[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 130 (Saturday, August 5, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11483-S11498]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS, 1996

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
begin consideration of H.R. 2020.
  The clerk will state the bill by title.

       A bill (H.R. 2020) making appropriations for the Treasury 
     Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive 
     Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, 
     for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and for other 
     purposes.

  The Senate proceeded to consider the bill which had been reported 
from the Committee on Appropriations, with amendments, as follows:
  (The parts of the bill intended to be stricken are shown in boldface 
brackets and the parts of the bill intended to be inserted are shown in 
italic.)
                               H.R. 2020

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
     following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
     Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury 
     Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive 
     Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, 
     for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and for other 
     purposes, namely:

                  TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                          Departmental Offices


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Departmental Offices 
     including operation and maintenance of the Treasury Building 
     and Annex; hire of passenger motor vehicles; maintenance, 
     repairs, and improvements of, and purchase of commercial 
     insurance policies for, real properties leased or owned 
     overseas, when necessary for the performance of official 
     business; not to exceed $2,900,000 for official travel 
     expenses; not to exceed $2,950,000 to remain available until 
     [September 30, 1998, shall be available] expended for 
     information technology modernization requirements; not to 
     exceed $150,000 for official reception and representation 
     expenses; not to exceed $258,000 for unforeseen emergencies 
     of a confidential nature, to be allocated and expended under 
     the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury and to be 
     accounted for solely on his certificate; [$104,000,500] 
     $105,929,000.
           treasury building and annex repair and restoration

       For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the Treasury 
     Building and annex, $7,684,000, to remain available until 
     expended.

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               Counter-Drug Technology Assessment Center


              salaries, expenses, research and development

       For salaries, expenses, research and development activities 
     of the Counter-Drug Technology Assessment Center, 
     $20,500,000, of which $20,000,000 shall remain available 
     until expended for counternarcotics research and development 
     projects and shall be available for transfer to other Federal 
     departments or agencies by the Under Secretary for 
     Enforcement, after consultation with the Chief Scientist of 
     the Center.


                 high intensity drug trafficking areas

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses of High Intensity Drug Trafficking 
     Areas for drug control activities consistent with an annual 
     strategy approved by the Under Secretary for Enforcement for 
     each of the designated High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas, 
     $110,000,000, of which no less than $55,000,000 shall be 
     transferred to State and local entities for drug control 
     activities; and of which up to $55,000,000 may be transferred 
     to Federal agencies and departments at a rate to be 
     determined by the Under Secretary for Enforcement: Provided, 
     That the funds made available under this heading shall be 
     obligated within 120 days of the date of enactment of this 
     Act.
                      Office of Inspector General


                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
     in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act 
     of 1978, as amended, hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to 
     exceed $2,000,000 for official travel expenses; not to exceed 
     $100,000 for unforeseen emergencies of a confidential nature, 
     to be allocated and expended under the direction of the 
     Inspector General of the Treasury; [$29,319,000] $30,067,000.
                        treasury forfeiture fund

       For necessary expenses of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund, as 
     authorized by Public Law 102-393, not to exceed $15,000,000, 
     to be derived from deposits in the Fund.
                  Financial Crimes Enforcement Network


                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Financial Crimes Enforcement 
     Network, including hire of passenger motor vehicles; [travel 
     expenses of non-Federal personnel to attend meetings 
     concerned with financial intelligence activities, law 
     enforcement, and financial regulation;] not to exceed $14,000 
     for official reception and representation expenses 
     [$20,273,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, the Director of the Financial Crimes 
     Enforcement Network may procure up to $500,000 in 
     specialized, unique or novel automatic data processing 
     equipment, ancillary equipment, software, services, and 
     related resources from commercial vendors without regard to 
     otherwise applicable procurement laws and regulations and 
     without full and open competition, utilizing procedures best 
     suited under the circumstances of the procurement to 
     efficiently fulfill the agency's requirements: Provided 
     further, That funds appropriated in this account may be used 
     to procure personal services contracts] $22,198,000.
                Federal Law Enforcement Training Center


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforcement 
     Training Center, as a bureau of the Department of the 
     Treasury, including materials and support costs of Federal 
     law enforcement basic training; purchase (not to exceed 
     fifty-two for police-type use) and hire of passenger motor 
     vehicles; for expenses for student athletic and related 
     activities; uniforms without regard to the general purchase 
     price limitation for the current fiscal year; the conducting 
     of and participating in firearms matches and presentation of 
     awards; for public awareness and enhancing community support 
     of law enforcement training; not to exceed $7,000 for 
     official reception and representation expenses; room and 
     board for student interns; and services as authorized by 5 
     U.S.C. 3109: Provided, That the Center is authorized to 
     accept and use gifts of property, both real and personal, and 
     to accept services, for authorized purposes, including 
     funding of a gift of intrinsic value which shall be awarded 
     annually by the Director of the Center to the outstanding 
     student who graduated from a basic training program at the 
     Center during the previous fiscal year, which shall be funded 
     only by gifts received through the Center's gift authority: 
     Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, students attending training at any Federal Law 
     Enforcement Training Center site shall reside in on-Center or 
     Center-provided housing, insofar as available and in 
     accordance with Center policy: Provided further, That funds 
     appropriated in this account shall be available for training 
     United States Postal Service law enforcement personnel and 
     Postal police officers, at the discretion of the Director; 
     State and local government law enforcement training on a 
     space-available basis; training of foreign law enforcement 
     officials on a space-available basis with reimbursement of 
     actual costs to this appropriation [(except that the Director 
     may waive reimbursement and may pay travel expenses, not to 
     exceed 75 percent of the total training and travel cost, when 
     the Director determines that it is in the public interest to 
     do so);] training of private sector security officials on a 
     space-available basis with reimbursement of actual costs to 
     this appropriation; travel expenses of non-Federal personnel 
     to attend State and local course development meetings at the 
     Center: Provided further, That the Center is authorized to 
     obligate funds in anticipation of reimbursements from 
     agencies receiving training at the Federal Law Enforcement 
     Training Center, except that total obligations at the end of 
     the fiscal year shall not exceed total budgetary resources 
     available at the end of the fiscal year: [Provided further, 
     That the Center is authorized to obligate funds to provide 
     for site security and expansion of antiterrorism training 
     facilities:] Provided further, That the Federal Law 
     Enforcement Training Center is authorized to provide short 
     term medical services for students undergoing training at the 
     Center; [$36,070,000] $34,006,000, of which $8,666,000 for 
     materials and support costs of Federal law enforcement basic 
     training shall remain available until September 30, 1998.
     Acquisition, Construction, Improvements, and Related Expenses

       For expansion of the Federal Law Enforcement Training 
     Center, for acquisition of necessary additional real property 
     and facilities, and for ongoing maintenance, facility 
     improvements, and related expenses, [$8,163,000] $9,663,000, 
     to remain available until expended.
                      Financial Management Service


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Financial Management Service, 
     [$181,837,000] $186,070,000, of which not to exceed 
     $14,277,000 shall remain available until [September 30, 1988] 
     expended for systems modernization initiatives. In addition, 
     $90,000, to be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust 
     Fund, to reimburse the Service for administrative and 
     personnel expenses for financial management of the Fund, as 
     authorized by section 1012 of Public Law 101-380.

                Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco 
     and Firearms, including purchase of not to exceed six hundred 
     and fifty vehicles for police-type use for replacement only 
     and hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire of aircraft; and 
     services of expert witnesses at such rates as may be 
     determined by the Director; for payment of per diem and/or 
     subsistence allowances to employees where an assignment to 
     the National Response Team during the investigation of a 
     bombing or arson incident requires an employee to work 16 
     hours or more per day or to remain overnight at his or her 
     post of duty; not to exceed $10,000 for official reception 
     and representation expenses; for training of State and local 
     law enforcement agencies with or without reimbursement; 
     provision of laboratory assistance to State and local 
     agencies, with or without reimbursement; [$391,035,000] 
     $377,971,000, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be 
     available for the payment of attorneys' fees as provided by 
     18 U.S.C. 924(d)(2); and of which $1,000,000 shall be 
     available for the equipping of any vessel, vehicle, 
     equipment, or aircraft available for official use by a State 
     or local law enforcement agency if the conveyance will be 
     used in drug-related joint law enforcement operations with 
     the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and for the 
     payment of overtime salaries, travel, fuel, training, 
     equipment, and other similar costs of State and local law 
     enforcement officers that are incurred in joint operations 
     with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms: Provided, 
     That no funds made available by this or any other Act may be 
     used to implement any reorganization of the Bureau of 
     Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms or transfer of the Bureau's 
     functions, missions, or activities to other agencies or 
     Departments in the fiscal year ending on September 30, 1996: 
     Provided further, That no funds appropriated herein shall be 
     available for salaries or administrative expenses in 
     connection with consolidating or centralizing, within the 
     Department of the Treasury, the records, or any portion 
     thereof, of acquisition and disposition of firearms 
     maintained by Federal firearms licensees: [Provided further, 
     That no funds appropriated herein shall be used to pay 
     administrative expenses or the compensation of any officer or 
     employee of the United States to implement an amendment or 
     amendments to 27 CFR 178.118 or to change the definition of 
     ``Curios or relics'' in 27 CFR 178.11 or remove any item from 
     ATF Publication 5300.11 as it existed on January 1, 1994 
     without publishing prior notice in the Federal Register and 
     allowing for public comment:] Provided further, That none of 
     the funds appropriated herein shall be available to 
     investigate or act upon applications for relief from Federal 
     firearms disabilities under 18 U.S.C. 925(c): Provided 
     further, That such funds shall be available to investigate 
     and act upon applications filed by corporations for relief 
     from Federal firearms disabilities under 18 U.S.C. section 
     925(c).
                     United States Customs Service


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the United States Customs 
     Service, including purchase of up to 1,000 motor vehicles of 
     which 960 are for replacement only, including 990 for police-
     type use and commercial operations; hire of motor vehicles; 
     not to exceed $20,000 for official reception and 
     representation expenses; and awards of compensation to 
     informers, as authorized by any Act enforced by the United 
     States Customs Service; [$1,392,429,000] $1,387,153,000, of 
     which such sums as become available in the Customs 

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     User Fee Account, except sums subject to section 13031(f)(3) of the 
     Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended 
     (19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(3)), shall be derived from that Account; of 
     the total, not to exceed $150,000 shall be available for 
     payment for rental space in connection with preclearance 
     operations, and not to exceed $4,000,000 shall be available 
     until expended for research: Provided, That uniforms may be 
     purchased without regard to the general purchase price 
     limitation for the current fiscal year: [Provided further, 
     That the Commissioner of the Customs Service designate a 
     single individual to be port director of all United States 
     Government activities at two ports of entry, one on the 
     southern border and one on the northern border] Provided 
     further, That $750,000 shall be available for additional 
     part-time and temporary positions in the Honolulu Customs 
     District.
                   harbor maintenance fee collection

       For administrative expenses related to the collection of 
     the Harbor Maintenance Fee, pursuant to Public Law 103-182, 
     $3,000,000, to be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust 
     Fund and to be transferred to and merged with the Customs 
     ``Salaries and Expenses'' account for such purposes.
    Operation and Maintenance, Air and Marine Interdiction Programs

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
     operation and maintenance of marine vessels, aircraft, and 
     other related equipment of the Air and Marine Programs, 
     including operational training and mission-related travel, 
     and rental payments for facilities occupied by the air or 
     marine interdiction or demand reduction programs, the 
     operations of which include: the interdiction of narcotics 
     and other goods; the provision of support to Customs and 
     other Federal, State, and local agencies in the enforcement 
     or administration of laws enforced by the Customs Service; 
     and, at the discretion of the Commissioner of Customs, the 
     provision of assistance to Federal, State, and local agencies 
     in other law enforcement and emergency humanitarian efforts; 
     [$60,993,000] $68,543,000 which [of which $5,644,000] shall 
     remain available until expended; in addition, $19,733,000 
     shall be transferred from the Customs Air and Marine 
     Interdiction Programs, Procurement Account to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That no aircraft or other 
     related equipment, with the exception of aircraft which is 
     one of a kind and has been identified as excess to Customs 
     requirements, and aircraft which has been damaged beyond 
     repair, shall be transferred to any other Federal agency, 
     Department, or office outside of the Department of the 
     Treasury, during fiscal year 1996, without the prior approval 
     of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
                   Customs Services at Small Airports

                  (to be derived from fees collected)

       Such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $1,406,000, 
     for expenses for the provision of Customs services at certain 
     small airports or other facilities when authorized by law and 
     designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, including 
     expenditures for the salary and expenses of individuals 
     employed to provide such services, to be derived from fees 
     collected by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to 
     section 236 of Public Law 98-573 for each of these airports 
     or other facilities when authorized by law and designated by 
     the Secretary of the Treasury, and to remain available until 
     expended.
                       Bureau of the Public Debt


                     Administering the Public Debt

       For necessary expenses connected with any public-debt 
     issues of the United States; $180,065,000: Provided, That the 
     sum appropriated herein from the General Fund for fiscal year 
     1996 shall be reduced by not more than $600,000 as definitive 
     security issue fees are collected and not more than 
     $9,465,000 as Treasury Direct Investor Account Maintenance 
     fees are collected, so as to result in a final fiscal year 
     1996 appropriation from the General Fund estimated at 
     $170,000,000.
                        Internal Revenue Service


                 Processing, Assistance, and Management

       For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service, not 
     otherwise provided for; including processing tax returns; 
     revenue accounting; providing assistance to taxpayers, 
     management services, and inspection; including purchase (not 
     to exceed 150 for replacement only, for police-type use) and 
     hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); and 
     services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may 
     be determined by the Commissioner: [$1,682,742,000] 
     $1,767,309,000, of which $3,700,000 shall be for the Tax 
     Counseling for the Elderly Program, no amount of which shall 
     be available for IRS administrative costs, and of which not 
     to exceed $25,000 shall be for official reception and 
     representation expenses.


