and 
          contributions.................         320         400         312
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..       1,964       1,863       1,583
99.0  Reimbursable obligations..........         235         252         222
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............       2,199       2,115       1,805
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                              Personnel Summary

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    Direct:
1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......      11,517      11,498      11,526
    Reimbursable:
2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......       1,026       1,308         592
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                Procurement, Acquisition and Construction

                      (including transfer of funds)

    For procurement, acquisition and construction of capital assets, 
including alteration and modification costs, of the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, [$491,609,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That not to exceed $116,910,000 is available for the 
advanced weather interactive processing system, and may be available for 
obligation and expenditure only pursuant to a certification by the 
Secretary of Commerce that the total cost to complete the acquisition 
and deployment of the advanced weather interactive processing system and 
NOAA Port system, including program management, operations and 
maintenance costs through deployment will not exceed $188,700,000:] to 
become available on October 1 of the fiscal year specified and remain 
available until expended: fiscal year 1999, $621,595,000; fiscal year 
2000, $450,741,000; fiscal year 2001, $418,859,000; fiscal year 2002, 
$307,497,000; fiscal year 2003, $284,762,000; fiscal year 2004, 
$166,995,000; fiscal year 2005, $166,994,000; fiscal year 2006, 
$166,995,000; fiscal year 2007, $166,994,000; fiscal year 2008, 
$166,995,000; fiscal year 2009, $166,995,000; fiscal year 2010, 
$166,995,000; fiscal year 2011, $166,993,000; Provided, That such funds 
are available for next generation weather radars; the automated surface 
observing system network; the advanced weather interactive processing 
system; central computer facility upgrades; polar-orbiting operational 
environmental satellites (K-N prime series); national polar-orbiting 
operational environmental satellite system; geostationary operational 
environmental satellites (I-M and N-Q series); the Boulder laboratory 
above-standard cost construction items; National Weather Service weather 
forecast offices; facilities that house the National Centers for 
Environmental Prediction; and the National Marine Fisheries Service 
Research Laboratory at Santa Cruz: Provided further, That unexpended 
balances of amounts previously made available in the ``Operations, 
Research, and Facilities'' account [and the ``Construction'' account] 
for activities funded under this heading may be transferred to and 
merged with this account, to remain available until expended for the 
purposes for which the funds were originally appropriated. (Department 
of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code 13-1460-0-1-306      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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    Obligations by program activity:
      Systems Acquisition:

00.01   NEXRAD..........................                       6           9
00.02   ASOS............................                       5           4
00.03   AWIPS...........................                     117          68
00.04   Central Computer Upgrade........                       5          10
00.05   POES and NPOES..................                      83         225
00.06   GOES............................                     216         290
      Construction:

00.08   Boulder.........................                       3           6
00.09   NWS Construction................                      14          10
00.10   National Centers for 
          Environmental Prediction......                                   1
00.11   Tiburon Fish Lab................                      15           4
00.13 NERRS Construction................                       8
00.14 Honolulu Fisheries Lab............                       2
00.15 Gulf Coast Lab....................                       5
00.16 Alaska Facilities.................                       8
00.17 Pribilof Island Cleanup...........                       5
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............                     492         626
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......                     492         622
22.10 Resources available from 
        recoveries of prior year 
        obligations.....................                                   4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......                     492         626
23.95 New obligations...................                    -492        -626
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
40.00 Appropriation.....................                     492         622
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...                                 320
73.10 New obligations...................                     492         626
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............                    -172        -390
73.45 Adjustments in unexpired accounts.                                  -4
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...                     320         554
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority                     172         218
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....                                 172
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........                     172         390
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................                     492         622
90.00 Outlays...........................                     172         390
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    The request for advance appropriations in the Procurement, 
acquisition and construction account responds to the requirements of the 
Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 and the Information 
Technology Management Reform Act of 1996. This account is consistent 
with and supports the Administration's fixed asset policy by seeking 
advanced appropriations for multi-year projects. The Administration 
supports full funding as part of an ongoing attempt to improve cost and 
performance of agency procurements. The Administration's goal is to 
ensure that capital assets support the core/priority mission of the 
agency; the assets have demonstrated a projected return on investment 
that is clearly articulated; cost-benefits of acquisition have been 
evaluated; and that implementation helps ensure accountability.
                                 Full Cost of Procurement, Acquisition and Construction
            (In millions of dollars)              1999 est.   2000 est.   2001 est.   2002 est.   2003 est.  2004-2011 
                                                                                                                est.
Next Generation Weather Radars..................           9           6           5           4           9           6

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Automated Surface Observing System Network......           4           4           7           8           5           4
Advance Weather Interactive Processing System...          68           4           4           4           4          32
Central Computer Facility Upgrades..............          10          12           9          12           9           9
Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites (K-N 
prime series)...................................         160         111          93          83          66         122
Geostationary Operational Environmental 
Satellites (I-M series).........................         100          81          55           9           7           0
Geostationary Operational Environmental 
Satellites (N-Q series).........................         191         230         245         194         192       1,138
National Polar-orbiting Operational 
Environmental Satellite System*.................          65        [96]       [132]       [215]       [257]       [tbd]
Boulder Laboratory Above Standard Cost 
Construction Items..............................           6
National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office 
Construction....................................          10           9           7           3           3          26
National Centers for Environmental Prediction 
Facilities......................................           1
Santa Cruz Fisheries Research Laboratory........           4
Fleet acquisition...............................           0        [40]        [39]        [40]        [40]       [tbd]
Program level (subtotal)........................         626         457         427         318         296       1,336
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Less financing from recoveries..................          -4          -6          -8         -11         -11
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    Total, appropriation estimate...............         622         451         419         307         285       1,336

  *Advance appropriations are not requested for NPOESS and Fleet which are not yet in an acquisition phase and are thus 
shown as non-adds.
  Note: Funding included in this account is for acquisition only. Operations funding associated with these programs is 
requested in the ``Operations, Research, and Facilities'' account.

    The projects included in this account support NOAA's operational 
mission across all line offices. In particular, projects related to the 
National Weather Service modernization and on-going operations are 
included. Increased funds are proposed for the current and follow-on 
series of geostationary satellites. Increased funds are also requested 
for the Department of Commerce's continued participation in the tri-
agency converged polar satellite program. These funds were previously 
requested in the Operations, research, and facilities account. Funds are 
also requested to complete construction of a Fisheries laboratory in 
Santa Cruz, California.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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11.1  Personnel compensation: Full-time 
        permanent.......................                      15          12
12.1  Civilian personnel benefits.......                       4           3
21.0  Travel and transportation of 
        persons.........................                       1           1
23.2  Rental payments to others.........                       4
23.3  Communications, utilities, and 
        miscellaneous charges...........                       4
25.2  Other services....................                     212         307
25.3  Purchases of goods and services 
        from Government accounts........                     212         286
26.0  Supplies and materials............                       2           7
31.0  Equipment.........................                      11           7
32.0  Land and structures...............                       9           3
41.0  Grants, subsidies, and 
        contributions...................                      18
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............                     492         626
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                              Personnel Summary

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1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......                     239         185
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Promote and Develop Fishery Products and Research Pertaining to American 
                                Fisheries

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
10.00 Total obligations.................          13           5           3
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
      Unobligated balance available, start of year:

21.40   Uninvested......................          13           2
21.41   U.S. Securities: Par value......           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
21.99     Total unobligated balance, 
            start of year...............          14           2
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......                       3           3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......          14           5           3
23.95 New obligations...................         -13          -5          -3
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           2
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

41.00   Transferred to other accounts...         -66         -62         -62
      Permanent:

62.00   Transferred from other accounts.          66          66          66
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................                       3           3
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
      Unpaid obligations, start of year:

        Obligated balance:
72.40     Uninvested....................           7          12           4
72.41     U.S. Securities: Par value....                       1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
72.99     Total unpaid obligations, 
            start of year...............           7          13           4
73.10 New obligations...................          13           5           3
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............          -7         -14          -6
      Unpaid obligations, end of year:

        Obligated balance:
74.40     Uninvested....................          12           4           1
74.41     U.S. Securities: Par value....           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
74.99     Total unpaid obligations, end 
            of year.....................          13           4           1
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................                       2           2
86.98 Outlays from permanent balances...           7          12           4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........           7          14           6
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................                       3           3
90.00 Outlays...........................           7          14           6
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    An amount equal to 30 percent of the gross receipts from customs 
duties on imported fishery products is transferred to the Department of 
Commerce annually.

    The American Fisheries Promotion Act (AFPA) of 1980 authorized a 
grants program for fisheries research and development projects and a 
National Fisheries Research and Development Program to be carried out 
with Saltonstall-Kennedy (S-K) funds. These funds are used to enhance 
the productivity and improve the sustainable yield of domestic marine 
fisheries resources.

    Fisheries Promotional Fund.--The Fish and Seafood Promotion Act of 
1986 (Title II of Public Law 99-659) provided for the establishment of 
the National Seafood Promotional Council and the Fisheries Promotional 
Fund to carry out the provisions of the Act. The National Council was 
terminated on December 31, 1991. Reauthorization is not proposed and any 
activity will be limited to the administration of unobligated balances 
and contract monitoring from previous years' appropriations.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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25.2  Other services....................           2
26.0  Supplies and materials............           1
41.0  Grants, subsidies, and 
        contributions...................           9           4           3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..          12           4           3
99.5  Below reporting threshold.........           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............          13           5           3
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                              Personnel Summary

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1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......           5           5           5
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                      Fishermen's Contingency Fund

    For carrying out the provisions of title IV of Public Law 95-372, 
not to exceed $953,000, to be derived from receipts collected pursuant 
to that Act, to remain available until expended. (Department of Commerce 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)

              Unavailable Collections (in millions of dollars)

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    Balance, start of year:
01.99 Balance, start of year............                       1           1
    Receipts:
02.01 Fees, fishing vessel and gear.....           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
04.00 Total: Balances and collections...           1           1           1
07.99 Total balance, end of year........           1           1           1
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               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
10.00 Total obligations (object class 
        42.0)...........................                       1           1
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
      Unobligated balance available, start of year:

21.40   Uninvested......................                       1
21.41   U.S. Securities: Par value......           1           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
21.99     Total unobligated balance, 
            start of year...............           1           2           1
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......           1           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......           2           3           2
23.95 New obligations...................                      -1          -1
      Unobligated balance available, end of year:

24.40   Uninvested......................           1
24.41   U.S. Securities: Par value......           1           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
24.99   Total unobligated balance, end 
          of year.......................           2           1           1
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
40.05 Appropriation (indefinite)........           1           1           1
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
73.10 New obligations...................                       1           1
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............                      -3          -1
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority                       1           1
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....                       2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........                       3           1
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................           1           1           1
90.00 Outlays...........................                       3           1
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    Fishermen's Contingency Fund.--This program provides compensation to 
commercial fishermen for damages to or loss of fishing gear, including 
loss of profits, related to oil and gas exploration, development, and 
production on the Outer Continental Shelf. The fund is supported by 
assessments to holders of leases, permits, easements, and rights of way 
in areas of the Outer Continental Shelf. The fund was established in 
1978.

    Fishing Vessel and Gear Damage Compensation Fund.--No foreign 
fishing vessel surcharges have been collected since 1984. The funding 
will be totally depleted by the end of 1998, terminating the fund.

                              Personnel Summary

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1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......           1           1           1
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                      Coastal Zone Management Fund

    Of amounts collected pursuant to section 308 of the Coastal Zone 
Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1456a), not to exceed [$7,800,000] 
$4,000,000, for purposes set forth in sections 308(b)(2)(A), and 
308(b)(2)(B)(v)[, and 315(e)] of such Act. (Department of Commerce and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)

              Unavailable Collections (in millions of dollars)

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    Balance, start of year:
01.99 Balance, start of year............           6           4           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
03.00 Offsetting Collections............           4           1           1
04.00 Total: Balances and collections...          10           5           2
    Appropriation:
05.01 Coastal zone management fund......          -6          -4          -1
07.99 Total balance, end of year........           4           1           1
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               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
00.01 CZM administration................           4           5           4
00.02 Grants............................           4           3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............           8           8           4
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......           8           8           4
23.95 New obligations...................          -8          -8          -4
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Spending authority from offsetting 
          collections:

68.00   Offsetting collections (cash)...           5           5           4
68.26   Offsetting collections 
          (unavailable balances)........           6           4           1
68.45   Portion not available for 
          obligation (limitation on 
          obligations)..................          -4          -1          -1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
68.90     Spending authority from 
            offsetting collections 
            (total).....................           8           8           4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................           8           8           4
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           5           4
73.10 New obligations...................           8           8           4
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............          -8         -12          -4
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           4
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................           5           8           4
86.98 Outlays from permanent balances...           3           4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........           8          12           4
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

88.40   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Non-Federal sources.....          -5          -5          -4
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................           3           3
90.00 Outlays...........................           3           7
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    This fund was established by the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization 
Amendments of 1990 (CZARA). The fund consists

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of loan repayments from the former Coastal Energy Impact Program. The 
proceeds are to be used to cover Coastal Zone Management program 
administration expenses. Any receipts remaining are to be used for 
grants and demonstration projects as authorized by Section 308 of the 
Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA). 

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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11.1  Personnel compensation: Full-time 
        permanent.......................           3           3           3
12.1  Civilian personnel benefits.......           1           1           1
41.0  Grants, subsidies, and 
        contributions...................           3           3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..           7           7           4
99.5  Below reporting threshold.........           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............           8           8           4
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                              Personnel Summary

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1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......          47          49          49
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            Damage Assessment and Restoration Revolving Fund

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code 13-4316-0-3-304      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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    Obligations by program activity:
09.01 Reimbursable program..............                       3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations (object class 
          25.2).........................                       3
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......          13           3
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......           1           1
22.21 Unobligated balance transferred to 
        other accounts..................         -16          -2          -1
22.22 Unobligated balance transferred 
        from other accounts.............           5           2           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......           3           4
23.95 New obligations...................                      -3
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           3
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
61.00 Transferred to other accounts.....          -2          -5          -5
62.00 Transferred from DOI..............           1           4           3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
63.00   Appropriation (total)...........          -1          -2          -2
68.00 Spending authority from offsetting 
        collections: Offsetting 
        collections (cash)..............           2           2           2
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Change in unpaid obligations:
73.10 New obligations...................                       3
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............                      -3
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.98 Outlays from permanent balances...                       3
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

88.40   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Non-Federal sources.....          -2          -2          -2
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................          -1          -1          -2
90.00 Outlays...........................          -2           1          -2
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 stipulated that sums recovered from 
awards or settlements for natural resource damages to NOAA trust 
resources shall be retained in a revolving trust account to permit NOAA 
to carry out (1) oil and hazardous materials contingency planning and 
response, (2) natural resource damage assessment, and (3) restoration or 
replacement of injured or lost natural resources. For a comprehensive 
description of the Prince William Sound Restoration Program, refer to 
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Natural Resource Damage Assessment 
account. The 1998 and 1999 estimates of budget authority transferred 
from other accounts are preliminary and subject to change. NOAA will 
utilize funds transferred to this account to respond to hazardous 
materials spills in the coastal and marine environments, by conducting 
damage assessments, providing scientific support during litigation, and 
using recovered damages to restore injured resources.

                                

                    Fisheries Finance Program Account

    For the cost of direct loans, [$338,000] $238,000, as authorized by 
the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, as amended: Provided, That such costs, 
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in 
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, 
That none of the funds made available under this heading may be used for 
direct loans for any new fishing vessel that will increase the 
harvesting capacity in any United States fishery. (Department of 
Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           1           1
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............                      -1
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....                       1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................
90.00 Outlays...........................                       1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Summary of Loan Levels, Subsidy Budget Authority and Outlays by Program (in 
                            millions of dollars)

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    Direct loan levels supportable by subsidy 
                budget authority:
1150  Direct loan levels................          25          34          24
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
1159    Total direct loan levels........          25          34          24
    Direct loan subsidy (in percent):
1320  Subsidy rate......................        0.00        1.00        1.00
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
1329    Weighted average subsidy rate...        0.00        1.00        1.00
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    This account was established in 1992 to cover the subsidy costs of 
guaranteed loans (pre-1997) and direct loans (post-1996) obligated or 
committed subsequent to October 1, 1991, as authorized by the Merchant 
Marine Act of 1936 as amended.

