[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 85 (Thursday, June 29, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H5442-H5532]
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   AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND 
               RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2001

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 538 and rule 
XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House 
on the State of the Union for the consideration of the bill, H.R. 4461

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                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the bill 
(H.R. 4461) making appropriations for Agriculture,

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Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other 
purposes, with Mr. Nussle in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered as having 
been read the first time.
  Under the rule, the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Skeen) and the 
gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur) each will control 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Skeen).
  Mr. SKEEN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to bring before the House today the fiscal 
year 2001 appropriations bill for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food 
and Drug Administration and Related Agencies.
  The subcommittee began work on this bill in early February when the 
administration produced its budget. We have had 11 public hearings, 
beginning on February 16; and the transcripts of these hearings, the 
administration's official statements, the detailed budget request, and 
several thousand questions for the record and the statement of Members 
and the public are all available in seven hearing volumes.
  The subcommittee and full committee marked up the bill on May 4 and 
May 10 respectfully.
  In the allocation process, our discretionary 302(b) allocation and 
budget authority will be $14.548 billion and we are exactly at that 
level. The allocation for outlays will be $15.025 billion, and we are 
slightly below that level.
  We have tried very hard to accommodate the requests of Members and to 
provide increases for critical programs. From all Members of the House, 
we received about 350 letters with more than 2,900 individual requests 
for more spending.
  I am pleased to inform my colleagues that the interest in additional 
spending in this bill is completely bipartisan. In spite of a very 
tight budget situation, we have managed to provide increases over 
fiscal year 2000 to several important programs. Some of those increases 
include the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, $32 million; 
the Food Safety and Inspection Service, $24.7 million; the Farm Service 
Agency, $34 million; the Natural Resources Conservation Service, $8.6 
million; the Rural Community Advancement Program, $82 million; WIC, $35 
million dollars; and the Food and Drug Administration, a net increase 
of $57 million.
  Most accounts have been frozen at the previous year's level, and many 
of those accounts have been at the same level for several years.
  Mr. Chairman, we all refer to this bill as an agriculture bill, but 
it does far more than assisting basic agriculture. It also supports 
human nutrition; the environment; and food, drug, and medical safety. 
This is a bill that will deliver benefits to every one of our 
constituents every day no matter what kind of district they represent.
  I would say to all Members that they can support this bill and tell 
all their constituents that they voted to improve their lives while 
maintaining fiscal responsibility.
  The bill is a bipartisan product with a lot of hard work and input 
from both sides of the aisle. I would like to thank all my subcommittee 
colleagues: the gentleman from New York (Mr. Walsh); the gentleman from 
Arkansas (Mr. Dickey); the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Kingston); the 
gentleman from Washington (Mr. Nethercutt); the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. Bonilla); the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Latham); the gentlewoman 
from Missouri (Mrs. Emerson); the chairman of the full committee, the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young); the gentlewoman from Connecticut 
(Ms. DeLauro); the gentleman from New York (Mr. Hinchey); the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Farr); the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Boyd); and 
the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey), the distinguished ranking 
member of the full committee.
  In particular, I want to thank my good friend the gentlewoman from 
Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), the distinguished ranking member of the 
subcommittee, for all her good work on this bill this year and the 
years in the past.
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  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I thank the chairman for yielding me the time. I want 
to say that it is a great pleasure for me to rise today as we bring our 
bill to the floor, the fiscal year 2001 appropriation for Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies.
  I want to also begin by saying that this is the last bill that will 
be managed by my dear friend and colleague, the gentleman from New 
Mexico (Mr. Skeen), as chairman of the subcommittee because his limited 
subcommittee chairmanship has been reached under current House rules, 
which I certainly would like to change.
  He is and has been such a leader, a fine gentleman in the true sense 
of the word, a caring chairman, an advocate for America's farmers and 
ranchers, and a true friend to every single Member of this institution. 
So I wanted to acknowledge his hard work on this bill. It has been a 
joy to work with him, and I number these days and years among the most 
memorable of my own life.
  I also want to thank the subcommittee staff: Hank Moore, Martin 
Delgado, John Ziolkowski, Joanne Orndorf; and our detailees: Anne DuBey 
and Maureen Holohan; and to the minority staff leader David Reich; and 
Roger Szemraj of my own staff, for all the hard work that has gone into 
putting this bill together.
  Let me begin by saying that I come to the floor rather conflicted 
this morning. This is a very, very important bill and one that we will 
focus on today. But we have just learned that, contrary to an agreement 
that was reached yesterday, the majority has chosen to place the 
sanctions language dealing with Cuba and Libya, the issue that we 
debated for hours here yesterday, into the supplemental appropriation 
bill, contrary to an agreement that had been reached with the minority.
  This is creating a great disarray that I think threatens not just 
this bill but the supplemental and its ability to move through the 
Congress and, also, to be signed by the President. There are many 
programs in there, such as firefighting and so forth, that are needed 
immediately in the western part of the country.
  I would just urge the Majority to remove that sanctions provision 
from the supplemental legislation. This is a violation of an accord 
that had been reached with the minority, and it truly places us in a 
most difficult position as we proceed forward with this bill today.
  Now, let me say that this bill deals with the basics of life that 
touch every American every day, have already touched every one of us as 
we awakened this morning, the food that we have eaten, the fiber that 
we wear, the fuel that we use to move vehicles and in industry, and 
forest production, all the land and water conservation programs that 
cover the vast majority of private lands in this country, the 
stewardship of those lands and the help that goes to those landholders 
is contained in this legislation.
  The food that we ate this morning no doubt was influenced in millions 
of different ways by the research that has been supported over the 
years through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. All the marketing 
programs, the safety that we felt when we ate that food, that the milk 
was okay and that it was very healthy to eat, the various medicines 
that we take, our certainty that that medication will do what it says 
and if there is a side effect that it is labeled. All of the Food and 
Drug Administration programs come within our jurisdiction.
  So this is a very important bill that goes to the center of life in 
America. And we hope by our example that we can influence the world's 
people as well.
  The bill's spending level is at about a level of $75.3 billion. 
Nearly a little more than 80 percent of that, or $60 billion, is what 
we call mandatory spending, money that we have for important programs 
like the Commodity Credit Corporation reimbursements that are central 
to the operation of our farm assistance programs to those who produce 
that food, fiber, and forest product. So there is $27.7 billion in the 
bill that goes to that major segment of this proposal.
  The Food Stamp program, which helps those who cannot afford to feed 
themselves in this country, $21.2 billion contained in this bill. An 
even more important program as Welfare to Work locks in across this 
country and our feeding kitchens and elderly feeding programs and so 
forth become short changed.
  Our School Lunch program, $5.4 billion, so that every child in this 
country will have decent food at least during the week while they are 
in school, $5.4 billion, and $1.5 billion for the School Breakfast 
program so those little urchins out there, their brains grow and, as 
they go to school, they are able to lead healthy lives and that they 
grow properly.
  Our conservation programs, nearly a billion dollars here, working 
with all the private owners of America to make sure that the land and 
the water and the ditches and the runoff is handled properly. We are 
making progress there, but we certainly have a long way to go.

  This is an incredible piece of legislation. Of the total amount of 
spending, $75.3 billion, the discretionary amount, the part our 
committee struggles with so greatly, $14.5 billion is, unfortunately, 
$400 million below the spending of the current fiscal year.
  This is a very tight bill, hard choices had to be made. In fact, the 
entire bill is $400 million below this year's spending when we discount 
the nearly $8.7 billion that was provided in emergency assistance last 
year.
  Now, I said that this bill came forward under difficult 
circumstances. The most recent nick, however, being the fact that the 
sanctions language was put into the supplemental against the will of 
the minority and against the agreement that was reached.
  The allocation we were given by the Committee on the Budget makes it 
difficult to detail with responsible priorities submitted by the 
administration.
  We are at least $1.6 billion in this proposal under the 
administration's request for all programs and, as I mentioned, $400 
million under last year.
  If we look at what was done in the supplemental, which is linked to 
this bill directly, there was nearly $400 million in the supplemental 
that we were expecting to help cushion the cuts and the lack of full 
support in this bill, and we were told yesterday that that has now been 
reduced by $204 million, which means that there is only about $195 
million left in the supplemental, which absolutely underfunds these 
programs at a time when rural America is just caving under the 
continuing low price situation, the drought, the high water levels in 
other parts of the country.
  To be underfunding agriculture at a time when rural America is in 
recession makes absolutely no sense to this Member.
  Now, the bill, as best as we were able to try to fund programs that 
are so necessary, does have some additional problems. For example, in 
the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, we do not provide the 
resources requested by the President. In fact, we are $53 million below 
his request for funds to deal with the growing infestation in this 
country by invasive species, other pests, and viruses.
  For example, in the area of citrus canker in Florida where entire 
orange and lime crops are threatened, we do not have funding sufficient 
to deal with the eradication nor with trying to prevent further spread 
of that particular problem.
  The same is true with Pierce's disease in California. The 
Administration released about $12 million this past week, but that is 
not sufficient to deal with the vineyard problems all throughout 
California. Plum pox in States like Pennsylvania, which are affecting 
our fruit crops, all of these dollars that were proposed by the 
minority to try to deal with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service have not been fully provided.
  I can tell my colleagues that failure to deal with these pests and 
failure to deal with prevention will mean costs in the future of 
billions and billions and billions of dollars to deal with something 
like the Asian Longhorn Beetle, which is destroying our hardwoods in 
Chicago and in New York. This is not an insignificant issue. It has 
long-term consequences.
  There are cuts in this bill, unfortunately, for the Food for Peace 
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$37 million below the President's request.

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  We keep saying that access to foreign markets is what will help our 
farmers recover from low prices, but at the same time we disarm 
ourselves by failing to provide the level of resources we need to get 
the job done and move our product into other markets, certainly when we 
have a surplus, to those people in our country and around the world who 
remain hungry and in fact in many quarters of the world that are 
starving.
  In this bill also we fail to adequately fund or place restrictions on 
the use of funds to deal with the problems faced by the most needy and 
the most powerless people in our country. For example, there are 
insufficient funds in this bill for the 1890 colleges, those colleges 
that have been dealing with those historically discriminated against in 
our society, as we try to spread the knowledge of the Department of 
Agriculture in all of its different aspects throughout the university 
and college systems of this country.
  Further, the bill prohibits further expansion of the Colonias 
initiative to deal with the tremendous pollution at the southwestern 
border of Mexico with Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
  So there is no additional funding in the bill for that important 
effort.
  Finally, if we think about our food programs in general, the 
underfunding is largely in the area of food programs, certainly food 
stamps, our school breakfast, our school lunch, our elderly feeding 
programs, the Women Infants and Children feeding program.
  Totally, the funding in this bill is about a billion dollars under 
the administration's request.
  On the conservation front, which is so important to us, as the most 
productive land on Earth, the conservation programs are $65 million 
below the President's request in what we were able to provide in this 
bill. With the significant erosion problems, the drought problems and 
in my part of the country the significant water runoff problems right 
now, they are having a real impact on our ability to hold soil and 
prevent leaching into our ditches, rivers and ultimately lakes. These 
conservation programs are more important than ever.
  Now, in terms of the overall bill, while we do not provide all 
prudent increases that I have just talked about, we do not cut most 
programs under current operating levels, and we do provide some modest 
increases in rural economic and community development programs, and we 
have provided vital support for the Food and Drug Administration.
  I would be remiss if I stood on this floor, however, and I did not 
remind Members that in this supplemental bill, however, there were 
severe cuts made in important agriculture programs such as the 
replacement of our Food and Drug Administration building in Los 
Angeles. That was cut from the supplemental, and we do not cover it in 
this bill. We did not provide sufficient funding for our technical 
assistance providers for our natural resource and conservation programs 
to help people apply for the Conservation Reserve and Enhancement 
program, the Wetlands Reserve program, the Conservation Reserve 
program. This bill, and the supplemental, are underfunded in those 
areas.
  The supplemental, and this bill does not replace the funding for the 
renovation of the south building here in Washington, D.C. Our own 
Department of Agriculture, which is very old, gets lots of tourists, 
lots of visitors and needs to be repaired. Neither in this bill nor in 
the supplemental are those kinds of concerns taken care of.
  We have dozens and dozens of amendments we will be considering today, 
and I will just end with the request, respectful request of the 
majority, please do not violate the agreement that was reached with the 
minority to remove the sanctions language from the supplemental bill. 
This is going to cause us havoc on the floor here. It is going to cause 
havoc on the floor of the other body. It was our understanding that the 
sanctions language for Cuba, for Libya, for North Korea, for Sudan, for 
Iran, would not be put in the supplemental bill. That was done last 
night, violating an agreement that Members of the minority party had 
signed, and I would just beg the leadership of this institution to 
reconsider that very ill-timed decision.
  This bill is too important to be hung up in a partisan war over the 
sanctions issue on the supplemental bill, and this bill will be held 
hostage to that debate.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SKEEN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Iowa 
(Mr. Latham), a member of the subcommittee.
  Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Chairman, I very much appreciate the opportunity to 
stand here in support of this bill. I think this is an effort that 
obviously under very tight budget constraints the gentleman from New 
Mexico (Mr. Skeen) has done an outstanding job, and I want to commend 
the chairman, a great leader in agriculture, a good friend to all 
farmers and ranchers and someone who I admire very much personally, and 
the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), who I have had the pleasure in 
working with on various issues.
  This bill, I think, does a lot of very, very good things as far as 
the farm service agencies. The people in our county offices are under 
tremendous stress today. The workload is unbelievable that they are 
having to deal with, and they are on the front line of service to our 
farmers. I am very pleased that the committee has funded to the 
President's request, and I think we always have to look at additional 
funding and directing that funding to the local offices rather than the 
bureaucracy here in Washington.
  Agricultural credit programs, $1.475 billion over last year, and 
this, I think, is very, very positive; rural housing loan 
authorizations increased by $484 million over last year. As far as 
Iowa, this is very, very good news for us; and I in particular want to 
thank the chairman for including $9 million for the National Animal 
Disease Center to be built in Ames, Iowa.
  This is a first step to what I think is an extraordinarily important 
project as far as animal health, as far as disease research, and really 
as far as protecting our food supply for the public. This is going to 
go a long ways. The current facility was built back in the '60s. This 
is a very, very important project for the whole country but in 
particular for Iowa. To have this centered in Iowa I think is very, 
very important, which is obviously the center of livestock production, 
especially in the pork industry.
  One item, it is a small item, but I think very important to a lot of 
farmers out there to keep them in agriculture, the AgrAbility program 
we continue to fund at $3 million. This helps handicapped farmers be 
able to stay on the farm, be productive, a small program that does so 
much good for a lot of people who love agriculture, want to stay there. 
I think this is a very good example of our dollars being used in a very 
positive way.
  In closing, again I want to thank the chairman, the ranking member, 
the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur). The staff has done an 
outstanding job.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman 
from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), a very distinguished member of the 
subcommittee.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Chairman, I would like to extend my deep thanks and 
appreciation to our chairman, the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. 
Skeen), our ranking member, the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), for 
all of their hard work in crafting this bill. It is a tough job to 
balance the important priorities that the Subcommittee on Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
needs to address each and every year. As my colleague, the gentlewoman 
from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur) pointed out, this bill really does deal with the 
basic sustenance of life for folks in our country.
  I might add that the unrealistic budget constraints that have been 
placed on the subcommittee made our work even more difficult, made 
their work more difficult this year. As always, there was the effort to 
work together in a bipartisan fashion to try to do what is best for 
American farmers and for all of America's families. So I think that 
that, in fact, is a tribute to the chairman and to the ranking member.
  Let me add my voice to that of my colleague, the gentlewoman from 
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(Ms. Kaptur), and encourage the majority to please remove the sanctions 
legislation from the supplemental bill, because it in fact violates the 
agreement with the minority, and it places enormous restrictions on 
both this bill and on the supplemental bill.
  We did not come here to do harm, especially in light of having an 
agreement that was made and just willy-nilly violated last evening. 
That is wrong. We are going to hold up the process in both of these 
pieces of legislation which contain basic relief and help to farmers in 
the United States, plus people who are waiting to see what is happening 
in here for relief of all kinds in both of these two bills.
  We have tried to work together under the constraints, as I said, of 
the budget forces to shortchange a number of important priorities.
  The subcommittee has been denied the opportunity to meet America's 
priorities and reflect the values, to provide a strong safety net for 
farmers in crisis, to ensure safe foods on America's dinner tables, and 
to guarantee the proper nutrition for the children and the elderly.
  We could have better provided for these priorities if we had a budget 
resolution that did not put tax cuts for the wealthy above the needs of 
hard-working, middle-class American families across this country.
  Each year contaminated food causes up to 81 million cases of food-
borne illnesses, as many as 9,000 deaths. It costs Americans over $8 
billion a year in lost work and medical care. The situation requires 
decisive action. This bill undermines progress by underfunding the Food 
Safety and Inspection Service by more than $14 million. When one wants 
to take their youngsters out to dinner, they want to know that they are 
going to go some place and they are going to be safe and sound with 
whatever they are eating on those tables.
  The WIC program guarantees women and children receive solid nutrition 
and health advice. We could have covered more people if we increased 
the allocation for the WIC program.
  My final comment is that there is a great crisis facing farmers 
today. They are begging Congress to do something. We must. It is our 
responsibility. The allocation dealt the subcommittee prevents it from 
fully addressing the depression-level prices our farmers face.
  We need to emphasize Congress' responsibility to ensure the long-term 
safety and security of all Americans and their families. People deserve 
our highest commitment to these goals.
  Mr. SKEEN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 8 minutes to the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Kingston), a member of our subcommittee.
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from New Mexico 
(Mr. Skeen) for yielding me the time to speak.
  Mr. Chairman, I stand in strong support of this bill. I think this 
bill is philosophically in line with the objectives of this Congress in 
that it has common sense fiscal responsibility and balances social 
needs, agriculture-business needs.
  This Congress, on a bipartisan basis in 1997, signed off on a budget 
that said these will be our priorities. We are going to protect and 
preserve the Social Security system, and we have done that. We now have 
a surplus in Social Security.
  We said, number two, we are going to protect and preserve Medicare, 
and we have done that. Many of us remember working very hard in 
somewhat shock after the 1995 Medicare trustee's report came out saying 
Medicare would be bankrupt in 3 years if we did not act to do something 
on it.
  Well, this Congress on a bipartisan basis did do something, and now 
we have protected and preserved Medicare.
  The next priority is to pay down the debt, and this Congress has paid 
down over $350 billion in debt relief. As a result of this fiscal 
responsibility, this common sense approach to governing, we now have a 
budget surplus. This surplus, Mr. Chairman, should not be squandered on 
more government expansion and political initiatives designed to corral 
in another constituency group. It should be very careful to keep in 
mind that the money that we spend here in this Chamber does not belong 
to us. The Government has no money. The money belongs to the people, 
the hard-working taxpayers. So with that approach in mind, we have a 
budget here on agriculture and related agencies of about $76 billion.
  Now, half of that money goes to feeding programs, nutrition programs, 
funding for the poor feeding-type programs, nutrition for the poor, 
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  I make that point, because so many people look at agriculture from 
the cities and they sneer and they say, $76 billion for farmers. Guess 
what? It does not go to farmers. Half of the money goes to children in 
inner cities, and they need it; the other balance of that goes to, 
among other agencies, the Food and Drug Administration, very careful, 
each one of us take medicines, have a loved one that takes medicines. 
This bill funds that.
  Farm service agencies, conservation reserves and also research gets 
the balance of that money; very few dollars go directly to the farmers.
  Let me say something on behalf of America's farmers. We have less 
than 2 percent of our population today who are directly farming. We 
have maybe a little bit more, if we count the romantic farmer, and I 
would say that would be somebody who works in the city and has a 40-
hour-a-week job, but they have inherited some land or they have that 
gnawing that we all have, they want to have a piece of property and 
they want to work with their hands. They are part-time farmers. They 
often skew the statistics of who is out there actually farming and who 
is not. Certainly if they have some acres under cultivation, it goes 
into food, it is part of food production.
  The true farmers, Mr. Chairman, are less than 2 percent these days 
and, yet, that small sector of our population feeds 100 percent of us 
and a great portion of the rest of the world, and we can feed more of 
the world.
  I think that our farmers need eight things as we debate agriculture 
policy: Number one, they need good credit; number two, they need a crop 
insurance program that works; number three, they need good conservation 
programs; number four, they need good specialty programs; number five, 
they need market relief, international market relief; number six, they 
reed regulatory relief; number seven, they need tax relief; and number 
eight, they need good basic research.
  Mr. Chairman, I wanted to just elaborate a little bit more on this, 
and I will try to go quickly. We on the Subcommittee on Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies 
are limited as to what we can do with need number one, credit. But we 
can work with institutions, and we can work through our other 
committees.
  We can work with the private sector to try to say one of the big 
things we hear day in and day out from our farmers is the need for 
long-term credit. Just like any other business, they are at risk. They 
invest money. The return comes when they harvest, sometimes the return 
is not there because of disaster, but they need long-term and short-
term credit.
  Number two, they need a good crop insurance program. A crop insurance 
program that is based on the cost of production, a crop insurance 
program that rewards them for good farming practices which reduce 
losses, and crop insurance that would serve them the same way a 
commercial business is served by commercial and fire insurance; 
something that is understandable.
  Number three, conservation programs. Just think how much money we 
could save during a farm disaster, during the time of a drought if we 
had money available for irrigation systems, smart farming systems, and 
for building dams. If farmers could get water on a regular basis and 
get it abundantly and inexpensively, it would truly reduce the costs of 
farm disasters.
  Number four, as I said before, we need specialty programs, good 
specialty programs. I come from peanut country. It is amazing the 
number of people that say well, the peanut program is a strange ag 
program; that is not unusual. A lot of ag programs are very hard and 
complex to understand. I can say this, do we know what it does? It 
makes it possible for the young couple to stay on the farm and not move 
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become a medical doctor, but it makes it possible for them to have a 
steady cash flow and stay on the farm.
  It makes it possible for the consumers of America to have a cheap and 
abundant supply of peanuts; the same is true with all the other myriad 
of specialty programs.
  Number five, they need market relief. When we can buy oats at the 
Port of Brunswick, Georgia cheaper than we can raise them in Millen, 
Georgia, we have a problem. Even with all the greatest of farm 
technology, we should be able to grow oats cheaper domestically than 
importing them. Because some of our international ag competition 
subsidizes their farmers heavily, it makes our farmers have a 
disadvantage in the marketplace.
  We do need to have market relief. Market promotion is part of that. I 
love the idea that my district's vidalia onion can be eaten and bought 
all over the world because they are the best and most delicious onions 
that have ever been made. We all know that. The folks all over the 
globe ought to be eating them. We need to have a program that promotes 
them and lets our farmers develop markets overseas.
  Number six, regulatory relief. It is not fair for our farmers to be 
restricted in what kind of fertilizer, what kind of pesticides they can 
use when farmers south of the border in Mexico or north of the border 
in Canada or wherever else can use the same fertilizers that are banned 
here. We need to work with our international partners. If a fertilizer 
is bad here, it ought to be bad anywhere in the globe; and we should be 
protected from those markets dumping on our farmers.
  Number seven, tax relief. If we do not have estate or a death tax 
relief, that farm cannot be passed on to the next generation. It is 
economically prohibitive.
  Number eight, we need good research. This bill will always catch a 
lot of grief. Oh, they are spending millions or thousands of dollars to 
study the mating habits of some obscure fly or a worm. That makes a 
good little press hit and a good humorous article in Reader's Digest or 
a great one-liner for Jay Leno, but the reality is a lot of the times 
ag research can save American consumers millions of dollars in lowering 
the cost of production.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Skeen) has 16 
minutes remaining and the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur) has 12\1/
2\ minutes remaining.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of our time, if the 
gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Skeen) would like to call on another 
speaker so that we are more balanced in our time.
  Mr. SKEEN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Illinois (Mr. Ewing), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Risk 
Management, Research and Specialty Crop.
  Mr. EWING. Mr. Chairman, I thank the chairman of the Subcommittee on 
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and 
Related Agencies for yielding me the time.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of this appropriations bill, 
H.R. 4461. This committee, the Committee on Appropriations, this 
Congress, the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 
Drug Administration and Related Agencies have recognized the tremendous 
problems in American agriculture over the last 3 years.
  This bill goes along and provides the additional money which we need 
in discretionary spending for the year 2001. The bill also provides 
important funding for initiatives dealing with biotechnology, soybean 
diseases and aflatoxin and corn; particularly, biotechnology, an issue 
of critical importance to our farmers in America and our trading 
partners in Europe.
  This is a good piece of legislation which will go a long way in 
assisting our struggling agricultural economy.
  Mr. Chairman, I ask the rest of my colleagues to help American 
farmers and ranchers by voting yes on H.R. 4461.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Obey), the distinguished ranking member of the full 
committee.
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me the 
time.
  Mr. Chairman, we have had one of the wonders of congressional history 
plaguing every farmer in this country the past few years; it has been 
called the Freedom to Farm Act. And under that act, farmers have had 
the freedom to experience record lows in the prices they are getting 
for their products.
  Dairy farmers, for instance, are getting about 40 percent less than 
they were getting just a few years ago for every hundred pounds of milk 
they sell, and you have lots of other commodities where farm prices are 
in the tank. You have suicide rates in farm-dominated counties at very 
high levels, and one would think that a Congress, which is supposedly 
dedicated to the free market to letting the ``wondrous'' market forces 
work, would insist that you have really true markets.
  Mr. Chairman, but if you look at the adequacy of this budget in terms 
of enabling the U.S. Department of Agriculture to assure that we have 
the tools to prevent undue market concentration so that you can 
maintain real markets, you see this bill is woefully inadequate.
  One of the great Supreme Court justices in our history noted once 
that a free market is the most essential ingredient in our capitalist 
system for any legitimate business to function, and yet you see four 
companies now control 81 percent of the cattle purchases, beef 
processing, and wholesale marketing.
  You see that four companies now control 56 percent of the pork 
market, and you see the same concentration in other areas; poultry, for 
instance. And this bill is grossly inadequate to prevent that problem 
from getting worse.
  We also have seen in the supplemental all efforts to help our farmers 
on the commodity price front have been stripped from that bill, so at 
this point that bill does not do anything for farmers. It pretends to 
do something on allowing additional exports. But in reality, it is a 
drop in the bucket, because of loopholes in the provision which was put 
in the conference report last night after the conference report had 
been signed, which is why I had to remove my name from that conference 
report, regrettably, because I had intended to try to support that 
bill.
  I do not believe in keeping my name on an agreement after that 
agreement has been unilaterally altered. I think that practice is 
offensive or ought to be to this House.
  I am going to ask Members, when the time comes, to vote against this 
bill, because this bill certainly is not adequate to our challenges on 
the farm front. It is not adequate with respect to pest control. It is 
not adequate with respect to agricultural research. It is not adequate 
with respect to rural development.
  Mr. SKEEN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
South Carolina (Mr. Sanford).
  Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding me the 
time.
  Mr. Chairman, I would just commend the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. 
Skeen) for his work on this bill. I just wanted to add basically one 
editorial comment and, that is, that I do have one reservation on this 
bill that I would like to touch on, and; that is, I think that what was 
worked out with Cuba has a fatal flaw, and that is, if we propose to 
offer food and medicine without the ability to travel, I think we are 
making a real mistake.
  I would say that for a couple of different reasons. First of all, the 
present policy in Cuba has not worked. We changed welfare, because it 
supposedly did not work. Here we have a policy that has been in place 
for 40 years that has not worked, and we are not going to change it. 
That, to me, does not make common sense.
  Mr. Chairman, I would say also it does not make common sense from the 
standpoint of history, which interesting thing is, that one of the 
tools that Ronald Reagan used in changing things behind the Berlin Wall 
was travel, allowing young kids with backpacks to travel in the 
international community, in South Africa, apartheid South Africa, 
allowed people to travel, actually promoted the exchanges with young 
kids coming to America or American kids going there, so we had one-on-
one personal diplomacy. It was key to changing things down there.
  Mr. Chairman, the other reason I do not think the present policy 
works and, therefore, I think it was tragic that it was incorporated in 
this bill, I think that Americans have a constitutional right to 
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anywhere in the globe with the exception of Sudan and Iraq and Cuba, 
that makes no sense to me.
  We can travel to North Korea. They are developing nuclear weapons. 
They are sending bombs over to the top of Japan. We can travel to 
Serbia. We just bombed the place, but we cannot travel to Cuba. That 
makes no sense to me. In fact, Zemel v. Rusk, which was a Supreme Court 
decision back in the 1960s, said Americans have the right to travel 
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  The Defense Intelligence Agency in 1998 said, there is no military 
threat from Cuba, so Americans ought to be able to travel there from a 
constitutional right.
  Finally, it is inconsistent with the notion of engagement. Engagement 
is what this body proposed. China engagement is what this body has 
proposed in many places around the globe, but for some reason we will 
not do that with Cuba, and that is inconsistent with what I heard when 
I traveled down there myself from political dissidents and independent 
journalists who said, if we want to change things in Cuba, we need to 
change the embargo.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Farr), who is such a hard-working, able member of the 
subcommittee.
  Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Chairman, I rise as a very proud member 
of the Subcommittee on Agriculture of the Committee on Appropriations, 
and I have to say that it is an incredible joy to serve under the 
chairmanship of the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Skeen) and the 
gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), the ranking member. I think the 
camaraderie on this committee is one of the most outstanding in all of 
the House.
  The underlying bill that we are debating today is about appropriating 
money for the U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture. The difficulty 
with this bill is the allocation that was given to the committee is far 
less than it was last year, so we have to squeeze a lot of funds; and 
in the end, we squeeze a lot of programs that probably should not be 
squeezed.
  We squeeze funding shortfalls for food safety. This bill underfunds 
the budget request for USDA by about $14 million. They inspect meat and 
poultry. I am not sure that people want us to have shortfalls and an 
inability to inspect meat and poultry.
  It shortfalls the resources to deal with market concentration and 
abusive practices. One of the biggest problems in America is that we 
are finding that the consolidation of markets is making the prices stay 
low. It is good for the consumers, but it is also putting a lot of 
restraints on the ability to get the best price for a farmer's crop. In 
addition to that, there are all kinds of slotting fees and other 
things. They underfund the request from the President, which was about 
$7 million; and they only gave them $1 million, a little over $1 
million.
  It falls short by $53 million for new and the spreading diseases that 
we have in agriculture and pests.
  On conservation programs, the bill falls short $70 million from the 
budget request for conservation operations at the Natural Resources 
Conservation Service.
  The list goes on and on, and probably one of the most difficult or 
hardest hit is the rural areas of the United States.
  Speaking of the rural areas, I would just like to say, this bill is 
not about the sanctions that were lifted by this committee. It is about 
the fact that the sanctions were taken out by a rule. That greatly 
disturbs us.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman's time has expired.
  Mr. SKEEN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Farr).
  Mr. FARR of California. I thank the gentleman.
  The concern here is that in a bipartisan fashion, we funded the 
farmers of this country who grow the food that feeds the people, that 
feeds the children through school lunch programs and school breakfast 
programs and infants and newborns, and feeds the elderly through Second 
Harvest and Meals-on-Wheels; but we cannot sell that food to countries 
like Sudan, Libya, North Korea, Iran, and Cuba. We voted to lift those 
sanctions to allow that food to flow to those countries.
  That is what the concern is here, that the rule was adopted last 
night which does not allow this. The promise was made that it would be 
in another committee report, but it was not there. It was not there 
last night when I checked. I am very concerned about this.
  Mr. SKEEN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Boyd), a member of the subcommittee.
  Mr. BOYD. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding me this 
time.
  I want to thank the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Skeen) and the 
gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur) for their wonderful leadership on 
getting us to this point where we have this legislation on the floor 
today.
  Mr. Chairman, 4 years ago, in 1996, when we changed, significantly 
changed, this Congress changed the agricultural policy of this country 
with the so-called Freedom to Farm bill, that was a very drastic change 
and a move in the opposite direction of the way we had managed our 
agricultural policy in this country for the last 60 or 70 previous 
years.
  At that time, our farmers were promised that in exchange for the 
support program that had been in place for that 60 or 70 years, that 
the farmers would be given two things, as I recall. One was they would 
be given access to worldwide markets which would assist us in keeping a 
price at a level where our farmers could make a profit. The other was 
some decline in the excessive regulation that exists at the farm level.
  Now, it is obvious after 4 years that neither one of these promises 
have been delivered upon. I think we should have known back in 1996 
that the regulation that is in place is put there in many cases for a 
good purpose, and we are not going back on that. Meanwhile, we have 
been unable to deliver the worldwide markets that we promised in 1996.
  What we are experiencing today is worldwide low commodity prices at 
levels where our farmers really are not able to make a profit in the 
long term. If that is the only source they had, they would not be able 
to sustain themselves and stay in business. As a result, this United 
States Congress comes in every year with an ad hoc disaster assistance 
program.
  The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Boyd) has 
expired.
  Mr. SKEEN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Boyd).
  Mr. BOYD. So, Mr. Chairman, we have a situation where the current 
agricultural policy is costing this Treasury more than it ever has in 
the past. As a matter of fact, in the 4 years since we have had Freedom 
to Farm, we have spent more money out of the Treasury trying to sustain 
our agricultural industry. Mr. Chairman, it is a national security 
issue. We should not allow this agricultural industry to be weakened, 
because we never want to rely upon another country for our food supply.
  Mr. Chairman, this bill I think is the best that we can do, given the 
limited resources that we have. I am concerned about the fact that the 
subcommittee worked its will, the full committee worked its will, it 
went to the Committee on Rules, and now all of the rules have been 
changed, some of the sanctions language that was put in there will now 
be removed, and I do not think that is the way we should operate.
  So I do have some concerns about that, however. But my larger concern 
is about the national agricultural policy we have in place today.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New 
York (Mr. Hinchey), a very able and distinguished member of the 
subcommittee.
  Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. 
Kaptur), my leader, for yielding me this time.
  First of all, I want to express my appreciation to our chairman. I 
have never met a more affable man, nor a better gentleman, and to say 
it has been a pleasure to serve under his leadership for the past 2 
years on this subcommittee is, frankly, an understatement. It has been 
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it has been a learning experience as well.
  I particularly want to thank our chairman for the help and 
consideration that he and his staff provided in recognizing some of the 
agricultural problems that exist in the northeastern part of the 
country and elsewhere as well. Particularly with regard to apples and, 
to some extent potatoes, as a result of that cooperation, we were able 
to obtain in this bill $115 million, which will provide assistance for 
apple-growers in New England and New York and elsewhere around the 
country whose crop has been hard hit, first of all, by economic 
circumstances and secondly, by weather, hurricanes, and hail over the 
course of the last couple of years.
  I can tell my colleagues that the apple farmers in New York are going 
to be very grateful for this assistance. It is modest assistance. Yes, 
it is. Nevertheless, it is assistance that is very desperately needed 
and will be very greatly appreciated.
  In addition to that, we have another amendment in this bill which I 
was able to pass through the subcommittee again, with the blessings of 
my chairman and the help of the staff to provide $57 million for 
additional rural development. I think that that is very important. The 
bill itself underfunded rural development, not because of deficiencies 
in the approach by our Chairman, but by the fact that the allocation 
was so low. Now with his assistance, we have been able to provide an 
additional $57 million in rural development assistance in various 
places across the country.
  So for these two measures particularly, I want to express my 
appreciation to the chairman for this legislation. I do not want to 
give the impression that that is perfect by any means. There are 
certain aspects of the bill which need improving which we will point 
out as we go through the debate, but I do want to again express my 
appreciation to the chairman for his leadership and for the pleasure it 
has been working with him through this process.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), who is such an able representative of rural 
America, and certainly all of the agricultural facilities and interests 
in Beltsville, probably the most important research station in the 
world.
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me this 
time and for her comments with reference to the Beltsville Agricultural 
Research Center.
  I rise not to talk about the substance; I know there is some concern 
expressed by the gentlewoman from Ohio and the gentleman from Florida 
and others about exactly where this bill is now; but I do want to say 
to the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Skeen) that I echo the remarks of 
the gentleman from New York (Mr. Hinchey). There is no more affable 
individual nor better friend to any of us in this House than the 
gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Skeen), an honorable, decent and good 
legislator; and I thank him for his help.
  I rise simply to say that we do have a lot of interests in my 
district in farming and agriculture. We have a lot of interest 
obviously in the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, and I want to 
thank the gentleman from New Mexico for his focus on those concerns and 
certainly the gentlewoman from Ohio, who does such an extraordinary job 
on behalf of the agriculture community, not just in Ohio, but 
throughout this country. I thank both of them for their leadership. 
Very frankly, it is unfortunate that we do not work together as 
collegially in every instance as I know these two do and we do on our 
committee.
  I might say in closing that I trust that we can get back at some 
point in time during this process to where we were when we came out of 
committee.
  Mr. SKEEN. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of our time.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Maine (Mr. Baldacci), who is, by the way, a very involved member of the 
authorizing Committee on Agriculture, and we are very pleased that he 
is down here on an appropriation bill.
  Mr. BALDACCI. Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank the gentlewoman, 
the ranking member, for her leadership on agricultural issues in making 
sure that agricultural energy issues are addressed on a national stage. 
So we appreciate her leadership.
  I want to thank the chairman of the committee also for his leadership 
in being able to recognize the needs of the Northeast in developing 
this legislation. We certainly do appreciate the focus that has been 
given to apples and potatoes. We also appreciate the focus that has 
been given to value-added in research, recognizing, as we get to a 
global economy, that we have to be able to give our farmers the latest 
research and technology and the opportunities to add values for farmers 
and farmer-owned cooperatives, and to be able to market those goods 
around the world.
  I rise also to thank the appropriators for doing the best that they 
can under trying circumstances with a very important spending bill. 
This bill impacts the lives of more than farmers. There are programs 
for the hungry, for food safety initiatives and economic development 
proposals which all get funded through this bill. I want to say it has 
been a pleasure to work with the appropriators, the chairman of the 
subcommittee and the ranking member, and the members of the committee. 
Working with the gentleman from New York (Mr. Hinchey), the gentleman 
from New York (Mr. Walsh), and the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. 
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  And recognizing that Rome was not built in a day and rocky roads lead 
to the Promised Land, I want to thank the gentleman and use this as a 
very good first step.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, could I ask, what is the remaining time on 
both sides, please.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Skeen) has 9\1/2\ 
minutes remaining; the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur) has 2 minutes 
remaining.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I yield our remaining 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Peterson), one of the most active and 
insightful members of the authorizing committee from the State of 
Minnesota, which has weathered such difficulties in the agricultural 
sector.
  Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman from 
Ohio (Ms. Kaptur) for yielding me this time.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise today first of all to compliment the gentleman 
from New Mexico (Chairman Skeen) and the gentlewoman from Ohio, our 
ranking member, for all the hard work they do for us in the 
Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies, as well as all the members of the 
committee. They have a tough job and by and large they do a pretty good 
job.
  As the gentlewoman said, I represent an area that has had a lot of 
difficulties the last number of years. This year we had probably the 
best crop coming that we ever had, and about a week ago we got 7 inches 
of rain. Now I have one county that is pretty much under water. What I 
wanted to talk about today a little bit is the situation that we are 
in.
  In the 1996 bill, we eliminated the disaster programs with the idea 
that we were going to fix crop insurance. The foreign markets were 
going to help us keep the prices up where they needed to be. We finally 
got a pretty good crop insurance bill through; the problem is that it 
does not really take effect until next year.
  So in 1998 and 1999, we passed ad hoc disaster programs that helped 
out a lot of people. We did not fund them completely, but it made a big 
difference. We have had the extra AMTA payments which have helped 
people. But I have an area now that these folks have lost their crop 
now. This is the seventh year in a row for these people that are under 
water now.
  Mr. Chairman, my plea is that for these people, and any others around 
the country that are having these kinds of problems that are of no 
fault of their own, that we look at doing another disaster program for 
the year 2000, because the crop insurance fixes that would have helped 
some of these people, as I said, are not going to take effect until 
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are going to keep these people in business, and it is literally one 
whole county, they need a Federal disaster program to underpin the crop 
insurance that they are going to get that is not going to cover the 
cost of production.
  So I would ask the chairman and the ranking member of the 
subcommittee, as we go through this process that they remain open to 
the possibility of having a disaster program for the year 2000 for some 
of these folks that have had this problem.
  Mr. SKEEN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Missouri (Mrs. Emerson) a member of the subcommittee.
  Mrs. EMERSON. Mr. Chairman, I want to rise in support of this bill 
today and thank the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Skeen) for his 
strong leadership on issues of importance to America's farmers and 
ranchers.
  My friend, the gentleman from New Mexico, has been a great champion 
of agriculture as chairman of this subcommittee, and it has been an 
honor for me to serve with him, as it is for me to serve with the 
gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), our ranking member. She has done an 
extraordinary job as well, and that not only shows in her dedication to 
the support of American agriculture.
  Mr. Chairman, this is an extraordinarily difficult time for America's 
farmers and ranchers, as everyone who has spoken today has said. We are 
in the midst of our third straight year of low commodity prices and 
third year of financial hardship on the farm. And when we factor in the 
other challenges that our producers are facing, agricultural embargoes, 
consolidation of big agribusiness companies, punitive and heavy-handed 
overregulation by the Environmental Protection Agency and Fish and 
Wildlife, it is really very clear that farmers and ranchers have their 
backs up against the wall.
  Mr. Chairman, I think the gentleman from New Mexico (Chairman Skeen) 
recognizes the problems in farm country and the legislation that is 
before us today represents a lot of hard work by the entire committee. 
But it does not do everything I like. I particularly want to associate 
myself with the words of the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur) with 
regard to the issue of agriculture embargoes which the gentleman from 
Washington (Mr. Nethercutt) has championed so well. I just pray that 
our leaders follow through on their commitment to us, all of us, to 
make sure that that part of lifting of sanctions gets put into 
legislation and gets passed by the Congress this week.
  I do have to say, though, I think that this bill is an important step 
forward and it does a pretty good job of balancing all of the different 
needs of agriculture. I am particularly pleased that the bill fully 
funds the TEFAP program. It increases funding for rural America through 
the Rural Community Advancement Program, so very, very important for 
rural America. It also maintains a firm commitment to agriculture 
research, which obviously is very, very important to the long-term 
productivity and profitability of our producers.
  Mr. Chairman, in short, I have to say, while we all would like 
additional funds for our agriculture programs, and I include myself 
among that, this bill does do a lot of good for American agriculture 
and moves the process forward. So, I would urge a ``yes'' vote on the 
legislation.
  Mr. SKEEN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Foley).
  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the gentleman from New Mexico 
(Mr. Skeen) yielding me this time for the purposes of a colloquy with 
the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Boyd).
  Mr. Chairman, last year, the House Committee on Appropriations and 
the final conference committee on the Agricultural Appropriations bill 
approved language giving special consideration for funding for a joint 
aquaculture distance learning/education and research project through 
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution in my district and Florida 
State University in Tallahassee. The original request for the project 
called for $470,000 for the work to be carried out in fiscal year 2000.
  Mr. BOYD. Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman will yield, as a Member of 
the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration and Related Agencies, I appreciate the support of the 
gentleman from New Mexico (Chairman Skeen) for this project that the 
gentleman from Florida is speaking of. It is of high priority to the 
Florida State University in the Second Congressional District of 
Florida.
  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Chairman, however, now, despite the strong support of 
the House, and by reference the conference committee, the Rural 
Utilities Service of the Department of Agriculture has ignored the 
intent of Congress and refused to fund the Harbor Branch-FSU 
aquaculture project. In fact, it is my understanding that the agency 
rejected the congressional language as ``nonbinding'' and made 
fundamental errors in analyzing the proposal that was submitted to the 
Department for funding.
  Mr. Chairman, was it the intent of the committee and the Congress 
that the proposed Harbor Branch-Florida State University project be 
fully funded by the Rural Utilities Service in fiscal 2000?
  Mr. SKEEN. Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman will yield, the gentleman 
from Florida (Mr. Foley) is absolutely correct. Traditionally, we have 
given special priority to projects such as this one through the 
committee report language; and we fully expect the agency to fully fund 
those proposals. I expect the Rural Utilities Service to make 
appropriated funds available in fiscal year 2000 to fully fund the 
Harbor Branch-FSU aquaculture distance learning project.
  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Boyd).
  Mr. BOYD. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Foley), my friend, and distinguished gentleman from New Mexico 
(Chairman Skeen), who knows very well that the committee report 
language is taken very seriously on the Committee on Appropriations. I 
share the gentleman's concern that the Department has not complied with 
the clear intent of the committee and Congress.
  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, I thank both the 
gentleman from New Mexico and the gentleman from Florida who serve on 
the subcommittee, and commend them both for their bipartisan support 
for this project. I am especially grateful for the leadership that the 
chairman of the subcommittee provides on agricultural issues facing the 
Congress.
  Mr. SKEEN. Mr. Chairman, I yield the balance of my time to the 
gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Latham), a member of the subcommittee.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Latham) is recognized for 
5 minutes.
  (Mr. LATHAM asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from New Mexico for 
yielding me this time, and I will not use all of the available time. I 
just wanted to emphasize the importance of the trade discussion that 
has been going on here. The gentleman from Florida (Mr. Boyd) brought 
up in his statement the idea and the concern that we have as far as 
opening up trade around the world and relating that to the farm bill.
  He is correct in exactly that we anticipated some cooperation with 
the administration when we passed the Freedom to Farm to open up 
markets. The reality is just the opposite, however. In the past 80 
years, there have been 120 sanctions put on other countries. Sanctions 
is a nice word for an embargo. The fact of the matter is over half of 
those embargoes have been put on in this last administration.
  So while we have fought to open up markets, to make sales available 
to our farmers overseas, it has flown in the face of the 
administration's policy of continuing and expanding the number of 
sanctions. I will say again, over half of the sanctions in the last 80 
years have been put on in the last 7 years, and it is very, very 
unfortunate.
  That is why opening up trade today for Cuba, for North Korea, for 
Sudan, for Iran, Libya, is so very, very important to change the 
dynamics of the whole debate here. I think it is imperative that we 
move forward, that we make sure that we do crack open the door and 
allow us to sell our products, food and medicine, to these countries 
who are so much in need.
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  Mr. LATHAM. I yield to the gentleman from Florida.
  Mr. BOYD. Mr. Chairman, I just would like to say that I did not 
invoke a partisan tint to my comments. And I would like to remind the 
gentleman that it is the administration who has worked very hard on 
Fast Track, and it is the administration that worked very hard on PNTR 
and these other trade agreements. I would like to remind the gentleman 
that those are divisive issues on this floor. Many Republicans and many 
Democrats both were against them, but it was not the administration 
that was against them.
  Mr. Chairman, I would just like to remind the gentleman of that.
  Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, sure, and I very much 
appreciate the statement of the gentleman from Florida. I agree, as far 
as trade relations with China. The administration worked very hard, and 
I think that is very, very positive.
  And Congress is not beyond blame, also, in some of the sanctions that 
were put on. There is no question about that. But the reality is it is 
more difficult today in many parts of the world to sell our products 
than it was even 10 years ago. And if we have learned anything in the 
past decades, it is that using food and medicine as a weapon in foreign 
policy has never worked. All it does is punish our farmers here. It 
does not help the people in the countries that we are supposedly 
punishing. I think the gentleman's point is well taken.
  Mr. BOYD. Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman would continue to yield, I 
would like to remind the gentleman, and the Congress also, that we, the 
subcommittee and the full committee, addressed those issues in our bill 
and that language has been stricken when it arrived at the Committee on 
Rules by the majority leadership of this Congress. And so I just wanted 
to remind the gentleman; I want to be certain he is aware of that.
  Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Chairman, again reclaiming my time, I certainly am.
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. LATHAM. I yield to the gentleman from Ohio.
  MR. BOEHNER. Mr. Chairman, let me congratulate the gentleman from 
Iowa (Mr. Latham), my colleague, who well knows that more than half of 
what U.S. farmers and ranchers produce every year is exported somewhere 
around the world. Without more markets for our farmers to participate 
in around the world, price improvement in the domestic market is not 
likely to happen.
  I appreciate the gentleman's defense of our current farm policy. As 
we did hearings around the country all spring, members of the Committee 
on Agriculture from both sides of the aisle, we all heard the same 
thing from every farmer and rancher in all parts of the country. No one 
wants to go back to the old farm policy, the old command and control 
system that we had in this country for some 60 years where the 
Government decided what we needed and what we did not need. And the 
fact is farmers like the freedom and the flexibility they have to make 
decisions about what markets they want to enter and what crops they 
want to plant on their land.
  Mr. Chairman, when we started this program some 4 years ago now, no 
one had the idea that this was going to be an easy transition away from 
60 years of the Government making the determination about what ought to 
be planted and this transition to a more open and more competitive 
marketplace. And so I congratulate the gentleman from Iowa.
  Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time just in closing, I think 
there is a consensus with all of us in trade policy, and it is the 
debate that we should have. And just in closing, also, I would 
certainly hope that everyone would support this bill on final passage.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Chairman, this Member rises in support of H.R. 
4461, the Agriculture Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2001.
  This Member would like to commend the distinguished gentleman from 
New Mexico (Mr. Skeen), the Chairman of the Agriculture Appropriations 
Subcommittee, and the distinguished gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), 
the ranking member of the Subcommittee for their hard work in bringing 
this bill to the Floor.
  Mr. Chairman, this Member certainly recognizes the severe budget 
constraints under which the full Appropriations Committee and the 
Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee operated. In light of these 
constraints, this Member is grateful and pleased that this legislation 
includes funding for several important projects of interest to the 
State of Nebraska.
  First, this Member is pleased that H.R. 4461 provides $500,000 for 
the Midwest Advanced Food Manufacturing Alliance (MAFMA). The Alliance 
is an association of twelve leading research universities and corporate 
partners. Its purpose is to develop and facilitate the transfer of new 
food manufacturing and processing technologies.
  The MAFMA awards grants for research projects on a peer review basis. 
These awards must be supported by an industry partner willing to 
provide matching funds. In the first six years of funding, MAFMA has 
directed $2,142,317 toward a research competition at the 12 
universities. Projects must receive matching funds. Over the first six 
years, matching funds of $2,666,129 plus in-kind contributions of 
$625,407 were received for MAFMA funded projects from 105 companies or 
organizations. These figures convincingly demonstrate how successful 
the Alliance has been in leveraging support from the food manufacturing 
and processing industries.
  Mr. Chairman, the future viability and competitiveness of the U.S. 
agricultural industry depends on its ability to adapt to increasing 
world-wide demands for U.S. exports of intermediate and consumer good 
exports. In order to meet these changing world-wide demands, 
agricultural research must also adapt to provide more emphasis on 
adding value to our basic farm commodities. The Midwest Advanced Food 
Manufacturing Alliance can provide the necessary cooperative link 
between universities and industries for the development of competitive 
food manufacturing and processing technologies. This will, in turn, 
ensure that the United States agricultural industry remains competitive 
in a increasingly competitive global economy.
  This Member is also pleased that this bill includes $200,00 to fund 
the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) at the University of 
Nebraska-Lincoln. This project is in its fourth year and has assisted 
numerous states and cities in developing drought plans and developing 
drought response teams. Given the nearly unprecedented levels of 
drought in several parts of our country, this effort is obviously 
important.
  On March 13, 2000, the Federal Government issued its first-ever 
spring drought forecast. It anticipates drought across the southern 
U.S. and in the central part of the nation. These drought conditions 
clearly pose a threat to individuals, agriculture and industry 
throughout the nation. As the drought continues, the NDMC will play an 
increasingly important role in helping people and institutions develop 
and implement measures to reduce societal vulnerability to this danger. 
Most of the NDMC's services are directed to state, Federal, regional 
and tribal governments that are involved in drought and water supply 
planning.
  Another important project funded by this bill is the Alliance for 
Food Protection, a joint project between the University of Nebraska and 
the University of Georgia. The mission of this Alliance is to assist 
the development and modification of food processing and preservation 
technologies. This technology will help ensure that Americans continue 
to receive the safest and highest quality food possible.
  This Member is also pleased that the legislation has agreed to fund 
the following ongoing Cooperative State Research, Education, and 
Extension Service (CSREES) projects at the University of Nebraska-
Lincoln:

Food Processing Center..........................................$42,000
Non-food agricultural products...................................64,000
Sustainable agricultural systems.................................59,000
Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) (a joint effort with Iowa 
  State University and the University of Missouri)............1,000,000

  Also, this Member is pleased that H.R. 4461 includes $100 million for 
the Section 538, the rural rental multi-family housing loan guarantee 
program. The program provides a Federal guarantee on loans made to 
eligible persons by private lenders. Developers will bring ten percent 
of the cost of the project to the table, and private lenders will make 
loans for the balance. The lenders will be given a 100% Federal 
guarantee on the loans they make. Unlike the current Section 515 direct 
loan Program, where the full costs are borne by the Federal Government, 
the only costs to the Federal Government under the 538 Guarantee 
Program will be for administrative costs and potential defaults.
  Mr. Chairman, this Member appreciates the Subcommittee's support for 
the Department of Agriculture's 502 Unsubsidized Loan Guarantee 
Program. The program has been very effective in rural communities by 
guaranteeing loans made by approved lenders to eligible income 
households in small communities of up

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to 20,000 residents in non-metropolitan areas and in rural areas. The 
program provides guarantees for 30 year fixed-rate mortgages for the 
purchase of an existing home or the construction of a new home.
  Mr. Chairman, in conclusion, this Member supports H.R. 4461 and urges 
my colleagues to approve it.
  Mr. WATTS of Oklahoma. Mr. Chairman, today the House will consider 
H.R. 4461, the FY2001 Agriculture Appropriations Act. I would like to 
thank Chairman Skeen and the members of the Subcommittee for their 
leadership in drafting this legislation and I rise in strong support of 
its passage.
  Included in this legislation is funding for the Retired Educators for 
Agricultural Programs, or REAP. REAP is an organization which was 
established in 1994 to address the diminishing numbers of African 
American agricultural education teachers in Oklahoma and the scarcity 
of African American youth enrolled in vocational agriculture and 
programs such as the Future Farmers of America. Initially, REAP was 
operating in five counties in Oklahoma. It has since begun to operate 
in other areas throughout the State.
  The mission of REAP is to build a foundation that promotes personal 
and economic opportunities in agriculture for African American youth 
through project development and partnerships with educational and other 
community resources. One of the primary goals of REAP is to emphasize 
citizenship, economic development, leadership and scholarship to the 
African American youth involved in the program.
  REAP extends its outreach to the parents and community members by 
means of programs, forums and opportunities to chaperone student 
activities. The program encourages this participation in the hope that 
the adults will become better informed, more involved and more 
supportive of the reasonable and achievable aspirations of their young 
people.
  REAP exemplifies a model that can be easily replicated. It is a 
program of vision, partnerships and commitment that is timeless in 
focus and limited only by the parameters of the imagination. Field 
trips to areas in my district in Southwest Oklahoma have ignited great 
interest in expanding the program into this area of our state. Parents 
and teachers in Lawton, Altus, Frederick and Tipton, assure me that 
there is a great need for REAP in our area of the State where limited 
financial resources have precluded service.
  Mr. Chairman, REAP is an important program which could be used as a 
model for similar programs in other states. This program is vital to 
the further development of rural America. I am honored to have the 
opportunity to play a role in furthering the efforts of this very 
important program. I would like to urge my colleagues in the House to 
join me in support of REAP and the development of programs like it 
elsewhere by casting their vote in favor of H.R. 4461.
  Mr. COLLINS. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to note that the Committee 
has recognized the vital role the College of Agricultural and 
Environmental Sciences in Griffin, Georgia plays in improving and 
sustaining the Southeast's food supply. I would like to specifically 
thank Chairman Skeen for his efforts in assessing the merits of this 
facility and am gratified he recognizes the importance of providing 
farmers and scientists with safe and accessible plant genetic 
resources.
  The Griffin campus is the headquarters of the Plant Genetic Resources 
Conservation Unit (PGRCU). As one of four working collections in the 
National Plant Germplasm System, the PGRCU conducts research critical 
to the national effort to develop plant varieties resistant to insects, 
diseases, and other pests. The work done at Griffin is especially 
important when one considers that many of the edible plants we take for 
granted in this nation have countries of origin outside the United 
States. The PGRCU stores and reproduces the genetic materials of these 
plants, in the form of seeds and vegetative tissue, for use in domestic 
food production and scientific research.
  The PGRCU was established in 1949 as a cooperative effort of the USDA 
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the Southern State Agricultural 
Experiment Stations. Significant advances in genetic technology have 
been made over the last decade, and the PGRCU's collection of genetic 
resources has expanded. However, since 1989, funding from USDA has 
remained essentially constant at approximately $1,500,000. An increase 
in the operational budget is urgently needed to bring the genetic 
resource collection to an acceptable level of quality, and to provide 
the expected and necessary germplasm quality to users of the 
collection. As we continue consideration of Fiscal Year 2001 funding 
levels, I urge my colleagues to recognize the importance of the Griffin 
Agriculture Experiment Station to agriculture in the Southeastern 
United States. I hope we will be able to ensure the full funding 
request, as it is necessary to continue the Griffin facility's vital 
work.

                              {time}  1145

  The CHAIRMAN. All time for general debate has expired.
  Pursuant to the rule, the bill shall be considered for amendment 
under the 5-minute rule and title VIII shall be considered read.
  During consideration of the bill for amendment, the Chair may accord 
priority in recognition to a Member offering an amendment that he has 
printed in the designated place in the Congressional Record. Those 
amendments will be considered read.
  The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may postpone a request for 
a recorded vote on any amendment and may reduce to a minimum of 5 
minutes the time for voting on any postponed question that immediately 
follows another vote, provided that the time for voting on the first 
question shall be a minimum of 15 minutes.
  The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:

                               H.R. 4461

       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 Agriculture, Rural 
     Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
     Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
     2001, and for other purposes, namely:

  Mr. BOYD. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  Mr. Chairman, I will not take the 5 minutes. But I want to continue 
the discussion between the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Latham) and the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Boehner). It is a very important discussion.
  I would just like to say that I think there is agreement in the 
agricultural community all across this Nation that our rural markets 
are very critical to us to agriculture being successful.
  But where there is not agreement, and I would dispute what the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Boehner) said, the farm policy that was put in 
place by this Congress, the 104th Congress in 1996, is not working. It 
is not working in many parts of the country. It may be working in 
certain parts of the country. But it is important for the future 
national security of this country that our agriculture industry stays 
strong, and it will not stay strong under this current farm policy 
without huge influxes of cash from the Federal Treasury. That is what 
we want to avoid.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:

                                TITLE I

                         AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS

                 Production, Processing, and Marketing

                        Office of the Secretary


                     (including transfers of funds)

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of 
     Agriculture, and not to exceed $75,000 for employment under 5 
     U.S.C. 3109, $2,836,000: Provided, That not to exceed $11,000 
     of this amount, along with any unobligated balances of 
     representation funds in the Foreign Agricultural Service, 
     shall be available for official reception and representation 
     expenses, not otherwise provided for, as determined by the 
     Secretary: Provided further, That none of the funds 
     appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be 
     used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel of the 
     Department of Agriculture to carry out section 793(c)(1)(C) 
     of Public Law 104-127: Provided further, That none of the 
     funds made available by this Act may be used to enforce 
     section 793(d) of Public Law 104-127.

  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  Mr. Chairman, I wanted to follow on the comments on Freedom to Farm 
of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Boyd), my good colleague from the 
subcommittee, and just set the record straight here. We are now 
spending more money to prop up rural America in this country than we 
ever did prior to Freedom to Farm. It is into the multibillions. In the 
year of 1999, in the regular appropriation and the supplemental, over 
$7 billion. Then in the year 2000, $8.7 billion. In the Crop Insurance 
bill that just moved through here like lightening speed a few weeks ago 
and signed by the administration, $5.5 billion.
  Prior to Freedom to Farm being passed, about 8 cents of every dollar 
that a farmer in this country made came through the government. It is 
now 43 cents on average.
  The tragedy in Freedom to Farm is we are paying people who do not 
produce. This is an amazing program. This is freedom not to farm. We 
are spending more than we ever spent in

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the entire history of our farm programs. We are all for exports, but we 
are all for people here at home making money off their production.
  There are some that are really doing very well under this program, 
and I just wanted to set the record straight. Because if one adds up 
the gargantuan amounts of money that we are having to use to prop up 
this system, something is fundamentally wrong with the architecture of 
the basic programs.
  So those gentlemen that stood up there who have now left the floor, I 
wished they were down here. But take a look at the accounts. One of the 
reasons we are so stretched in this bill is simply because we are 
having to, on an emergency basis, prop up a system that is sick from 
coast to coast complicated further by bad weather and disasters.
  So that Freedom to Farm program has to be revisited quickly, and we 
need a new farm policy in this country that rewards production, not 
lack of production.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:

                          Executive Operations


                            chief economist

       For necessary expenses of the Chief Economist, including 
     economic analysis, risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis, 
     energy and new uses, and the functions of the World 
     Agricultural Outlook Board, as authorized by the Agricultural 
     Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622g), and including 
     employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) 
     of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not to 
     exceed $5,000 is for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
     $6,408,000.


                       national appeals division

       For necessary expenses of the National Appeals Division, 
     including employment pursuant to the second sentence of 
     section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of 
     which not to exceed $25,000 is for employment under 5 U.S.C. 
     3109, $11,718,000.


                 Office of Budget and Program Analysis

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Budget and Program 
     Analysis, including employment pursuant to the second 
     sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 
     U.S.C. 2225), of which not to exceed $5,000 is for employment 
     under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $6,581,000.

  Mr. KIND. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise out of serious concern about what is taking 
place throughout rural America, especially the adverse impact that low 
commodity prices are having on family farmers today, not just in my 
district, but this is true from East Coast to West Coast and virtually 
every region throughout the country.
  The bill that the House is considering today is woefully inadequate 
for those family farmers throughout rural America. As we all know, the 
current situation in the countryside today is dire, but the price of 
nearly every commodity across the board is at or near record lows.
  In my western Wisconsin district, dairy farm families are 
experiencing some of the lowest prices in more than two decades. 
Wisconsin dairy farmers currently receive less than $10 per hundred 
weight for milk that sells for over $35 or more at the grocery store. 
With such market inequities, roughly five to six dairy families are 
going out of business in the State of Wisconsin alone. That is 
intolerable. That is inexcusable. We need to do better.
  Unfortunately, on this issue, Congress has been asleep at the wheel. 
In short, the 1996 farm bill is failing our family farmers, while in 
fact, as the ranking member just pointed out, we are spending more 
money today than we ever did prior to the farm bill being passed back 
in 1996, and sending money to nonproducing land owners.
  We are providing only lip service and no relief to those actually 
working and toiling on the farms and what they require. One month ago, 
this body literally tripped over itself to push out the door a $15 
billion crop insurance bill which contained $8 billion in emergency 
farm relief funding. As is too often the case, that bill primarily 
assists larger agribusiness at the expense of mid-size dairy, beef, and 
hog producers.
  This Congress needs to take swift action to stop the hemorrhaging 
that is occurring in rural America. Despite the best intentions of the 
chairman and the ranking member, this bill falls woefully short. While 
this package takes care of many other farm commodities such as sugar 
and mohair and cotton, it fails to acknowledge the problems plaguing 
America's dairy farm families.
  Because this Congress remains stuck in neutral, I decided to take 
some proactive steps to address the major issues affecting America's 
dairy farm families. Later this week, I plan to introduce legislation 
that mandates accurate price reporting for all manufactured dairy 
products throughout the country.
  I am also working with dairy groups across the nation to develop a 
comprehensive dairy package which provides a price safety net when the 
market falls apart on our farmers. The need for these proactive steps 
is long past due, and I am hopeful that the House and my colleagues 
will look upon these measures favorably and support them when they are 
introduced.
  Mr. Chairman, the time for action is now. We cannot lose any more 
farmers because of shortsighted, narrowly conceived farm policy 
supported by some here in this Chamber. I am disappointed that this 
bill does not do more to assist the hard-working men and women who 
labor daily to produce our Nation's milk, cheese, butter and yogurt.
  The farmers back home are not looking for any special privileges or 
any special advantages compared to other farmers throughout the 
country. What they are asking for is the recognition that we, as a 
nation, cannot afford to lose family farmers and see further 
consolidation of the agriculture industry that is taking place with a 
greater emphasis on larger and larger agribusiness operations who are 
starting to dominate more and more of our food supply throughout the 
country.
  This is a very serious and I believe a very dangerous trend in the 
long run because we may find ourselves waking up some morning in this 
country, realizing that our entire food supply needs as a nation is 
dependent upon a few very large corporate elites producing our entire 
food needs. Then we are quickly talking about a national security 
crisis at that point.
  Hopefully, this body will recognize the true crisis that exists right 
now and have the courage to take action, which is long overdue, of 
opening up a farm bill that obviously is not working for producers from 
Coast to Coast and finally do right by our family farmers, who are 
struggling day in and day out, many holding on by their fingernails 
just to stay in business. We cannot afford to see the greater and 
greater consolidation taking place throughout the country and us 
becoming more and more dependent on fewer and fewer hands for our food 
supply.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk read as follows:

                Office of the Chief Information Officer

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief 
     Information Officer, including employment pursuant to the 
     second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 
     (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not to exceed $10,000 is for 
     employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $10,051,000.

  Mr. SHOWS. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  Mr. Chairman, today we are debating voting on one of the most 
important bills of the year, Agriculture Appropriations.
  America's farmers have entered the 21st century as they did the 20th 
century, as the most productive, efficient, and successful farm 
community in the history of the planet.
  With this record of success, how can so many farmers be struggling? 
This question must be addressed because when the American farmer is in 
crisis, so is America. We must seek the proper direction to sustain our 
farm system and set a positive pace for years to come.
  While facing some of the lowest prices for their work, the farm 
community is facing a sustained and severe drought. Drought conditions 
have caused speculation of 100 percent crop losses in corn and grazing 
crops in Pike County in my district.
  People in the business of digging wells are busier than ever, and 
many farmers in the fourth district simply do not know if they can 
continue.
  The USDA Disaster Assistance Program, NAP, continues to operate as 
though the Pony Express is bringing them news from the farm. While 
satellite imaging and knowledge of global weather patterns are 
available, the USDA seems tied to old methods of policy that make the 
delivery system of disaster payments too little too late.

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  We must address these problems. In the meantime, we must pass this 
bill today. Thanks to the work of Senator Cochran in the Senate, we 
have an opportunity to provide added assistance to the Livestock 
Assistance Program. We must act and we must create a mechanism that 
provides this assistance in lightning fashion.
  Mr. Chairman, back in 1977, I was one of the farmers who came to 
Washington during the American agriculture movement to protest what was 
happening to our family farmers. I have not seen a lot changed since 
1977 because there are a lot of farmers going out of business today 
just like they did in the late 1970s.
  If we do not do something about the small farmer and family farms 
while we have a budget surplus to do something about it, I do not know 
when we are ever going to answer this question.
  But our farmers provide the food we eat and clothes we wear. They 
provide the foundation of our communities all across America. 
Economically, our farmers are crucial. The total market value of our 
farmers production in my congressional district is over a half a 
billion dollars. That is a lot of economy and a lot of jobs in my area, 
and we certainly do not need to lose them. We certainly do not need to 
lose our family farms.
  Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise to address the House on two amendments that will 
come up in this bill, both dealing with the importation of agricultural 
and fishery products from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
  The first will be offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner) 
and myself, and it simply cuts $15,000 from APHIS. That is a small and 
symbolic amount. It is the minimum amount that we believe would be 
necessary in order to inspect goods coming from Iran and make sure that 
they were eligible for importation into the United States. Those goods 
would include caviar, dried fruit, and nuts.
  So I hope that the House, without undue time delay, could simply 
adopt that amendment. I realize, though, that that amendment by itself 
does not control how the Department of Agriculture spends its money, it 
simply reduces by $15,000 the amount of money the Department would 
have.
  So a second amendment will be offered by myself and perhaps others at 
the end of the bill, and that amendment would say that no money 
provided by the Agriculture Appropriations bill can be used to allow 
for the importation, basically the inspection of these agricultural 
products coming from Iran.
  So one amendment saves us an extremely small amount of money, and the 
other amendment eliminates the need and prohibits the expenditure of 
that money.
  We would hope that both these amendments could pass by a voice vote, 
because we were here late last night, late the night before, and I know 
how unpopular I am likely to be in asking 400 some of our colleagues to 
walk across the street to vote, not on one, but on two amendments.

                  Conference Report (H. Rept. 106-710)

       The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the 
     two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 
     4425) ``making appropriations for military construction, 
     family housing, and base realignment and closure for the 
     Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 
     30, 2001, and for other purposes'', having met, after full 
     and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do 
     recommend to their respective Houses as follows:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate, and agree to the same with an 
     amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the matter stricken and inserted by said 
     amendment, insert:

   DIVISION A--FISCAL YEAR 2001 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

       That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money 
     in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for military 
     construction, family housing, and base realignment and 
     closure functions administered by the Department of Defense, 
     for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other 
     purposes, namely:

                      Military Construction, Army

       For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment 
     of temporary or permanent public works, military 
     installations, facilities, and real property for the Army as 
     currently authorized by law, including personnel in the Army 
     Corps of Engineers and other personal services necessary for 
     the purposes of this appropriation, and for construction and 
     operation of facilities in support of the functions of the 
     Commander in Chief, $909,245,000, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2005: Provided, That of this amount, not to 
     exceed $109,306,000 shall be available for study, planning, 
     design, architect and engineer services, and host nation 
     support, as authorized by law, unless the Secretary of 
     Defense determines that additional obligations are necessary 
     for such purposes and notifies the Committees on 
     Appropriations of both Houses of Congress of his 
     determination and the reasons therefor.

                      Military Construction, Navy

       For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment 
     of temporary or permanent public works, naval installations, 
     facilities, and real property for the Navy as currently 
     authorized by law, including personnel in the Naval 
     Facilities Engineering Command and other personal services 
     necessary for the purposes of this appropriation, 
     $928,273,000, to remain available until September 30, 2005: 
     Provided, That of this amount, not to exceed $73,335,000 
     shall be available for study, planning, design, architect and 
     engineer services, as authorized by law, unless the Secretary 
     of Defense determines that additional obligations are 
     necessary for such purposes and notifies the Committees on 
     Appropriations of both Houses of Congress of his 
     determination and the reasons therefor.

                    Military Construction, Air Force

       For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment 
     of temporary or permanent public works, military 
     installations, facilities, and real property for the Air 
     Force as currently authorized by law, $870,208,000, to remain 
     available until September 30, 2005: Provided, That of this 
     amount, not to exceed $74,628,000 shall be available for 
     study, planning, design, architect and engineer services, as 
     authorized by law, unless the Secretary of Defense determines 
     that additional obligations are necessary for such purposes 
     and notifies the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
     of Congress of his determination and the reasons therefor.

                  Military Construction, Defense-wide


                     (including transfer of funds)

       For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment 
     of temporary or permanent public works, installations, 
     facilities, and real property for activities and agencies of 
     the Department of Defense (other than the military 
     departments), as currently authorized by law, $814,647,000, 
     to remain available until September 30, 2005: Provided, That 
     such amounts of this appropriation as may be determined by 
     the Secretary of Defense may be transferred to such 
     appropriations of the Department of Defense available for 
     military construction or family housing as he may designate, 
     to be merged with and to be available for the same purposes, 
     and for the same time period, as the appropriation or fund to 
     which transferred: Provided further, That of the amount 
     appropriated, not to exceed $77,505,000 shall be available 
     for study, planning, design, architect and engineer services, 
     as authorized by law, unless the Secretary of Defense 
     determines that additional obligations are necessary for such 
     purposes and notifies the Committees on Appropriations of 
     both Houses of Congress of his determination and the reasons 
     therefor.

               Military Construction, Army National Guard

       For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, 
     and conversion of facilities for the training and 
     administration of the Army National Guard, and contributions 
     therefor, as authorized by chapter 1803 of title 10, United 
     States Code, and Military Construction Authorization Acts, 
     $281,717,000, to remain available until September 30, 2005.

               Military Construction, Air National Guard

       For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, 
     and conversion of facilities for the training and 
     administration of the Air National Guard, and contributions 
     therefor, as authorized by chapter 1803 of title 10, United 
     States Code, and Military Construction Authorization Acts, 
     $203,829,000, to remain available until September 30, 2005.

                  Military Construction, Army Reserve

       For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, 
     and conversion of facilities for the training and 
     administration of the Army Reserve as authorized by chapter 
     1803 of title 10, United States Code, and Military 
     Construction

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     Authorization Acts, $108,738,000, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2005.

                  Military Construction, Naval Reserve


                        (including rescissions)

       For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, 
     and conversion of facilities for the training and 
     administration of the reserve components of the Navy and 
     Marine Corps as authorized by chapter 1803 of title 10, 
     United States Code, and Military Construction Authorization 
     Acts, $64,473,000, to remain available until September 30, 
     2005: Provided further, That the funds appropriated for 
     ``Military Construction, Naval Reserve'' under Public Law 
     105-45, $2,400,000 is hereby rescinded.

                Military Construction, Air Force Reserve

       For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, 
     and conversion of facilities for the training and 
     administration of the Air Force Reserve as authorized by 
     chapter 1803 of title 10, United States Code, and Military 
     Construction Authorization Acts, $36,591,000, to remain 
     available until September 30, 2005.

                   North Atlantic Treaty Organization

                      Security Investment Program

       For the United States share of the cost of the North 
     Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program for 
     the acquisition and construction of military facilities and 
     installations (including international military headquarters) 
     and for related expenses for the collective defense of the 
     North Atlantic Treaty Area as authorized in Military 
     Construction Authorization Acts and section 2806 of title 10, 
     United States Code, $172,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended.

                          Family Housing, Army

       For expenses of family housing for the Army for 
     construction, including acquisition, replacement, addition, 
     expansion, extension and alteration and for operation and 
     maintenance, including debt payment, leasing, minor 
     construction, principal and interest charges, and insurance 
     premiums, as authorized by law, as follows: for Construction, 
     $235,956,000, to remain available until September 30, 2005; 
     for Operation and Maintenance, and for debt payment, 
     $951,793,000; in all $1,187,749,000.

                 Family Housing, Navy and Marine Corps

       For expenses of family housing for the Navy and Marine 
     Corps for construction, including acquisition, replacement, 
     addition, expansion, extension and alteration and for 
     operation and maintenance, including debt payment, leasing, 
     minor construction, principal and interest charges, and 
     insurance premiums, as authorized by law, as follows: for 
     Construction, $418,155,000, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2005; for Operation and Maintenance, and for 
     debt payment, $881,567,000; in all $1,299,722,000.

                       Family Housing, Air Force

       For expenses of family housing for the Air Force for 
     construction, including acquisition, replacement, addition, 
     expansion, extension and alteration and for operation 
     and maintenance, including debt payment, leasing, minor 
     construction, principal and interest charges, and 
     insurance premiums, as authorized by law, as follows: for 
     Construction, $251,982,000, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2005; for Operation and Maintenance, and for 
     debt payment, $820,879,000; in all $1,072,861,000.

                      Family Housing, Defense-wide

       For expenses of family housing for the activities and 
     agencies of the Department of Defense (other than the 
     military departments) for construction, including 
     acquisition, replacement, addition, expansion, extension and 
     alteration, and for operation and maintenance, leasing, and 
     minor construction, as authorized by law, for Operation and 
     Maintenance, $44,886,000.

             Base Realignment and Closure Account, Part IV

       For deposit into the Department of Defense Base Closure 
     Account 1990 established by section 2906(a)(1) of the 
     Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1991 (Public Law 
     101-510), $1,024,369,000, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That not more than $865,318,000 of the funds 
     appropriated herein shall be available solely for 
     environmental restoration, unless the Secretary of Defense 
     determines that additional obligations are necessary for such 
     purposes and notifies the Committees on Appropriations of 
     both Houses of Congress of his determination and the reasons 
     therefor.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 101. None of the funds appropriated in Military 
     Construction Appropriations Acts shall be expended for 
     payments under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract for 
     construction, where cost estimates exceed $25,000, to be 
     performed within the United States, except Alaska, without 
     the specific approval in writing of the Secretary of Defense 
     setting forth the reasons therefor.
       Sec. 102. Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense 
     for construction shall be available for hire of passenger 
     motor vehicles.
       Sec. 103. Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense 
     for construction may be used for advances to the Federal 
     Highway Administration, Department of Transportation, for the 
     construction of access roads as authorized by section 210 of 
     title 23, United States Code, when projects authorized 
     therein are certified as important to the national defense by 
     the Secretary of Defense.
       Sec. 104. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be 
     used to begin construction of new bases inside the 
     continental United States for which specific appropriations 
     have not been made.
       Sec. 105. No part of the funds provided in Military 
     Construction Appropriations Acts shall be used for purchase 
     of land or land easements in excess of 100 percent of the 
     value as determined by the Army Corps of Engineers or the 
     Naval Facilities Engineering Command, except: (1) where there 
     is a determination of value by a Federal court; (2) purchases 
     negotiated by the Attorney General or his designee; (3) where 
     the estimated value is less than $25,000; or (4) as otherwise 
     determined by the Secretary of Defense to be in the public 
     interest.
       Sec. 106. None of the funds appropriated in Military 
     Construction Appropriations Acts shall be used to: (1) 
     acquire land; (2) provide for site preparation; or (3) 
     install utilities for any family housing, except housing for 
     which funds have been made available in annual Military 
     Construction Appropriations Acts.
       Sec. 107. None of the funds appropriated in Military 
     Construction Appropriations Acts for minor construction may 
     be used to transfer or relocate any activity from one base or 
     installation to another, without prior notification to the 
     Committees on Appropriations.
       Sec. 108. No part of the funds appropriated in Military 
     Construction Appropriations Acts may be used for the 
     procurement of steel for any construction project or activity 
     for which American steel producers, fabricators, 
     and manufacturers have been denied the opportunity to 
     compete for such steel procurement.
       Sec. 109. None of the funds available to the Department of 
     Defense for military construction or family housing during 
     the current fiscal year may be used to pay real property 
     taxes in any foreign nation.
       Sec. 110. None of the funds appropriated in Military 
     Construction Appropriations Acts may be used to initiate a 
     new installation overseas without prior notification to the 
     Committees on Appropriations.
       Sec. 111. None of the funds appropriated in Military 
     Construction Appropriations Acts may be obligated for 
     architect and engineer contracts estimated by the Government 
     to exceed $500,000 for projects to be accomplished in Japan, 
     in any NATO member country, or in countries bordering the 
     Arabian Gulf, unless such contracts are awarded to United 
     States firms or United States firms in joint venture with 
     host nation firms.
       Sec. 112. None of the funds appropriated in Military 
     Construction Appropriations Acts for military construction in 
     the United States territories and possessions in the Pacific 
     and on Kwajalein Atoll, or in countries bordering the Arabian 
     Gulf, may be used to award any contract estimated by the 
     Government to exceed $1,000,000 to a foreign contractor: 
     Provided, That this section shall not be applicable to 
     contract awards for which the lowest responsive and 
     responsible bid of a United States contractor exceeds the 
     lowest responsive and responsible bid of a foreign contractor 
     by greater than 20 percent: Provided further, That this 
     section shall not apply to contract awards for military 
     construction on Kwajalein Atoll for which the lowest 
     responsive and responsible bid is submitted by a Marshallese 
     contractor.
       Sec. 113. The Secretary of Defense is to inform the 
     appropriate committees of Congress, including the Committees 
     on Appropriations, of the plans and scope of any proposed 
     military exercise involving United States personnel 30 days 
     prior to its occurring, if amounts expended for construction, 
     either temporary or permanent, are anticipated to exceed 
     $100,000.
       Sec. 114. Not more than 20 percent of the appropriations in 
     Military Construction Appropriations Acts which are limited 
     for obligation during the current fiscal year shall be 
     obligated during the last 2 months of the fiscal year.


                          (transfer of funds)

       Sec. 115. Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense 
     for construction in prior years shall be available for 
     construction authorized for each such military department by 
     the authorizations enacted into law during the current 
     session of Congress.
       Sec. 116. For military construction or family housing 
     projects that are being completed with funds otherwise 
     expired or lapsed for obligation, expired or lapsed funds may 
     be used to pay the cost of associated supervision, 
     inspection, overhead, engineering and design on those 
     projects and on subsequent claims, if any.
       Sec. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 
     funds appropriated to a military department or defense agency 
     for the construction of military projects may be obligated 
     for a military construction project or contract, or for any 
     portion of such a project or contract, at any time before the 
     end of the fourth fiscal year after the fiscal year for which 
     funds for such project were appropriated if the funds 
     obligated for such project: (1) are obligated from funds 
     available for military construction projects; and (2) do not 
     exceed the amount appropriated for such project, plus any 
     amount by which the cost of such project is increased 
     pursuant to law.


                          (transfer of funds)

       Sec. 118. During the 5-year period after appropriations 
     available to the Department of Defense for military 
     construction and family housing operation and maintenance and 
     construction have expired for obligation, upon a 
     determination that such appropriations will not be necessary 
     for the liquidation of obligations or for making authorized 
     adjustments to such appropriations for obligations incurred 
     during the period of availability of such appropriations, 
     unobligated balances of such appropriations may be 
     transferred into the appropriation ``Foreign Currency 
     Fluctuations, Construction, Defense'' to be merged with and 
     to be available for the same time period and for the same 
     purposes as the appropriation to which transferred.
       Sec. 119. The Secretary of Defense is to provide the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 
     Representatives with an annual report by February 15, 
     containing details of the specific actions proposed to be

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     taken by the Department of Defense during the current fiscal 
     year to encourage other member nations of the North Atlantic 
     Treaty Organization, Japan, Korea, and United States allies 
     bordering the Arabian Gulf to assume a greater share of the 
     common defense burden of such nations and the United States.


                          (transfer of funds)

       Sec. 120. During the current fiscal year, in addition to 
     any other transfer authority available to the Department of 
     Defense, proceeds deposited to the Department of Defense Base 
     Closure Account established by section 207(a)(1) of the 
     Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and 
     Realignment Act (Public Law 100-526) pursuant to section 
     207(a)(2)(C) of such Act, may be transferred to the account 
     established by section 2906(a)(1) of the Department of 
     Defense Authorization Act, 1991, to be merged with, and to 
     be available for the same purposes and the same time 
     period as that account.
       Sec. 121. (a) 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'').
       (b) No funds made available under this Act shall be made 
     available to any person or entity who has been convicted of 
     violating the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a-10c, 
     popularly known as the ``Buy American Act'').
       Sec. 122. (a) 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) 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.


                          (transfer of funds)

       Sec. 123. Subject to 30 days prior notification to the 
     Committees on Appropriations, such additional amounts as may 
     be determined by the Secretary of Defense may be transferred 
     to the Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund 
     from amounts appropriated for construction in ``Family 
     Housing'' accounts, to be merged with and to be available for 
     the same purposes and for the same period of time as amounts 
     appropriated directly to the Fund: Provided, That 
     appropriations made available to the Fund shall be available 
     to cover the costs, as defined in section 502(5) of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of direct loans or loan 
     guarantees issued by the Department of Defense pursuant to 
     the provisions of subchapter IV of chapter 169, title 10, 
     United States Code, pertaining to alternative means of 
     acquiring and improving military family housing and 
     supporting facilities.
       Sec. 124. None of the funds appropriated or made available 
     by this Act may be obligated for Partnership for Peace 
     Programs in the New Independent States of the former Soviet 
     Union.
       Sec. 125. (a) Not later than 60 days before issuing any 
     solicitation for a contract with the private sector for 
     military family housing the Secretary of the military 
     department concerned shall submit to the congressional 
     defense committees the notice described in subsection (b).
       (b)(1) A notice referred to in subsection (a) is a notice 
     of any guarantee (including the making of mortgage or rental 
     payments) proposed to be made by the Secretary to the private 
     party under the contract involved in the event of--
       (A) the closure or realignment of the installation for 
     which housing is provided under the contract;
       (B) a reduction in force of units stationed at such 
     installation; or
       (C) the extended deployment overseas of units stationed at 
     such installation.
       (2) Each notice under this subsection shall specify the 
     nature of the guarantee involved and assess the extent and 
     likelihood, if any, of the liability of the Federal 
     Government with respect to the guarantee.
       (c) In this section, the term ``congressional defense 
     committees'' means the following:
       (1) The Committee on Armed Services and the Military 
     Construction Subcommittee, Committee on Appropriations of the 
     Senate.
       (2) The Committee on Armed Services and the Military 
     Construction Subcommittee, Committee on Appropriations of the 
     House of Representatives.


                          (transfer of funds)

       Sec. 126. During the current fiscal year, in addition to 
     any other transfer authority available to the Department of 
     Defense, amounts may be transferred from the account 
     established by section 2906(a)(1) of the Department of 
     Defense Authorization Act, 1991, to the fund established by 
     section 1013(d) of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan 
     Development Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 3374) to pay for expenses 
     associated with the Homeowners Assistance Program. Any 
     amounts transferred shall be merged with and be available for 
     the same purposes and for the same time period as the fund to 
     which transferred.
       Sec. 127. Notwithstanding this or any other provision of 
     law, funds appropriated in Military Construction 
     Appropriations Acts for operations and maintenance of family 
     housing shall be the exclusive source of funds for repair and 
     maintenance of all family housing units, including flag and 
     general officer quarters: Provided, That not more than 
     $25,000 per unit may be spent annually for the maintenance 
     and repair of any general or flag officer quarters without 30 
     days advance prior notification of the appropriate committees 
     of Congress: Provided further, That the Under Secretary of 
     Defense (Comptroller) is to report annually to the Committees 
     on Appropriations all operations and maintenance expenditures 
     for each individual flag and general officer quarters for the 
     prior fiscal year.
       Sec. 128. The Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force are 
     directed to submit to the appropriate committees of the 
     Congress by July 1, 2001, a Family Housing Master Plan 
     demonstrating how they plan to meet the year 2010 housing 
     goals with traditional construction, operation and 
     maintenance support, as well as privatization initiative 
     proposals. Each plan shall include projected life cycle costs 
     for family housing construction, basic allowance for housing, 
     operation and maintenance, other associated costs, and a time 
     line for housing completions each year.


                         (rescission of funds)

       Sec. 129. Of the funds provided in previous Military 
     Construction Appropriations Acts, $100,000,000 is hereby 
     rescinded as of the date of the enactment of this Act.


                          (transfer of funds)

       Sec. 130. During fiscal year 2001, in addition to any other 
     transfer authority available to the Department of Defense, 
     funds appropriated in the Military Construction 
     Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-52; 113 Stat. 259) 
     under the heading ``Military Construction, Naval Reserve'' 
     and still unobligated may be transferred to the account for 
     ``Military Construction, Navy''. Amounts transferred under 
     this section shall be merged with, and be available for the 
     same period as, the amounts in the account to which 
     transferred and shall be available to construct, under the 
     authority of section 2805 of title 10, United States Code, an 
     elevated water storage tank at the Naval Support Activity 
     Midsouth, Millington, Tennessee.
       Sec. 131. (a) The Secretary of the Army may accept funds 
     from the Federal Highway Administration, or the State of 
     Kentucky, and credit them to the appropriate Department of 
     the Army accounts for the purpose of funding all costs 
     associated with the realignment, requested by the State of 
     Kentucky, of the military construction project involving a 
     rail connector located at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, authorized 
     in section 2101(a) of the Military Construction Authorization 
     Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public Law 104-201; 110 Stat. 
     2763).
       (b) The Secretary may use the funds accepted for the 
     realignment, in addition to funds authorized and appropriated 
     for the rail connector project, notwithstanding the amount 
     authorized in section 2101(a) of Public Law 104-201. The 
     funds accepted shall remain available until expended.
       (c) The costs associated with the realignment of the rail 
     connector project include but are not limited to redesign 
     costs, additional construction costs, additional costs due to 
     construction delays related to the realignment, and 
     additional real estate costs.
       (d) The authority provided in this section shall be 
     effective upon the date of the enactment of this Act.


                         (rescission of funds)

       Sec. 132. Of the funds available to the Secretary of 
     Defense in the ``Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Construction, 
     Defense'' account, $83,000,000 is hereby rescinded.


                          (transfer of funds)

       Sec. 133. Amendments.--Section 131 of the Military 
     Construction Appropriations Act, 1988 (Public Law 100-202), 
     is amended--
       (1) by striking subsection (c)(1), and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(c)(1) The Secretary shall use amounts paid to the 
     Secretary under subsection (b) for the acquisition of 
     suitable sites for military family housing; or, the 
     acquisition, construction, or revitalization of military 
     family housing in the San Diego region, either through 
     conventional military construction or through use of any of 
     the alternative authorities contained in subchapter IV, 
     chapter 169 of title 10, United States Code.''.
       (2) by adding after subsection (c)(2) the following new 
     subparagraph:
       ``(3) Any funds received by the Secretary under subsection 
     (b) and not deposited into the general fund of the Treasury 
     under subsection (c)(2) may be transferred into the 
     Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund in 
     accordance with section 2883 in subchapter IV, chapter 169 of 
     title 10, United States Code.''.
       Sec. 134. Section 412(c) of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial 
     Bridge Authority Act of 1995 (112 Stat. 160) is amended by 
     inserting before the period at the end of the sentence the 
     following: ``, and up to $170,000,000 for dredging and 
     foundation activities for construction'': Provided, That this 
     section becomes effective immediately upon enactment of this 
     Act.
       Sec. 135. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary of the Navy is authorized to use funds received 
     pursuant to section 2601 of title 10, United States Code, for 
     the construction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of the 
     historic residences located at Marine Corps Barracks, 8th and 
     I Streets, Washington, D.C.: Provided, That the Secretary 
     notifies the appropriate committees of Congress 30 days in 
     advance of the intended use of such funds: Provided further, 
     That this section becomes effective immediately upon 
     enactment of this Act.


        Brooks Air Force Base Development Demonstration Project

       Sec. 136. (a) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to 
     evaluate and demonstrate methods for more efficient operation 
     of military installations through improved capital asset 
     management and greater reliance on the public or private 
     sector for less-costly base support services, where 
     available. The section supersedes, and shall be used in lieu 
     of the authority provided in, section 8168 of the Department 
     of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-79; 113 
     Stat. 1277).
       (b) Authority.--(1) Subject to paragraph (4), the Secretary 
     of the Air Force may carry out at

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     Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, a demonstration project to be 
     known as the ``Base Efficiency Project'' to improve mission 
     effectiveness and reduce the cost of providing quality 
     installation support at Brooks Air Force Base.
       (2) The Secretary may carry out the Project in consultation 
     with the Community to the extent the Secretary determines 
     such consultation is necessary and appropriate.
       (3) The authority provided in this section is in addition 
     to any other authority vested in or delegated to the 
     Secretary, and the Secretary may exercise any authority or 
     combination of authorities provided under this section or 
     elsewhere to carry out the purposes of the Project.
       (4) The Secretary may not exercise any authority under this 
     section until after the end of the 30-day period beginning on 
     the date the Secretary submits to the appropriate committees 
     of the Congress a master plan for the development of the 
     Base.
       (c) Efficient Practices.--(1) The Secretary may convert 
     services at or for the benefit of the Base from 
     accomplishment by military personnel or by Department 
     civilian employees (appropriated fund or non-
     appropriated fund), to services performed by contract or 
     provided as consideration for the lease, sale, or other 
     conveyance or transfer of property.
       (2) Notwithstanding section 2462 of title 10, United States 
     Code, a contract for services may be awarded based on ``best 
     value'' if the Secretary determines that the award will 
     advance the purposes of a joint activity conducted under the 
     project and is in the best interest of the Department.
       (3) Notwithstanding that such services are generally funded 
     by local and State taxes and provided without specific charge 
     to the public at large, the Secretary may contract for public 
     services at or for the benefit of the Base in exchange for 
     such consideration, if any, the Secretary determines to be 
     appropriate.
       (4)(A) The Secretary may conduct joint activities with the 
     Community, the State, and any private parties or entities on 
     or for the benefit of the Base.
       (B) Payments or reimbursements received from participants 
     for their share of direct and indirect costs of joint 
     activities, including the costs of providing, operating, and 
     maintaining facilities, shall be in an amount and type 
     determined to be adequate and appropriate by the Secretary.
       (C) Such payments or reimbursements received by the 
     Department shall be deposited into the Project Fund.
       (d) Lease Authority.--(1) The Secretary may lease real or 
     personal property located on the Base and not required at 
     other Air Force installations to any lessee upon such terms 
     and conditions as the Secretary considers appropriate and in 
     the interest of the United States, if the Secretary 
     determines that the lease would facilitate the purposes of 
     the Project.
       (2) Consideration for a lease under this subsection shall 
     be determined in accordance with subsection (g).
       (3) A lease under this subsection--
       (A) may be for such period as the Secretary determines is 
     necessary to accomplish the goals of the Project; and
       (B) may give the lessee the first right to purchase the 
     property at fair market value if the lease is terminated to 
     allow the United States to sell the property under any other 
     provision of law.
       (4)(A) The interest of a lessee of property leased under 
     this subsection may be taxed by the State or the Community.
       (B) A lease under this subsection shall provide that, if 
     and to the extent that the leased property is later made 
     taxable by State governments or local governments under 
     Federal law, the lease shall be renegotiated.
       (5) The Department may furnish a lessee with utilities, 
     custodial services, and other base operation, maintenance, or 
     support services performed by Department civilian or contract 
     employees, in exchange for such consideration, payment, or 
     reimbursement as the Secretary determines appropriate.
       (6) All amounts received from leases under this subsection 
     shall be deposited into the Project Fund.
       (7) A lease under this subsection shall not be subject to 
     the following provisions of law:
       (A) Section 2667 of title 10, United States Code, other 
     than subsection (b)(1) of that section.
       (B) Section 321 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (40 U.S.C. 
     303b).
       (C) The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 
     1949 (40 U.S.C. 471 et seq.).
       (e) Property Disposal.--(1) The Secretary may sell or 
     otherwise convey or transfer real and personal property 
     located at the Base to the Community or to another public or 
     private party during the Project, upon such terms and 
     conditions as the Secretary considers appropriate for 
     purposes of the Project.
       (2) Consideration for a sale or other conveyance or 
     transfer of property under this subsection shall be 
     determined in accordance with subsection (g).
       (3) The sale or other conveyance or transfer of property 
     under this subsection shall not be subject to the following 
     provisions of law:
       (A) Section 2693 of title 10, United States Code.
       (B) The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 
     1949 (40 U.S.C. 471 et seq.).
       (4) Cash payments received as consideration for the sale or 
     other conveyance or transfer of property under this 
     subsection shall be deposited into the Project Fund.
       (f) Leaseback of Property Leased or Disposed.--(1) The 
     Secretary may lease, sell, or otherwise convey or transfer 
     real property at the Base under subsections (b) and (e), as 
     applicable, which will be retained for use by the Department 
     or by another military department or other Federal agency, if 
     the lessee, purchaser, or other grantee or transferee of the 
     property agrees to enter into a leaseback to the Department 
     in connection with the lease, sale, or other conveyance or 
     transfer of one or more portions or all of the property 
     leased, sold, or otherwise conveyed or transferred, as 
     applicable.
       (2) A leaseback of real property under this subsection 
     shall be an operating lease for no more than 20 years unless 
     the Secretary of the Air Force determines that a longer term 
     is appropriate.
       (3)(A) Consideration, if any, for real property leased 
     under a leaseback entered into under this subsection shall be 
     in such form and amount as the Secretary considers 
     appropriate.
       (B) The Secretary may use funds in the Project Fund or 
     other funds appropriated or otherwise available to the 
     Department for use at the Base for payment of any such cash 
     rent.
       (4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Department or other military department or other Federal 
     agency using the real property leased under a leaseback 
     entered into under this subsection may construct and erect 
     facilities on or otherwise improve the leased property using 
     funds appropriated or otherwise available to the Department 
     or other military department or other Federal agency for such 
     purpose.
       (g) Consideration.--(1) The Secretary shall determine the 
     nature, value, and adequacy of consideration required or 
     offered in exchange for a lease, sale, or other conveyance or 
     transfer of real or personal property or for other actions 
     taken under the Project.
       (2) Consideration may be in cash or in-kind or any 
     combination thereof. In-kind consideration may include the 
     following:
       (A) Real property.
       (B) Personal property.
       (C) Goods or services, including operation, maintenance, 
     protection, repair, or restoration (including environmental 
     restoration) of any property or facilities (including non-
     appropriated fund facilities).
       (D) Base operating support services.
       (E) Improvement of Department facilities.
       (F) Provision of facilities, including office, storage, or 
     other usable space, for use by the Department on or off the 
     Base.
       (G) Public services.
       (3) Consideration may not be for less than the fair market 
     value.
       (h) Project Fund.--(1) There is established on the books of 
     the Treasury a fund to be known as the ``Base Efficiency 
     Project Fund'' into which all cash rents, proceeds, payments, 
     reimbursements, and other amounts from leases, sales, or 
     other conveyances or transfers, joint activities, and all 
     other actions taken under the Project shall be deposited. 
     Subject to paragraph (2), amounts deposited into the Project 
     Fund shall be available without fiscal year limitation.
       (2) To the extent provided in advance in appropriations 
     Acts, amounts in the Project Fund shall be available to the 
     Secretary for use at the base only for operation, base 
     operating support services, maintenance, repair, or 
     improvement of Department facilities, payment of 
     consideration for acquisitions of interests in real property 
     (including payment of rentals for leasebacks), and 
     environmental protection or restoration. The use of such 
     amounts may be in addition to or in combination with other 
     amounts appropriated for these purposes.
       (3) Subject to generally prescribed financial management 
     regulations, the Secretary shall establish the structure of 
     the Project Fund and such administrative policies and 
     procedures as the Secretary considers necessary to account 
     for and control deposits into and disbursements from the 
     Project Fund effectively.
       (i) Federal Agencies.--(1)(A) Any Federal agency, its 
     contractors, or its grantees shall pay rent, in cash or 
     services, for the use of facilities or property at the Base, 
     in an amount and type determined to be adequate by the 
     Secretary.
       (B) Such rent shall generally be the fair market rental of 
     the property provided, but in any case shall be sufficient to 
     compensate the Base for the direct and overhead costs 
     incurred by the Base due to the presence of the tenant agency 
     on the Base.
       (2) Transfers of real or personal property at the Base to 
     other Federal agencies shall be at fair market value 
     consideration. Such consideration may be paid in cash, by 
     appropriation transfer, or in property, goods, or services.
       (3) Amounts received from other Federal agencies, their 
     contractors, or grantees, including any amounts paid by 
     appropriation transfer, shall be deposited in the Project 
     Fund.
       (j) Reports to Congress.--(1) Section 2662 of title 10, 
     United States Code, shall apply to transactions at the Base 
     during the Project.
       (k) Limitation.--None of the authorities in this section 
     shall create any legal rights in any person or entity except 
     rights embodied in leases, deeds, or contracts.
       (l) Expiration of Authority.--The authority to enter into a 
     lease, deed, permit, license, contract, or other agreement 
     under this section shall expire on June 1, 2005.
       (m) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) The term ``Project'' means the Base Efficiency Project 
     authorized by this section.
       (2) The term ``Base'' means Brooks Air Force Base, Texas.
       (3) The term ``Community'' means the City of San Antonio, 
     Texas.
       (4) The term ``Department'' means the Department of the Air 
     Force.
       (5) The term ``facility'' means a building, structure, or 
     other improvement to real property (except a military family 
     housing unit as that term is used in subchapter IV of chapter 
     169 of title 10, United States Code).
       (6) The term ``joint activity'' means an activity conducted 
     on or for the benefit of the Base by the Department, jointly 
     with the Community, the State, or any private entity, or any 
     combination thereof.