                          Tax Law Enforcement

       For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service for 
     determining and establishing tax liabilities; tax and 
     enforcement litigation; technical rulings; examining employee 
     plans and exempt organizations; investigation and enforcement 
     activities; securing unfiled tax returns; collecting unpaid 
     accounts; statistics of income and compliance research; the 
     purchase (for police-type use, not to exceed 850), and hire 
     of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); and services 
     as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be 
     determined by the Commissioner [$4,254,476,000] 
     $4,097,294,000, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall 
     remain available until September 30, 1998 for research: 
     Provided, That $13,000,000 shall be used to initiate a 
     program to utilize private [sector] counsel law firms and 
     debt collection agencies in the collection activities of the 
     Internal Revenue Service in compliance with section 104 of 
     this Act.
                          Information Systems

       For necessary expenses for data processing and 
     telecommunications support for Internal Revenue Service 
     activities, including: tax systems modernization (modernized 
     developmental systems), modernized operational systems, 
     services and compliance, and support systems; and for the 
     hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); and 
     services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may 
     be determined by the Commissioner; [$1,575,216,000] 
     $1,442,605,000, of which no less than $670,000,000 shall be 
     available for tax systems modernization activities, of which 
     up to $185,000,000 for tax and information systems 
     development projects shall remain available until September 
     30, 1998: [Provided, That of the funds appropriated for tax 
     systems modernization, $70,000,000 may not be obligated until 
     the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service reports to 
     the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate on 
     the implementation of Tax Systems Modernization] Provided, 
     That not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of 
     this Act the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service 
     shall provide to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     House and the Senate a report that (1) identifies, evaluates, 
     and prioritizes all systems investments planned for fiscal 
     year 1996, using explicit decision criteria, and (2) explains 
     in detail and provides a completion schedule for all actions 
     being taken by the Internal Revenue Service to successfully 
     mitigate deficiencies recently identified by the General 
     Accounting Office in the Internal Revenue Service's business 
     strategy, management and technical infrastructure, and the 
     management process in place to implement its tax system 
     modernization: Provided further, That not later than 30 days 
     after the submission of the Commissioner's report the General 
     Accounting Office shall provide the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House and the Senate an independent 
     assessment of that report: Provided further, That none of the 
     funds appropriated for tax systems modernization, except 
     those funds needed to operate and maintain current systems, 
     shall be available for obligation until expressly approved by 
     the Committees on Appropriations of the House and the Senate.


          Administrative Provisions--Internal Revenue Service

       Section 1. Not to exceed 2 per centum of any appropriation 
     made available to the Internal Revenue Service for the 
     current fiscal year by this Act may be transferred to any 
     other Internal Revenue Service appropriation upon the advance 
     approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
     provision of this Act, the Internal Revenue Service is 
     authorized to transfer such sums as may be necessary between 
     appropriations with advance approval of the House and Senate 
     Appropriations Committees: [Provided further, That no funds 
     shall be transferred from the ``Tax Law Enforcement'' account 
     during fiscal year 1996].
       Sec. 2. The Internal Revenue Service shall institute and 
     maintain a training program to insure that Internal Revenue 
     Service employees are trained in taxpayers' rights, in 
     dealing courteously with the taxpayers, and in cross-cultural 
     relations.
                      United States Secret Service


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the United States Secret Service, 
     including purchase (not to exceed 665 vehicles for police-
     type use for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor 
     vehicles; hire of aircraft; training and assistance requested 
     by State and local governments, which may be provided without 
     reimbursement; services of expert witnesses at such rates as 
     may be determined by the Director; rental of buildings in the 
     District of Columbia, and fencing, lighting, guard booths, 
     and other facilities on private or other property not in 
     Government ownership or control, as may be necessary to 
     perform protective functions; for payment of per diem and/or 
     subsistence allowances to employees where a protective 
     assignment during the actual day or days of the visit of a 
     protectee require an employee to work 16 hours per day or to 
     remain overnight at his or her post of duty; the conducting 
     of and participating in firearms matches; presentation of 
     awards; and for travel of Secret Service employees on 
     protective missions without regard to the limitations on such 
     expenditures in this or any other Act: Provided, That 
     approval is obtained in advance from the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations; for repairs, alterations, and 
     minor construction at the James J. Rowley Secret Service 
     Training Center; for research and development; for making 
     grants to conduct behavioral research in support of 
     protective research and operations; not to exceed $12,500 for 
     official reception and representation expenses; not to exceed 
     $50,000 to provide technical assistance and equipment to 
     foreign law enforcement organizations in counterfeit 
     investigations; for payment in advance for commercial 
     accommodations as may be necessary to perform protective 
     functions; and for uniforms without regard to the general 
     purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year; 
     [$542,461,000] $534,502,000.

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                    Violent Crime Reduction Programs

       For activities authorized by Public Law 103-322, to remain 
     available until expended, which shall be derived from the 
     Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund, as follows:
       [(a) As authorized by section 190001(e), $51,686,000, of 
     which: $33,865,000 shall be available to the United States 
     Customs Service for expenses associated with ``Operation 
     Hardline''; $2,221,000 to the Financial Crimes Enforcement 
     Network; $3,100,000 to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
     Firearms for the development and dissemination of ballistic 
     technologies as part of the ``Ceasefire'' program; 
     $10,000,000 to the United States Secret Service; and 
     $2,500,000 to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in 
     Glynco, Georgia; and]
       (a) As authorized by section 190001(e), $68,300,000, of 
     which: $17,500,000 shall be available to the United States 
     Customs Service for expenses associated with ``Operation 
     Hardline''; of which $2,500,000 shall be available to the 
     Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; of which $24,700,000 
     shall be available to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
     Firearms, of which no less than $21,200,000 shall be 
     available to annualize the salaries and related costs for the 
     fiscal year 1995 counter-terrorism initiative, and of which 
     no less than $3,500,000 shall be available for administering 
     the Gang Resistance Education and Training program; of which 
     $21,600,000 and up to an additional 150 full-time equivalent 
     positions which shall be in addition to those funded in the 
     ``salaries and expenses'' account and which shall be 
     available to the United States Secret Service to support 
     White House security and anti-counterfeiting activities, and 
     of which no less than $1,600,000 shall be available for 
     enhancing forensics technology to aid missing and exploited 
     children investigations; and of which $2,000,000 shall be 
     available to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; and
       (b) As authorized by section 32401, [$12,200,000] 
     $7,200,000, for disbursement through grants, cooperative 
     agreements or contracts, to local governments for Gang 
     Resistance Education and Training: Provided, That 
     notwithstanding sections 32401 and 310001, such funds shall 
     be allocated only to the affected State and local law 
     enforcement and prevention organizations participating in 
     such projects.
             General Provisions--Department of the Treasury

       Section 101. Any obligation or expenditure by the Secretary 
     in connection with law enforcement activities of a Federal 
     agency or a Department of the Treasury law enforcement 
     organization in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 9703(g)(4)(B) from 
     unobligated balances remaining in the Fund on September 30, 
     1996, shall be made in compliance with the reprogramming 
     guidelines contained in the House and Senate reports 
     accompanying this Act.
       Sec. 102. Appropriations to the Treasury Department in this 
     Act shall be available for uniforms or allowances therefor, 
     as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901), including maintenance, 
     repairs, and cleaning; purchase of insurance for official 
     motor vehicles operated in foreign countries; purchase of 
     motor vehicles without regard to the general purchase price 
     limitation for vehicles purchased and used overseas for the 
     current fiscal year; entering into contracts with the 
     Department of State for the furnishing of health and medical 
     services to employees and their dependents serving in foreign 
     countries; and services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
       [Sec. 103. Not to exceed 2 per centum of any appropriations 
     in this Act for the Department of the Treasury may be 
     transferred between such appropriations. Notwithstanding any 
     authority to transfer funds between appropriations contained 
     in this or any other Act, no transfer may increase or 
     decrease any appropriation in this Act by more than 2 per 
     centum and any such proposed transfers shall be approved in 
     advance by the Committees on Appropriations of the House and 
     Senate.]
       Sec. 104. None of the funds appropriated by this title 
     shall be used in connection with the collection of any 
     underpayment of any tax imposed by the Internal Revenue Code 
     of 1986 unless the conduct of officers and employees of the 
     Internal Revenue Service in connection with such collection, 
     including any private sector employees under contract to the 
     Internal Revenue Service, complies with subsection (a) of 
     section 805 (relating to communications in connection with 
     debt collection), and section 806 (relating to harassment or 
     abuse), of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 U.S.C. 
     1692).
       Sec. 105. The Internal Revenue Service shall institute 
     policies and procedures which will safeguard the 
     confidentiality of taxpayer information.
       Sec. 106. The funds provided to the Bureau of Alcohol, 
     Tobacco and Firearms for fiscal year 1996 in this Act for the 
     enforcement of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act shall 
     be expended in a manner so as not to diminish enforcement 
     efforts with respect to section 105 of the Federal Alcohol 
     Administration Act.
       Sec. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     Customs personnel funded through reimbursement from the 
     Puerto Rico Trust Fund shall not be reduced as the result of 
     work force reductions required under Executive order or other 
     guidance to Executive branch agencies in fiscal year 1996.
       Sec. 108. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized in 
     fiscal year 1996 and hereafter, to use Treasury Department 
     aircraft, with or without reimbursement, to assist bureaus 
     within the Department of the Treasury or other Federal 
     agencies, Departments or offices outside of the Department of 
     the Treasury to provide emergency law enforcement support to 
     protect human life, property, public health, or safety.
       This title may be cited as the ``Treasury Department 
     Appropriations Act, 1996''.

                        TITLE II--POSTAL SERVICE
                     Payments to the Postal Service


                   Payment to the Postal Service Fund

       For payment to the Postal Service Fund for revenue forgone 
     on free and reduced rate mail, pursuant to subsections (c) 
     and (d) of section 2401 of title 39, United States Code; 
     $85,080,000: Provided, That mail for overseas voting and mail 
     for the blind shall continue to be free: Provided further, 
     That six-day delivery and rural delivery of mail shall 
     continue at not less than the 1983 level: Provided further, 
     That none of the funds made available to the Postal Service 
     by this Act shall be used to implement any rule, regulation, 
     or policy of charging any officer or employee of any State or 
     local child support enforcement agency, or any individual 
     participating in a State or local program of child support 
     enforcement, a fee for information requested or provided 
     concerning an address of a postal customer: Provided further, 
     That none of the funds provided in this Act shall be used to 
     consolidate or close small rural and other small post offices 
     in the fiscal year ending on September 30, 1996.
      Payment to the Postal Service Fund for Nonfunded Liabilities

       For payment to the Postal Service Fund for meeting the 
     liabilities of the former Post Office Department to the 
     Employees' Compensation Fund pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 2004, 
     $36,828,000.
       This title may be cited as the ``Postal Service 
     Appropriations Act, 1996''.

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

                     Compensation of the President

       For compensation of the President, including an expense 
     allowance at the rate of $50,000 per annum as authorized by 3 
     U.S.C. 102; $250,000: Provided, That none of the funds made 
     available for official expenses shall be expended for any 
     other purpose and any unused amount shall revert to the 
     Treasury pursuant to section 1552 of title 31 of the United 
     States Code: Provided further, That none of the funds made 
     available for official expenses shall be considered as 
     taxable to the President.
                         The White House Office


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses for the White House as authorized by 
     law, including not to exceed $3,850,000 for services as 
     authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 105; including 
     subsistence expenses as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 105, which 
     shall be expended and accounted for as provided in that 
     section; hire of passenger motor vehicles, newspapers, 
     periodicals, teletype news service, and travel (not to exceed 
     $100,000 to be expended and accounted for as provided by 3 
     U.S.C. 103); not to exceed $19,000 for official entertainment 
     expenses, to be available for allocation within the Executive 
     Office of the President; [$39,459,000] $38,131,000.
                 Executive Residence at the White House


                           Operating Expenses

       For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, 
     refurnishing, improvement, heating and lighting, including 
     electric power and fixtures, of the Executive Residence at 
     the White House and official entertainment expenses of the 
     President; [$7,522,000] $7,827,000, to be expended and 
     accounted for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 105, 109-110, 112-114.
                   white house repair and restoration

       For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the 
     Executive Residence at the White House, $2,200,000, to remain 
     available until expended for replacement of the White House 
     roof, to be expended and accounted for as provided by 3 
     U.S.C. 105, 109-110, 112-114.
                Official Residence of the Vice President


                           Operating Expenses

       For the care, operation, refurnishing, improvement, heating 
     and lighting, including electric power and fixtures, of the 
     official residence of the Vice President, the hire of 
     passenger motor vehicles, and not to exceed $90,000 for 
     official entertainment expenses of the Vice President, to be 
     accounted for solely on his certificate; $324,000: Provided, 
     That advances or repayments or transfers from this 
     appropriation may be made to any department or agency for 
     expenses of carrying out such activities.
                  Special Assistance to the President


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses to enable the Vice President to 
     provide assistance to the President in connection with 
     specially assigned functions, services as authorized by 5 
     U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 106, including subsistence expenses 
     as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 106, which shall be expended and 
     accounted for as provided in that section; and hire of 
     passenger motor vehicles; [$3,175,000] $3,280,000.
                      Council of Economic Advisers


                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Council in carrying out its 
     functions under the Employment Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1021), 
     $3,439,000.

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                      Office of Policy Development


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Policy Development, 
     including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and 3 
     U.S.C. 107; $3,867,000.

                       National Security Council


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the National Security Council, 
     including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; 
     [$6,459,000] $6,648,000.

                        Office of Administration


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Administration; 
     [$25,736,000] $25,560,000, including services as authorized 
     by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 107, and hire of passenger 
     motor vehicles.

                    Office of Management and Budget


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Management and 
     Budget, including hire of passenger motor vehicles, services 
     as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; [$55,426,000, of which no 
     more than $6,631,000 shall be available for the Office of 
     National Security and International Affairs, no more than 
     $6,699,000 shall be available for the Office of General 
     Government and Finance, no more than $7,368,000 shall be 
     available for the Office of Natural Resources, Energy and 
     Science, no more than $4,085,000 shall be available for the 
     Office of Health and Personnel, no more than $3,867,000 shall 
     be available for the Office of Human Resources, no more than 
     $2,325,000 shall be available for the Office of Federal 
     Financial Management, no more than $5,198,000 shall be 
     available for the Office of Information and Regulatory 
     Affairs, no more than $2,407,000 shall be available for the 
     Office of Federal Procurement Policy, no more than 
     $16,912,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
     Director, the Office of the Deputy Director, the Office of 
     the Deputy Director for Management, the Office of 
     Communications, the Office of the General Counsel, the Office 
     of Legislative Affairs, the Office of Economic Policy, the 
     Office of Administration, the Legislative Reference Division, 
     and the Budget Review Division] $55,907,000, of which not to 
     exceed $5,000,000 shall be available to carry out the 
     provisions of 44 U.S.C. chapter 35: Provided, That, as 
     provided in 31 U.S.C. 1301(a), appropriations shall be 
     applied only to the objects for which appropriations were 
     made except as otherwise provided by law: Provided further, 
     That none of the funds appropriated in this Act for the 
     Office of Management and Budget may be used for the purpose 
     of reviewing any agricultural marketing orders or any 
     activities or regulations under the provisions of the 
     Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 (7 U.S.C. 601 et 
     seq.): Provided further, That none of the funds made 
     available for the Office of Management and Budget by this Act 
     may be expended for the altering of the transcript of actual 
     testimony of witnesses, except for testimony of officials of 
     the Office of Management and Budget, before the Committee on 
     Appropriations or the Committee on Veterans' Affairs or their 
     subcommittees: Provided further, That this proviso shall not 
     apply to printed hearings released by the Committee on 
     Appropriations or the Committee on Veterans' Affairs: 
     Provided further, That the Director of Office of Management 
     and Budget shall submit to the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations (1) an analysis for the period of 30 fiscal 
     years beginning with fiscal year 1996, of the estimated 
     levels of total budget outlays and total new budget 
     authority, the estimated revenues to be received, the 
     estimated surplus or deficit, if any, for each major Federal 
     entitlement program for each fiscal year in such period: 
     Provided further, That no funds shall be obligated for 
     salaries and expenses after 60 days of the date of enactment 
     of this Act if the Director of the Office of Management and 
     Budget has not submitted such analysis to the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations prior to such date.
                 Information Security Oversight Office