                                

                  Fisheries Finance, Financing Account

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
00.01 Direct loans......................          25          34          24
00.02 Interest payment to Treasury......           2           2           4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............          27          36          28
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
22.00 New financing authority (gross)...          27          36          28

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23.95 New obligations...................         -27         -36         -28
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    New financing authority (gross), detail:
67.15 Authority to borrow (indefinite)..          25          34          24
68.00 Spending authority from offsetting 
        collections: Offsetting 
        collections (cash)..............           2           2           4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new financing authority 
          (gross).......................          27          36          28
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...                      25
73.10 New obligations...................          27          36          28
73.20 Total financing disbursements 
        (gross).........................          -2         -61         -28
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          25
87.00 Total financing disbursements 
        (gross).........................           2          61          28
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Offsets:
      Against gross financing authority and 
          financing disbursements:

        Offsetting collections (cash) 
            from:
88.00     Federal sources...............          -2
88.40     Non-Federal sources...........                      -2          -4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
88.90       Total, offsetting 
              collections (cash)........          -2          -2          -4
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net financing authority and financing 
        disbursements:
89.00 Financing authority...............          25          34          24
90.00 Financing disbursements...........                      59          24
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

               Status of Direct Loans (in millions of dollars)

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    Position with respect to appropriations act 
                limitation on obligations:
1111  Limitation on direct loans........
1131  Direct loan obligations exempt 
        from limitation.................          25          34          24
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
1150    Total direct loan obligations...          25          34          24
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    Cumulative balance of direct loans 
                outstanding:
1210  Outstanding, start of year........                                  57
1231  Disbursements: Direct loan 
        disbursements...................                      59          24
1251  Repayments: Repayments and 
        prepayments.....................                      -2          -4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
1290    Outstanding, end of year........                      57          77
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    This account was established in 1997 to cover the financing of 
direct loans as authorized by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation 
and Management Act. Funds are not used for purposes which would 
contribute to the overcapitalization of the fishing industry.

                             Balance Sheet (in millions of dollars)

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    ASSETS:
1101  Federal assets: Fund balances with 
        Treasury........................                         25
1206  Non-Federal assets: Receivables, 
        net.............................                                       57             77
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
1999    Total assets....................                         25            57             77
    LIABILITIES:
2101  Federal liabilities: Accounts 
        payable.........................                         25            57             77
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
2999    Total liabilities...............                         25            57             77
    NET POSITION:
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
3999    Total net position..............
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
4999  Total liabilities and net position                         25            57             77
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        Fishing Vessel Obligations Guarantees--Financing Account

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code 13-4314-0-3-376      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Obligations by program activity:
10.00 Total obligations.................           3
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......           5           4           4
22.00 New financing authority (gross)...           3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......           8           4           4
23.95 New obligations...................          -3
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           4           4           4
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    New financing authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

47.05   Authority to borrow (indefinite)           1
      Permanent:

68.00   Spending authority from 
          offsetting collections: 
          Offsetting collections (cash).           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new financing authority 
          (gross).......................           3
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           1           1
73.10 New obligations...................           3
73.20 Total financing disbursements 
        (gross).........................          -3          -1
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...           1
87.00 Total financing disbursements 
        (gross).........................           3           1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Offsets:
      Against gross financing authority and 
          financing disbursements:

88.40   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Non-Federal sources.....          -2
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net financing authority and financing 
        disbursements:
89.00 Financing authority...............           1
90.00 Financing disbursements...........           1           1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

             Status of Guaranteed Loans (in millions of dollars)

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    Position with respect to appropriations act 
                limitation on commitments:
2111  Limitation on guaranteed loans 
        made by private lenders.........
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
2150    Total guaranteed loan 
          commitments...................
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    Cumulative balance of guaranteed loans 
                outstanding:
2210  Outstanding, start of year........          79          94         105
2231  Disbursements of new guaranteed 
        loans...........................          23          20
2251  Repayments and prepayments........          -8          -9          -9
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
2290    Outstanding, end of year........          94         105          96
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    Memorandum:
2299  Guaranteed amount of guaranteed 
        loans outstanding, end of year..          94         105          96
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    This account was established in 1992 to cover the financing of 
guaranteed loans obligated or committed subsequent to October 1, 1991 as 
authorized by the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 as amended. Funds are not 
used for purposes which would contribute to the overcapitalization of 
the fishing industry.

                             Balance Sheet (in millions of dollars)

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    ASSETS:
1101  Federal assets: Fund balances with 
        Treasury........................                          6             4              4
1206  Non-Federal assets: Receivables, 
        net.............................                          3
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------

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1999    Total assets....................                          9             4              4
    LIABILITIES:
2103  Federal liabilities: Debt.........                          2
      Non-Federal liabilities:

2204    Liabilities for loan guarantees.                          6             4              4
2207    Other...........................                          1
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
2999    Total liabilities...............                          9             4              4
    NET POSITION:
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
3999    Total net position..............
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
4999  Total liabilities and net position                          9             4              4
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    Federal Ship Financing Fund, Fishing Vessels Liquidating Account

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code 13-4417-0-3-376      1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Obligations by program activity:
10.00 Total obligations (object class 
        33.0)...........................           5           1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
      Unobligated balance available, start of year:

21.40   Uninvested......................          -4           6
21.41   U.S. Securities: Par value......           8           9
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
21.99     Total unobligated balance, 
            start of year...............           4          15
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......          16           1
22.40 Capital transfer to general fund..                     -15
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......          20           1
23.95 New obligations...................          -5          -1
      Unobligated balance available, end of year:

24.40   Uninvested......................           6
24.41   U.S. Securities: Par value......           9
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
24.99   Total unobligated balance, end 
          of year.......................          15
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

40.05   Appropriation (indefinite)......                       1
      Permanent:

68.00   Spending authority from 
          offsetting collections: 
          Offsetting collections (cash).          16
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................          16           1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Change in unpaid obligations:
      Unpaid obligations, start of year:

        Obligated balance:
72.40     Uninvested....................          12          -1
          U.S. Securities:
72.41       Par value...................                      11
72.42       Unrealized discounts........                      -1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
72.99     Total unpaid obligations, 
            start of year...............          12           9
73.10 New obligations...................           5           1
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............          -8         -10
      Unpaid obligations, end of year:

        Obligated balance:
74.40     Uninvested....................          -1
          U.S. Securities:
74.41       Par value...................          11
74.42       Unrealized discounts........          -1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
74.99     Total unpaid obligations, end 
            of year.....................           9
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority                       1
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................           9
86.98 Outlays from permanent balances...                       9
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........           8          10
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

88.40   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Non-Federal sources.....         -16
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................                       1
90.00 Outlays...........................          -9          10
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             Status of Guaranteed Loans (in millions of dollars)

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    Cumulative balance of guaranteed loans 
                outstanding:
2210  Outstanding, start of year........         107          85          72
2251  Repayments and prepayments........         -23         -13         -12
2261  Adjustments: Terminations for 
        default that result in loans 
        receivable......................           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
2290    Outstanding, end of year........          85          72          60
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    Memorandum:
2299  Guaranteed amount of guaranteed 
        loans outstanding, end of year..          85          72          60
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    Addendum:
      Cumulative balance of defaulted guaranteed 
          loans that result in loans receivable:

2310    Outstanding, start of year......          23          24          24
2331    Disbursements for guaranteed 
          loan claims...................           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
2390      Outstanding, end of year......          24          24          24
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    Premiums and fees collected under the Fishing Vessel Obligations 
Guarantee program for loan commitments made prior to October 1, 1991 are 
deposited in this fund for operations of this program, loans, and for 
use in case of default. Proceeds from the sale of collateral also are 
deposited in the fund for defaults on loans committed prior to October 
1, 1991 (46 U.S.C. 1272, 1273(f), and 1274).

                        Statement of Operations (in millions of dollars)

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0101  Revenue...........................           6              4
0102  Expense...........................                         -4
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
0109  Net income or loss (-)............           6
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
0199  Net income or loss................           6
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                             Balance Sheet (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code   13-4417-0-3-376    1996 actual    1997 actual     1998 est.      1999 est.
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    ASSETS:
1101  Federal assets: Fund balances with 
        Treasury........................          16             25             9              9
1206  Non-Federal assets: Receivables, 
        net.............................           9             13             3              3
1701  Net value of assets related to 
        pre-1992 direct loans receivable 
        and acquired defaulted 
        guaranteed loans receivable: 
        Defaulted guaranteed loans, 
        gross...........................          30             33            20             20
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
1999    Total assets....................          55             71            32             32
    LIABILITIES:
2104  Federal liabilities: Resources 
        payable to Treasury.............          41             48            32             32
2201  Non-Federal liabilities: Accounts 
        payable.........................          14             23
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
2999    Total liabilities...............          55             71            32             32
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
4999  Total liabilities and net position          55             71            32             32
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                       PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

                              Federal Funds

General and special funds:

                          Salaries and Expenses

    [For necessary expenses of the Patent and Trademark Office provided 
for by law, including defense of suits instituted against the 
Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, $691,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of this amount, $664,000,000 
shall be derived from offsetting collections assessed and collected 
pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 1113 and 35 U.S.C. 41 and 376 and shall

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be retained and used for necessary expenses in this appropriation: 
Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated from the General Fund 
shall be reduced as such offsetting collections are received during 
fiscal year 1998, so as to result in a final fiscal year 1998 
appropriation from the General Fund estimated at $0: Provided further, 
That during fiscal year 1998, should the total amount of offsetting fee 
collections be less than $664,000,000, the total amounts available to 
the Patent and Trademark Office shall be reduced accordingly: Provided 
further, That any fees received in excess of $664,000,000 in fiscal year 
1998 shall remain available until expended, but shall not be available 
for obligation until October 1, 1998: Provided further, That the 
remaining $27,000,000 shall be derived from deposits in the Patent and 
Trademark Office Fee Surcharge Fund as authorized by law and shall 
remain available until expended.]
    For necessary expenses of the Patent and Trademark Office, including 
defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents and 
Trademarks, $603,526,000 to be derived from fees charged pursuant to 15 
U.S.C. 1113 and 35 U.S.C. 41 and 376, which shall be credited to this 
account as offsetting collections and remain available until expended: 
Provided That, That from fees collected in this fiscal year and balances 
of prior year fees, $116,342,000 shall be rescinded no later than June 
30, 1999: Provided further, That any remaining balance of fees collected 
in fiscal year 1999 shall remain available until expended, but shall not 
become available until October 1, 1999. (Department of Commerce and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)

              Unavailable Collections (in millions of dollars)

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    Balance, start of year:
01.99 Balance, start of year............         142         196         354
    Receipts:
02.01 Patent and Trademark surcharges...         115         119
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
03.00 Offsetting Collections............                      66
04.00 Total: Balances and collections...         257         381         354
    Appropriation:
05.01 Salaries and expenses.............         -61         -27         -66
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
05.99 Subtotal appropriation............         -61         -27         -66
07.99 Total balance, end of year........         196         354         288
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               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
      Direct program:

00.01   Patent process..................          50          22
00.02   Information dissemination.......           6           3
00.03   Executive direction and 
          administration................           5           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
01.00   Total direct program............          61          27
09.01 Patent process....................         484         491         441
09.02 Trademark process.................          67          84          81
09.03 Information dissemination.........          61          65          50
09.04 Executive direction and 
        administration..................          43          45          32
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
09.99   Total reimbursable program......         655         685         604
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............         716         712         604
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......          26          21
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......         702         691         604
22.10 Resources available from 
        recoveries of prior year 
        obligations.....................           8
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......         737         712         604
23.95 New obligations...................        -716        -712        -604
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............          21
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

40.20   Appropriation (special fund, 
          definite).....................          61          27
40.36   Unobligated balance rescinded...                                -116
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
43.00     Appropriation (total).........          61          27        -116
      Permanent:

        Spending authority from 
            offsetting collections:
68.00     Offsetting collections (cash).         641         730         654
68.26     Offsetting collections 
            (unavailable balances)......                                  66
68.45     Portion not available for 
            obligation (limitation on 
            obligations)................                     -66
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
68.90       Spending authority from 
              offsetting collections 
              (total)...................         641         664         720
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................         702         691         604
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...         288         311         397
73.10 New obligations...................         716         712         604
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............        -685        -626        -579
73.45 Adjustments in unexpired accounts.          -8
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...         311         397         422
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority          61          27
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....         -17
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................         404         418         381
86.98 Outlays from permanent balances...         237         181         198
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........         685         626         579
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    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

88.40   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Non-Federal sources.....        -641        -730        -654
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................          61         -39         -50
90.00 Outlays...........................          44        -104         -75
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                 Summary of Budget Authority and Outlays

                        (in millions of dollars)

                                     1997 actual  1998 est.   1999 est.
Enacted/requested:
  Budget Authority..................          61         -39         -50
  Outlays...........................          44        -104         -75
Legislative proposal, not subject to 
    PAYGO:
  Budget Authority..................
  Outlays...........................                                 -67
                                    ------------------------------------
Total:
  Budget Authority..................          61         -39         -50
  Outlays...........................          44        -104        -142
                                    ====================================

    Prior to the enactment of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 
(OBRA) of 1990, about two-thirds of Office operating costs were 
recovered through user fee revenues. This Act established a surcharge on 
patent user fees as a substitute for General Fund revenues.

    Fees in 1998 are estimated to be $849 million, of which $92 million 
has not been appropriated to the Office, contributing to Federal deficit 
reduction. With the surcharge expiring at the end of 1998, legislation 
will be proposed to set the Office's base fee structure for 1999. Based 
on that proposal, fees in 1999 are estimated to be $836 million in new 
collections and $66 million from previously unavailable collections, for 
total resources of $902 million. Of this, $116 million will be returned 
to the Treasury for deficit reduction. If the PTO legislative proposal 
to revise patent fees is not enacted into law, then the Administration 
will need to reduce the proposed rescission.

    The following table shows the total proposed program and FTE levels 
for the Patent and Trademark Office.

                     Summary of Program Obligations

                [Budget authority in millions of dollars]

                                        1997
                                       actual   1998 estimat1999 proposed
Patent process......................         534         513         590
Trademark process...................          67          84          81
Information dissemination...........          67          68          69
Executive direction and 
administration......................          48          47          46
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Total program level.................         716         712         786
                                    ====================================
    Total full-time equivalent 
      employment....................       5,134       5,528       6,358

    During 1999, the Office will operate through three distinct business 
lines:

    Patent Business.--The activities under this business include all 
functions in the patent application processing pipeline, including the 
initial administrative examination of patent applications, the 
processing of patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation 
Treaty, the formal examination of patent applications to determine the 
patentability of a claimed invention, the post-examination processing 
and printing of allowed patents, the review for quality, and the quasi-
judicial review in appeal and interference proceedings. Other ancillary 
functions of the Patent Business are the classification, documentation 
and search systems, and the maintenance of a scientific and technical 
library.

    The 1999 program level provides adequate resources for achieving the 
principal goal of achieving 12-month cycle time for 75 percent of 
inventions filed by enlarging the cadre of examiners, streamlining 
application processing, incrementally automating patent processing and 
implementing process reengineering.

    Key Patent Business quantity and quality measures are:

                                                 1996 actual 1997 actual  1998 est.   1999 est.
Applications in Office (start of year)..........     341,823     359,431     349,540     373,205
Applications received...........................     191,087     220,773     232,000     243,000
Application disposals by examiners..............    -180,196    -196,688    -194,600    -218,700
Change in printing inventory....................       6,717     -33,976     -13,735        -107
                                                ------------------------------------------------
Total applications in Office (end of year)......     359,431     349,540     373,205     397,398
Patent grants printed...........................     105,529     112,646     142,663     144,971
Total pendency in Office, all applications (in 
    months).....................................        20.8        22.2        22.7        20.9

    Trademark Business.--The activities under this business include the 
examination of trademark applications to determine whether the statutory 
criteria for the Federal registration of a trade or service mark are 
met. The Office issues notices of allowance and certificates of 
registration based on a trademark attorney's determination. Trademark 
application processing functions also include inter parte proceedings 
involving oppositions, cancellations, and ex parte proceedings.

