[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 176 (Tuesday, December 18, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H10239-H10353]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 3061
Mr. REGULA submitted the following conference report and statement on
the bill (H.R. 3061) ``making appropriations for the Departments of
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other
purposes'':
Conference Report (H. Rept. 107-342)
The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the
two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R.
3061) ``making appropriations for the Departments of Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education, and related
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, 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:
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments
of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2002, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
For necessary expenses of the Workforce Investment Act,
including the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles,
the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and
other facilities, and the purchase of real property for
training centers as authorized by the Workforce Investment
Act; the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional
Occupations Act; and the National Skill Standards Act of
1994; $3,167,282,000 plus reimbursements, of which
$1,779,342,000 is available for obligation for the period
July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003; of which $1,353,065,000
is available for obligation for the period April 1, 2002
through June 30, 2003, including $1,127,965,000 to carry out
chapter 4 of the Workforce Investment Act and $225,100,000 to
carry out section 169 of such Act; and of which $3,500,000 is
available for obligation October 1, 2001 until expended for
carrying out the National Skills Standards Act of 1994; and
of which $30,375,000 is available for the period July 1, 2002
through June 30, 2005 for necessary expenses of construction,
rehabilitation, and acquisition of Job Corps centers:
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That $9,098,000 shall be for carrying out section 172 of the
Workforce Investment Act: Provided further, That,
notwithstanding any other provision of law or related
regulation, $80,770,000 shall be for carrying out section 167
of the Workforce Investment Act, including $74,965,000 for
formula grants, $4,786,000 for migrant and seasonal housing,
and $1,019,000 for other discretionary purposes: Provided
further, That funding provided herein under section 166 of
the Workforce Investment Act shall include $1,711,000 for use
under section 166(j)(1) of the Act: Provided further, That
funds provided to carry out section 171(d) of the Workforce
Investment Act may be used for demonstration projects that
provide assistance to new entrants in the workforce and
incumbent workers: Provided further, That funding provided to
carry out projects under section 171 of the Workforce
Investment Act that are identified in the Conference
Agreement, shall not be subject to the requirements of
section 171(b)(2)(B) of such Act, the requirements of section
171(c)(4)(D) of such Act, or the joint funding requirements
of sections 171(b)(2)(A) and 171(c)(4)(A) of such Act:
Provided further, That no funds from any other appropriation
shall be used to provide meal services at or for Job Corps
centers.
For necessary expenses of the Workforce Investment Act,
including the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles,
the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and
other facilities, and the purchase of real property for
training centers as authorized by the Workforce Investment
Act; $2,463,000,000 plus reimbursements, of which
$2,363,000,000 is available for obligation for the period
October 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003, and of which
$100,000,000 is available for the period October 1, 2002
through June 30, 2005, for necessary expenses of
construction, rehabilitation, and acquisition of Job Corps
centers.
Community Service Employment for Older Americans
To carry out title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as
amended, $445,100,000.
Federal Unemployment Benefits and Allowances
For payments during the current fiscal year of trade
adjustment benefit payments and allowances under part I; and
for training, allowances for job search and relocation, and
related State administrative expenses under part II,
subchapters B and D, chapter 2, title II of the Trade Act of
1974, as amended, $415,650,000, together with such amounts as
may be necessary to be charged to the subsequent
appropriation for payments for any period subsequent to
September 15 of the current year.