       For necessary expenses of the Information Security 
     Oversight Office, $1,482,000.
                [Office of National Drug Control Policy


                         [Salaries and Expenses

       [For necessary expenses of the Office of National Drug 
     Control Policy; for research activities pursuant to title I 
     of Public Law 100-690; not to exceed $8,000 for official 
     reception and representation expenses; for participation in 
     joint projects or in the provision of services on matters of 
     mutual interest with nonprofit, research, or public 
     organizations or agencies, with or without reimbursement; 
     $20,062,000, of which $10,200,000, to remain available until 
     expended, shall be available to the Counter-Drug Technology 
     Assessment Center for counternarcotics research and 
     development projects and shall be available for transfer to 
     other Federal departments or agencies, and of which $600,000 
     shall be transferred to the Drug Enforcement Administration 
     for the El Paso Intelligence Center: Provided, That the 
     Office is authorized to accept, hold, administer, and utilize 
     gifts, both real and personal, for the purpose of aiding or 
     facilitating the work of the Office.]
                          Unanticipated Needs

       For expenses necessary to enable the President to meet 
     unanticipated needs, in furtherance of the national interest, 
     security, or defense which may arise at home or abroad during 
     the current fiscal year; $1,000,000.
                     [Federal Drug Control Programs


             [High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program

                     [(Including Transfer of Funds)

       [For necessary expenses of the Office of National Drug 
     Control Policy's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas 
     Program, $104,000,000 for drug control activities consistent 
     with the approved strategy for each of the designated High 
     Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas, of which no less than 
     $52,000,000 shall be transferred to State and local entities 
     for drug control activities; and of which up to $52,000,000 
     may be transferred to Federal agencies and departments at a 
     rate to be determined by the Director; and of which up to 
     $3,000,000 may be available to the Director for transfer to 
     Federal agencies, or State and local entities, or non-profit 
     organizations to support special demonstration projects that 
     provide systematic programming to reduce drug use and 
     trafficking in designated targeted areas: Provided, That the 
     funds made available under this head shall be obligated 
     within 90 days of the date of enactment of this Act, except 
     those funds made available to the Director to support special 
     demonstration projects which shall be obligated by June 1, 
     1996.]
       This title may be cited as the ``Executive Office 
     Appropriations Act, 1996''.

                     TITLE IV--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
 Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Committee for Purchase From 
     People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled established by the 
     Act of June 23, 1971, Public Law 92-28; [$1,682,000] 
     $1,800,000.
                      Federal Election Commission


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the 
     Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended; 
     [$26,521,000, of which no less than $1,500,000 shall be 
     available for internal automated data processing systems] 
     $28,517,000, of which not to exceed $5,000 shall be available 
     for reception and representation expenses: [Provided, That 
     none of the funds appropriated for automated data processing 
     systems may be obligated until the Chairman of the Federal 
     Election Commission provides to the House Committee on 
     Appropriations a systems requirements analysis on the 
     development of such a system.]
                   Federal Labor Relations Authority


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 
     Federal Labor Relations Authority, pursuant to Reorganization 
     Plan Numbered 2 of 1978, and the Civil Service Reform Act of 
     1978, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
     including hire of experts and consultants, hire of passenger 
     motor vehicles, rental of conference rooms in the District of 
     Columbia and elsewhere; [$19,742,000] $21,398,000: Provided, 
     That public members of the Federal Service Impasses Panel may 
     be paid travel expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence 
     as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5703) for persons employed 
     intermittently in the Government service, and compensation as 
     authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That 
     notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds received from fees 
     charged to non-Federal participants at labor-management 
     relations conferences shall be credited to and merged with 
     this account, to be available without further appropriation 
     for the costs of carrying out these conferences.

                    General Services Administration

                         Federal Buildings Fund


                 limitations on availability of revenue
                         (including rescission)
       [The revenues and collections deposited into] For 
     additional expenses necessary to carry out the purpose of the 
     Fund established pursuant to section 210(f) of the Federal 
     Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended 
     (40 U.S.C. 490(f)), $86,000,000, to be deposited into said 
     Fund shall be available for necessary expenses of real 
     property management and related activities not otherwise 
     provided for, including operation, maintenance, and 
     protection of Federally owned and leased buildings; rental of 
     buildings in the District of Columbia; restoration of leased 
     premises; moving governmental agencies (including space 
     adjustments and telecommunications relocation expenses) in 
     connection with the assignment, allocation and transfer of 
     space; contractual services incident to cleaning or servicing 
     buildings, and moving; repair and alteration of federally 
     owned buildings including grounds, approaches and 
     appurtenances; care and safeguarding of sites; maintenance, 
     preservation, demolition, and equipment; acquisition of 
     buildings and sites by purchase, condemnation, or as 
     otherwise authorized by law; acquisition of options to 
     purchase buildings and sites; conversion and extension of 
     Federally owned buildings; preliminary planning and design of 
     projects by contract or otherwise; construction of new 
     buildings (including equipment for such buildings); and 
     payment of principal, interest, taxes, and any other 
     obligations for public buildings acquired by installment 
     purchase and purchase contract, in the aggregate amount of 
     [$5,066,822,000] $5,087,819,000, of which (1) not to exceed 
     [$367,777,000] $573,872,000 shall remain available until 
     expended for construction of additional projects at locations 
     and at maximum construction improvement costs (including 
     funds for sites and expenses and associated design and 
     construction services) as follows:
       [New Construction:

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       [Colorado:
       [Lakewood, Denver Federal Center, U.S. Geological Survey 
     Lab Building, $10,321,000
       [Florida:
       [Tallahassee, U.S. Courthouse Annex, $9,606,000
       [Georgia:
       [Savannah, U.S. Courthouse Annex, $1,039,000
       [Louisiana:
       [Lafayette, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 
     $11,826,000
       [Maryland:
       [Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties, Food and Drug 
     Administration, $65,764,000
       [Nebraska:
       [Omaha, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, $21,370,000
       [Nevada:
       [Las Vegas, U.S. Courthouse, $38,404,000
       [New Mexico:
       [Albuquerque, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 
     $2,450,000
       [New York:
       [Brooklyn, U.S. Courthouse, $49,040,000
       [Central Islip, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 
     $75,641,000
       [North Dakota:
       [Pembina, Border Station, $4,445,000
       [Ohio:
       [Youngstown, U.S. Courthouse, $6,974,000
       [Pennsylvania:
       [Scranton, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse Annex, 
     $9,638,000
       [South Carolina:
       [Columbia, U.S. Courthouse Annex, $1,425,000
       [Texas:
       [Austin, Veterans Affairs Annex, $3,176,000
       [Brownsville, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 
     $10,981,000
       [Washington:
       [Blaine, U.S. Border Station, $6,168,000
       [Point Roberts, U.S. Border Station, $1,406,000
       [West Virginia:
       [Martinsburg, Internal Revenue Service Computer Center, 
     $25,363,000
       [Non-Prospectus Projects Program, $12,740,000:]
       New Construction:
       Colorado:
       Lakewood, Denver Federal Center, U.S. Geological Survey Lab 
     Building, $25,802,000
       Florida:
       Tallahassee, U.S. Courthouse Annex, $24,015,000
       Georgia:
       Savannah, U.S. Courthouse Annex, $2,597,000
       Louisiana:
       Lafayette, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 
     $29,565,000
       Maryland:
       Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties, Food and Drug 
     Administration, $87,000,000
       Nebraska:
       Omaha, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, $53,424,000
       New Mexico:
       Albuquerque, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 
     $6,126,000
       New York:
       Central Islip, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 
     $189,102,000
       North Dakota:
       Pembina, Border Station, $11,113,000
       Pennsylvania:
       Scranton, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse Annex, 
     $24,095,000
       South Carolina:
       Columbia, U.S. Courthouse Annex, $3,562,000
       Texas:
       Austin, Veterans Affairs Annex, $7,940,000
       Brownsville, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 
     $27,452,000
       Washington:
       Point Roberts, U.S. Border Station, $3,516,000
       Seattle, U.S. Courthouse, $8,305,000
       West Virginia:
       Martinsburg, Internal Revenue Service Computer Center, 
     $63,408,000
       Non-prospectus Projects Program, $6,850,000:
     Provided, That each of the immediately foregoing limits of 
     costs on new construction projects may be exceeded to the 
     extent that savings are effected in other such projects, but 
     not to exceed 10 per centum unless advanced approval is 
     obtained from the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations of a greater amount: [Provided further, That 
     the $6,000,000 under the heading of non-prospectus 
     construction projects, made available in Public Laws 102-393 
     and 103-123 for the acquisition, lease, construction and 
     equipping of flexiplace work telecommuting centers, is hereby 
     increased by $5,000,000 from funds made available in this Act 
     for non-prospectus construction projects, all of which shall 
     remain available until expended: Provided further, That of 
     the $5,000,000 made available by this Act, half shall be used 
     for telecommuting centers in the State of Virginia and half 
     shall be used for telecommuting centers in the State of 
     Maryland:] Provided further, That of the funds made available 
     for the District of Columbia, Southeast Federal Center, under 
     the heading, ``Real Property Activities, Federal Buildings 
     Fund, Limitations on Availability of Revenue'' in Public Law 
     101-509, $55,000,000 are rescinded: Provided further, That 
     the limitation on the availability of revenue contained in 
     such Act is reduced by $55,000,000: Provided further, That 
     all funds for direct construction projects shall expire on 
     September 30, 1997, and remain in the Federal Buildings Fund 
     except funds for projects as to which funds for design or 
     other funds have been obligated in whole or in part prior to 
     such date: Provided further, That claims against the 
     Government of less than $250,000 arising from direct 
     construction projects, acquisitions of buildings and purchase 
     contract projects pursuant to Public Law 92-313, be 
     liquidated with prior notification to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House and Senate to the extent savings 
     are effected in other such projects; (2) not to exceed 
     [$713,086,000] $627,000,000 shall remain available until 
     expended, for repairs and alterations which includes 
     associated design and construction services: Provided 
     further, That the amounts provided in this or any prior Act 
     for Repairs and Alterations may be used to fund costs 
     associated with implementing security improvements to 
     buildings necessary to meet the minimum standards for 
     security in accordance with current law and in compliance 
     with the reprogramming guidelines of the appropriate 
     Committees of the House and Senate: Provided further, That 
     funds in the Federal Buildings Fund for Repairs and 
     Alterations shall, for prospectus projects, be limited to the 
     amount by project as follows, except each project may be 
     increased by an amount not to exceed 10 per centum unless 
     advance approval is obtained from the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House and Senate of a greater amount:
       [Repairs and Alterations:
       [Arkansas:
       [Little Rock, Federal Building, $7,551,000
       [California:
       [Sacramento, Federal Building (2800 Cottage Way), 
     $13,636,000
       [Colorado:
       [Lakewood, Denver Federal Center Building 25, $29,351,000
       [District of Columbia:
       [Heating Plant Stacks, $11,141,000
       [Lafayette Building, $33,157,000
       [ICC/Connecting Wing Complex/Customs (phase 2/3), 
     $58,275,000
       [Treasury Department Building, Repair and Alteration, 
     $7,194,000
       [White House, Roof Repair and Restoration, $2,220,000
       [Illinois:
       [Chicago, Federal Center, $45,971,000
       [Maryland:
       [Woodlawn, SSA East High-Low Buildings, $17,422,000
       [New York:
       [New York, Silvio V. Mollo Federal Building, $4,182,000
       [North Dakota:
       [Bismarck, Federal Building, Post Office and U.S. 
     Courthouse, $7,119,000
       [Pennsylvania:
       [Philadelphia, SSA Building, Mid-Atlantic Program Service 
     Center, $11,376,000
       Puerto Rico:
       [Old San Juan, Post Office and U.S. Courthouse, $25,701,000
       [Texas:
       [Dallas, Federal Building (Griffin St.), $5,641,000
       [Washington:
       [Richland, Federal Building, U.S. Post Office and 
     Courthouse, $12,724,000
       [Nationwide:
       [Chlorofluorocarbons Program, $50,430,000
       [Elevator Program, $13,109,000
       [Energy Program, $25,000,000
       [Advance Design, $24,608,000
       Repairs and Alterations:
       Arkansas:
       Little Rock, Federal Building, $7,551,000
       California:
       Sacramento, Federal Building (2800 Cottage Way), 
     $13,636,000
       District of Columbia:
       ICC/Connecting Wing Complex/Customs (phase 2/3), 
     $58,275,000
       Illinois:
       Chicago, Federal Center, $45,971,000
       Maryland:
       Woodlawn, SSA East High-Low Buildings, $17,422,000
       North Dakota:
       Bismarck, Federal Building, Post Office and U.S. 
     Courthouse, $7,119,000
       Pennsylvania:
       Philadelphia, Byrne-Green Complex, $30,909,000
       Philadelphia, SSA Building, Mid-Atlantic Program Service 
     Center, $11,376,000
       Puerto Rico:
       Old San Juan, Post Office and U.S. Courthouse, $25,701,000
       Texas:
       Dallas, Federal Building (Griffin St.), $5,641,000
       Nationwide:
       Chlorofluorocarbons Program, $43,533,000
       Elevator Program, $13,109,000
       Energy Program, $20,000,000
       Advance Design, $22,000,000
       Basic Repairs and Alterations, [$307,278,000] $304,757,000: 
     Provided further, That additional projects for which 
     prospectuses have been fully approved may be funded under 
     this category only if advance approval is obtained from the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate: 
     Provided further, That the difference between the funds 
     appropriated and expended on any projects in this or any 
     prior Act, under the heading ``Repairs and Alterations'', may 
     be transferred to Basic Repairs and Alterations or used to 
     fund authorized increases in prospectus projects: Provided 
     further, That all funds for repairs and alterations 
     prospectus projects shall expire on September 30, 1997, and 
     remain in the Federal Buildings Fund except funds for 
     projects as to which funds for design or other funds have 
     been obligated in whole or in part prior to such date: 
     [Provided further, That of the funds provided for Advanced 
     Design, $100,000 shall be made available for architectural 
     design studies for renovation of the National Veterinary 
     Services Laboratory and a biocontainment facility at the 
     National Animal Disease Center, Ames, Iowa:] Provided 