    The 1999 program level provides for staffing increases to achieve 
the primary business goal of reducing pendency from filing to first 
action to 3 months. The Trademark Business proposes to achieve this goal 
by focusing on the process, the customer and the employee. Planned 
activities for 1999 include the implementation of process reengineering 
and leveraging information technology to incrementally automate the 
examination process. Focused training of employees and improving 
communication with customers are also an integral part of the activities 
planned for 1999.

    Key Trademark Business effectiveness and quality measures are:
                                                 1996 actual 1997 actual  1998 est.   1999 est.
Applications in Office (start of year)..........     320,250     351,336     396,285     430,000
Applications received (includes amendments and 
    combined classes)...........................     200,640     224,355     250,000     275,000
Disposals by examiners..........................    -180,034    -220,183    -265,800    -294,900
Change in printing inventory....................      10,480      40,777      49,515      44,900
                                                ------------------------------------------------
Total applications in Office--end of year.......     351,336     396,285     430,000     455,000
Trademark registrations printed.................      91,339     112,509     125,000     137,500
Pending time to first action (in months)........         5.9         6.4         5.9         4.9
Pending time to registration/abandonment (in 
    months).....................................        16.5        15.4        16.5        15.5

    Information Dissemination Business.--The activities under this 
business serve the fundamental purpose of patent and trademark laws to 
disclose new technologies and to provide public notice concerning 
intellectual property rights. Information dissemination functions 
include the maintenance of public search rooms, the provision of copies 
and certified copies of patents, trademark registrations, and other 
official documents and the recordation of assignments of patent and 
trademark rights.

    The 1999 program level will enable customers to use the Internet to 
request the status of their patent and trademark applications, to place 
orders and receive products, and to access patent and trademark data 
bases when they are in a Patent and Trademark Depository Library.

    Policy.--The primary function of this activity is to advise, assist, 
promote and provide expertise in the area of intellectual property 
rights. The 1999 program level provides resources for the Office to 
pursue administrative and legislative reforms that resolve problems, 
continue improvements and maximize efficiencies to ensure the continued 
vitality of the patent and trademark systems.

    Corporate Support.--This activity includes the administrative and 
infrastructure functions in support of the business and policy 
operations of the Office. The 1999 commitments address the Office's 
immediate and long-term space requirements, and maintenance of the 
information technology infrastructure necessary for patent, trademark 
and information dissemination operations and provision of essential 
administrative, financial and human resource services.

    Performance Measures.--Activities under this account support all 
three themes of the Commerce Strategic Plan:

        Theme: Build for the future and promote U.S. competitiveness in 
    the global marketplace, by strengthening and safeguarding the 
    nation's economic infrastructure

        Goal: Help protect, promote, and expand intellectual property 
    rights systems throughout the United States and abroad
                                        1997         1998        1999
Effectiveness measure:
  Number of countries provided 
    technical assistance in 
    intellectual property rights 
    systems.........................          47          47          52

        Theme: Keep America competitive with cutting-edge science and 
    technology and an unrivaled information base

        Goal: Promote awareness of, and access to, patent and trademark 
    information.
                                        1997         1998        1999
Quality of output measure:
  Percent of key products and 
    services meeting schedules or 
    cycle time standards............          63          63          80

        Theme: Provide effective management and stewardship of our 
    Nation's resources and assets to ensure sustainable economic 
    opportunities

        Goals: (1) Grant exclusive rights, for limited times, to 
    inventors for their discoveries. (2) Enhance trademark protection
                                        1997         1998        1999
Quality of output measure:
  Percent of original patent 
    inventions achieving 12-month 
    cycle time Office processing 
    time............................          50          55          75
  Average pendency (Office 
    processing time) of a trademark 
    application from receipt to 
    first action....................         5.9         5.9         3.9

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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      Direct obligations:

        Personnel compensation:
11.1      Full-time permanent...........          23          11
11.3      Other than full-time permanent           1
11.5      Other personnel compensation..           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
11.9        Total personnel compensation          25          12
12.1    Civilian personnel benefits.....           5           3
23.1    Rental payments to GSA..........           5           2
23.3    Communications, utilities, and 
          miscellaneous charges.........           1           1
24.0    Printing and reproduction.......           3           1
25.2    Other services..................          18           7
26.0    Supplies and materials..........           1
31.0    Equipment.......................           3           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..          61          27

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99.0  Reimbursable obligations..........         655         685         604
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............         716         712         604
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                              Personnel Summary

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    Direct:
1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......         411         166
    Reimbursable:
2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......       4,723       5,362       4,997
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                          Salaries and Expenses

              (Legislative proposal, not subject to PAYGO)

    Upon enactment of authorization to increase fees collected pursuant 
to 35 U.S.C. 41, such fees may be collected and credited to this account 
as offsetting collections: Provided, That not to exceed $182,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, shall be available for authorized 
purposes.

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
09.01 Patent process....................                                 149
09.03 Information dissemination.........                                  19
09.04 Executive direction and 
        administration..................                                  14
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
09.99   Total reimbursable program......                                 182
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............                                 182
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......                                 182
23.95 New obligations...................                                -182
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
68.00 Spending authority from offsetting 
        collections (gross): Offsetting 
        collections (cash)..............                                 182
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
73.10 New obligations...................                                 182
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............                                -115
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...                                  67
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................                                 115
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    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

88.40   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Non-Federal sources.....                                -182
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................
90.00 Outlays...........................                                 -67
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    The surcharge on certain patent fees, established in the Omnibus and 
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 and extended in the Omnibus and Budget 
Reconciliation Act of 1993, will expire at the end of 1998. The Patent 
and Trademark Office requires legislation to increase the statutory fees 
charged for patent products and services so that patent fee revenues 
continue to cover the costs of patent processing and related services.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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99.0  Reimbursable obligations: 
        Subtotal, reimbursable 
        obligations.....................                                 182
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............                                 182
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                              Personnel Summary

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2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......                               1,361
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                        TECHNOLOGY ADMINISTRATION

                              Federal Funds

General and special funds:

       Under Secretary for Technology/Office of Technology Policy

                          salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses for the Under Secretary for Technology/Office 
of Technology Policy, [$8,500,000] $9,993,000, of which not to exceed 
[$1,600,000] $1,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
[1999] 2000. (Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
00.01 Direct program....................           9           8          10
09.01 Reimbursable program..............           4           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............          13           9          10
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......          14           9          10
23.95 New obligations...................         -13          -9         -10
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

40.00   Appropriation...................          10           8          10
      Permanent:

        Spending authority from 
            offsetting collections:
68.00     Offsetting collections (cash).           3           1
68.10     Change in orders on hand from 
            Federal sources.............           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
68.90       Spending authority from 
              offsetting collections 
              (total)...................           4           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................          14           9          10
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
      Unpaid obligations, start of year:

72.40   Obligated balance: Uninvested...           9          14           2
72.95   Orders on hand from Federal 
          sources.......................                       1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
72.99     Total unpaid obligations, 
            start of year...............           9          15           3
73.10 New obligations...................          13           9          10
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............          -8         -22         -10
      Unpaid obligations, end of year:

74.40   Obligated balance: Uninvested...          14           2           3
74.95   Orders on hand from Federal 
          sources.......................           1           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
74.99     Total unpaid obligations, end 
            of year.....................          15           3           4
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority           2           5           7
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....           2          15           3
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................           4           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........           8          22          10
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    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

88.00   Offsetting collections (cash) 
          from: Federal sources.........          -3          -1
88.95 Change in orders on hand from 
        Federal sources.................          -1
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................          10           8          10
90.00 Outlays...........................           4          21          10
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    The Technology Administration (TA) is the focal point for civilian 
technology and competitiveness issues within the Administration. TA is 
the primary agency within the Federal Government with the sole mission 
to work in partnership with the private sector to improve U.S. 
industrial competitiveness and to exercise leadership as the private 
sector's advocate.

    The Under Secretary for Technology oversees three agencies within 
TA: the Office of Technology Policy (OTP), the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, and the National Technical Information 
Service.

    The Under Secretary and the Office of Technology Policy are 
responsible for coordinating a National technology policy. The Under 
Secretary fulfills this role in part by chairing the high-level 
coordinating committee overseeing the Partnership for a New Generation 
of Vehicles Initiative (PNGV), a unique Government-wide, 10-year 
partnership between the Federal Government and the big three automakers. 
The Under Secretary serves on the Executive Committee of the Committee 
on Technological Innovation (CTI) within the President's National 
Science and Technology Council. The CTI pursues industry defined and led 
activities relating to research and development in the areas of 
materials, construction and building, manufacturing infrastructure, 
electronics and automotive technologies.

    OTP works to promote technology development and commercialization by 
serving as the Federal Government's primary advocate for innovation and 
industrial competitiveness, analyst of civilian technology issues, and 
incubator for new models of domestic and international technology 
cooperation. OTP administers the National Medal of Technology, a 
Presidential award program that celebrates America's spirit of 
innovation and recognizes excellence in technological innovation and 
commercialization.

    In addition, OTP will continue with its highly successful 
Partnership for Competitive Economy (PACE) initiative. In partnership 
with state and local government, business and academia, OTP conducts 
PACE conferences around the country to maintain a dialogue on how best 
to help companies compete in the global economy. In 1999, TA proposes to 
strengthen its experimental program to foster the development of 
technology assets in states and regions traditionally under-represented 
in Federal research and development.

    TA also houses the Office of Air and Space Commercialization which 
provides advice and counsel for promoting economic conditions that 
foster commercial space development and provides assistance in 
coordinating the Department's activities related to the commercial space 
industry, ecouraging private sector investment in space.

    Performance Measures.--The activities under this account support two 
themes of the Commerce Strategic Plan:

        Themes: Economic Infrastructure and Science/Technology/
    Information
        To coordinate interagency efforts to enhance industry 
    competitiveness in partnership with industry, academia and the 
    states, monitor and assess international R&D and barriers faced by 
    U.S. industrial sectors, and develop policy options in partnership 
    with industry, academia and the states.

                                      1997 act.   1998 est.   1999 est.
Partnership analyses................           6          11          13
Industrial outreach mechanisms......           2           9          11

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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      Direct obligations:

        Personnel compensation:
11.1      Full-time permanent...........           2           2           2
11.3      Other than full-time permanent           1           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
11.9        Total personnel compensation           3           3           3
12.1    Civilian personnel benefits.....           1           1           1
23.1    Rental payments to GSA..........           1           1           1
25.2    Other services..................           1           1           1
25.3    Purchases of goods and services 
          from Government accounts......           1           1           1
41.0    Grants, subsidies, and 
          contributions.................           2           1           3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..           9           8          10
99.0  Reimbursable obligations..........           4           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............          13           9          10
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                              Personnel Summary

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    Direct:
1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......          44          48          50
    Reimbursable:
2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......           2
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                 NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION SERVICE

                              Federal Funds

Intragovernmental funds:

                           NTIS Revolving Fund

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
09.01 Reimbursable program..............          38          85          90
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............          38          85          90
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......           3           2           2
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......          37          85          90
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......          40          87          92
23.95 New obligations...................         -38         -85         -90
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           2           2           2
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Spending authority from offsetting 
          collections:

68.00   Offsetting collections (cash)...          39          85          90
68.15   Adjustment to orders on hand 
          from Federal sources..........          -2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
68.90     Spending authority from 
            offsetting collections 
            (total).....................          37          85          90
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................          37          85          90
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          38          38          38
73.10 New obligations...................          38          85          90
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............         -40         -87         -88
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          38          38          41
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................           2          47          50
86.98 Outlays from permanent balances...          38          40          38
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........          40          87          88
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    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

        Offsetting collections (cash) 
            from:
88.00     Federal sources...............         -22         -42         -44
88.40     Non-Federal sources...........         -17         -43         -46
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
88.90       Total, offsetting 
              collections (cash)........         -39         -85         -90
88.96 Adjustment to orders on hand from 
        Federal sources.................           2
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................
90.00 Outlays...........................           1           2          -2
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    The National Technical Information Service (NTIS), a component of 
the Technology Administration, operates this revolving fund for the 
payment of all expenses incurred in performing the activities of the 
NTIS, which include the acquisition and public sale of domestic and 
foreign federally funded research, development, and engineering reports 
and associated business information.

    Performance Measures.--The activities under this account support the 
Science and Technology Leadership theme under the Commerce Strategic 
Plan. The first objective is to play a leadership role in assisting 
Federal agencies with dissemination of their scientific, technical and 
business information.

                                      1997 act.   1998 est.   1999 est.
Information products catalogued and 
indexed.............................     109,453     120,000     120,000
Items in Archive....................   2,661,365   2,781,365   2,901,365
Products distributed................   1,558,179   1,401,490   1,437,000

    The second objective is to provide services and infrastructure to 
organize scientific, technical, and business-related information and 
deliver to customers through effective systems.

                                      1997 act.   1998 est.   1999 est.
Documents stored electronically.....      44,290     175,000     425,000
Documents reproduced from 
electronically stored media.........      78,481     150,000     300,000
System access (monthly).............  15,273,953  23,000,000  25,000,000

                        Statement of Operations (in millions of dollars)

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0101  Revenue...........................          50             40            85             90
0102  Expense...........................         -50            -43           -85            -90
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
0109  Net income or loss (-)............                         -3
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                             Balance Sheet (in millions of dollars)

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Identification code   13-4295-0-3-376    1996 actual    1997 actual     1998 est.      1999 est.
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    ASSETS:
      Federal assets:

1101    Fund balances with Treasury.....          41             40            41             40
        Investments in US securities:
1106      Receivables, net..............           4                            2              1
1206  Non-Federal assets: Receivables, 
        net.............................           1              2             1              1
      Other Federal assets:

1802    Inventories and related 
          properties....................           3              5             2              1
1803    Property, plant and equipment, 
          net...........................          12              6            12              7
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
1999    Total assets....................          61             53            58             50
    LIABILITIES:
2101  Federal liabilities: Accounts 
        payable.........................          13             11            13             11
      Non-Federal liabilities:

2201    Accounts payable................          13             12            13             12
2207    Other...........................          16             16            13             14
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
2999    Total liabilities...............          42             39            39             37
    NET POSITION:
3100  Appropriated capital..............                         11                           10
3300  Cumulative results of operations..          19              3            19              3
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
3999    Total net position..............          19             14            19             13
                                        ------------ --------------  ------------  -------------
4999  Total liabilities and net position          61             53            58             50
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               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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      Personnel compensation:

11.1    Full-time permanent.............          14          16          15
11.5    Other personnel compensation....           1                       1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
11.9      Total personnel compensation..          15          16          16
12.1  Civilian personnel benefits.......           3           4           4
22.0  Transportation of things..........           1           1           1
23.1  Rental payments to GSA............           2           1           3
23.3  Communications, utilities, and 
        miscellaneous charges...........           2           3           3
24.0  Printing and reproduction.........           1           5           5
25.2  Other services....................          10          39          37
25.3  Purchases of goods and services 
        from Government accounts........           1           8          10
25.7  Operation and maintenance of 
        equipment.......................           1           2           3
26.0  Supplies and materials............           1           3           4
31.0  Equipment.........................           1           3           4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............          38          85          90
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                              Personnel Summary

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2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......         378         424         424
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                         SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

             NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY

                              Federal Funds

General and special funds:

             Scientific and Technical Research and Services

    For necessary expenses of the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology, [$276,852,000] $291,636,000, to remain available until 
expended, [of which not to exceed $3,800,000 shall be used to fund a 
cooperative agreement with Texas Tech University for wind research; and 
of which not to exceed $5,000,000 of the amount above $268,000,000 shall 
be used to fund a cooperative agreement with Montana State University 
for a research program on green buildings; and] of which not to exceed 
[$1,625,000] $1,800,000 may be transferred to the ``Working Capital 
Fund''. (15 U.S.C. 272, 273, 278b-e, 278h, 290b-f, 1151-57, 1454(d), 
1454(e), 1501, 1512; 40 U.S.C. 759(f); 42 U.S.C. 4913(1)(B), 6962(e); 
Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
      Operating expenses:

        Measurement and engineering 
            research and standards:
00.01     Electronics and electrical 
            engineering.................          36          36          39
00.02     Manufacturing engineering.....          19          19          19
00.03     Chemical science and 
            technology..................          32          32          39
00.04     Physics.......................          27          29          29
00.05     Materials science and 
            engineering.................          60          52          52
00.06     Building and fire research....          15          17          16
00.07     Computer science and applied 
            mathematics.................          43          44          44
00.08     Technology assistance.........          16          15          19
00.09     National quality program......           3           3           5
00.10     Research support activities...          29          31          29
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............         280         278         291
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......          16           5
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......         268         272         290
22.10 Resources available from 
        recoveries of prior year 
        obligations.....................           2           1           1
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23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......         286         278         291
23.95 New obligations...................        -280        -278        -291
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           5
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
40.00 Appropriation.....................         268         277         292
40.79 Line item veto cancellation.......                      -5
41.00 Transferred to other accounts.....                                  -2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
43.00   Appropriation (total)...........         268         272         290
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................         268         272         290
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          66          80          70
73.10 New obligations...................         280         278         291
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............        -264        -287        -288
73.45 Adjustments in unexpired accounts.          -2          -1          -1
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          80          70          72
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority         213         209         223
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....          51          78          65
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........         264         287         288
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................         268         272         290
90.00 Outlays...........................         264         287         288
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    The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is 
responsible for the measurement foundation that supports U.S. industry, 
government, and scientific establishments. NIST's intramural research 
program is funded by the Scientific and Technical Research and Services 
appropriation.