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       (7) The term ``Project Fund'' means the Base Efficiency 
     Project Fund established by subsection (h).
       (8) The term ``public services'' means public services 
     (except public schools, fire protection, and police 
     protection) that are funded by local and State taxes and 
     provided without specific charge to the public at large.
       (9) The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Air 
     Force or the Secretary's designee, who shall be a civilian 
     official of the Department appointed by the President with 
     the advice and consent of the Senate.
       (10) The term ``State'' means the State of Texas.
       (n) This section becomes effective immediately upon 
     enactment of this Act.
       Sec. 137. Of the funds made available in the Military 
     Construction Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public Law 105-237) 
     under the heading ``Military Construction, Defense-Wide'' for 
     planning and design, not less than $1,000,000 shall be 
     available for the design of an elementary school for the 
     Central Kitsap School District to meet the educational needs 
     of military dependents at the Naval Submarine Base, Bangor, 
     Washington: Provided, That this section becomes effective 
     immediately upon enactment of this Act.
       Sec. 138. The total amount of appropriated funds that may 
     be expended for the military construction project at the 
     Military Academy at West Point, New York, to construct and 
     renovate the Cadet Physical Development Center shall not 
     exceed $77,500,000, regardless of the fiscal year for which 
     the funds were or are appropriated: Provided, That this 
     section becomes effective immediately upon enactment of this 
     Act.
       Sec. 139. (a) Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit 
     to the congressional defense committees a report on 
     construction, security and operation of Forward Operating 
     Locations (FOL) in Manta, Ecuador, Aruba, Curacao, and El 
     Salvador.
       (b) The report required by subsection (a) shall address the 
     following: (1) a schedule for making each Forward Operating 
     Location (FOL) fully operational, including cost estimates, 
     time line of contracting and construction with completion 
     dates, a description of the potential capabilities for each 
     proposed location and an explanation of how the FOL 
     architecture fits into the overall counter-drug strategy; (2) 
     a plan that identifies the operating requirements at FOL for 
     the United States Coast Guard, United States Customs Service, 
     Drug Enforcement Administration, Intelligence community and 
     the Department of Defense and how these requirements will be 
     addressed; (3) a security plan to ensure that FOL facilities 
     and personnel working at these sites are safeguarded from 
     outside threats; and (4) a safety plan to ensure operations 
     conducted at FOLs are in accordance with standard operating 
     procedures.
       This division may be cited as the ``Military Construction 
     Appropriations Act, 2001''.

                               DIVISION B

              FISCAL YEAR 2000 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

       The following sums are appropriated, out of any money in 
     the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year 
     ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes, namely:

          TITLE I--KOSOVO AND OTHER NATIONAL SECURITY MATTERS

                               CHAPTER 1

                    DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--MILITARY

                       OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

                    Operation and Maintenance, Army

       For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
     Army'', $23,883,000: Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                    Operation and Maintenance, Navy

       For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
     Navy'', $20,565,000: Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps

       For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
     Marine Corps'', $37,155,000: Provided, That the entire amount 
     is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                  Operation and Maintenance, Air Force

       For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
     Air Force'', $38,065,000: Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
     further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 
     $8,000,000 shall be made available only for use in federally 
     owned educational facilities located on military 
     installations for the purpose of transferring title of such 
     facilities to the local educational authorities.

                Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide


                     (Including Transfer of Funds)

       For necessary expenses to provide assistance to Vieques, 
     Puerto Rico, $40,000,000, to remain available until September 
     30, 2003: Provided, That such funds shall be in addition to 
     amounts otherwise available for such purposes: Provided 
     further, That the Secretary of Defense may transfer funds to 
     any agency or office of the United States Government in order 
     to implement the projects for which funds are provided under 
     this heading 30 days after the Director of the Office of 
     Management and Budget notifies the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations of each proposed transfer: 
     Provided further, That each notification transmitted to the 
     Committees shall identify the specific amount, recipient 
     agency and purpose for which such transfer is proposed: 
     Provided further, That appropriations made available under 
     this heading may be transferred and obligated for the 
     following purposes: a study of the health of Vieques 
     residents; fire-fighting related equipment and facilities at 
     Antonio Rivera Rodriguez Airport; construction or 
     refurbishment of a commercial ferry pier and terminal and 
     associated navigational improvements; establishment and 
     construction of an artificial reef; reef conservation, 
     restoration, and management activities; payments to 
     registered Vieques commercial fishermen of an amount 
     determined by the National Marine Fisheries Service for each 
     day they are unable to use existing waters because the Navy 
     is conducting training; expansion and improvement of major 
     cross-island roadways and bridges; an apprenticeship/training 
     program for young adults; preservation and protection of 
     natural resources; an economic development office and 
     economic development activities; and conducting a referendum 
     among the residents of Vieques regarding further use of the 
     island for military training programs: Provided further, That 
     for purposes of providing assistance to Vieques, any agency 
     or office of the United States Government to which these 
     funds are transferred may utilize, in addition to any 
     authorities available in this paragraph, any authorities 
     available to that agency or office for carrying out related 
     activities, including utilization of such funds for 
     administrative expenses: Provided further, That any amounts 
     transferred to the Department of Housing and Urban 
     Development, ``Community development block grants'', shall be 
     available only for assistance to Vieques, notwithstanding 
     section 106 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
     1974: Provided further, That the Department of Commerce may 
     make direct payments to registered Vieques commercial 
     fishermen: Provided further, That the Department of the Navy 
     may provide fire-fighting training and funds provided in this 
     paragraph may be used to provide fire-fighting related 
     facilities at the Antonio Rivera Rodriguez Airport: Provided 
     further, That funds made available under this heading may be 
     transferred to the Army Corps of Engineers to construct or 
     modify a commercial ferry pier and terminal and associated 
     navigational improvements: Provided further, That except for 
     amounts provided for the health study, fire-fighting related 
     equipment and facilities, and certain activities in 
     furtherance of the preservation and protection of natural 
     resources, funds provided in this paragraph shall not become 
     available until 30 days after the Secretary of the Navy has 
     certified to the congressional defense committees that the 
     integrity and accessibility of the training range is 
     uninterrupted, and trespassing and other intrusions on the 
     range have ceased: Provided further, That the Secretary of 
     the Navy shall recertify to the congressional defense 
     committees the status of the range 90 days after the initial 
     certification, and each 90 days thereafter: Provided further, 
     That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended.

                Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve

       For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
     Army Reserve'', $2,174,000: Provided, That the entire amount 
     is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

             Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard

       For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
     Army National Guard'', $2,851,000: Provided, That the entire 
     amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

             Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund


                     (including transfer of funds)

       For an additional amount for the ``Overseas Contingency 
     Operations Transfer Fund'', $2,050,400,000, to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
     further, That the Secretary of Defense may transfer the funds 
     provided herein only to appropriations for military 
     personnel; operation and maintenance, including Overseas 
     Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid; procurement; research, 
     development, test and evaluation; the Defense Health Program; 
     and working capital funds: Provided further, That the funds 
     transferred shall be merged with and shall be available for 
     the same purposes and for the same time period, as the 
     appropriation to which transferred: Provided further, That 
     the transfer authority provided in this paragraph is in 
     addition to any other transfer authority available to the 
     Department of Defense: Provided further, That upon a 
     determination that all or part of the funds transferred from 
     this appropriation are not necessary for the purposes 
     provided herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this 
     appropriation.

                              PROCUREMENT

                    Aircraft Procurement, Air Force

       For an additional amount for ``Aircraft Procurement, Air 
     Force'', $73,000,000, to remain

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     available for obligation until September 30, 2001: Provided, 
     That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended.

               RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION

            Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army

       For an additional amount for ``Research, Development, Test 
     and Evaluation, Army'', $5,700,000, to remain available for 
     obligation until September 30, 2001, only for continued test 
     activities under the Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) 
     program.

                  OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS

                         Defense Health Program

       For an additional amount for ``Defense Health Program'', 
     $3,533,000: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by 
     the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

       Sec. 101. (a) Minimum Rates of Basic Allowance for Housing 
     for Members of the Uniformed Services.--During the period 
     beginning on January 1, 2000, and ending on September 30, 
     2001 (or such earlier date as the Secretary of Defense 
     considers appropriate), a member of the uniformed services 
     entitled to a basic allowance for housing for a military 
     housing area in the United States shall be paid the allowance 
     at a monthly rate not less than the rate in effect on 
     December 31, 1999, in that area for members serving in the 
     same pay grade and with the same dependency status as the 
     member.
       (b) Annual Limitation on Allowance.--In light of the rates 
     for the basic allowance for housing authorized by subsection 
     (a), the Secretary of Defense may exceed the limitation on 
     the total amount paid during fiscal year 2000 and 2001 for 
     the basic allowance for housing in the United States 
     otherwise applicable under section 403(b)(3) of title 37, 
     United States Code.
       (c) Sense of the Congress Regarding Military Families on 
     Food Stamps.--It is the sense of the Congress that members of 
     the Armed Forces and their dependents should not have to rely 
     on the food stamp program, and the President and the Congress 
     should take action to ensure that the income level of members 
     of the Armed Forces is sufficient so that no member meets the 
     income standards of eligibility in effect under the food 
     stamp program.


                     (Including Transfer of Funds)

       Sec. 102. In addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise 
     made available elsewhere in this Act for the Department of 
     Defense or in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 
     2000 (Public Law 106-79), $1,556,200,000 is hereby 
     appropriated to the Department of Defense for the ``Defense-
     Wide Working Capital Fund'' and shall remain available until 
     expended, for price increases resulting from worldwide 
     increases in the price of petroleum: Provided, That the 
     Secretary of Defense shall transfer $1,556,200,000 in excess 
     collections from the ``Defense-Wide Working Capital Fund'' 
     not later than September 30, 2001 to the operation and 
     maintenance; research, development, test and evaluation; and 
     working capital funds: Provided further, That the transfer 
     authority provided in this section is in addition to the 
     transfer authority provided to the Department of Defense in 
     this Act or any other Act: Provided further, That the entire 
     amount made available in this section is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended.
       Sec. 103. In addition to the amounts provided elsewhere in 
     this Act or in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 
     2000 (Public Law 106-79), $90,000,000 is hereby appropriated 
     for ``Aircraft Procurement, Air Force'', only for F-15 
     aircraft or associated components, systems, or subsystems.
       Sec. 104. In addition to the amounts provided elsewhere in 
     this Act or in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 
     2000 (Public Law 106-79), $163,700,000 is hereby appropriated 
     for ``Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, 
     Army'', only for procurement, advance procurement, or 
     economic order quantity procurement of Abrams M1A2 SEP 
     Upgrades under multiyear contract authority provided under 
     section 8008 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 
     2000: Provided, That none of the funds under this section 
     shall be obligated until the Secretary of the Army certifies 
     to the congressional defense committees that these funds will 
     be used to upgrade vehicles for an average unit cost (for 307 
     vehicles) that does not exceed $5,900,000.
       Sec. 105. In addition to the amounts provided in the 
     Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 
     106-79), $615,600,000 is hereby appropriated for ``Defense 
     Health Program'', to remain available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2001: Provided, That such funds shall be 
     available only for the purposes described and in accordance 
     with section 106 of this chapter: Provided further, That the 
     entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
       Sec. 106. (a) Of the amounts provided in section 105 of 
     this chapter for ``Defense Health Program''--
       (1) not to exceed $90,300,000 shall be available for 
     obligations and adjustments to obligations required to cover 
     unanticipated increases in TRICARE contract costs that (but 
     for insufficient funds) would have been properly chargeable 
     to the Defense Health Program account for fiscal year 1998 or 
     fiscal year 1999; and
       (2) not to exceed $525,300,000 shall be available for 
     obligations and adjustments to obligations required to cover 
     unanticipated increases in TRICARE contract costs that are 
     properly chargeable to the Defense Health Program account for 
     fiscal year 2000 or fiscal year 2001.
       (b) The Secretary of Defense shall notify the congressional 
     defense committees before charging an obligation or an 
     adjustment to obligations under this section.
       (c) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
     congressional defense committees a report on obligations made 
     under this section no later than 30 days after the end of 
     fiscal year 2000.
       Sec. 107. In addition to the amounts provided in the 
     Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 
     106-79), $695,900,000 is hereby appropriated for ``Defense 
     Health Program'', to remain available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2002: Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
       Sec. 108. In addition to the amounts appropriated or 
     otherwise made available in this Act or in the Department of 
     Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-79), 
     $27,000,000 is hereby appropriated to the Department of 
     Defense and is available only for the Basic Allowance for 
     Housing Program: Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
       Sec. 109. (a) Military Recruiting, Advertising, and 
     Retention Programs.--In addition to amounts appropriated or 
     otherwise made available for the Department of Defense 
     elsewhere in this Act or in the Department of Defense 
     Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-79), there is 
     hereby appropriated to the Department of Defense, to 
     remain available for obligation until September 30, 2001, 
     and to be available only for military personnel (to 
     include full-time manning), recruiting, advertising, and 
     retention programs, $357,288,000, as follows:
       For military personnel accounts, $204,226,000, as follows:
       ``Military Personnel, Army'', $99,900,000;
       ``Military Personnel, Navy'', $23,500,000;
       ``Military Personnel, Marine Corps'', $4,000,000;
       ``Military Personnel, Air Force'', $7,500,000;
       ``Reserve Personnel, Army'', $32,500,000; and
       ``National Guard Personnel, Army'', $36,826,000.
       For operation and maintenance accounts, $153,062,000, as 
     follows:
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Army'', $38,110,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'', $29,222,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps'', $8,100,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Air Force'', $29,040,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve'', $18,890,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy Reserve'', $6,700,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps Reserve'', 
     $2,000,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve'', 
     $4,000,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard'', 
     $12,000,000; and
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard'', 
     $5,000,000.
       (b) Emergency Designation.--The entire amount made 
     available in this section is designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended.
       Sec. 110. (a) Depot-Level Maintenance and Repair.--In 
     addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise made available 
     for the Department of Defense elsewhere in this Act or in the 
     Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 
     106-79), $220,000,000 is hereby appropriated for ``Operation 
     and Maintenance, Navy'', to remain available for obligation 
     until September 30, 2001, only for ship depot maintenance.
       (b) Emergency Designation.--The entire amount made 
     available in this section is designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended.
       Sec. 111. (a) High Priority Support to Deployed Forces.--In 
     addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise made available 
     elsewhere in this Act for the Department of Defense or in the 
     Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 
     106-79), there is hereby appropriated to the Department of 
     Defense, to support deployed United States forces, 
     $503,900,000, as follows:
       (1) For operation and maintenance accounts, to remain 
     available for obligation until September 30, 2001, 
     $96,000,000 as follows:
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'', $20,000,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Air Force'', $41,900,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'', $10,000,000; 
     and
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard'', 
     $24,100,000.
       (2) For procurement accounts, to remain available for 
     obligation until September 30, 2003, $344,900,000, as 
     follows:
       ``Aircraft Procurement, Army'', $25,000,000 (for Apache 
     helicopter safety and reliability modifications);
       ``Aircraft Procurement, Navy'', $52,800,000 (of which 
     $27,000,000 is for CH-46 helicopter engine safety procurement 
     and $25,800,000 for EP-3 sensor improvement modifications);

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       ``Aircraft Procurement, Air Force'', $212,700,000 (of which 
     $111,600,000 is for U-2 reconnaissance aircraft sensor 
     improvements and modifications, and $101,100,000 is for 
     flight and mission trainers and simulators);
       ``Other Procurement, Air Force'', $41,400,000; and
       ``Procurement, Defense-Wide'', $13,000,000.
       (3) For research, development, test and evaluation 
     accounts, to remain available for obligation until September 
     30, 2002, $63,000,000, as follows:
       ``Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army'', 
     $5,000,000 (for the WARSIMS program); and
       ``Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-
     Wide'', $58,000,000.
       (b) Emergency Designation.--The entire amount made 
     available in this section is designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended.
       Sec. 112. To ensure the availability of biometrics 
     technologies in the Department of Defense, the Secretary of 
     the Army shall be the Executive Agent to lead, consolidate, 
     and coordinate all biometrics information assurance programs 
     of the Department of Defense: Provided, That there is hereby 
     appropriated for fiscal year 2000, in addition to other 
     amounts appropriated for such fiscal year by other provisions 
     of this Act, $5,000,000 for Operation and Maintenance, Army, 
     for carrying out the biometrics assurance programs and for 
     continuing the biometrics information assurance programs of 
     the Information System Security Program: Provided further, 
     That there is hereby appropriated for fiscal year 2000, in 
     addition to other amounts appropriated for such fiscal year 
     by other provisions of this Act, $1,000,000 for Operation and 
     Maintenance, Navy, and $1,000,000 for Operation and 
     Maintenance, Air Force, for carrying out the biometrics 
     assurance programs with the Army, as Executive Agent, to 
     lead, consolidate, and coordinate such programs.
       Sec. 113. In addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise 
     made available for the Department of Defense elsewhere in 
     this Act or in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 
     2000 (Public Law 106-79), $125,000,000 is hereby appropriated 
     to the Department of Defense to remain available until 
     September 30, 2002, to be available only for the Patriot 
     missile program: Provided, That not later than 30 days after 
     the enactment of this Act the Department shall submit a 
     revised Patriot missile program plan to the congressional 
     defense committees: Provided further, That the entire amount 
     made available in this section is designated by the Congress 
     as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
     of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended.
       Sec. 114. In addition to amounts provided elsewhere in this 
     Act for the Department of Defense, $300,000 is hereby 
     appropriated to be available only for Operation Walking 
     Shield for technical assistance and transportation of excess 
     housing to Indian tribes located in the States of North 
     Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Minnesota, in accordance 
     with section 8155 of Public Law 106-79.
       Sec. 115. In addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise 
     made available for the Department of Defense elsewhere in 
     this Act or in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 
     2000 (Public Law 106-79), there is hereby appropriated to the 
     Department of Defense, for the cost of peacekeeping and 
     humanitarian assistance operations in East Timor and 
     Mozambique, $61,500,000, to be distributed as follows:
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'', $6,400,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps'', $8,100,000; 
     and
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Air Force'', $47,000,000:
     Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended.


                          (Transfer of Funds)

       Sec. 116. (a) Transfer of Funds.--Notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, of the funds appropriated by title II of 
     the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public 
     Law 106-79) under the heading ``Operation and Maintenance, 
     Defense-Wide'', $9,642,000 shall be transferred to the 
     Macalloy Special Account administered by the Administrator of 
     the Environmental Protection Agency to pay for response 
     actions by, or on behalf of, the Environmental Protection 
     Agency under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
     Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601 et 
     seq.) at the Macalloy site in Charleston, South Carolina.
       (b) Treatment of Funds.--Any of the funds transferred 
     pursuant to subsection (a) that are used to pay for response 
     actions at the Macalloy site shall be credited against any 
     liability of the United States with respect to the site under 
     the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
     Liability Act of 1980.
       Sec. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there 
     is appropriated to the Department of Defense $8,000,000 for 
     communications, communications infrastructure, logistical 
     support, resources and operational assistance required by the 
     Salt Lake Organizing Committee to stage the 2002 Olympic and 
     Paralympic Winter Games, such sums to remain available until 
     expended.
       Sec. 118. The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and 
     its subordinate offices and associated contractors, including 
     the Lead Systems Integrator, shall notify the congressional 
     defense committees 15 days prior to issuing any type of 
     information or proposal solicitation under the NMD Program 
     with a potential annual contract value greater than 
     $5,000,000 or a total contract value greater than 
     $30,000,000.
       Sec. 119. (a) Requirement for Sale of Navy Drydock No. 9.--
     Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
     the Navy shall sell Navy Drydock No. 9 (AFDM-3), located in 
     Mobile, Alabama, to the Bender Shipbuilding and Repair 
     Company, Inc., which is the current lessee of the drydock 
     from the Navy.
       (b) Consideration.--As consideration for the sale of the 
     drydock under subsection (a), the Secretary shall receive an 
     amount equal to the fair market value of the drydock at the 
     time of the sale, as determined by the Secretary.
       Sec. 120. Subsection (b) of section 509 of title 32, United 
     States Code, is amended by striking ``Federal'' and inserting 
     ``Department of Defense''.
       Sec. 121. Use of Department of Defense Facilities as 
     Polling Places. (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, the Secretary of Defense shall not prohibit 
     the designation or use of any Department of Defense facility, 
     currently designated by a State or local election official, 
     or used since January 1, 1996, as an official polling place 
     in connection with a local, State, or Federal election, as 
     such official polling place.
       (b) Effective Date.--The prohibition under subsection (a) 
     shall apply to any election occurring on or after the date of 
     the enactment of this section and before December 31, 2000.
       Sec. 122. Section 8114 of the Department of Defense 
     Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public Law 105-262; 112 Stat. 
     2326), is amended--
       (1) in the matter preceding the first proviso, by striking 
     ``$20,000,000'' and inserting ``$30,000,000''; and
       (2) in the second proviso, by inserting after ``property 
     damages'' the following: ``, and for other claims under 
     applicable Status-of-Forces Agreements,''.


                             (RESCISSIONS)

       Sec. 123. Of the funds provided in Department of Defense 
     Appropriations Acts, the following funds are hereby rescinded 
     as of the date of the enactment of this Act, from the 
     following accounts in the specified amounts:
       Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy, 
     1989/1993'':
       DDG-51 destroyer program, $9,100,000;
       T-AO fleet oiler program, $6,645,000;
       T-AGOS surveillance ship program, $3,420,000;
       Outfitting and post delivery, $1,293,000;
       ``Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force, 
     1999/2000'', $7,000,000;
       ``Military Personnel, Army, 2000'', $98,700,000;
       ``Military Personnel, Navy, 2000'', $49,127,000;
       ``Military Personnel, Air Force, 2000'', $82,000,000;
       ``Reserve Personnel, Air Force, 2000'', $4,500,000; and
       ``National Guard Personnel, Army, 2000'', $24,826,000.
       Sec. 124. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made available 
     by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence 
     activities are deemed to be specifically authorized by the 
     Congress for purposes of section 504 of the National Security 
     Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414).
       Sec. 125. The following provisions of law are repealed: 
     sections 8175 and 8176 of the Department of Defense 
     Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-79), as amended by 
     sections 214 and 215, respectively, of H.R. 3425 of the 106th 
     Congress (113 Stat. 1501A-297), as enacted into law by 
     section 1000(a)(5) of Public Law 106-113.
       Sec. 126. Any amount appropriated in this chapter that is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, shall not 
     be available for obligation unless all such amounts are 
     designated by the President, upon enactment of this Act, as 
     emergency requirements pursuant to such section.

                               CHAPTER 2

                      DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL

                         DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil


                         General Investigations

       For an additional amount for ``General Investigations'', 
     $3,500,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
     $1,500,000 shall be for a feasibility study and report of a 
     project to provide flood damage reduction for the town of 
     Princeville, North Carolina, and of which $2,000,000 shall be 
     for preconstruction engineering and design of an emergency 
     outlet from Devils Lake, North Dakota, to the Sheyenne River: 
     Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended.


                         Construction, General

       For an additional amount for ``Construction, General'', 
     $3,000,000, to remain available until expended, for the 
     Johnson Creek, Arlington, Texas, project authorized by 
     section 101(b)(14) of Public Law 106-53: Provided, That the 
     entire amount shall be available only to the extent an 
     official budget request for $3,000,000, that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
     as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
     of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended.


                   Operation and Maintenance, General

       For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
     General'', $200,000, to remain available until expended, for 
     dredging of the authorized navigation project at Saxon 
     Harbor, Wisconsin: Provided, That the entire amount shall be 
     available only to the extent an official budget request for 
     $200,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of 
     the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control

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     Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to 
     the Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                         Bureau of Reclamation


                      Water and Related Resources

       For an additional amount for ``Water and Related 
     Resources'', $600,000, to remain available until expended, to 
     carry out the provisions of the Lewis and Clark Rural Water 
     System Act of 2000: Provided, That the entire amount shall be 
     available only to the extent an official budget request for 
     $600,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of 
     the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

                    ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE ACTIVITIES

                           Weapons Activities

       For an additional amount for ``Weapons activities'', 
     $96,500,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent 
     an official budget request for $96,500,000, that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
     as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
     of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended.


                        other defense activities

       For an additional amount for ``Other defense activities'', 
     $38,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent 
     an official budget request for $38,000,000, that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
     further, That the Department is authorized to initiate design 
     of the Highly Enriched Uranium Blend Down Project.

                            ENERGY PROGRAMS

      Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund

       For an additional amount for ``Uranium enrichment 
     decontamination and decommissioning fund'', $58,000,000, to 
     be derived from the Fund, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to 
     the extent an official budget request for $58,000,000, that 
     includes designation of the entire amount of the request as 
     an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
     as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
     of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

       Sec. 201. Funds appropriated in this or any other Act and 
     hereafter may not be used to pay on behalf of the United 
     States or a contractor or subcontractor of the United States 
     for posting a bond or fulfilling any other financial 
     responsibility requirement relating to closure or post-
     closure care and monitoring of the Waste Isolation Pilot 
     Plant. The State of New Mexico or any other entity may not 
     enforce against the United States or a contractor or 
     subcontractor of the United States, in this or any subsequent 
     fiscal year, a requirement to post bond or any other 
     financial responsibility requirement relating to closure or 
     post-closure care and monitoring of the Waste Isolation Pilot 
     Plant. Any financial responsibility requirement in a permit 
     or license for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant on the date of 
     the enactment of this section may not be enforced against the 
     United States or its contractors or subcontractors at the 
     Plant.
       Sec. 202. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
     funds provided in this or any other Act may be used to 
     further reallocate Central Arizona Project water or to 
     prepare an Environmental Assessment, Environmental Impact 
     Statement, or Record of Decision providing for a reallocation 
     of Central Arizona Project water until further Act of 
     Congress authorizing and directing the Secretary of the 
     Interior to make allocations and enter into contracts for 
     delivery of Central Arizona Project water.
       Sec. 203. Of the funds provided in Public Laws 106-60 and 
     105-245 and prior Energy and Water Development Appropriations 
     Acts for the Department of Energy under the heading 
     ``Science'', $1,000,000 shall be made available for the 
     design, planning and construction of the interdisciplinary 
     science facility at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.
       Sec. 204. Of the funds provided in Public Law 106-60 and 
     prior Energy and Water Development Appropriations Acts for 
     the Department of Energy under the heading ``Energy Supply'', 
     $1,000,000 shall be made available for the Nome diesel 
     upgrade.
       Sec. 205. Of the funds provided in Public Law 106-60 and 
     prior Energy and Water Development Appropriations Acts for 
     the Department of Energy under the heading ``Weapons 
     Activities'', $5,000,000 shall be made available to move the 
     Atlas pulsed power experimental facility to the Nevada Test 
     Site.
       Sec. 206. Of the funds provided in Public Law 106-60 and 
     prior Energy and Water Development Appropriations Acts for 
     the Department of Energy under the heading ``Science'', 
     $2,500,000 shall be made available for the Natural Energy 
     Laboratory of Hawaii.
       Sec. 207. Of the funds provided in Public Law 106-60 for 
     the Department of Energy under the heading ``Science'', 
     $1,000,000 shall be made available for the Burbank Hospital 
     Regional Center in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
       Sec. 208. Of the funds provided in Public Law 106-60 for 
     the Department of Energy under the heading ``Science'', 
     $1,000,000 shall be made available for the Center for 
     Research on Aging at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical 
     Center in Chicago, Illinois.
       Sec. 209. Of the funds provided in Public Law 106-60 for 
     the Department of Energy under the heading ``Science'', 
     $1,000,000 shall be made available for the North Shore-Long 
     Island Jewish Health System.
       Sec. 210. Of the funds provided in Public Law 106-60 for 
     the Department of Energy under the heading ``Energy Supply'', 
     $1,000,000 shall be made available for the Materials Science 
     Center in Tempe, Arizona.
       Sec. 211. No funds appropriated to the Nuclear Regulatory 
     Commission for fiscal years 2000 and 2001 may be used to 
     relocate, or to plan or prepare for the relocation of, the 
     functions or personnel of the Technical Training Center from 
     its location at Chattanooga, Tennessee.

                               CHAPTER 3

                         MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

       Sec. 301. In addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise 
     made available in the Military Construction Appropriations 
     Act, 2000, the following amounts are hereby appropriated as 
     authorized by section 2854 of title 10, United States Code, 
     as follows:
       ``Military Construction, Army Reserve'', $12,348,000;
       ``Family Housing, Army'', $2,000,000;
       ``Family Housing, Navy and Marine Corps'', $3,000,000; and
       ``Family Housing, Air Force'', $1,700,000:
     Provided, That the funds in this section remain available 
     until September 30, 2004: Provided further, That the entire 
     amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available 
     only to the extent that an official budget request for 
     $19,048,000, that includes designation of the entire amount 
     of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
       Sec. 302. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in 
     addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise made available 
     in the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2000, 
     $1,000,000 is hereby appropriated to the ``Military 
     Construction, Defense-Wide'' account, to remain available 
     until September 30, 2004: Provided, That such amount shall be 
     available for study, planning, design, architect and engineer 
     services, as authorized by law: Provided further, That such 
     amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available 
     only to the extent an official budget request for $1,000,000 
     that includes designation of the entire amount of the request 
     as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress.


                         (INCLUDING RESCISSION)

       Sec. 303. (a) In addition to the amounts provided in Public 
     Law 106-52, $35,000,000 is appropriated under the heading 
     ``Military Construction, Navy'' to remain available until 
     September 30, 2004: Provided, That such funds are authorized 
     and shall be available for the acquisition of land at Blount 
     Island, Florida.
       (b) Of the funds provided in the Military Construction 
     Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public Law 104-32), $35,000,000 is 
     hereby rescinded as of the date of the enactment of this Act.

                               CHAPTER 4

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                              Coast Guard


                           Operating Expenses

       For an additional amount for ``Operating expenses'', 
     $77,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2001; of 
     which $5,000,000 shall be available for military basic pay; 
     $18,000,000 shall be available for costs related to the 
     delivery of health care to Coast Guard personnel, retirees, 
     and their dependents; $15,000,000 shall be available for 
     basic allowance for housing; $2,000,000 shall be available 
     for the military housing areas cost of living adjustment; 
     $15,000,000 shall be available for recruiting and retention 
     bonuses; $1,000,000 shall be available for fixed wing aviator 
     retention bonuses; $8,000,000 shall be available for the 
     clean up and repair of shore facilities from hurricane 
     damage; and, $13,000,000 shall be available for operational 
     fuel and unit level operational readiness: Provided, That the 
     entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount provided shall be 
     available only to the extent an official budget request for 
     $77,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount 
     of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit

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     Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
     President to the Congress.


              Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements

       For an additional amount for ``Acquisition, construction, 
     and improvements'', $578,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended; of which $110,000,000 shall be available for the 
     Great Lakes Icebreaker replacement; and of which $468,000,000 
     shall be available for acquisition and conversion of six C-
     130J maritime patrol aircraft, as authorized under section 
     812(b)(1)(G) of the Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act: 
     Provided, That the procurement of maritime patrol aircraft 
     funded under this heading shall not, in any way, influence 
     the procurement strategy, program requirements, or down-
     select decision pertaining to the Coast Guard's Deepwater 
     Capability Replacement Project: Provided further, That the 
     entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount provided shall be 
     available only to the extent an official budget request for 
     $578,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount 
     of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.

                               CHAPTER 5

                     GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS TITLE

       Sec. 501. For an additional amount for the Agency for 
     International Development, ``International Disaster 
     Assistance'', $25,000,000, for rehabilitation and 
     reconstruction assistance for Mozambique, Madagascar, and 
     southern Africa, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the 
     entire amount provided shall be available only to the extent 
     an official budget request that includes designation of the 
     entire amount as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
       Sec. 502. For an additional amount for ``Assistance for 
     Eastern Europe and the Baltic States'', $50,000,000, to 
     remain available until September 30, 2001: Provided, That 
     this amount shall only be available for assistance for 
     Montenegro and Croatia, and not to exceed $12,400,000 for 
     assistance for Kosova: Provided further, That the 
     amount specified in the previous proviso for assistance 
     for Kosova may be made available only for police 
     activities: Provided further, That funds made available in 
     the preceding provisos shall be available subject to the 
     regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations: Provided further, That the entire amount 
     is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                                TITLE II

   NATURAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE AND OTHER SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

                               CHAPTER 1

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                        Office of the Secretary

       For an additional amount for necessary expenses to carry 
     out title IX of Public Law 106-78, $1,350,000: Provided, That 
     the entire amount necessary to carry out this section shall 
     be available only to the extent an official budget request 
     for $1,350,000, that includes designation of the entire 
     amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined 
     in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
     Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

                          Farm Service Agency


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       For an additional amount for ``Salaries and Expenses'', 
     $77,560,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent 
     an official budget request for $77,560,000, that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
     as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
     of such Act.

                         Rural Housing Service


              RURAL HOUSING INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       For additional gross obligations for the principal amount 
     of direct loans as authorized by title V of the Housing Act 
     of 1949 for section 515 rental housing to be available from 
     funds in the rural housing insurance fund to meet needs 
     resulting from Hurricane Dennis, Floyd, or Irene, 
     $40,000,000.
       For the additional cost of direct loans for section 515 
     rental housing, including the cost of modifying loans, as 
     defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
     1974, to remain available until expended, $15,872,000: 
     Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended.


                       RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

       For an additional amount for rental assistance agreements 
     entered into or renewed pursuant to section 521(a)(2) of the 
     Housing Act of 1949 for emergency needs resulting from 
     Hurricane Dennis, Floyd, or Irene, $13,600,000, to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

       Sec. 2101. With respect to any 1999 crop year loan made by 
     the Commodity Credit Corporation to a cooperative marketing 
     association established under the laws of North Carolina, and 
     to any person or entity in North Carolina obtaining a 1999 
     crop upland cotton marketing assistance loan, the Corporation 
     shall reduce the amount of such outstanding loan indebtedness 
     in an amount up to 75 percent of the amount of the loan 
     applicable to any collateral (in the case of cooperative 
     marketing associations of upland cotton producers and upland 
     cotton producers, not to exceed $5,000,000 for benefits to 
     such associations and such producers for up to 75 percent of 
     the loss incurred by such associations and such producers 
     with respect to upland cotton that had been placed under 
     loan) that was produced in a county in which either the 
     Secretary of Agriculture or the President of the United 
     States declared a major disaster or emergency due to the 
     occurrence of Hurricane Dennis, Floyd, or Irene if the 
     Corporation determines that such collateral suffered any 
     quality loss as a result of said hurricane: Provided, That if 
     a person or entity obtains a benefit under this section with 
     respect to a quantity of a commodity, no marketing loan gain 
     or loan deficiency payment shall be made available under the 
     Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 with 
     respect to such quantity: Provided further, That no more than 
     $81,000,000 of the funds of the Corporation shall be 
     available to carry out this section: Provided further, That 
     the entire amount shall be available only to the extent an 
     official budget request for $81,000,000, that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
     as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
       Sec. 2102. In lieu of imposing, where applicable, the 
     assessment for producers provided for in subsection (d)(8) of 
     7 U.S.C. 7271 (section 155 of the Agricultural Market 
     Transition Act), the Secretary shall, as necessary to offset 
     remaining loan losses for the 1999 crop of peanuts, borrow 
     such amounts as would have been collected under 7 U.S.C. 
     7271(d)(8) from the Commodity Credit Corporation. Such 
     borrowing shall be against all excess assessments to be 
     collected under 7 U.S.C. 7271(g) for crop year 2000 and 
     subsequent years. For purposes of the preceding sentence, an 
     assessment shall be considered to be an ``excess'' assessment 
     to the extent that it is not used, or will not be used, under 
     the provisions of 7 U.S.C. 7271(d), to offset losses on 
     peanuts for the crop year in which the assessment is 
     collected. The Commodity Credit Corporation shall retain in 
     its own account sums collected under 7 U.S.C. 7271(g) as 
     needed to recover the borrowing provided for in this section 
     to the extent that such collections are not used under 7 
     U.S.C. 7271(d) to cover losses on peanuts: Provided, That the 
     entire amount necessary to carry out this section shall be 
     available only to the extent an official budget request for 
     the entire amount, that includes designation of the entire 
     amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined 
     in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
     Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

                               CHAPTER 2

                         DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

             Salaries and Expenses, United States Attorneys

       For an additional amount for ``Salaries and Expenses, 
     United States Attorneys'', $12,000,000, to remain available 
     until expended, to be divided equally between the States of 
     Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, to reimburse 
     county and municipal governments only for Federal costs 
     associated with the handling and processing of illegal 
     immigration and drug and alien smuggling cases. The use of 
     these funds is limited to: court costs, courtroom technology, 
     the building of holding spaces, administrative staff, and 
     indigent defense costs: Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
     further, That such amount shall be available only to the 
     extent that an official budget request for a specific dollar 
     amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
     request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.

                    Drug Enforcement Administration


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For an additional amount for ``Salaries and Expenses'', 
     $181,000,000, to remain available until expended, which shall 
     be deposited in the Telecommunications Carrier Compliance 
     Fund: Provided, That, hereafter, in the discretion of the 
     Attorney General, any expenditures from the Fund to pay or 
     reimburse pursuant to sections 104(e) and 109(a) of Public 
     Law 103-414, may be made directly to any parties specified in

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     section 401(a) thereof, and may be made either pursuant to 
     the regulations promulgated under such section 109, or 
     pursuant to firm fixed-price agreements, upon provision of 
     such information as the Attorney General may require: 
     Provided further, That such amount shall be available only to 
     the extent that an official budget request for a specific 
     dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount 
     of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                       Office of Justice Programs

                           justice assistance

       For an additional amount for ``Justice Assistance'' for 
     grants to counties with populations of less than 150,000, and 
     Indian reservations, in Arizona that are adjacent to the 
     United States-Mexico border, $2,000,000: Provided, That such 
     grants shall be allocated in proportion to the population of 
     each such county and Indian reservation: Provided further, 
     That such amount is designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: 
     Provided further, That such amount shall be available only to 
     the extent that an official budget request for a specific 
     dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount 
     of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.

                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

                  Economic Development Administration


                economic development assistance programs

       For an additional amount for ``Economic Development 
     Assistance Programs'', $55,800,000, to remain available until 
     expended, for planning, public works grants and revolving 
     loan funds for communities affected by Hurricane Floyd and 
     other recent hurricanes and disasters: Provided, That the 
     entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of 
     the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended: Provided further, That such amount shall 
     be available only to the extent that an official budget 
     request for a specific dollar amount, that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, is transmitted 
     by the President to the Congress.

            National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


                  operations, research, and facilities

       For an additional amount for ``Operations, Research and 
     Facilities'', $30,700,000, to remain available until 
     expended, to provide disaster assistance pursuant to section 
     312(a) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation 
     Management Act, including compensation to fishermen for 
     losses and equipment damage, resulting from Hurricane Floyd 
     and other recent hurricanes and fishery disasters in the Long 
     Island Sound lobster fishery and the west coast groundfish 
     fishery, and for the repair of the National Oceanic and 
     Atmospheric Administration hurricane reconnaissance aircraft: 
     Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That of 
     such amount, $13,300,000 shall be available only to the 
     extent that an official budget request for a specific dollar 
     amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
     request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.

                          DEPARTMENT OF STATE

                       International Commissions


              American Sections, International Commissions

       For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for the 
     International Joint Commission, as authorized by treaties 
     between the United States and Canada or Great Britain, 
     $2,150,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be 
     available only to the extent that an official budget request, 
     that includes designation of the entire amount of the request 
     as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress.

                                 Other


      United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

       For necessary expenses for the United States Commission on 
     International Religious Freedom, as authorized by title II of 
     the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (Public Law 
     105-292), $2,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the 
     entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an 
     official budget request, that includes designation of the 
     entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
     defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
     Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to 
     the Congress.

                             RELATED AGENCY

                     Small Business Administration


                     disaster loans program account

       For an additional amount for the cost of direct loans, 
     $15,500,000, to remain available until expended to subsidize 
     additional gross obligations for the principal amount of 
     direct loans: Provided, That such costs, including the cost 
     of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 
     of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974; and for direct 
     administrative expenses to carry out the disaster loan 
     program, an additional $25,400,000, to remain available until 
     expended, which may be transferred to and merged with 
     appropriations for ``Salaries and Expenses'': Provided 
     further, That no funds shall be transferred to and merged 
     with appropriations for ``Salaries and Expenses'' for 
     indirect administrative expenses: Provided further, That the 
     entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available 
     only to the extent that an official budget request, that 
     includes designation of the entire amount of the request as 
     an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

       Sec. 2201. For an additional amount for ``Operations, 
     Research, and Facilities'', for emergency expenses for 
     fisheries disaster relief pursuant to section 312(a) of the 
     Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, 
     as amended, for the Pribilof Island and East Aleutian area 
     of the Bering Sea, $10,000,000 to remain available until 
     expended: Provided, That in implementing this section, the 
     Secretary of Commerce shall make $7,000,000 available for 
     disaster assistance and $3,000,000 for Bering Sea 
     ecosystem research including $1,000,000 for the State of 
     Alaska to develop a cooperative research plan to restore 
     the crab fishery: Provided further, That the Secretary of 
     Commerce declares a fisheries failure pursuant to section 
     312(a) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
     Management Act, as amended: Provided further, That the 
     entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of 
     the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount 
     shall be available only to the extent an official budget 
     request for $10,000,000, that includes designation of the 
     entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement 
     as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
     President to the Congress.
       Sec. 2202. For an additional amount for ``Operations, 
     Research, and Facilities'', $10,000,000 to provide emergency 
     disaster assistance for the commercial fishery failure 
     determined under section 308(b)(1) of the Interjurisdictional 
     Fisheries Act of 1986 (16 U.S.C. 4107(b)(1)) with respect to 
     the Northeast multispecies fishery, which shall be used to 
     support a voluntary fishing capacity reduction program in the 
     Northeast multispecies fishery that permanently revokes 
     multispecies, limited access fishing permits so as to obtain 
     the maximum sustained reduction in fishing capacity at the 
     least cost and in the minimum period of time and to prevent 
     the replacement of fishing capacity removed by the program: 
     Provided, That the entire amount made available in this 
     section is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement 
     under section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount shall be available only to 
     the extent an official budget request for $10,000,000, that 
     includes designation of the entire amount of the request as 
     an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress.
       Sec. 2203. For an additional amount for the account 
     entitled ``Operations, Research, and Facilities'', to remain 
     available until expended, $7,000,000, of which $2,000,000 
     shall be for studies relating to long-line interactions with 
     sea turtles in the North Pacific and commercial fishing 
     activities in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, and of which 
     $5,000,000 shall be for observer coverage for the Hawaiian 
     long-line fishery: Provided, That the entire amount in this 
     section is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available 
     only to the extent an official budget request for $7,000,000, 
     that includes designation of the entire amount of the request 
     as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress.
       Sec. 2204. North Pacific Marine Research Institute.--Public 
     Law 101-380, as amended, is further amended by--
       (a) inserting after section 5007 the following new section:

     ``SEC. 5008. NORTH PACIFIC MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE.

       ``(a) Institute Established.--The Secretary of Commerce 
     shall establish a North Pacific Marine Research Institute 
     (hereafter in this section referred to as the `Institute') to 
     be administered at the Alaska SeaLife Center by the North 
     Pacific Research Board.

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       ``(b) Functions.--The Institute shall--
       ``(1) conduct research and carry out education and 
     demonstration projects on or relating to the North Pacific 
     marine ecosystem with particular emphasis on marine mammal, 
     sea bird, fish, and shellfish populations in the Bering Sea 
     and Gulf of Alaska including populations located in or near 
     Kenai Fjords National Park and the Alaska Maritime National 
     Wildlife Refuge; and
       ``(2) lease, maintain, operate, and upgrade the necessary 
     research equipment and related facilities necessary to 
     conduct such research at the Alaska SeaLife Center.
       ``(c) Evaluation and Audit.--The Secretary of Commerce may 
     periodically evaluate the activities of the Institute to 
     ensure that funds received by the Institute are used in a 
     manner consistent with this section. The Comptroller General 
     of the United States, and any of his or her duly authorized 
     representatives, shall have access, for purposes of audit and 
     examination, to any books, documents, papers, and records of 
     the Institute that are pertinent to the funds received and 
     expended by the Institute.
       ``(d) Status of Employees.--Employees of the Institute 
     shall not, by reason of such employment, be considered to be 
     employees of the Federal Government for any purpose.
       ``(e) Use of Funds.--No funds made available to carry out 
     this section may be used to initiate litigation, or for the 
     acquisition of real property (other than facilities leased at 
     the Alaska SeaLife Center). No more than 10 percent of the 
     funds made available to carry out subsection (b)(1) may be 
     used to administer the Institute.
       ``(f) Availability of Research.--The Institute shall 
     publish and make available to any person on request the 
     results of all research, educational, and demonstration 
     projects conducted by the Institute. The Institute shall 
     provide a copy of all research, educational, and 
     demonstration projects conducted by the Institute to the 
     National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife 
     Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
     Administration.''; and
       (b) in section 5006 by inserting at the end the following 
     new subsection:
       ``(c) Section 5008.--Amounts in the Fund shall be 
     available, without further appropriation and without fiscal 
     year limitation, to carry out section 5008(b), in an amount 
     not to exceed $5,000,000: Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount shall be available only to 
     the extent an official budget request that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress.''.