State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations
For authorized administrative expenses, $163,452,000,
together with not to exceed $3,237,886,000 (including not to
exceed $1,228,000 which may be used for amortization payments
to States which had independent retirement plans in their
State employment service agencies prior to 1980), which may
be expended from the Employment Security Administration
Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund including the cost of
administering section 51 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended, section 7(d) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as
amended, the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, the Immigration
Act of 1990, and the Immigration and Nationality Act, as
amended, and of which the sums available in the allocation
for activities authorized by title III of the Social Security
Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 502-504), and the sums available
in the allocation for necessary administrative expenses for
carrying out 5 U.S.C. 8501-8523, shall be available for
obligation by the States through December 31, 2002, except
that funds used for automation acquisitions shall be
available for obligation by the States through September 30,
2004; and of which $163,452,000, together with not to exceed
$773,283,000 of the amount which may be expended from said
trust fund, shall be available for obligation for the period
July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003, to fund activities under
the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended, including the cost of
penalty mail authorized under 39 U.S.C. 3202(a)(1)(E) made
available to States in lieu of allotments for such purpose:
Provided, That to the extent that the Average Weekly Insured
Unemployment (AWIU) for fiscal year 2002 is projected by the
Department of Labor to exceed 2,622,000, an additional
$28,600,000 shall be available for obligation for every
100,000 increase in the AWIU level (including a pro rata
amount for any increment less than 100,000) from the
Employment Security Administration Account of the
Unemployment Trust Fund: Provided further, That funds
appropriated in this Act which are used to establish a
national one-stop career center system, or which are used to
support the national activities of the Federal-State
unemployment insurance programs, may be obligated in
contracts, grants or agreements with non-State entities:
Provided further, That funds appropriated under this Act for
activities authorized under the Wagner-Peyser Act, as
amended, and title III of the Social Security Act, may be
used by the States to fund integrated Employment Service and
Unemployment Insurance automation efforts, notwithstanding
cost allocation principles prescribed under Office of
Management and Budget Circular A-87: Provided further, That
notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the portion of
the funds received by the State of Mississippi in the
settlement of litigation with a contractor relating to the
acquisition of an automated system for benefit payments under
the unemployment compensation program that is attributable to
the expenditure of Federal grant funds awarded to the State
shall be transferred to the account under this heading and
shall be made available by the Department of Labor to the
State of Mississippi for obligation by the State through
fiscal year 2004 to carry out automation and related
activities under the unemployment compensation program.
Advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and Other Funds
For repayable advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund as
authorized by sections 905(d) and 1203 of the Social Security
Act, as amended, and to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund
as authorized by section 9501(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1954, as amended; and for nonrepayable advances to
the Unemployment Trust Fund as authorized by section 8509 of
title 5, United States Code, and to the ``Federal
unemployment benefits and allowances'' account, to remain
available until September 30, 2003, $464,000,000.
In addition, for making repayable advances to the Black
Lung Disability Trust Fund in the current fiscal year after
September 15, 2002, for costs incurred by the Black Lung
Disability Trust Fund in the current fiscal year, such sums
as may be necessary.
Program Administration
For expenses of administering employment and training
programs, $113,356,000, including $5,934,000 to administer
welfare-to-work grants, together with not to exceed
$48,507,000, which may be expended from the Employment
Security Administration Account in the Unemployment Trust
Fund.
Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses for the Pension and Welfare Benefits
Administration, $109,866,000.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Fund
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is authorized to
make such expenditures, including financial assistance
authorized by section 104 of Public Law 96-364, within limits
of funds and borrowing authority available to such
Corporation, and in accord with law, and to make such
contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year
limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government
Corporation Control Act, as amended (31 U.S.C. 9104), as may
be necessary in carrying out the program through September
30, 2002, for such Corporation: Provided, That not to
exceed $11,690,000 shall be available for administrative
expenses of the Corporation: Provided further, That
expenses of such Corporation in connection with the
termination of pension plans, for the acquisition,
protection or management, and investment of trust assets,
and for benefits administration services shall be
considered as non-administrative expenses for the purposes
hereof, and excluded from the above limitation.