    Measurement and engineering research and standards.--
        Electronics and electrical engineering.--This includes 
    infrastructure research efforts to support the fundamental 
    electronic technologies of semiconductors, magnetics, and 
    superconductors; information and communications technologies, such 
    as fiber optics, photonics, microwaves, and video; electrical power 
    systems; the advanced manufacturing of electronics products; 
    electronic measurement instrumentation; and provision of the 
    physical standards for electricity.
        Manufacturing engineering.--This encompasses research in high 
    precision dimensional measurement and precision engineering; 
    robotics and intelligent machines; manufacturing data description, 
    data administration, and information processing; and advanced 
    sensors for manufacturing processes.
        Chemical science and technology.--This covers fundamental 
    investigations of measurement-based phenomena related to the 
    composition and behavior of chemical and biochemical systems. This 
    research includes developing and improving measurement capability 
    and quantitative understanding of the underlying physical principles 
    of measurement science.
        Physics.--This includes investigation of the structure and 
    dynamics of atoms, molecules, and micro- or nanoscale structures and 
    the development of high performance sensors, instrumentation, 
    measurement methods, and standards for time, frequency, and optical 
    and ionizing radiation.
        Materials science and engineering.--This covers research in 
    materials characterization, nondestructive evaluation, metallurgy, 
    polymers, and ceramics and addresses the measurement, standards and 
    technological issues required to stimulate the more effective 
    production and use of materials.
        Building and fire research.--This includes research and 
    development of technologies to predict, measure, and test the 
    performance of construction materials, components, systems, and 
    practices, and to investigate the scientific principles that govern 
    the phenomena of fire initiation, propagation, and suppression.
        Computer science and applied mathematics.--This includes 
    development and demonstration of evaluation techniques, testing 
    methods, and standards to enable usable, reliable, and interoperable 
    computer and telecommunications systems; and provides leadership and 
    collaborative research in the application and use of mathematics, 
    statistics and computer science, and support of computing and 
    telecommunications services.
        Technology assistance.--This provides a central source of 
    information and assistance for U.S. industry, academia, and 
    government regarding national and international standardization 
    certification, and conformity assessment activities and provides, on 
    a reimbursable basis, centralized access to critically needed 
    services, including Standard Reference Materials, Standard Reference 
    Data, calibration and legal metrology services, and laboratory 
    accreditation programs.
        National Quality Program.--This extends U.S. competitiveness 
    through quality technology development, information transfer, and 
    administration of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
        Research support activities.--This area groups centrally managed 
    activities which provide support to all other NIST programs. This 
    support includes competence development in NIST mission-oriented 
    areas of research, high caliber postdoctoral scientists and 
    engineers, and computing support for research programs.

    Funding for NIST's Scientific and Technical Research Services is 
proposed as part of the Research Fund for America. This proposal 
highlights the Administration's priority to provide needed and sustained 
investments in important Federal research programs on a deficit neutral 
basis. A discussion of the Research Fund for America, and two other 
funds for the environment and transportation, can be found in Chapter 6.

    Performance Measures.--The activities under this account support two 
themes of the Commerce Strategic Plan:

        Themes: Economic Infrastructure and Science/Technology/
    Information

    Provide technical leadership for the Nation's measurement and 
standards infrastructure. NIST is using the ``alternative format'' for 
GPRA implemention, review/external assessment and on-going economic 
impact studies of its R&D activities for 1997-1999.

    Assist U.S. businesses in continuously improving their productivity 
and efficiency utilizing the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 
framework, core values, criteria and assessment methods:
                                      1997 act.   1998 est.   1999 est.
Number of quality award programs 
nation-wide based on NIST's Malcolm 
Baldrige Award......................          56          60          65

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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      Personnel compensation:

11.1    Full-time permanent.............         113         121         128
11.3    Other than full-time permanent..           9          10          10
11.5    Other personnel compensation....           4           4           4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
11.9      Total personnel compensation..         126         135         142
12.1  Civilian personnel benefits.......          26          27          29
21.0  Travel and transportation of 
        persons.........................           6           6           7
22.0  Transportation of things..........           1           1           1
23.2  Rental payments to others.........           3           3           3
23.3  Communications, utilities, and 
        miscellaneous charges...........          10          10          12
24.0  Printing and reproduction.........           1           1           1
25.1  Advisory and assistance services..           2           2           1
25.2  Other services....................          28          27          28
25.3  Purchases of goods and services 
        from Government accounts........           9           6           7
25.5  Research and development contracts           2           1           3
25.7  Operation and maintenance of 
        equipment.......................           4           4           4
26.0  Supplies and materials............          27          16          17

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31.0  Equipment.........................          22          22          22
41.0  Grants, subsidies, and 
        contributions...................          13          17          13
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..         280         278         290
99.5  Below reporting threshold.........                                   1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............         280         278         291
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                              Personnel Summary

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1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......       2,025       2,098       2,156
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                     Industrial Technology Services

    For necessary expenses of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership of 
the National Institute of Standards and Technology, [$113,500,000] 
$106,800,000, to remain available until expended, [of which not to 
exceed $300,000 may be transferred to the ``Working Capital Fund'']: 
Provided, That notwithstanding the time limitations imposed by 15 U.S.C. 
278k(c) (1) and (5) on the duration of Federal financial assistance that 
may be awarded by the Secretary of Commerce to Regional Centers for the 
transfer of Manufacturing Technology (``Centers''), such Federal 
financial assistance for a Center may continue beyond six years and may 
be renewed for additional periods, not to exceed one year, at a rate not 
to exceed one-third of the Center's total annual costs or the level of 
funding in the sixth year, whichever is less, subject before any such 
renewal to a positive evaluation of the Center and to a finding by the 
Secretary of Commerce that continuation of Federal funding to the Center 
is in the best interest of the Regional Centers for the transfer of 
Manufacturing Technology Program: Provided further, That the Center's 
most recent performance evaluation is positive, and the Center has 
submitted a reapplication which has successfully passed merit review.
     In addition, for necessary expenses of the Advanced Technology 
Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
[$192,500,000] $259,891,000, to remain available until expended, [of 
which not to exceed $82,000,000 shall be available for the award of new 
grants, and] of which not to exceed $500,000 may be transferred to the 
``Working Capital Fund''. (15 U.S.C. 278k, 278l, 278n; Department of 
Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
      Extramural programs:

00.01   Advanced technology program.....         253         199         269
00.02   Manufacturing extension 
          partnership...................          98         114         107
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00     Total obligations.............         351         313         376
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......          45          16           9
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......         313         306         367
22.10 Resources available from 
        recoveries of prior year 
        obligations.....................           9           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......         367         323         376
23.95 New obligations...................        -351        -313        -376
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............          16           9
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
40.00 Appropriation.....................         320         306         367
40.15 Appropriation (emergency).........          -7
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
43.00   Appropriation (total)...........         313         306         367
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................         313         306         367
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...         559         584         574
73.10 New obligations...................         351         313         376
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............        -316        -323        -326
73.45 Adjustments in unexpired accounts.          -9          -1
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...         584         574         624
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority          46          30          37
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....         270         293         289
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........         316         323         326
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................         313         306         367
90.00 Outlays...........................         316         323         326
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    This appropriation supports the extension of technology to American 
industry and fosters the development of broad-based high-risk technology 
by industry.

    Extramural programs.
        Advanced technology program.--The ATP is the focus of a national 
    effort to help accelerate the commercialization of broad-based, high 
    risk technologies with significant commercial potential. The ATP is 
    a merit-based, rigorously competitive, cost-shared partnership 
    program which provides assistance to U.S. businesses and joint R&D 
    ventures to help them improve their competitive position. The 
    program resources will be used for general and focused technology 
    areas chosen in cooperation with industry and having significant 
    potential for stimulating U.S. economic growth.
        Manufacturing extension partnership.--The MEP program emphasizes 
    NIST's role in transferring developed technologies to small- and 
    medium-sized business through Government-industry partnerships and 
    extension services and by improving the competitiveness of existing 
    American business.

    Performance Measures.--The activities under this account support one 
theme of the Commerce Strategic Plan:

        Theme: Economic Infrastructure
        To stimulate U.S. economic growth by developing high-risk and 
    enabling technologies through industry-driven cost-shared 
    partnerships, and to support a nationwide system of manufacturing 
    extension services that will improve the global competitiveness of 
    U.S. small manufacturers.

                                      1997 act.   1998 est.   1999 est.
Number of ATP technologies under 
commercialization...................          60         120         160
Anticipated increase in client sales 
resulting from MEP projects (dollars 
in millions)........................         214         305         389

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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      Personnel compensation:

11.1    Full-time permanent.............          20          22          23
11.3    Other than full-time permanent..           2           2           1
11.5    Other personnel compensation....                                   1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
11.9      Total personnel compensation..          22          24          25
12.1  Civilian personnel benefits.......           4           5           5
21.0  Travel and transportation of 
        persons.........................           1           1           1
23.2  Rental payments to others.........           1           1           1
23.3  Communications, utilities, and 
        miscellaneous charges...........           3           3           3
25.1  Advisory and assistance services..           3           3           3
25.2  Other services....................           6           5          11
25.3  Purchases of goods and services 
        from Government accounts........           6           5           9
26.0  Supplies and materials............           2           2           2
31.0  Equipment.........................           2           2           2
41.0  Grants, subsidies, and 
        contributions...................         300         259         312
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..         350         310         374
99.5  Below reporting threshold.........           1           3           2
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99.9    Total obligations...............         351         313         376
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1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......         352         391         393
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                   Construction of Research Facilities

    For construction of new research facilities, including architectural 
and engineering design, and for renovation of existing facilities, not 
otherwise provided for the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology, as authorized by 15 U.S.C. 278c-278e, [$95,000,000] 
$16,714,000, to remain available until expended[: Provided, That of the 
amounts provided under this heading, $78,308,000 shall be available for 
obligation and expenditure only after submission of a plan for the 
expenditure of these funds, in accordance with section 605 of this Act].
    In addition, for construction of an advanced measurement laboratory 
in Gaithersburg, Maryland, to become available on October 1 of the 
fiscal year specified and remain available until expended: fiscal year 
1999, $40,000,000; fiscal year 2000, $40,000,000; fiscal year 2001, 
$40,000,000; and fiscal year 2002, $35,000,000. (Department of Commerce 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
10.00 Total obligations.................          22         104          57
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......          46           9
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......         -16          95          57
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......          30         104          57
23.95 New obligations...................         -22        -104         -57
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           9
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
40.00 Appropriation.....................                      95          57
40.36 Unobligated balance rescinded.....         -16
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
43.00   Appropriation (total)...........         -16          95          57
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................         -16          95          57
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          81          54         127
73.10 New obligations...................          22         104          57
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............         -49         -31         -37
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          54         127         147
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority           4          11           7
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....          45          20          30
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........          49          31          37
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................         -16          95          57
90.00 Outlays...........................          49          31          37
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    This appropriation supports the renovation of NIST's current 
buildings and laboratories to comply with more stringent science and 
engineering requirements.

    Funding for construction of NIST research facilities is proposed as 
part of the Research Fund for America. This proposal highlights the 
Administration's priority to provide needed and sustained investments in 
important Federal research programs on a deficit neutral basis. A 
discussion of the Research Fund for America can be found in Chapter 6.

    The request includes funding for construction of an Advanced 
Measurement Laboratory at NIST's main campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. 
The 5-wing complex will provide stringent controls for particulate 
matter, temperature, vibration, and humidity that are unattainable in 
current NIST buildings, and equal or better than similar labs overseas. 
Such conditions are vital for NIST to keep pace with rapid developments 
in semiconductors, precision instruments, industrial robots, computers, 
chemicals, pharmaceuticals, building materials, and emerging 
technologies requiring molecular and atomic-level precision.

    The total project cost of $218 million is based on single phase 
construction over four years from existing designs. Funding is derived 
from $63 million in fiscal year 1998 funds, $40 million in fiscal year 
1999, and advance appropriations of $40 million in 2000, $40 million in 
2001, and $35 million in 2002. Projected completion is in late 2002.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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11.1  Personnel compensation: Full-time 
        permanent.......................           1           2           2
25.2  Other services....................          20          43          19
26.0  Supplies and materials............           1           1           1
32.0  Land and structures...............                      58          35
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............          22         104          57
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1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......          21          33          33
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Intragovernmental funds:

                          Working Capital Fund

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
      Measurement and engineering research and 
          standards:

        Measurement and engineering 
            research and standards:
09.01     Electronics and electrical 
            engineering.................          14          15          15
09.02     Manufacturing engineering.....           9           9           9
09.03     Chemical science and 
            technology..................          14          15          16
09.04     Physics.......................          13          13          14
09.05     Material science and 
            engineering.................           9           8           8
09.06     Building and fire research....           9           9           9
09.07     Computer science and applied 
            mathematics.................          10          12          12
09.08     Technology Assistance.........          18          19          19
09.11     National quality program......           2           2           2
09.12     Research support activities...          16           9           9
09.14     Manufacturing extension 
            partnership.................           3           2           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00       Total obligations...........         117         113         115
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......          49          39          39
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......         107         113         115
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......         156         152         154
23.95 New obligations...................        -117        -113        -115
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............          39          39          39
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

42.00   Transferred from other accounts.                                   2
      Permanent:

68.00   Spending authority from 
          offsetting collections: 
          Offsetting collections (cash).         107         113         113
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................         107         113         115
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          81          40          31
73.10 New obligations...................         117         113         115
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............        -159        -121        -117
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          40          31          30
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority                                   1
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................         107         113         113
86.98 Outlays from permanent balances...          52           8           3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........         159         121         117
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    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

        Offsetting collections (cash) 
            from:
88.00     Federal sources...............         -69         -72         -72
88.40     Non-Federal sources...........         -38         -41         -41
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
88.90       Total, offsetting 
              collections (cash)........        -107        -113        -113
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................                                   2
90.00 Outlays...........................          52           8           4
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    The Working capital fund finances research and technical services 
performed for other government agencies and the public. These activities 
are funded through advances and reimbursements. The Working capital fund 
also finances the acquisition of equipment and finances the acquisition 
of standard reference materials and storeroom inventories until issued 
or sold.