                               CHAPTER 3

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                       Bureau of Land Management


                        Wildland Fire Management

       For an additional amount for ``Wildland Fire Management'', 
     $200,000,000, to remain available until expended, for 
     emergency rehabilitation and wildfire suppression activities: 
     Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That 
     $100,000,000 shall be available only to the extent that an 
     official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that 
     includes designation of the entire amount of the request as 
     an emergency requirement as defined by such Act, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress.


                            land acquisition

       For an additional amount for ``Land Acquisition'', 
     $2,000,000, to remain available until expended, for 
     acquisition of additional lands known as the Douglas Tract on 
     the Potomac River in the State of Maryland, to be derived 
     from the Land and Water Conservation Fund: Provided, That the 
     entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
     Provided further, That $2,000,000 shall be available only to 
     the extent that an official budget request for a specific 
     dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount 
     of the request as an emergency requirement as defined by such 
     Act, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.

          Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement


                       Regulation and Technology

       For an additional amount for ``Regulation and Technology'', 
     $9,821,000, to remain available until expended for the 
     regulatory program of the State of West Virginia, of which 
     $6,222,000, not subject to section 705(a) of the Surface 
     Mining Control and Reclamation Act, shall be available for 
     regulatory program enhancements for the surface mining 
     regulatory program of the State of West Virginia: Provided, 
     That the balance of the funds shall be made available to the 
     State to augment staffing and provide relative support 
     expenses for the State's regulatory program: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
     as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
     of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount 
     shall be available only to the extent an official budget 
     request for $9,821,000, that includes designation of the 
     entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
     defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
     Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to 
     the Congress.

                             RELATED AGENCY

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                             Forest Service


                         NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM

       For an additional amount for ``National Forest System'' for 
     emergency expenses resulting from damages from wind storms, 
     $2,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be 
     available only to the extent an official budget request for a 
     specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the 
     entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
     defined by such Act, is transmitted by the President to 
     the Congress.


                        wildland fire management

       For an additional amount for ``Wildland Fire Management'', 
     $150,000,000, to remain available until expended, for 
     emergency rehabilitation, presuppression, and wildfire 
     suppression: Provided, That the entire amount is designated 
     by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
     section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
     Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, 
     That this amount shall be available only to the extent that 
     an official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that 
     includes designation of the entire amount as an emergency 
     requirement as defined by such Act, is transmitted by the 
     President to the Congress.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

       Sec. 2301. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Indian Health Service is authorized to improve municipal, 
     private or tribal lands with respect to the new construction 
     of the clinic for the community of King Cove, Alaska 
     authorized under section 353 of Public Law 105-277 (112 Stat. 
     2681-303).
       Sec. 2302. From funds previously appropriated in Public Law 
     105-277 or other Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations 
     Acts under the heading ``Department of Energy, Fossil Energy 
     Research and Development'', the Secretary of Energy shall 
     make available within 30 days after enactment of this Act 
     $750,000 for the purpose of executing proposal No. FT40770.
       Sec. 2303. (a) Using funds appropriated by section 501(d) 
     of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 
     (Public Law 106-31), the Secretary shall provide interim 
     compensation within 60 days of the date of the enactment of 
     this Act to--
       (1) Dungeness fishing vessel crew members eligible for 
     interim compensation under the existing National Park Service 
     program (64 Fed. Reg. 145);
       (2) United States fish processors which have been 
     negatively affected by restrictions on fishing for Dungeness 
     crab in Glacier Bay National Park and which previously 
     received interim compensation; and
       (3) Buy N Pack Seafoods, a United States fish processor 
     located in Hoonah, Alaska and which has been severely and 
     negatively impacted by restrictions on fishing in Glacier Bay 
     National Park, for estimated 1999 and 2000 losses based on an 
     average net income derived from processing product harvested 
     from Glacier Bay fisheries from 1995 through 1998.

     Payments made to processors under paragraph (2) are intended 
     to compensate recipients for losses incurred in 2000 and 
     shall not exceed compensation provided for losses incurred in 
     1999. The Park Service shall not delay the scheduled public 
     involvement process for the Glacier Bay compensation plan.
       (b) The amount of final compensation paid to any entity 
     shall be reduced by the total dollar amount of any interim 
     compensation payments received.
       (c) Funds appropriated for the purpose of making payments 
     authorized by section 123(b) of the Department of the 
     Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 
     (section 101(e) of division A of Public Law 105-277, as 
     amended) shall also be available for making payments 
     authorized in subsection (c) of that section.

                               CHAPTER 4

                          DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

                 Mine Safety and Health Administration


                         salaries and expenses

       The matter under this heading in the Departments of Labor, 
     Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by 
     section 1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106-113) is amended by 
     striking ``including not to exceed $750,000 may be collected 
     by the National Mine Health and Safety Academy'' and 
     inserting ``and, in addition, not to exceed $750,000 may be 
     collected by the National Mine Health and Safety Academy''.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

              Health Resources and Services Administration


                     health resources and services

       For ``Health Resources and Services'' for special projects 
     of regional and national significance under section 501(a)(2) 
     of the Social Security Act, $20,000,000, which shall become 
     available on October 1, 2000, and shall remain available 
     until September 30, 2001: Provided, That such amount shall 
     not be counted toward compliance with the allocation required 
     in section 502(a)(1) of such Act: Provided further, That such 
     amount shall be used only for making competitive grants to 
     provide abstinence education (as defined in section 510(b)(2) 
     of such Act) to adolescents and for evaluations (including 
     longitudinal evaluations) of activities under the grants and 
     for Federal costs of administering the grant: Provided 
     further, That such grants

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     shall be made only to public and private entities which agree 
     that, with respect to an adolescent to whom the entities 
     provide abstinence education under such grant, the entities 
     will not provide to that adolescent any other education 
     regarding sexual conduct, except that, in the case of an 
     entity expressly required by law to provide health 
     information or services the adolescent shall not be precluded 
     from seeking health information or services from the entity 
     in a different setting than the setting in which the 
     abstinence education was provided: Provided further, That the 
     funds expended for such evaluations may not exceed 2.5 
     percent of such amount.
       For an additional amount for ``Health Resources and 
     Services'', $3,000,000 to remain available until September 
     30, 2001, for renovation and construction of a children's 
     psychiatric services facility in Wading River, New York: 
     Provided, That the entire amount is hereby designated by the 
     Congress to be an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the 
     entire amount provided shall be made available only after 
     submission to the Congress of a formal budget request by the 
     President that includes designation of the entire amount of 
     the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended.

               Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


                disease control, research, and training

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For an additional amount for ``Disease Control, Research, 
     and Training'', $12,000,000 for international HIV/AIDS 
     programs, to remain available until September 30, 2001: 
     Provided, That the entire amount is hereby designated by the 
     Congress to be an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the 
     entire amount provided shall be made available only after 
     submission to the Congress of a formal budget request by the 
     President that includes designation of the entire amount of 
     the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended.
       For an additional amount for ``Disease Control, Research, 
     and Training'', $460,000, to be derived by transfer from the 
     amount made available for fiscal year 2000 for ``Health 
     Resources and Services Administration-Health Resources and 
     Services'' for construction and renovation of health care and 
     other facilities.

                Administration for Children and Families


       payments to states for foster care and adoption assistance

       For an additional amount for ``Payments to States for 
     Foster Care and Adoption Assistance'' for payments for fiscal 
     year 2000, $35,000,000.


                   low income home energy assistance

       For an additional amount for ``Low Income Home Energy 
     Assistance'' for emergency assistance under section 2602(e) 
     of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 
     8621(e)), $600,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That the entire amount is hereby designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That this 
     amount shall be available only to the extent an official 
     budget request for a specific dollar amount that includes 
     designations of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress.


                     refugee and entrant assistance

       Funds appropriated under this heading in the Departments of 
     Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by 
     section 1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106-113) for fiscal year 
     2000, pursuant to section 414(a) of the Immigration and 
     Nationality Act, shall be available for the costs of 
     assistance provided and other activities through September 
     30, 2002.

                        Administration on Aging


                        aging services programs

       The matter under this heading in the Departments of Labor, 
     Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by 
     section 1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106-113) is amended by 
     inserting after ``$934,285,000'' the following: ``, of which 
     $2,200,000 shall be for the Anchorage, Alaska Senior 
     Center, and shall remain available until expended''.

                        Office of the Secretary


                    general departmental management

                              (rescission)

       Of the amounts appropriated under this heading in title II 
     of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
     Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as 
     enacted into law by section 1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106-
     113), $20,000,000 is rescinded: Provided, That the amount 
     rescinded is from the amount designated to become available 
     on October 1, 2000, and to remain available until September 
     30, 2001.


            public health and social services emergency fund

                         (including rescission)

       For an additional amount for ``Public Health and Social 
     Services Emergency Fund'', $31,200,000, to remain available 
     until expended for the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile: 
     Provided, That the entire amount is hereby designated by the 
     Congress to be an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the 
     entire amount provided shall be made available only after 
     submission to the Congress of a formal budget request by the 
     President that includes designation of the entire amount of 
     the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended.
       In addition, $43,200,000 of the funds appropriated under 
     this heading in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
     Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
     Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(4) of 
     Public Law 106-113) is hereby rescinded: Provided, That of 
     such rescission, $12,000,000 shall be derived from the amount 
     specified under such heading for international HIV/AIDS 
     programs; and $31,200,000 shall be derived from the amount 
     specified under such heading for activities related to 
     countering potential biological, disease and chemical threats 
     to civilian populations.

       General Provision--Department of Health and Human Services

       Sec. 2401. Section 206 of the Departments of Labor, Health 
     and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by section 
     1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106-113) is amended by inserting 
     before the period at the end the following: ``: Provided 
     further, That this section shall not apply to funds 
     appropriated under the heading `Centers for Disease Control 
     and Prevention--Disease Control, Research, and Training', 
     funds made available to the Centers for Disease Control and 
     Prevention under the heading `Public Health and Social 
     Services Emergency Fund', or any other funds made available 
     in this Act to the Centers for Disease Control and 
     Prevention''.

                        DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


                           special education

       The matter under this heading in the Department of Labor, 
     Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by 
     section 1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106-113 is amended by 
     inserting after the words ``Salt Lake City Organizing 
     Committee'' the words ``, or a governmental agency or not-
     for-profit organization designated by the Salt Lake City 
     Organizing Committee''.


                     VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION

       The matter under this heading in the Departments of Labor, 
     Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by 
     section 1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106-113) is amended by 
     striking ``$858,150,000'' and inserting ``$882,650,000'', and 
     by striking the last proviso, and inserting ``Provided 
     further, That of the funds provided to become available on 
     July 1, 2000, $19,000,000 shall be for Youth Offender Grants, 
     of which $5,000,000 shall be used in accordance with section 
     601 of Public Law 102-73 as that section was in effect prior 
     to the enactment of Public Law 105-220.''.


                            Higher Education

       Funds appropriated under this heading in Public Law 105-78 
     to carry out title X-E of the Higher Education Act shall be 
     available for obligation by the states through September 30, 
     2000, and funds appropriated under this heading in Public Law 
     105-277 to carry out title VIII-D of the Higher Education 
     Amendments of 1998 shall be available for obligation by the 
     states through September 30, 2001.
       For an additional amount for ``Higher Education'' for 
     carrying out part B of title VII of the Higher Education Act 
     of 1965, $750,000, to remain available until expended, which 
     shall be awarded to the College of New Jersey, in Ewing, New 
     Jersey, for creation of a center for inquiry and design-based 
     learning in mathematics, science and technology education: 
     Provided, That the entire amount is hereby designated by the 
     Congress to be an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the 
     entire amount provided shall be made available only after 
     submission to the Congress of a formal budget request by the 
     President that includes designation of the entire amount of 
     the request as an emergency requirement as defined in 
     the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended.


            education research, statistics, and improvement

                     (including transfer of funds)

       The matter under this heading in the Departments of Labor, 
     Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by 
     section 1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106-113) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``North Babylon Community Youth Services 
     for an educational program'' and inserting ``Town of Babylon 
     Youth Bureau for an educational program'';
       (2) by striking ``to promote participation among youth in 
     the United States democratic process'' and inserting ``to 
     expand access to and improve advanced education'';
       (3) by striking ``$500,000 shall be awarded to Shedd 
     Aquarium/Brookfield Zoo for science education/exposure 
     programs for local elementary school students'' and inserting 
     ``$500,000 shall be awarded to Shedd Aquarium/Brookfield Zoo 
     for science education programs for local school students'';
       (4) by striking ``Oakland Unified School District in 
     California for an African American Literacy and Culture 
     Project'' and inserting ``California State University, 
     Hayward, for an African-American Literacy and Culture Project 
     carried out in partnership with the Oakland Unified School 
     District in California''; and

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       (5) by striking ``$900,000 shall be awarded to the Boston 
     Music Education Collaborative comprehensive interdisciplinary 
     music program and teacher resource center in Boston, 
     Massachusetts'' and inserting ``$462,000 shall be awarded to 
     the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the teacher resource center 
     and $370,000 shall be awarded to the Boston Music Education 
     Collaborative for an interdisciplinary music program, in 
     Boston, Massachusetts''.
       For an additional amount for ``Education Research, 
     Statistics, and Improvement'' to carry out part A of title X 
     of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 
     $368,000, to be derived by transfer from the amount made 
     available for fiscal year 2000 for ``Health Resources and 
     Services Administration--Health Resources and Services'' for 
     construction and renovation of health care and other 
     facilities: Provided, That such amount shall be awarded to 
     the George Mason University Center for Services to Families 
     and Schools to expand a program for schools and families of 
     children suffering from attentional, cognitive, and 
     behavioral disorders.

                            RELATED AGENCIES

                     Social Security Administration


                 Limitation on Administrative Expenses

       For an additional amount for ``Limitation on Administrative 
     Expenses'', $35,000,000, to be available through September 
     30, 2001: Provided, That the entire amount is hereby 
     designated by the Congress to be an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount provided shall be made 
     available only after submission to the Congress of a formal 
     budget request by the President that includes designation of 
     the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement 
     as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

       Sec. 2402. Section 513 of the Departments of Labor, Health 
     and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by section 
     1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106-113) is amended by inserting 
     before the period at the end the following: ``: Provided 
     further, That the provisions of this section shall not apply 
     to any funds appropriated to the Centers for Disease Control 
     and Prevention or to the Department of Education''.
       Sec. 2403. Section 403(a)(5) of the Social Security Act (42 
     U.S.C. 603(a)(5)), as amended by section 806(b) of the 
     Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
     Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as 
     enacted into law by section 1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106-113) 
     is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (F), by striking ``$1,500,000'' and 
     inserting ``$15,000,000'';
       (2) in subparagraph (G), by striking ``$900,000'' and 
     inserting ``$9,000,000''; and
       (3) in subparagraph (H), by striking ``$300,000'' and 
     inserting ``$3,000,000''.
       Sec. 2404. (a) The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (20 
     U.S.C. 2841) is amended--
       (1) in section 503--
       (A) by striking ``under Public Law 88-210 (as amended; 20 
     U.S.C. 2301 et seq.)'' each place it appears and inserting 
     ``under Public Law 105-332 (20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.)''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, 
     for fiscal year 2000, the Secretary shall not consider the 
     expected levels of performance under Public Law 105-332 (20 
     U.S.C. 2301 et seq.) and shall not award a grant under 
     subsection (a) based on the levels of performance for that 
     Act.''.
       (b) Section 111 (a)(1)(C) of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational 
     and Technical Education Act of 1998 (20 U.S.C. 2321) is 
     amended by striking ``fiscal years 2000'' and inserting 
     ``fiscal years 2001''.
       Sec. 2405. Of the funds made available in the Departments 
     of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and 
     Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into 
     law by section 1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106-113) for section 
     10105 of part A of title X of the Elementary and Secondary 
     Education Act of 1965, $2,250,000 of the amount appropriated 
     shall be available October 1, 1999 for evaluation, technical 
     assistance, and school networking activities, and up to 1 
     percent of the amount appropriated shall be available October 
     1, 1999, for peer review of applications.
       Sec. 2406. Section 508(f)(1) of the Rehabilitation Act of 
     1973 (29 U.S.C. 794d(f)(1)) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``Effective'' and all 
     that follows through ``1998,'' and inserting ``Effective 6 
     months after the date of publication by the Access Board of 
     final standards described in subsection (a)(2),''; and
       (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``2 years'' and all 
     that follows and inserting ``6 months after the date of 
     publication by the Access Board of final standards described 
     in subsection (a)(2).''.
       Sec. 2407. For an additional amount for ``Health Resources 
     and Services Administration, Health Resources and Services'', 
     $3,500,000, for the Saint John's Lutheran Hospital in Libby, 
     Montana, for construction and renovation of health care and 
     other facilities and an additional amount for the ``Economic 
     Development Administration'', $8,000,000, only for a grant to 
     the City of Libby, Montana, such amount to be transferred to 
     the City upon its request, notwithstanding the provisions of 
     any other law and without any local matching share or award 
     conditions: Provided, That the entire amounts in this section 
     are designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
     further, That the entire amounts provided within this section 
     shall be available only to the extent an official budget 
     request that includes designation of the entire amounts of 
     the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.

                               CHAPTER 5

                           LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

                        ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

                     Capitol Buildings and Grounds

                              fire safety

       For an additional amount for the Architect of the Capitol 
     for expenses for fire safety, $17,480,000, to remain 
     available until expended, of which $7,039,000 shall be for 
     ``Capitol Buildings and Grounds--Capitol Buildings--Salaries 
     and Expenses''; $2,314,000 shall be for ``Senate Office 
     Buildings''; $4,213,000 shall be for ``House Office 
     Buildings''; $3,000 shall be for ``Capitol Power Plant''; 
     $26,000 shall be for ``Botanic Garden--Salaries and 
     Expenses''; and $3,885,000 shall be for ``Architect of the 
     Capitol--Library Buildings and Grounds--Structural and 
     Mechanical Care'': Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

       Sec. 2501. Section 127(e)(1) of division A of the Omnibus 
     Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 
     1999 (Public Law 105-277; 19 U.S.C. 2213 note) is amended by 
     striking ``12 months'' and insert ``15 months''.

                               CHAPTER 6

           DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND RELATED AGENCIES

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                              Coast Guard


              ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS

                    (including rescission of funds)

       For an additional amount for ``Acquisition, construction, 
     and improvements'', $45,000,000 shall be available until 
     expended for acquisition of one C-37A command and control 
     aircraft: Provided, That the Commandant of the Coast Guard 
     shall sell the current VC-11A command and control aircraft 
     and credit the proceeds from that sale as offsetting 
     collections to the appropriation under this heading: Provided 
     further, That such proceeds may not be obligated without 
     further appropriation: Provided further, That of the 
     available balances under this heading from previous 
     appropriations Acts, $11,400,000 are rescinded.

                    Federal Aviation Administration


                               operations

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

       For an additional amount for ``Operations'', $75,000,000, 
     to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and to 
     be available until September 30, 2001: Provided, That the 
     entire amount under this heading is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the 
     entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an 
     official budget request for $75,000,000, that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined by such Act, is transmitted 
     by the President to the Congress.

                             RELATED AGENCY

                  National Transportation Safety Board


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For an additional amount for ``Salaries and expenses'', 
     $19,739,000, for emergency expenses associated with the 
     investigation of the Egypt Air 990 and Alaska Air 261 
     accidents, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
     such funds shall be available for wreckage location and 
     recovery facilities, technical support, testing, and wreckage 
     mock-up: Provided further, That in the event the Arab 
     Republic of Egypt reimburses the National Transportation 
     Safety Board for wreckage location and recovery, family 
     assistance, and interagency expenses, the Secretary of the 
     Treasury shall reduce the appropriation under this heading by 
     an amount equal to the reimbursement, less $5,000,000: 
     Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
     not credit the appropriation under this heading with a 
     reimbursement in excess of $8,983,000: Provided further, That 
     the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

       Sec. 2601. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of 
     the funds available under section 104(a) of title 23, United 
     States Code, $1,200,000 shall be available for the Paso Del 
     Norte International Bridge in the state of Texas; $9,000,000 
     shall be available for the US 82 Mississippi River Bridge in 
     the state of Mississippi; $2,000,000 shall be available for 
     the Union Village/Cambridge Junction bridges in the state of 
     Vermont; $5,000,000 shall be available for the Naheola Bridge 
     in the state of Alabama; $3,000,000 shall be available for 
     the Hoover Dam Bypass in the states of Arizona and Nevada; 
     $3,000,000 shall be available for the Witt-Penn Bridge in the 
     state of New Jersey; and $12,000,000 shall be available for 
     the Florida Memorial Bridge in the state of Florida.

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       Sec. 2602. Of the funds transferred to the Department of 
     Transportation for Year 2000 conversion of Federal 
     information technology systems and related expenses pursuant 
     to Public Law 105-277, $26,600,000 of the unobligated balance 
     are hereby rescinded: Provided, That the Department of 
     Transportation shall allocate this rescission among the 
     appropriate accounts within the Department and report such 
     allocation to the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations.
       Sec. 2603. (a) The Administrator of the Environmental 
     Protection Agency shall make a grant for the purpose of 
     carrying out the first year of a 2-year program to implement 
     in five metropolitan areas pilot design programs developed 
     under section 365(a)(2) of the Department of Transportation 
     and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (113 Stat. 
     1028-1029).
       (b) The Administrator shall ensure that each pilot design 
     program is implemented in accordance with recommendations 
     developed by the National Telecommuting and Air Quality 
     Steering Committee, in consultation with the local design 
     teams.
       (c) Grants received under subsection (a) may be used for--
       (1) protocol development in the five metropolitan areas;
       (2) marketing of the telecommute, emissions reduction, 
     pollution credits strategy and recruitment of participating 
     employers; and
       (3) data gathering on emissions reductions.
       (d) In addition to the grant under subsection (a), for the 
     purpose of carrying out the second year of the 2-year program 
     referred to in subsection (a), the Administrator shall--
       (1) make a grant of $750,000 to the National Environmental 
     Policy Institute (a nonprofit private entity incorporated 
     under the laws of and located in the District of Columbia); 
     and
       (2) make grants totaling $1,250,000 to local agencies 
     within the five metropolitan areas referred to in subsection 
     (a).
       (e) Not later than 360 days from first day of the second 
     year of the 2-year program referred to in subsection (a), the 
     Administrator shall transmit to Congress a report on the 
     results of the program.
       (f) The Administrator shall carry out this section in 
     collaboration with the Secretary of Transportation.
       (g) There is appropriated to the Department of 
     Transportation, ``Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
     Policy'', $2,000,000 to carry out this section. Such amounts 
     shall be transferred to and administered by the Environmental 
     Protection Agency and shall remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the 
     entire amount shall be available only to the extent an 
     official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that 
     includes designation of the entire amount of the request as 
     an emergency requirement as defined by such Act, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress.
       Sec. 2604. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     hereafter, funds apportioned under section 104(b)(3) of title 
     23 which are applied to projects involving the elimination of 
     hazards of railway-highway crossings, including the 
     separation or protection of grades at crossings, the 
     reconstruction of existing railroad grade crossing 
     structures, and the relocation of highways to eliminate grade 
     crossings, may have a Federal share up to 100 percent of the 
     cost of construction.
       Sec. 2605. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
     necessary expenses for planning, preliminary engineering and 
     design of the Metro-North Danbury to Norwalk commuter rail 
     line re-electrification project, $2,000,000, to be derived 
     from the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund and 
     to remain available until expended: Provided, That the entire 
     amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available 
     only to the extent an official budget request for a specific 
     dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount 
     of the request as an emergency requirement as defined by such 
     Act, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
       Sec. 2606. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
     necessary expenses for the Second Avenue Subway in New York 
     City, New York, $3,000,000, to be derived from the Mass 
     Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund and to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount shall be available only to 
     the extent an official budget request for a specific dollar 
     amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
     request as an emergency requirement as defined by such Act, 
     is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
       Sec. 2607. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
     necessary expenses relating to a study of improvements to 
     Highway 8, from the Minnesota border to Highway 51 in the 
     state of Wisconsin, $500,000, to be derived from the Highway 
     Account of the Highway Trust Fund and to remain available 
     until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount shall be available only to 
     the extent an official budget request for a specific dollar 
     amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
     request as an emergency requirement as defined by such Act, 
     is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
       Sec. 2608. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
     necessary expenses relating to construction of, and 
     improvements to, Halls Mill Road in Monmouth County, New 
     Jersey, $1,000,000, to be derived from the Highway Account of 
     the Highway Trust Fund and to remain available until 
     expended: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by 
     the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the 
     entire amount shall be available only to the extent an 
     official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that 
     includes designation of the entire amount of the request as 
     an emergency requirement as defined by such Act, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress.

                               CHAPTER 7

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                          Departmental Offices


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For an additional amount, $24,900,000 for the Secretary of 
     the Treasury to establish and operate an in-service firearms 
     training facility for the United States Customs Service and 
     other agencies, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That the Secretary is authorized to designate a lead agency 
     to oversee the development, implementation and operation of 
     the facility and to conduct training: Provided further, That 
     the land identified as the Sleepy Hollow Partnership and 
     Marcus Enterprises tract (44,-R), Harpers Ferry Magisterial 
     District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, together with a 
     forty-five foot right-of-way over the lands of Valley Blox, 
     Inc. as described in the deed from Joel T. Broyhill 
     Enterprises, Inc. to Sleepy Hollow Partnership, et al., in a 
     Deed dated March 29, 1989, and recorded in the Jefferson 
     County Clerk's Office in Deed Book 627, Page 494, originally 
     acquired by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as a 
     proposed site for a training center but not selected for that 
     purpose and presently held by the United States Fish and 
     Wildlife Service in an administrative capacity, shall be 
     managed by the National Park Service pursuant to a 
     cooperative management agreement between the United States 
     Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service, 
     consistent with the laws (including regulations) generally 
     applicable to the National Park Service: Provided further, 
     That administrative jurisdiction of a suitable portion of 
     said land that is necessary for the creation of a Department 
     of the Treasury training facility, to be identified by the 
     National Park Service, shall be transferred under a lease-
     type arrangement at no cost within 120-days of the date of 
     the enactment of this Act to the Department of the Treasury 
     for such time as required by the Department of the Treasury: 
     Provided further, That the training to be conducted at the 
     facility shall be configured in a manner so that it does not 
     duplicate or displace any Federal law enforcement program of 
     the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center: Provided 
     further, That training currently being conducted at a Federal 
     Law Enforcement Training Center facility shall not be moved 
     to the new training facility: Provided further, That at such 
     time as the land is no longer required for training purposes, 
     administrative jurisdiction shall be transferred back to the 
     Department of the Interior in a manner and condition 
     acceptable to the Department of the Interior: Provided 
     further, That the total amount made available under this 
     section is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available 
     only to the extent that an official budget request that 
     includes designation of the entire amount as an emergency 
     requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
     Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by 
     the President to the Congress.

                       Bureau of the Public Debt

      gifts to the united states for reduction of the public debt

       For deposit of an additional amount into the account 
     established under section 3113(d) of title 31, United States 
     Code, to reduce the public debt, $4,000,000,000: Provided, 
     That such amount is designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: 
     Provided further, That such amount shall be available only to 
     the extent that an official budget request, that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, is transmitted by the 
     President to the Congress.

                      United States Secret Service


                         salaries and expenses

       For an additional amount for ``Salaries and Expenses'' 
     related to planning, coordination and implementation of 
     security for national special security and major protective 
     events, $10,000,000: Provided, That the entire amount in this 
     section is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available 
     only to the extent that an official budget request for a 
     specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the 
     entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
     defined by such Act, is transmitted by the President to the 
     Congress.

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    EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE 
                               PRESIDENT

                        Office of Administration


                         Information Technology

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Administration for 
     restoration and reconstruction of certain electronic mail 
     messages and for inclusion of such messages in the Automated 
     Records Management System, $8,400,000, which shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2002: Provided, That such funds 
     may not be obligated until the Office of Administration 
     submits to the Committees on Appropriations an independent 
     verification and validation of the initial and projected 
     costs of the tape restoration and reconstruction project: 
     Provided further, That such submission shall include the 
     final report prepared by the independent verification and 
     validation contractor to the Office of Administration 
     relating to the initial and projected cost estimates: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount in this section is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount shall be available only to 
     the extent that an official budget request for a specific 
     dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount 
     of the request as an emergency requirement as defined by such 
     Act, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                    General Services Administration


                         Policy and Operations

       For an additional amount, $3,300,000 to remain available 
     until expended for the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic and 
     Paralympic Games doping control program: Provided, That the 
     entire amount in this section is designated by the Congress 
     as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
     of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount 
     shall be available only to the extent that an official budget 
     request for a specific dollar amount, that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined by such Act, is transmitted 
     by the Presdient to the Congress.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

       Sec. 2701. Notwithstanding section 1345 of title 31, United 
     States Code, or section 610 of the Treasury and General 
     Government Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-58; 113 
     Stat. 467), funds made available for fiscal year 2000 for any 
     other department or agency of the Federal Government with 
     authority to conduct counterdrug intelligence activities may 
     be available to finance an appropriate share of the 
     administrative costs incurred by the Department of Justice 
     for the Counterdrug Intelligence Executive Secretariat 
     authorized by the General Counterdrug Intelligence Plan of 
     February 12, 2000, except that the total amount that may be 
     used under this section for such purpose shall not exceed 
     $1,100,000.
       Sec. 2702. (a) The unobligated balance as of September 30, 
     2000, of funds appropriated under the heading ``Internal 
     Revenue Service, Information Technology Investments'' in the 
     Treasury Department Appropriations Act, 1998, title I of 
     Public Law 105-61, is rescinded.
       (b) Subsection (a) shall be effective September 30, 2000.
       (c) The amount rescinded pursuant to subsection (a) is 
     appropriated for the capital asset acquisition of information 
     technology systems, including management and related 
     contractual costs of said acquisitions, including contractual 
     costs associated with operations authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
     which shall be available through September 30, 2001: 
     Provided, That none of these funds shall be obligated until 
     the Internal Revenue Service submits to Congress and Congress 
     approves a plan for expenditure that: (1) meets the capital 
     planning and investment control review requirements 
     established by the Office of Management and Budget, including 
     OMB Circular A-11 part 3; (2) complies with the Internal 
     Revenue Service's enterprise architecture, including the 
     modernization blueprint; (3) conforms with the Internal 
     Revenue Service's enterprise life cycle methodology; (4) is 
     approved by the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of 
     the Treasury, and the Office of Management and Budget; (5) 
     has been reviewed by the General Accounting Office; and (6) 
     complies with the acquisition rules, requirements, 
     guidelines, and systems acquisition management practices of 
     the Federal Government.
       Sec. 2703. Restoration of Medicare Trust Funds. (a) 
     Correction of Trust Fund Holdings.--
       (1) In general.--Within 120 days after the effective date 
     of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall take the 
     actions described in paragraph (2) with respect to each trust 
     fund with the goal being that, after the actions are taken, 
     the holdings of the trust fund will replicate, to the extent 
     practicable in the judgement of the Secretary of the 
     Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and 
     Human Services, the obligations that would have been held by 
     the trust fund if the clerical error had not occurred.
       (2) Obligations issued and redeemed.--The Secretary of the 
     Treasury shall--
       (A) issue to each trust fund obligations under chapter 31 
     of title 31, United States Code, that bear issue dates, 
     interest rates, and maturity dates as the obligations that--
       (i) would have been issued to the trust fund if the 
     clerical error had not occurred; or
       (ii) were issued to the trust fund and were redeemed by 
     reason of the clerical error; and
       (B) redeem from each trust fund obligations that--
       (i) would not have been issued to the trust fund if the 
     clerical error had not occurred; or
       (ii) would have been redeemed from the trust fund if the 
     clerical error had not occurred.
       (b) Correction of Interest Income.--
       (1) Transfer of excess interest income.--Within 120 days 
     after the effective date of this Act, the Secretary of the 
     Treasury shall transfer from the Federal Hospital Insurance 
     Trust Fund to the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance 
     Trust Fund an amount determined by the Secretary of the 
     Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and 
     Human Services, to be equal to the amount of interest income 
     that was credited to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust 
     Fund that would not have been credited if the clerical error 
     had not occurred.
       (2) Credit of lost interest income.--Within 120 days after 
     the effective date of this Act, there is hereby appropriated 
     to the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, 
     out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
     an amount determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 
     to be equal to the difference between--
       (A) the interest income lost by that trust fund through the 
     date of credit by reason of the clerical error; and
       (B) the amount transferred to that trust fund under 
     paragraph (1).
       (c) Definitions.--For purposes of this section, the 
     following definitions shall apply:
       (1) Clerical error.--The term ``clerical error'' means the 
     erroneous transfers of moneys between the investment accounts 
     and uninvested transfer accounts of the trust funds that 
     occurred in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, as 
     described in the Department of Health and Human Services' 
     ``Accountability Report for Fiscal Year 1999: Federal 
     Managers Financial Integrity Act Report on Systems and 
     Controls''.
       (2) Trust fund.--The term ``trust fund'' means either the 
     Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund or the Federal 
     Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund.
       Sec. 2704. (a) In General.--Of the amounts provided to the 
     Office of National Drug Control Policy for fiscal year 2000, 
     pursuant to section 237 of H.R. 3425 of the 106th Congress, 
     as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(5) of Public Law 106-
     113, the Director of such Office shall make a direct payment 
     of $3,000,000 to the United States Olympic Committee for the 
     conduct of anti-doping activities through the United States 
     Anti-Doping Agency.
       (b) Direct Payments.--Effective on the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of National 
     Drug Control Policy is authorized and directed to make a 
     direct payment to the United States Olympic Committee for the 
     conduct of anti-doping activities through the United States 
     Anti-Doping Agency.
       Sec. 2705. (a) The unobligated balance as of September 30, 
     2000, of funds transferred to the United States Secret 
     Service pursuant to the second sentence of section 240 of 
     H.R. 3425 of the 106th Congress, as enacted into law by 
     section 1000(a)(5) of Public Law 106-113, is rescinded.
       (b) Subsection (a) shall be effective September 30, 2000.
       (c) The amount rescinded pursuant to subsection (a) is 
     appropriated to the United States Secret Service for salaries 
     and expenses, to remain available until September 30, 2001.
       Sec. 2706. Of the amounts provided in Public Law 106-58 in 
     the Policy and Operations account, the General Services 
     Administration is hereby authorized to provide $225,000, to 
     remain available until expended, for the Nebraska State 
     Patrol Digital Distance Learning project.

                               CHAPTER 8

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                   Community Planning and Development


                   community development block grants

       The referenced statement of the managers in the sixth 
     undesignated paragraph under this heading in title II of 
     Public Law 106-74 is deemed to be amended by striking 
     ``Montgomery'' in reference to the planning and construction 
     of a regional learning center at Spring Hill College, and 
     inserting ``Mobile''.
       The referenced statement of the managers in the fourth 
     undesignated paragraph under this heading in title II of 
     Public Law 106-74 for neighborhood initiatives for specified 
     grants to the City of Yankton, South Dakota, for the 
     restoration of the downtown area and the development of the 
     Fox Run Industrial Park is deemed to be amended by adding 
     after the word ``Park'' the following: ``and for activities 
     to facilitate economic development, including infrastructure 
     improvements''.
       For an additional amount for targeted economic development 
     initiatives under the Community Development Block Grants 
     program, $27,500,000: Provided, That the statement of the 
     managers accompanying Public Law 106-74 is deemed to be 
     amended to include in the description of targeted economic 
     development initiatives the following:
       ``--$1,300,000 to the City of Park Falls, Wisconsin for 
     economic development, including purchase of municipal 
     equipment and infrastructure improvements in industrial parks 
     and the City of Park Falls;
       ``--$250,000 to the Lake Superior BTC cultural center in 
     Washburn, Wisconsin for restoration of facilities and 
     equipment destroyed by fire;
       ``--$900,000 to the City of Hatley, Wisconsin for the cost 
     of water, wastewater and sewer system improvements;
       ``--$50,000 to the City of Hamlet, North Carolina for 
     demolition and removal of buildings and equipment destroyed 
     by fire; and
       ``--$25,000,000 to the City of Youngstown, Ohio for site 
     acquisition, planning, architectural design, and construction 
     of a convocation and community center.'':

     Provided, That the entire amount under this paragraph shall 
     be available only to the extent

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     that an official budget request for a specific dollar amount, 
     that includes designation of the entire amount of the request 
     as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
     as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
     of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended.


                  HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM

       For an additional amount for the HOME investment 
     partnerships program, as authorized under title II of the 
     Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 
     101-625), as amended, $36,000,000: Provided, That of said 
     amount, $11,000,000 shall be provided to the New Jersey 
     Department of Community Affairs and $25,000,000 shall be 
     provided to the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency for the 
     purpose of providing temporary assistance in obtaining rental 
     housing, and for construction of affordable replacement 
     housing: Provided further, That assistance provided under 
     this paragraph shall be for very low-income families 
     displaced by flooding caused by Hurricane Floyd and 
     surrounding events: Provided further, That the entire 
     amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, 
     as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount shall 
     be available only to the extent that an official budget 
     request for a specific dollar amount, that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress.


                       homeless assistance grants

       Of the amounts made available under this heading in title 
     II of Public Law 106-74, the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
     Development shall, for each request described in the 
     following proviso, make a 1-year grant to the entity making 
     the request in the amount under the second proviso: Provided, 
     That a request described in this proviso is a request for a 
     grant under subtitle C of title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney 
     Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) for 
     permanent housing for homeless persons with disabilities or 
     subtitle F of such title (42 U.S.C. 11403 et seq.) that: (1) 
     was submitted in accordance with the eligibility requirements 
     established by the Secretary and pursuant to the notice of 
     funding availability for fiscal year 1999 covering such 
     programs, but was not approved; (2) was made by an entity 
     that received such a grant pursuant to the notice of funding 
     availability for a previous fiscal year; and (3) requested 
     renewal of funding made under such previous grant for use for 
     eligible activities because funding under such previous grant 
     expires during calendar year 2000: Provided further, That the 
     amount under this proviso is the amount necessary, as 
     determined by the Secretary, to renew funding for the 
     eligible activities under the grant request for a period of 
     only 1 year, taking into consideration the amount of funding 
     requested for the first year of funding under the grant 
     request: Provided further, That in the third proviso under 
     this heading in Public Law 106-74, insert ``and management 
     and information systems'' after ``technical assistance''.

                     Management and Administration


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is 
     prohibited from using any funds in Public Law 106-74 or any 
     other Act to employ more than 9,100 full-time equivalent 
     employees at the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
     in fiscal year 2000.


                      Office of Inspector General

                    (INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS)

       Of the amounts made available under this heading in Public 
     Law 106-74, $6,000,000 provided for the ``Office of Inspector 
     General'' is rescinded. For an additional amount for the 
     ``Office of Inspector General'', $6,000,000, to remain 
     available until September 30, 2001: Provided, That these 
     funds shall be made available under the same terms and 
     conditions as authorized for the funds under this heading in 
     Public Law 106-74.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

             Corporation for National and Community Service


                NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS

                           OPERATING EXPENSES

                         (RESCISSION OF FUNDS)

       Of the amounts available in the National Service Trust 
     account from previous appropriations Acts, $1,000,000 shall 
     be rescinded.


                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

       For an additional amount for the ``Office of Inspector 
     General'' for reviews and audits of the State Commissions on 
     National and Community Service (including alternative 
     administrative entities) established under section 178 of the 
     National and Community Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12638), 
     $1,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2001.

                    Environmental Protection Agency


                 environmental programs and management

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Of the amount appropriated under this heading in title III 
     of Public Law 106-74, $2,374,900, in addition to amounts made 
     available for the following in prior Acts, shall be and have 
     been available to award grants for work on the Buffalo Creek 
     and other New York watersheds and for aquifer protection work 
     in and around Cortland County, New York, including work on 
     the Upper Susquehanna watershed.
       Of the amount appropriated under this heading in title III 
     of Public Law 105-276 to establish a regional environmental 
     data center and to develop an integrated, automated water 
     quality monitoring and information system for watersheds 
     impacting Chesapeake Bay, $2,600,000 shall be transferred to 
     the ``State and tribal assistance grants'' account to remain 
     available until expended for grants for wastewater and sewer 
     infrastructure improvements for Smithfield Township, Monroe 
     County ($800,000); the Municipal Authority of the Borough of 
     Milford, Pike County ($800,000); the City of Carbondale, 
     Lackawanna County ($200,000); Throop Borough, Lackawanna 
     County ($200,000); and Dickson City, Lackawanna County 
     ($600,000), Pennsylvania.
       None of the funds made available for fiscal years 2000 and 
     2001 for the Environmental Protection Agency may be used to 
     make a final determination on or implement any new rule 
     relative to the Proposed Revisions to the National Pollutant 
     Discharge Elimination System Program and Federal 
     Antidegradation Policy and the Proposed Revisions to the 
     Water Quality Planning and Management Regulations Concerning 
     Total Maximum Daily Load, published in the Federal Register 
     on August 23, 1999.


                   state and tribal assistance grants

       The referenced statement of the managers under this heading 
     in title III of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
     Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-74), is deemed to be 
     amended by striking ``in the town of Waynesville'' in 
     reference to water and wastewater infrastructure improvements 
     as identified in project number 102, and by inserting 
     ``Haywood County''; by adding the words ``for the Fourpole 
     Pumping Station'' after the word ``improvements'' in 
     reference to water and wastewater infrastructure improvements 
     as identified in project number 135; and by striking the 
     words ``at the West County Wastewater Treatment Plant'' in 
     reference to wastewater infrastructure improvements within 
     the Metropolitan Sewer District at Louisville, Kentucky as 
     identified in project number 50.

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency


                            Disaster Relief

       Of the unobligated balances made available under the second 
     paragraph under this heading in Public Law 106-74, in 
     addition to other amounts made available, up to $50,000,000 
     may be used by the Director of the Federal Emergency 
     Management Agency for the buyout or elevation of properties 
     which are principal residences that have been made 
     uninhabitable by floods in areas which were declared Federal 
     disasters in fiscal years 1999 and 2000: Provided, That such 
     properties are located in a 100-year floodplain: Provided 
     further, That no homeowner may receive any assistance for 
     buyouts in excess of the pre-flood fair market value of the 
     residence (reduced by any proceeds from insurance or any 
     other source paid or owed as a result of the flood damage to 
     the residence): Provided further, That each state shall 
     ensure that there is a contribution from non-Federal sources 
     of not less than 25 percent in matching funds (other than 
     administrative costs) for any funds allocated to the State 
     for buyout assistance: Provided further, That all buyouts 
     under this section shall be subject to the terms and 
     conditions specified under 42 U.S.C. 5170c(b)(2)(B): Provided 
     further, That none of the funds made available for buyouts 
     under this paragraph may be used in any calculation of a 
     State's section 404 allocation: Provided further, That the 
     Director shall report quarterly to the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations on the use of all funds 
     allocated under this paragraph and certify that the use of 
     all funds are consistent with all applicable laws and 
     requirements: Provided further, That no funds shall be 
     allocated for buyouts under this paragraph except in 
     accordance with regulations promulgated by the Director: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available 
     only to the extent an official budget request, that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined by the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
     as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
     of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended.

             National Aeronautics and Space Administration


                  science, aeronautics and technology

       For an additional amount for ``Science, aeronautics and 
     technology'', $1,500,000, to remain available until September 
     30, 2001: Provided, That the entire amount shall be available 
     only to the extent an official budget request, that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined by the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
     as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
     of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

       Sec. 2801. Title V, subtitle C, section 538 of Public Law 
     106-74, is amended by striking ``during any period that the 
     assisted family continues residing in the same project in 
     which the family was residing on the date of the eligibility 
     event for the project, if'' and inserting the following: 
     ``the assisted family may elect to remain in the same project 
     in which the family was residing on the date of the 
     eligibility event for the project, and if, during any period 
     the family makes such an election and continues to so 
     reside,''.
       Sec. 2802. Section 175 of Public Law 106-113 is amended by 
     striking ``as a grant for Special Olympics in Anchorage, 
     Alaska to develop the

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     Ben Boeke Arena and Hilltop Ski Area,'' and inserting the 
     following ``to the Organizing Committee for the 2001 Special 
     Olympics World Winter games to be used in support of related 
     activities in Alaska,''.
       Sec. 2803. (a) Technical Revision to Public Law 106-74.--
     Title II of Public Law 106-74 is amended--
       (1) under the heading ``Urban Empowerment Zones'', by 
     striking ``$3,666,000'' and inserting ``$3,666,666''; and
       (2) under the heading ``Community Development Block 
     Grants'' under the fourth undesignated paragraph, by striking 
     ``$23,000,000'' and inserting ``$22,750,000''.
       (b) Technical Revision to Public Law 106-113.--Section 
     242(a) of Appendix E of Public Law 106-113 is amended--
       (1) by striking ``seventh'' and inserting ``sixth''; and
       (2) by striking ``$250,175,000'' and inserting 
     ``$250,900,000''.
       (c) Effective Dates.--The amendments made by--
       (1) subsection (a) shall be construed to have taken effect 
     on October 20, 1999; and
       (2) subsection (b) shall be construed to have taken effect 
     on November 29, 1999.
       Sec. 2804. Section 235 Rescission. Section 208(3) of the 
     Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
     Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 
     2000 is amended--
       (1) by striking ``235(r)'' and inserting ``235'';
       (2) by inserting after ``104 Stat. 2305)'' the following: 
     ``for payments under section 235(r) of the National Housing 
     Act''; and
       (3) by striking ``for such purposes''.

                               CHAPTER 9

                     GENERAL PROVISION--THIS TITLE

       Sec. 2901. For an additional amount for the District of 
     Columbia Metropolitan Police Department, $4,485,000 for the 
     reimbursement of certain costs incurred by the District of 
     Columbia as host of the International Monetary Fund and World 
     Bank Organization Spring Conference in April 2000: Provided, 
     That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent 
     an official budget request for $4,485,000, that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
     as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
     of such Act.

                      TITLE III--COUNTERNARCOTICS

                               CHAPTER 1

                    DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--MILITARY

                              PROCUREMENT

                       Aircraft Procurement, Army

       For an additional amount for ``Aircraft Procurement, 
     Army'', $30,000,000, to remain available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2002: Provided, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount provided shall be available 
     only to the extent an official budget request that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress.

