[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 95 (Tuesday, June 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H6765-H6766]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               AMENDMENTS

  Under clause 6 of rule XXIII, proposed amendments were submitted as 
follows:

                               H.R. 3666

                          Offered By: Mr. Barr

       Amendment No. 67: Page 71, line 4, after the semicolon 
     insert: ``Provided further, That from funds appropriated 
     under this heading, the Administrator shall use no less than 
     $10,000,000 for the Clean Rivers and Lakes program under 
     section 314 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act;''

                               H.R. 3666

                         Offered By: Mr. Markey

       Amendment No. 68: Page 95, line 21, insert:
       Sec. 422. None of the funds made available to the 
     Environmental Protection Agency under the heading ``HAZARDOUS 
     SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND'' may be used to provide any 
     reimbursement (except pursuant to section 122(b) of the 
     Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
     Liability Act of 1980) of response costs incurred by any 
     person when it is made known to the official having the 
     authority to obligate such funds that such person has agreed 
     to pay such costs under a judicially approved consent decree 
     entered into before the enactment of this Act, and none of 
     the funds made available under such heading may be used to 
     pay any amount when it is made known to the official having 
     the authority to obligate such funds that such amount 
     represents a retroactive liability discount attributable to a 
     status or activity of such person (described paragraphs (1), 
     (2), (3) or (4) of section 107(a) of the Comprehensive 
     Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 
     1980) that existed or occurred prior to January 1, 1987.

                               H.R. 3666

                        Offered By: Mrs. Thurman

       Amendment No. 69. Page 95, after line 21, insert the 
     following new section:
       Sec.  . (a) Plan for Allocation of Health Care Resources by 
     the Department of Veterans Affairs.--(1) The Secretary of 
     Veterans Affairs shall develop a plan for the allocation of 
     health care resources (including personnel and funds) of the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs among the health care 
     facilities of the Department so as to ensure that veterans 
     having similar economic status, similar eligibility priority, 
     or similar medical conditions and who are eligible for 
     medical care in those facilities have similar access to care 
     in those facilities, regardless of the region of the United 
     States in which they reside.
       (2) The plan shall reflect, to the maximum extent possible, 
     the Veterans Integrated Service Network, as well as the 
     Resource Planning and Management System developed by the 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs to account for forecasts in 
     expected workload and to ensure fairness to facilities that 
     provide cost-efficient health care. The plan shall include 
     procedures to identify reasons for variations in operating 
     costs among similar facilities and ways to improve the 
     allocation of resources among facilities so as to promote 
     efficient use of resources and provision of quality health 
     care.
       (3) The Secretary shall prepare the plan in consultation 
     with the Under Secretary for Health of the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs.
       (b) Plan Elements.--The plan under subsection (a) shall set 
     forth--
       (1) milestones for achieving the goal referred to in that 
     subsection; and
       (2) a means of evaluating the success of the Secretary in a 
     meeting that goal through the plan.
       (c) Submittal to Congress.--The Secretary shall submit the 
     plan developed under subsection (a) to Congress not later 
     than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (d) Plan Implementation.--The Secretary shall implement the 
     plan developed under subsection (a) within 60 days of 
     submitting it to Congress under subsection (b), unless within 
     such period the Secretary notifies the appropriate committees 
     of Congress that the plan will not be implemented, along with 
     an explanation of why the plan will not be implemented.

                               H.R. 3666

                         Offered By: Mr. Weller

       Amendment No. 70: Page 95 after line 21, insert the 
     following new section:

[[Page H6766]]

       Sec.   . FHA Mortgage Insurance Premiums.--Section 
     203(c)(2)(A) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 
     1709(c)(2)(A)) is amended by inserting after the first 
     sentence the following new sentence: ``In the case of 
     mortgage for which the mortgagor is a first-time homebuyer 
     who completes a program of counseling with respect to the 
     responsibilities and financial management involved in 
     homeownership that is approved by the Secretary, the premium 
     payment under this subparagraph shall not exceed 2.0 percent 
     of the amount of the original insured principal obligation of 
     the mortgage.''.