Employment Standards Administration
Salaries and Expenses
For necessary expenses for the Employment Standards
Administration, including reimbursement to State, Federal,
and local agencies and their employees for inspection
services rendered, $369,220,000, together with $1,981,000
which may be expended from the Special Fund in accordance
with sections 39(c), 44(d) and 44(j) of the Longshore and
Harbor Workers' Compensation Act: Provided, That $2,000,000
shall be for the development of an alternative system for the
electronic submission of reports required to be filed under
the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, as
amended, and for a computer database of the information for
each submission by whatever means, that is indexed and easily
searchable by the public via the Internet: Provided further,
That the Secretary of Labor is authorized to accept, retain,
and spend, until expended, in the name of the Department of
Labor, all sums of money ordered to be paid to the Secretary
of Labor, in accordance with the terms of the Consent
Judgment in Civil Action No. 91-0027 of the United States
District Court for the District of the Northern Mariana
Islands (May 21, 1992): Provided further, That the Secretary
of Labor is authorized to establish and, in accordance with
31 U.S.C. 3302, collect and deposit in the Treasury fees for
processing applications and issuing certificates under
sections 11(d) and 14 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of
1938, as amended (29 U.S.C. 211(d) and 214) and for
processing applications and issuing registrations under title
I of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection
Act (29 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.).
Special Benefits
(including transfer of funds)
For the payment of compensation, benefits, and expenses
(except administrative expenses) accruing during the current
or any prior fiscal year authorized by title 5, chapter 81 of
the United States Code; continuation of benefits as provided
for under the heading ``Civilian War Benefits'' in the
Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1947; the
Employees' Compensation Commission Appropriation Act, 1944;
sections 4(c) and 5(f) of the War Claims Act of 1948 (50
U.S.C. App. 2012); and 50 percent of the additional
compensation and benefits required by section 10(h) of the
Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, as amended,
$121,000,000 together with such amounts as may be necessary
to be charged to the subsequent year appropriation for the
payment of compensation and other benefits for any period
subsequent to August 15 of the current year: Provided, That
amounts appropriated may be used under section 8104 of title
5, United States Code, by the Secretary of Labor to reimburse
an employer, who is not the employer at the time of injury,
for portions of the salary of a reemployed, disabled
beneficiary: Provided further, That balances of
reimbursements unobligated on September 30, 2001, shall
remain available until expended for the payment of
compensation, benefits, and expenses: Provided further, That
in addition there shall be transferred to this appropriation
from the Postal Service and from any
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other corporation or instrumentality required under section
8147(c) of title 5, United States Code, to pay an amount for
its fair share of the cost of administration, such sums as
the Secretary determines to be the cost of administration for
employees of such fair share entities through September 30,
2002: Provided further, That of those funds transferred to
this account from the fair share entities to pay the cost of
administration of the Federal Employees' Compensation Act,
$36,696,000 shall be made available to the Secretary as
follows: (1) for the operation of and enhancement to the
automated data processing systems, including document imaging
and conversion to a paperless office, $24,522,000; (2) for
medical bill review and periodic roll management,
$11,474,000; (3) for communications redesign, $700,000; and
(4) the remaining funds shall be paid into the Treasury as
miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, That the Secretary
may require that any person filing a notice of injury or a
claim for benefits under chapter 81 of title 5, United States
Code, or 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq., provide as part of such
notice and claim, such identifying information (including
Social Security account number) as such regulations may
prescribe.
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses to administer the Energy Employees
Occupational Illness Compensation Act, $136,000,000, to
remain available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary
of Labor is authorized to transfer to any Executive agency
with authority under the Energy Employees Occupational
Illness Compensation Act, including within the Department of
Labor, such sums as may be necessary in fiscal year 2002 to
carry out those authorities: Provided further, That the
Secretary may require that any person filing a claim for
benefits under the Act provide as part of such claim, such
identifying information (including Social Security account
number) as may be prescribed.