                  OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS

         Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense


                     (including transfer of funds)

       For an additional amount for ``Drug Interdiction and 
     Counter-Drug Activities, Defense'', $154,059,000, to remain 
     available for obligation until expended: Provided, That the 
     entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of 
     the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended: Provided further, That the Secretary of 
     Defense may transfer the funds provided herein only to 
     appropriations for military personnel; operation and 
     maintenance; procurement; research, development, test and 
     evaluation; and working capital funds: Provided further, 
     That the funds transferred shall be merged with and shall 
     be available for the same purposes and for the same time 
     period, as the appropriation to which transferred: 
     Provided further, That the transfer authority provided 
     under this heading is in addition to any other transfer 
     authority available to the Department of Defense: Provided 
     further, That no funds made available under this heading 
     may be obligated or expended for training, logistics 
     support, planning or assistance contracts for any overseas 
     activity until 15 days after the Assistant Secretary of 
     Defense, Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict 
     reports to the congressional defense committees on the 
     value, duration and purpose of such contracts.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

       Sec. 3101. (a) Authority To Provide Support.--Of the amount 
     appropriated in this Act for the Department of Defense, not 
     to exceed $45,000,000 shall be available for the provision of 
     support for counter-drug activities of the Government of 
     Colombia. The support provided under this section shall be in 
     addition to support provided for counter-drug activities of 
     the Government of Colombia under any other provision of law.
       (b) Types of Support.--The support that may be provided 
     using this section shall be limited to the types of support 
     specified in section 1033(c)(1) of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85; 
     111 Stat. 1882). In addition, using unobligated balances from 
     the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public 
     Law 105-262), the Secretary of Defense may transfer one light 
     observation aircraft to Colombia for counter-drug activities.
       (c) Conditions on Provision of Support.--(1) The Secretary 
     of Defense may not obligate or expend funds appropriated in 
     this Act to provide support under this section for counter-
     drug activities of the Government of Colombia until the end 
     of the 15-day period beginning on the date on which the 
     Secretary submits the written certification for fiscal year 
     2000 pursuant to section 1033(f)(1) of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85; 
     111 Stat. 1882).
       (2) The elements of the written certification submitted for 
     fiscal year 2000 described in section 1033(g) of that Act 
     shall apply to, and the written certification shall address, 
     the support provided under this section for counter-drug 
     activities of the Government of Colombia.

                               CHAPTER 2

                     BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE

                  Funds Appropriated to the President

                          Department of State


               Assistance for Counternarcotics Activities

       For necessary expenses to carry out section 481 of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to support Central and South 
     America and Caribbean counternarcotics activities, 
     $1,018,500,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That of the funds appropriated under this heading, not less 
     than $110,000,000 shall be made available for assistance for 
     Bolivia, of which not less than $85,000,000 may be made 
     available for alternative development and other economic 
     activities: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated 
     under this heading, not less than $20,000,000 may be made 
     available for assistance for Ecuador, of which not less than 
     $8,000,000 may be made available for alternative development 
     and other economic activities: Provided further, That of the 
     funds appropriated under this heading, not less than 
     $18,000,000 shall be made available for assistance for other 
     countries in South and Central America and the Caribbean 
     which are cooperating with United States counternarcotics 
     objectives: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated 
     under this heading not less than $60,000,000 shall be made 
     available for the procurement, refurbishing, and support for 
     UH-1H Huey II helicopters for the Colombian Army: Provided 
     further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 
     not less than $234,000,000 shall be made available for the 
     procurement of and support for UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters 
     for use by the Colombian Army and the Colombian National 
     Police: Provided further, That procurement of UH-60 Blackhawk 
     helicopters from funds made available under this heading 
     shall be managed by the United States Defense Security 
     Cooperation Agency: Provided further, That the President 
     shall ensure that if any helicopter procured with funds under 
     this heading is used to aid or abet the operations of an 
     illegal self-defense group or illegal security cooperative, 
     then such helicopter shall be immediately returned to the 
     United States: Provided further, That of the amount 
     appropriated under this heading, $2,500,000 shall be 
     available for a program for the demobilization and 
     rehabilitation of child soldiers in Colombia: Provided 
     further, That funds made available under this heading shall 
     be in addition to amounts otherwise available for such 
     purposes: Provided further, That section 482(b) of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 shall not apply to funds 
     appropriated under this heading: Provided further, That 
     the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary 
     of Defense and the Administrator of the United States 
     Agency for International Development, shall provide to the 
     Committees on Appropriations not later than 30 days after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act and prior to the 
     initial obligation of any funds appropriated under this 
     heading, a report on the proposed uses of all funds under 
     this heading on a country-by-country basis for each 
     proposed program, project or activity: Provided further, 
     That at least 20 days prior to the obligation of funds 
     made available under this heading the Secretary of State 
     shall inform the Committees on Appropriations: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That 
     the entire amount provided shall be available only to the 
     extent an official budget request that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

       Sec. 3201. Conditions on Assistance for Colombia. (a) 
     Conditions.--
       (1) Certification required.--Assistance provided under this 
     heading may be made available for Colombia in fiscal years 
     2000 and 2001 only if the Secretary of State certifies to the 
     appropriate congressional committees prior to the initial 
     obligation of such assistance in each such fiscal year, 
     that--
       (A)(i) the President of Colombia has directed in writing 
     that Colombian Armed Forces personnel who are credibly 
     alleged to have committed gross violations of human rights 
     will be brought to justice in Colombia's civilian courts, in 
     accordance with the 1997 ruling of Colombia's Constitutional 
     court regarding civilian court jurisdiction in human rights 
     cases; and
       (ii) the Commander General of the Colombian Armed Forces is 
     promptly suspending from duty any Colombian Armed Forces 
     personnel who are credibly alleged to have committed gross 
     violations of human rights or to have aided or abetted 
     paramilitary groups; and

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       (iii) the Colombian Armed Forces and its Commander General 
     are fully complying with (A)(i) and (ii); and
       (B) the Colombian Armed Forces are cooperating fully with 
     civilian authorities in investigating, prosecuting, and 
     punishing in the civilian courts Colombian Armed Forces 
     personnel who are credibly alleged to have committed gross 
     violations of human rights; and
       (C) the Government of Colombia is vigorously prosecuting in 
     the civilian courts the leaders and members of paramilitary 
     groups and Colombian Armed Forces personnel who are aiding or 
     abetting these groups.
       (D) the Government of Colombia has agreed to and is 
     implementing a strategy to eliminate Colombia's total coca 
     and opium poppy production by 2005 through a mix of 
     alternative development programs; manual eradication; aerial 
     spraying of chemical herbicides; tested, environmentally safe 
     mycoherbicides; and the destruction of illicit narcotics 
     laboratories on Colombian territory;
       (E) the Colombian Armed Forces are developing and deploying 
     in their field units a Judge Advocate General Corps to 
     investigate Colombian Armed Forces personnel for misconduct.
       (2) Consultative process.--The Secretary of State shall 
     consult with internationally recognized human rights 
     organizations regarding the Government of Colombia's progress 
     in meeting the conditions contained in paragraph (1), prior 
     to issuing the certification required under paragraph (1).
       (3) Application of existing laws.--The same restrictions 
     contained in section 564 of the Foreign Operations, Export 
     Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000 
     (Public Law 106-113) and section 8098 of the Department of 
     Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-79) shall 
     apply to the availability of funds under this heading.
       (4) Waiver.--Assistance may be furnished without regard to 
     this section if the President determines and certifies to the 
     appropriate Committees that to do so is in the national 
     security interest.
       (b) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Aiding or abetting.--The term ``aiding or abetting'' 
     means direct and indirect support to paramilitary groups, 
     including conspiracy to allow, facilitate, or promote the 
     activities of paramilitary groups.
       (2) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the Committee 
     on Appropriations and the Committee on Foreign Relations of 
     the Senate and the Committee on Appropriations and the 
     Committee on International Relations of the House of 
     Representatives.
       (3) Paramilitary groups.--The term ``paramilitary groups'' 
     means illegal self-defense groups and illegal security 
     cooperatives.
       (4) Assistance.--The term ``assistance'' means assistance 
     appropriated under this heading for fiscal years 2000 and 
     2001, and provided under the following provisions of law:
       (A) Section 1004 of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public Law 101-510; relating to 
     counter-drug assistance).
       (B) Section 1033 of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85; relating to counter-
     drug assistance to Colombia and Peru).
       (C) Section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act (Public Law 
     90-629); relating to credit sales.
       (D) Section 481 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
     (Public Law 87-195; relating to international narcotics 
     control).
       (E) Section 506 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
     (Public Law 87-195; relating to emergency drawdown 
     authority).
       Sec. 3202. Regional Strategy. (a) Report Required.--Not 
     later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, the President shall submit to the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, 
     the Committee on International Relations and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives, a report on 
     the current United States policy and strategy regarding 
     United States counternarcotics assistance for Colombia and 
     neighboring countries.
       (b) Report Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) 
     shall address the following:
       (1) The key objectives of the United States' 
     counternarcotics strategy in Colombia and neighboring 
     countries and a detailed description of benchmarks by which 
     to measure progress toward those objectives.
       (2) The actions required of the United States to support 
     and achieve these objectives, and a schedule and cost 
     estimates for implementing such actions.
       (3) The role of the United States in the efforts of the 
     Government of Colombia to deal with illegal drug production 
     in Colombia.
       (4) The role of the United States in the efforts of the 
     Government of Colombia to deal with the insurgency and 
     paramilitary forces in Colombia.
       (5) How the strategy with respect to Colombia relates to 
     and affects the United States' strategy in the neighboring 
     countries.
       (6) How the strategy with respect to Colombia relates to 
     and affects the United States' strategy for fulfilling global 
     counternarcotics goals.
       (7) A strategy and schedule for providing material, 
     technical, and logistical support to Colombia and neighboring 
     countries in order to defend the rule of law and to more 
     effectively impede the cultivation, production, transit, and 
     sale of illicit narcotics.
       (8) A schedule for making Forward Operating Locations (FOL) 
     fully operational, including cost estimates and a description 
     of the potential capabilities for each proposed location and 
     an explanation of how the FOL architecture fits into the 
     overall the Strategy.
       Sec. 3203. Report on Extradition of Narcotics Traffickers. 
     (a) Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment 
     of this title, and every 6 months thereafter, during the 
     period Plan Colombia resources are made available, the 
     Secretary of State shall submit to the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations, the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee 
     on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on 
     International Relations, the Committee on the Judiciary, and 
     the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives a report setting forth--
       (1) a list of the persons whose extradition has been 
     requested from any country receiving counter narcotics 
     assistance from the United States, indicating those persons 
     who--
       (A) have been surrendered to the custody of United States 
     authorities;
       (B) have been detained by the authorities and who are being 
     processed for extradition;
       (C) have been detained by the authorities and who are not 
     yet being processed for extradition; or
       (D) are at large;
       (2) a determination whether authorities of each country 
     receiving counternarcotics assistance from the United States 
     are making good faith efforts to ensure the prompt 
     extradition of each of the persons sought by United States 
     authorities; and
       (3) an analysis of--
       (A) any legal obstacles in the laws of each country 
     receiving counternarcotics assistance from the United States 
     regarding prompt extradition of persons sought by United 
     States authorities; and
       (B) the steps taken by authorities of the United States and 
     the authorities of each country receiving counternarcotics 
     assistance from the United States to overcome such obstacles.
       Sec. 3204. Limitations on Support for Plan Colombia and on 
     the Assignment of United States Personnel in Colombia. (a) 
     Limitation on Support for Plan Colombia.--
       (1) Limitation.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), none 
     of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by any 
     Act shall be available for support of Plan Colombia unless 
     and until--
       (A) the President submits a report to Congress requesting 
     the availability of such funds; and
       (B) Congress enacts a joint resolution approving the 
     request of the President under subparagraph (A).
       (2) Exceptions.--The limitation in paragraph (1) does not 
     apply to--
       (A) appropriations made by this Act, the Foreign 
     Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
     Appropriations Act, 2001, the Military Construction 
     Appropriations Act, 2001, the Commerce, Justice, State and 
     the Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2001, the Treasury and 
     General Government Appropriations Act, 2001, or the 
     Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2001, for the 
     purpose of support of Plan Colombia; or
       (B) the unobligated balances from any other program used 
     for their originally appropriated purpose to combat drug 
     production and trafficking, foster peace, increase the rule 
     of law, improve human rights, expand economic development, 
     and institute justice reform in the countries covered by Plan 
     Colombia.
       (3) Waiver.--The limitations in subsection (a) may be 
     waived by an Act of Congress.
       (b) Limitation on Assignment of United States Personnel in 
     Colombia.--
       (1) Limitation.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), none 
     of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this 
     or any other Act (including funds described in subsection 
     (c)) may be available for--
       (A) the assignment of any United States military personnel 
     for temporary or permanent duty in Colombia in connection 
     with support of Plan Colombia if that assignment would cause 
     the number of United States military personnel so assigned in 
     Colombia to exceed 500; or
       (B) the employment of any United States individual civilian 
     retained as a contractor in Colombia if that employment would 
     cause the total number of United States individual civilian 
     contractors employed in Colombia in support of Plan Colombia 
     who are funded by Federal funds to exceed 300.
       (2) Exception.--The limitation contained in paragraph (1) 
     shall not apply if--
       (A) the President submits a report to Congress requesting 
     that the limitation not apply; and
       (B) Congress enacts a joint resolution approving the 
     request of the President under subparagraph (A).
       (c) Waiver.--The President may waive the limitation in 
     subsection (b)(1) for a single period of up to 90 days in the 
     event that the Armed Forces of the United States are involved 
     in hostilities or that imminent involvement by the Armed 
     Forces of the United States in hostilities is clearly 
     indicated by the circumstances.
       (d) Statutory Construction.--Nothing in this section may be 
     construed to affect the authority of the President to carry 
     out any emergency evacuation of United States citizens or any 
     search or rescue operation for United States military 
     personnel or other United States citizens.
       (e) Report on Support for Plan Colombia.--Not later than 
     June 1, 2001, and not later than June 1 and December 1 of 
     each of the succeeding four fiscal years, the President shall 
     submit a report to Congress setting forth any costs 
     (including incremental costs incurred by the Department of 
     Defense) incurred by any department, agency, or other entity 
     of the Executive branch of Government during the two previous 
     fiscal quarters in support of Plan Colombia. Each such report 
     shall provide an itemization of expenditures by each such 
     department, agency, or entity.
       (f) Bimonthly Reports.--Beginning within 90 days of the 
     date of the enactment of this joint resolution, and every 60 
     days thereafter, the President shall submit a report to 
     Congress that shall include the aggregate number, locations, 
     activities, and lengths of assignment for all temporary and 
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     personnel and United States individual civilians retained as 
     contractors involved in the antinarcotics campaign in 
     Colombia.
       (g) Congressional Priority Procedures.--
       (1) Joint resolutions defined.--
       (A) For purposes of subsection (a)(1)(B), the term ``joint 
     resolution'' means only a joint resolution introduced not 
     later than 10 days of the date on which the report of the 
     President under subsection (a)(1)(A) is received by Congress, 
     the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: 
     ``That Congress approves the request of the President for 
     additional funds for Plan Colombia contained in the report 
     submitted by the President under section 3204(a)(1) of the 
     2000 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act.''.
       (B) For purposes of subsection (b)(2)(B), the term ``joint 
     resolution'' means only a joint resolution introduced not 
     later than 10 days of the date on which the report of the 
     President under subsection (a)(1)(A) is received by Congress, 
     the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: 
     ``That Congress approves the request of the President for 
     exemption from the limitation applicable to the assignment of 
     personnel in Colombia contained in the report submitted by 
     the President under section 3204(b)(2)(B) of the 2000 
     Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act.''.
       (2) Procedures.--Except as provided in subparagraph (B), a 
     joint resolution described in paragraph (1)(A) or (1)(B) 
     shall be considered in a House of Congress in accordance with 
     the procedures applicable to joint resolutions under 
     paragraphs (3) through (8) of section 8066(c) of the 
     Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1985 (as contained 
     in Public Law 98-473; 98 Stat. 1936).
       (h) Plan Colombia Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``Plan Colombia'' means the plan of the Government of 
     Colombia instituted by the administration of President 
     Pastrana to combat drug production and trafficking, foster 
     peace, increase the rule of law, improve human rights, expand 
     economic development, and institute justice reform.
       Sec. 3205. (a) Denial of Visas for Persons Credibly Alleged 
     To Have Aided and Abetted Colombian Insurgent and 
     Paramilitary Groups.--None of the funds appropriated or 
     otherwise made available in this Act for any fiscal year for 
     the Department of State may be used to issue visas to any 
     person who has been credibly alleged to have provided direct 
     or indirect support to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of 
     Colombia (FARC), the National Liberation Army (ELN), or the 
     United Colombian Self Defense organization (AUC), including 
     conspiracy to allow, facilitate, or promote the illegal 
     activities of such groups.
       (b) Exemption.--Subsection (a) shall not apply if the 
     Secretary of State finds, on a case-by-case basis, that the 
     entry into the United States of a person who would otherwise 
     be excluded under this section is necessary for medical 
     reasons, or to permit the prosecution of such person in the 
     United States, or the person has cooperated fully with the 
     investigation of crimes committed by individuals associated 
     with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the 
     National Liberation Army (ELN), or the United Colombian Self 
     Defense organization (AUC).
       (c) Waiver.--The President may waive the limitation in 
     subsection (a) if the President determines that the waiver is 
     in the national interest.
       Sec. 3206. Limitation on Supplemental Funds for Population 
     Planning.--Amounts appropriated under this division or under 
     any other provision of law for fiscal year 2000 that are in 
     addition to the funds made available under title II of the 
     Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
     Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by section 
     1000(a)(2) of Public Law 106-113) shall be deemed to have 
     been appropriated under title II of such Act and shall be 
     subject to all limitations and restrictions contained in 
     section 599D of such Act, notwithstanding section 543 of such 
     Act.
       Sec. 3207. Declaration of Support. (a) Certification 
     Required.--Assistance may be made available for Colombia in 
     fiscal years 2000 and 2001 only if the Secretary of State 
     certifies to the appropriate congressional committees, before 
     the initial obligation of such assistance in each such fiscal 
     year, that the United States Government publicly supports the 
     military and political efforts of the Government of Colombia, 
     consistent with human rights conditions in section 3101, 
     necessary to effectively resolve the conflicts with the 
     guerrillas and paramilitaries that threaten the territorial 
     integrity, economic prosperity, and rule of law in Colombia.
       (b) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term 
     ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means the following:
       (A) The Committees on Appropriations and Foreign Relations 
     of the Senate.
       (B) The Committees on Appropriations and International 
     Relations of the House of Representatives.
       (2) Assistance.--The term ``assistance'' means assistance 
     appropriated under this heading for fiscal years 2000 and 
     2001, and provided under the following provisions of law:
       (A) Section 1004 of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public Law 101-510; relating to 
     counter-drug assistance).
       (B) Section 1033 of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85; relating to counter-
     drug assistance to Colombia and Peru).
       (C) Section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act (Public Law 
     90-629; relating to credit sales).
       (D) Section 481 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
     (Public Law 87-195; relating to international narcotics 
     control).
       (E) Section 506 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
     (Public Law 87-195; relating to emergency drawdown 
     authority).

                               CHAPTER 3

                  MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, DEFENSE-WIDE

       Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for an 
     additional amount for ``Military Construction, Defense-
     Wide'', $116,523,000, to remain available until September 30, 
     2004: Provided, That such amount is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the 
     entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an 
     official budget request for $116,523,000, that includes 
     designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
     emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress.
              TITLE IV--LEWIS AND CLARK RURAL WATER SYSTEM

     SEC. 4101. SHORT TITLE.

       This title may be cited as the ``Lewis and Clark Rural 
     Water System Act of 2000''.

     SEC. 4102. DEFINITIONS.

       In this title:
       (1) Feasibility study.--The term ``feasibility study'' 
     means the study entitled ``Feasibility Level Evaluation of a 
     Missouri River Regional Water Supply for South Dakota, Iowa 
     and Minnesota'', dated September 1993, that includes a water 
     conservation plan, environmental report, and environmental 
     enhancement component.
       (2) Incremental cost.--The term ``incremental cost'' means 
     the cost of the savings to the project were the City of Sioux 
     Falls not to participate in the water supply system.
       (3) Member entity.--The term ``member entity'' means a 
     rural water system or municipality that meets the 
     requirements for membership as defined by the Lewis and Clark 
     Rural Water System, Inc. bylaws, dated September 6, 1990.
       (4) Project construction budget.--The term ``project 
     construction budget'' means the description of the total 
     amount of funds needed for the construction of the water 
     supply project, as contained in the feasibility study.
       (5) Pumping and incidental operational requirements.--The 
     term ``pumping and incidental operational requirements'' 
     means all power requirements that are necessary for the 
     operation of intake facilities, pumping stations, water 
     treatment facilities, reservoirs, and pipelines up to the 
     point of delivery of water by the water supply system to each 
     member entity that distributes water at retail to individual 
     users.
       (6) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
     of the Interior.
       (7) Water supply project.--
       (A) In general.--The term ``water supply project'' means 
     the physical components of the Lewis and Clark Rural Water 
     Project.
       (B) Inclusions.--The term ``water supply project'' 
     includes--
       (i) necessary pumping, treatment, and distribution 
     facilities;
       (ii) pipelines;
       (iii) appurtenant buildings and property rights;
       (iv) electrical power transmission and distribution 
     facilities necessary for services to water systems 
     facilities; and
       (v) such other pipelines, pumping plants, and facilities as 
     the Secretary considers necessary and appropriate to meet the 
     water supply, economic, public health, and environment needs 
     of the member entities (including water storage tanks, water 
     lines, and other facilities for the member entities).
       (8) Water supply system.--The term ``water supply system'' 
     means the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System, Inc., a 
     nonprofit corporation established and operated substantially 
     in accordance with the feasibility study.

     SEC. 4103. FEDERAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary shall make grants to the 
     water supply system for the planning and construction of the 
     water supply project.
       (b) Service Area.--The water supply system shall provide 
     for the member entities safe and adequate municipal, rural, 
     and industrial water supplies, mitigation of wetland areas, 
     and water conservation in--
       (1) Lake County, McCook County, Minnehaha County, Turner 
     County, Lincoln County, Clay County, and Union County, in 
     southeastern South Dakota;
       (2) Rock County and Nobles County, in southwestern 
     Minnesota; and
       (3) Lyon County, Sioux County, Osceola County, O'Brien 
     County, Dickinson County, and Clay County, in northwestern 
     Iowa.
       (c) Amount of Grants.--Grants made available under 
     subsection (a) to the water supply system shall not exceed 
     the amount of funds authorized under section 4108.
       (d) Limitation on Availability of Construction Funds.--The 
     Secretary shall not obligate funds for the construction of 
     the water supply project until--
       (1) the requirements of the National Environmental Policy 
     Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) are met; and
       (2) a final engineering report and a plan for a water 
     conservation program are prepared and submitted to the 
     Congress not less than 90 days before the commencement of 
     construction of the water supply project.

     SEC. 4104. MITIGATION OF FISH AND WILDLIFE LOSSES.

       Mitigation for fish and wildlife losses incurred as a 
     result of the construction and operation of the water supply 
     project shall be on an acre-for-acre basis, based on 
     ecological equivalency, concurrent with project construction, 
     as provided in the feasibility study.

     SEC. 4105. USE OF PICK-SLOAN POWER.

       (a) In General.--From power designated for future 
     irrigation and drainage pumping for the

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     Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program, the Western Area Power 
     Administration shall make available, at the firm power rate, 
     the capacity and energy required to meet the pumping and 
     incidental operational requirements of the water supply 
     project during the period beginning on May 1 and ending on 
     October 31 of each year.
       (b) Qualification To Use Pick-Sloan Power.--For operation 
     during the period beginning May 1 and ending October 31 of 
     each year, for as long as the water supply system operates on 
     a not-for-profit basis, the portions of the water supply 
     project constructed with assistance under this title shall be 
     eligible to receive firm power from the Pick-Sloan Missouri 
     Basin program established by section 9 of the Act of December 
     22, 1944 (chapter 665; 58 Stat. 887), popularly known as the 
     Flood Control Act of 1944.

     SEC. 4106. NO LIMITATION ON WATER PROJECTS IN STATES.

       This title does not limit the authorization for water 
     projects in the States of South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota 
     under law in effect on or after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act.

     SEC. 4107. WATER RIGHTS.

       Nothing in this title--
       (1) invalidates or preempts State water law or an 
     interstate compact governing water;
       (2) alters the rights of any State to any appropriated 
     share of the waters of any body of surface or ground water, 
     whether determined by past or future interstate compacts or 
     by past or future legislative or final judicial allocations;
       (3) preempts or modifies any Federal or State law, or 
     interstate compact, governing water quality or disposal; or
       (4) confers on any non-Federal entity the ability to 
     exercise any Federal right to the waters of any stream or to 
     any ground water resource.

     SEC. 4108. COST SHARING.

       (a) Federal Cost Share.--
       (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
     Secretary shall provide funds equal to 80 percent of--
       (A) the amount allocated in the total project construction 
     budget for planning and construction of the water supply 
     project under section 4103; and
       (B) such amounts as are necessary to defray increases in 
     development costs reflected in appropriate engineering cost 
     indices after September 1, 1993.
       (2) Sioux falls.--The Secretary shall provide funds for the 
     City of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in an amount equal to 50 
     percent of the incremental cost to the city of participation 
     in the project.
       (b) Non-Federal Cost Share.--
       (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
     non-Federal share of the costs allocated to the water supply 
     system shall be 20 percent of the amounts described in 
     subsection (a)(1).
       (2) Sioux falls.--The non-Federal cost-share for the City 
     of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, shall be 50 percent of the 
     incremental cost to the city of participation in the project.

     SEC. 4109. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION.

       (a) Authorization.--At the request of the water supply 
     system, the Secretary may allow the Commissioner of 
     Reclamation to provide project construction oversight to the 
     water supply project for the service area of the water supply 
     system described in section 4103(b).
       (b) Project Oversight Administration.--The amount of funds 
     used by the Commissioner of Reclamation for oversight 
     described in subsection (a) shall not exceed the amount that 
     is equal to 1 percent of the amount provided in the total 
     project construction budget for the entire project 
     construction period.

     SEC. 4110. PROJECT OWNERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY.

       The water supply system shall retain title to all project 
     facilities during and after construction, and shall be 
     responsible for all operation, maintenance, repair, and 
     rehabilitation costs of the project.

     SEC. 4111. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this 
     title $213,887,700, to remain available until expended.

               TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS THIS DIVISION

       Sec. 5101. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     division shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
     current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
       Sec. 5102. Sections 305 and 306 of H.R. 3425 of the 106th 
     Congress, as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(5) of Public 
     Law 106-113, are hereby repealed.


               repeal of unobligated balance restrictions

       Sec. 5103. The final proviso under the heading ``Foreign 
     Military Financing Program'' in title VI of the Foreign 
     Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs as enacted 
     into law by section 1000(a)(2) of division B of Public Law 
     106-113 (113 Stat. 1501A-133), is null and void.
       Sec. 5104. Section 216 of the Departments of Labor, Health 
     and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by section 
     1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106-113) is repealed.
       Sec. 5105. Section 5527 of Public Law 105-33, The Balanced 
     Budget Act of 1997, is repealed.
       Sec. 5106. Section 9305 of Public Law 105-33 (111 Stat. 
     677) is repealed.
       Sec. 5107. Notwithstanding section 251(a) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, there shall 
     be no sequestration under that section to eliminate a fiscal 
     year 2000 breach or no reductions in discretionary spending 
     limits for fiscal year 2001 that might be caused by the 
     appropriations or other provisions in this Act.
       Sec. 5108. (a) The enactment of this Act shall be deemed to 
     fulfill the requirements for enactment of a law for purposes 
     of section 206(b) of H. Con. Res. 290 (106th Congress).
       (b) Section 312(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
     shall not apply in the Senate with respect to fiscal year 
     2001.
       Sec. 5109. Section 207 of H. Con. Res. 290 (106th Congress) 
     is amended as follows:
       (a) by reducing the limit on outlays set forth in 
     subsection (a)(1) by $2,000,000,000; and
       (b) by increasing the limit on outlays set forth in 
     subsection (a)(2) by $2,000,000,000.
       This division may be cited as the ``Emergency Supplemental 
     Act, 2000''.

                               DIVISION C

                           CERRO GRANDE FIRE

       The following sums are appropriated, out of any money in 
     the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year 
     ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes, namely:
               TITLE I--CERRO GRANDE FIRE ASSISTANCE ACT

     SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE.

       This title may be cited as the ``Cerro Grande Fire 
     Assistance Act''.

     SEC. 102. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
       (1) on May 4, 2000, the National Park Service initiated a 
     prescribed burn on Federal land at Bandelier National 
     Monument in New Mexico during the peak of the fire season in 
     the Southwest;
       (2) on May 5, 2000, the prescribed burn, which became known 
     as the ``Cerro Grande Prescribed Fire'', exceeded the 
     containment capabilities of the National Park Service, was 
     reclassified as a wildland burn, and spread to other Federal 
     and non-Federal land, quickly becoming characterized as a 
     wildfire;
       (3) by May 7, 2000, the fire had grown in size and caused 
     evacuations in and around Los Alamos, New Mexico, including 
     the Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the leading 
     national research laboratories in the United States and the 
     birthplace of the atomic bomb;
       (4) on May 13, 2000, the President issued a major disaster 
     declaration for the counties of Bernalillo, Cibola, Los 
     Alamos, McKinley, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan, San 
     Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos, and Torrance, New Mexico;
       (5) the fire resulted in the loss of Federal, State, local, 
     tribal, and private property;
       (6) the Secretary of the Interior and the National Park 
     Service have assumed responsibility for the fire and 
     subsequent losses of property; and
       (7) the United States should compensate the victims of the 
     Cerro Grande fire.
       (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this title are--
       (1) to compensate victims of the fire at Cerro Grande, New 
     Mexico, for injuries resulting from the fire; and
       (2) to provide for the expeditious consideration and 
     settlement of claims for those injuries.

     SEC. 103. DEFINITIONS.

       In this title:
       (1) Cerro grande fire.--The term ``Cerro Grande fire'' 
     means the fire resulting from the initiation by the National 
     Park Service of a prescribed burn at Bandelier National 
     Monument, New Mexico, on May 4, 2000.
       (2) Director.--The term ``Director'' means--
       (A) the Director of the Federal Emergency Management 
     Agency; or
       (B) if a Manager is appointed under section 104(a)(3), the 
     Manager.
       (3) Injured person.--The term ``injured person'' means--
       (A) an individual, regardless of the citizenship or alien 
     status of the individual; or
       (B) an Indian tribe, corporation, tribal corporation, 
     partnership, company, association, insurer, county, township, 
     city, State, school district, or other non-Federal entity 
     (including a legal representative);

     that suffered injury resulting from the Cerro Grande fire.
       (4) Injury.--The term ``injury'' has the same meaning as 
     the term ``injury or loss of property, or personal injury or 
     death'' as used in section 1346(b)(1) of title 28, United 
     States Code.
       (5) Manager.--The term ``Manager'' means an Independent 
     Claims Manager appointed under section 104(a)(3).
       (6) Office.--The term ``Office'' means the Office of Cerro 
     Grande Fire Claims established by section 104(a)(2).

     SEC. 104. COMPENSATION FOR VICTIMS OF CERRO GRANDE FIRE.

       (a) In General.--
       (1) Compensation.--Each injured person shall be entitled to 
     receive from the United States--
       (A) compensation for injury suffered by the injured person 
     as a result of the Cerro Grande fire; and
       (B) damages described in subsection (d)(4), as determined 
     by the Director.
       (2) Office of cerro grande fire claims.--
       (A) In general.--There is established within the Federal 
     Emergency Management Agency an Office of Cerro Grande Fire 
     Claims.
       (B) Purpose.--The Office shall receive, process, and pay 
     claims in accordance with this title.
       (C) Funding.--The Office--
       (i) shall be funded from funds made available to the 
     Director under this title;
       (ii) may reimburse other Federal agencies for claims 
     processing support and assistance;
       (iii) may appoint and fix the compensation of such 
     temporary personnel as may be necessary, without regard to 
     the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing 
     appointments in competitive service;
       (iv) upon the request of the Director, the head of any 
     Federal department or agency may detail, on a reimbursable 
     basis, any of the personnel of that department or agency to 
     the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist it in 
     carrying out its duties under this title; and
       (v) shall not diminish the ability of the Director to carry 
     out the responsibilities of the Federal Emergency Management 
     Agency under the

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     Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
     Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), including the timely provision 
     of disaster assistance to a State or territory, an area of 
     which is the subject of a major disaster or emergency 
     declaration made by the President during the period in which 
     the Director carries out this Act.
       (3) Option to appoint independent claims manager.--The 
     Director may appoint an Independent Claims Manager to--
       (A) head the Office; and
       (B) assume the duties of the Director under this title.
       (b) Submission of Claims.--Not later than 2 years after the 
     date on which regulations are first promulgated under 
     subsection (f), an injured person may submit to the Director 
     a written claim for one or more injuries suffered by the 
     injured person in accordance with such requirements as the 
     Director determines to be appropriate.
       (c) Investigation of Claims.--
       (1) In general.--The Director shall, on behalf of the 
     United States, investigate, consider, ascertain, adjust, 
     determine, grant, deny, or settle any claim for money damages 
     asserted under subsection (b).
       (2) Applicability of state law.--Except as otherwise 
     provided in this title, the laws of the State of New Mexico 
     shall apply to the calculation of damages under subsection 
     (d)(4).
       (3) Extent of damages.--Any payment under this title--
       (A) shall be limited to actual compensatory damages 
     measured by injuries suffered; and
       (B) shall not include--
       (i) interest before settlement or payment of a claim; or
       (ii) punitive damages.
       (d) Payment of Claims.--
       (1) Determination and payment of amount.--
       (A) In general.--
       (i) Payment.--Not later than 180 days after the date on 
     which a claim is submitted under this title, the Director 
     shall determine and fix the amount, if any, to be paid for 
     the claim.
       (ii) Priority.--The Director, to the maximum extent 
     practicable, shall pay subrogation claims submitted under 
     this title only after paying claims submitted by injured 
     parties that are not insurance companies seeking payment as 
     subrogees.
       (B) Parameters of determination.--In determining and 
     settling a claim under this title, the Director shall 
     determine only--
       (i) whether the claimant is an injured person;
       (ii) whether the injury that is the subject of the claim 
     resulted from the fire;
       (iii) the amount, if any, to be allowed and paid under this 
     title; and
       (iv) the person or persons entitled to receive the amount.
       (C) Insurance and other benefits.--
       (i) In general.--In determining the amount of, and paying, 
     a claim under this title, to prevent recovery by a claimant 
     in excess of actual compensatory damages, the Director shall 
     reduce the amount to be paid for the claim by an amount that 
     is equal to the total of insurance benefits (excluding life 
     insurance benefits) or other payments or settlements of any 
     nature that were paid, or will be paid, with respect to the 
     claim.
       (ii) Government loans.--This subparagraph shall not apply 
     to the receipt by a claimant of any government loan that is 
     required to be repaid by the claimant.
       (2) Partial payment.--
       (A) In general.--At the request of a claimant, the Director 
     may make one or more advance or partial payments before the 
     final settlement of a claim, including final settlement on 
     any portion or aspect of a claim that is determined to be 
     severable.
       (B) Judicial decision.--If a claimant receives a partial 
     payment on a claim under this title, but further payment on 
     the claim is subsequently denied by the Director, the 
     claimant may--
       (i) seek judicial review under subsection (i); and
       (ii) keep any partial payment that the claimant received, 
     unless the Director determines that the claimant--

       (I) was not eligible to receive the compensation; or
       (II) fraudulently procured the compensation.

       (3) Rights of insurer or other third party.--If an insurer 
     or other third party pays any amount to a claimant to 
     compensate for an injury described in subsection (a), the 
     insurer or other third party shall be subrogated to any right 
     that the claimant has to receive any payment under this title 
     or any other law.
       (4) Allowable damages.--
       (A) Loss of property.--A claim that is paid for loss of 
     property under this title may include otherwise uncompensated 
     damages resulting from the Cerro Grande fire for--
       (i) an uninsured or underinsured property loss;
       (ii) a decrease in the value of real property;
       (iii) damage to physical infrastructure;
       (iv) a cost resulting from lost tribal subsistence from 
     hunting, fishing, firewood gathering, timbering, grazing, or 
     agricultural activities conducted on land damaged by the 
     Cerro Grande fire;
       (v) a cost of reforestation or revegetation on tribal or 
     non-Federal land, to the extent that the cost of 
     reforestation or revegetation is not covered by any other 
     Federal program; and
       (vi) any other loss that the Director determines to be 
     appropriate for inclusion as loss of property.
       (B) Business loss.--A claim that is paid for injury under 
     this title may include damages resulting from the Cerro 
     Grande fire for the following types of otherwise 
     uncompensated business loss:
       (i) Damage to tangible assets or inventory.
       (ii) Business interruption losses.
       (iii) Overhead costs.
       (iv) Employee wages for work not performed.
       (v) Any other loss that the Director determines to be 
     appropriate for inclusion as business loss.
       (C) Financial loss.--A claim that is paid for injury under 
     this title may include damages resulting from the Cerro 
     Grande fire for the following types of otherwise 
     uncompensated financial loss:
       (i) Increased mortgage interest costs.
       (ii) An insurance deductible.
       (iii) A temporary living or relocation expense.
       (iv) Lost wages or personal income.
       (v) Emergency staffing expenses.
       (vi) Debris removal and other cleanup costs.
       (vii) Costs of reasonable efforts, as determined by the 
     Director, to reduce the risk of wildfire, flood, or other 
     natural disaster in the counties specified in section 
     102(a)(4), to risk levels prevailing in those counties before 
     the Cerro Grande fire, that are incurred not later than the 
     date that is 3 years after the date on which the regulations 
     under subsection (f) are first promulgated.
       (viii) A premium for flood insurance that is required to be 
     paid on or before May 12, 2002, if, as a result of the Cerro 
     Grande fire, a person that was not required to purchase flood 
     insurance before the Cerro Grande fire is required to 
     purchase flood insurance.
       (ix) Any other loss that the Director determines to be 
     appropriate for inclusion as financial loss.
       (e) Acceptance of Award.--The acceptance by a claimant of 
     any payment under this title, except an advance or partial 
     payment made under subsection (d)(2), shall--
       (1) be final and conclusive on the claimant (but not on any 
     subrogee of the claimant), with respect to all claims arising 
     out of or relating to the same subject matter;
       (2) constitute a complete release of all claims against the 
     United States (including any agency or employee of the United 
     States) under chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code 
     (commonly known as the ``Federal Tort Claims Act''), or any 
     other Federal or State law, arising out of or relating to the 
     same subject matter; and
       (3) shall include a certification by the claimant, made 
     under penalty of perjury and subject to the provisions of 
     section 1001 of title 18, United States Code, that such claim 
     is true and correct.
       (f) Regulations and Public Information.--
       (1) Regulations.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, not later than 45 days after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act, the Director shall promulgate and publish in the 
     Federal Register interim final regulations for the processing 
     and payment of claims under this title.
       (2) Public information.--
       (A) In general.--At the time at which the Director 
     promulgates regulations under paragraph (1), the Director 
     shall publish, in newspapers of general circulation in the 
     State of New Mexico, a clear, concise, and easily 
     understandable explanation, in English and Spanish, of--
       (i) the rights conferred under this title; and
       (ii) the procedural and other requirements of the 
     regulations promulgated under paragraph (1).
       (B) Dissemination through other media.--The Director shall 
     disseminate the explanation published under subparagraph (A) 
     through brochures, pamphlets, radio, television, and other 
     media that the Director determines are likely to reach 
     prospective claimants.
       (g) Consultation.--In administering this title, the 
     Director shall consult with the Secretary of the Interior, 
     the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Agriculture, the 
     Administrator of the Small Business Administration, other 
     Federal agencies, and State, local, and tribal authorities, 
     as determined to be necessary by the Director to--
       (1) ensure the efficient administration of the claims 
     process; and
       (2) provide for local concerns.
       (h) Election of Remedy.--
       (1) In general.--An injured person may elect to seek 
     compensation from the United States for one or more injuries 
     resulting from the Cerro Grande fire by--
       (A) submitting a claim under this title;
       (B) filing a claim or bringing a civil action under chapter 
     171 of title 28, United States Code; or
       (C) bringing an authorized civil action under any other 
     provision of law.
       (2) Effect of election.--An election by an injured person 
     to seek compensation in any manner described in paragraph (1) 
     shall be final and conclusive on the claimant with respect to 
     all injuries resulting from the Cerro Grande fire that are 
     suffered by the claimant.
       (3) Arbitration.--
       (A) In general.--Not later than 45 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Director shall establish by 
     regulation procedures under which a dispute regarding a claim 
     submitted under this title may be settled by arbitration.
       (B) Arbitration as remedy.--On establishment of arbitration 
     procedures under subparagraph (A), an injured person that 
     submits a disputed claim under this title may elect to settle 
     the claim through arbitration.
       (C) Binding effect.--An election by an injured person to 
     settle a claim through arbitration under this paragraph 
     shall--
       (i) be binding; and
       (ii) preclude any exercise by the injured person of the 
     right to judicial review of a claim described in subsection 
     (i).
       (4) No effect on entitlements.--Nothing in this title 
     affects any right of a claimant to file a claim for benefits 
     under any Federal entitlement program.
       (i) Judicial Review.--
       (1) In general.--Any claimant aggrieved by a final decision 
     of the Director under this title

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     may, not later than 60 days after the date on which the 
     decision is issued, bring a civil action in the United States 
     District Court for the District of New Mexico, to modify or 
     set aside the decision, in whole or in part.
       (2) Record.--The court shall hear a civil action under 
     paragraph (1) on the record made before the Director.
       (3) Standard.--The decision of the Director incorporating 
     the findings of the Director shall be upheld if the decision 
     is supported by substantial evidence on the record considered 
     as a whole.
       (j) Attorney's and Agent's Fees.--
       (1) In general.--No attorney or agent, acting alone or in 
     combination with any other attorney or agent, shall charge, 
     demand, receive, or collect, for services rendered in 
     connection with a claim submitted under this title, fees in 
     excess of 10 percent of the amount of any payment on the 
     claim.
       (2) Violation.--An attorney or agent who violates paragraph 
     (1) shall be fined not more than $10,000.
       (k) Waiver of Requirement For Matching Funds.--
       (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, a State or local project that is determined by the 
     Director to be carried out in response to the Cerro Grande 
     fire under any Federal program that applies to an area 
     affected by the Cerro Grande fire shall not be subject to any 
     requirement for State or local matching funds to pay the cost 
     of the project under the Federal program.
       (2) Federal share.--The Federal share of the costs of a 
     project described in paragraph (1) shall be 100 percent.
       (l) Applicability of Debt Collection Requirements.--Section 
     3716 of title 31, United States Code, shall not apply to any 
     payment under this title.
       (m) Indian Compensation.--Notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, in the case of an Indian tribe, a tribal 
     entity, or a member of an Indian tribe that submits a claim 
     under this title--
       (1) the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall have no authority 
     over, or any trust obligation regarding, any aspect of the 
     submission of, or any payment received for, the claim;
       (2) the Indian tribe, tribal entity, or member of an Indian 
     tribe shall be entitled to proceed under this title in the 
     same manner and to the same extent as any other injured 
     person; and
       (3) except with respect to land damaged by the Cerro Grande 
     fire that is the subject of the claim, the Bureau of Indian 
     Affairs shall have no responsibility to restore land damaged 
     by the Cerro Grande fire.
       (n) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
     promulgation of regulations under subsection (f)(1), and 
     annually thereafter, the Director shall submit to Congress a 
     report that describes the claims submitted under this title 
     during the year preceding the date of submission of the 
     report, including, for each claim--
       (1) the amount claimed;
       (2) a brief description of the nature of the claim;
       (3) the status or disposition of the claim, including the 
     amount of any payment under this title; and
       (4) the Comptroller General shall conduct an annual audit 
     on the payment of all claims made under this title and shall 
     report to the Congress on the results of this audit beginning 
     not later than the expiration of the 1-year period beginning 
     on the date of the enactment of this Act. This report shall 
     include a review of all subrogation claims for which 
     insurance companies have been paid or are seeking payment as 
     subrogees under this title.
       (o) Authorization of Appropriations.--
       (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are 
     necessary to carry out this Act, to remain available until 
     expended.
       (2) FEMA funds.--None of the funds provided to the Federal 
     Emergency Management Agency for the administration of 
     disaster relief shall be used to carry out this Act.

     SEC. 105. APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS.

       (a) Cerro Grande Fire Assistance Claims Office.--
       (1) In general.--There is appropriated for the Office for 
     administration of the compensation process under this title 
     up to $45,000,000, to remain available until expended.
       (2) Emergency requirement.--The entire amount made 
     available under subparagraph (A)--
       (A) shall be available only to the extent that the 
     President submits to Congress an official budget request for 
     up to $45,000,000 that includes designation of the entire 
     amount of the request as an emergency requirement for the 
     purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
     Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.); and
       (B) is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement 
     under section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 
     901(b)(2)(A)).
       (b) Cerro Grande Fire Assistance.--
       (1) In general.--There is appropriated for the payment of 
     claims in accordance with this title up to $455,000,000, to 
     remain available until expended.
       (2) Emergency requirement.--The entire amount made 
     available under subparagraph (A)--
       (A) shall be available only to the extent that the 
     President submits to Congress an official budget request for 
     up to $455,000,000 that includes designation of the entire 
     amount of the request as an emergency requirement for the 
     purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
     Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.); and
       (B) is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement 
     under section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 
     901(b)(2)(A)).

     SEC. 106. PERIOD OF EFFECTIVENESS.

       This title shall apply on and after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, without regard to any fiscal year.

   TITLE II--CERRO GRANDE FIRE EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                          Farm Service Agency


                     emergency conservation program

       For an additional amount for ``Emergency Conservation 
     Program'', $10,000,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
     other provision of law, these funds shall be available to 
     rehabilitate farmland damaged from fires which resulted from 
     prescribed burnings conducted by the Federal Government which 
     subsequently resulted in unintended damage to farmlands 
     and other lands: Provided further, That requirements for 
     cost-sharing by landowners shall not apply to funds 
     provided pursuant to this section: Provided further, That 
     the entire amount shall be available only to the extent 
     that an official budget request for $10,000,000, that 
     includes designation of the entire amount of the request 
     as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by 
     the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
     section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

                 Natural Resources Conservation Service


               WATERSHED AND FLOOD PREVENTION OPERATIONS

       For an additional amount for ``Watershed and Flood 
     Prevention Operations'', for the Emergency Watershed 
     Protection Program, to repair damages to the waterways and 
     watersheds resulting from fires which resulted from 
     prescribed burnings conducted by the Federal Government, and 
     other natural occurrences, $4,000,000, to remain available 
     until expended: Provided, That requirements for cost-sharing 
     by project sponsors shall not apply to funds provided under 
     this provision: Provided further, That the entire amount 
     shall be available only to the extent an official budget 
     request for $4,000,000, that includes designation of the 
     entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
     defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
     Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to 
     the Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

                    ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE ACTIVITIES


                      Cerro Grande Fire Activities

       For necessary expenses to remediate damaged Department of 
     Energy facilities and for other expenses associated with the 
     Cerro Grande fire, $138,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended: Provided, That the entire amount shall be available 
     only to the extent an official budget request for 
     $138,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount 
     of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs


                      Operation of Indian Programs

       For an additional amount for ``Operation of Indian 
     Programs'', $8,982,000, to remain available until expended, 
     for emergency restoration, rehabilitation, and reforestation 
     of tribal lands and facilities of the Pueblo of Santa Clara 
     and the Pueblo of San Ildefonso damaged by the Cerro Grande 
     Fire in New Mexico: Provided, That the entire amount shall be 
     available only to the extent an official budget request for 
     $8,982,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of 
     the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: 
     Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

                     GENERAL PROVISION--THIS TITLE

       Sec. 2101. The Secretary of the Interior shall allow 
     enrolled members of the Pueblo of San Ildefonso and the 
     Pueblo of Santa Clara to collect plants, including the parts 
     or products thereof, and mineral resources within the 
     Bandelier National Monument for traditional and cultural 
     uses. All collection activity, except quantity limitations in 
     current regulations of the National Park Service, shall be 
     consistent with applicable laws, and shall be subject to such 
     conditions as the Secretary deems necessary to protect the 
     resources and values of the Monument.
       This division may be cited as the ``Cerro Grande Fire 
     Supplemental''.
       And the Senate agree to the same.
     For the consideration of the House bill and Division A of the 
     Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference:
     David L. Hobson,
     John Edward Porter,
     Todd Tiahrt,
     James T. Walsh,
     Dan Miller,
     Robert B. Aderholt,
     Kay Granger,
     Virgil Goode, Jr.,
     C.W. Bill Young,
     John W. Olver,
     Chet Edwards,

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     Sam Farr,
     Allen Boyd,
     Norman D. Dicks,
     David Obey,
     For the consideration of Division B of the Senate amendment 
     and modifications committed to conference:
     C.W. Bill Young,
     Ralph Regula,
     Jerry Lewis,
     Harold Rogers,
     Joe Skeen,
     Sonny Callahan,
     David Obey,
     John Murtha,
                                Managers on the Part of the House.