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      Personnel compensation:

11.1    Full-time permanent.............          40          42          42
11.3    Other than full-time permanent..           3           3           3
11.5    Other personnel compensation....           1           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
11.9      Total personnel compensation..          44          46          46
12.1  Civilian personnel benefits.......           9           9           9
21.0  Travel and transportation of 
        persons.........................           2           2           2
23.2  Rental payments to others.........           1           1           1
23.3  Communications, utilities, and 
        miscellaneous charges...........           4           4           4
25.2  Other services....................          17          14          14
25.3  Purchases of goods and services 
        from Government accounts........           7           7           7
25.5  Research and development contracts           4           4           4
25.7  Operation and maintenance of 
        equipment.......................                       1           1
26.0  Supplies and materials............          10           6           6
31.0  Equipment.........................          10           9          11
41.0  Grants, subsidies, and 
        contributions...................           9           9           9
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, reimbursable 
            obligations.................         117         112         114
99.5  Below reporting threshold.........                       1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............         117         113         115
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2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......         727         733         713
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       NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION

                              Federal Funds

General and special funds:

                          Salaries and Expenses

    For necessary expenses, as provided for by law, of the National 
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), [$16,550,000] 
$10,940,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1535(d), the Secretary of Commerce shall 
charge Federal agencies for costs incurred in spectrum management, 
analysis, and operations, and related services and such fees shall be 
retained and used as offsetting collections for costs of such spectrum 
services, to remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
hereafter, notwithstanding any other provision of law, NTIA shall not 
authorize spectrum use or provide any spectrum functions pursuant to the 
NTIA Organization Act, 47 U.S.C. Sec. 902-903, to any Federal entity 
without reimbursement as required by NTIA for such spectrum management 
costs, and Federal entities withholding payment of such cost shall not 
use spectrum: Provided further, That the Secretary of Commerce is 
authorized to retain and use as offsetting collections all funds 
transferred, or previously transferred, from other Government agencies 
for all costs incurred in telecommunications research, engineering, and 
related activities by the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of 
the NTIA, in furtherance of its assigned functions under this paragraph, 
and such funds received from other Government agencies shall remain 
available until expended. (15 U.S.C. 1512, 1532; 47 U.S.C. Secs. 305, 
606, 701 et seq., 721, and 744; Department of Commerce and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)

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    Obligations by program activity:
      Direct program:

        Domestic and international 
            policies:
00.01     Domestic policies.............           2           2           2
00.02     International policies........           3           4           2
00.03   Spectrum plans and policies.....           2           2           2
00.04   Spectrum management, analysis 
          and operations................           6           6           1
        Spectrum management:
          Spectrum management:
00.05       Spectrum research and 
              analysis..................           2           2           2
00.06       Systems and networks 
              research and analysis.....           2           1           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
00.91     Total direct program..........          17          17          11
09.01 Spectrum plans and policies.......           1           2           4
09.12 Spectrum management, analysis and 
        operations......................           4           6           9
09.23 Spectrum research and analysis....           4           3           3
09.24 Systems and networks research and 
        analysis........................           3           5           4
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
09.99   Total reimbursable program......          12          16          20
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............          29          33          31
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......                       1
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......          30          33          31
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......          30          34          31
23.95 New obligations...................         -29         -33         -31
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           1
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
      Current:

40.00   Appropriation...................          15          17          11
42.00   Transferred from other accounts.           3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
43.00     Appropriation (total).........          17          17          11
      Permanent:

68.00   Spending authority from 
          offsetting collections: 
          Offsetting collections (cash).          12          16          20
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
70.00   Total new budget authority 
          (gross).......................          30          33          31
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          12          13           3

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73.10 New obligations...................          29          33          31
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............         -28         -43         -31
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          13           3           3
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority          13          14           9
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....           3          13           3
86.97 Outlays from new permanent 
        authority.......................          12          16          20
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........          28          43          31
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    Offsets:
      Against gross budget authority and outlays:

        Offsetting collections (cash) 
            from:
88.00     Federal sources...............         -12         -15         -20
88.40     Non-Federal sources...........                      -1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
88.90       Total, offsetting 
              collections (cash)........         -12         -16         -20
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................          18          17          11
90.00 Outlays...........................          16          27          11
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    The National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
(NTIA) is the principal executive branch adviser to the President on 
domestic and international telecommunications policy. Additionally, it 
manages the Federal Government's use of the radio frequency spectrum and 
performs extensive research in telecommunications sciences.

    Domestic and international policies.--
        Domestic policies.--In 1999, NTIA will continue to develop and 
    advocate policies to improve and expand domestic telecommunications 
    services and markets so that the benefits of telecommunications are 
    more widely available to consumers. NTIA will advise White House 
    officials, coordinate with other Executive Branch agencies, and 
    participate in relevant Congressional actions and interagency and 
    FCC proceedings on a host of issues. NTIA will focus on developing 
    events, such as implementation of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. 
    NTIA will develop policies promoting universal, available and 
    affordable services to all Americans, and competition in 
    telecommunications and information markets. NTIA will make policy 
    recommendations in such areas as traditional common carrier 
    networks, wireless services and products, the mass media (including 
    advanced television), and information society issues arising from 
    the Internet and electronic commerce. NTIA will also develop and 
    implement policies required to safeguard personal privacy.
        International policies.--In 1999, NTIA will continue to 
    formulate and advocate policies for the advancement of U.S. 
    telecommunications priorities in the international 
    telecommunications policy and regulatory arena. NTIA will continue 
    to forcefully encourage the broad liberalization now taking hold 
    across the globe and creating significant opportunities for a 
    variety of U.S. telecommunications interests and enterprises. NTIA 
    will continue to place great emphasis on the international 
    development of electronic commerce as an essential element of the 
    emerging information society. In addition, NTIA will conduct 
    necessary implementation or other follow-up to the 1998 
    International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary 
    Conference and the World Trade Organization (WTO's) Group on Basic 
    Telecommunications (GBT) agreement. NTIA will continue its advocacy 
    of U.S. interests in other international and regional fora affecting 
    telecommunications standards, infrastructure development and market 
    access. NTIA also will represent executive branch concerns related 
    to international telecommunications regulation before the FCC. In 
    coordination with the Department of State and the FCC, the agency 
    will continue to discharge statutory responsibilities for oversight 
    of the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) in its role as 
    U.S. Signatory to INTELSAT and INMARSAT as these two organizations 
    consider options for restructuring.

    Spectrum Management.--
        Spectrum plans and policies.--In 1999, NTIA will continue to 
    manage and resolve problems associated with the government's 
    spectrum. In coordination with the FCC, NTIA will conduct long-range 
    strategic and federal private sector planning; prepare for, 
    participate in, and implement results of regional, national, and 
    international conferences on spectrum use and allocation; and 
    identify solutions to deficiencies in the emergency communications 
    planning process in support of the National Communication System 
    (NCS). NTIA will maintain the openness program that allows the 
    private sector to obtain information on the Federal Government's 
    spectrum use, comment on spectrum sharing issues, and provide 
    information on innovative radio communications developments.
        Spectrum management, analysis and operations.--In 1999, NTIA 
    will continue to authorize frequency assignments, review and certify 
    spectrum for proposed Federal radio communications systems, conduct 
    frequency band studies, and operate automated data facilities to 
    support these operations. NTIA will continue designing an automated 
    Federal spectrum management system to improve the process of 
    authorizing Federal frequency usage.

    Telecommunication Sciences Research.--
        Spectrum research and analysis.--In 1999, NTIA will resolve 
    certain frequency management problems by measuring environmental 
    radio signals. The agency will study and characterize the 
    propagation of radio waves in outdoor, man-made environments for 
    personal communications services (PCS); and study/characterize the 
    transmission channel for within-building, wireless local area 
    networks.
        Systems and networks research and analysis.--In 1999, NTIA will 
    prepare and coordinate proposed domestic and international 
    telecommunications standards, develop and demonstrate user-friendly 
    ways to assess the performance of industry and Government 
    telecommunications networks, evaluate future technologies that may 
    facilitate competition in the U.S. telecommunications industry, 
    promote international trade opportunities for U.S. 
    telecommunications firms and improve the cost effectiveness of 
    Government telecommunications use.

    Performance measures.--Activities under this account support the 
three themes (competitiveness, science and technology, and effective 
management of our nation's resources) of the Commerce Strategic Plan, 
including goals on developing and promoting policies and plans for use 
of the radio spectrum and promoting advanced telecommunications and 
information technology.

        Goal: Implement policy and plans to manage and conserve Federal 
    use of the radio spectrum considering the national interest.
        Output: Identify new technologies and their performance 
    limitations and applicability to government operations.

                                        1997         1998        1999
Outcome Measure:
  Problem resolution sessions 
    conducted to resolve spectrum 
    coordination, use and 
    authorization issues............          71          74          74
  Engineering reviews conducted for 
    future radio communications 
    systems.........................          60          80          80

    A more detailed presentation of goals, objectives and performance 
measures is found in the Commerce Strategic Plan.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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      Direct obligations:

11.1    Personnel compensation: Full-
          time permanent................           8           8           6
12.1    Civilian personnel benefits.....           2           2           1
23.1    Rental payments to GSA..........           1           2           1

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25.2    Other services..................           1
25.3    Purchases of goods and services 
          from Government accounts......           3           4           1
26.0    Supplies and materials..........           1
31.0    Equipment.......................           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..          17          16           9
99.0  Reimbursable obligations..........          12          16          19
99.5  Below reporting threshold.........                       1           3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............          29          33          31
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    Direct:
1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......         120         106          96
    Reimbursable:
2001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......         102         138         145
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Public [Broadcasting] Telecommunications Facilities[, Planning and 
    Construction] and Digital Broadcasting Applications
    For grants authorized by section 392 of the Communications Act of 
1934, as amended, [$21,000,000] $15,000,000, to remain available until 
expended as authorized by section 391 of the Act, as amended: Provided, 
That not to exceed 10 percent of the funds made available under this 
heading, but not less than $1,500,000, shall be available for program 
administration as authorized by section 391 of the Act: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding the provisions of section 391 of the Act, 
the prior year unobligated balances of the Public Broadcasting 
Facilities, Planning, and Construction account may be made available for 
grants for projects for which applications have been submitted and 
approved during any fiscal year: Provided further, [That, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Pan-Pacific Education 
and Communication Experiments by Satellite (PEACESAT) Program is 
eligible to compete for Public Telecommunications Facilities, Planning 
and Construction funds] That these funds may be used to support the 
digital transition of public television and public radio broadcasters 
through competitive grants to demonstrate innovative, replicable 
applications of digital broadcasting in order to promote consolidation 
and efficiency within the public broadcasting system. (47 U.S.C. 
Secs. 305, 391, 392, 606, 721; Department of Commerce and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
00.01 Public Telecommunications 
        Facilities and Digital 
        Broadcasting Applications.......          15          21          13
00.02 Program management--PTFDBA........           2           2           2
00.03 Endowment for Children's 
        Educational TV--Program 
        Management......................                       1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............          17          24          15
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......           2           3
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......          15          21          15
22.10 Resources available from 
        recoveries of prior year 
        obligations.....................           2           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......          19          26          15
23.95 New obligations...................         -17         -24         -15
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           3
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
40.00 Public Telecommunications 
        Facilities and Digital 
        Broadcasting Applications.......          15          21          15
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
      Unpaid obligations, start of year:

        Obligated balance:
          Uninvested:
72.40       Public Telecommunications 
              Facilities and Digital 
              Broadcasting Applications.          38          34          34
72.40       Endowment for Children's 
              Educational Televison.....           2           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
72.99     Total unpaid obligations, 
            start of year...............          40          35          35
73.10 New obligations...................          17          24          15
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............         -20         -23         -23
73.45 Adjustments in unexpired accounts.          -2          -2
      Unpaid obligations, end of year:

        Obligated balance:
          Uninvested:
74.40       Public Telecommunications 
              Facilities and Digital 
              Broadcasting Applications.          34          34          28
74.40       Endowment for Children's 
              Educational Television....           1           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
74.99     Total unpaid obligations, end 
            of year.....................          35          35          29
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority           1           3           2
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....          19          20          21
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........          20          23          23
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................          15          21          15
90.00 Outlays...........................          20          23          23
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    The public telecommunications facilities and digital broadcast 
applications program awards competitive grants to noncommercial entities 
to demonstrate innovative, reliable applications of digital 
broadcasting.

    Performance measure.--Activities under this account support the 
three themes (competitiveness, science and technology, and effective 
management of our nation's resources) of the Commerce Strategic Plan, 
including goals on supporting the development of a national information 
infrastructure that will be accessible to all Americans.

                                        1997         1998        1999
Outcome Measure:
Maintain current level coverage of 
public broadcasting recipients 
through digital transition (in 
percent):...........................          95          95          95

    A more detailed presentation of goals, objectives and performance 
measures is found in the Commerce Strategic Plan.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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11.1  Personnel compensation: Full-time 
        permanent.......................           1           1           1
25.3  Purchases of goods and services 
        from Government accounts........                       1
41.0  Grants--Public facilities.........          16          21          13
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..          17          23          14
99.5  Below reporting threshold.........                       1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............          17          24          15
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1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......          13          13          13
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                    Information Infrastructure Grants

    For grants authorized by section 392 of the Communications Act of 
1934, as amended, [$20,000,000] $22,000,000, to remain available until 
expended as authorized by section 391 of the Act, as amended: Provided, 
That not to exceed $3,000,000 shall be available for pro

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gram administration and other support activities as authorized by 
section 391: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated herein, 
not to exceed 5 percent may be available for telecommunications research 
activities for projects related directly to the development of a 
national information infrastructure, including, but not limited to, 
evaluation of the program and the individual grants, and dissemination 
of such findings: Provided further, That, notwithstanding the 
requirements of section 392(a) and 392(c) of the Act, these funds may be 
used for the planning and construction of telecommunications networks 
for the provision of educational, cultural, health care, public 
information, public safety, or other social services. Department of 
Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)

               Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

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    Obligations by program activity:
00.01 Grants............................          21          18          19
00.02 Program management................           3           5           3
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
10.00   Total obligations...............          24          23          22
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    Budgetary resources available for obligation:
21.40 Unobligated balance available, 
        start of year: Uninvested.......           3           3
22.00 New budget authority (gross)......          21          20          22
22.10 Resources available from 
        recoveries of prior year 
        obligations.....................           2
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
23.90   Total budgetary resources 
          available for obligation......          26          23          22
23.95 New obligations...................         -24         -23         -22
24.40 Unobligated balance available, end 
        of year: Uninvested.............           3
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    New budget authority (gross), detail:
40.00 Appropriation.....................          21          20          22
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    Change in unpaid obligations:
72.40 Unpaid obligations, start of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          50          44          39
73.10 New obligations...................          24          23          22
73.20 Total outlays (gross).............         -28         -27         -25
73.45 Adjustments in unexpired accounts.          -2
74.40 Unpaid obligations, end of year: 
        Obligated balance: Uninvested...          44          39          37
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    Outlays (gross), detail:
86.90 Outlays from new current authority           2           1           2
86.93 Outlays from current balances.....          26          26          23
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
87.00   Total outlays (gross)...........          28          27          25
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    Net budget authority and outlays:
89.00 Budget authority..................          21          20          22
90.00 Outlays...........................          28          27          25
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    The Information Infrastructure Grants program (Telecommunications 
and Information Infrastructure Assistance program) is facilitating the 
development of the national telecommunications and information 
infrastructure by promoting the widespread availability and use of 
advanced telecommunications technologies to enhance the delivery of 
social services, such as education, health care, and public safety; and 
is supporting the formation of a nationwide, multimedia, high-speed, 
interactive infrastructure of varied information technologies. The 
program greatly leverages the Federal investment by providing grants for 
outstanding projects that can serve as national models, evaluating the 
projects, and broadly disseminating the project findings. By focusing on 
underserved communities in both rural and urban areas, the program helps 
to reduce disparities in access to the developing national information 
infrastructure.

    Performance measures.--Activities under this account support the 
three themes (competitiveness, science and technology, and effective 
management of our nation's resources) of the Commerce Strategic Plan, 
including goals on supporting the development of a National Information 
Infrastructure (NII) that will be accessible to all Americans.

                                        1997         1998        1999
Outcome Measure:
  Number of models that exist for 
    utilization of information 
    infrastructure for non-profit 
    and public service. Models will 
    focus on economic development, 
    education, lifelong learning, 
    health, public safety, local and 
    State government services, and 
    social and community services.           277         332         382

    A more detailed presentation of goals, objectives and performance 
measures is found in the Commerce Strategic Plan.