black lung disability trust fund
(including transfer of funds)
For payments from the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund,
$1,036,115,000, of which $981,283,000 shall be available
until September 30, 2003, for payment of all benefits as
authorized by section 9501(d)(1), (2), (4), and (7) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, and interest on
advances as authorized by section 9501(c)(2) of that Act, and
of which $31,558,000 shall be available for transfer to
Employment Standards Administration, Salaries and Expenses,
$22,590,000 for transfer to Departmental Management, Salaries
and Expenses, $328,000 for transfer to Departmental
Management, Office of Inspector General, and $356,000 for
payment into miscellaneous receipts for the expenses of the
Department of Treasury, for expenses of operation and
administration of the Black Lung Benefits program as
authorized by section 9501(d)(5) of that Act: Provided, That,
in addition, such amounts as may be necessary may be charged
to the subsequent year appropriation for the payment of
compensation, interest, or other benefits for any period
subsequent to August 15 of the current year.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Salaries and Expenses
For necessary expenses for the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration, $443,651,000, including not to exceed
$89,747,000 which shall be the maximum amount available for
grants to States under section 23(g) of the Occupational
Safety and Health Act, which grants shall be no less than 50
percent of the costs of State occupational safety and health
programs required to be incurred under plans approved by the
Secretary under section 18 of the Occupational Safety and
Health Act of 1970; and, in addition, notwithstanding 31
U.S.C. 3302, the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration may retain up to $750,000 per fiscal year of
training institute course tuition fees, otherwise authorized
by law to be collected, and may utilize such sums for
occupational safety and health training and education grants:
Provided, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Secretary
of Labor is authorized, during the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2002, to collect and retain fees for services
provided to Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories, and
may utilize such sums, in accordance with the provisions of
29 U.S.C. 9a, to administer national and international
laboratory recognition programs that ensure the safety of
equipment and products used by workers in the workplace:
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under
this paragraph shall be obligated or expended to prescribe,
issue, administer, or enforce any standard, rule, regulation,
or order under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970
which is applicable to any person who is engaged in a farming
operation which does not maintain a temporary labor camp and
employs 10 or fewer employees: Provided further, That no
funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be obligated or
expended to administer or enforce any standard, rule,
regulation, or order under the Occupational Safety and Health
Act of 1970 with respect to any employer of 10 or fewer
employees who is included within a category having an
occupational injury lost workday case rate, at the most
precise Standard Industrial Classification Code for which
such data are published, less than the national average rate
as such rates are most recently published by the Secretary,
acting through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in accordance
with section 24 of that Act (29 U.S.C. 673), except--
(1) to provide, as authorized by such Act, consultation,
technical assistance, educational and training services, and
to conduct surveys and studies;
(2) to conduct an inspection or investigation in response
to an employee complaint, to issue a citation for violations
found during such inspection, and to assess a penalty for
violations which are not corrected within a reasonable
abatement period and for any willful violations found;
(3) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect
to imminent dangers;
(4) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect
to health hazards;
(5) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect
to a report of an employment accident which is fatal to one
or more employees or which results in hospitalization of two
or more employees, and to take any action pursuant to such
investigation authorized by such Act; and
(6) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect
to complaints of discrimination against employees for
exercising rights under such Act:
Provided further, That the foregoing proviso shall not apply
to any person who is engaged in a farming operation which
does not maintain a temporary labor camp and employs 10 or
fewer employees.
Mine Safety and Health Administration
Salaries and Expenses
For necessary expenses for the Mine Safety and Health
Administration, $254,768,000, including purchase and bestowal
of certificates and trophies in connection with mine rescue
and first-aid work, and the hire of passenger motor vehicles;
including up to $1,000,000 for mine rescue and recovery
activities, which shall be available only to the extent that
fiscal year 2002 obligations for these activities exceed
$1,000,000; in addition, not to exceed $750,000 may be
collected by the National Mine Health and Safety Academy for
room, board, tuition, and the sale of training materials,
otherwise authorized by law to be collected, to be available
for mine safety and health education and training activities,
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302; and, in addition, the Mine
Safety and Health Administration may retain up to $1,000,000
from fees collected for the approval and certification of
equipment, materials, and explosives for use in mines, and
may utilize such sums for such activities; the Secretary is
authorized to accept lands, buildings, equipment, and other
contributions from public and private sources and to
prosecute projects in cooperation with other agencies,
Federal, State, or private; the Mine Safety and Health
Administration is authorized to promote health and safety
education and training in the mining community through
cooperative programs with States, industry, and safety
associations; and any funds available to the department may
be used, with the approval of the Secretary, to provide for
the costs of mine rescue and survival operations in the event
of a major disaster.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Salaries and Expenses
For necessary expenses for the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
including advances or reimbursements to State, Federal, and
local agencies and their employees for services rendered,
$397,142,000, together with not to exceed $69,132,000, which
may be expended from the Employment Security Administration
Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund; and $10,280,000 which
shall be available for obligation for the period July 1, 2002
through June 30, 2003, for Occupational Employment
Statistics.