     Conrad Burns,
     Kay Bailey Hutchison,
     Larry Craig,
     Jon Kyl,
     Ted Stevens,
     Patty Murray,
     Harry Reid,
     Daniel K. Inouye,
     Robert C. Byrd,
                               Managers on the Part of the Senate.

       JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE

       The managers on the part of the House and the Senate at the 
     conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the 
     amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 4425) making 
     appropriations for military construction, family housing, and 
     base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense 
     for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other 
     purposes, submit the following joint statement to the House 
     and the Senate in explanation of the effects of the action 
     agreed upon by the managers and recommended in the 
     accompanying conference report.
       This conference report includes fiscal year 2000 
     supplemental appropriations, as included in the Senate 
     amendment, in addition to military construction 
     appropriations for fiscal year 2001. The conference report is 
     organized with Division A containing fiscal year 2001 
     military construction appropriations, Division B containing 
     fiscal year 2000 supplemental appropriations, and Division C 
     containing fiscal year 2000 supplemental appropriations and 
     authorization for Cerro Grande Fire recovery activities 
     necessitated by this devastating fire that occurred recently 
     near Los Alamos, New Mexico.
       This conference agreement addresses some activities that 
     were not technically in conference. The House had passed H.R. 
     3908 that included its version of supplemental 
     appropriations. The Senate reported S. 2536, which included 
     several other supplemental appropriations in addition to the 
     ones included in the amendment to this bill. The Senate also 
     has taken action on S. 2522, which includes additional 
     supplemental appropriations. The conferees have attempted to 
     address many of the fiscal year 2000 supplemental 
     appropriations in this conference.

   DIVISION A--FISCAL YEAR 2001 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

                       Items of General Interest

       Matters Addressed by Only One Committee.--The language and 
     allocations set forth in House Report 106-614 and Senate 
     Report 106-290 should be complied with unless specifically 
     addressed to the contrary in the conference report and 
     statement of the managers. Report language included by the 
     House which is not changed by the report of the Senate or the 
     conference, and Senate report language which is not changed 
     by the conference is approved by the committee of conference. 
     The statement of the managers, while repeating some report 
     language for emphasis, does not intend to negate the language 
     referred to above unless expressly provided herein. In cases 
     in which the House or the Senate has directed the submission 
     of a report from the Department of Defense, such report is to 
     be submitted to both House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations.
       Contingency Funding.--The Department of Defense requested 
     no contingency funding for military construction and family 
     housing projects in the fiscal year 2001 budget request. The 
     conferees believe that some level of contingency funding is 
     essential for the efficient and cost-effective completion of 
     these projects. If the Department loses this funding 
     flexibility, it will be incapable of supporting requirements 
     generated by unforeseen needs, such as environmental and 
     regulatory requirements, unanticipated subsurface conditions 
     and changes in bid climate. As a result, the conferees direct 
     the Department to include 5 percent contingency funding when 
     requesting construction funds in the fiscal year 2002 budget 
     submission and for future year projects.
       Financial Management.--The conferees agree that the 
     rescission of funds included in the conference agreement are 
     based on large prior year unobligated balances and such 
     factors as savings through favorable bids, reduced overhead 
     costs, downsizing or cancellation due to force structure 
     changes (if any), other administrative cost reduction 
     initiatives, revised economic assumptions, and inflation re-
     estimates. The conferees direct that no project for which 
     funds were previously appropriated, or for which funds are 
     appropriated in this bill, may be canceled as a result of the 
     reductions included in the conference agreement.
       Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Construction, Defense.--Due 
     to the U.S. dollar significantly improving over prior fiscal 
     years and for other reasons, the amounts available in the 
     ``Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Construction, Defense'' 
     account exceed those necessary to eliminate losses due to 
     unfavorable fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. 
     Accordingly, the conferees include a provision (Section 132) 
     which rescinds $83,000,000 from this account. The conferees 
     also include a total reduction of $43,852,000 to the 
     following appropriations because the U.S. dollar has 
     significantly improved against most foreign currencies than 
     the Department of Defense predicted when it submitted its 
     fiscal year 2001 budget:


        Account                                                  Amount
Military Construction, Army...................................-$635,000
Military Construction, Navy..................................-2,889,000
Military Construction, Defense-Wide..........................-7,115,000
Family Housing, Army........................................-19,911,000
Family Housing, Navy and Marine Corps........................-1,071,000
Family Housing, Air Force...................................-12,231,000
                                                       ________________
                                                       
      Total.................................................-43,852,000

       Joint Use Facilities.--The conferees support joint use of 
     facilities between the various components of the Defense 
     Department. Joint use facilities can optimize 
     military construction and operation and maintenance funds 
     while enhancing joint training and the total force 
     concept. Beginning with the fiscal year 2003 budget 
     submission, the conferees direct that any Form 1390/1391, 
     which is presented as justification material, shall 
     include certification by the originating installation 
     commander. The certification will include information that 
     the project has been considered and reviewed for joint use 
     potential, a recommendation for either joint use or 
     unilateral construction, and the reasons(s) for that 
     recommendation if joint use is not recommended. This 
     certification is to be reviewed by the Under Secretary of 
     Defense (Comptroller) during the budget review to ensure 
     impartial review.
       Proposed Financing of Current Year Programs Via Prior Year 
     Savings.--The budget request for fiscal year 2001 proposed 
     partial financing of current year programs via prior year 
     savings, as follows:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                Account/Location                        Project description         Authorization  Appropriation
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Military Construction, Navy:
    District of Columbia: Naval Research Lab...  Nano-Science Research Facility...    $12,390,000              0
    Texas: Kingsville Naval Air Station........  Aircraft Parking Apron...........      2,670,000              0
    North Carolina: Camp Lejuene MCB...........  Armories.........................     14,000,000    $10,000,000
    Italy: Sigonella Naval Air Station.........  Community Facilities.............     32,969,000     32,029,000
                                                                                   -----------------------------
      Total....................................  .................................     62,029,000     42,029,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

       If program execution has resulted in identifiable prior 
     year savings within individual projects, the correct 
     financing method is to detail such savings and to request 
     rescissions of funds by account and by fiscal year. The 
     conferees direct the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) 
     to follow the conventional rescission procedure in future 
     budget submissions.
       Quadrennial Defense Review.--The conferees are concerned 
     with the Defense Department's declining investments in the 
     construction, replacement, and revitalization of facilities. 
     Therefore, the conferees strongly support the language 
     included in House Report 106-614 on the Quadrennial Defense 
     Review. The conferees expect the Congressionally mandated 
     Quadrennial Defense Review to include a thorough review of 
     the Defense Department's basing capacity, outsourcing 
     strategy, and military construction requirements and related 
     facilities restoration and modernization programs.
       Real Property Maintenance: Reporting Requirement.--The 
     conferees agree to the following general rules for repairing 
     a facility under Operation and Maintenance funding:
       Components of the facility may be repaired by replacement, 
     and such replacement can be up to current standards or code.
       Interior arrangements and restorations may be included as 
     repair, but additions, new facilities, and functional 
     conversions must be performed as military construction 
     projects.
       Such projects may be done concurrent with repair projects, 
     as long as the final conjunctively funded project is a 
     complete and usable facility.
       The appropriate Service Secretary shall submit a 21-day 
     notification prior to carrying out any repair project with an 
     estimated cost in excess of $7,500,000.
       Reprogramming Criteria.--The conferees believe there is a 
     need to clarify the rules for military construction and 
     family housing reprogrammings. A project or account 
     (including the sub-elements of an account)

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     which has been specifically reduced by the Congress in acting 
     on the appropriation request is considered to be a 
     congressional interest item. A prior approval reprogramming 
     is required for any increase to an item that has been 
     specifically reduced by the Congress. Consequently, there can 
     be no below threshold reprogrammings to an item specifically 
     reduced by the Congress.
       Furthermore, in instances here a prior approval 
     reprogramming request for a project or account has been 
     approved becomes the new base for any future increase or 
     decrease via a below threshold reprogramming (provided that 
     the project or account is not a congressional interest item).
       Alkali Silica Reactivity.--The conferees continue to be 
     concerned about the effects of Alkali Silica Reactivity (ASR) 
     on Department of Defense concrete facilities including 
     aprons, taxiways, runways and tarmacs. The conferees direct 
     the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology 
     and Logistics to assess the overall condition of Department 
     of Defense facilities and infrastructure with respect to ASR. 
     This review should also address the Department's long-term 
     strategy and recommendations to manage this issue. These 
     findings should be provided to the congressional defense 
     committees not later than May 1, 2001.


                      military construction, army

       The conference agreement appropriates $909,245,000 for 
     Military Construction, Army, instead of $869,950,000 as 
     proposed by the House, and $823,503,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate. Within this amount, the conference agreement earmarks 
     $109,306,000 for study, planning, design, architect and 
     engineer services, and host nation support instead of 
     $99,961,000 as proposed by the House and $84,706,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       Kansas--Fort Leavenworth: Bell Hall.--The conferees note 
     the deteriorating condition of Bell Hall, the central 
     academic and instructional facility of the Army's Command and 
     General Staff College. The cost to maintain the current 
     physical plant is no longer cost effective and its 
     communications capabilities are significantly constrained. 
     The conferees encourage the Army to include this replacement 
     in the fiscal year 2002 budget submission.
       New York--U.S. Military Academy: Multimedia Learning 
     Centers.--Within funds provided for unspecified minor 
     construction, the conferees direct the Army to execute a 
     project in the amount of $500,000 to provide Multimedia 
     Learning Centers at the United States Military Academy in New 
     York.
       Pennsylvania--Letterkenny Army Depot: Missile Igloo 
     Modifications.--Of the additional funding provided for 
     planning and design, the conferees direct that not less than 
     $112,000 be made available for the design of this facility.
       Virginia--Fort Belvoir: Potomac Heritage National Scenic 
     Trail.--Within the additional funds provided for unspecified 
     minor construction, the conferees direct the Army to provide 
     not less than $500,000 for the multi-use trail system at Fort 
     Belvoir in Virginia.
       Washington-Fort Lewis: Vancouver Barracks.--Within the 
     additional funds provided for unspecified minor construction, 
     the conferees direct the Army to provide not less than 
     $1,500,000 for the protection of historic facilities at the 
     Vancouver Barracks at Fort Lewis in Washington.


                      military construction, navy

       The conference agreement appropriates $928,273,000 for 
     Military Construction, Navy, instead of $891,380,000 as 
     proposed by the House, and $828,278,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate. Within this amount, the conference agreement earmarks 
     $73,335,000 for study, planning, design, architect and 
     engineer services instead of $67,502,000 as proposed by 
     the House and $71,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       California--North Island Naval Air Station: Transportation 
     Infrastructure.--The conferees do not expect the Navy to 
     begin design of a project to alleviate traffic flow problems 
     at North Island Naval Air Station. The scope of the project 
     is far reaching and involves traffic considerations that fall 
     beyond the Navy mission. Therefore, planning and design funds 
     are not the proper source of funds to determine the project 
     requirements (10 U.S.C. 2807).


                    military construction, Air Force

       The conference agreement appropriates $870,208,000 for 
     Military Construction, Air Force, instead of $703,903,00 as 
     proposed by the House, and $777,793,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate. Within this amount, the conference agreement earmarks 
     $74,628,000 for study, planning, design, architect and 
     engineer services instead of $56,949,000 as proposed by the 
     House and $69,337,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       Air Force Electronic Warfare Evaluation Simulator.--The 
     conferees are aware of an Air Force effort to develop a plan 
     to relocate the Air Force Electronic Warfare Evaluation 
     Simulator (AFEWES) from Air Force Plant 4 to the Air Force 
     Flight Test Center. Government studies, including the 1995 
     Base Realignment and Closure Commission and a 1997 GAO 
     report, all highlight the absence of cost/capability 
     rationale to justify such a relocation. For these reasons, 
     and to ensure that prudent future expenditure of military 
     construction funds, the conferees encourage the Air Force to 
     include a comprehensive cost/benefit analysis and standard 
     return on investment criteria in the relocation study now 
     being performed. Because AFEWES specialized test capabilities 
     are a vital element of our national defense posture, study 
     findings should also demonstrate the technical and cost 
     merits of relocation to the Air Force Flight Test Center. The 
     Secretary of the Air Force is to review this matter and 
     report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees no 
     later than February 28, 2001.
       Delaware--Dover AFB: Control Tower.--The conferees note 
     that the control tower at Dover AFB is antiquated, 
     inadequately sited, and lacks modern air traffic control 
     equipment. Given the activity level and mission critical 
     nature of this base, the project appears to be an excellent 
     candidate for the President's fiscal year 2002 budget. 
     Accordingly, the conferees urge the Secretary of the Air 
     Force to review this project, and to expedite its advancement 
     into the fiscal year 2002 budget.


                  military construction, defense-wide

       The conference agreement appropriates $814,647,000 for 
     Military Construction, Defense-wide, instead of $800,314,000 
     as proposed by the House, and $801,098,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate. Within this amount, the conference agreement earmarks 
     $77,505,000 for study, planning, design, architect and 
     engineer services as proposed by the House instead of 
     $163,700,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       Chemical Demilitarization Program.--The budget request 
     proposes funding the construction of chemical weapon 
     demilitarization facilities under the ``Military 
     Construction, Army'' account. As in prior years, the 
     conferees recommend that this funding be appropriated under 
     the ``Military Construction, Defense-wide'' account, in order 
     to facilitate the tracking of expenses for the Chemical 
     Demilitarization Program, and to avoid distorting the size of 
     the Army's military construction program.
       The conference agreement provides $175,400,000 for the 
     chemical demilitarization program to fully fund all requested 
     projects for fiscal year 2001. However, the conferees 
     continue to be concerned over the extremely slow obligation 
     and expenditures rates for the program due to significant 
     delays at most of the sites that are currently being 
     constructed. Therefore, the conferees include a general 
     reduction of $20,000,000 against the entire program.
       Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA).--The 
     conferees strongly support DODEA initiatives to increase the 
     half-day kindergarten program to full day in overseas schools 
     and reduce class size in grades 1-3 to an average of 18 
     students to 1 teacher. These educational initiatives are 
     valued and supported by the military community as a critical 
     element of its quality of life and readiness. Because these 
     initiatives require substantial funding to modernize school 
     facilities, the conference agreement provides an additional 
     $11,852,000 for the DODEA military construction program. 
     Additional funding is provided for the following projects:

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                    Location                               Project title               Request    Recommendation
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Germany: Hanau.................................  Elementary School Classroom          $1,026,000     $2,030,000
                                                  Addition.
Germany: Schweinfurt...........................  Elementary School Classroom           1,444,000      1,750,000
                                                  Addition.
Germany: Wuerzburg.............................  Elementary School Classroom           1,798,000      2,635,000
                                                  Addition.
Italy: Signonella..............................  Elementary/High School Classroom        971,000      3,450,000
                                                  Addition.
Korea: Osan....................................  Elementary School Classroom        ............        892,000
                                                  Addition.
Korea: Seoul...................................  Elementary School Classroom        ............      2,451,000
                                                  Addition.
Korea: Taegu...................................  Elementary School Classroom        ............        806,000
                                                  Addition.
United Kingdom: RAF Feltwell...................  Elementary School Classroom           1,287,000      1,800,000
                                                  Addition.
United Kingdom: RAF Lakenheath.................  Elementary School Classroom           3,086,000      5,650,000
                                                  Addition.
                                                                                   -----------------------------
  Total........................................  .................................     9,612,000     21,464,000
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               Military Construction, Army National Guard

       The conference agreement appropriates $281,717,000 for 
     military Construction, Army National Guard, instead of 
     $137,603,000 as proposed by the House, and $233,675,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       California-Bakersfield: Readiness Center.--Of the 
     additional funding provided for planning and design, the 
     conferees direct that not less than $500,000 be made 
     available for the design of this facility.
       California-Los Alamitos: Joint Headquarters Building.--
     House Report 106-614 included language directing the Army 
     Reserve to accelerate the design of this facility and include 
     the required construction funding in its fiscal year 2002 
     budget request. The Army National Guard should be the lead 
     proponent for the facility. Therefore, the conferees direct 
     the Army National Guard to accelerate

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     the design of the Joint Headquarters Building in Los 
     Alamitos, California and to include the required construction 
     funding in its fiscal year 2002 budget request.
       California-National Guard Facilities.--The Army National 
     Guard requested nine location changes to the budget 
     submission for the state of California. The changes will 
     provide a more centralized vehicle maintenance management 
     system. After design of the budgeted projects began, the Army 
     National Guard realized the existing locations were 
     unsuitable and further facility investment would prove 
     unwise. Accordingly, the conferees recommend the following 
     location changes:
       (1) The project titles budgeted for Bakersfield, Escondido, 
     Richmond, San Jose, San Mateo, and Santa Barbara are moved to 
     Camp Parks.
       (2) The project titles budgeted for Colton, Fresno, and Los 
     Alamitos are moved to Fresno.
       Iowa-Fairfield: Readiness Center Addition.--Within the 
     additional funds provided for unspecified minor construction, 
     the conferees direct the Army National Guard to provide not 
     less than $1,066,000 for an addition to the readiness center 
     at Fairfield, Iowa.
       Missouri--Fort Leonard Wood: Army Aviation Support 
     Center.--In the Senate report 106-290, the Army Aviation 
     Support Center at Fort Leonard Wood was incorrectly 
     identified as an unspecified minor construction project. This 
     project should be executed with funds made available for 
     planning and design.
       Nevada--Carson City: Readiness Center.--The conferees are 
     concerned that the cost of the Readness Center in Carson 
     City, Nevada has increased due to changes in criteria 
     directed by the National Guard Bureau. Funding for this 
     project was appropriated in fiscal year 1999. The conferees 
     direct the National Guard Bureau to ensure that adequate 
     additional funding is provided to the Nevada National Guard 
     to complete this project.
       Oregon--Eugene: Armed Forces Reserve Center Complex.--The 
     number one priority for the Oregon National Guard is to 
     replace a 66-year-old facility in Eugene which is considered 
     undersized by Naval Reserve/Marine Corps standards. The 
     buildings have deteriorated extensively and are substandard 
     with respect to size and level of serviceability of the 
     building. The consolidation will provide savings of about 
     $1,400,000 in direct construction costs and will reduce the 
     operations and maintenance burden by at least 20 percent 
     annually. The conferees encourage the National Guard to 
     complete the design and to include this project in its fiscal 
     year 2002 budget request.


               Military Construction, Air National Guard

       The conference agreement appropriates $203,829,000 for 
     Military Construction, Air National Guard, instead of 
     $110,585,000 as proposed by the House, and $183,029,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       Connecticut--Orange Air National Guard Station: Air Control 
     Squadron Complex.--Although the conferees were unable to fund 
     this project due to funding constraints, the conferees 
     strongly urge the Air National Guard to include this project 
     in its fiscal year 2002 budget submission.


                  Military Construction, Army Reserve

       The conference agreement appropriates $108,738,000 for 
     Military Construction, Army Reserve, instead of $115,854,000 
     as proposed by the House, and $99,888,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate.
       New Jersey--Fort Dix: Barracks.--Of the $11,900,000 
     provided for planning and design within the ``Army Reserve'' 
     amount, the conferees direct that not less than $900,000 be 
     made available for the design of this facility.
       Utah--S.A. Douglas Armed Forces Reserve Center: Parking and 
     Site Improvements.--The conferees direct the Army Reserve to 
     execute a project to provide parking and site improvements at 
     the S.A. Douglas Armed Forces Reserve Center in Utah using 
     funds available for unspecified minor construction. The 
     estimated cost of this project is $700,000.


                  military construction, naval reserve

       The conference agreement appropriates $64,473,000 for 
     Military Construction, Naval Reserve, instead of $53,004,000 
     as proposed by the House, and $38,532,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate.
       Rescission of Funds.--The conferees rescind $2,400,000 
     appropriated under the ``Military Construction, Naval 
     Reserve'' account in the fiscal year 1998 Military 
     Construction Appropriations Act (Public Law 105-45). These 
     are funds which remain unobligated from the renovation of 
     Building 1900 at the Westover Air Force Reserve Base in 
     Massachusetts. The project was halted due to escalating costs 
     in connection with asbestos and other environmental problems.


                military construction, air force reserve

       The conference agreement appropriates $36,591,000 for 
     Military Construction, Air Force Reserve, instead of 
     $43,748,000 as proposed by the House, and $25,533,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.


     north atlantic treaty organization security investment program

       The conference agreement appropriates $172,000,000 for the 
     North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment 
     Program (NSIP), instead of $177,500,000 as proposed by the 
     House, and $175,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.


                          family housing, army

       The conference agreement appropriates $235,956,000 for 
     Construction, Family Housing Army, instead of $198,505,000 as 
     proposed by the House and $221,106,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate.
       The conference agreement appropriates $951,793,000 for 
     Operation and Maintenance, Family Housing, Army, instead of 
     $953,744,000 as proposed by the House and $958,364,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement appropriates a total of 
     $1,187,749,000 for Family Housing, Army, instead of 
     $1,152,249,000 as proposed by the House and $1,179,470,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.


                 family housing, navy and marine corps

       The conference agreement appropriates $418,155,000 for 
     Construction, Family Housing, Navy and Marine Corps, instead 
     of $419,584,000 as proposed by the House and $392,765,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       The conferees direct that the following projects are to be 
     accomplished within the increased amount provided for 
     construction improvements:

California--Camp Pendelton (98 units)........................$9,030,000
District of Columbia: 8th and I Marine Barracks (1 unit)........500,000

       The conference agreement appropriates $881,567,000 for 
     Operation and Maintenance, Family Housing, Navy and Marine 
     Corps, as proposed by the Senate instead of $879,208,000 as 
     proposed by the House.
       The conference agreement appropriates a total of 
     $1,299,722,000 for Family Housing, Navy and Marine Corps, 
     instead of $1,298,792,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $1,274,332,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       California--Mission Trails Regional Park.--The conferees 
     include a new provision (Section 133) which amends Section 
     131 of the fiscal year 1988 Military Construction 
     Appropriations Act (Public Law 100-202). The new provision 
     allows the Secretary of the Navy to use proceeds from the 
     conveyance of real property in the Mission Trails Regional 
     Park area, for the acquisition of military family housing in 
     the San Diego area through the use of privatization 
     authorities contained in subchapter IV of chapter 169 of 
     title 10. In addition, the new provision permits the transfer 
     of proceeds into the Department of Defense Family Housing 
     Improvement Fund.


                       family housing, air force

       The conference agreement appropriates $251,982,000 for 
     Construction, Family Housing, Air Force, instead of 
     $241,384,000 as proposed by the House and $227,242,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement appropriates $820,879,000 for 
     Operation and Maintenance, Family Housing, Air Force, as 
     proposed by the House and Senate.
       The conference agreement appropriates a total of 
     $1,072,861,000 for Family Housing, Air Force, instead of 
     $1,062,263,000 as proposed by the House and $1,048,121,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.


                      family housing, defense-wide

       The conference agreement appropriates $44,886,000 for 
     Construction, Family Housing, Defense-wide, as proposed by 
     the House and Senate.


             department of defense family improvement fund

       The conference agreement provides no appropriation for the 
     Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund, as 
     proposed by the House and Senate. Transfer authority is 
     provided for the execution of any qualifying project under 
     privatization authority, which resides in the Fund.
       Contractor Support for Family Housing Privatization.--The 
     conferees are concerned about the Army spending excessive 
     amounts on contractor support to evaluate and develop family 
     housing privatization proposals. Therefore, the Deputy 
     Under Secretary of Defense (Installations) is to review 
     quarterly, and report to the appropriate Committees of 
     Congress, the expenses of each component to ensure 
     excessive amounts are not being spent on contractor 
     support.
       In the future, amounts appropriated into the Family Housing 
     Improvement Fund will be the sole source of funds to finance 
     the operation of the former Housing Revitalization Support 
     Office. It is the conferees' intent that Family Housing funds 
     will be the sole source of funds to develop, evaluate, and 
     oversee privatization deals. The conferees direct the Under 
     Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) to determine if these 
     funds are best appropriated out of Family Housing Operation 
     and Maintenance or Family Housing Planning and Design and to 
     provide consistency among the Services in the fiscal year 
     2002 budget submission. In addition, these funds will be 
     separately identified and justified as a sub-element account. 
     This sub-element is considered a congressional interest item 
     and may not be increased from the amount enacted without the 
     prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations.
       Reporting Requirements.--The conferees are concerned that 
     the 21-day period of review prior to entering a privatization 
     contract is too limited, and is extending this review period 
     to a 45-day period. The Service Secretary concerned may not 
     enter into any contract until after the end of the 45-day 
     period beginning on the date the Secretary concerned submits 
     written notice of the nature and terms of the contract to the 
     appropriate committees of Congress.
       To clarify existing reporting requirements, this 45-day 
     notification requirement applies to any project, regardless 
     of whether it is financed entirely by transfer of funds into 
     the Family Housing Improvement Fund, or it is fully financed 
     within funds available in the

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     Family Housing Improvement Fund, or it is funded by combining 
     transferred funds with funds available in the Family Housing 
     Improvement Fund.
       In addition, no transfer of appropriated funds into the 
     account may take place until after the end of the 45-day 
     period beginning on the date the Secretary of Defense submits 
     written notice and justification for the transfer to the 
     appropriate committees of Congress. The House and Senate 
     Appropriations Committees expect to receive prior 
     notification of all such transfers of funds.
       The Department is to continue its quarterly reports on the 
     status of privatization projects.


             base realignment and closure account, part iv

       The conference agreement appropriates $1,024,369,000 for 
     the Base Realignment and Closure Account, Part IV, instead of 
     $1,174,369,000 as proposed by the House and Senate.
       Unliquidated Obligations.--The conferees recommend a 
     reduction of $150,000,000 to the Base Realignment and Closure 
     Account, Part IV. This reduction is based on slow budget 
     execution and large amounts of unliquidated obligations. At 
     the time the fiscal year 2001 budget estimate was being 
     developed, the department had $1,600,000,000 in reported 
     unliquidated obligations in the Base Realignment and Closure 
     account. Of this amount, $115,000,000 was appropriated prior 
     to fiscal year 1995. The majority of the unliquidated funds 
     resulted from environmental cleanup activities that were 
     carried out more slowly than planned or determined not to be 
     necessary.
       California--Fort Ord: Thermochemical Conversion.--The 
     conferees are concerned about the environmental challenges 
     associated with the base closure re-use issues at Fort Ord in 
     California and the disposal of asbestos, PCB, impregnated 
     asbestos, lead-based paint and other hazardous construction 
     material. The conferees are aware of a cost-competitive 
     environmentally safe process that offers great potential for 
     addressing the unique problems at Fort Ord. This 
     thermochemical conversion process, which changes asbestos and 
     other construction material to a non-hazardous mineral, has 
     been demonstrated by the Department of Energy, validated by 
     the Navy at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington and 
     approved by the Environmental Protection Agency. Accordingly, 
     the conferees direct the Department of the Army to develop 
     and operate a thermochemical conversion pilot plant at Fort 
     Ord for remediation of hazardous material generated by the 
     activities of the Fort Ord Re-use Authority.
       Construction Projects: Administrative Provision.--The 
     conferees agree that any transfer of funds which exceeds 
     reprogramming thresholds for any construction project 
     financed by any Base Realignment and Closure Account shall be 
     subject to a 21-day notification to the Committees, and shall 
     not be subject to reprogramming procedure.


                           general provisions

  The conference agreement includes general provisions that were not 
amended by either the House or Senate in their versions of the bill.
       The conference agreement includes a provision, Section 121, 
     as proposed by the House, which prohibits the expenditure of 
     funds except in compliance with the Buy American Act. The 
     Senate bill contained no similar provision.
       The conference agreement includes a provision, Section 122, 
     as proposed by the House, which states the Sense of the 
     Congress that recipients of equipment or products authorized 
     to be purchased with financial assistance provided in this 
     Division are to be notified that they must purchase American-
     made equipment and products. The Senate bill contained no 
     similar provision.
       The conference agreement includes a provision, Section 123, 
     as proposed by the House, permitting the transfer of funds 
     from Family Housing, Construction accounts to the DOD Family 
     Housing Improvement Fund. The Senate bill contained no 
     similar provision.
       The conference agreement includes a provision renumbered 
     Section 124, as proposed by the House and the Senate, to 
     prohibit the use of funds in this Division to be obligated 
     for Partnership for Peace programs in the New Independent 
     States of the former Soviet Union.
       The conference agreement includes a provision renumbered 
     Section 125, as proposed by the House and the Senate, which 
     requires the Secretary of Defense to notify Congressional 
     Committees sixty days prior to issuing a solicitation for a 
     contract with the private sector for military family housing.
       The conference agreement includes a provision renumbered 
     Section 126, as proposed by the House and the Senate, which 
     provides transfer authority to the Homeowners Assistance 
     Program.
       The conference agreement includes a provision, Section 127, 
     as proposed by the House, regarding funding for general 
     officers quarters and maintenance. The Senate bill contained 
     a similar provision.
       The conference agreement includes a provision, Section 128, 
     as proposed by the House, regarding family housing master 
     plans. The Senate bill contained no similar provision.
       The conference agreement includes a provision, renumbered 
     Section 129, as proposed by the Senate amended to reduce 
     previous Acts by $100,000,000. The House bill contained no 
     similar provision.
       The conference agreement includes a provision, renumbered 
     Section 130, as proposed by the House which allows the 
     transfer of funds appropriated in Public Law 106-52 under the 
     heading ``Military Construction, Naval Reserve'' or 
     ``Military Construction, Navy.'' The Senate bill contained a 
     similar provision.
       The conference agreement includes a provision, renumbered 
     Section 131, as proposed by the Senate, which allows the Army 
     to accept funds from the Federal Highway Administration for a 
     military construction project involving a rail connector at 
     Fort Campbell in Kentucky. The House bill contained no 
     similar provision.
       The conference agreement includes a provision, Section 132 
     which rescinds $83,000,000 from the ``Foreign Currency 
     Fluctuations, Construction, Defense'' account. The House and 
     Senate bill contained no similar provision.
       The conference agreement includes a provision, Section 133, 
     which amends Section 131 of the Military Construction 
     Appropriations Act, 1988 (Public Law 100-202). The House and 
     Senate bill contained no similar provision.
       The conference agreement includes a provision, Section 134, 
     amending the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge Authority Act of 
     1995 (112 Stat. 160). The House and Senate bill contained no 
     similar provision.
       The conference agreement includes a provision, Section 135, 
     authorizing the use of private donations for the purpose of 
     renovating the Marine Corps' historic residences. This 
     provision requires a thirty-day notification to the 
     appropriate committees of the Congress prior to the use of 
     such funds.
       The conference agreement includes a provision, Section 136, 
     revising Section 8168 of the Department of Defense 
     Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-79) to clarify 
     reporting requirements placed on the Department of the Air 
     Force. This provision was included in Division B of the 
     Senate bill. The House bill contained no similar provision.
       The conference agreement includes a provision, Section 137, 
     providing further guidance to the Department of Defense 
     concerning planning and design impacting the Naval Submarine 
     Base, Bangor, Washington. This provision was included in 
     Division B of the Senate Bill. The House bill contained no 
     similar provision.
       The conference agreement includes a provision, Section 138, 
     limiting appropriations for the Cadet Physical Development 
     Center at the Military Academy, West Point, New York to 
     $77,500,000. The conferees direct that any further 
     requirements be funded though private donations. The 
     Secretary of the Army is directed to notify the appropriate 
     committees of Congress thirty days prior to the use of 
     private donations for this project. The House and Senate 
     bills contained no similar provision.
       The conference agreement includes a provision, Section 139, 
     requiring the Secretary of Defense to report on the 
     construction, security and operations of the Forward 
     Operating Locations (FOL's) in Manta, Ecuador, Aruba, Curacao 
     and El Salvador. The Senate bill contained a similar 
     provision in Division B. The House bill contained no similiar 
     provision.

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                   conference total--with comparisons

       The total new budget (obligational) authority for the 
     fiscal year 2001 recommended by the Committee of Conference, 
     with comparisons to the fiscal year 2000 amount, the 2001 
     budget estimates, and the House and Senate bills for 2001 
     follow:

                       [In thousands of dollars]

New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 2000........$8,374,000
Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority, fiscal year 8,033,908
House bill, fiscal year 2001..................................8,634,000
Senate bill, fiscal year 2001.................................8,634,000
Conference agreement, fiscal year 2001                        8,833,908
Conference agreement compared with:
  New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 2000........+459,908
  Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority, fiscal year+800,000
  House bill, fiscal year 2001.................................+199,908
  Senate bill, fiscal year 2001................................+199,908

        DIVISION B--FISCAL YEAR 2000 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

       Report language included by the House in the report 
     accompanying H.R. 3908 (H. Rept. 106-521) which is not 
     changed by the Senate in the report accompanying S. 2522 (S. 
     Rept. 106-291), and the report accompanying S. 2536 (S. Rept. 
     106-288), and Senate report language which is not changed by 
     the conference are approved by the committee of conference. 
     The statement of managers while repeating some report 
     language for emphasis, is not intended to negate the language 
     referred to above unless expressly provided herein.

          TITLE I--KOSOVO AND OTHER NATIONAL SECURITY MATTERS

                               CHAPTER 1

                    DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--MILITARY

           Contingency Operations and Other Requested Funding

       The President requested $2,190,800,000 in emergency 
     supplemental appropriations for the unfunded fiscal year 2000 
     costs of overseas contingency operations, damages sustained 
     at Department of Defense facilities resulting from natural 
     disasters, and other requirements. The conferees recommend 
     $2,291,626,000 in emergency supplemental appropriations to 
     meet these needs, as detailed by category and the applicable 
     appropriations accounts in the following table.

                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                Request       House        Senate     Conference
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Natural Disaster Damage:
    Operation and Maintenance, Army.........................            0       19,532       23,883       23,883
    Operation and Maintenance, Navy.........................            0       20,565       20,565       20,565
    Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps.................            0       37,155       37,155       37,155
    Operation and Maintenance, Air Force....................            0       30,065       38,065       38,065
    Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide.................       27,400            0            0            0
    Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve.................            0        2,174        2,174        2,174
    Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard..........            0        2,851        2,851        2,851
    Defense Health Program..................................            0        3,533        3,533        3,533
                                                             ---------------------------------------------------
      Total.................................................       27,400      115,875      128,226      128,226
                                                             ===================================================
Overseas Contingency Operations and other requirements:
    Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide.................       40,000       40,000       40,000       40,000
    Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund...........    2,050,400    2,050,400    1,850,400    2,050,400
    Aircraft Procurement, Air Force.........................       73,000       73,000       73,000       73,000
                                                             ---------------------------------------------------
      Total.................................................    2,163,400    2,163,400    1,963,400    2,163,400
                                                             ===================================================
      Grand Total...........................................    2,190,800    2,279,275    2,091,626    2,291,626
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                          classified programs

       In conjunction with the submission of the fiscal year 2001 
     budget request, the President requested fiscal year 2000 
     emergency supplemental appropriations for a number of 
     classified activities. In addition, on May 18, 2000, the 
     Director of the Office of Management and Budget forwarded to 
     the Congress a classified request regarding proposed fiscal 
     year 2000 funding adjustments in support of counter-terrorism 
     activities. The conferees' recommendations regarding these 
     requests are summarized in a classified annex to this 
     statement of managers.


                   shared reconnaissance pod (sharp)

       The conferees agree with the House language concerning the 
     synthetic aperture radar (SAR) project within the SHARP 
     program. The conferees do not agree to the House language 
     regarding enhancements to the TARPS-CD system to meet future 
     fleet operational requirements.

                    General Provisions, This Chapter

       The conferees agree to retain section 101, as proposed by 
     the House, which provides the Department of Defense authority 
     to pay service members Basic Allowance for Housing at the 
     rates in effect on December 31, 1999 during fiscal year 2000.
       The conferees agree to retain section 102, as proposed by 
     the House, which provides $1,556,200,000 in emergency 
     appropriations for the ``Defense-Wide Working Capital Fund'' 
     due to increases in the price of bulk fuel.
       The conferees agree to retain and amend section 103, as 
     proposed by the House, and provide $90,000,000 in new 
     appropriations for tactical aviation shortfalls identified by 
     the Air Force during execution of the fiscal year 2000 
     budget. These funds are fully offset by rescissions in 
     section 123 of this chapter.
       The conferees agree to retain and amend section 104, as 
     proposed by the House, and provide $163,700,000 in new 
     appropriations for procurement of M1A2 tank upgrades. This 
     amount includes $125,000,000 as recommended in the House-
     passed bill and an additional $38,700,000 as proposed in DoD 
     reprogramming request FY 00-21PA. The reprogramming request 
     is hereby denied as it has been obviated by this Act. These 
     funds are fully offset by rescissions in section 123 of this 
     chapter.
       The conferees agree to retain and amend section 105 and 
     106, as proposed by the House, and recommend $615,600,000 in 
     emergency appropriations and requisite legal authority to 
     cover unfunded requirements of the Defense Health Program, 
     including TRICARE claims for fiscal years 1998, 1999, and 
     2000. The conferees also agree to retain section 107, as 
     proposed by the Senate, which provides $695,900,000 in 
     emergency appropriations for additional unfunded requirements 
     of the Defense Health Program.

                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
          DHP funding                House        Senate     Conference
------------------------------------------------------------------------
TRICARE:
    Claims.....................        854.5   ...........        615.6
        FY 98..................        (34.6)  ...........        (34.6)
        FY 99..................        (55.7)  ...........        (55.7)
        FY 00..................       (297.3)  ...........       (297.3)
        FY 01..................       (238.9)  ...........  ............
        Other Requirements.....       (228.0)  ...........       (228.0)
Additional DHP Requirements....        750.0         695.9        695.9
                                ----------------------------------------
      Total, Defense Health          1,604.5         695.9      1,311.5
       Program.................
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       The conferees continue to be concerned about violations of 
     the Department's financial regulations and potential 
     violations of the Anti-Deficiency Act in the administration 
     and execution of the TRICARE program. Therefore, the 
     conferees direct the DoD Inspector General, in coordination 
     with the General Accounting Office (GAO), to conduct an 
     investigation into the execution and administration of DHP 
     funds. The investigation should examine: possible violations 
     of the Anti-Deficiency Act; evasion of DoD financial 
     regulations; and the overall management of the TRICARE 
     program. The conferees further direct the Department to 
     provide a report to the congressional defense committees 
     within sixty days after the enactment of this Act regarding 
     the extent and scope of any violations of fiscal law or 
     departmental regulations.
       The conferees agree to retain and amend section 108, as 
     proposed by the House, which provides $27,000,000 in 
     emergency appropriations for the Basic Allowance for Housing 
     program.
       The conferees agree to retain and amend section 109, as 
     proposed by the House, which provides $357,288,000 in 
     emergency appropriations to address shortfalls in military 
     personnel, recruiting, advertising, and retention

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     programs. The conferees direct that of the amount provided in 
     this section, $73,826,000 in the military personnel accounts 
     and $80,062,000 in the operation and maintenance accounts 
     shall be immediately available for obligation to meet 
     requirements identified by the Under Secretary of Defense 
     (Comptroller) in his June 12, 2000 submission of DD Form 
     1415-1 to the congressional defense committees. The remaining 
     funds, shown below by appropriations account, shall be 
     withheld from obligation until 30 days following written 
     notification to the Committees on Appropriations regarding 
     the proposed specific distribution of funds by the 
     Department:

Military Personnel, Army....................................$71,000,000
Military Personnel, Navy.....................................23,500,000
Military Personnel, Marine Corps..............................4,000,000
Military Personnel, Air Force.................................7,500,000
Reserve Personnel, Army......................................12,400,000
National Guard Personnel, Army...............................12,000,000
Operation and Maintenance, Army..............................15,000,000
Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps.......................8,100,000
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force..........................8,200,000
Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve......................12,000,000
Operation and Maintenance, Navy Reserve.......................6,700,000
Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps Reserve...............2,000,000
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve..................4,000,000
Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard...............12,000,000
Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard.................5,000,000
       The conferees agree to retain and amend section 110, as 
     proposed by the House (and by the Senate in an appropriations 
     paragraph), which provides $220,000,000 in emergency 
     appropriations for ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'', only 
     for the unfunded backlog of ship depot maintenance that has 
     emerged in execution of the fiscal year 2000 ship depot 
     maintenance program.
       The conferees agree to retain and amend section 111, as 
     proposed by the House, which provides $503,900,000 in 
     emergency appropriations to meet urgent, unfunded 
     requirements in support of deployed forces, as follows:

                       [In thousands of dollars]

Operation and Maintenance, Navy (emergent costs in aircraft 
  operations and maintenance.....................................20,000
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force (emergent logistics support 
  shortfalls)....................................................41,900
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide (classified).............10,000
Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard (emergent DLR 
  shortage-Model Fly)............................................24,100
Aircraft Procurement, Army (Apache safety modifications).........25,000
Aircraft Procurement, Navy.......................................52,800
  (CH-46 engine safety modifications: $27,000)
  (EP-3 sensor improvements and modifications: 25,800)
Aircraft Procurement, Air Force.................................212,700
  (U-2 aircraft sensor improvements and modifications: $111,600)
  (U-2 trainer: 14,000)
  (RC-135 Rivet Joint flight aircrew and mission trainers: 37,500)
  (Compass Call mission crew trainer: 23,700)
  (C-17 weapon system trainer: 14,900)
  (C-17 maintenance system trainer: 11,000)
Other Procurement, Air Force (classified)........................41,400
Procurement, Defense-Wide (classified)...........................13,000
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army (WARSIMS)........5,000
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide 
  (classified)...................................................58,000

       The conferees agree to retain and amend section 112, as 
     proposed by the Senate, which provides $7,000,000 in new 
     appropriations for biometrics information assurance programs. 
     These funds are fully offset by rescissions in section 123 of 
     this chapter.
       The conferees agree to retain and amend section 113, as 
     proposed by the Senate, which provides $125,000,000 in 
     emergency appropriations to meet unfunded requirements for 
     the Patriot missile program. Of this amount, not less than 
     $50,000,000 shall be available for the Patriot Reliability 
     Enhancement Program and $75,000,000 shall be made available 
     only for the Patriot Advanced Capability--3 (PAC-3) program. 
     The conferees believe that completing the full qualification 
     of the PAC-3 missile against air breathing targets is 
     essential. The conferees direct that the $75,000,000 provided 
     for the PAC-3 program may be transferred to the appropriate 
     account to complete testing against aircraft and cruise 
     missile targets, to maintain a robust countermeasure 
     capability, to improve the producibility of the missile, and 
     to purchase additional missiles.
       The conferees agree to retain and amend section 114, as 
     proposed by the Senate, which appropriates $300,000 only for 
     the Walking Shield program. These funds are fully offset by 
     rescissions in section 123 of this chapter.
       The conferees agree to retain and amend section 115, as 
     proposed by the Senate, which provides $61,500,000 in 
     emergency appropriations for operations in East Timor and 
     Mozambique.
       The conferees agree to retain section 116, as proposed by 
     the Senate, which transfers previously-appropriated 
     ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' funds for 
     environmental response actions.
       The conferees agree to retain and amend section 117, as 
     proposed by the Senate, which provides $8,000,000 in new 
     appropriations in support of the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic 
     Winter Games. These funds are fully offset by rescissions in 
     section 123 of this chapter.
       The conferees agree to retain and amend section 118, as 
     proposed by the Senate, which directs the Ballistic Missile 
     Defense Organization to notify the congressional defense 
     committees prior to issuing certain types of information or 
     proposal solicitation under the National Missile Defense 
     program.
       The conferees agree to retain section 119, as proposed by 
     the Senate, regarding the disposition of a Navy drydock.
       The conferees agree to retain section 120, as proposed by 
     the Senate, which amends United States Code concerning the 
     Challenge Youth Program.
       The conferees to retain section 121, as proposed by the 
     Senate, regarding the use of DoD facilities as official 
     polling places.
       The conferees agree to retain and amend section 122, as 
     proposed by the Senate, which amends Section 8114 of the 
     Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1999 concerning the 
     Marine Corps aircraft accident near Cavalese, Italy, and 
     makes funding provided in that Act applicable to SOFA claims.
       The conferees agree to a new general provision, section 
     123, which rescinds $286,611,000 of prior year 
     appropriations, comprised of programs whose obligational 
     authority will lapse at the end of the current fiscal year. 
     The specific programs and the amounts rescinded are as 
     follows:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Fiscal year and account              Program             Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1989--Shipbuilding and             DDG-51 destroyer.....      $9,100,000
 Conversion, Navy.
1989--Shipbuilding and             T-AO fleet oiler.....       6,645,000
 Conversion, Navy.
1989--Shipbuilding and             T-AGOS surveillance         3,420,000
 Conversion, Navy.                  ship.
1989--Shipbuilding and             Outfitting and Post         1,293,000
 Conversion, Navy.                  Delivery.
1999--Research, Development, Test  Darkstar UAV.........       7,000,000
 and Evaluation, Air Force.
2000--Military Personnel, Army...  Pay and Allowances of      98,700,000
                                    Enlisted.
2000--Military Personnel, Navy...  Pay and Allowances of      23,527,000
                                    Officers.
2000--Military Personnel, Navy...  Pay and Allowances of      25,600,000
                                    Enlisted.
2000--Military Personnel, Air      Pay and Allowances of      12,000,000
 Force.                             Officers.
2000--Military Personnel, Air      Pay and Allowances of      44,000,000
 Force.                             Enlisted.
2000--Military Personnel, Air      PCS Travel...........      26,000,000
 Force.
2000--Reserve Personnel, Air       Unit and Individual         4,500,000
 Force.                             Training.
2000--National Guard Personnel,    Unit and Individual        24,826,000
 Army.                              Training.
                                                         ---------------
      Total......................  .....................     286,611,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       The conferees agree to retain section 124, as proposed by 
     the House and the Senate, which provides authorization for 
     certain intelligence related activities.
       The conferees agree to retain section 125, as proposed by 
     the House and the Senate, which repeals sections 8175 and 
     8176 of the Fiscal Year 2000 Department of Defense 
     Appropriations Act (as amended by Public Law 106-113) 
     concerning prompt payments and progress payments.
       The conferees agree to a new general provision, section 
     126, concerning the designation of emergency appropriations 
     in this chapter by the Congress and the President.

                               CHAPTER 2

                      DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL

                         DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil


                         general investigations

       The conference agreement includes $1,500,000 for the Corps 
     of Engineers to conduct a study of the need for additional 
     flood protection in Princeville, North Carolina, and 
     $2,000,000 for the Corps of Engineers to

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     resume engineering and design of an outlet at Devils Lake, 
     North Dakota.
       The entire amount has been designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended.


                         construction, general

       The conferees have provided $3,000,000 to initiate 
     construction of the Johnson Creek, Arlington, Texas, project 
     substantially in accordance with the Interim Feasibility 
     Report dated March 1999. The entire amount has been 
     designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.


                   operation and maintenance, general

       The conferees have included $200,000 to carry out dredging 
     of Saxon Harbor, Wisconsin, necessitated by low water levels 
     in the Great Lakes. The entire amount has been designated by 
     the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                         Bureau of Reclamation


                      water and related resources

       The conference agreement includes $600,000 for the Lewis 
     and Clark Rural Water System project in South Dakota. The 
     entire amount has been designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended.