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     further, That the amount provided in this or any prior Act for Basic 
     Repairs and Alterations may be used to pay claims against the 
     Government arising from any projects under the heading 
     ``Repairs and Alterations'' or used to fund authorized 
     increases in prospectus projects; (3) not to exceed 
     $181,963,000 for installment acquisition payments including 
     payments on purchase contracts which shall remain available 
     until expended; (4) not to exceed [$2,341,100,000] 
     $2,329,000,000 for rental of space which shall remain 
     available until expended; and (5) not to exceed 
     [$1,389,463,000] $1,302,551,000, of which not to exceed 
     $1,000,000 shall be available for logistical support and 
     personnel services for the Xth Paralympiad for building 
     operations which shall remain available until expended: 
     Provided further, That funds available to the General 
     Services Administration shall not be available for expenses 
     in connection with any construction, repair, alteration, and 
     acquisition project for which a prospectus, if required by 
     the Public Buildings Act of 1959, as amended, has not been 
     approved, except that necessary funds may be expended for 
     each project for required expenses in connection with the 
     development of a proposed prospectus: [Provided further, That 
     the General Services Administration shall establish a 
     ``Federal Triangle Office'' reporting directly to the 
     Commissioner of the Public Buildings Service for the purpose 
     of completing the design and construction of the Federal 
     Triangle Building: Provided further, That the Federal 
     Triangle Office shall continue to utilize the procurement and 
     operating procedures established for the project pursuant to 
     the Federal Triangle Development Act (40 U.S.C. 1104), and to 
     implement and enforce the Development Agreement and other 
     contracts and agreements developed for the project: Provided 
     further, That the Administrator is authorized to enter into 
     and perform such leases, contracts, or other transactions 
     with any agency or instrumentality of the United States, the 
     several States or the District of Columbia, or with any 
     person, firm, association, or corporation as may be necessary 
     to implement the Federal Triangle Project:] Provided further, 
     That for the purposes of this authorization, buildings 
     constructed pursuant to the purchase contract authority of 
     the Public Buildings Amendments of 1972 (40 U.S.C. 602a), 
     buildings occupied pursuant to installment purchase 
     contracts, and buildings under the control of another 
     department or agency where alterations of such buildings are 
     required in connection with the moving of such other 
     department or agency from buildings then, or thereafter to 
     be, under the control of the General Services Administration 
     shall be considered to be federally owned buildings: Provided 
     further, That funds available in the Federal Buildings Fund 
     may be expended for emergency repairs when advance approval 
     is obtained from the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     House and Senate: Provided further, That amounts necessary to 
     provide reimbursable special services to other agencies under 
     section 210(f)(6) of the Federal Property and Administrative 
     Services Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 490(f)(6)) and 
     amounts to provide such reimbursable fencing, lighting, guard 
     booths, and other facilities on private or other property not 
     in Government ownership or control as may be appropriate to 
     enable the United States Secret Service to perform its 
     protective functions pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 3056, as amended, 
     shall be available from such revenues and collections: 
     Provided further, That revenues and collections and any other 
     sums accruing to this Fund during fiscal year 1996, excluding 
     reimbursements under section 210(f)(6) of the Federal 
     Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 
     490(f)(6)) in excess of [$5,066,822,000] $5,087,819,000 shall 
     remain in the Fund and shall not be available for expenditure 
     except as authorized in appropriations Acts.
                         [Policy and Oversight

       [For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided, for 
     government-wide policy and oversight activities associated 
     with asset management, property management, supply 
     management, travel and transportation, telecommunications and 
     information technology; to fund the Board of Contract 
     Appeals; services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and not to 
     exceed $5,000 for official reception and representation 
     expenses; $62,499,000.
                          [Operating Expenses

       [For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise provided 
     for, necessary for utilization of excess and surplus personal 
     property; transportation; procurement; supply; and 
     information technology activities; the utilization survey, 
     deed compliance inspection, appraisal, environmental and 
     cultural analysis, and land use planning functions pertaining 
     to excess and surplus real property; accounting, records 
     management, and other support services incident to 
     adjudication of Indian Tribal Claims by the United States 
     Court of Federal Claims; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
     3109; $49,130,000.]
        salaries and expenses, policy, leadership and operations

       For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise provided for, 
     necessary for asset management activities; utilization of 
     excess and surplus personal property; transportation 
     management activities; procurement and supply management 
     activities; Government-wide and internal responsibilities 
     relating to automated data management, telecommunications, 
     information resources management, and related technology 
     activities; utilization survey, deed compliance inspection, 
     appraisal, environmental and cultural analysis, and land use 
     planning functions pertaining to excess and surplus real 
     property; agency-wide policy direction; Board of Contract 
     Appeals; accounting, records management, and other support 
     services incident to adjudication of Indian Tribal Claims by 
     the United States Court of Federal Claims; services as 
     authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and not to exceed $5,000 for 
     official reception and representation expenses; $118,449,000.
                      Office of Inspector General

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
     and services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, [$32,549,000] 
     $34,000,000: Provided, That not to exceed $5,000 shall be 
     available for payment for information and detection of fraud 
     against the Government, including payment for recovery of 
     stolen Government property: Provided further, That not to 
     exceed $2,500 shall be available for awards to employees of 
     other Federal agencies and private citizens in recognition of 
     efforts and initiatives resulting in enhanced Office of 
     Inspector General effectiveness.


           Allowances and Office Staff for Former Presidents

       For carrying out the provisions of the Act of August 25, 
     1958, as amended (3 U.S.C. 102 note), and Public Law 95-138; 
     $2,181,000: Provided, That the Administrator of General 
     Services shall transfer to the Secretary of the Treasury such 
     sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of such 
     Acts.


          General Provisions--General Services Administration

       Section 1. The appropriate appropriation or fund available 
     to the General Services Administration shall be credited with 
     the cost of operation, protection, maintenance, upkeep, 
     repair, and improvement, included as part of rentals received 
     from Government corporations pursuant to law (40 U.S.C. 129).
       Sec. 2. Funds available to the General Services 
     Administration shall be available for the hire of passenger 
     motor vehicles.
       Sec. 3. Funds in the Federal Buildings Fund made available 
     for fiscal year 1996 for Federal Buildings Fund activities 
     may be transferred between such activities only to the extent 
     necessary to meet program requirements. Any proposed 
     transfers shall be approved in advance by the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House and Senate.
       Sec. 4. No funds made available by this Act shall be used 
     to transmit a fiscal year 1997 request for United States 
     Courthouse construction that does not meet the standards for 
     construction as established by the General Services 
     Administration, the Judicial Conference of the United States, 
     and the Office of Management and Budget and does not reflect 
     the priorities of the [Administrative Office of the Courts] 
     Judicial Conference of the United States as set out in its 
     approved five-year construction plan.
       [Sec. 5. The Administrator of General Services is 
     authorized to accept and retain income received by the 
     General Services Administration on or after October 1, 1993, 
     from Federal agencies and non-Federal sources, to defray 
     costs directly associated with the functions of flexiplace 
     work telecommuting centers.
       [Sec. 6. Of the $11,000,000 made available by this Act and 
     Public Laws 102-393 and 103-123 for flexiplace work 
     telecommuting centers, not less than $2,200,000 shall be 
     available for immediate transfer to the Charles County 
     Community College, to provide facilities, equipment, and 
     other services to the General Services Administration for the 
     purposes of establishing telecommuting work centers in 
     Southern Maryland (Charles, Calvert, and St. Mary's County) 
     for use by Government agencies
      designated by the Administrator of General Services: 
     Provided, That the language providing authority to pay a 
     public entity in the State of Maryland, not to exceed 
     $1,300,000 for the purpose of establishing telecommuting 
     work centers in Southern Maryland, under the heading 
     ``Federal Buildings Fund Limitations on Availability of 
     Revenue'' in Public Law 103-329 (108 Stat. 2400), is 
     hereby repealed.
       [Sec. 7. Not to exceed 5 percent of funds made available 
     under the heading ``Operating Expenses'' and ``Office of 
     Policy and Oversight'' may be transferred between such 
     appropriations upon the advance approval of the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations.]
       Sec. 8. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     obligated or expended in any way for the purpose of the sale, 
     excessing, surplusing, or disposal of lands in the vicinity 
     of Norfolk Lake, Arkansas, administered by the Corps of 
     Engineers, Department of the Army, without the specific 
     approval of the Congress.
       Sec. 9. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     obligated or expended in any way for the purpose of the sale, 
     excessing, surplusing, or disposal of lands in the vicinity 
     of Bull Shoals Lake, Arkansas, administered by the Corps of 
     Engineers, Department of the Army, without the specific 
     approval of the Congress.
       Sec. 10. Section 17(c) of Public Law 101-136 is amended 
     by--
       (a) striking ``within 3 years of date of conveyance,'' and 
     inserting in lieu thereof, ``simultaneously''; and by 
     striking the remainder of the first sentence following, ``the 
     islands of Hawaii, Oahu, and Molokai'' and inserting a period 
     immediately thereafter; and
       (b) in paragraph (2) by striking ``in the exchange 
     described in subsection (c)(1)'' and inserting, ``or 
     recreational'' immediately after the word, ``educational''.

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           John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board

       For necessary expenses to carry out the John F. Kennedy 
     Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, $2,150,000.
                     Merit Systems Protection Board


                         Salaries and Expenses

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Merit 
     Systems Protection Board pursuant to Reorganization Plan 
     Numbered 2 of 1978 and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, 
     including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, rental of 
     conference rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, 
     hire of passenger motor vehicles, and direct procurement of 
     survey printing, [$21,129,000] $24,549,000, together with not 
     to exceed $2,430,000 for administrative expenses to 
     adjudicate retirement appeals to be transferred from the 
     Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund in amounts 
     determined by the Merit Systems Protection Board.

              National Archives and Records Administration


                           operating expenses

       For necessary expenses in connection with the 
     administration of the National Archives and records and 
     related activities, as provided by law, and for expenses 
     necessary for the review and declassification of documents, 
     and for the hire of passenger motor vehicles, [$193,291,000] 
     $199,633,000, of which $4,500,000 shall be available until 
     expended for cataloging, archiving and digitizing activities: 
     Provided, That the Archivist of the United States is 
     authorized to use any excess funds available from the amount 
     borrowed for construction of the National Archives facility, 
     for expenses necessary to move into the facility.
             archives facilities and presidential libraries

                        repairs and restoration

       For the repair, alteration, and improvement of archives 
     facilities and presidential libraries, $1,500,000, to remain 
     available until expended.
        National Historical Publications and Records Commission


                             grants program

       For necessary expenses for allocations and grants for 
     historical publications and records as authorized by 44 
     U.S.C. 2504, as amended, [$4,000,000] $5,000,000 to remain 
     available until expended.
                      Office of Government Ethics


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office 
     of Government Ethics pursuant to the Ethics in Government Act 
     of 1978, as amended by Public Law 100-598, and the Ethics 
     Reform Act of 1989, Public Law 101-194, including services as 
     authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, rental of conference rooms in 
     the District of Columbia and elsewhere, hire of passenger 
     motor vehicles, and not to exceed $1,500 for official 
     reception and representation expenses; [$7,776,000] 
     $8,328,000.

                     Office of Personnel Management


                         Salaries and Expenses

                  (including transfer of trust funds)

       For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office 
     of Personnel Management pursuant to Reorganization Plan 
     Numbered 2 of 1978 and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, 
     including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, medical 
     examinations performed for veterans by private physicians on 
     a fee basis, rental of conference rooms in the District of 
     Columbia and elsewhere, hire of passenger motor vehicles, not 
     to exceed $2,500 for official reception and representation 
     expenses, and advances for reimbursements to applicable funds 
     of the Office of Personnel Management and the Federal Bureau 
     of Investigation for expenses incurred under Executive Order 
     10422 of January 9, 1953, as amended; [$85,524,000] 
     $96,384,000, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be made 
     available for the establishment of health promotion and 
     disease prevention programs for Federal employees and in 
     addition [$102,536,000] $93,261,000 for administrative 
     expenses, to be transferred from the appropriate trust funds 
     of the Office of Personnel Management without regard to other 
     statutes, including direct procurement of health benefits 
     printing, for the retirement and insurance programs, of which 
     $11,300,000 shall be transferred at such times as the Office 
     of Personnel Management deems appropriate, and shall remain 
     available until expended for the costs of automating the 
     retirement recordkeeping systems, together with remaining 
     amounts authorized in previous Acts for the recordkeeping 
     systems: Provided, That the provisions of this appropriation 
     shall not affect the authority to use applicable trust funds 
     as provided by section 8348(a)(1)(B) of title 5, United 
     States Code: Provided further, That, except as may be 
     consistent with 5 U.S.C. 8902a(f)(1) and (i), no payment may 
     be made from the Employees Health Benefits Fund to any 
     physician, hospital, or other provider of health care 
     services or supplies who is, at the time such services or 
     supplies are provided to an individual covered under chapter 
     89 of title 5, United States Code, excluded, pursuant to 
     section 1128 or 1128A of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
     1320a-7-1320a-7a), from participation in any program under 
     title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et 
     seq.): Provided further, That no part of this appropriation 
     shall be available for salaries and expenses of the Legal 
     Examining Unit of the Office of Personnel Management 
     established pursuant to Executive Order 9358 of July 1, 1943, 
     or any successor unit of like purpose: Provided further, That 
     the President's Commission on White House Fellows, 
     established by Executive Order 11183 of October 3, 1964, may, 
     during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, accept 
     donations of money, property, and personal services in 
     connection with the development of a publicity brochure to 
     provide information about the White House Fellows, except 
     that no such donations shall be accepted for travel or 
     reimbursement of travel expenses, or for the salaries of 
     employees of such Commission: [Provided further, That no 
     funds appropriated herein shall be used to pay administrative 
     expenses or the compensation of any officer or employee of 
     the United States to implement a reduction in force in the 
     Office of Federal Investigations prior to June 30, 1996.]


                      Office of Inspector General

                         salaries and expenses

                  (including transfer of trust funds)

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
     in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act, 
     as amended, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
     3109, hire of passenger motor vehicles: $4,009,000, and in 
     addition, not to exceed $6,181,000 for administrative 
     expenses to audit the Office of Personnel Management's 
     retirement and insurance programs, to be transferred from the 
     appropriate trust funds of the Office of Personnel 
     Management, as determined by the Inspector General: Provided, 
     That the Inspector General is authorized to rent conference 
     rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere.


      Government Payment for Annuitants, Employees Health Benefits

       For payment of Government contributions with respect to 
     retired employees, as authorized by chapter 89 of title 5, 
     United States Code, and the Retired Federal Employees Health 
     Benefits Act (74 Stat. 849), as amended, $3,746,337,000 to 
     remain available until expended.