               Object Classification (in millions of dollars)

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11.1  Personnel compensation: Full-time 
        permanent.......................           1           1           1
25.3  Purchases of goods and services 
        from Government accounts........           1           3           1
41.0  Grants, subsidies, and 
        contributions...................          21          18          19
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.0      Subtotal, direct obligations..          23          22          21
99.5  Below reporting threshold.........           1           1           1
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
99.9    Total obligations...............          24          23          22
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                              Personnel Summary

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1001  Total compensable workyears: Full-
        time equivalent employment......          23          34          34
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                      GENERAL FUND RECEIPT ACCOUNTS

                           (in millions of dollars)

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                                         1997 actual   1998 est.   1999 est.
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Offsetting receipts from the public:
  13-225100  Fees for LANDSAT data, 
    public, NOAA, Commerce..............                                  11
  13-225200  Fees for maps and charts, 
    public, NOAA, Commerce..............          15           7           7
                                           ---------   ---------  ----------
General Fund Offsetting receipts from 
 the public.............................          15           7          18
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               GENERAL PROVISIONS--DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

    Sec. 201. During the current fiscal year, applicable appropriations 
and funds made available to the Department of Commerce by this Act shall 
be available for the activities specified in the Act of October 26, 1949 
(15 U.S.C. 1514), to the extent and in the manner prescribed by the Act, 
and, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3324, may be used for advanced payments 
not otherwise authorized only upon the certification of officials 
designated by the Secretary of Commerce that such payments are in the 
public interest.
    Sec. 202. During the current fiscal year, appropriations made 
available to the Department of Commerce by this Act for salaries and 
expenses shall be available for hire of passenger motor vehicles as 
authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 and 1344; services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109; and uniforms orallowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 
U.S.C. 5901-5902).
    Sec. 203. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to support the hurricane reconnaissance aircraft and activities that are 
under the control of the United States Air Force or the United States 
Air Force Reserve.
    [Sec. 204. None of the funds provided in this or any previous Act, 
or hereinafter made available to the Department of Commerce, shall be 
available to reimburse the Unemployment Trust Fund or any other fund or 
account of the Treasury to pay for any expenses paid before October 1, 
1992, as authorized by section 8501 of title 5, United States Code, for 
services performed after April 20, 1990, by individuals appointed to 
temporary positions within the Bureau of the Census for purposes 
relating to the 1990 decennial census of population.]
    Sec. [205] 204. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 
available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Commerce in 
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no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any 
such transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant to this section 
shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 605 of this 
Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except in 
compliance with the procedures set forth in that section.
    [Sec. 206. (a) Should legislation be enacted to dismantle or 
reorganize the Department of Commerce, or anyportion thereof, the 
Secretary of Commerce, no later than 90 days thereafter, shall submit to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House and the Senate a plan for 
transferring funds provided in this Act to the appropriate successor 
organizations: Provided, That the plan shall include a proposal for 
transferring or rescinding funds appropriated herein for agencies or 
programs terminated under such legislation: Provided further, That such 
plan shall be transmitted in accordance with section 605 of this Act.
    (b) The Secretary of Commerce or the appropriate head of any 
successor organization(s) may use any available funds to carry out 
legislation dismantling or reorganizing the Department of Commerce, or 
any portion thereof, to cover the costs of actions relating to the 
abolishment, reorganization, or transfer of functions and any related 
personnel action, including voluntary separation incentives if 
authorized by such legislation: Provided, That the authority to transfer 
funds between appropriations accounts that may be necessary to carry out 
this section is provided in addition to authorities included under 
section 205 of this Act: Provided further, That use of funds to carry 
out this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under 
section 605 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation or 
expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that 
section.]
    [Sec. 207. Any costs incurred by a Department or agency funded under 
this title resulting from personnel actions taken in response to funding 
reductions included in this title or from actions taken for the care and 
protection of loan collateral or grant property shall be absorbed within 
the total budgetary resources available to such Department or agency: 
Provided, That the authority to transfer funds between appropriations 
accounts as may be necessary to carry out this section is provided in 
addition to authorities included elsewhere in this Act: Provided 
further, That use of funds to carry out this section shall be treated as 
a reprogramming of funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not be 
available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the 
procedures set forth in that section.]
    Sec. [208] 205. The Secretary of Commerce may award contracts for 
hydrographic, geodetic, and photogrammetric surveying and mapping 
services in accordance with title IX of the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 541 et seq.).
    [Sec. 209. (a) Congress finds that--
        (1) it is the constitutional duty of the Congress to ensure that 
    the decennial enumeration of the population is conducted in a manner 
    consistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States;
        (2) the sole constitutional purpose of the decennial enumeration 
    of the population is the apportionment of Representatives in 
    Congress among the several States;
        (3) section 2 of the 14th article of amendment to the 
    Constitution clearly states that Representatives are to be 
    ``apportioned among the several States according to their respective 
    numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State'';
         (4) article I, section 2, clause 3 of the Constitution clearly 
    requires an ``actual Enumeration'' of the population, and section 
    195 of title 13, United States Code, clearly provides ``Except for 
    the determination of population for purposes of apportionment of 
    Representatives in Congress among the several States, the Secretary 
    shall, if he considers it feasible, authorize the use of the 
    statistical method known as `sampling' in carrying out the 
    provisions of this title.'';
        (5) the decennial enumeration of the population is one of the 
    most critical constitutional functions our Federal Government 
    performs;
        (6) it is essential that the decennial enumeration of the 
    population be as accurate as possible, consistent with the 
    Constitution and laws of the United States;
        (7) the use of statistical sampling or statistical adjustment in 
    conjunction with an actual enumeration to carry out the census with 
    respect to any segment of the population poses the risk of an 
    inaccurate, invalid, and unconstitutional census;
        (8) the decennial enumeration of the population is a complex and 
    vast undertaking, and if such enumeration is conducted in a manner 
    that does not comply with the requirements of the Constitution or 
    laws of the United States, it would be impracticable for the States 
    to obtain, and the courts of the United States to provide, 
    meaningful relief after such enumeration has been conducted; and
        (9) Congress is committed to providing the level of funding that 
    is required to perform the entire range of constitutional census 
    activities, with a particular emphasis on accurately enumerating all 
    individuals who have historically been undercounted, and toward this 
    end, Congress expects--
            (A) aggressive and innovative promotion and outreach 
        campaigns in hard-to-count communities;
            (B) the hiring of enumerators from within those communities;
            (C) continued cooperation with local government on address 
        list development; and
            (D) maximized census employment opportunities for 
        individuals seeking to make the transition from welfare to work.
    (b) Any person aggrieved by the use of any statistical method in 
violation of the Constitution or any provision of law (other than this 
Act), in connection with the 2000 or any later decennial census, to 
determine the population for purposes of the apportionment or 
redistricting of members in Congress, may in a civil action obtain 
declaratory, injunctive, and any other appropriate relief against the 
use of such method.
    (c) For purposes of this section--
        (1) the use of any statistical method as part of a dress 
    rehearsal or other simulation of a census in preparation for the use 
    of such method, in a decennial census, to determine the population 
    for purposes of the apportionment or redistricting of members in 
    Congress shall be considered the use of such method in connection 
    with that census; and
        (2) the report ordered by title VIII of Public Law 105-18 and 
    the Census 2000 Operational Plan shall be deemed to constitute final 
    agency action regarding the use of statistical methods in the 2000 
    decennial census, thus making the question of their use in such 
    census sufficiently concrete and final to now be reviewable in a 
    judicial proceeding.
    (d) For purposes of this section, an aggrieved person (described in 
subsection (b)) includes--
        (1) any resident of a State whose congressional representation 
    or district could be changed as a result of the use of a statistical 
    method challenged in the civil action;
        (2) any Representative or Senator in Congress; and
        (3) either House of Congress.
    (e)(1) Any action brought under this section shall be heard and 
determined by a district court of three judges in accordance with 
section 2284 of title 28, United States Code. The chief judge of the 
United States court of appeals for each circuit shall, to the extent 
practicable and consistent with the avoidance of unnecessary delay, 
consolidate, for all purposes, in one district court within that 
circuit, all actions pending in that circuit under this section. Any 
party to an action under this section shall be precluded from seeking 
any consolidation of that action other than is provided in this 
paragraph. In selecting the district court in which to consolidate such 
actions, the chief judge shall consider the convenience of the parties 
and witnesses and efficient conduct of such actions. Any final order or 
injunction of a United States district court that is issued pursuant to 
an action brought under this section shall be reviewable by appeal 
directly to the Supreme Court of the United States. Any such appeal 
shall be taken by a notice of appeal filed within 10 days after such 
order is entered; and the jurisdictional statement shall be filed within 
30 days after such order is entered. No stay of an order issued pursuant 
to an action brought under this section may be issued by a single 
Justice of the Supreme Court.
    (2) It shall be the duty of a United States district court hearing 
an action brought under this section and the Supreme Court of the United 
States to advance on the docket and to expedite to the greatest possible 
extent the disposition of any such matter.
    (f) Any agency or entity within the executive branch having 
authority with respect to the carrying out of a decennial census may in 
a civil action obtain a declaratory judgment respecting whether or not 
the use of a statistical method, in connection with such census, to 
determine the population for the purposes of the apportionment or 
redistricting of members in Congress is forbidden by the Constitution 
and laws of the United States.
    (g) The Speaker of the House of Representatives or the Speaker's 
designee or designees may commence or join in a civil action, for and on 
behalf of the House of Representatives, under any applicable law, to 
prevent the use of any statistical method, in connection with the 
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the apportionment or redistricting of members in Congress. It shall be 
the duty of the Office of the General Counsel of the House of 
Representatives to represent the House in such civil action, according 
to the directions of the Speaker. The Office of the General Counsel of 
the House of Representatives may employ the services of outside counsel 
and other experts for this purpose.
    (h) For purposes of this section and section 210--
        (1) the term ``statistical method'' means an activity related to 
    the design, planning, testing, or implementation of the use of 
    representative sampling, or any other statistical procedure, 
    including statistical adjustment, to add or subtract counts to or 
    from the enumeration of the population as a result of statistical 
    inference; and
        (2) the term ``census'' or ``decennial census'' means a 
    decennial enumeration of the population.
    (i) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the use of 
any statistical method, in connection with a decennial census, for the 
apportionment or redistricting of members in Congress.
    (j) Sufficient funds appropriated under this Act or under any other 
Act for purposes of the 2000 decennial census shall be used by the 
Bureau of the Census to plan, test, and become prepared to implement a 
2000 decennial census, without using statistical methods, which shall 
result in the percentage of the total population actually enumerated 
being as close to 100 percent as possible. In both the 2000 decennial 
census, and any dress rehearsal orother simulation made in preparation 
for the 2000 decennial census, the number of persons enumerated without 
using statistical methods must be publicly available for all levels of 
census geography which are being released by the Bureau of the Census 
for (1) all data releases before January 1, 2001, (2) the data contained 
in the 2000 decennial census Public Law 94-171 data file released for 
use in redistricting, (3) the Summary Tabulation File One (STF-1) for 
the 2000 decennial census, and (4) the official populations of the 
States transmitted from the Secretary of Commerce through the President 
to the Clerk of the House used to reapportion the districts of the House 
among the States as a result of the 2000 decennial census. 
Simultaneously with any other release or reporting of any of the 
information described in the preceding sentence through other means, 
such information shall be made available to the public on the Internet. 
These files of the Bureau of the Census shall be available concurrently 
to the release of the original files to the same recipients, on 
identical media, and at a comparable price. They shall contain the 
number of persons enumerated without using statistical methods and any 
additions or subtractions thereto. These files shall be based on data 
gathered and generated by the Bureau of the Census in its official 
capacity.
    (k) This section shall apply in fiscal year 1998 and succeeding 
fiscal years.]
    [Sec. 210. (a) There shall be established a board to be known as the 
Census Monitoring Board (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 
``Board'').
    (b) The function of the Board shall be to observe and monitor all 
aspects of the preparation and implementation of the 2000 decennial 
census (including all dress rehearsals and other simulations of a census 
in preparation therefor).
    (c)(1) The Board shall be composed of 8 members as follows:
        (A) 2 individuals appointed by the majority leader of the 
    Senate.
        (B) 2 individuals appointed by the Speaker of the House of 
    Representatives.
        (C) 4 individuals appointed by the President, of whom--
            (i) 1 shall be on the recommendation of the minority leader 
        of the Senate; and
            (ii) 1 shall be on the recommendation of the minority leader 
        of the House of Representatives.
All members of the Board shall be appointed within 60 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act. A vacancy in the Board shall be filled in 
the manner in which the original appointment was made.
    (2) Members shall not be entitled to any pay by reason of their 
service on the Board, but shall receive travel expenses, including per 
diem in lieu of subsistence, in accordance with sections 5702 and 5703 
of title 5, United States Code.
    (3) The Board shall have--
        (A) a co-chairman who shall be appointed jointly by the members 
    under subsection (c)(1)(A) and (B), and
        (B) a co-chairman who shall be appointed jointly by the members 
    under subsection (c)(1)(C).
    (4) The Board shall meet at the call of either co-chairman.
    (5) A quorum shall consist of 5 members of the Board.
    (6) The Board may promulgate any regulations necessary to carry out 
its duties.
    (d)(1) The Board shall have--
         (A) an executive director who shall be appointed jointly by the 
    members under subsection (c)(1)(A) and (B), and
        (B) an executive director who shall be appointed jointly by the 
    members under subsection (c)(1)(C),
each of whom shall be paid at a rate not to exceed level IV of the 
Executive Schedule.
    (2) Subject to such rules as the Board may prescribe, each executive 
director--
        (A) may appoint and fix the pay of such additional personnel as 
    that executive director considers appropriate; and
        (B) may procure temporary and intermittent services under 
    section 3109(b) of title 5, United States Code, but at rates for 
    individuals not to exceed the daily equivalent of the maximum annual 
    rate of pay payable for grade GS-15 of the General Schedule.
Such rules shall include provisions to ensure an equitable division or 
sharing of resources, as appropriate, between the respective staff of 
the Board.
    (3) The staff of the Board shall be appointed without regard to the 
provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments in the 
competitive service, and shall be paid without regard to the provisions 
of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title (relating 
to classification and General Schedule pay rates).
    (4) The Administrator of the General Services Administration, in 
coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, shall locate suitable 
office space for the operation of the Board in the W. Edwards Deming 
Building in Suitland, Maryland. The facilities shall serve as the 
headquarters of the Board and shall include all necessary equipment and 
incidentals required for the proper functioning of the Board.
    (e)(1) For the purpose of carrying out its duties, the Board may 
hold such hearings (at the call of either co-chairman) and undertake 
such other activities as the Board determines to be necessary to carry 
out its duties.
    (2) The Board may authorize any member of the Board or of its staff 
to take any action which the Board is authorized to take by this 
subsection.
    (3)(A) Each co-chairman of the Board and any members of the staff 
who may be designated by the Board under this paragraph shall be granted 
access to any data, files, information, or other matters maintained by 
the Bureau of the Census (or received by it in the course of conducting 
a decennial census of population) which they may request, subject to 
such regulations as the Board may prescribe in consultation with the 
Secretary of Commerce.
    (B) The Board or the co-chairmen acting jointly may secure directly 
from any other Federal agency, including the White House, all 
information that the Board considers necessary to enable the Board to 
carry out its duties. Upon request of the Board or both co-chairmen, the 
head of that agency (or other person duly designated for purposes of 
this paragraph) shall furnish that information to the Board.
    (4) The Board shall prescribe regulations under which any member of 
the Board or of its staff, and any person whose services are procured 
under subsection (d)(2)(B), who gains access to any information or other 
matter pursuant to this subsection shall, to the extent that any 
provisions of section 9 or 214 of title 13, United States Code, would 
apply with respect to such matter in the case of an employee of the 
Department of Commerce, be subject to such provisions.
    (5) Upon the request of the Board, the head of any Federal agency is 
authorized to detail, without reimbursement, any of the personnel of 
such agency to the Board to assist the Board in carrying out its duties. 
Any such detail shall not interrupt or otherwise affect the civil 
service status or privileges of the Federal employee.
    (6) Upon the request of the Board, the head of a Federal agency 
shall provide such technical assistance to the Board as the Board 
determines to be necessary to carry out its duties.
    (7) The Board may use the United States mails in the same manner and 
under the same conditions as Federal agencies and shall, for purposes of 
the frank, be considered a commission of Congress as described in 
section 3215 of title 39, United States Code.
    (8) Upon request of the Board, the Administrator of General Services 
shall provide to the Board on a reimbursable basis such administrative 
support services as the Board may request.
    (9) For purposes of costs relating to printing and binding, 
including the cost of personnel detailed from the Government Printing 
Office, the Board shall be deemed to be a committee of the Congress.
    (f)(1) The Board shall transmit to the Congress--