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

                    Atomic Energy Defense Activities


                           weapons activities

       The conference agreement appropriates $96,500,000 for 
     Weapons Activities instead of $55,000,000 as proposed by the 
     House and $221,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The entire 
     amount has been designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
       Production plants.--The conference agreement includes 
     $25,000,000 for the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge Tennessee; 
     $11,000,000 for the Kansas City Plant in Missouri; and 
     $7,500,000 for the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas. This 
     funding will be used to address critical workforce and 
     required infrastructure improvements at the three production 
     facilities.
       Weapons laboratories.--The conference agreement includes 
     $5,000,000 for the Los Alamos National Laboratory and 
     $14,000,000 for the Sandia National Laboratory to address 
     workforce issues and infrastructure improvements.
       Transportation Safeguards Division.--The conference 
     agreement includes $10,000,000 for the Transportation 
     Safeguards Division for fleet upgrades.
       Other weapons sites.--The conference agreement includes 
     $1,500,000 for the Savannah River Site for infrastructure 
     improvements and $2,500,000 for construction of the U1h shaft 
     to enhance worker safety at the Nevada Test Site.
       Cyber Security.--The conference agreement includes 
     $20,000,000 for cyber security upgrades at the nuclear 
     weapons complex. The conferees direct the National Nuclear 
     Security Administration (NNSA) to perform planning, analysis, 
     testing and evaluation necessary to develop the highest value 
     alternatives for improving cyber security throughout the 
     nuclear weapons complex. The NNSA should submit to Congress 
     by January 15, 2001, a detailed plan with estimated costs and 
     schedules for a reasonable program that defends the highest 
     value targets.


                        Other Defense Activities

       The conference agreement appropriates $38,000,000 for Other 
     Defense Activities instead of $63,000,000 as proposed by the 
     House and $12,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The entire 
     amount has been designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balance 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
       Highly Enriched UnranimBlend Down Project.--The conference 
     agreement includes statutory language proposed by the House 
     authorizing the Department to initiate design of the Highly 
     Enriched Uranium Blend Down Project at the Savannah River 
     Site.
       Office of Security and Emergency Operations.--The 
     conference agreement provides $3,000,000 to support critical 
     staffing needs in the office of security and emergency 
     operations.
       Cyber Security.--The conference agreement provides 
     $25,000,000 for cyber security needs under the direction of 
     the Chief Information Officer. Funding of $20,000,000 is to 
     address unclassified cyber security systems and security 
     needs in the corporate management information systems. 
     Funding of $5,000,000 has been provided for the Office of 
     Intelligence/Special Technologies Program to develop and 
     enhance unique capabilities and technologies within the 
     Department's laboratory complex for the protection and 
     exploitation of information and related infrastructure 
     systems for the Department and other critical, national-level 
     missions.
       Environment, Safety and Health.--The conference agreement 
     includes $10,000,000 to accelerate projects which have been 
     initiated to address worker health and safety concerns at the 
     Paducah, Kentucky, and Portsmouth, Ohio, gaseous diffusion 
     plants.


                            energy programs

      uranium enrichment decontamination and decommissioning fund

       The conference agreement appropriates $58,000,000 for the 
     Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund 
     as proposed by the Senate instead of $16,000,000 as proposed 
     by the House. The entire amount has been designated by the 
     Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended.
       The conference agreement includes $16,000,000 as proposed 
     by the Administration to accelerate environmental cleanup at 
     the Paducah, Kentucky, and Portsmouth, Ohio, gaseous 
     diffusion plants.
       The conference agreement includes $42,000,000 as proposed 
     by the Senate for reimbursements to uranium and thorium 
     licensees under Title X of the Energy Policy Act of 1992.


                                science

       The conference agreement includes report language proposed 
     by the House directing the Department to develop a plan 
     outlining the cost, scope, and schedule for decontaminating 
     and decommissioning the High Flux Beam Reactor at the 
     Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.

                    General Provisions--This Chapter

       Corps of Engineers Reorganization.--The conference 
     agreement does not include language proposed by the Senate 
     regarding management reforms of the U.S. Army Corps of 
     Engineers. However, the conferees are extremely concerned 
     about the management reforms initially imposed upon the Corps 
     of Engineers in March of this year by the Secretary of the 
     Army and subsequently suspended due to lack of adequate and 
     appropriate coordination and consultation with the Congress. 
     It is the conferees' strong conviction and expectation that 
     any such management reforms, if yet contemplated by the 
     Administration, will have full benefit of consultation with 
     the Congress in developmental stages and prior to 
     implementation.
       In recent months, actions by Administration officials, as 
     manifested by the proposed management reforms and other 
     public pronouncements, suggest premature conclusions and 
     findings may have been reached regarding as yet 
     unsubstantiated allegations of wrong-doing by Corps of 
     Engineers officials related to studies and initiatives for 
     maintaining and providing the Nation's water resources 
     infrastructure. Results of on-going investigations related to 
     these charges must be made available and considered before 
     any reforms are contemplated. Any actions carried out by the 
     Administration to change the existing management and 
     oversight structure and existing delegations and functions 
     involving the Corps of Engineers without prior and 
     satisfactory coordination with the Congress will not be 
     received favorably and may cause the Congress to revisit this 
     issue and undertake an appropriate response.
       Waste Isolation Pilot Plan.--The conference agreement 
     includes statutory language proposed by the Senate providing 
     that funds in this or any other Act and hereafter may not be 
     used to pay on behalf of the United States or a contractor or 
     subcontractor of the United States for posting a bond or 
     fulfilling any other financial responsibility requirement 
     relating to the closure or post-closure care and monitoring 
     of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.
       Central Arizona Project.--The conference agreement includes 
     a provision proposed by the Senate which states none of the 
     funds provided in this or any other Act may be used to 
     further reallocate Central Arizona Project water or to 
     prepare an Environmental Assessment, Environmental Impact 
     Statement, or Record of Decision providing for a reallocation 
     of Central Arizona Project water until Congress enacts 
     legislation authorizing and directing the Secretary of the 
     Interior to make allocations and enter into contracts for 
     delivery of Central Arizona Project water.
       Congressional Direction.--The conference agreement includes 
     statutory language directing that funds provided in Public 
     Law 106-60 and prior Energy and Water Development 
     Appropriations Acts be made available for the specified 
     institutions and purposes.
       Nuclear Regulatory Commission.--The conference agreement 
     includes statutory language proposed by the House providing 
     that no funds appropriated in fiscal year 2000 to the Nuclear 
     Regulatory Commission (NRC) may be used to relocate, or to 
     plan or prepare for the relocation of, the functions or 
     personnel of the Technical Training Center from its location 
     in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The conference agreement extends 
     the language to fiscal year 2001.

                               CHAPTER 3

                         Military Construction

                    General Provisions, This Chapter

       Section 301. Recommends $19,048,000 as a contingent 
     emergency for military construction and family housing due to 
     storm related damage.
       Section 302. Recommends $1,000,000 as a contingent 
     emergency for Military Construction, Defense-wide, to augment 
     the Corps of Engineers' planning and design work associated 
     with the National Missile Defense system.

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       Section 303. Provides $35,000,000 for the acquisition of 
     land at Blount Island, Florida and rescinds $35,000,000 of 
     funds provided in the Military Construction Appropriations 
     Act, 1996 (Public Law 104-32).

                               CHAPTER 4

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                              Coast Guard

       The conference agreement provides $700,000,000 in 
     supplemental appropriations for the U.S. Coast Guard, 
     including $655,000,000 designated as contingent emergency 
     funding. The conference agreement requires a Presidential 
     declaration before any of the emergency funding is available 
     for obligation.


                           operating expenses

       The conference agreement includes an emergency 
     appropriation of $77,000,000 for Coast Guard ``Operating 
     expenses'', instead of $264,446,000 as proposed by the Senate 
     and $37,000,000 as proposed by the House. The funds are made 
     available until September 30, 2001, and are only available 
     upon designation by the President of an emergency 
     requirement. The conference agreement allocates these funds 
     in the manner recommended by the Secretary of Transportation 
     and the Commandant of the Coast Guard, as shown below:


        Activity                                                 Amount
Health care.................................................$18,000,000
Basic allowance for housing..................................15,000,000
Military pay..................................................5,000,000
Cost of living increases in high cost areas...................2,000,000
Recruiting/retention bonuses.................................15,000,000
Hurricane-damaged facilities..................................8,000,000
Operational fuel/unit level readiness........................13,000,000
Fixed wing aviator retention bonuses..........................1,000,000
                                                       ________________
                                                       
      Total..................................................77,000,000

       The conferees note that some of these funding requirements 
     relate to changed military personnel entitlements enacted in 
     the fiscal year 2000 National Defense Authorization Act. The 
     Coast Guard had adequate time to advise the Appropriations 
     Committees of these costs prior to conference on the fiscal 
     year 2000 Department of Transportation and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Bill, and to include them in the fiscal year 
     2001 budget estimate. In the future, the conferees expect the 
     Coast Guard to ensure timely update of its budget estimates, 
     to avoid the need for supplemental appropriations.


              acquisition, construction, and improvements

       The conference agreement includes an emergency 
     appropriation of $578,000,000 for acquisition of Coast Guard 
     capital assets. The funding is to remain available until 
     expended and is to be distributed as follows:


        Project                                                  Amount
C-130J long range maritime patrol aircraft.................$468,000,000
Great Lakes icebreaker replacement..........................110,000,000
                                                       ________________
                                                       
      Total.................................................578,000,000

       C-130 aircraft.--The conference agreement includes 
     $468,000,000, as proposed by the Senate, for acquisition of 
     six C-130J long-range maritime patrol aircraft as authorized 
     under section 812(b) of the Western Hemisphere Drug 
     Elimination Act (P.L. 105-277). These aircraft are capable of 
     defense requirements and other Coast Guard missions. The 
     conference agreement specifies that this acquisition shall 
     not influence the procurement strategy, program requirements, 
     or downselect decision pertaining to the Deepwater Capability 
     Replacement Project, as proposed by the Senate.
       Great Lakes icebreaker replacement.--The conference 
     agreement includes $110,000,000 for the Great Lakes 
     icebreaker replacement. These funds will support the costs of 
     design, construction, inspection, validation, testing and 
     project administration associated with acquisition of a new 
     multi-purpose icebreaker to replace the USCGC Mackinaw. After 
     55 years of service, the Mackinaw has escalating operating 
     and maintenance costs and declining reliability, and is 
     scheduled to be decommissioned in 2006. New construction of a 
     vessel designed to perform heavy icebreaking and maintain 
     floating aids-to-navigation will expand the efficiency and 
     reliability of Coast Guard operations in the Great Lakes.

                               CHAPTER 5

                     General Provisions--This Title

       Section 501. The conference agreement appropriates 
     $25,000,000 for the Agency for International Development, 
     ``International Disaster Assistance'' for rehabilitation and 
     reconstruction assistance for Mozambique, Madagascar, and 
     southern Africa, to remain available until expended. The 
     entire amount is designated by Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and shall be 
     available only to the extent an official budget request that 
     includes designation of the entire amount as an emergency 
     requirement is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
       Section 502. The conference agreement appropriates 
     $50,000,000 for ``Assistance for Eastern Europe and the 
     Baltic States'' to remain available until September 30, 2001. 
     These funds shall only be available for assistance for 
     Montenegro and Croatia, and not to exceed $12,400,000 for 
     assistance for Kosovo for police activities. The entire 
     amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and is 
     subject to the regular notification procedures of the 
     Committees on Appropriations.

     TITLE II--NATURAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE AND OTHER SUPPLEMENTAL 
                             APPROPRIATIONS

                               CHAPTER 1

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                        Office of the Secretary

       The conference agreement includes an additional $1,350,000 
     for implementation of the Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting 
     Act of 1999. This amount will offset additional costs to USDA 
     agencies to implement this Act. Unfunded agency requirements 
     include: $550,000 for the Economic Research Service; $200,000 
     for the Foreign Agricultural Service; $400,000 for the 
     National Agricultural Statistics Service; and $200,000 for 
     the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration. 
     Although the $4,700,000 in implementation funding sought by 
     the Administration for fiscal year 2000 was provided by 
     Public Law 106-113, these funds have not been distributed 
     among all agencies responsible for administration of this 
     Act.
       The conferees note that language contained in Public Law 
     106-78 requires that the Department of Agriculture obtain 
     Congressional approval before funds for the common computing 
     environment can be spent. The conferees hereby approve those 
     funds for obligation.

                          Farm Service Agency


                         salaries and expenses

       The conference agreement includes an additional 
     $77,560,000, to remain available until expended, as proposed 
     by the House, instead of $39,000,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate. Of this amount, $26,237,000 is to support temporary 
     staff; $12,865,000 is for Pigford consent decree expenses; 
     and $38,458,000 is for information technology expenses 
     requirements.

                         Rural Housing Service


             rural housing insurance funds program account

       The conference agreement includes an additional $15,872,000 
     in budget authority for an estimated loan level of 
     $40,000,000 for Section 515 rental housing, as proposed by 
     the House and Senate.


                       rental assistance program

       The conference agreement includes an additional $13,600,000 
     for the Rental Assistance Program, as proposed by the House 
     and Senate.

                    General Provisions--This Chapter

       Section 2101. The conference agreement includes language 
     that makes up to $81,000,000 of Commodity Credit Corporation 
     funds available to be used to forgive loans to producer-owned 
     associations or producers that suffered losses from natural 
     disasters, as proposed by the House and Senate.
       Section 2102. The conference agreement provides authority 
     for the Secretary of Agriculture to use Commodity Credit 
     Corporation funds to offset the assessment on peanut 
     producers for losses from 1999, as proposed by the Senate.

                               CHAPTER 2

                         DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

             Salaries and Expenses, United States Attorneys

       The conference agreement includes $112,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended, as a contingent emergency 
     appropriation, to be divided equally between the States of 
     Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California to reimburse 
     county and municipal governments only for Federal costs 
     associated with the handling and processing of illegal 
     immigration and drug and alien smuggling cases. The use of 
     these funds is limited to court costs, courtroom technology, 
     the building of holding spaces, administrative expenses, and 
     indigent defense costs.

                    Drug Enforcement Administration


                         salaries and expenses

       The conference agreement includes $181,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended, as a contingent emergency 
     appropriation, to be deposited into the Telecommunications 
     Carrier Compliance Fund for implementation of the 
     Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). 
     The conferees note that narcotics trafficking investigations 
     are increasingly dependent on the use of intercepted 
     communications, accounting for 72% of all court-authorized 
     electronic surveillance actions. As criminal organizations 
     utilize advanced technologies to elude law enforcement, U.S. 
     law enforcement's current drug intelligence and investigative 
     capabilities have been eroded. Therefore, the conference 
     agreement includes funding to implement CALEA to correct this 
     problem to ensure these capabilities are maintained in 
     accordance with current statutory requirements and deadlines.

                       Office of Justice Programs


                           justice assistance

       The conference agreement includes $2,000,000, as a 
     contingent emergency appropriation, for grants to Indian 
     reservations

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     and counties with populations under 150,000 that are located 
     in Arizona and are adjacent to the United States-Mexico 
     border. Funds are to be allocated in proportion to the 
     population of each eligible county and Indian reservation.

                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

                  Economic Development Administration


                economic development assistance programs

       The conference agreement includes $55,800,000, as an 
     emergency appropriation, to remain available until expended. 
     This amount provides for planning assistance, public works 
     grants, and capitalization of revolving loan funds to assist 
     in the recovery efforts of communities impacted by Hurricane 
     Floyd and other recent disasters. Of this amount, $30,000,000 
     is provided as a contingent emergency to be provided to 
     assist communities in New Jersey impacted by Hurricane Floyd. 
     The conferees direct EDA to submit a spending plan for the 
     amounts provided prior to the release of these funds.

            National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


                  operations, research, and facilities

       The conference agreement includes $30,700,000, as an 
     emergency appropriation, to remain available until expended, 
     of which $13,300,000 is provided as a contingent emergency 
     appropriation. Of this amount, $10,800,000 is provided as an 
     emergency appropriation to assist fishermen impacted by 
     Hurricanes Floyd, Dennis, George, and Mitch. In addition, a 
     total of $13,900,000 is included to provide relief from the 
     recent disaster in the Long Island Sound lobster fishery, of 
     which $7,300,000 is provided as a contingent emergency to be 
     divided equally between the States of New York and 
     Connecticut, not less than $3,650,000 for each State, for the 
     following purposes: (1) to pay compensation to individuals 
     for reductions in the number of lobsters caught in the Long 
     Island lobster fishery in the 1999 fishing season, as 
     compared to such catch in the 1998 fishing season as a result 
     of the lobster fishery disaster; (2) to provide direct 
     sustaining aid to fishermen; and (3) to provide assistance to 
     communities that are dependent on such fishery and have 
     suffered losses from such disaster. The remaining funds 
     provided for the Long Island Sound lobster fishery disaster 
     are available for research into the causes of the disaster. 
     The conferees expect NOAA to submit a spending plan prior to 
     release of these funds.
       The conference agreement also includes $5,000,000 as a 
     contingent emergency to provide relief from disaster in the 
     West Coast groundfish fishery. The conferees expect that this 
     amount shall be divided between the States of California, 
     Oregon, and Washington in proportion to the impact of the 
     disaster in each State. The amounts provided to these States 
     shall be available for the following purposes: (1) to pay 
     compensation to individuals who have suffered a direct 
     negative impact from the West Coast groundfish fisheries 
     disaster, (2) to provide direct sustaining aid to such 
     fishermen, and (3) to provide assistance to communities that 
     are dependent on the West Coast groundfish fisheries and have 
     suffered losses from such disaster. The conferees direct NOAA 
     to submit a spending plan prior to the release of these 
     funds. The conference agreement also includes $1,000,000 as a 
     contingent emergency appropriation for repairs to the NOAA 
     hurricane reconnaissance aircraft.

                          DEPARTMENT OF STATE

                       International Commissions


              american sections, international commissions

       The conference agreement includes $2,150,000, to remain 
     available until expended, as a contingent emergency 
     appropriation under this account for International Joint 
     Commission activities related to levels and flows of Lake 
     Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.


                                 other

       United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
       The conference agreement includes $2,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended, as a contingent emergency 
     appropriation for the activities of the Commission.

                             RELATED AGENCY

                     Small Business Administration


                     disaster loans program account

       The conference agreement includes an additional $15,500,000 
     in emergency fiscal year 2000 subsidy appropriations for 
     disaster loans for recovery efforts related to Hurricane 
     Floyd, and other natural disasters.
       The conference agreement also includes an additional 
     $25,400,000 in emergency fiscal year 2000 appropriations for 
     direct administrative expenses associated with disaster loan 
     making and servicing activities necessary to carry out the 
     disaster loan program related to Hurricane Floyd and other 
     natural disasters. The conference agreement includes language 
     prohibiting the use of funds for indirect administrative 
     expenses. The conferees note that this additional amount 
     results in a total appropriation of $141,400,000 for the 
     direct administrative costs of the fiscal year 2000 disaster 
     loan program.
       Language is included designating the amounts provided as an 
     emergency requirement, and making these amounts available 
     only to the extent that an official budget request is 
     submitted requesting that these specific amounts be 
     designated as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended.

                    General Provisions--This Chapter

       Section 2201. The conference agreement includes emergency 
     assistance for the Pribilof Island and East Aleutian area of 
     the Bering Sea crab fishery for payment of direct assistance 
     to Oregon, Washington, and Alaska fishermen. The conference 
     agreement includes $10,000,000 as a contingent emergency for 
     the following: (1) $7,000,000 to allow disaster assistance 
     payments to affected states; (2) $2,000,000 to determine the 
     cause of the fisheries disaster through a cooperative 
     research effort between the National Marine Fisheries Service 
     and the State of Alaska; and (3) $1,000,000 for the State of 
     Alaska to develop a plan to restore the crab population.
       Section 2202. The conference agreement includes $10,000,000 
     as a contingent emergency appropriation for assistance for 
     the Northeast multispecies fishery failure to support a 
     voluntary fishing capacity reduction program.
       Section 2203. The conference agreement includes $7,000,000 
     as a contingent emergency appropriation to study the long-
     line interactions with sea turtles in the North Pacific and 
     commercial fishing activities in the Northwest Hawaiian 
     Islands, and provide observer coverage for the Hawaiian long-
     line fishery.
       Section 2204. The conference agreement amends Public Law 
     101-380, as amended, and inserts a new section 5007 to 
     provide $5,000,000 as a contingent emergency appropriation to 
     create a new North Pacific Marine Research Institute at the 
     Alaska SeaLife Center to be administered by the North Pacific 
     Research Board.

                               CHAPTER 3

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                       Bureau of Land Management


                        wildland fire management

       The conference agreement provides $200,000,000 in emergency 
     funding for wildland fire management instead of $100,000,000 
     as proposed by the House and by the Senate. Of the amount 
     provided, $100,000,000 is contingent on receipt of a budget 
     request that includes a Presidential designation of the 
     amount requested as an emergency requirement pursuant to the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended.


                            land acquisition

       The conference agreement provides $2,000,000 in emergency 
     funding for land acquisition for the Douglas Tract along the 
     Potomac River in Southern Maryland. Approximately 1,000 acres 
     of undeveloped riverfront land is available from a willing 
     seller. This land is of significant historic value with 
     Native American and Civil War sites. Preservation of the land 
     will also help preserve wildlife habitat and unique wetland 
     areas. The President's budget request for fiscal year 2001 
     included $3,000,000 for this purchase. The entire amount is 
     contingent on receipt of a budget request that includes a 
     Presidential designation of the entire amount as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

          Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement


                       regulation and technology

       The conference agreement provides $9,821,000 in emergency 
     funding for regulation and technology as proposed by the 
     Senate instead of no funding as proposed by the House. The 
     funds are for the surface mining regulatory program of the 
     State of West Virginia. The entire amount is contingent on 
     receipt of a budget request that includes a Presidential 
     designation of the entire amount as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
     Act of 1985, as amended.
       The managers are concerned that the State of West Virginia 
     lacks sufficient funding and staffing resources to regulate 
     the effects of surface coal mining operations within the 
     State pursuant to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation 
     Act (SMCRA). Recent litigation and the commencement of a 
     formal review by the office of Surface Mining related to the 
     State's regulatory program demonstrate that unless additional 
     funds and provided immediately, a Federal takeover of these 
     responsibilities may be imminent. If a takeover occurs it 
     will increase the costs to the Federal Government for 
     regulating coal mining in West Virginia and cause major 
     disruptions on the ground. With the additional resources 
     provided in this Act, the State will have the capability to 
     administer an adequate regulatory program to enforce 
     environmental laws and have the necessary tools to perform 
     technical reviews of permit applications effectively and 
     efficiently.
       Accordingly, the managers are providing a total of 
     $9,821,000 to the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and 
     Enforcement to ensure that the State has adequate funds to 
     carry out its regulatory responsibilities under SMCRA. Of 
     this amount, $6,222,000 is for the Office of Surface Mining 
     to enter into a cooperative agreement with the West Virginia 
     Division of Environmental Protection to enhance program 
     capabilities, including developing a geospatial database to 
     ensure appropriate geologic and hydrologic sampling, 
     performing watershed modeling, and

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     other programmatic improvements to ensure the State is able 
     to meet its regulatory requirements under SMCRA.
       A total of $3,599,000 is provided to address the West 
     Virginia Office's staffing deficiencies. These funds are 
     subject to the 50 percent matching requirement of section 
     705(a) of SMCRA. The managers note that West Virginia 
     operates its program with fewer staff and a smaller budget 
     than surrounding States with similar workloads. The 
     controversy over mountaintop removal mining has been a 
     catalyst for demonstrating weaknesses in the West Virginia 
     regulatory program.
       THe managers appreciate that the Office of Surface Mining 
     and the State of West Virginia have worked together closely 
     to characterize the deficiencies in the State's regulatory 
     program. The managers expect this close cooperation to 
     continue as the parties address and resolve program 
     deficiencies. The managers direct the Office of Surface 
     Mining, in conjunction with the State, to keep the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations apprised of the efforts 
     made to correct these problems in the State's regulatory 
     program.

                             RELATED AGENCY

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                             Forest Service


                         national forest system

       The conference agreement provides $2,000,000 in emergency 
     funding for the national forest system instead of $5,759,000 
     as proposed by the Senate and no funding as proposed by the 
     House. The funds are for storm damage repairs in National 
     Forests in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The entire amount is 
     contingent on receipt of a budget request that includes a 
     Presidential designation of the entire amount as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
     Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.


                        wildland fire management

       The conference agreement provides $150,000,000 in emergency 
     funding for wildland fire management as proposed by the House 
     instead of $1,620,000 as proposed by the Senate. The entire 
     amount it contingent on receipt of a budget request that 
     includes a Presidential designation of the entire amount as 
     an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                    General Provisions--This Chapter

       Section 230. Provides authority for the Indian Health 
     Service to release funds appropriated in fiscal year 1999 for 
     construction of a clinic in King Cove, Alaska as proposed by 
     the Senate. Land owned by the city has been designated for 
     the facility and this language is needed to permit IHS to use 
     that site.
       Section 2302. Requires the Secretary of Energy to fund a 
     particulate monitoring program as directed by the Congress in 
     a report accompanying a previous appropriations Act. Funds 
     were made available for this purpose in Public Law 105-277 
     unde the Fossil Energy Research and Development account. The 
     Secretary of Energy has instituted a policy wherein he has to 
     approve any Congressionally identified project prior to the 
     release of funds. This policy has resulted in a bureaucratic 
     morass and prevented the timely initiation of important 
     research. The Secretary of Energy is urged to reexamine this 
     policy.
       The conference agreement does not include language proposed 
     by the Senate addressing the designation of land for a jetty 
     and sand transfer system for the Oregon Inlet in North 
     Carolina. The managers will continue to examine this issue 
     and consider it within the context of the fiscal year 2001 
     appropriations bill for the Department of the Interior and 
     Related Agencies.
       Section 2303. Modifies language proposed by the Senate to 
     provide interim compensation for fishermen, crew members, and 
     processors affected by restrictions on Dungeness crab fishing 
     in Glacier Bay National Park, AK. The modification limits 
     these payments to losses incurred in 2000 except for Buy N 
     Pack Seafoods which is eligible for compensation for 1999 and 
     2000.

                               CHAPTER 4

                          DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

                 Employment and Training Administration


                    training and employment services

       The conference agreement does not include $40,000,000 
     earmarked for Summer Youth Employment as proposed by the 
     Senate and requested by the President.

                 Mine Safety and Health Administration


                         salaries and expenses

       The conference agreement includes a technical change 
     proposed by both the House and Senate to clarify that funds 
     collected by the National Mine Health and Safety Academy for 
     tuition, room, board, and other authorized activities are in 
     addition to the annual appropriation amount.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

              Health Resources and Services Administration


                     health resources and services

       The conference agreement provides $20,000,000 for 
     abstinence education within ``Special projects of regional 
     and national significance;'' part of the maternal and child 
     health block grant as proposed by the House. The Senate bill 
     contains no similar provision. The conference agreement also 
     includes a rescission of $20,000,000 for abstinence education 
     in the Adolescent Family Life program in the Office of the 
     Secretary as proposed by the House. The Senate bill contains 
     no similar provision.
       The conference agreement does not include $100,000,000 in 
     supplemental funding for the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund 
     as requested by the Administration.
       The conference agreement includes $3,000,000 within Health 
     Care Facilities and Construction for Little Flower Children's 
     Services in Wading River, New York, for renovation and 
     construction of a children's psychiatric services facility. 
     The agreement designates the entire amount as an emergency 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

               Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


                disease control, research, and training

                     (including transfers of funds)

       The conference agreement transfers $460,000 provided under 
     Health Resources and Services Administration health care 
     facilities construction to the CDC chronic and environmental 
     disease prevention program for a comprehensive cancer control 
     program at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX to 
     address minority and medically underserved populations.
       The conference agreement includes $12,000,000 for 
     international HIV/AIDS funding, available until September 30, 
     2001, and designated as an emergency pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985. The same amount is rescinded under the 
     Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund, which was 
     originally made available for one year in the Departments of 
     Labor, Health and Human Services and Education and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000.

                Administration on Children and Families


       payments to states for foster care and adoption assistance

       The conference agreement provides $35,000,000 for payments 
     to States for foster care and adoption assistance as proposed 
     by both the House and Senate.


                   low income home energy assistance

       The conference agreement includes $600,000,000 for the Low 
     Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) emergency fund 
     as proposed by both the House and Senate. The conference 
     agreement also makes these funds available until expended as 
     proposed by the Senate. The House bill makes these funds 
     available for obligation through September 30, 2000. The 
     conference agreement also designates the entire amount as an 
     emergency pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.


                     refugee and entrant assistance

       The conference agreement includes a provision extending the 
     availability of Refugee and Entrant Assistance funding from 
     two years to three years as proposed by the House. The Senate 
     bill contains no similar provision.

                        Administration on Aging


                        aging services programs

       The conference agreement includes a provision to extend the 
     availability of funds for the Anchorage, Alaska Senior 
     Citizen's Center as proposed by both the House and Senate.

                        Office of The Secretary


                    general departmental management

                              (rescission)

       The conference agreement includes a rescission of 
     $20,000,000 for abstinence education in the Adolescent Family 
     Life program in the Office of the Secretary. $20,000,000 in 
     additional Abstinence Education Funding is provided in the 
     Health Resources and Services Administration.

            Public Health and Social Service Emergency Fund


                              (rescission)

       The conference agreement does not include a rescission of 
     $163,752,000 as proposed by the President.
       The conference agreement rescinds $31,200,000 in 
     bioterriorism funding made available for one year in the 
     Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education 
     and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 and 
     reappropriates the same amount, making it available until 
     expended. Both the amount rescinded and the reappropriation 
     are designated as an emergency pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985.
       The conference agreement rescinds $12,000,000 in Centers 
     for Disease Control and Prevention funding made available for 
     one year in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
     Services and Education and Related Agencies Appropriations 
     Act, 2000 and reappropriates the same amount, making it 
     available until September 30, 2001. Both the amount rescinded 
     and the reappropriation are designated as an emergency 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

       General Provision--Department of Health and Human Services

       Section 2401. The conference agreement includes a provision 
     to remove the authority to transfer funds among accounts from 
     the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as proposed by 
     both the House and Senate.

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                        DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

                           Special Education

       The agreement includes a provision that allows funds 
     presently appropriated in F00 for the Paralympic Winter Games 
     to be awarded to a designee of the Salt Lake Organizing 
     Committee for expenditure on their behalf.

                     Vocational and Adult Education

       The conference agreement includes a provision to place the 
     Youth Offender Grants program on a forward-funded basis. This 
     provision was not included in either the House or the Senate 
     bills.
       The conference agreement includes a technical correction to 
     the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and 
     Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 which 
     changes the forward funded portion of the appropriation from 
     $858,150,000 to $882,650,000.

                            Higher Education

       The conference agreement includes a provision to extend the 
     availability of State Grants for Incarcerated Youth 
     appropriated in fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for an additional 
     year as proposed by the Senate. The House bill contains no 
     similar provision.
       The conference agreement includes an additional $750,000 
     for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education 
     for creation of a center for inquiry and design-based 
     learning in mathematics, science and technology education at 
     the College of New Jersey, in Ewing, New Jersey. The 
     agreement designates the entire amount as an emergency 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

            Education Research, Statistics, and Improvement


                     (including transfer of funds)

       The conference agreement includes a provision to make 
     several technical corrections as proposed by both the House 
     and the Senate. The conference agreement also includes 
     technical corrections that were not included in either the 
     House or the Senate bills.
       The conference agreement also transfers $368,000 provided 
     under Health Resources and Services Administration, health 
     care facilities construction and renovation to Education 
     Research, Statistics, and Improvement for the George Mason 
     University Center for Services to Families and Schools to 
     expand a program for schools and families of children 
     suffering from attentional, cognitive, and behavioral 
     disorders.

                            RELATED AGENCIES

                     Social Security Administration


                 limitation on administrative expenses

       The conference agreement includes $35,000,000, available 
     through September 30, 2001, for the Social Security 
     Administration for additional workload generated by the 
     ``Senior Citizens' Freedom to Work Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-182) 
     as proposed by the Senate. This level is the same amount as 
     requested by the President and $15,000,000 below the amount 
     in the Senate bill. The House bill contains no similar 
     provision. The conference agreement also designates the 
     entire amount as an emergency pursuant to section 
     251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985.

                    General Provisions--This Chapter

       Section 2402. The conference agreement includes a provision 
     as proposed by the House to remove from the Department of 
     Education and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
     the ability to carry over salary and expense funds for an 
     additional quarter. The Senate bill contains no similar 
     provision.
       Section 2403. The conference agreement includes technical 
     corrections in the conforming amendments on the set-asides in 
     the Welfare-to-Work Amendments of 1999 as proposed by both 
     the House and Senate.
       Section 2404. The conference agreement includes technical 
     corrections to the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and the 
     Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Assistance Act of 
     1998 as proposed by the Senate. The House bill contains no 
     similar provision.
       Section 2405. The conference agreement includes a provision 
     not proposed by either the House or Senate to make funds for 
     certain technical assistance activities related to school 
     reform available at an earlier date.
       Section 2406. The conference agreement includes a 
     provision, as proposed by the Senate in the Military 
     Construction Appropriations Act, 2001, amending section 
     508(f)(1) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to extend the 
     date that the Federal government must provide equal access to 
     disabled federal employees and disabled members of the public 
     seeking information or services. The House bill contains no 
     similar provision.
       Section 2407. The conference agreement provides $3,500,000 
     for the improvement and modernization of Saint John's 
     Lutheran Hospital, Libby, Montana. It also includes 
     $8,000,000 for an Economic Development Administration grant 
     to the city of Libby, Montana. The conference agreement also 
     designates the entire amount as an emergency pursuant to 
     section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
     Deficit Control Act of 1985.

                               CHAPTER 5

                           LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

                        ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

                     Capitol Buildings and Grounds


                              fire safety

       The conference agreement appropriates $17,480,000 to the 
     Architect of the Capitol for fire safety projects as proposed 
     by the Senate instead of $15,166,000 as proposed by the 
     House. The funds are designated as emergency requirements as 
     proposed by the Senate.

                    General Provisions--This Chapter

       Section 2501. The conferees have amended language proposed 
     by the Senate regarding the Trade Deficit Review Commission. 
     The 3-month extension in the due date of the final report has 
     been agreed to; the new subparagraph contained in subsection 
     (a) of the provision in the Senate bill has been dropped 
     without prejudice.

                               CHAPTER 6

           DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND RELATED AGENCIES

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                              Coast Guard


              acquisition, construction, and improvements

                    (including rescission of funds)

       The conference agreement includes $45,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended, for acquisition of one C-37A 
     command and control aircraft for use by the U.S. Coast Guard, 
     as authorized under section 812(b) of the Western Hemisphere 
     Drug Elimination Act (P.L. 105-277). The existing command and 
     control aircraft is sixteen years old and experiencing 
     significant reliability and maintenance problems. In 
     addition, with an average flight cost of $1,500 per hour (40 
     percent higher than current models), this aged aircraft 
     unnecessarily diverts needed funds from other Coast Guard 
     operating missions. The conference agreement fully offsets 
     this appropriation through sale of the current aircraft 
     (estimated by the Coast Guard at $7,000,000) and rescission 
     of other funds totaling $38,000,000. The conferees assume 
     that sale of the VC-11A will first be offered to the vendor 
     of the replacement aircraft. Rescinded funds include 
     $26,600,000 in unobligated balances appropriated to the 
     Office of Management and Budget to resolve Year 2000 computer 
     problems, as proposed by the House, and $11,400,000 from 
     unobligated balances of Coast Guard ``Acquisition, 
     construction, and improvements''.
       The conference agreement includes a rescission of 
     $11,400,000 in available balances from previous 
     appropriations Acts under ``Acquisition, construction, and 
     improvements''. As of May 31, 2000, the Coast Guard had an 
     unobligated balance of $327,404,000 in this appropriation, 
     including regular funds, leftover disaster relief funds, and 
     no-year emergency supplemental appropriations. The conferees 
     believe a fraction of these unused funds can be used to 
     offset higher priority requirements in the conference 
     agreement without adversely impacting the service's missions. 
     The conferees direct that none of these funds be taken from 
     the Great Lakes icebreaker replacement project, and that the 
     Coast Guard submit information on proposed rescissions to the 
     House and Senate Committees on Appropriations prior to 
     implementation.

                    Federal Aviation Administration


                               operations

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

       The conference agreement includes a contingent emergency 
     appropriation of $75,000,000 for additional operating and 
     maintenance costs of the Federal Aviation Administration, 
     available until September 30, 2001, instead of $77,000,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate. The first priority for these 
     additional funds should be the hiring of aviation safety 
     inspectors and medical certification personnel.

                             RELATED AGENCY

                  National Transportation Safety Board


                         salaries and expenses

       The conference agreement provides $19,739,000 for the 
     National Transportation Safety Board for emergency expenses 
     associated with the investigation of Egypt Air Flight 990 and 
     Alaska Air Flight 261 accidents. These funds will compensate 
     wreckage location and recovery facilities, technical support, 
     testing, and wreckage mock-up. Both the House and the Senate 
     bills provided $24,739,000 for investigative costs. Since 
     enactment of each bill, the Arab Republic of Egypt has agreed 
     to reimburse the National Transportation Safety Board 
     $5,000,000 for Egypt Air Flight 990 wreckage location and 
     recovery, decreasing the supplemental needs of the NTSB. The 
     conference agreement requires the Secretary of the Treasury 
     to reduce this appropriation by an amount equal to any 
     subsequent reimbursement by the Arab Republic of Egypt for 
     wreckage location and recovery, family assistance, and 
     interagency agreements for up to $3,983,000. The Egyptian 
     government currently is reviewing the additional expenses.
       Within the funds provided, up to $10,000 shall be made 
     available for the location and recovery of wreckage of 
     N41078, as proposed in the Senate report.

                    General Provisions--This Chapter

       Section 2601. The conferees have included a provision that 
     makes available a total of $35,200,000 for seven bridge 
     projects from funds previously made available to the 
     department under section 104(a) of title 23, U.S.C. These 
     projects were earlier identified in the conference agreement 
     accompanying H.R. 2084, the fiscal year 2000 Department of 
     Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, 
     which directed the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to 
     distribute discretionary bridge program funds

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     for certain specified projects and activities. The office of 
     the secretary and the FHWA, without consulting or notifying 
     the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, released 
     all discretionary bridge funding for fiscal year 2000 and did 
     not consider fully the projects specified in the accompanying 
     report. These actions were unconscionable and remain 
     unacceptable. The conferees assert that the department, 
     particularly the office of the secretary, must comply with 
     both the letter and the spirit of the law, which requires the 
     department to notify the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations not less than three full business days before 
     any discretionary grant award, letter of intent, or full 
     funding grant agreement totaling $1,000,000 or more is 
     announced by the Department or its modal administrations 
     from: (1) any discretionary program of the Federal Highway 
     Administration other than the emergency relief program; (2) 
     the airport improvement program of the Federal Aviation 
     Administration; or (3) any program of the Federal Transit 
     Administration other than the formula grants and fixed 
     guideway modernization programs.
       Section 2602. The conference agreement rescinds $26,600,000 
     in unobligated balances of funds appropriated to the Office 
     of Management and Budget pursuant to Pubic Law 105-277 and 
     subsequently transferred to the Department of Transportation 
     for Year 2000 conversion of Federal information technology 
     systems and related expenses, as proposed by the House. These 
     funds are no longer needed for their original purpose and are 
     available to offset higher priority Coast Guard capital 
     needs.
       Section 2603. The conference agreement includes an 
     emergency appropriation of $2,000,000 to the Office of the 
     Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of 
     Transportation, to be transferred to the Environmental 
     Protection Agency to carry out a telecommuting pilot program.
       Section 2604. The conference agreement includes a provision 
     that amends the allowable federal share requirement for 
     projects for the elimination of hazards of railway-highway 
     crossings funded under the surface transportation program.
       Section 2605. The conference agreement includes $2,000,000 
     for planning, preliminary engineering and design of the 
     Metro-North Danbury to Norwalk commuter rail line re-
     electrification project in Connecticut.
       Section 2606. The conference agreement includes $3,000,000 
     for the Second Avenue Subway in New York City, New York
       Section 2607. The conference agreement includes $500,000 
     for a study of improvements to Highway 8, from the Minnesota 
     border to Highway 51, in the state of Wisconsin.
       Section 2608. The conference agreement includes $1,000,000 
     for reconstruction of, and improvements to, Halls Mill Road 
     in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

                     General Provision--This Title

       Section 2101 allows members of the Pueblo of San Ildefonso 
     and the Pueblo of Santa Clara to collect plants and minerals 
     in the Bandelier National Monument. The extensive areas 
     burned by the Cerro Grande fire have severely reduced the 
     availability of local plants, clays and soils traditionally 
     used by these Pueblos. To allow their traditional ceremonies 
     to continue uninterrupted, it is necessary to allow enrolled 
     members of both Pueblos access to plant and mineral resources 
     that are available in the Bandelier National Monument at 
     quantities greater than allowed by current regulations of the 
     National Park Service. These activities would be consistent 
     with applicable laws governing the Monument.

                               CHAPTER 7

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                          Departmental Offices


                         Salaries and Expenses

       The conferees agree to include $24,900,000 as a contingent 
     emergency appropriation for the establishment of an in-
     service firearms training facility.


                       Firearms Training Facility

       The conferees direct that the Secretary of the Treasury 
     undertake the establishment of an in-service firearms 
     training facility in West Virginia for use by U.S. Customs 
     Service and other law enforcement agencies. The conferees 
     note with grave concern the serious threats that have arisen 
     at U.S. borders with respect to attempted terrorist 
     infiltrations and the increasing complexity of the 
     interdiction of illegal drugs into this country. The Treasury 
     Department has approximately 20,000 armed officers engaged in 
     a wide variety of dangerous law enforcement activities. 
     Because of the need to provide in-service firearms training 
     for armed Treasury personnel, the conferees have included 
     $24,900,000 to accelerate the design and construction of a 
     firearms complex on land currently owned by the Fish and 
     Wildlife Service. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized 
     to designate a lead agency to oversee the development, 
     implementation and operation of the facility and the conduct 
     of training. The complex would also be available for use by 
     the Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, 
     certain other law enforcement personnel and selected State 
     and local enforcement personnel. The conferees have also 
     included language to designate the National Park Service to 
     manage the entire tract of land and to make available a 
     suitable portion of the land for use for the training 
     facility, and language to assure that the training to be 
     conducted at the new training firearms facility will be 
     configured in such a way as to not duplicate or displace any 
     federal law enforcement programs of the Federal Law 
     Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). Likewise, no training 
     currently being conducted at a FLETC facility will be moved 
     to the West Virginia site. The entire amount is contingent 
     upon receipt of a budget request that includes a Presidential 
     designation of the amount requested as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
     Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                      United States Secret Service


                         Salaries and Expenses

       The conferees agree to include $10,000,000 as a contingent 
     emergency appropriation for the United States Secret 
     Service's costs related to planning, coordination and 
     implementation of security for national special security and 
     major protective events.


                    National Security Special Events

       The conferees are extremely concerned that the 
     Administration has failed to request funding for the Secret 
     Service to provide protective services for PDD 62, National 
     Security Special Events (NSSE), causing significant budget 
     shortfalls for the Secret Service. For example, the conferees 
     are aware that the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City has 
     long been officially designated as a NSSE but the 
     Administration provided no funding and implementing overall 
     security. The conferees note however, that the Administration 
     did fund the FBI and FEMA for their role in the Winter 
     Olympics. In order to address fiscal year 2000 shortfalls, 
     the conferees provide $10,000,000 for costs associated with 
     planning, coordination and implementation of security at the 
     following major protective events. The World Trade 
     Organization Meeting, the International Monetary Fund 
     meeting, Operation Sail 2000, the Republican and Democratic 
     National Conventions, the UN General Assembly 55-Millennium 
     Assembly, and fiscal year 2000 costs related to the 2002 
     Winter Olympics. The conferees direct the Department of the 
     Treasury to submit to the Committees on Appropriations, a 
     budgeting plan for the Secret Service in regard to 
     anticipated and unanticipated National Special Security 
     Events for fiscal year 2001 no later than September 1, 2000.

    EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE 
                               PRESIDENT

                        Office of Administration


                         information technology

       The conferees agree to establish a new account within the 
     Office of Administration and include $8,400,000 as a 
     contingent emergency appropriation for the costs associated 
     with the restoration and reconstruction of certain electronic 
     mail messages and for inclusion of such messages in the 
     Automated Records Management System. These funds were 
     proposed by the President to be funded within the Office of 
     Administration's Salaries and Expenses appropriation. Neither 
     the House nor the Senate bills included these funds as the 
     President's request was received after House and Senate 
     consideration of the supplemental appropriations bills.


                        tape restoration project

       The conferees have established a new account for the 
     necessary expenses of ongoing activities associated with the 
     restoration and reconstruction of certain electronic mail 
     messages and for inclusion in the Automated Records 
     Management System, providing $8,400,000, to remain available 
     until September 30, 2002. The conferees prohibit the 
     obligation of these funds until the Office of Administration 
     submits an independent verification and validation of the 
     estimated costs of this project.
       The conferees are concerned by the escalation in estimated 
     costs of this project, which have ranged from $3,000,000 to 
     levels well in excess of that amount. To date, $4,800,000 has 
     been provided to support ongoing work; combined with this 
     supplemental appropriation, the total federal appropriation 
     is $13,200,000. The conferees are concerned that, to date, 
     estimates of total project costs have not been finalized and 
     that an independent verification and validation of both the 
     costs of specific phases of the reconstruction effort and the 
     total project are not available. The conferees have included 
     bill language prohibiting the obligation of funds until the 
     Office of Administration submits to the Committees on 
     Appropriations an independent verification and validation of 
     the costs of the restoration project, including the final 
     report prepared by the independent verification and 
     validation contractor for both initial and projects cost 
     estimates.
       It is not the intent of the conferees to delay or impede 
     the ongoing restoration work; nonetheless, the conferees 
     believe it is critical that all costs related to this project 
     undergo an independent verification and validation process 
     and that the findings of this process be reported to the 
     Committees on Appropriations as expeditiously as possible. 
     The conferees note the current monthly reporting requirements 
     imposed by the House Committee on Appropriations in regards 
     to the obligation of funds as well as other project analysis. 
     Should it be necessary, and in order to satisfy the 
     requirements of the bill language without impeding ongoing 
     work, the conferees are willing to consider releasing a 
     portion of the funds upon receipt of interim verification and 
     validation documents until the final report is prepared.

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     These interim reports would be in addition to the monthly 
     reports required by the House Committee on Appropriations. 
     Should these interim reports become necessary, the Office of 
     Administration is directed to establish, in consultation with 
     the Committees on Appropriations, a schedule of milestones 
     for the completion of the final report and the total release 
     of funds.


                  automated records management system

       The conferees are concerned that contractor error may be a 
     causal factor in the White House e-mails not being properly 
     archived into the Automated Records Management System (ARMS), 
     resulting in the present supplemental appropriation for 
     reconstruction and restoration costs. The conferees fully 
     expect the Executive Office of the President (EOP) to 
     diligently pursue reimbursement from contractors if it is 
     determined that their errors and/or negligence led to the 
     present additional funding requirement. The conferees believe 
     that the EOP should review contractor performance beginning 
     with the ARMS project of 1994 and including all contractors 
     responsible for operating and maintaining the information 
     technology system for the EOP. The conferees direct the 
     Office of Administration to report back within 6 months of 
     the date of enactment of this Act to the Committees on 
     Appropriations on the performance of the contractors 
     responsible for operating and maintaining the information 
     technology systems. The performance report should include an 
     evaluation of whether or not the contractor has legally 
     defaulted and on any actions to be taken by the EOP to recoup 
     the costs associated with the reconstruction and restoration 
     effort currently underway.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                    General Services Administration


                         policy and operations

       The conferees agree to include $3,300,000 as a contingent 
     emergency appropriation for the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic 
     and Paralympic Game doping control program.

