[House Document 107-30]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



107th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 107-30


 
  REQUESTS TO USE PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED CONTINGENT EMERGENCY FUNDS

                               __________

                             COMMUNICATION

                                  from

                   THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

REQUESTS TO MAKE AVAILABLE PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED CONTINGENT EMERGENCY 
  FUNDS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE, THE INTERIOR, AND THE 
  TREASURY, AS WELL AS THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY AND THE 
  LEGISLATIVE BRANCH, PURSUANT TO SECTION 251(b)(2)(A) OF THE BALANCED 
  BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT OF 1985, AS AMENDED




  January 30, 2001.--Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and 
                         ordered to be printed
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                    U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
89-012                     WASHINGTON : 2001


                                           The White House,
                                      Washington, January 19, 2001.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
    Sir: In accordance with provisions of P.L. 106-387, P.L. 
106-291, P.L. 106-377, and P.L. 106-554, I hereby request and 
make available each of the emergency appropriations listed in 
the enclosed letter from the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget. I designate these funds as emergency 
requirements pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
    These resources will support a variety of emergency 
activities of critical importance to our Nation.
            Sincerely,
                                                William J. Clinton.
    Enclosure.
                [Estimate No. 2, 107th Cong., 1st Sess.]

                 Executive Office of the President,
                           Office of Management and Budget,
                                  Washington, DC, January 19, 2001.
The President, 
The White House.
    Submitted for your consideration are requests to make 
available previously appropriated contingent emergency funds 
for the Departments of Agriculture (USDA), the Interior (DOI), 
and the Treasury, as well as the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency (FEMA), and the Legislative Branch. All of the emergency 
funding provided was made contingent upon your submission of a 
budget request to the Congress that includes designation of the 
amount requested as an emergency requirement. Your approval of 
these requests would make available $4.8 billion for a variety 
of purposes, described below.
    P.L. 106-387, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2001, provided a total of $4.2 billion in contingent emergency 
funding for agricultural disaster assistance and assistance to 
low-income citizens. To date, you have designated and made 
available $1.4 billion of that amount. The funds requested in 
this transmittal would make available the remaining $2.8 
billion, and will support the Nation's farmers, ranchers, rural 
communities, and low-income populations, through support for 
land conservation efforts, crop and animal loss reimbursements, 
livestock disease control programs, loan forgiveness, and 
nutrition assistance. In addition, P.L. 106-554, the 
consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001, provided $0.05 billion 
in contingent emergency funding for USDA. Specifically, this 
emergency funding will support reimbursement for livestock 
losses due to bovine tuberculosis, increased funding for the 
Environmental Quality Incentives Program, and expansion of 
Federal meals programs for children upon your designation of 
the entire $0.05 billion provided for these purposes as 
emergency requirements.
    P.L. 106-291, the Department of the Interior and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, provided a total of $1.6 
billion in contingent emergency funding. To date, you have made 
available $0.01 billion of this amount. This transmittal 
includes requests for an additional $1.3 billion to be made 
available to USDA and DOI to address wildland fire management. 
These funds will be used to continue fire suppression 
operations, rehabilitate lands destroyed by wildfires, reduce 
the presence of hazardous fuels in sensitive areas, and assist 
rural firefighting efforts.
    P.L. 106-377, the Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2001, provided $1.3 billion in contingent 
emergency funding to support the disaster relief operations of 
FEMA, none of which has been released to date. Since you 
recently declared disaster areas in Oklahoma and Arkansas due 
to the severe damage caused by winter storms there, FEMA has 
been working with State and local authorities to clear snow and 
ice and assist residents of the affected areas. This request 
would make available $0.6 billion for this and other disaster 
relief activities.
    P.L. 106-554, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001, 
also provided contingent emergency funding for the Legislative 
Branch and the Department of the Treasury. Specifically, $0.02 
billion in emergency funding was provided to support security 
enhancements at the Capitol building, improvements to House 
office buildings, and counter-terrorism efforts associated with 
national special security events. This request would make 
available the entire $0.02 billion for these purposes.
    Resource requirements for the Department of the Treasury's 
counter-terrorism efforts noted above have been estimated using 
the best available information to date. Actual expenditures 
incurred for the Inauguration, the State of the Union and the 
2002 Winter Olympics may differ from the original level sought 
from the Counter-Terrorism Fund. the Department of the Treasury 
will work with OMB to monitor this Fund to ensure that law 
enforcement bureaus are reimbursed for actual expenses and that 
any excess amounts are held in reserve to meet unforeseen needs 
related to counter-terrorist activities. Future transmittals to 
the Congress seeking release of funds from the Counter-
Terrorism Fund will provide further details on actual fund 
expenditures.
    I recommend that you designate the above requests totaling 
$4.8 billion, which are detailed in the enclosure to this 
letter, as emergency requirements in accordance with section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended. No further congressional 
action will be required.
    This transmittal also contains a revision to the amount of 
emergency funding that you made available on December 4, 2000, 
for USDA's Forest Service, State and Private Forestry account. 
This revision is listed in the enclosure to this letter.
    I have carefully reviewed these proposals and am satisfied 
that they are necessary at this time. Therefore, I join the 
heads of the affected Departments and agencies in recommending 
that you make the requested funds available by signing the 
enclosed letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
            Sincerely,
                                            Jacob J. Lew, Director.
    Enclosure.