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        (A) interim reports, with the first such report due by April 1, 
    1998;
        (B) additional reports, the first of which shall be due by 
    February 1, 1999, the second of which shall be due by April 1, 1999, 
    and subsequent reports at least semiannually thereafter;
        (C) a final report which shall be due by September 1, 2001; and
        (D) any other reports which the Board considers appropriate.
The final report shall contain a detailed statement of the findings and 
conclusions of the Board with respect to the matters described in 
subsection (b).
    (2) In addition to any matter otherwise required under this 
subsection, each such report shall address, with respect to the period 
covered by such report--
        (A) the degree to which efforts of the Bureau of the Census to 
    prepare to conduct the 2000 census--
            (i) shall achieve maximum possible accuracy at every level 
        of geography;
            (ii) shall be taken by means of an enumeration process 
        designed to count every individual possible; and
            (iii) shall be free from political bias and arbitrary 
        decisions; and
        (B) efforts by the Bureau of the Census intended to contribute 
    to enumeration improvement, specifically, in connection with--
            (i) computer modernization and the appropriate use of 
        automation;
            (ii) address list development;
            (iii) outreach and promotion efforts at all levels designed 
        to maximize response rates, especially among groups that have 
        historically been undercounted (including measures undertaken in 
        conjunction with local government and community and other 
        groups);
            (iv) establishment and operation of field offices; and
            (v) efforts relating to the recruitment, hiring, and 
        training of enumerators.
    (3) Any data or other information obtained by the Board under this 
section shall be made available to any committee or subcommittee of 
Congress of appropriate jurisdiction upon request of the chairman or 
ranking minority member of such committee or subcommittee. No such 
committee or subcommittee, or member thereof, shall disclose any 
information obtained under this paragraph which is submitted to it on a 
confidential basis unless the full committee determines that the 
withholding of that information is contrary to the national interest.
    (4) The Board shall study and submit to Congress, as part of its 
first report under paragraph (1)(A), its findings and recommendations as 
to the feasibility and desirability of using postal personnel or private 
contractors to help carry out the decennial census.
    (g) There is authorized to be appropriated $4,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 1998 through 2001 to carry out this section.
    (h) To the extent practicable, members of the Board shall work to 
promote the most accurate and complete census possible by using their 
positions to publicize the need for full and timely responses to census 
questionnaires.
    (i)(1) No individual described in paragraph (2) shall be eligible--
        (A) to be appointed or to continue serving as a member of the 
    Board or as a member of the staff thereof; or
        (B) to enter into any contract with the Board.
    (2) This subsection applies with respect to any individual who is 
serving or who has ever served--
        (A) as the Director of the Census; or
        (B) with any committee or subcommittee of either House of 
    Congress, having jurisdiction over any aspect of the decennial 
    census, as--
            (i) a Member of Congress; or
            (ii) a congressional employee.
    (j) The Board shall cease to exist on September 30, 2001.
    (k) Section 9(a) of title 13, United States Code, is amended in the 
matter before paragraph (1) thereof by striking ``of thisP title--'' and 
inserting ``of this title or section 210 of the Departments of Commerce, 
Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1998--''.]
    [Sec. 211. (a) Section 401 of title 22, United States Code, is 
amended--
        (1) in subsection (a), by adding after the first sentence the 
    following: ``The Secretary of Commerce may seize and detain any 
    commodity (other than arms or munitions of war) or technology which 
    is intended to be or is being exported in violation of laws 
    governing such exports and may seize and detain any vessel, vehicle, 
    or aircraft containing the same or which has been used or is being 
    used in exporting or attempting to export such articles.''; and
        (2) in subsection (b), by adding the following after ``and not 
    inconsistent with the provisions hereof.''--
        ``However, with respect to seizures and forfeitures of property 
    under this section by the Secretary of Commerce, such duties as are 
    imposed upon the customs officer or any other person with respect to 
    the seizure and forfeiture of property under the customs law may be 
    performed by such officers as are designated by the Secretary of 
    Commerce or, upon the request of the Secretary of Commerce, by any 
    other agency that has authority to manage and dispose of seized 
    property.''
    (b) Section 524(c)(11)(B) of title 28, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end thereof ``or pursuant to the authority of 
the Secretary of Commerce''.]
    [Sec. 212. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Economic 
Development Administration is directed to transfer funds obligated and 
awarded to the Butte-Silver Bow Consolidated Local Government as Project 
Number 05-01-02822 to the Butte Local Development Corporation Revolving 
Loan Fund to be administered by the Butte Local Development Corporation, 
such funds to remain available until expended. And, in accordance with 
section 1557 of title 31, United States Code, funds obligated and 
awarded in fiscal year 1994 under the heading ``Economic Development 
Administration-Economic Development Assistance Programs'' for 
Metropolitan Dade County, Florida, and subsequently transferred to 
Miami-Dade Community College for Project No. 04-49-04021 shall be exempt 
from subchapter IV of chapter 15 of such title and shall remain 
available for expenditure without fiscal year limitation.]
    Sec. 206. The Secretary of Commerce may use the Commerce franchise 
fund for expenses and equipment necessary for the maintenance and 
operation of such administrative services as the Secretary determines 
may be performed more advantageously as central services, pursuant to 
section 403 of Public Law 103-356: Provided, That any inventories, 
equipment, and other assets pertaining to the services to be provided by 
such fund, either on hand or on order, less the related liabilities or 
unpaid obligations, and any appropriations made for the purpose of 
providing capital shall be used to capitalize such fund: Provided 
further, That such fund shall be paid in advance from funds available to 
the Department and other Federal agencies for which such centralized 
services are performed, at rates which will return in full all expenses 
of operation, including accrued leave, depreciation of fund plant and 
equipment, amortization of automated data processing (ADP) software and 
systems (either acquired or donated), and an amount necessary to 
maintain a reasonable operating reserve, as determined by the Secretary: 
Provided further, That such fund shall provide services on a competitive 
basis: Provided further, That an amount not to exceed four percent of 
the total annual income to such fund may be retained in the fund for 
fiscal year 1999 and each fiscal year thereafter, to remain available 
until expended, to be used for the acquisition of capital equipment, and 
for the improvement and implementation of Department financial 
management, ADP, and other support systems: Provided further, That no 
later than thirty days after the end of each fiscal year, amounts in 
excess of this reserve limitation shall be deposited as miscellaneous 
receipts in the Treasury: Provided further, That such franchise fund 
pilot shall terminate pursuant to section 403(f) of Public Law 103-356. 
(Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)

                                