       Government Payment for Annuitants, Employee Life Insurance

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


        Payment to Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund

       For financing the unfunded liability of new and increased 
     annuity benefits becoming effective on or after October 20, 
     1969, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 8348, and annuities under 
     special Acts to be credited to the Civil Service Retirement 
     and Disability Fund, such sums as may be necessary: Provided, 
     That annuities authorized by the Act of May 29, 1944, as 
     amended, and the Act of August 19, 1950, as amended (33 
     U.S.C. 771-75), may hereafter be paid out of the Civil 
     Service Retirement and Disability Fund.
          [General Provisions--Office of Personnel Management]
           General Provision--Office of Personnel Management
       [Section 1. Section 1104 of title 5, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       [(1) in subsection (a)--
       [(A) in paragraph (2)--
       [(i) by striking ``(except competitive examinations for 
     administrative law judges appointed under section 3105 of 
     this title)''; and
       [(ii) by striking the semicolon at the end of paragraph (2) 
     and inserting in lieu thereof a period; and
       [(B) by striking the matter following paragraph (2) through 
     ``principles.''; and
       [(2) in subsection (b) by adding at the end the following 
     new paragraph:
       [``(4) At the request of the head of an agency to whom a 
     function has been delegated under subsection (a)(2), the 
     Office may provide assistance to the agency in performing 
     such function. Such assistance shall, to the extent 
     determined appropriate by the Director of the Office, be 
     performed on a reimbursable basis through the revolving fund 
     established under section 1304(e).''.
       [Sec. 2. Subparagraph (B) of section 8348(a)(1) of title 5, 
     United States Code, is amended--
       [(1) by inserting ``in making an allotment or assignment 
     made by an individual under section 8345(h) or 8465(b) of 
     this title,'' after ``law),''; and
       [(2) by striking ``title 26;'' and inserting ``title 26 or 
     section 8345(k) or 8469 of this title;''.
       [Sec. 3. Section 4(a) of the Federal Workforce 
     Restructuring Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-226; 108 Stat. 111) 
     is amended--
       [(1) by deleting ``Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995'' and 
     inserting in lieu thereof: ``Voluntary Separation Incentive 
     Payments.--''; and
       [(2) in paragraph (1)(A) by striking ``and before October 
     1, 1995,''.
       [Sec. 4. Title 5, United States Code, is amended--
       [(1) in the second section designated as section 3329 (as 
     added by section 4431(a) of Public Law 102-484)--
       [(A) by redesignating such section as section 3330; and
       [(B) by adding at the end thereof the following new 
     subsection:
       [``(f) The Office may, to the extent it determines 
     appropriate, charge such fees to agencies for services 
     provided under this section and for related Federal 
     employment information. The Office shall retain such fees 

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     to pay the costs of providing such services and information.''; and
       [(2) in the table of sections for chapter 33 by amending 
     the second item relating to section 3329 to read as follows:

[``3330. Government-wide list of vacant positions.''.]
       Sec. 5. Section 1 under the subheading ``General 
     Provision'' under the heading ``Office of Personnel 
     Management'' under title IV of the Treasury, Postal Service 
     and General Government Appropriations Act, 1992 (Public Law 
     102-141; 105 Stat. 861; 5 U.S.C. 5941 note), as amended by 
     section 532 of the Treasury, Postal Service and General 
     Government Appropriations Act, 1995 (Public Law 103-329; 108 
     Stat. 2413), is further amended by striking ``1996'' both 
     places it appears and inserting in lieu thereof ``1998''.
                       Office of Special Counsel


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office 
     of Special Counsel pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 
     of 1978, the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-
     454), the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 (Public Law 
     101-12), Public Law 103-424, and the Uniformed Services 
     Employment and Reemployment Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-353), 
     including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, payment of 
     fees and expenses for witnesses, rental of conference rooms 
     in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and hire of 
     passenger motor vehicles; $7,840,000.

                        United States Tax Court


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses, including contract reporting and 
     other services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; [$32,899,000] 
     $33,639,000: Provided, That travel expenses of the judges 
     shall be paid upon the written certificate of the judge.
       This title may be cited as the ``Independent Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 1996''.

                      TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS

                                This Act
       [Section 501. No part of any appropriation made available 
     in this Act shall be used for the purchase or sale of real 
     estate or for the purpose of establishing new offices inside 
     or outside the District of Columbia: Provided, That this 
     limitation shall not apply to programs which have been 
     approved by the Congress and appropriations made therefor.]
       Sec. 502. 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. 503. 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. 504. None of the funds made available to the General 
     Services Administration pursuant to section 210(f) of the 
     Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 
     shall be obligated or expended after the date of enactment of 
     this Act for the procurement by contract of any guard, 
     elevator operator, messenger or custodial services if any 
     permanent veterans preference employee of the General 
     Services Administration at said date, would be terminated as 
     a result of the procurement of such services, except that 
     such funds may be obligated or expended for the procurement 
     by contract of the covered services with sheltered workshops 
     employing the severely handicapped under Public Law 92-28. 
     Only if such workshops decline to contract for the provision 
     of the covered services may the General Services 
     Administration procure the services by competitive contract, 
     for a period not to exceed 5 years. At such time as such 
     competitive contract expires or is terminated for any reason, 
     the General Services Administration shall again offer to 
     contract for the services from a sheltered workshop prior to 
     offering such services for competitive procurement.
       Sec. 505. None of the funds made available by this Act 
     shall be available for any activity or for paying the salary 
     of any Government employee where funding an activity or 
     paying a salary to a Government employee would result in a 
     decision, determination, rule, regulation, or policy that 
     would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of the Tariff 
     Act of 1930.
       Sec. 506. None of the funds made available by this Act 
     shall be available for the purpose of transferring control 
     over the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center located at 
     Glynco, Georgia, and Artesia, New Mexico, out of the Treasury 
     Department.
       Sec. 507. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes within 
     the United States not heretofore authorized by the Congress.
       Sec. 508. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act shall be available for the payment of the salary of any 
     officer or employee of the United States Postal Service, 
     who--
       (1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threatens to 
     prohibit or prevent, any officer or employee of the United 
     States Postal Service from having any direct oral or written 
     communication or contact with any Member or committee of 
     Congress in connection with any matter pertaining to the 
     employment of such officer or employee or pertaining to the 
     United States Postal Service in any way, irrespective of 
     whether such communication or contact is at the initiative of 
     such officer or employee or in response to the request or 
     inquiry of such Member or committee; or
       (2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, demotes, 
     reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or performance of 
     efficiency rating, denies promotion to, relocates, reassigns, 
     transfers, disciplines, or discriminates in regard to any 
     employment right, entitlement, or benefit, or any term or 
     condition of employment of, any officer or employee of the 
     United States Postal Service, or attempts or threatens to 
     commit any of the foregoing actions with respect to such 
     officer or employee, by reason of any communication or 
     contact of such officer or employee with any Member or 
     committee of Congress as described in paragraph (1) of this 
     subsection.
       [Sec. 509. Funds under this Act shall be available as 
     authorized by sections 4501-4506 of title 5, United States 
     Code, when the achievement involved is certified, or when an 
     award for such achievement is otherwise payable, in 
     accordance with such sections. Such funds may not be used for 
     any purpose with respect to which the preceding sentence 
     relates beyond fiscal year 1996.]
       Sec. 510. The Office of Personnel Management may, during 
     the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, accept donations 
     of supplies, services, land and equipment for the Federal 
     Executive Institute, [the Federal Quality Institute,] and 
     Management Development Centers to assist in enhancing the 
     quality of Federal management.
       Sec. 511. The United States Secret Service may, during the 
     fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, accept donations of 
     money to off-set costs incurred while protecting former 
     Presidents and spouses of former Presidents when the former 
     President or spouse travels for the purpose of making an 
     appearance or speech for a payment of money or any thing of 
     value.
       [Sec. 512. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to withdraw the designation of the Virginia Inland 
     Port at Front Royal, Virginia, as a United States Customs 
     Service port of entry.]
       Sec. 513. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person 
     filling a position, other than a temporary position, formerly 
     held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed Forces of 
     the United States and has satisfactorily completed his period 
     of active military or naval service and has within ninety 
     days after his release from such service or from 
     hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of 
     not more than one year made application for restoration to 
     his former position and has been certified by the Office of 
     Personnel Management as still qualified to perform the duties 
     of his former position and has not been restored thereto.
       Sec. 514. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to provide any non-public information such as mailing 
     or telephone lists to any person or any organization outside 
     of the Federal Government without the approval of the House 
     and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
       Sec. 515. Compliance With Buy American Act.--No funds 
     appropriated pursuant to this Act may be expended by an 
     entity unless the entity agrees that in expending the 
     assistance the entity will comply with sections 2 through 4 
     of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a-10c, popularly 
     known as the ``Buy American Act'').
       Sec. 516. Sense of Congress; Requirement Regarding 
     Notice.--(a) Purchase of American-Made Equipment and 
     Products.--In the case of any equipment or products that may 
     be authorized to be purchased with financial assistance 
     provided under this Act, it is the sense of the Congress that 
     entities receiving such assistance should, in expending the 
     assistance, purchase only American-made equipment and 
     products.
       (b) Notice to Recipients of Assistance.--In providing 
     financial assistance under this Act, the Secretary of the 
     Treasury shall provide to each recipient of the assistance a 
     notice describing the statement made in subsection (a) by the 
     Congress.
       Sec. 517. Prohibition of Contracts.--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, such person shall be ineligible to 
     receive any contract or subcontract made with funds provided 
     pursuant to this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, 
     and ineligibility procedures described in section 9.400 
     through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
       [Sec. 518. Except as otherwise specifically provided by 
     law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances 
     remaining available at the end of fiscal year 1996 from 
     appropriations made available for salaries and expenses for 
     fiscal year 1996 in this Act, shall remain available through 
     September 30, 1997 for each such account for the purposes 
     authorized: Provided, That a request shall be submitted to 
     the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations for 
     approval prior to the expenditure of such funds.]
       Sec. 519. Where appropriations in this Act are expendable 
     for travel expenses of employees and no specific limitation 
     has been placed thereon, the expenditures for such travel 
     expenses may not exceed the amount set forth therefore in the 
     budget estimates submitted for appropriations without the 
     advance approval of the House and Senate 

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     Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That this section shall not 
     apply to travel performed by uncompensated officials of local 
     boards and appeal boards in the Selective Service System; to 
     travel performed directly in connection with care and 
     treatment of medical beneficiaries of the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs; to travel of the Office of Personnel 
     Management in carrying out its observation responsibilities 
     of the Voting Rights Act; or to payments to interagency motor 
     pools separately set forth in the budget schedules.
       Sec. 520. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or 
     regulation: (1) The authority of the special police officers 
     of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in the Washington, 
     DC Metropolitan area, extends to buildings and land under the 
     custody and control of the Bureau; to buildings and land 
     acquired by or for the Bureau through lease, unless otherwise 
     provided by the acquisition agency; to the streets, sidewalks 
     and open areas immediately adjacent to the Bureau along 
     Wallenberg Place (15th Street) and 14th Street between 
     Independence and Maine Avenues and C and D Streets between 
     12th and 14th Streets; to areas which include surrounding 
     parking facilities used by Bureau employees, including the 
     lots at 12th and C Streets, SW, Maine Avenue and Water 
     Streets, SW, Maiden Lane, the Tidal Basin and East Potomac 
     Park; to the protection in transit of United States 
     securities, plates and dies used in the production of United 
     States securities, or other products or implements of the 
     Bureau of Engraving and Printing which the Director of that 
     agency so designates; (2) The exercise of police authority by 
     Bureau officers, with the exception of the exercise of 
     authority upon property under the custody and control of the 
     Bureau, shall be deemed supplementary to the Federal police 
     force with primary jurisdictional responsibility. This 
     authority shall be in addition to any other law enforcement 
     authority which has been provided to these officers under 
     other provisions of law or regulations.
       [Sec. 521. Section 5378 of Title 5, United States Code, is 
     amended by adding: ``(8) Chief--not more than the maximum 
     rate payable for GS-14.'']
       [Sec. 522. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     there is hereby established in the Treasury of the United 
     States, a United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund (the 
     ``Fund'')] Subchapter III of chapter 51 of subtitle IV of 
     title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
     thereof the following new section: ``sec. 5136 united states 
     mint public enterprise fund.'' There shall be established in 
     the Treasury of the United States, a United States Mint 
     Public Enterprise Fund (the ``Fund'') for fiscal year 1996 
     and hereafter: Provided, That all receipts from Mint 
     operations and programs, including the production and sale of 
     numismatic items, the production and sale of circulating 
     coinage, the protection of Government assets, and gifts and 
     bequests of property, real or personal shall be deposited 
     into the Fund and shall be available without fiscal year 
     limitations: Provided further, That all expenses incurred by 
     the Secretary of the Treasury for operations and programs of 
     the United States Mint that the Secretary of the Treasury 
     determines, in the Secretary's sole discretion, to be 
     ordinary and reasonable incidents of Mint operations and 
     programs, and any expense incurred pursuant to any obligation 
     or other commitment of Mint operations and programs that was 
     entered into before the establishment of the Fund, shall be 
     paid out of the Fund: Provided further, That not to exceed 
     6.2415 percent of the nominal value of the coins minted, 
     shall be paid out of the Fund for the circulating coin 
     operations and programs previously provided for by 
     appropriation: Provided further, That the Secretary of the 
     Treasury may borrow such funds from the General Fund as may 
     be necessary to meet existing liabilities and obligations 
     incurred prior to the receipt of revenues into the Fund 
     [and:] Provided further, That the General Fund shall be 
     reimbursed for such funds by the Fund within one year of the 
     date of the loan [and:] Provided further, That the Fund may 
     retain receipts from the Federal Reserve System from the sale 
     of circulating coins at face value for deposit into the Fund; 
     [and:] Provided further, That the Secretary of Treasury shall 
     transfer to the Fund all assets and liabilities of the Mint 
     operations and programs, including all Numismatic Public 
     Enterprise Fund assets and liabilities, all receivables, 
     unpaid obligations and unobligated balances from the Mint's 
     appropriation, the Coinage Profit Fund, and the Coinage Metal 
     Fund, and the land and buildings of the Philadelphia Mint, 
     Denver Mint, and the Fort Knox Bullion Depository: Provided 
     further, That the Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund, the 
     Coinage Profit Fund and the Coinage Metal Fund shall cease to 
     exist as separate funds as their activities and functions are 
     subsumed under and subject to the Fund, and the requirements 
     of 31 USC 5134(c)(4), (c)(5)(B), and (d) and (e) of the 
     Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund shall apply to the Fund: 
     Provided further, That at such times as the Secretary of the 
     Treasury determines appropriate, but not less than annually, 
     any amount in the Fund that is determined to be in excess of 
     the amount required by the Fund shall be transferred to the 
     Treasury for deposit as miscellaneous receipts: Provided 
     further, That the term ``Mint operations and programs'' means 
     (1) the activities concerning, and assets utilized in, the 
     production, administration, distribution, marketing, 
     purchase, sale, and management of coinage, numismatic items, 
     the protection and safeguarding of Mint assets and those non-
     Mint assets in the custody of the Mint, and the Fund; and (2) 
     includes capital, personnel salaries and compensation, 
     functions relating to operations, marketing, distribution, 
     promotion, advertising, official reception and 
     representation, the acquisition or replacement of equipment, 
     the renovation or modernization of facilities, and the 
     construction or acquisition of new buildings: Provided 
     further, That the term ``numismatic item'' [means] includes 
     any medal, proof coin, uncirculated coin, bullion coin, [or 
     other coin specifically designated by statute as a numismatic 
     item, including] numismatic collectible other monetary 
     issuances and products and accessories related to any such 
     medal, coin, [or item:] Provided further, [That provisions of 
     law governing procurement or public contracts shall not be 
     applicable to the procurement of goods or services necessary 
     for carrying out Mint programs and operations and such 
     programs and operations shall also be exempt from all 
     government personnel regulations, ceilings, and full-time 
     equivalent controls.
       Sec. 523. Section 531 of Public Law 103-329, is amended by 
     inserting, ``of the first section'', after ``adding at the 
     end''.
       [Sec. 524. No funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
     available to pay for an abortion, or the administrative 
     expenses in connection with any health plan under the Federal 
     employees health benefit program which provides any benefits 
     or coverage for abortions.
       [Sec. 525. The provision of section 524 shall not apply 
     where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus 
     were carried to term.
       [Sec. 526. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Administrator of General Services shall delegate the 
     authority to procure automatic data processing equipment for 
     the Tax Systems Modernization Program to the Secretary of the 
     Treasury: Provided, That the Director of the Office of 
     Management and Budget shall have the authority to revoke such 
     delegation upon the written recommendation of the 
     Administrator that the Secretary's actions under such 
     delegation are inconsistent with the goals of economic and 
     efficient procurement and utilization of automatic data 
     processing equipment: Provided further, That for all other 
     purposes, a procurement conducted under such delegation shall 
     be treated as if made under a delegation by the Administrator 
     pursuant to 40 U.S.C. 759.
       [Sec. 527. Relief of Certain Periodical Publications.--For 
     mail classification purposes under section 3626 of title 39, 
     United States Code, and any regulations of the United States 
     Postal Service for the administration of that section, a 
     weekly second-class periodical publication which--
       [(i) is eligible to publish legal notices under any 
     applicable laws of the State where it is published;
       [(ii) is eligible to be mailed at the rates for mail under 
     former subsection 4358 (a), (b), and (c) of title 39, United 
     States Code, as limited by current subsection 3626(g) of that 
     title; and
       [(iii) the pages of which were customarily secured by 2 
     staples before March 19, 1989;
     shall not be considered to be a bound publication solely 
     because its pages continue to be secured by 2 staples after 
     that date.
       [Sec. 528. None of the funds in this Act may be obligated 
     or expended for employee training that does not meet 
     identified needs for knowledge, skills and abilities bearing 
     directly upon the performance of official duties.]
       Sec. 529. (a) Prior to February 15, 1996, none of the funds 
     appropriated by this Act may, with respect to an individual 
     employed by the Bureau of the Public Debt in the Washington 
     metropolitan region on April 10, 1991, be used to separate, 
     reduce the grade or pay of, or carry out any other adverse 
     personnel action against such individual for declining to 
     accept a directed reassignment to a position outside such 
     region, pursuant to a transfer of any such Bureau's 
     operations or functions to Parkersburg, West Virginia.
       (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to any 
     individual who, prior to February 15, 1996, declines an offer 
     of another position in the Department of the Treasury which 
     is of at least equal pay and which is within the Washington 
     metropolitan region.
              TITLE VI--GOVERNMENTWIDE GENERAL PROVISIONS