Office of Disability Employment Policy
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses for the Office of Disability
Employment Policy to provide leadership, develop policy and
initiatives, and award grants furthering the objective of
eliminating barriers to the training and employment of people
with disabilities, $38,158,000, of which $2,640,000 shall be
for the President's Task Force on the Employment of Adults
with Disabilities.
Departmental Management
Salaries and Expenses
For necessary expenses for Departmental Management,
including the hire of three sedans, and including the
management or operation, through contracts, grants or other
arrangements of Departmental activities conducted by or
through the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, including
bilateral and multilateral technical assistance and other
international labor activities, of which the funds designated
to carry out bilateral assistance under the international
child labor initiative shall be available for obligation
through September 30, 2003, and $50,000,000, for the
acquisition of Departmental information technology,
architecture, infrastructure, equipment, software and related
needs which will be allocated by the Department's Chief
Information Officer in accordance with the Department's
capital investment management process to assure a sound
investment strategy; $378,778,000; together with not to
exceed $310,000, which may be expended from the Employment
Security Administration Account in the Unemployment Trust
Fund: Provided, That no funds made available by this Act may
be used by the Solicitor of Labor to participate in a review
in any United States court of appeals of any decision made by
the Benefits Review Board under section 21 of the Longshore
and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 921) where
such participation is precluded by the decision of the United
States Supreme Court in Director, Office of Workers'
Compensation Programs v. Newport News Shipbuilding, 115 S.
Ct. 1278 (1995), notwithstanding any provisions to the
contrary contained in Rule 15 of the Federal Rules of
Appellate Procedure: Provided further, That no funds made
available by this Act may be used by the Secretary of Labor
to review a decision under the Longshore and Harbor Workers'
Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 901 et seq.) that has been
appealed and that has been pending before the Benefits Review
Board for
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more than 12 months: Provided further, That any such decision
pending a review by the Benefits Review Board for more than 1
year shall be considered affirmed by the Benefits Review
Board on the 1-year anniversary of the filing of the appeal,
and shall be considered the final order of the Board for
purposes of obtaining a review in the United States courts of
appeals: Provided further, That these provisions shall not be
applicable to the review or appeal of any decision issued
under the Black Lung Benefits Act (30 U.S.C. 901 et seq.).
Veterans Employment and Training
Not to exceed $186,903,000 may be derived from the
Employment Security Administration Account in the
Unemployment Trust Fund to carry out the provisions of 38
U.S.C. 4100-4110A, 4212, 4214, and 4321-4327, and Public Law
103-353, and which shall be available for obligation by the
States through December 31, 2002. To carry out the Stewart B.
McKinney Homeless Assistance Act and section 168 of the
Workforce Investment Act of 1998, $25,800,000, of which
$7,550,000 shall be available for obligation for the period
July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003.
Office of Inspector General
For salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended, $52,182,000, together with
not to exceed $4,951,000, which may be expended from the
Employment Security Administration Account in the
Unemployment Trust Fund.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 101. None of the funds appropriated in this title for
the Job Corps shall be used to pay the compensation of an
individual, either as direct costs or any proration as an
indirect cost, at a rate in excess of Executive Level II.
(transfer of funds)
Sec. 102. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary
funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985, as amended) which are appropriated for
the current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this
Act may be transferred between appropriations, but no such
appropriation shall be increased by more than 3 percent by
any such transfer: Provided, That the Appropriations
Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified at least
15 days in advance of any transfer.
This title may be cited as the ``Department of Labor
Appropriations Act, 2002''.
TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Health Resources and Services
For carrying out titles II, III, VII, VIII, X, XII, XIX,
and XXVI of the Public Health Service Act, section 427(a) of
the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, title V and
sections 1128E and 1820 of the Social Security Act, the
Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, as amended, the
Native Hawaiian Health Care Act of 1988, as amended, the
Cardiac Arrest Survival Act of 2000, and the Poison Control
Center Enhancement and Awareness Act, $6,081,237,000, of
which $311,978,000 shall be available for construction and
renovation of health care and other facilities, and of which
$40,000,000 from general revenues, notwithstanding section
1820(j) of the Social Security Act, shall be available for
carrying out the Medicare rural hospital flexibility grants
program under section 1820 of such Act: Provided, That of the
funds made available under this heading, $250,000 shall be
available until expended for facilities renovations at the
Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center: Provided further,
That in addition to fees authorized by section 427(b) of the
Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, fees shall be
collected for the full disclosure of information under the
Act sufficient to recover the full costs of operating the
National Practitioner Data Bank, and shall remain available
until expended to carry out that Act: Provided further, That
fees collected for the full disclosure of information under
the ``Health Care Fraud and Abuse Data Collection Program'',
authorized by section 1128E(d)(2) of the Social Security Act,
shall be sufficient to recover the full costs of operating
the program, and shall remain available until expended to
carry out that Act: Provided further, That no more than
$15,000,000 is available for carrying out the provisions of
Public Law 104-73: Provided further, That of the funds made
available under this heading, $265,085,000 shall be for the
program under title X of the Public Health Service Act to
provide for voluntary family planning projects: Provided
further, That amounts provided to said projects under such
title shall not be expended for abortions, that all pregnancy
counseling shall be nondirective, and that such amounts shall
not be expended for any activity (including the publication
or distribution of literature) that in any way tends to
promote public support or opposition to any legislative
proposal or candidate for public office: Provided further,
That $639,000,000 shall be for State AIDS Drug Assistance
Programs authorized by section 2616 of the Public Health
Service Act: Provided further, That of the amount provided
under this heading, $80,000 shall be for the Wausau Health
Foundation in Wausau, Wisconsin, for a survey and analysis of
local health professionals' career paths to better understand
entry into and exit from health professions, $100,000 shall
be for the University of San Diego Institute for the
Advancement of Health Policy to assess through teaching,
research and delivery of services the impact of public policy
on families from vulnerable populations, $200,000 shall be
for the Luna County, New Mexico and the Columbus Volunteer
Fire Department to provide emergency medical services to
immigrants, $350,000 shall be for the Clinical Pharmacy
Training Program at the University of Hawaii at Hilo,
$475,000 shall be for the American Federation of Negro
Affairs, $500,000 shall be for the University of Washington
Center for Health Workforce Studies in Seattle, Washington,
for a demonstration project to collect and analyze health
workforce data, $800,000 shall be for the University of Iowa
for the training of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists,
$1,000,000 shall be for the Washington Health Foundation for
a comprehensive demonstration project on improving nurse
retention, and $1,100,000 shall be for the Iowa Department of
Public Health to create a Center for Health Care Workforce
Shortage: Provided further, That, notwithstanding section
502(a)(1) of the Social Security Act, not to exceed
$115,236,000 is available for carrying out special
projects of regional and national significance pursuant to
section 501(a)(2) of such Act, of which $50,000 is for the
Center for Great Expectations, Somerville, New Jersey to
provide prenatal health care, education and counseling for
pregnant teens, $565,000 is for the Milwaukee Health
Department for a pilot program providing health care
services to at-risk children in day care, and $4,000,000
is for the Columbia Hospital for Women Medical Center in
Washington, D.C., to support community outreach programs
for women: Provided further, That $10,000,000 is available
for special projects of regional and national significance
under section 501(a)(2) of the Social Security Act, which
shall not be counted toward compliance with the allocation
required in section 502(a)(1) of such Act, and which 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 grants:
Provided further, That grants under the immediately
preceding proviso 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 3.5 percent of such
amount.
health education assistance loans program
Such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of
the program, as authorized by title VII of the Public Health
Service Act, as amended. For administrative expenses to carry
out the guaranteed loan program, including section 709 of the
Public Health Service Act, $3,792,000.