 
                      TITLE VI--GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 601. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by the 
Congress.
    Sec. 602. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein.
    Sec. 603. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for 
any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 
U.S.C. 3109, 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. 604. If any provision of this Act or the application of such 
provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the 
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or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid shall 
not be affected thereby.
    Sec. 605. (a) None of the funds provided under this Act, or provided 
under previous appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act 
that remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 
[1998] 1999, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United 
States derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies 
funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds which: (1) creates new programs; (2) 
eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or 
personnel by any means for any project or activity for which funds have 
been denied or restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) 
reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; or (6) contracts out or 
privatizes any functions, or activities presently performed by Federal 
employees; unless the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of 
Congress are notified fifteen days in advance of such reprogramming of 
funds.
     (b) None of the funds provided under this Act, or provided under 
previous appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act that 
remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year [1998] 
1999, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States 
derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by 
this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure for 
activities, programs, or projects through a reprogramming of funds in 
excess of [$500,000] $1,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, that: 
(1) augments existing programs, projects, or activities; (2) reduces by 
10 percent funding for any existing program, project, or activity, or 
numbers of personnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or (3) 
results from any general savings from a reduction in personnel which 
would result in a change in existing programs, activities, or projects 
as approved by Congress; unless the Appropriations Committees of both 
Houses of Congress are notified fifteen days in advance of such 
reprogramming of funds.
    Sec. 606. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
for the construction, repair (other than emergency repair), overhaul, 
conversion, or modernization of vessels for the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration in shipyards located outside of the United 
States.
    Sec. 607. (a) Purchase of American-Made Equipment and Products.--It 
is the sense of the Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, 
all equipment and products purchased with funds made available in this 
Act should be American-made.
     (b) Notice Requirement.--In providing financial assistance to, or 
entering into any contract with, any entity using funds made available 
in this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the greatest extent 
practicable, shall provide to such entity a notice describing the 
statement made in subsection (a) by the Congress.
     (c) Prohibition of Contracts With Persons Falsely Labeling Products 
as Made in America.--If it has been finally determined by a court or 
Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing a 
``Made in America'' inscription, or any inscription with the same 
meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is 
not made in the United States, the person shall be ineligible to receive 
any contract or subcontract made with funds made available in this Act, 
pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures 
described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal 
Regulations.
    [Sec. 608. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce any guidelines of the Equal 
Employment Opportunity Commission covering harassment based on religion, 
when it is made known to the Federal entity or official to which such 
funds are made available that such guidelines do not differ in any 
respect from the proposed guidelines published by the Commission on 
October 1, 1993 (58 Fed. Reg. 51266).]
    [Sec. 609. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be obligated or expended to pay for any cost 
incurred for: (1) opening or operating any United States diplomatic or 
consular post in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that was not 
operating on July 11, 1995; (2) expanding any United States diplomatic 
or consular post in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that was operating 
on July 11, 1995; or (3) increasing the total number of personnel 
assigned to United States diplomatic or consular posts in the Socialist 
Republic of Vietnam above the levels existing on July 11, 1995, unless 
the President certifies within 60 days the following:
         (A) Based upon all information available to the United States 
    Government, the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is 
    fully cooperating in good faith with the United States in the 
    following:
             (i) Resolving discrepancy cases, live sightings, and field 
        activities.
             (ii) Recovering and repatriating American remains.
             (iii) Accelerating efforts to provide documents that will 
        help lead to fullest possible accounting of prisoners of war and 
        missing in action.
             (iv) Providing further assistance in implementing 
        trilateral investigations with Laos.
         (B) The remains, artifacts, eyewitness accounts, archival 
    material, and other evidence associated with prisoners of war and 
    missing in action recovered from crash sites, military actions, and 
    other locations in Southeast Asia are being thoroughly analyzed by 
    the appropriate laboratories with the intent of providing surviving 
    relatives with scientifically defensible, legal determinations of 
    death or other accountability that are fully documented and 
    available in unclassified and unredacted form to immediate family 
    members.]
    [Sec. 610. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
for any United Nations undertaking when it is made known to the Federal 
official having authority to obligate or expend such funds: (1) that the 
United Nations undertaking is a peacekeeping mission; (2) that such 
undertaking will involve United States Armed Forces under the command or 
operational control of a foreign national; and (3) that the President's 
military advisors have not submitted to the President a recommendation 
that such involvement is in the national security interests of the 
United States and the President has not submitted to the Congress such a 
recommendation.]
    [Sec. 611. None of the funds made available in this Act shall be 
used to provide the following amenities or personal comforts in the 
Federal prison system--
         (1) in-cell television viewing except for prisoners who are 
    segregated from the general prison population for their own safety;
         (2) the viewing of R, X, and NC-17 rated movies, through 
    whatever medium presented;
         (3) any instruction (live or through broadcasts) or training 
    equipment for boxing, wrestling, judo, karate, or other martial art, 
    or any bodybuilding or weightlifting equipment of any sort;
         (4) possession of in-cell coffee pots, hot plates or heating 
    elements; or
         (5) the use or possession of any electric or electronic musical 
    instrument.]
    [Sec. 612. None of the funds made available in title II for the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the 
headings ``Operations, Research, and Facilities'' and ``Procurement, 
Acquisition and Construction'' may be used to implement sections 603, 
604, and 605 of Public Law 102-567: Provided, That NOAA may develop a 
modernization plan for its fisheries research vessels that takes fully 
into account opportunities for contracting for fisheries surveys.]
    Sec. [613] 608. Any costs incurred by a Department or agency funded 
under this Act resulting from personnel actions taken in response to 
funding reductions included in this Act shall be absorbed within the 
total budgetary resources available to such Department or agency: 
Provided, That the authority to transfer funds between appropriations 
accounts as may be necessary to carry out this section is provided in 
addition to authorities included elsewhere in this Act: Provided 
further, That use of funds to carry out this section shall be treated as 
a reprogramming of funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not be 
available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the 
procedures set forth in that section.
    [Sec. 614. None of the funds made available in this Act to the 
Federal Bureau of Prisons may be used to distribute or make available 
any commercially published information or material to a prisoner when it 
is made known to the Federal official having authority to obligate or 
expend such funds that such information or material is sexually explicit 
or features nudity.]
    Sec. [615] 609. Of the funds appropriated in this Act under the 
heading ``Office of Justice Programs--state and local law enforcement 
assistance'', not more than 90 percent of the amount to be awarded to an 
entity under the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant shall be made 
available to such an entity when it is made known to the Federal 
official having authority to obligate or expend such funds that the 
entity that employs a public safety officer (as such term is defined in 
section 1204 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968) does not provide such a public safety officer who retires 
or is separated from service due to injury suffered as the direct and 
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in the line of duty while responding to an emergency situation or a hot 
pursuit (as such terms are defined by State law) with the same or better 
level of health insurance benefits at the time of retirement or 
separation as they received while on duty.
    [Sec. 616. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
used to issue or renew a fishing permit or authorization for any fishing 
vessel of the United States greater than 165 feet in registered length 
or of more than 750 gross registered tons, and that has an engine or 
engines capable of producing a total of more than 3,000 shaft 
horsepower--
         (1) as specified in the permit application required under part 
    648.4(a)(5) of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations, part 648.12 of 
    title 50, Code of Federal Regulations, and the authorization 
    required under part 648.80(d)(2) of title 50, Code of Federal 
    Regulations, to engage in fishing for Atlantic mackerel or herring 
    (or both) under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
    Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.); or
         (2) that would allow such a vessel to engage in the catching, 
    taking, or harvesting of fish in any other fishery within the 
    exclusive economic zone of the United States (except territories), 
    unless a certificate of documentation had been issued for the vessel 
    and endorsed with a fishery endorsement that was effective on 
    September 25, 1997 and such fishery endorsement was not surrendered 
    at any time thereafter.
     (b) Any fishing permit or authorization issued or renewed prior to 
the date of the enactment of this Act for a fishing vessel to which the 
prohibition in subsection (a)(1) applies that would allow such vessel to 
engage in fishing for Atlantic mackerel or herring (or both) during 
fiscal year 1998 shall be null and void, and none of the funds made 
available in this Act may be used to issue a fishing permit or 
authorization that would allow a vessel whose permit or authorization 
was made null and void pursuant to this subsection to engage in the 
catching, taking, or harvesting of fish in any other fishery within the 
exclusive economic zone of the United States.]
    Sec. [617] 610. During fiscal year [1998] 1999 and in any fiscal 
year thereafter, the court, in any criminal case (other than a case in 
which the defendant is represented by assigned counsel paid for by the 
public) pending on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, may 
award to a prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable 
attorney's fee and other litigation expenses, where the court finds that 
the position of the United States was vexatious, frivolous, or in bad 
faith, unless the court finds that special circumstances make such an 
award unjust. Such awards shall be granted pursuant to the procedures 
and limitations (but not the burden of proof) provided for an award 
under section 2412 of title 28, United States Code. To determine whether 
or not to award fees and costs under this section, the court, for good 
cause shown, may receive evidence ex parte and in camera (which shall 
include the submission of classified evidence or evidence that reveals 
or might reveal the identity of an informant or undercover agent or 
matters occurring before a grand jury) and evidence or testimony so 
received shall be kept under seal. Fees and other expenses awarded under 
this provision to a party shall be paid by the agency over which the 
party prevails from any funds made available to the agency by 
appropriation. No new appropriations shall be made as a result of this 
provision.
    Sec. [618] 611. None of the funds provided by this Act shall be 
available to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products, 
or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country of 
restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or tobacco products, except for 
restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco 
products of the same type.
    [Sec. 619. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to pay the expenses of an election officer appointed by a court to 
oversee an election of any officer or trustee for the International 
Brotherhood of Teamsters.]
    [Sec. 620. The second proviso of the second paragraph under the 
heading ``office of the chief signal officer.'' in the Act entitled ``An 
Act Making appropriations for the support of the Regular and Volunteer 
Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and 
one'', approved May 26, 1900 (31 Stat. 206; chapter 586; 47 U.S.C. 17), 
is repealed.]
    [Sec. 621. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available in this Act shall be used to issue visas to any person who--
         (1) has been credibly alleged to have ordered, carried out, or 
    materially assisted in the extra judicial and political killings of 
    Antoine Izmery, Guy Malary, Father Jean-Marie Vincent, Pastor 
    Antoine Leroy, Jacques Fleurival, Mireille Durocher Bertin, Eugene 
    Baillergeau, Michelange Hermann, Max Mayard, Romulus Dumarsais, 
    Claude Yves Marie, Mario Beaubrun, Leslie Grimar, Joseph Chilove, 
    Michel Gonzalez, and Jean-Hubert Feuille;
         (2) has been included in the list presented to former President 
    Jean-Bertrand Aristide by former National Security Council Advisor 
    Anthony Lake in December 1995, and acted upon by President Rene 
    Preval;
         (3) was sought for an interview by the Federal Bureau of 
    Investigation as part of its inquiry into the March 28, 1995, murder 
    of Mireille Durocher Bertin and Eugene Baillergeau, Jr., and was 
    credibly alleged to have ordered, carried out, or materially 
    assisted in those murders, per a June 28, 1995, letter to the then 
    Minister of Justice of the Government of Haiti, Jean-Joseph Exume;
        (4) was a member of the Haitian High Command during the period 
    1991 through 1994, and has been credibly alleged to have planned, 
    ordered, or participated with members of the Haitian Armed Forces 
    in--
             (A) the September 1991 coup against any person who was a 
        duly elected government official of Haiti (or a member of the 
        family of such official), or
             (B) the murders of thousands of Haitians during the period 
        1991 through 1994; or
         (5) has been credibly alleged to have been a member of the 
    paramilitary organization known as FRAPH who planned, ordered, or 
    participated in acts of violence against the Haitian people.
     (b) Exemption.--Subsection (a) shall not apply if the Secretary of 
State finds, on a case-by-case basis, that the entry into the United 
States of a person who would otherwise be excluded under this section is 
necessary for medical reasons or such person has cooperated fully with 
the investigation of these political murders. If the Secretary of State 
exempts any such person, the Secretary shall notify the appropriate 
congressional committees in writing.
     (c) Reporting Requirement.--(1) The United States chief of mission 
in Haiti shall provide the Secretary of State a list of those who have 
been credibly alleged to have ordered or carried out the extrajudicial 
and political killings mentioned in paragraph (1) of subsection (a).
     (2) The Secretary of State shall submit the list provided under 
paragraph (1) to the appropriate congressional committees not later than 
3 months after the date of enactment of this Act.
     (3) The Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees a list of aliens denied visas, and the Attorney 
General shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a list 
of aliens refused entry to the United States as a result of this 
provision.
     (4) The Secretary of State shall submit a report under this 
subsection not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this 
Act and not later than March 1 of each year thereafter as long as the 
Government of Haiti has not completed the investigation of the 
extrajudicial and political killings and has not prosecuted those 
implicated for the killings specified in paragraph (1) of subsection 
(a).
     (d) Definition.--In this section, the term ``appropriate 
congressional committees'' means the Committee on International 
Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee 
on Appropriations of the Senate.]
    [Sec. 622. Section 3006 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (Public 
Law 105-33; 111 Stat. 251, 269) is hereby repealed. This section shall 
be deemed a section of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 for the purposes 
of section 10213 of that Act (111 Stat. 712), and shall be scored 
pursuant to paragraph (2) of such section.]
    [Sec. 623. Report on Universal Service Under the Telecommunications 
Act of 1996.--(a) The Federal Communications Commission shall undertake 
a review of the implementation by the Commission of the provisions of 
the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-104) relating to 
universal service. Such review shall be completed and submitted to the 
Congress no later than April 10, 1998.
     (b) The report required under subsection (a) shall provide a 
detailed description of the extent to which the Commission 
interpretations reviewed under paragraphs (1) through (5) are consistent 
with the plain language of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 
et seq.), as amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and shall 
include a review of--
         (1) the definitions of ``information service,'' ``local 
    exchange carrier,'' ``telecommunications,'' ``telecommunications 
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    communications carrier,'' and ``telephone exchange service'' that 
    were added to section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
    153) by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the impact of the 
    Commission's interpretation of those definitions on the current and 
    future provision of universal service to consumers in all areas of 
    the nation, including high cost and rural areas;
         (2) the application of those definitions to mixed or hybrid 
    services and the impact of such application on universal service 
    definitions and support, and the consistency of the Commission's 
    application of those definitions, including with respect to Internet 
    access under section 254(h) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
    U.S.C. 254(h));
         (3) who is required to contribute to universal service under 
    section 254(d) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 254(d)) 
    and related existing federal universal service support mechanisms, 
    and of any exemption of providers or exclusion of any service that 
    includes telecommunications from such requirement or support 
    mechanisms;
         (4) who is eligible under sections 254(e), 254(h)(1), and 
    254(h)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 254(e), 
    254(h)(1), and 254(h)(2)) to receive specific federal universal 
    service support for the provision of universal service, and the 
    consistency with which the Commission has interpreted each of those 
    provisions of section 254; and
         (5) the Commission's decisions regarding the percentage of 
    universal service support provided by federal mechanisms and the 
    revenue base from which such support is derived.]
    [Sec. 624. Section 6(d)(1) of the National Foundation on the Arts 
and the Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 955(d)(1)) is amended by 
striking the word ``fourteen'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``eight''.]
    [Sec. 625. (a) Section 814(g)(1) of the Foreign Relations 
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 (22 U.S.C. 2291 note) is 
amended by striking ``$325,000'' and inserting ``$370,000''.
     (b) Section 814(i) of such section is amended by striking 
``September 30, 1997'' and inserting ``September 30, 1999''.]
    [Sec. 626. (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any provision of the 
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 471 
et seq.), the Administrator of General Services shall convey, to any 
person that acquires an interest in the Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 
1 (Elk Hills) under subtitle B of title XXXIV of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (110 Stat. 631), not to exceed 
318 motor vehicles that are leased for use at that reserve on November 
6, 1997.
     (b) Procedures and Requirements.--Any conveyance of motor vehicles 
under this section shall be made--
        (1) after payment to the United States of consideration equal to 
    the fair market value of the motor vehicles; and
         (2) under procedures, terms, and conditions that shall be 
    established by negotiation between the Administrator of General 
    Services and the person to whom the motor vehicles are conveyed.
     (c) Treatment of Proceeds.--Amounts received by the United States 
as consideration for motor vehicles conveyed under this section shall be 
retained in the General Supply Fund and available in the same manner as 
are increments for estimated replacement cost of motor vehicles under 
section 211(d)(2) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services 
Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 491(d)(2)).]
    [Sec. 627. Section 19(a) of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 
U.S.C. 2718(a)) is amended to read as follows:
         ``(a) Subject to section 18, there are authorized to be 
    appropriated, for fiscal year 1998, and for each fiscal year 
    thereafter, an amount equal to the amount of funds derived from the 
    assessments authorized by section 18(a).''.]
    [Sec. 628. Notwithstanding the failure of Clarence P. Stewart of 
Broadway, North Carolina, to file a timely appeal of his wrongful 
dismissal, during a reduction in force, from the Department of 
Agriculture as a State Executive Director for the former Agricultural 
Stabilization and Conservation Service of the Department, the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall cause Clarence P. Stewart to be afforded relief 
that is fully commensurate with the relief afforded the similarly-
dismissed appellants in the case before the Merit Systems Protection 
Board styled Blalock v. Department of Agriculture, 28 M.S.P.R. 17 
(1985).]
    [Sec. 629. Funds made available under Public Law 103-112 for the 
purposes of section 2007 of the Social Security Act shall be considered 
``qualified nonprivate funds'' for the purposes of section 103(13)(B) of 
the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 (15 U.S.C. 662(13)(B)); 
provided such funds were invested on or before July 1, 1995 in a 
licensee that was licensed prior to July 1, 1990 under section 301 of 
the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 (15 U.S.C. 681).]
    [Sec. 630. Section 332 of the Act making appropriations for the 
Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes, H.R. 2107 (105th 
Congress, 1st Session), is amended as follows--
         (1) after ``October 1, 1997'' strike ``, or'' and insert in 
    lieu thereof ``; those national forests''; and
         (2) after ``court-ordered to revise'' strike ``,'' and insert 
    in lieu thereof ``; and the White Mountain National Forest''.]
    [Sec. 631. Section 512(b) of Public Law 105-61 is amended by adding 
before the period: ``unless the President announced his intent to 
nominate the individual prior to November 30, 1997''.]
    [Sec. 632. (a) In General.--The Secretary of Energy shall--
         (1) convey, without consideration, to the Incorporated County 
    of Los Alamos, New Mexico (in this section referred to as the 
    ``County''), or to the designee of the County, fee title to the 
    parcels of land that are allocated for conveyance to the County in 
    the agreement under subsection (e); and
         (2) transfer to the Secretary of the Interior, in trust for the 
    Pueblo of San Ildefonso (in this section referred to as the 
    ``Pueblo''), administrative jurisdiction over the parcels that are 
    allocated for transfer to the Secretary of the Interior in such 
    agreement.
     (b) Preliminary Identification of Parcels of Land for Conveyance or 
Transfer.--(1) Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of Energy shall submit to the congressional 
defense committees a report identifying the parcels of land under the 
jurisdiction or administrative control of the Secretary at or in the 
vicinity of Los Alamos National Laboratory that are suitable for 
conveyance or transfer under this section.
     (2) A parcel is suitable for conveyance or transfer for purposes of 
paragraph (1) if the parcel--
         (A) is not required to meet the national security mission of 
    the Department of Energy or will not be required for that purpose 
    before the end of the 10-year period beginning on the date of 
    enactment of this Act;
         (B) is likely to be conveyable or transferable, as the case may 
    be, under this section not later than the end of such period; and
         (C) is suitable for use for a purpose specified in subsection 
    (h).
     (c) Review of Title.--(1) Not later than one year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the congressional 
defense committees a report setting forth the results of a title search 
on each parcel of land identified as suitable for conveyance or transfer 
under subsection (b), including an analysis of any claims against or 
other impairments to the fee title to each such parcel.
     (2) In the period beginning on the date of the completion of the 
title search with respect to a parcel under paragraph (1) and ending on 
the date of the submittal of the report under that paragraph, the 
Secretary shall take appropriate actions to resolve the claims against 
or other impairments, if any, to fee title that are identified with 
respect to the parcel in the title search.
     (d) Environmental Restoration.--(1) Not later than 21 months after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall--
         (A) identify the environmental restoration or remediation, if 
    any, that is required with respect to each parcel of land identified 
    under subsection (b) to which the United States has fee title;
         (B) carry out any review of the environmental impact of the 
    conveyance or transfer of each such parcel that is required under 
    the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
    U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); and
         (C) submit to Congress a report setting forth the results of 
    the activities under subparagraphs (A) and (B).
     (2) If the Secretary determines under paragraph (1) that a parcel 
described in paragraph (1)(A) requires environmental restoration or 
remediation, the Secretary shall, to the maximum extent practicable, 
complete the environmental restoration or remediation of the parcel not 
later than 10 years after the date of enactment of this Act.
     (e) Agreement for Allocation of Parcels.--As soon as practicable 
after completing the review of titles to parcels of land under 
subsection (c), but not later than 90 days after the submittal of the 
report under subsection (d)(1)(C), the County and the Pueblo shall 
submit to the Secretary an agreement between the County and the Pueblo 
which allocates between the County and the Pueblo the parcels identified 
for conveyance or transfer under subsection (b).
     (f) Plan for Conveyance and Transfer.--(1) Not later than 90 days 
after the date of the submittal to the Secretary of Energy of the 
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congressional defense committees a plan for conveying or transferring 
parcels of land under this section in accordance with the allocation 
specified in the agreement.
     (2) The plan under paragraph (1) shall provide for the completion 
of the conveyance or transfer of parcels under this section not later 
than 9 months after the date of the submittal of the plan under that 
paragraph.
     (g) Conveyance or Transfer.--(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), 
the Secretary shall convey or transfer parcels of land in accordance 
with the allocation specified in the agreement submitted to the 
Secretary under subsection (e).
     (2) In the case of a parcel allocated under the agreement that is 
not available for conveyance or transfer in accordance with the 
requirement in subsection (f)(2) by reason of its requirement to meet 
the national security mission of the Department, the Secretary shall 
convey or transfer the parcel, as the case may be, when the parcel is no 
longer required for that purpose.
     (3)(A) In the case of a parcel allocated under the agreement that 
is not available for conveyance or transfer in accordance with such 
requirement by reason of requirements for environmental restoration or 
remediation, the Secretary shall convey or transfer the parcel, as the 
case may be, upon the completion of the environmental restoration or 
remediation that is required with respect to the parcel.
     (B) If the Secretary determines that environmental restoration or 
remediation cannot reasonably be expected to be completed with respect 
to a parcel by the end of the 10-year period beginning on the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall not convey or transfer the 
parcel under this section.
     (h) Use of Conveyed or Transferred Land.--The parcels of land 
conveyed or transferred under this section shall be used for historic, 
cultural, or environmental preservation purposes, economic 
diversification purposes, or community self-sufficiency purposes.
     (i) Treatment of Conveyances and Transfers.--(1) The purpose of the 
conveyances and transfers under this section is to fulfill the 
obligations of the United States with respect to Los Alamos National 
Laboratory, New Mexico, under sections 91 and 94 of the Atomic Energy 
Community Act of 1955 (42 U.S.C. 2391, 2394).
     (2) Upon the completion of the conveyance or transfer of the 
parcels of land available for conveyance or transfer under this section, 
the Secretary shall make no further payments with respect to Los Alamos 
National Laboratory under section 91 or section 94 of the Atomic Energy 
Community Act of 1955.
     (j) Repeal of Superseded Provision.--In the event of the enactment 
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 by reason 
of the approval of the President of the conference report to accompany 
the bill (H.R.1119) of the 105th Congress, section 3165 of such Act is 
repealed.]
    [Sec. 633. Effective only for losses beginning March 1, 1997 through 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may use 
up to $6,000,000 from proceeds earned from the sale of grain in the 
disaster reserve established in the Agricultural Act of 1970 to 
implement a livestock indemnity program for losses from natural 
disasters pursuant to a Presidential or Secretarial declaration 
requested subsequent to enactment of Public Law 105-18 and prior to 
December 1, 1997, in a manner similar to catastrophic loss coverage 
available for other commodities under 7 U.S.C. 1508(b): Provided, That 
in administering a program described in the preceding sentence, the 
Secretary shall, to the extent practicable, utilize gross income and 
payment limitations conditions established for the Disaster Reserve 
Assistance Program for the 1996 crop year: Provided further, That the 
entire amount shall be available only to the extent an official budget 
request, that includes designation of the entire amount of the request 
as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985, as amended.]
    Sec. [634] 613. During fiscal year [1998] 1999, from funds available 
to the Department of Defense, up to $800,000 is available to the 
Department of Defense to compensate persons who have suffered documented 
commercial loss of cranberry crops in [1997] 1998 in the Mashpee or 
Falmouth bogs, located on the Quashnet and Coonamessett 
Rivers,respectively, as a result of the presence of ethylene dibromide 
(EDB) in or on cranberries from either of the plumes of EDB-contaminated 
groundwater known as ``FS-28'' and ``FS-1'' adjacent to the 
Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. 
(Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.)