                Departments, Agencies, and Corporations

       Section 601. Funds appropriated in this or any other Act 
     may be used to pay travel to the United States for the 
     immediate family of employees serving abroad in cases of 
     death or life threatening illness of said employee.
       Sec. 602. No department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
     United States receiving appropriated funds under this or any 
     other Act for fiscal year 1996 shall obligate or expend any 
     such funds, unless such department, agency, or 
     instrumentality has in place, and will continue to administer 
     in good faith, a written policy designed to ensure that all 
     of its workplaces are free from the illegal use, possession, 
     or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the 
     Controlled Substances Act) by the officers and employees of 
     such department, agency, or instrumentality.
       Sec. 603. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1345, any agency, 
     department or instrumentality of the United States which 
     provides or proposes to provide child care services for 
     Federal employees may reimburse any Federal employee or any 
     person employed to provide such services for travel, 
     transportation, and subsistence expenses incurred for 
     training classes, conferences or other meetings in connection 
     with the provision of such services: Provided, That any per 
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     made pursuant to this section shall not exceed the rate 
     specified in regulations prescribed pursuant to section 5707 
     of title 5, United States Code.
       Sec. 604. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the 
     maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year in 
     accordance with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (60 
     Stat. 810), for the purchase of any passenger motor vehicle 
     (exclusive of buses, ambulances, law enforcement, and 
     undercover surveillance vehicles), is hereby fixed at $8,100 
     except station wagons for which the maximum shall be $9,100: 
     Provided, That these limits may be exceeded by not to exceed 
     $3,700 for police-type vehicles, and by not to exceed $4,000 
     for special heavy-duty vehicles: Provided further, That the 
     limits set forth in this section may not be exceeded by more 
     than five percent for electric or hybrid vehicles purchased 
     for demonstration under the provisions of the Electric and 
     Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstration Act 
     of 1976: Provided further, That the limits set forth in this 
     section may be exceeded by the incremental cost of clean 
     alternative fuels vehicles acquired pursuant to Public Law 
     101-549 over the cost of comparable conventionally fueled 
     vehicles.
       Sec. 605. Appropriations of the executive departments and 
     independent establishments for the current fiscal year 
     available for expenses of travel or for the expenses of the 
     activity concerned, are hereby made available for quarters 
     allowances and cost-of-living allowances, in accordance with 
     5 U.S.C. 5922-24.
       Sec. 606. Unless otherwise specified during the current 
     fiscal year no part of any appropriation contained in this or 
     any other Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any 
     officer or employee of the Government of the United States 
     (including any agency the majority of the stock of which is 
     owned by the Government of the United States) whose post of 
     duty is in the continental United States unless such person 
     (1) is a citizen of the United States, (2) is a person in the 
     service of the United States on the date of enactment of this 
     Act who, being eligible for citizenship, has filed a 
     declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United 
     States prior to such date and is actually residing in the 
     United States, (3) is a person who owes allegiance to the 
     United States, (4) is an alien from Cuba, Poland, South 
     Vietnam, the countries of the former Soviet Union, or the 
     Baltic countries lawfully admitted to the United States for 
     permanent residence, or (5) South Vietnamese, Cambodian, and 
     Laotian refugees paroled in the United States after January 
     1, 1975, or (6) nationals of the People's Republic of China 
     that qualify for adjustment of status pursuant to the Chinese 
     Student Protection Act of 1992: Provided, That for the 
     purpose of this section, an affidavit signed by any such 
     person shall be considered prima facie evidence that the 
     requirements of this section with respect to his or her 
     status have been complied with: Provided further, That any 
     person making a false affidavit shall be guilty of a felony, 
     and, upon conviction, shall be fined no more than $4,000 or 
     imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided 
     further, That the above penal clause shall be in addition to, 
     and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing 
     law: Provided further, That any payment made to any officer 
     or employee contrary to the provisions of this section shall 
     be recoverable in action by the Federal Government. This 
     section shall not apply to citizens of Ireland, Israel, the 
     Republic of the Philippines or to nationals of those 
     countries allied with the United States in the current 
     defense effort, or to international broadcasters employed by 
     the United States Information Agency, or to temporary 
     employment of translators, or to temporary employment in the 
     field service (not to exceed sixty days) as a result of 
     emergencies.
       Sec. 607. Appropriations available to any department or 
     agency during the current fiscal year for necessary expenses, 
     including maintenance or operating expenses, shall also be 
     available for payment to the General Services Administration 
     for charges for space and services and those expenses of 
     renovation and alteration of buildings and facilities which 
     constitute public improvements performed in accordance with 
     the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (73 Stat. 749), the Public 
     Buildings Amendments of 1972 (87 Stat. 216), or other 
     applicable law.
       Sec. 608. In addition to funds provided in this or any 
     other Act, all Federal agencies are authorized to receive and 
     use funds resulting from the sale of materials recovered 
     through recycling or waste prevention programs. Such funds 
     shall be available until expended for the following purposes:
       (1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention and 
     recycling programs as described in Executive Order 12873 
     (October 20, 1993), including any such programs adopted prior 
     to the effective date of the Executive Order.
       (2) Other Federal agency environmental management programs, 
     including but not limited to, the development and 
     implementation of hazardous waste management and pollution 
     prevention programs.
       (3) Other employee programs as authorized by law or as 
     deemed appropriate by the head of the Federal agency.
       Sec. 609. Funds made available by this or any other Act for 
     administrative expenses in the current fiscal year of the 
     corporations and agencies subject to chapter 91 of title 31, 
     United States Code, shall be available, in addition to 
     objects for which such funds are otherwise available, for 
     rent in the District of Columbia; services in accordance with 
     5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified under this head, all 
     the provisions of which shall be applicable to the 
     expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in the 
     Act by which they are made available: Provided, That in the 
     event any functions budgeted as administrative expenses are 
     subsequently transferred to or paid from other funds, the 
     limitations on administrative expenses shall be 
     correspondingly reduced.
       Sec. 610. No part of any appropriation for the current 
     fiscal year contained in this or any other Act shall be paid 
     to any person for the filling of any position for which he or 
     she has been nominated after the Senate has voted not to 
     approve the nomination of said person.
       Sec. 611. Any department or agency to which the 
     Administrator of General Services has delegated the authority 
     to operate, maintain or repair any building or facility 
     pursuant to section 205(d) of the Federal Property and 
     Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, shall retain 
     that portion of the GSA rental payment available for 
     operation, maintenance or repair of the building or facility, 
     as determined by the Administrator, and expend such funds 
     directly for the operation, maintenance or repair of the 
     building or facility. Any funds retained under this section 
     shall remain available until expended for such purposes.
       Sec. 612. Pursuant to section 1415 of the Act of July 15, 
     1952 (66 Stat. 662), foreign credits (including currencies) 
     owed to or owned by the United States may be used by Federal 
     agencies for any purpose for which appropriations are made 
     for the current fiscal year (including the carrying out of 
     Acts requiring or authorizing the use of such credits), only 
     when reimbursement therefor is made to the Treasury from 
     applicable appropriations of the agency concerned: Provided, 
     That such credits received as exchanged allowances or 
     proceeds of sales of personal property may be used in whole 
     or part payment for acquisition of similar items, to the 
     extent and in the manner authorized by law, without 
     reimbursement to the Treasury.
       Sec. 613. No part of any appropriation contained in this or 
     any other Act shall be available for interagency financing of 
     boards, commissions, councils, committees, or similar groups 
     (whether or not they are interagency entities) which do not 
     have a prior and specific statutory approval to receive 
     financial support from more than one agency or 
     instrumentality.
       Sec. 614. Funds made available by this or any other Act to 
     the ``Postal Service Fund'' (39 U.S.C. 2003) shall be 
     available for employment of guards for all buildings and 
     areas owned or occupied by the Postal Service and under the 
     charge and control of the Postal Service, and such guards 
     shall have, with respect to such property, the powers of 
     special policemen provided by the first section of the Act of 
     June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318), and, 
     as to property owned or occupied by the Postal Service, the 
     Postmaster General may take the same actions as the 
     Administrator of General Services may take under the 
     provisions of sections 2 and 3 of the Act of June 1, 1948, as 
     amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318a, 318b), attaching 
     thereto penal consequences under the authority and within the 
     limits provided in section 4 of the Act of June 1, 1948, as 
     amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318c).
       Sec. 615. None of the funds made available pursuant to the 
     provisions of this Act shall be used to implement, 
     administer, or enforce any regulation which has been 
     disapproved pursuant to a resolution of disapproval duly 
     adopted in accordance with the applicable law of the United 
     States.
       Sec. 616. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     and except as otherwise provided in this section, no part of 
     any of the funds appropriated for the fiscal year ending on 
     September 30, 1996, by this or any other Act, may be used to 
     pay any prevailing rate employee described in section 
     5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code--
       (1) during the period from the date of expiration of the 
     limitation imposed by section 617 of the Treasury, Postal 
     Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1995, 
     until the normal effective date of the applicable wage survey 
     adjustment that is to take effect in fiscal year 1996, in an 
     amount that exceeds the rate payable for the applicable grade 
     and step of the applicable wage schedule in accordance with 
     such section 617; and
       (2) during the period consisting of the remainder of fiscal 
     year 1996, in an amount that exceeds, as a result of a wage 
     survey adjustment, the rate payable under paragraph (1) by 
     more than the sum of--
       (A) the percentage adjustment taking effect in fiscal year 
     1996 under section 5303 of title 5, United States Code, in 
     the rates of pay under the General Schedule; and
       (B) the difference between the overall average percentage 
     of the locality-based comparability payments taking effect in 
     fiscal year 1996 under section 5304 of such title (whether by 
     adjustment or otherwise), and the overall average percentage 
     of such payments which was effective in fiscal year 1995 
     under such section.
       (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
     prevailing rate employee described in subparagraph (B) or (C) 
     of section 5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code, and no 
     employee covered by section 5348 of such title, may be paid 
     during the periods for which subsection (a) is in effect at a 
     rate that exceeds the rates that would be payable under 
     subsection (a) were subsection (a) applicable to such 
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       (c) For the purposes of this section, the rates payable to 
     an employee who is covered by this section and who is paid 
     from a schedule not in existence on September 30, 1995, shall 
     be determined under regulations prescribed by the Office of 
     Personnel Management.
       (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates of 
     premium pay for employees subject to this section may not be 
     changed from the rates in effect on September 30, 1995, 
     except to the extent determined by the Office of Personnel 
     Management to be consistent with the purpose of this section.
       (e) This section shall apply with respect to pay for 
     service performed after September 30, 1995.
       (f) For the purpose of administering any provision of law 
     (including section 8431 of title 5, United States Code, and 
     any rule or regulation that provides premium pay, retirement, 
     life insurance, or any other employee benefit) that requires 
     any deduction or contribution, or that imposes any 
     requirement or limitation on the basis of a rate of salary or 
     basic pay, the rate of salary or basic pay payable after the 
     application of this section shall be treated as the rate of 
     salary or basic pay.
       (g) Nothing in this section shall be considered to permit 
     or require the payment to any employee covered by this 
     section at a rate in excess of the rate that would be payable 
     were this section not in effect.
       (h) The Office of Personnel Management may provide for 
     exceptions to the limitations imposed by this section if the 
     Office determines that such exceptions are necessary to 
     ensure the recruitment or retention of qualified employees.
       Sec. 617. During the period in which the head of any 
     department or agency, or any other officer or civilian 
     employee of the Government appointed by the President of the 
     United States, holds office, no funds may be obligated or 
     expended in excess of $5,000 to furnish or redecorate the 
     office of such department head, agency head, officer or 
     employee, or to purchase furniture or make improvements for 
     any such office, unless advance notice of such furnishing or 
     redecoration is expressly approved by the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House and Senate. For the purposes of 
     this section, the word ``office'' shall include the entire 
     suite of offices assigned to the individual, as well as any 
     other space used primarily by the individual or the use of 
     which is directly controlled by the individual.
       Sec. 618. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
     executive branch agency shall purchase, construct, and/or 
     lease any additional facilities, except within or contiguous 
     to existing locations, to be used for the purpose of 
     conducting Federal law enforcement training without the 
     advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations.
       [Sec. 619. (a) No amount of any grant made by a Federal 
     agency shall be used to finance the acquisition of goods or 
     services (including construction services) unless the 
     recipient of the grant agrees, as a condition for the receipt 
     of such grant, to--
       [(1) specify in any announcement of the awarding of the 
     contract for the procurement of the goods and services 
     involved (including construction services) the amount of 
     Federal funds that will be used to finance the acquisition; 
     and
       [(2) express the amount announced pursuant to paragraph (1) 
     as a percentage of the total costs of the planned 
     acquisition.
       [(b) The requirements of subsection (a) shall not apply to 
     a procurement for goods or services (including construction 
     services) that has an aggregate value of less than $500,000.]
       Sec. 620. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, United 
     States Code, funds made available for fiscal year 1996 by 
     this or any other Act shall be available for the interagency 
     funding of national security and emergency preparedness 
     telecommunications initiatives which benefit multiple Federal 
     departments, agencies, or entities, as provided by Executive 
     Order Numbered 12472 (April 3, 1984).
       Sec. 621. Notwithstanding any provisions of this or any 