                               H.R. 3675

                        Offered By: Mr. Andrews

       Amendment No. 1: Page 55, after line 15, insert the 
     following new section:
       Sec. 406. (a) Limitation on Use of Funds for Certain 
     Surface Transportation Projects.--None of the funds made 
     available in this Act may be used to provide, or to pay the 
     salaries or expenses of Department of Transportation 
     personnel who provide, to a State more than $50,000 in 
     Federal assistance from the Highway Trust Fund (other than 
     the Mass Transit Account) for any surface transportation 
     project except when it is made known to the Federal official 
     having authority to obligate or expend such funds that--
       At least 30 days before entering a contract or agreement 
     with a private business entity for the performance of work 
     usually performed by employees of a State under which the 
     State will obligate more than $50,000, the State has 
     conducted and submitted a cost-benefit analysis of the 
     project;
       (2) the cost-benefit analysis includes a detailed 
     description of--
       (A) the costs of labor;
       (B) the costs of employer-provided fringe benefits;
       (C) the costs of equipment or materials, whether supplied 
     by the State or private contractor;
       (D) the costs directly attributable to transferring the 
     work being performed by State employees to a private business 
     entity;
       (E) the costs of administering and inspecting the 
     contracted service; and
       (F) the costs of any anticipated unemployment compensation 
     or other benefits which are likely to be paid to State 
     employees who are displaced as a result of the contracted 
     service; (3) the cost-benefit analysis includes an analysis 
     of whether it is more cost effective to use employees of a 
     private business entity than to use State employees to 
     perform the work required;
       (4) the cost-benefit analysis is accompanied by an analysis 
     of the State's finances and personnel and an analysis of the 
     ability of the State to reassume the contracted service if 
     contracting of the service ceases to serve the public 
     interest;
       (5) in the case of a contract or agreement described in 
     paragraph (1) that will result in a decrease in the amount of 
     work assigned to State employees, the cost-benefit analysis 
     demonstrates that--
       (A) the contract or agreement will result in a substantial 
     cost savings to the State; and
       (B) the potential cost savings of contracting of services 
     are not outweighed by the public's interest in having a 
     particular function performed directly by the State;
       (6) at least 30 days before entering into a contract or 
     agreement described in paragraph (1), the State has submitted 
     a past performance history of the private business entity 
     with whom the State is entering into the contract or 
     agreement, which includes--
       (A) work performed for the State under contracts and 
     agreements described in paragraph (1) in the 5-year period 
     ending on the 45th day before the date of entry into the 
     contract or agreement;
       (B) if no work was performed for the State under such 
     contracts and agreements during such 5-year period, then any 
     work performed for other States under contracts and 
     agreements described in paragraph (1) in such 5-year period;
       (C) with respect to each contract or agreement to which 
     subparagraph (A) or (B) applies, the amount of funds 
     originally committed by the State under the contract or 
     agreement and the amount of funds actually expended by the 
     State under the contract or agreement; and
       (D) with respect to each contract or agreement to which 
     subparagraph (A) or (B) applies, deadlines originally 
     established for all work performed under the contract or 
     agreement and the actual date or dates on which performance 
     of such work was completed;
       (7) at least 30 days before entering into a contract or 
     agreement described in paragraph (1), the State has submitted 
     a copy of any performance bond or any similar instrument that 
     ensures performance by the private business entity under the 
     contract or agreement or certifies the amount of such bond;
       (8) at least 30 days before entering into a contract or 
     agreement described in paragraph (1), the State has submitted 
     a political contribution history of the private business 
     entity with whom the State is entering into the contract or 
     agreement, which political contribution history lists all 
     political contributions the private business entity has made 
     to political parties and candidates for political office in 
     the 5-year period ending on the 45th day before the date of 
     entry into the contract or agreement; and
       (9) not later than 5 days after submission of the cost-
     benefit analysis and other documents under this section, the 
     public has been notified of the availability of the cost-
     benefit analysis and other documents for public inspection, 
     an the analysis and other documents have been made available 
     for inspection upon request.
       (b) Exceptions.--The limitation established by subsection 
     (a) shall not apply to any surface transportation project 
     when it is made known to the Federal official having 
     authority to obligate or expend the funds that--
       (1) the project is a pilot project for a particular type of 
     work that has not previously been performed by the State and 
     is being undertaken to evaluate whether contracting for that 
     particular type of work can result in savings to the State; 
     or
       (2) the analysis of the State's finances and personnel 
     under subsection (a)(4) demonstrates that the State cannot 
     perform the work with existing or additional departmental 
     employees because the work would be of such an intermittent 
     nature as to be likely to cause regular periods of 
     unemployment for State employees.

                               H.R. 3675

                   Offered By: Mr. Collins of Georgia

       Amendment No. 2: At the appropriate place in the bill, add 
     the following new section:
       ``Sec.   . None of the funds made available in this Act 
     shall be used to plan, develop, conduct or contract for a 
     study to determine the feasibility of allowing pilots to fly 
     commercial aircraft after they reach age sixty.

                               H.R. 3675

                         Offered By: Mr. Davis

       Amendment No. 3: Page 53, after line 10, insert the 
     following:
       Sec. 340. The Secretary of Transportation, acting through 
     the Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, 
     shall conduct a comprehensive transportation needs assessment 
     on behalf of the District of Columbia. The Secretary shall 
     conduct such assessment in consultation with the Government 
     of the District of Columbia, the Committees on Government 
     Reform and Oversight and on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives, and the Committee on Governmental Affairs of 
     the Senate.

                               H.R. 3675

                       Offered By: Mr. Gutknecht

       Amendment No. 4: Page 55, after line 15, insert the 
     following new section:
       Sec. 406. Each amount appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act that is not required to be appropriated 
     or otherwise made available by a provision of law is hereby 
     reduced by 1.9 percent.

                               H.R. 3675

                       Offered By: Mr. Traficant

       Amendment No. 5: Page 53, after line 10, insert the 
     following new section:
       Sec. 340 (a) Compliance With Buy American Act.--None of the 
     funds made available in this Act may be expended by an entity 
     unless the entity agrees that in expending the funds the 
     entity will comply with the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a-
     10c).
       (b) Sense of Congress; Requirement Regarding Notice.--
       (1) Purchase of american-made equipment and products.--In 
     the case of any equipment or product that may be authorized 
     to be purchased with financial assistance provided using 
     funds made available in this Act, it is the sense of the 
     Congress that entities receiving the assistance should, in 
     expending the assistance, purchase only American-made 
     equipment and products to the greatest extent practicable.
       (2) Notice to recipients of assistance.--In providing 
     financial assistance using funds made available in this Act, 
     the head of each Federal agency shall provide to each 
     recipient of the assistance a notice describing the statement 
     made in paragraph (1) by the Congress.
       (c) Prohibition of Contracts With Persons Falsely Labeling 
     Products as Made in America.--If it has been finally 
     determined by a court or Federal agency that any person 
     intentionally affixed a label bearing a ``Made in America'' 
     inscription, or any inscription with the same meaning, to any 
     product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not 
     made in the United States, the person shall be ineligible to 
     receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made 
     available in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, 
     and ineligibility procedures described in sections 9.400 
     through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.