    Emergency Appropriations: Amounts Previously Appropriated Made 
                       Available by the President

Department of Agriculture
Farm Service Agency: Salaries and Expenses..............     $50,000,000
    Commodity Credit Corporation Fund:
        Conservation reserve program and wetlands 
          reserve program...............................      35,000,000
        Payments for livestock losses...................     490,000,000
        Crop losses on 2000 crop: such sums as may be 
          necessary, estimated at.......................   1,400,000,000
        Quality losses on 2000 crop: such sums as may be 
          necessary, estimated at.......................     500,000,000
        Payments to apple and potato producers for 
          market losses.................................     100,000,000
        Payments to apple producers for market losses...      38,000,000
        Payments for losses due to invasive species: 
          such sums as may be necessary, estimated at...      45,000,000
        Burley tobacco loan forgiveness: such sums as 
          may be necessary, estimated at................     100,000,000
Food and Nutrition Service, Food Stamp Program:
    Housing deduction: such sums as may be necessary, 
      estimated at......................................      24,000,000
    Vehicle deduction: such sums as may be necessary, 
      estimated at......................................      36,000,000

    P.L. 106-387, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2001, included $4.2 billion in emergency funding contingent 
upon the President submitting a budget request to the Congress 
and designating the amount requested as an emergency 
requirement. The amounts listed above have been so designated 
by the President. In addition, on December 18, 2000, the 
President designated and made available $1.4 billion of the 
total emergency funding provided. The funds made available 
today will provide support for land conservation efforts, crop 
and animal loss reimbursements, livestock disease control 
programs, loan forgiveness, and nutrition assistance.

Forest Service:
    Wildland Fire Management (appropriated in Title II 
      of P.L. 106-291)..................................     276,000,000
    Wildland Fire Management (appropriated in Title IV 
      of P.L. 106-291)..................................     619,274,000

    P.L. 106-291, the Department of the Interior and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, included emergency funding 
contingent upon the President submitting a budget request to 
the Congress and designating the amount requested as an 
emergency requirement. The amounts listed above have been so 
designated by the President. These funds will be used to 
continue fire suppression operations, rehabilitate lands 
destroyed by wildfires, reduce the presence of hazardous fuels 
in sensitive areas, and assist rural firefighting efforts.

Office of the General Counsel: Office of the General 
    Counsel.............................................        $500,000
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: Bovine 
    tuberculosis claims: such sums as may be necessary, 
    estimated at........................................       6,300,000
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration: 
    Salaries and Expenses...............................         200,000
Farm Service Agency, Commodity Credit Corporation Fund: 
    Environmental quality improvement program...........      26,000,000
Food and Nutrition Service, Child Nutrition Programs:
    Child and adult care food program, eligibility of 
      private organizations: such sums as may be 
      necessary, estimated at...........................      10,800,000
    Summer food service program, pilot projects: such 
      sums as may be necessary, estimated at............       6,200,000

    P.L. 106-554, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001, 
included emergency funding contingent upon the President 
submitting a budget request to the Congress and designating the 
amount requested as an emergency requirement. The amounts 
listed above have been so designated by the President. These 
funds will support reimbursement for livestock losses due to 
bovine tuberculosis, increased funding for the Environmental 
Quality Incentives Program, and expansion of Federal meals 
programs for children.

Forest Service: State, Private, and International 
    Forestry............................................     $12,500,000

    Pursuant to P.L. 106-291, on December 4, 2000, the 
President designated and made available emergency funding for 
the activity listed above. This transmittal revised that 
designation to correct a technical error.

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Land Management:
    Wildland Fire Management (appropriated in Title I of 
      P.L. 106-291).....................................    $100,000,000
    Wildland Fire Management (appropriated in Title IV 
      of P.L. 106-291)..................................     353,740,000

    P.L. 106-291, the Department of the Interior and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, included emergency funding 
contingent upon the President submitting a budget request to 
the Congress and designating the amount requested as an 
emergency requirement. The amounts listed above had been so 
designated by the President. These funds will be used to 
continue fire suppression operations, rehabilitate lands 
destroyed by wildfires, reduce the presence of hazardous fuels 
in sensitive areas, and assist rural firefighting efforts.

Department of the Treasury
Departmental Offices: Counter-Terrorism Fund: such sums 
    as may be necessary, up to..........................     $11,522,000

    P.L. 106-554, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001, 
provided funding for the Treasury Counter-Terrorism Fund, 
contingent upon the President submitting a budget request to 
the Congress and designating the amount requested as an 
emergency requirement. The amount listed above has been so 
designated by the President. A total of up to $11.5 million 
will be used by the Department of the Treasury to support 
counter-terrorism efforts associated with national special 
security events. Customs Service requirements for the 
Inauguration and State of the Union Address are currently 
estimated at a total cost of up to $1.4 million, or up to 
$700,000 for each event. In addition, up to $10.1 million will 
be made available to the Treasury Department's law enforcement 
bureaus to offset the cost of providing counter-terrorism 
support for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games.

Federal Emergency Management Agency
Disaster Relief.........................................    $600,000,000

    P.L. 106-377, the Department of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2001, included $1.3 billion in emergency 
funding contingent upon the President submitting a budget 
request to the Congress and designating the amount requested as 
an emergency requirement. The amount listed above has been so 
designated by the President. These funds will support winter 
storm disaster relief in the States of Oklahoma and Arkansas as 
well as other disaster relief activities.

Legislative Branch
Architect of the Capitol: House Office Buildings........      $9,000,000
Joint Items, Capitol Police Board: Security enhancements       2,102,000

    P.L. 106-554, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001, 
included emergency funding contingent upon the President 
submitting a budget request to the Congress and designating the 
amount requested as an emergency requirement. The amounts 
listed above have been so designated by the President. These 
funds will support security enhancements at the Capitol 
building and improvements to House office buildings.

                                  
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