     other Act, during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, 
     and hereafter, any department, division, bureau, or office 
     may use funds appropriated by this or any other Act to 
     install telephone lines, and necessary equipment, and to pay 
     monthly charges, in any private residence or private 
     apartment of an employee who has been authorized to work at 
     home in accordance with guidelines issued by the Office of 
     Personnel Management: Provided, That the head of the 
     department, division, bureau, or office certifies that 
     adequate safeguards against private misuse exist, and that 
     the service is necessary for direct support of the agency's 
     mission.
       Sec. 622. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this or any 
     other Act may be obligated or expended by any Federal 
     department, agency, or other instrumentality for the salaries 
     or expenses of any employee appointed to a position of a 
     confidential or policy-determining character excepted from 
     the competitive service pursuant to section 3302 of title 5, 
     United States Code, without a certification to the Office of 
     Personnel Management from the head of the Federal department, 
     agency, or other instrumentality employing the Schedule C 
     appointee that the Schedule C position was not created solely 
     or primarily in order to detail the employee to the White 
     House.
       (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to 
     Federal employees or members of the armed services detailed 
     to or from--
       (1) the Central Intelligence Agency;
       (2) the National Security Agency;
       (3) the Defense Intelligence Agency;
       (4) the offices within the Department of Defense for the 
     collection of specialized national foreign intelligence 
     through reconnaissance programs;
       (5) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the 
     Department of State;
       (6) any agency, office, or unit of the Army, Navy, Air 
     Force, and Marine Corps, the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
     and the Drug Enforcement Administration of the Department of 
     Justice, the Department of Transportation, the Department of 
     the Treasury, and the Department of Energy performing 
     intelligence functions; and
       (7) the Director of Central Intelligence.
       Sec. 623. No department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
     United States receiving appropriated funds under this or any 
     other Act for fiscal year 1996 shall obligate or expend any 
     such funds, unless such department, agency or instrumentality 
     has in place, and will continue to administer in good faith, 
     a written policy designed to ensure that all of its 
     workplaces are free from discrimination and sexual harassment 
     and that all of its workplaces are not in violation of title 
     VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, the Age 
     Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and the 
     Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
       Sec. 624. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act may be used to pay for the expenses of travel of 
     employees, including employees of the Executive Office of the 
     President, not directly responsible for the discharge of 
     official governmental tasks and duties: Provided, That this 
     restriction shall not apply to the family of the President, 
     Members of Congress or their spouses, Heads of State of a 
     foreign country or their designee(s), persons providing 
     assistance to the President for official purposes, or other 
     individuals so designated by the President.
       Sec. 625. Notwithstanding any provision of law, the 
     President, or his designee, must certify to Congress, 
     annually, that no person or persons with direct or indirect 
     responsibility for administering the Executive Office of the 
     President's Drug-Free Workplace Plan are themselves subject 
     to a program of individual random drug testing.
       Sec. 626. (a) Beginning in fiscal year 1996 and thereafter, 
     for each Federal agency, except the Department of Defense 
     (which has separate authority), and except as provided in 
     Public Law 102-393, title IV, section 13 (40 U.S.C. 490g) 
     with respect to the Fund established pursuant to 40 U.S.C. 
     490(f), an amount equal to 50 percent of--
       (1) the amount of each utility rebate received by the 
     agency for energy efficiency and water conservation measures, 
     which the agency has implemented; and
       (2) the amount of the agency's share of the measured energy 
     savings resulting from energy-savings performance contracts
     may be retained and credited to accounts that fund energy and 
     water conservation activities at the agency's facilities, and 
     shall remain available until expended for additional specific 
     energy efficiency or water conservation projects or 
     activities, including improvements and retrofits, facility 
     surveys, additional or improved utility metering, and 
     employee training and awareness programs, as authorized by 
     section 152(f) of the Energy Policy Act (Public Law 102-486).
       (b) The remaining 50 percent of each rebate, and the 
     remaining 50 percent of the amount of the agency's share of 
     savings from energy-savings performance contracts, shall be 
     transferred to the General Fund of the Treasury at the end of 
     the fiscal year in which received.
       [Sec. 627. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     there is hereby established a Commission which shall be known 
     as the ``Commission on Federal Mandates'' (hereafter referred 
     to as the ``Commission''): Provided, That the Commission 
     shall be composed of nine Members appointed from individuals 
     who possess extensive leadership experience in and knowledge 
     of State, local, and tribal governments and intergovernmental 
     relations, including State and local elected officials, as 
     follows: (1) three Members appointed by the Speaker of the 
     House of Representatives, in consultation with the minority 
     leader of the House of Representatives; (2) three Members 
     appointed by the majority leader of the Senate, in 
     consultation with the minority leader of the Senate: and (3) 
     three Members appointed by the President: Provided further, 
     That appointments may be made under this section without 
     regard to section 5311(b) of title 5, United States Code: 
     Provided further, That in general, each member of the 
     Commission shall be appointed for the life of the Commission 
     and a vacancy in the Commission shall be filled in the manner 
     in which the original appointment was made: Provided further, 
     That (1) Members of the Commission shall serve without pay; 
     (2) Members of the Commission who are full-time officers or 
     employees of the United States may not receive additional 
     pay, allowances or benefits by reason of their service on the 
     Commission; and (3) Each Member of the Commission may receive 
     travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, 
     in accordance with sections 5702 and 5703 of title 5, United 
     States Code: Provided further, That the Commission shall 
     convene its first meeting by not later than 15 days after the 
     date of the completion of appointment of the Members of the 
     Commission: Provided further, That the Commission shall 
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     in sections 302 (a), (c), (d), (e), and (f) of Public Law 104-4: 
     Provided further, That the Commission shall have all 
     authorities specified under section 303 of Public Law 104-4: 
     Provided further, That the term ``Federal mandate'' shall 
     have the same meaning as specified in section 305 of Public 
     Law 104-4, notwithstanding sections 3 and 4 of that law: 
     Provided further, That the Commission shall terminate 90 days 
     after making the final report identified above.
       [Sec. 628. The amounts otherwise provided in tis Act under 
     the heading ``General Services Administration--Federal 
     Buildings Fund--Limitations on Availability of Revenue'' for 
     the fololwoing purpsoes are each reduced by $65,764,000:
       [(1) Aggregate amount available from the Fund.
       [(2) Total Amount available from the Fund for construction 
     of additional projects.
       [(3) Amount available for new construction, Maryland, 
     Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, Food and Drug 
     Administration, Phase II.
       [(4) Amount in excess of which revenues and collections 
     accruing to the Fund shall remain in the Fund.
       [Sec. 629. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be obligated or expended for any employee training when it is 
     made known to the Federal official having authority to 
     obligate or expend such funds that such employee training--
       [(1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, 
     and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of 
     official duties;
       [(2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of 
     emotional response or psychological stress in some 
     participants;
       [(3) does not require prior employee notification of the 
     content and methods to be used in the training and written 
     end of course evaluations;
       [(4) contains any methods or content associated with 
     religious or quasi-religious belief systems or ``new age'' 
     belief systems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity 
     Commission Notice N-915.022, dated September 2, 1988;
       [(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants' 
     personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace; or
       [(6) includes content related to human immunodeficiency 
     virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) other 
     than that necessary to make employees more aware of the 
     medical ramifications of HIV/AIDS and the workplace rights of 
     HIV-positive employees.
       [Sec. 630. No amount made available in this Act may be used 
     for the salaries or expenses of any employee, including any 
     employee of the Executive Office of the President, in 
     connection with the obligation or expenditure of funds in the 
     exchange stabilization fund when it is made known to the 
     Federal official to whom such amounts are made available in 
     this Act that such obligation or expenditure is for the 
     purpose of bolstering any foreign currency.]
       Sec. 631. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 
     112 and 113 of title 3, United States Code, each Executive 
     agency detailing any personnel shall submit on an annual 
     basis in each fiscal year to the Senate and House Committees 
     on Appropriations on all employees or members of the armed 
     services detailed to Executive agencies, listing the grade, 
     position, and offices of each person detailed and the agency 
     to which each such person is detailed.
       (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to 
     Federal employees or members of the armed services detailed 
     to or from--
       (1) the Central Intelligence Agency;
       (2) the National Security Agency;
       (3) the Defense Intelligence Agency;
       (4) the offices within the Department of Defense for the 
     collection of specialized national foreign intelligence 
     through reconnaissance programs;
       (5) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the 
     Department of State;
       (6) any agency, office, or unit of the Army, Navy, Air 
     Force, Marine Corps, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and 
     the Drug Enforcement Administration of the Department of 
     Justice, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of 
     Transportation, and the Department of Energy performing 
     intelligence functions; and
       (7) the Director of Central Intelligence.
       (c) The exemptions in part (b) of this section are not 
     intended to apply to information on the use of personnel 
     detailed to or from the intelligence agencies which is 
     currently being supplied to the Senate and House Intelligence 
     and Appropriations Committees by the executive branch through 
     budget justification materials and other reports.
       (d) For the purpose of this section, the term ``Executive 
     agency'' has the same meaning as defined under section 105 of 
     title 5, United States Code (except that the provisions of 
     section 104(2) of title 5, United States Code, shall not 
     apply), and includes the White House Office, the Executive 
     Residence, and any office, council, or organizational unit of 
     the Executive Office of the President.
       Sec. 632. No funds appropriated in this or any other Act 
     for fiscal year 1996 may be used to implement or enforce the 
     agreements in Standard Forms 312 and 4355 of the Government 
     or any other nondisclosure policy, form or agreement if such 
     policy, form or agreement does not contain the following 
     provisions: ``These restrictions are consistent with and do 
     not supersede, conflict with or otherwise alter the employee 
     obligations, rights or liabilities created by Executive Order 
     12356; section 7211 of title 5, United States Code (governing 
     disclosures to Congress); section 1034 of title 10, United 
     States Code, as amended by the Military Whistleblower 
     Protection Act (governing disclosure to Congress by members 
     of the military); section 2302(b)(8) of title 5, United 
     States Code, as amended by the Whistleblower Protection Act 
     (governing disclosures of illegality, waste, fraud, abuse or 
     public health or safety threats); the Intelligence Identities 
     Protection Act of 1982 (50 U.S.C. 421 et seq.) (governing 
     disclosures that could expose confidential Government 
     agents), and the statutes which protect against disclosure 
     that may compromise the national security, including sections 
     641, 793, 794, 798, and 952 of title 18, United States Code, 
     and section 4(b) of the Subversive Activities Act of 1950 (50 
     U.S.C. section 783(b)). The definitions, requirements, 
     obligations, rights, sanctions and liabilities created by 
     said Executive Order and listed statutes are incorporated 
     into this agreement and are controlling'': Provided, That 
     notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, a nondisclosure 
     policy form or agreement that is to be executed by a person 
     connected with the conduct of an intelligence or 
     intelligence-related activity, other than an employee or 
     officer of the United States Government, may contain 
     provisions appropriate to the particular activity for which 
     such document is to be used. Such form or agreement shall, at 
     a minimum, require that the person will not disclose any 
     classified information received in the course of such 
     activity unless specifically authorized to do so by the 
     United States Government. Such nondisclosure forms must also 
     make it clear that they do not bar disclosures to Congress or 
     to an authorized official of an executive agency or the 
     Department of Justice that are essential to reporting a 
     substantial violation of law.
       Sec. 633. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this or any 
     other Act may be expended by any Federal Agency to procure 
     any product or service that is subject to the provisions of 
     Public Law 89-306 and that will be available under the 
     procurement by the Administrator of General Services known as 
     ``FTS2000'' unless--
       (1) such product or service is procured by the 
     Administrator of General Services as part of the procurement 
     known as ``FTS2000''; or
       (2) that agency establishes to the satisfaction of the 
     Administrator of General Services that--
       (A) that agency's requirements for such procurement are 
     unique and cannot be satisfied by property and service 
     procured by the Administrator of General Services as part of 
     the procurement known as ``FTS2000''; and
       (B) the agency procurement, pursuant to such delegation, 
     would be cost-effective and would not adversely affect the 
     cost-effectiveness of the FTS2000 procurement.
       (b) After July 31, 1996, subsection (a) shall apply only if 
     the Administrator of General Services has reported that the 
     FTS2000 procurement is producing prices that allow the 
     Government to satisfy its requirements for such procurement 
     in the most cost-effective manner.
       Sec. 634. (a) Section 4-607(18) of title 4 of the District 
     of Columbia Code, is amended by inserting ``the United States 
     Secret Service Uniformed Division, the United States Secret 
     Service Division,'' after ``average pay of a member who was 
     an officer or member of''.
       (b) Section 4-622 of title 4 of the District of Columbia 
     Code, is amended--
       (A) in subsection (b)(1)(A) by striking out ``Of the basis 
     upon which the annuity, relief, or retirement compensation 
     being received by such former member at the time of death was 
     computed'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``Of the adjusted 
     average pay of such former member'';
       (B) in subsection (c)(1)(A)(ii), by striking out ``The 
     basis upon which the former member's annuity at the time of 
     death was computed'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``The 
     adjusted average pay of the former member''; and
       (C) in subsection (c)(2)(B), by striking out the colon 
     after ``United States Secret Service Division'' through 
     clause (iii) and inserting in lieu thereof ``, 75 percent of 
     the adjusted average pay of the former member, divided by the 
     number of eligible children; or''.
       This Act may be cited as the ``Treasury, Postal Service, 
     and General Government Appropriations Act, 1996''.

  Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, today, along with my distinguished ranking 
member, Senator Kerrey, we are bringing to the Senate the Senate 
Appropriations Committee recommendation on fiscal year 1996 
appropriations for the Department of the Treasury, U.S. Postal Service, 
the Executive Office of the President, and certain independent 
agencies.
  Mr. President, the bill we are presenting today contains total 
funding of $23,134,570,000. This bill is $367,859,000 below the 
appropriations provided in fiscal year 1995. It is $42,716,000 below 
the House-passed bill and $1.775 billion below the President's request.
  Of the totals in this bill, we are recommending $11,262,500,000 for 
new discretionary spending. The balance, $11,889,400,000 is for 
mandatory programs over which this committee has no control.
  The $11,262,500,000 the committee proposes for domestic discretionary 
programs is $1.8 billion below the President's request. Let me repeat 
that, Mr. President. This bill is $1.8 billion below the President's 
fiscal year 1996 request.
  Reaching this level has not been an easy task. We have had to make 
some very difficult decisions, while trying to ensure that funds are 
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  Mr. President, this bill includes $10,466,900,000 for the Department 
of the Treasury. The Treasury Department has varied responsibilities, 
the bulk of which are directed to the revenues and expenditures of this 
Government and law enforcement functions.
  This bill includes $121,908,000 for payment to the Postal Service 
fund for free mail for the blind, overseas voting, and payment to the 
Department of Labor for disability costs incurred by the old Post 
Office Department.
  The President receives $149,915,000 to exercise the duties and 
responsibilities of the Executive Office of the President.
  This bill also includes $573,872,000 for construction of new 
courthouses and Federal facilities. This funding provides the General 
Services Administration the ability to let construction contracts for 
buildings which construction can begin in fiscal year 1996. There is no 
funding, Mr. President, for projects where no construction can be 
accomplished in 1996.
  There is $11.8 billion in mandatory payments through the Office of 
Personnel Management for annuitant and employee health disability and 
retirement, and life insurance benefits.
  There is $390 million for other independent agencies.
  Mr. President, this bill also proposes to terminate the Advisory 
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, the Administrative 
Conference of the United States, and the Office of National Drug 
Control Policy.
  There have been many who have said that these organizations should be 
funded and continued. Mr. President, as you well know, these are 
difficult times--times in which we are being asked to make very tough, 
very difficult decisions.
  I am sure we will have the opportunity to discuss these proposals 
later on during the deliberations on the bill.
  Mr. President, this subcommittee continues to be a strong supporter 
of law enforcement. We have done what we can to ensure that the law 
enforcement agencies funded in this bill have the resources to do the 
job that we ask them to do.
  There has been considerable discussion since this bill was reported 
from the subcommittee about the level of funding for the Internal 
Revenue Service. This level of discussion has been second only to that 
concerning the decision of the committee to terminate the drug czar's 
office. I would like to take a few moments to describe how we arrived 
at the funding level for the IRS.
  This bill includes $7,307,208,000 for the Internal Revenue Service. 
This total is $803 million below the President's request and $202 
million below fiscal year 1995. There are those, including the 
President, who have said that you have to fund the IRS at the requested 
level to ensure that tax systems modernization continues and that funds 
owed to the Government are collected.
  Mr. President, this morning, let me be perfectly clear on this. Based 
on the subcommittee's budget allocation, we have no other options. Many 
may disagree with the choices we have made, but we are working with 
limited resources. Funding for the IRS makes up 65 percent, Mr. 
President, of the discretionary spending in this bill. It is obvious if 
cuts are made, the IRS will have to have a significant percentage of 
the cuts.
  The budget resolution narrative describes the commitment to tax 
systems modernization and the collection initiative begun last year.
 But the crosswalk provided by the Budget Committee on which the 
committee's allocation was determined does not match this language.

  Mr. President, as I have indicated, this bill makes a number of 
people, including the President of the United States, possibly very 
uncomfortable. It is, however, the result of long, hard hours of work 
on the part of members and staff of this committee. I want to thank all 
of them for that effort. I believe it is workable and should be 
enacted.
  I yield to Senator Kerrey, the subcommittee's ranking member.
  Mr. KERREY. First of all, I am very pleased to join the subcommittee 
chairman, Senator Shelby, in bringing this bill to the floor. As the 
chairman pointed out, this bill is substantially below the requested 
and enacted levels for many programs and activities under the 
jurisdiction of the Treasury Department, the Executive Office of the 
President, and certain independent agencies.
  The 602(b) allocation given the subcommittee constrained us from 
funding many worthy programs to the levels needed to maintain 
appropriate levels of service and activity.
  Having said that, Mr. President, I want to take this opportunity to 
sincerely compliment the distinguished Senator from Alabama on the 
cooperative relationship he forged in the committee, working closely 
not just with myself but with all subcommittee members, to put together 
a fiscally responsible and very defensible bill, under the most 
difficult circumstances.
  Chairman Shelby has already touched on the major funding highlights 
of the bill, and I will not attempt to repeat at least most of the 
points he has already made.
  Mr. President, what I would like to do at the outset is to cite a 
couple of stipulations that I have cited before, some of which may be 
slightly irrelevant to this particular piece of legislation, but it 
does have an impact upon what we are doing on the appropriations side.
  Mr. President, one of the biggest reasons, if not the biggest reason, 
that we continually see pressure upon appropriated accounts is that we 
have yet to face the growing cost of all Federal entitlement programs. 
Particularly, Mr. President, the two biggest among them are health care 
entitlements--which the distinguished occupant of the chair has been 
working on a long time--as well as retirement.
  These entitlement programs, as a percent of this year's budget, plus 
net interest, represent 66 percent of the entire Federal budget. That 
means the appropriated accounts are 34 percent.
  Mr. President, the year that the distinguished chairman of our 
committee, Senator Hatfield, came to the U.S. Senate, there was 30 
percent of our budget allocated for entitlements and net interest, and 
70 percent for all of our appropriated accounts. So the trend is 
shrinking domestic spending; that is to say, expenditures upon things 
we have decided, either for defense or for nondefense purposes, are 
important either for our current needs or for our future needs.
  The budget resolution under which we operate and has allocated money 
to the subcommittee has us going to 25 percent appropriated accounts in 
the year 2002 and eventually, when the baby boom generation retires--75 
million Americans who are in that baby boom generation start to retire 
in the year 2008--the appropriated accounts will go to zero.
  Even at 25 percent, Mr. President, imagine what would happen this 
year if we were allocating that percent. We would be spending under the 
current level of revenue, by the way, a thing that has remained 
constant in this town. Except for World War II and a short period of 
time during the Vietnam war, the total level of taxation has remained 
at about 19 percent of the gross domestic product. You see a flat line 
over the last 50 years.
  With 19 percent revenue, Mr. President, and 25 percent of our budget 
allocated for domestic spending, we would have $400 billion this year--
$400 billion. Mr. President, I think even our most antidefense Member 
would probably spend $250-or-so billion on defense. That means we would 
this year try to figure out what to do with $150 billion for our crime 
efforts, for our education efforts, for our research efforts, for NASA, 
for veterans. It would be impossible, Mr. President.
  Now, I grew up in the 1950's and 1960's, and as a consequence of my 
parents being willing to pay cash for such things as the GI bill and 
the Interstate Highway System, I enjoyed an awful lot more prosperity 
and a much higher standard of living as a consequence of the 
investments which they made.
  There is far more agreement in this body than sometimes meets the eye 
that there are certain things where we should pool our collective 
resources; we should take some of our taxpayers' money and make 
investments whether, again, it is education, transportation, or other 
sorts of things.
  What entitlement growth does, Mr. President, is constantly press us 
to spend less and less and less. We are not saying that there are not 
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things we have cut out this year that I think even in times where if we 
were aiming to fix the cost of entitlement growth, we would probably 
zero in the amounts.
  I will, during slack times in the debate, come back and try to 
highlight this particular problem because it is an extremely difficult 
problem, forcing us to deal both with health care and with retirement, 
two very controversial items, two very difficult items to deal with.
  I believe, Mr. President, that time is not on our side, that 
compounding interest rates are working against us rather than for us, 
both at the national level and at the individual household level. I 
hope that Republicans and Democrats will, as we have attempted to do in 
this subcommittee allocation, come together for the good of the country 
and do the right thing.
  Mr. President, this bill is not business as usual. We have eliminated 
some accounts, which may cause alarm to some Members. We have zeroed 
out the so-called drug czar's office; the Office of National Drug 
Control Policy, which, by the way, is $9.9 million; we have zeroed out 
the Administrative Conference of the United States; and we have zeroed 
out the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
  Again, these actions are a direct consequence of shrinking domestic 
discretionary spending in the budget that this body adopted.
  We have funded programs where a compelling case has been made for 
their continued existence:
  The Counter-Drug Technology Assessment Center, the central counter-
narcotics research and development office, has been continued in the 
Department of the Treasury and funded at a level of $20.5 million.
  The High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program, which provides 
funding to implement Federal, State, and local antidrug strategies, has 
been funded at a level of $110 million in the Department of the 
Treasury.
  The Counsel of Economic Advisers, eliminated in the House bill, has 
been restored in this bill and funded at the requested level of $3.5 
million.
  While most programs have been reduced below enacted levels, we have 
included modest increases for Treasury law enforcement bureaus to 
sustain current levels of vigilance in border interdiction, 
Presidential protection and security, financial crimes, law enforcement 
training, and violent crime investigations.
  We were not able to fully fund the President's 1996 request for 
counterterrorism. Mr. President, this request was transmitted to the 
Congress on July 17, 1 day prior to the 602(b) allocation meeting. We 
have, however, provided funding to continue those initiatives adopted 
in the fiscal year 1995 appropriations bill.
  We have reduced funding for the new Federal building and courthouse 
construction by $415 million from the requested level. The chairman has 
earlier highlighted the criteria that he came up with. I fully support 
these criteria. I think it is completely defensible. It lets taxpayers 
know we are continuing to monitor these expenditures to make sure that 
we are not wasting their money.
  Mr. President, the Internal Revenue Service budget, which in many 
ways, in most ways, took the biggest hit in our budget reduction, took 
a large hit because it makes up 63 percent of our discretionary 
spending. Funding in this bill for the IRS is $201 million below the 
enacted level, and $803 million below the President's request.
  The $405 million compliance initiative funded in fiscal year 1995 has 
been zeroed out. This unquestionably will have a major impact on 
revenue over the next 5 years. The IRS will also have to reduce 
personnel levels by some 5,000 to 6,000 employees.
  Tax systems modernization, the single most important initiative under 
way for bringing the U.S. tax revenue system up to date, will also have 
to be scaled back substantially. The bill contains $674 million for tax 
system modernization, which is $270 million less than the $944 million 
requested.
  Since the IRS budget makes up such a large portion of our budget, and 
an even higher proportion of our outlays, the chairman and I had no 
other choice, given the allocation of money for this committee, but to 
make large reductions in the Internal Revenue Service. I know many are 
concerned about it, and both the chairman and I are concerned 
ourselves. We find no other choice than to make these kinds of 
reductions.
  The IRS brings in $1.2 trillion in revenue a year--at a budget 
somewhere between $7 and $8 billion, which is less than 1 percent of 
the revenue it brings in. Common sense in the private sector would tell 
you if you had a business that brought in that kind of profit at that 
little cost, you would do everything you could to see the business had 
the money it needed to keep generating revenue. Instead, the IRS must 
compete side by side with every other Federal program without regard to 
the amount of revenue it brings in.
  I happen to believe the principal problem here is the governance of 
the Internal Revenue Service. The incentives are all on the wrong side. 
Somehow we have to come to grips with an agency that does not have the 
incentives to do, I think, what most people, as you examine the 
Internal Revenue Service, say it ought to be doing, which is working to 
make customers happy.
  Taxpayers are never going to be happy to pay taxes. At least, I think 
there are very few taxpayers who, on the 15th of April, are going to 
let out a whoopee and celebrate that great moment when they have to 
figure out what their taxes are for the year. Most taxpayers are not 
going to be terribly enthusiastic. But they ought to be able to get the 
information in order to pay the taxes. In spite of the money we have 
allocated, billions of dollars we have allocated in the past for tax 
system modernization, the General Accounting Office has evaluated their 
efforts as chaotic at best. They are making a good-faith effort, but 
the incentives simply are not there.
  Again, the distinguished occupant of the chair, as well as the 
chairman of this committee, and I, all three of us understand the 
private sector. We have been in business prior to arriving here. We 
know if you have incentives to make a profit and incentives to take 
care of your customers rather than incentives to satisfy some 
congressional requirement, frankly, it is likely, if you have those 
kinds of incentives, that you are going to perform differently.
  I feel strongly that the governance of the Internal Revenue Service 
is going to have to change and this agency is going to have to be given 
powerful private sector market incentives in order to be able to, not 
just deploy the technology, but do it in a way the taxpayers begin to 
say to us in coffee shops and townhall meetings, ``I hate paying my 
taxes, I think they are too high,'' or, ``I think they are not fair,'' 
or whatever, ``but finally I am getting the information in a timely 
fashion. Finally I am getting the facts. Finally, when I am called in, 
the Internal Revenue Service is able to come up with my tax returns for 
the last 10 years instead of telling me, no, it will take months and 
months to come up with it, long periods of time to correlate my tax 
return with my Social Security number.''
  We had a tremendous problem this year with the earned-income tax 
credit. They were stripping out the refunds as a consequence of our 
concern about fraud--a legitimate concern. But any private sector 
business that has to pull this information manually, given the 
technology today and the information systems today, it seems to me, 
would not be in business very long. This agency needs a different kind 
of governance in order for us to be able to have taxpayers, the 
customers of this agency, begin to say that their needs are being taken 
care of.
  Again, I compliment the subcommittee chairman, Senator Shelby, on a 
good bill and commend him on moving to strike controversial general 
provisions that were in the House-passed bill. These are authorizing 
matters which I do not believe belong in this appropriation bill.
  I also want to acknowledge the fine work of the staff and thank them 
for their help in permitting us to bring this bill to the floor. Chuck 
Parkinson, Hallie Hastert, Stewart Hall, John Libonati, Abbie Raikes, 
and others have been enormously helpful.
  I urge the Members of this body to support this bill and the 
committee amendments.
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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. DeWine). Without objection, it is so 
ordered.


          Committee Amendment on page 76, Beginning on line 10

  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, what is the regular order?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the committee amendment 
on page 76.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       Committee amendment on page 76: Strike lines 10 through 17.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. There are now 3 hours equally divided.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, for the information of our colleagues, if 
we use all 3 hours, that means we would have a rollcall vote at 12 
o'clock, possibly 12:10, maybe possibly yield some time back. Hopefully 
that will be the case. I know many of our colleagues have inquired when 
the vote will be. So my guess will be around 12 o'clock.
  Am I correct, Mr. President, that the time is equally divided?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is correct.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I will yield to the Senator from Wyoming 
5 minutes--10 minutes?
  Mr. THOMAS. Five minutes.
  Mr. NICKLES. Five minutes.
  Mr. THOMAS. Mr. President, I thank the Senator very much.

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