                    General Provisions--This Chapter

       Section 2701. The conferees agree to include a provision 
     waiving anti-pooling provisions for the fiscal year 2000 
     administrative costs of the Counterdrug Intelligence 
     Executive Secretariat.
       Section 2702. The conferees agree to include a provision to 
     rescind and reappropriate certain unobligated balances with 
     the Internal Revenue Service's Information Technology 
     Investments account.
       Section 2703. The conferees agree to include a provision 
     authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to address clerical 
     errors in fiscal year 1999 which resulted in the Hospital 
     Insurance (HI) Trust Fund being over-invested while the 
     Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) Trust Fund was under-
     invested. The conferees understand that the principal amount 
     of the bookkeeping errors has been corrected, but that the 
     over-investment resulted in the HI Trust Fund being credited 
     with excess interest earnings, while the under-investment 
     resulted in the SMI Trust Fund being deprived of interest 
     earnings. The conferees further understand that these 
     bookkeeping errors have not affected Medicare payments in any 
     way, nor did the errors result in any moneys being 
     erroneously paid out by the Government. Nevertheless, the 
     conferees believe that the errors should be corrected in full 
     to ensure the correct allocation of funds among the HI Trust 
     Funds, the SMI Trust Fund, and the Treasury General Fund.
       Section 2704. The conferees agree to include a technical 
     modification to Public Law 106-113 to make a direct payment 
     to the United States Olympic Committee through the United 
     States Anti-Doping Agency from funds appropriated for fiscal 
     year 2000.
       Section 2705. The conferees agree to include a provision to 
     rescind and reappropriate certain unobligated balances within 
     the Salaries and Expenses account of the U.S. Secret Service.
       Section 2706. The conferees agree to include a technical 
     modification to Public Law 106-58 clarifying language in 
     Senate Report 106-87 on the Treasury and General Government 
     Appropriations Act, 2000, to authorize the General Services 
     Administration to provide funds appropriated in fiscal year 
     2000 for the Nebraska State Patrol Digital Distance Learning 
     project.

                               CHAPTER 8

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                   Community Planning and Development


                   community development block grants

       Inserts language as proposed by the House making a 
     technical correction on a specific economic development 
     initiative grant provided under title II of Public Law 106-
     74.
       Inserts language proposed by the Senate and modified by the 
     conferees making a technical correction on a specific 
     neighborhood initiative grant provided under title II of 
     Public Law 106-74.
       Inserts new language providing $27,500,000 for five 
     targeted economic development initiatives.


                  home investment partnerships program

       Inserts language proposed by the House which provides 
     $11,000,000 to the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs 
     and $25,000,000 to the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency. 
     This funding is for temporary rental assistance to very low-
     income families displaced by the floods spawned by Hurricane 
     Floyd. The conferees direct HUD to provide these funds to the 
     aforementioned State agencies within two weeks of enactment 
     of this Act.


                       homeless assistance grants

       Inserts language proposed by the Senate and modified by the 
     House authorizing HUD to spend funds from this account to 
     renew for one year those expiring Shelter Plus Care and 
     Supportive Housing grants covered by the 1999 Notice of 
     Funding Availability (NOFA).
       The conferees note their increasing concern about how 
     priorities for this program are set. It is the understanding 
     of the conferees that the McKinney program leaves the 
     decision to renew expiring grants with local authorities. 
     Thus, there is a fundamental mismatch between a results-
     oriented program that creates a supply of permanent housing 
     that ends homelessness among chronically ill persons, and 
     HUD's commitment to operating the program through local 
     decision-making. In addition, the conferees are concerned 
     about the long-term implications of automatically renewing 
     all permanent housing commitments. By including this 
     compromise, the conferees are merely resolving the immediate 
     issue and deferring a more comprehensive decision to a more 
     appropriate vehicle or to a later date. Any comprehensive 
     approach should include data and management systems that can 
     measure progress toward the goal of ending chronic 
     homelessness.
       Inserts language proposed by the House authorizing HUD to 
     make technical assistance funds available for management and 
     information systems.

                     Management and Administration


                         salaries and expenses

       Inserts new language limiting HUD from spending funds to 
     employ more than 9,100 full time equivalent (FTE) employees 
     during fiscal year 2000. Additionally, HUD is directed to 
     develop an employee resource management plan that: (1) bases 
     estimates and allocations on the level of work and where it 
     is to be performed; (2) includes all departmental 
     responsibilities in the work definition and resource 
     estimation system; (3) identifies what work can be done with 
     current human resource levels, and what tasks must be done 
     less often, not done, or contracted out if they are to be 
     accomplished; and (4) includes a resource validation 
     component that accurately measures what staff do. The 
     Department is directed to brief the Committees on 
     Appropriations every six months on the progress made in 
     developing this plan until it is implemented.
       HUD's lack of an adequate staff plan begs the question of 
     why HUD is apparently racing to hire more than 764 employees 
     by the end of July, 2000. Though the limitation agreed to by 
     the conferees does not preclude HUD from continuing down this 
     course, it should be considered a warning that HUD cannot 
     assume that funds to cover more than 9,100 FTEs in fiscal 
     year 2001 will be forthcoming.
       This assumption, in addition to being reckless, is further 
     jeopardized because HUD's 2001 budget estimates about salary 
     requirements are simply incorrect. The newest information 
     from HUD shows that rather than needing $78,800 per FTE for 
     salaries, HUD actually needs $82,000. This increase is due to 
     HUD's insistence to hire community builder fellows at grade 
     and salary levels that far out-strip career civil servants. 
     In order to stave off employee complaints about the community 
     builder program and to boost the moral of the civil servants, 
     HUD recently promoted 200 career civil servants and provided 
     more than 3,000 quality step increases to career civil 
     servants. These increases, though likely well-deserved, were 
     not built into the fiscal year 2001 budget estimate. The 
     conferees believe that this decision, coupled with HUD's 
     insistence on hiring 764 new staff, constitutes serious 
     mismanagement and could create a crisis that may not be 
     averted unless prompt responsible action is taken.
       Thus, the conferees direct HUD to reconsider hiring to this 
     staff level until the Committees, along with the Office of 
     Management and Budget (OMB), can undertake a review of HUD's 
     staffing needs and relate them to a realistic budget 
     proposal.

                      Office of Inspector General


                    (including rescission of funds)

       Inserts technical language proposed by the Senate and 
     modified by the House rescinding and re-appropriating 
     $6,000,000 for the ``Office of Inspector General'' for the 
     Housing Fraud Initiative.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

             Corporation for National and Community Service


                national and community service programs

                           operating expenses

                         (rescission of funds)

       Inserts new language rescinding $1,000,000 from the 
     National Service Trust instead of transferring such amount as 
     proposed by the House. The conferees have included this 
     rescission as part of the appropriation of additional funds 
     for the Office of Inspector General.

                      Office of Inspector General

       Inserts $1,000,000 for the Office of Inspector General, as 
     proposed by the House. The amount provided shall be for the 
     purpose of expanding the number of audits of State 
     Commissions on National and Community Service. The conferees, 
     recognizing the lateness of the additional funds, have agreed 
     to

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     make these funds available until September 30, 2001.

                    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY


                 ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       Inserts language as proposed by the House clarifying 
     Congressional intent with respect to a specific grant made 
     available in Public Law 106-74 and in prior Acts; and which 
     transfer funds provided for a specific grant in Public Law 
     105-276 to the ``State and tribal assistance grant'' account 
     for specific water and wastewater infrastructure projects.
       New language has also been included which prohibits the 
     Environmental Protection Agency from spending any funds 
     available for expenditure in fiscal years 2000 and 2001 to 
     make a final determination on or implement any new rule 
     relative to the Proposed Revisions to the National Pollutant 
     Discharge Elimination System Program and Federal 
     Antidegradation Policy and the Proposed Revisions to the 
     Water Quality Planning and Management Regulations Concerning 
     Total Maximum Daily Load, published in the Federal Register 
     on August 23, 1999.


                   state and tribal assistance grants

       Inserts language as proposed by the House making a 
     technical correction to a specific grant identified in 
     project number 102 provided in Public Law 106-74; and inserts 
     new language making further technical corrections with 
     respect to specific grants identified in project numbers 135 
     and 50 provided in Public Law 106-74.

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency


                            disaster relief

       The conferees have agreed to provide $50,000,000, in 
     addition to other amounts made available, to be derived from 
     unobligated balances made available under ``Disaster Relief'' 
     in Public Law 106-74, as proposed by the Senate. The House 
     has proposed an additional $77,400,000 for buyout of 
     properties made uninhabitable by Hurricane Floyd and 
     surrounding events, under regulations promulgated in response 
     to passage of Public Law 106-113. Both the House and Senate 
     bills had designated the funding as emergency funding.
       The conferees have agreed to include up to $50,000,000 
     within available disaster relief funds for buyouts and 
     elevations of properties in the 100-year floodplain in areas 
     which have had Presidential disaster declarations in fiscal 
     years 1999 or 2000. FEMA is to give priority consideration to 
     grant proposals for buyouts or elevations of repetitive loss 
     properties. The fact the conferees have provide additional 
     funds for buyouts reflects a recognition of significant 
     demand for these funds in numerous states throughout the 
     country and the need for actions to reduce potential losses 
     for future flood events. The action of the conferees is not a 
     positive reflection, however, on how FEMA has executed this 
     program to date. The conferees are deeply troubled with 
     FEMA's implementation of the buyout program as the agency has 
     failed to meet statutory requirements to issue interim 
     regulations by December 31, 1999, failed to provide States 
     with clearly defined guidance to apply eligibility criteria, 
     failed to develop a standard method for assessing fair market 
     value and estimated costs per structure, and made an interim 
     allocation based on inaccurate State submissions resulting in 
     inequitable distribution of funds to the States. The 
     conferees expect FEMAS will address these major shortcomings, 
     and those expected to be identified by the Inspector General 
     shortly, and issue a final rule in a timely manner. Without 
     stronger oversight and accountability for these funds than 
     has been exhibited to date, additional funds will be 
     provided.
       The conferees are aware of a disaster declaration request 
     submitted June 26, 2000 by the Governor of North Dakota for 
     areas in the eastern portion of the state affected by severe, 
     unexpected rainfall, and understand there likely will be a 
     formal Presidential declaration made shortly. The conferees 
     recognize and applaud the professional and dedicated response 
     to this disaster, as well as the initial damage assessments 
     already performed by State and local disaster officials and 
     representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
     (FEMA). The conferees urge FEMA and other Federal agencies 
     involved in responding to these floods to act expeditiously 
     in processing claims submitted by State and local officials 
     and affected residents upon the formal emergency declaration.

             National Aeronautics and Space Administration


                  science, aeronautics and technology

       The conferees have provide an additional $1,000,000 for the 
     Independent Verification and Validation Facility to perform 
     software IV&V work for future Mars missions, and an 
     additional $500,000 for the expansion of the Self Adaptive 
     Vehicular Equipment (SAVE) project's ``Online Learning Flight 
     Control for Intelligent Flight Controls Systems'' initiative 
     at the Dryden Flight Research Center.

                    General Provisions--This Chapter

       Section 2801. Inserts language as proposed by the House and 
     the Senate clarifying the intent of title V, subtitle C, 
     section 538 of Public Law 106-74.
       Section 2802. Inserts language as proposed by the Senate 
     clarifying the intent of a specific grant provided in Public 
     Law 106-113.
       Sections 2803 and 2804. Inserts language as proposed by the 
     Senate making several technical corrections in title II of 
     Public Law 106-74.

                               CHAPTER 9

                     General Provision--This Title

                          District of Columbia

       Section 2901 appropriates $4,485,000 in Federal funds as 
     proposed by the Senate to reimburse the District of Columbia 
     for certain costs incurred in connection with the 
     International Monetary Fund and World Bank Organization 
     Spring Conference held in the District in April 2000. The 
     conference agreement includes language proposed by the Senate 
     that designates this appropriation as an emergency 
     requirement available only to the extent that an official 
     budget request is received by the Congress.

                      TITLE III--COUNTER NARCOTICS

                               CHAPTER 1

                    DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--MILITARY

       Chapter 1 of the conference agreement provides a total of 
     $184,059,000 in emergency supplemental appropriations for the 
     Department of Defense, instead of $185,800,000 as proposed by 
     the House and $115,700,000 as proposed by the Senate, to 
     support Plan Colombia goals and for the procurement of one 
     Airborne Reconnaissance Low aircraft.
       The following table provides details of the emergency 
     supplemental appropriations in this chapter.

                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                    FY2000      FY 2001
                    Program                        request      request       House        Senate     Conference
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Counter-narcotics battalion support............       18,200        3,000       21,200       18,200       21,200
Counter-narcotics brigade headquarters.........        1,000            0        1,000        1,000        1,000
Army aviation infrastructure support...........        8,200        5,000       13,200        8,200       13,200
Military reform................................        3,000        3,000        6,000        3,000        6,000
Organic intelligence capability................            0        5,000        5,000            0        5,000
Senior Scout...................................            0        5,000        5,000            0        5,000
Tracker aircraft modifications.................        7,000        3,000       10,000        7,000       10,000
AC-47 aircraft modifications...................        1,000        6,400        7,400        1,000        7,400
Ground based radar.............................       13,000        7,000       20,000            0       13,000
Radar command and control......................        5,000            0        5,000        5,000        5,000
Andean ridge intelligence collection...........        3,000        4,000        7,000        3,000        7,000
Colombian ground interdiction..................        5,000            0        5,000        5,000        5,000
Classified.....................................       34,000       21,000       80,000       34,300       55,259
Airborne Reconnaissance Low aircraft...........            0            0            0       30,000       30,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                       aircraft procurement, army

       The conferees agree to provide $30,000,000 for the 
     procurement of one Airborne Reconnaissance Low (ARL) 
     aircraft, as proposed by the Senate. This aircraft will 
     replace the ARL aircraft lost in the tragic crash during a 
     counter-narcotics mission in Colombia last year. The 
     conferees are concerned that more ARL aircraft have not been 
     available on a regular basis to U.S. Southern Command, and 
     strongly urge the Department of Defense and the Army to 
     provide more ARL mission aircraft for missions in the U.S. 
     Southern Command area of responsibility.


         drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense

       The conferees agree to provide $154,059,000 in support of 
     Plan Colombia. The conferees direct the Secretary of Defense 
     to provide to the Committees on Appropriations, not later 
     than 30 days following enactment of this Act, a report on the 
     proposed uses of all funds under this heading. This report 
     shall describe steps taken to ensure the maximum force 
     protection of U.S. personnel while deployed in Colombia, 
     including their rules of engagement. The conferees have 
     provided funding for specific activities, as described in the 
     budget request, and direct the Under Secretary of Defense 
     (Comptroller) to notify the Committees on Appropriations 15 
     session days prior to any obligation or transfer of funds 
     which is not consistent with the specific purposes contained 
     in the request and delineated in this statement of managers.
       Additionally, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
     Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict is directed to 
     provide a monthly report to the congressional defense 
     committees, which shall include the following information for 
     the preceding month:

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     Identification of private sector firms providing support to 
     Plan Colombia in any capacity, the number of American 
     citizens located overseas in execution of supporting 
     contracts, and the number of military personnel and U.S. 
     government employees operating in Colombia and the 
     surrounding region in support of Plan Colombia.


                          classified programs

       The conference agreement regarding classified programs is 
     summarized in a classified annex accompanying this statement 
     of managers.

                    General Provisions--This Chapter

       The conferees agree to retain and amend section 3101, as 
     proposed by the House and amended by the Senate, which places 
     limits on the funds made available in this Act to the 
     Department of Defense for the provision of support for 
     counter-drug activities of the Government of Colombia.

                               CHAPTER 2

                     BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE

                  Funds Appropriated to the President

                          Department of State


               assistance for counternarcotics activities

       The conference agreement recommends $1,018,500,000 in 
     emergency supplemental appropriations to reduce the supply of 
     narcotics to the United States from Colombia and Southern and 
     Central America and the Caribbean. The House bill recommended 
     $1,099,000,000 and the Senate amendment recommended 
     $934,100,000.
       The President requested that $818,000,000 be designated as 
     an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. In 
     addition, the President requested $256,000,000 in fiscal year 
     2001 to support Plan Colombia. These funds shall only be 
     available to the extent that an official budget request that 
     designates the entire amount as an emergency requirement is 
     transmitted to the Congress. The conference agreement 
     provides that these funds be available until expended, as 
     requested by the Administration.
       The conference agreement provides a waiver of section 
     482(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, regarding the 
     procurement of weapons and ammunition, for funds under this 
     heading. Also the conference agreement requires that funds 
     under this title shall be subject to all limitations and 
     restrictions contained in section 599D of section 1000(a)(2) 
     of Public Law 106-113, regarding funds for population 
     planning.
       The conference agreement directs the Secretary of State, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the 
     Administrator of the Agency for International Development, to 
     provide to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to 
     the Committees on Appropriations not later than 30 days after 
     enactment of this Act, a report on the proposed uses of all 
     funds under this heading on a country-by-country basis for 
     each proposed program, project or activity. The conferees 
     direct the Administration's report to reflect the priorities 
     as provided in the following funding columns. The conferees 
     note that the report by the Secretary of State must be 
     received prior to the initial obligation of any of these 
     emergency supplemental funds. The conferees expect this 
     report to serve as the basis for any future reprogramming of 
     funds by the Executive Branch. Further, at least 20 days 
     prior to the obligation of funds under this title, the 
     Secretary of State shall inform the Committees on 
     Appropriations.


                      assistance for plan colombia

       The assistance for Plan Colombia is designed to support the 
     five objectives of the Colombian government's effort to gain 
     control of the drug producing regions in southern Colombia; 
     to increase drug interdiction efforts; to provide additional 
     assistance to the Colombian National Police; to increase 
     alternative economic development programs, and to strengthen 
     human rights and justice and anti-crime programs.


              support for the push into southern colombia

       The conference agreement recommends $390,500,000 to support 
     the Government of Colombia's objective to gain control of the 
     drug producing regions of southern Colombia. These funds will 
     support certain aspects of training and equipping the second 
     and third Colombian Army counternarcotics battalions. Central 
     to this entire effort is providing reliable airlift for these 
     counternarcotics battalions. The conference agreement directs 
     that funds will be utilized to: procure and support 16 UH-60 
     Black Hawk helicopters; procure, refurbish, and support 30 
     UH-1H Huey II helicopters; and support 15 UH-1N helicopters 
     for use by the Colombian Army. The conference agreement 
     directs that UH-60 Black Hawk procurement be managed by the 
     U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency. The conference 
     agreement includes language, as contained in the House bill, 
     requiring that if any helicopter procured with funds under 
     this heading is used to aid or abet the operations of an 
     illegal self-defense group or security cooperative, then such 
     helicopter shall be immediately returned to the United 
     States. The conferees recognize that significant resources 
     under this title are dedicated to procurement and sustainment 
     of various aircraft for use by the Colombia government and, 
     therefore, support funds for defensive systems to provide 
     protection for these aircraft. As requested by the 
     Administration, the conference agreement recommends 
     $9,000,000 to procure Schweizer SA 2-37A organize 
     intelligence aircraft with forward looking infrared (FLIR) to 
     support the counternarcotics battalions' counter-drug 
     surveillance. The conference agreement directs funds for the 
     following programs:

               SUPPORT FOR THE PUSH INTO SOUTHERN COLOMBIA
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                    House        Senate      Conference
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Train and equip Colombian Army    $7,000,000    $7,000,000    $7,000,000
 counternarcotics battalions..
Army Counternarcotics             64,000,000    64,000,000    60,000,000
 battalion UH-1N program......
Army Counternarcotics            362,000,000  ............   208,000,000
 battalion UH-60 Black Hawk
 program......................
Army Counternarcotics           ............   118,500,000    60,000,000
 battalion UH-1H Huey II
 program......................
Sustain Army counternarcotics      6,000,000     6,000,000     6,000,000
 battalion....................
Forward infrastructure             3,000,000     5,000,000     3,000,000
 development..................
Force protection enhancements.     4,000,000     7,000,000     4,000,000
Logistical Support............     4,400,000     8,000,000     4,400,000
Army Counternarcotics              9,000,000     9,000,000     9,000,000
 battalion organic
 intelligence.................
Training for senior commanders     1,100,000     1,100,000     1,100,000
Army Counternarcotics              3,000,000  ............     3,000,000
 battalion communications.....
Other infrastructure and           6,500,000  ............  ............
 sustainment..................
Alternative development in        16,000,000    10,000,000    10,000,000
 southern Colombia............
Temporary emergency               15,000,000    15,000,000    15,000,000
 resettlement and employment..
                               -----------------------------------------
      Total...................   501,000,000   250,600,000   390,500,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

                    support for interdiction efforts

       The conference agreement recommends $129,400,000 to enhance 
     United States and Colombian narcotics interdiction efforts. 
     The majority of these funds are dedicated to upgrading the 
     radar systems in four U.S. Customs Service P-3 airborne early 
     warning interdiction aircraft. The U.S. Customs Service 
     aircraft are dedicated to missions to detect and monitor 
     suspect targets destined for the United States from cocaine 
     source zones, primarily Colombia. Additionally, the Committee 
     directs funds U.S. and Colombian air, land, and sea 
     interdiction programs as follows:

                    SUPPORT FOR INTERDICTION EFFORTS
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                    House        Senate      Conference
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Upgrade Colombian Air Force OV-  $15,000,000   $15,000,000   $15,000,000
 10 aircraft..................
Upgrade aircraft for night         1,900,000     1,500,000     1,900,000
 operations...................
Airfield upgrades.............     8,000,000     8,000,000     8,000,000
Upgrade U.S. Customs Service P-   68,000,000    68,000,000    68,000,000
 3 aircraft radar systems.....
Support for Colombian air         19,500,000    19,500,000    19,500,000
 interdiction program.........
Support for Colombian riverine    12,000,000    12,000,000    12,000,000
 interdiction program.........
Ammunition for Colombian           2,000,000     2,000,000     2,000,000
 riverine interdiction program
Colombian Navy operations          1,000,000     1,000,000     1,000,000
 infrastructure support.......
U.S. ONDCP Counternarcotics        1,000,000       500,000  ............
 intelligence architecture....
U.S. Treasury/OFAC sanctions       2,100,000     2,000,000     2,000,000
 support......................
Civil beacons.................  ............     2,000,000  ............
Go Fast Boat..................  ............     1,000,000  ............
                               -----------------------------------------
      Total...................   130,500,000   132,500,000   129,400,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------


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               support for the colombian national police

       The conference agreement recommends $115,600,000 to support 
     the Colombian National Police (CNP). The conferees note that 
     the CNP has for years been at the forefront of the Colombian 
     National Police (CNP). The conferees note that the CNP has 
     for years been at the forefront of the Colombian government's 
     counter-narcotics efforts and has received significant United 
     States support in recent years. The conference agreement 
     recommends three significant programs to enhance the CNP's 
     eradication efforts. These include: $2,600,000 for 
     procurement, training and support for two UH-60 Black Hawk 
     helicopters; $20,600,000 for twelve UH-1H Huey II 
     helicopters; and $20,000,000 for the purchase of Ayers S2R T-
     65 agricultural spray aircraft and OV-10 aircraft. The 
     conference agreement recommends additional funds be provided 
     for communications, ammunition, spare parts, training and 
     logistical support. The conference agreement directs funds 
     for the following programs:

                SUPPORT FOR THE COLOMBIAN NATIONAL POLICE
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                    House        Senate      Conference
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Secure communications.........    $3,000,000    $3,000,000    $3,000,000
Weapons and ammunition........     3,000,000     3,000,000     3,000,000
UH-60 Black Hawk procurement      26,000,000  ............    26,000,000
 and support..................
Enhanced Logistical Support...     2,000,000     2,000,000     2,000,000
CNP forward operating              5,000,000     5,000,000     5,000,000
 capability and force
 protection...................
CNP border bases construction.     5,000,000     5,000,000     5,000,000
Additional CNP airmobile units     2,000,000     2,000,000     2,000,000
Upgrade CNP aviation               8,000,000     8,000,000     8,000,000
 facilities...................
Additional spray aircraft.....    20,000,000    20,000,000    20,000,000
Upgrade existing CNP airplanes     5,000,000     5,000,000     5,000,000
 (including FLIR).............
Upgrade 12 UH-1H helicopters      20,600,000    24,000,000    20,600,000
 to Huey II configuration.....
Sustainment and operations....     5,000,000     5,000,000     5,000,000
Training for pilots and            1,900,000     2,500,000     2,000,000
 mechanics....................
Airfield security.............     2,000,000     2,000,000     2,000,000
Enhanced eradication..........     4,000,000     4,000,000     4,000,000
Spare parts...................     3,000,000     3,000,000     3,000,000
                               -----------------------------------------
      Total...................   115,500,000    93,500,000   115,600,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

      support for alternative and economic development in colombia

       The conference agreement recommends $81,000,000 to support 
     alternative and economic development programs in Colombia. 
     These funds are in addition to funds provided for alternative 
     development associated with the Colombian government's 
     objective to ``Push into Southern Colombia''. The conferees 
     recommend funding levels for these programs at levels below 
     the House and Senate bills since these supplemental funds are 
     not expected to reach Colombia until the last quarter of 
     fiscal year 2000. The conferees believe that additional 
     funding for these programs can be made available during the 
     regular fiscal year 2001 appropriations process. The 
     conference agreement recommends $4,000,000 for operating 
     expenses for the Agency for International Development to 
     effectively manage this program. The conferees direct funds 
     for the following programs:

      SUPPORT FOR ALTERNATIVE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN COLOMBIA
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                    House        Senate      Conference
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Environmental programs........    $5,000,000    $2,500,000    $2,500,000
Voluntary eradication programs    46,000,000    46,000,000    30,000,000
Assistance to local               15,000,000    12,000,000    12,000,000
 governments..................
Assistance for internally         24,500,000    24,500,000    22,500,000
 displaced persons............
AID Operating Expenses in          6,000,000     4,500,000     4,000,000
 Colombia.....................
Community-level alternative       20,000,000    20,000,000    10,000,000
 development..................
                               -----------------------------------------
      Total...................   116,500,000   109,500,000    81,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

        Support for Human Rights and Judicial Reform in Colombia

       The conference agreement recommends $122,000,000 for a 
     broad range of human rights, judicial reform, and other 
     programs designed to support the peace process and to 
     strengthen democracy and rule of law in Colombia. The 
     conferees strongly support funding for these programs and 
     recognize that protecting human rights and rule of law are 
     central to the overall goals of Plan Colombia. The conferees 
     note that the recommended level for these important programs 
     is $29,000,000 more than requested by the Administration. The 
     conference agreement includes $2,500,000 to support the 
     rehabilitation of child soldiers instead of $5,000,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not address this 
     matters. The conference agreement directs funds for the 
     following programs:

        SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND JUDICIAL REFORM IN COLOMBIA
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                    House        Senate      Conference
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Protection of human rights        $4,500,000    $4,000,000    $4,000,000
 workers......................
Strengthen human rights            8,500,000     7,000,000     7,000,000
 institutions.................
Establish CNP/Fiscalia human       4,000,000    25,000,000    25,000,000
 rights units.................
Judicial system policy reform.     2,500,000     1,500,000     1,000,000
Criminial code reform.........     3,500,000     3,500,000     1,500,000
Prosecutor training...........     4,500,000     4,000,000     4,000,000
Judges training...............     4,000,000     4,000,000     3,500,000
Casa de Justicia judicial          6,500,000     3,000,000     1,000,000
 program......................
Public defender program.......     2,500,000     2,000,000     2,000,000
Asset forfeiture-money             4,000,000  \1\ 15,000,0    15,000,000
 laundering task force........                          00
Counternarcotics investigative     4,000,000  ............  ............
 units........................
Anti-corruption program.......     6,000,000         (\1\)  ............
Asset management program......     1,000,000         (\1\)  ............
Anti-kidnapping program.......     2,000,000     2,000,000     1,000,000
Financial crime program.......     3,000,000         (\1\)  ............
Judicial Police training           4,000,000     4,000,000     3,000,000
 program......................
Witness and judicial security.     5,000,000     5,000,000     5,000,000
Armed Forces human rights and      1,500,000  ............     1,500,000
 legal reform.................
Army JAG School...............     1,000,000  ............     1,000,000
Training for Customs police...     6,000,000     6,000,000     2,000,000
Maritime enforcement and port      4,000,000     4,000,000     2,500,000
 security.....................
Multilateral case initiative..     4,500,000     4,500,000     3,000,000
Prison security program.......     8,000,000     8,000,000     4,500,000
Banking supervision assistance     1,000,000     1,000,000     1,000,000
Revenue enhancement assistance     1,000,000     1,000,000       500,000
Customs training assistance...     1,000,000     1,000,000     1,000,000
Conflict management and peace      1,000,000     5,000,000     3,000,000
 process......................
U.N. Office of Human Rights...  ............     1,000,000     1,000,000
U.S. Government monitoring....  ............     1,500,000     1,500,000
Orgaized financial crime......  ............  \1\ 15,000,0    14,000,000
                                                        00
Rehabilitationn of Child        ............     5,000,000     2,500,000
 Soldiers.....................
Witness/Judicial Security       ............    10,000,000    10,000,000
 Human Rights Cases...........
                               -----------------------------------------
      Total...................    98,500,000   143,000,000   122,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Designates a combination of accounts.


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                          Regional Assistance

       The conferees recognize the unique narcotics crisis 
     affecting Colombia and the United States and has, therefore, 
     responded to the President's request that the overwhelming 
     majority of these emergency funds be provided in direct 
     support of Plan Colombia. However, this effort requires a 
     greater regional emphasis so that the problems associated 
     with the cultivation, processing and trafficking of illegal 
     narcotics are not simply relocated elsewhere in the region. 
     Therefore, the conference agreement recommends $180,000,000 
     for assistance for other countries in the region. Of these 
     funds, the conferees recommend that up to $32,000,000 be made 
     available to procure American-made KMAX helicopters and to 
     provide initial training, logistics, and technical support 
     for four years. The conference agreement recommends not less 
     than $18,000,000 for interdiction programs in other countries 
     in South and Central America and the Caribbean. The conferees 
     are aware of the significant interdiction requirements in 
     Panama, Costa Rica, Brazil, The Bahamas, and Venezuela. The 
     conferees direct that the Secretary of State, when reporting 
     to the Committees on Appropriations as required by this Act, 
     provide recommendations and justifications for the use of 
     these funds on a country-by-country basis.
       The conference agreement provides that not less than 
     $110,000,000 be made available for assistance for Bolivia, 
     including $85,000,000 which may be made available for 
     alternative development and other economic activities. The 
     conferees strongly support the efforts of the Bolivian 
     government, through its ``Dignity Plan'', to terminate coca 
     production in Bolivia.
       The conference agreement recommends that no less than 
     $20,000,000 may be made available for assistance for Ecuador, 
     including $8,000,000 which may be made available for 
     alternative development and other economic activities.
       The conference agreement includes bill language regarding 
     conditions on assistance for Colombia which is similar to 
     language contained in the House bill and the Senate bill. 
     This bill language requires the Secretary of State to certify 
     that a number of conditions have been met by the Government 
     of Colombia prior to the initial obligation of funds under 
     this heading.
       The conference agreement includes language regarding 
     limitations on the use of appropriated funds in support of 
     Plan Colombia and the assignment of United States military 
     personnel in Colombia which is similar to language contained 
     in the Senate bill. The House bill contained a similar 
     provision. The conferees note that this provision places a 
     limitation on the assignment of any United States military 
     personnel in Colombia in connection with support of Plan 
     Colombia and does not apply to other United States military 
     personnel in Colombia not directly supporting of Plan 
     Colombia.
       The conference agreement does not include bill language 
     requiring certain reporting requirements regarding conditions 
     on assistance to Colombia as proposed by the Senate. However, 
     the conferees expect that beginning 60 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter for the 
     duration of the provision of resources administered under 
     this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the 
     Appropriations Committees and other congressional committees 
     as appropriate which contains:
       A description of the extent to which the Colombian Armed 
     Forces have suspended from duty Colombian Armed Forces 
     personnel who are credibly alleged to have committed gross 
     violations of human rights, and the extent to which such 
     personnel have been brought to justice in Colombia's civilian 
     courts, including a description of the charges brought and 
     the disposition of such cases.
       An assessment of efforts made by the Colombian Armed 
     Forces, National Police, and Attorney General to disband 
     paramilitary groups, including the names of Colombian Armed 
     Forces personnel brought to justice for aiding or abetting 
     paramilitary groups and the names of paramilitary leaders and 
     members who were indicted, arrested and prosecuted.
       A description of the extent to which the Colombian Armed 
     Forces cooperate with civilian authorities in investigating 
     and prosecuting gross violations of human rights allegedly 
     committed by its personnel, including the number of such 
     personnel being investigated for gross violations of human 
     rights who are suspended from duty.
       A description of the extent to which attacks against human 
     rights defenders, government prosecutors and investigators, 
     and officials of the civilian judicial system in Colombia, 
     are being investigated and the alleged perpetrators brought 
     to justice.
       An estimate of the number of Colombian civilians displaced 
     as a result of the ``push into southern Colombia'', and 
     actions taken to address the social and economic needs of 
     these people.
       A description of actions taken by the United States and the 
     Government of Colombia to promote and support a negotiated 
     settlement of the conflict in Colombia.
       The conference agreement includes bill language, identical 
     to the House bill, regarding the denial of visas for persons 
     credibly alleged to have aided or abetted Colombian insurgent 
     and paramilitary groups. Further, the conference agreement 
     includes bill language, as proposed by the Senate, requiring 
     a report by the President on the current United States policy 
     and strategy regarding United States counter narcotics 
     assistance for Colombia and neighboring countries.
       The conferees direct that not later than 60 days after the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in 
     consultation with the heads of other relevant United States 
     federal agencies, report to the Committees on Appropriations 
     regarding the effects on human health and the safety of 
     herbicides utilized under this title. The House bill did not 
     address this matter.
       The conference agreement does not include bill language 
     regarding certain counter narcotics measures, as proposed by 
     the Senate. The conferees believe that the Government of 
     Colombia should commit itself immediately to the urgent 
     development and application of naturally occurring and 
     ecologically sound methods for eradicating illicit crops, 
     which could reduce significantly the loss of life in Colombia 
     and the United States.
       Further, the conferees believe that the effectiveness of 
     United States counter narcotics assistance to Colombia 
     depends on law enforcement officials in Colombia having full 
     access to all areas of Colombian national territory. Also, 
     the conferees believe that the governments of the countries 
     receiving assistance under this title should take steps to 
     bring to justice narcotics traffickers and, if requested, 
     extradite these traffickers to the United States.
       The conference agreement includes bill language, as 
     proposed by the Senate, requiring a detailed report by the 
     Secretary of State regarding the extradition of narcotics 
     traffickers to the United States. The House bill did not 
     address this matter.
       The conference agreement includes bill language, as 
     proposed by the Senate, requiring the Secretary of State to 
     make a certification regarding the United States Government's 
     public support for the military and political efforts of the 
     Government of Colombia. The House bill did not address this 
     matter.
       The conference agreement does not include bill language, as 
     proposed by the Senate amendment, regarding United States 
     citizens held hostage in Colombia. The House bill did not 
     address this matter. The conferees are deeply concerned that 
     three American citizens, David Mankins, Mark Rich, and Rick 
     Tenenoff, have been held hostage by Revolutionary Armed 
     Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas since January 31, 1993. 
     These men were engaged in humanitarian and religious work 
     when they were taken hostage. The conferees condemn these 
     kidnappings and urge the Administration and the United 
     Nations to work to gain the prompt release of these 
     Americans.

                               CHAPTER 3

                  Military Construction, Defense-wide

       The conferees recommend $116,523,000 for Military 
     Construction, Defense-wide, as proposed by the House and 
     Senate. These amounts are provided as a contingent emergency 
     appropriation for the construction of three Forward Operation 
     Locations to support the Colombia Anti-Drug Program, as 
     follows:

        Location/Facility                                          Cost
Ecuador:
  Airfield Pavement/Rinse Facility..........................$38,600,000
  Aircraft Maintenance Hangar/Nose/Dock Apron.................6,723,000
  Expeditionary Maintenance Facilities........................4,900,000
  Expeditionary Rescue Station................................2,200,000
  Expeditionary Squadron Ops/AMU/Storage......................2,600,000
  Expeditionary Visiting Airmen Quarters/Dining Facility......4,650,000
  Expeditionary Visiting Officer Quarters.....................1,600,000
                                                             __________
                                                             
    Subtotal, Ecuador........................................61,273,000
Aruba:
  Airfield Pavement/Rinse Facility............................8,800,000
  Expeditionary Maintenance Facilities..........................860,000
  Small Exped. Aircraft Maintenance Hangar/Apron................590,000
                                                             __________
                                                             
    Subtotal, Aruba..........................................10,250,000
Curacao:
  Airfield Pavement/Rinse Facility...........................29,500,000
  Aircraft Maintenance Hangar/Nose/Dock Apron.................9,200,000
  Expeditionary Maintenance Facilities........................3,000,000
  Expeditionary Squadron Ops/AMU/Storage......................2,200,000
                                                             __________
                                                             
    Subtotal, Curacao........................................43,900,000
Various: Planning and Design..................................1,100,000
                                                             __________
                                                             
    Subtotal, Various.........................................1,100,000
Total.......................................................116,523,000

              TITLE IV--LEWIS AND CLARK RURAL WATER SYSTEM

       Lewis and Clark Rural Water System Project.--The conference 
     agreement includes language authorizing the Lewis and Clark 
     Rural Water System project in South Dakota. Both the House 
     and Senate versions of the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System 
     legislation contained provisions to make Pick-Sloan power 
     that had been reserved for future irrigation and drainage 
     pumping for the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program available 
     at the firm power rate during the irrigation season, May 1 
     through October 31

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     each year, so long as the system is operated on a not-for-
     profit basis. Pick-Sloan capacity and energy will be provided 
     by the Western Area Power Administration to the rural water 
     system at the firm power rate schedule of the Pick-Sloan 
     Eastern Division of the Western Area Power Administration in 
     effect when the power is delivered by Western to the 
     qualified preference power supplier, which will be 
     responsible for delivery of Pick-Sloan power. The conferees 
     understand that the qualified preference entity is entitled 
     to include in its charges to the rural water system its other 
     usual and customary charges. Additional power supply for the 
     water supply project shall be provided in accordance with 
     state law.

               TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS THIS DIVISION

       Section 5102. The conference agreement includes a provision 
     that repeals certain pay date shifts that were included in 
     the Fiscal Year 2000 Consolidated Appropriations Act. That 
     Act provided that when military members were to be paid on 
     September 30, 2000, or when civilian employees were to be 
     paid on September 29, 2000, or on September 30, 2000, these 
     groups were to be paid on October 1, 2000.
       Section 5103. The conference agreement includes a new 
     provision that nullifies the final proviso of title VI of the 
     fiscal year 2000 Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and 
     Related Programs Appropriations Act.
       Section 5104. The conference agreement includes a House 
     provision that repeals Section 216 of the Departments of 
     Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000. This section provides for 
     the delayed obligation of funds within a number of accounts. 
     As a result of this action, the department and agencies 
     funded by this Act will be able to obligate funds in the 
     normal pattern.
       Section 5105. The conference agreement includes a new 
     provision, which was requested in the fiscal year 2001 budget 
     submission, that restores Supplemental Security Income 
     payments to the appropriate year, so that all payments are 
     made consistent with the normal rules for making SSI payments 
     which come due on a weekend or non-banking day.
       Section 5106. The conference agreement includes a new 
     provision, which was requested in the fiscal year 2001 budget 
     submission, that moves the pay date for veterans' 
     compensation and pensions from fiscal year 2001 to fiscal 
     year 2000.
       Section 5107. The conference agreement includes a provision 
     waiving sequestration for fiscal year 2000 for any of the 
     supplemental funding included.
       Section 5108. The conference agreement includes a provision 
     that permits the Senate to consider fiscal year 2001 
     appropriations bills at the level of the fiscal year 2001 
     budget resolution.
       Section 5109. The conference agreement includes a provision 
     that shifts $2,000,000,000 in outlays only from the defense 
     category to the non-defense category without changing the 
     aggregate totals. The provision affects the defense/non-
     defense firewall applicable to the Senate only under the 
     terms of the fiscal year 2001 budget resolution.

                               DIVISION C

                           CERRO GRANDE FIRE

               TITLE I--CERRO GRANDE FIRE ASSISTANCE ACT

             COMPENSATION FOR VICTIMS OF CERRO GRANDE FIRE

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency


          cerro grande fire assistance fund and claims office

       The conferees have agreed to provide an appropriation of 
     $500,000,000 for the Federal Emergency Agency to carry out 
     the provisions of the Cerro Grande Fire Assistance Act.
       The Cerro Grande Fire Assistance Act (``the Act'') provides 
     a comprehensive and expeditious process for the settlement of 
     claims resulting from the Cerro Grande Fire, which was caused 
     by the prescribed burn initiated by the National Park Service 
     on Federal land at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico. 
     The claims process will be administered through a new Office 
     of Cerro Grande Fire Claims at the Federal Emergency 
     Management Agency (FEMA).
       On May 4, 2000, the National Park Service initiated a 
     prescribed burn on Federal land at Bandelier National 
     Monument in New Mexico during the peak of the southwest fire 
     season. One day later, the prescribed burn exceeded the 
     containment capabilities of the National Park Service, was 
     reclassified as a wildland burn, and quickly spread to other 
     Federal and non-Federal lands. By May 7, 2000, the fire had 
     grown in size, spreading to residential areas and causing the 
     evacuation of several communities in northern New Mexico, 
     including Los Alamos.
       The Cerro Grande Fire was the largest forest fire in the 
     state of New Mexico's history. The fire damaged or destroyed 
     more than 48,000 acres of forest, 37 million trees, 439 
     homes, caused injuries, property damages and personal 
     injuries to more than 1,000 families, countless businesses, 
     the County of Los Alamos, the State of New Mexico, two Indian 
     tribes and several other Federal and non-Federal entities. 
     The Secretary of Interior and the National Park Service have 
     assumed responsibility for the fire and the subsequent 
     injuries which resulted from it.
       The Act provides full compensation for injuries resulting 
     from the Cerro Grande Fire. The term ``injury'' is given the 
     same meaning as in the Federal Tort Claims Act. However, the 
     Act contains an instructive list of allowable damages for 
     injuries which constitute losses of property, business losses 
     or financial losses. The conferees intend that FEMA 
     compensate fully all injured parties for these enumerated 
     damages if the damages resulted from the Cerro Grande Fire. 
     The Act also gives FEMA the discretion to compensate fully 
     injured parties for any other damages resulting from the fire 
     which FEMA deems appropriate.
       Those eligible for compensation through the claims process 
     include all entities which suffered injuries resulting from 
     the fire, including individuals, Indian tribes, corporations, 
     tribal corporations, partnerships, companies, school 
     districts, other state and local governmental entities and 
     insurance companies. The conferees are aware that certain 
     members of the Los Alamos community injured by the fire are 
     non-citizens lawfully present in the United States who are 
     otherwise ineligible for certain assistance from FEMA and 
     other governmental agencies. The Act intends that these 
     individuals be compensated for their losses in the same 
     manner as any other injured party.
       The Act requires that FEMA also compensate insurance 
     companies as subrogees for claims paid to insureds for 
     damages resulting from the fire. However, the Act makes clear 
     that, to the maximum extent practicable, insurance companies 
     should receive payment for their claims only after those 
     claims submitted by other injured parties are satisfied.
       The Act requires FEMA within 45 days of enactment of the 
     Act to promulgate interim final regulations for the 
     processing and payment of claims. Injured parties must file 
     their claims within 2 years from the date on which such 
     regulations are promulgated. FEMA must determine and fix the 
     amount of payment of each claim within 180 days of its 
     filing.
       The conferees are concerned that injured parties only be 
     compensated once for injuries resulting from the fire. To 
     prevent double recoveries and to maintain an orderly claims 
     process, the Act requires that injured parties elect to 
     pursue damages for their injuries either by submitting a 
     claim to the Cerro Grande Fire Claims Office or by filing a 
     claim in the courts under the Federal Tort Claims Act or any 
     other provision of law. If a party elects to file a claim 
     with the Cerro Grande Fire Claims office, the party may not 
     subsequently file a claim in court for the same damages. 
     Conversely, parties who choose to pursue damages in a court 
     of law may not file a claim under this Act.
       The conferees recognize that disputes may arise over claims 
     submitted under this Act. The Act preserves the rights of 
     individuals to request judicial review of their final claims 
     awards in the Federal District Court for the District of New 
     Mexico. The Act also allows aggrieved claimants in lieu of 
     Federal court to elect binding arbitration of their claims 
     award by a neutral third party under a process to be 
     determined by FEMA.
       The conferees note that the responsibility given to FEMA 
     under this Act is outside the scope of the work FEMA normally 
     performs in managing disasters. The conferees have confidence 
     that FEMA and its Director will manage the claims process in 
     accordance with the intent of this Act, and that this new, 
     temporary responsibility will not diminish FEMA's ability to 
     manage other current and future disasters under the Stafford 
     Act. The conferees also intend that no funds to administer 
     this Act or pay claims will be derived from the Disaster 
     Relief Fund.

                 TITLE II--CERRO GRANDE FIRE EMERGENCY

                      SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                          Farm Service Agency


                     emergency conservation program

       The conference agreement provides an additional $10,000,000 
     for the emergency conservation program (ECP), to remain 
     available until expended. The conferees include language that 
     allows ECP funds to be used to rehabilitate farmland damaged 
     from fires that resulted from prescribed buring conducted by 
     the Federal government, and exempts these funds from certain 
     cost-share requirements.

                 Natural Resources Conservation Service


               watershed and flood prevention operations

       The conference agreement recommends an additional 
     $4,000,000, to remain available until expended, to repair 
     damages as a result of the Los Alamos, New Mexico fires.

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

                    Atomic Energy Defense Activities


                      cerro grande fire activities

       The conference agreement appropriates $138,000,000 for the 
     Department of Energy for damage sustained by the Los Alamos 
     National Laboratory in the Cerro Grande fire. The entire 
     amounts has been designated by the Congress as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
       The conference agreement provides $53,340,000 for physical 
     damage, destruction repair and risk mitigation; $27,260,000 
     for restoring services; $39,400,000 for emergency response; 
     and $18,000,000 for resuming laboratory operations.
       The Department is directed to provide a monthly report 
     showing the estimated costs for each activity, the actual 
     costs incurred, and a brief description of the activities 
     performed. The Department should work with

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     the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on the 
     format for this report.

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs


                      operation of indian programs

       The conference agreement provides $8,982,000 in emergency 
     funding for operation of Indian programs for the Pueblo of 
     Santa Clara and the Pueblo of San Ildefonso for restoration, 
     rehabilitation and reforestation of tribal lands and 
     facilities damaged by the Cerro Grande fire in New Mexico. 
     The entire amount is contingent on receipt of a budget 
     request that includes a Presidential designation of the 
     entire amount as a emergency requirement pursuant to the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended.

                     General Provision--This Title

       Section 2101 allows members of the Pueblo of San Ildefonso 
     and the Pueblo of Santa Clara to collect plants and minerals 
     in the Bandelier National Monument. The extensive areas 
     burned by the Cerro Grande fire have severely reduced the 
     availability of local plants, clays and soils traditionally 
     used by these Pueblos. To allow their traditional ceremonies 
     to continue uninterrupted, it is necessary to allow enrolled 
     members of both Pueblos access to plant and mineral resources 
     that are available in the Bandelier National Monument at 
     quantities greater than allowed by current regulations of the 
     National Park Service. These activities would be consistent 
     with applicable laws governing the Monument.

     For the consideration of the House bill and Division A of the 
     Senate amendment and modifications committed to conference:
     David L. Hobson,
     John Edward Porter,
     Todd Tiahrt,
     James T. Walsh,
     Dan Miller,
     Robert B. Aderholt,
     Kay Granger,
     Virgil Goode, Jr.,
     C.W. Bill Young,
     John W. Olver,
     Chet Edwards,
     Sam Farr,
     Allen Boyd,
     Norman D. Dicks,
     David Obey,
     For the consideration of Division B of the Senate amendment 
     and modifications committed to conference:
     C.W. Bill Young,
     Ralph Regula,
     Jerry Lewis,
     Harold Rogers,
     Joe Skeen,
     Sonny Callahan,
     David Obey,
     John Murtha,
                                Managers on the Part of the House.

     Conrad Burns,
     Kay Bailey Hutchison,
     Larry Craig,
     Jon Kyl,
     Ted Stevens,
     Patty Murray,
     Harry Reid,
     Daniel K. Inouye,
     Robert C. Byrd,
                               Managers on the Part of the Senate.