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Trust Fund
For payments from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
Trust Fund, such sums as may be necessary for claims
associated with vaccine-related injury or death with respect
to vaccines administered after September 30, 1988, pursuant
to subtitle 2 of title XXI of the Public Health Service Act,
to remain available until expended: Provided, That for
necessary administrative expenses, not to exceed $2,992,000
shall be available from the Trust Fund to the Secretary of
Health and Human Services.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
disease control, research, and training
To carry out titles II, III, VII, XI, XV, XVII, XIX, and
XXVI of the Public Health Service Act, sections 101, 102,
103, 201, 202, 203, 301, and 501 of the Federal Mine Safety
and Health Act of 1977, sections 20, 21, and 22 of the
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, title IV of the
Immigration and Nationality Act, and section 501 of the
Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980; including insurance
of official motor vehicles in foreign countries; and hire,
maintenance, and operation of aircraft, $4,293,151,000, of
which $250,000,000 shall remain available until expended for
equipment and construction and renovation of facilities, and
of which $143,763,000 for international HIV/AIDS shall remain
available until September 30, 2003, and in addition, such
sums as may be derived from authorized user fees, which shall
be credited to this account: Provided, That in addition to
amounts provided herein, up to $23,286,000 shall be available
from amounts available under section 241 of the Public Health
Service Act to carry out the National Center for Health
Statistics surveys: Provided further, That none of the funds
made available for injury prevention and control at the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to
advocate or promote gun control: Provided further, That the
Director may redirect the total amount made available under
authority of Public Law 101-502, section 3, dated November 3,
1990, to activities the Director may so designate: Provided
further, That the Congress is to be notified promptly of any
such transfer: Provided further, That not to exceed
$10,000,000 may be available for making grants under section
1509 of the Public Health Service Act to not more than 15
States: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other
provision of law, a single contract or related contracts for
development and construction of facilities may be employed
which collectively include the full scope of the project:
Provided further, That the solicitation and contract shall
contain the clause ``availability of funds'' found at 48 CFR
52.232-18.
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to cancer, $4,190,405,000.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to
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cardiovascular, lung, and blood diseases, and blood and blood
products, $2,576,125,000.
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to dental disease,
$343,327,000.
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to diabetes and digestive and
kidney disease, $1,466,833,000.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to neurological disorders and
stroke, $1,328,188,000.
national institute of allergy and infectious diseases
(including transfer of funds)
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to allergy and infectious
diseases, $2,372,278,000: Provided, That the Director may
transfer up to $25,000,000 to International Assistance
Programs, ``Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and
Tuberculosis'', to remain available until expended.
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to general medical sciences,
$1,725,263,000.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to child health and human
development, $1,113,605,000.
National Eye Institute
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to eye diseases and visual
disorders, $581,366,000.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
For carrying out sections 301 and 311 and title IV of the
Public Health Service Act with respect to environmental
health sciences, $566,639,000.
National Institute on Aging
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to aging, $893,443,000.
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to arthritis and
musculoskeletal and skin diseases, $448,865,000.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to deafness and other
communication disorders, $342,072,000.
National Institute of Nursing Research
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to nursing research,
$120,451,000.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to alcohol abuse and
alcoholism, $384,238,000.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to drug abuse, $888,105,000.
National Institute of Mental Health
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to mental health,
$1,248,626,000.
National Human Genome Research Institute
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to human genome research,
$429,515,000.
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to biomedical imaging and
bioengineering research, $111,984,000.
national center for research resources
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to research resources and
general research support grants, $1,011,594,000: Provided,
That none of these funds shall be used to pay recipients of
the general research support grants program any amount for
indirect expenses in connection with such grants: Provided
further, That $110,000,000 shall be for extramural facilities
construction grants, of which $5,000,000 shall be for
beginning construction of facilities for a Chimp Sanctuary
system as authorized in Public Law 106-551.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to complementary and
alternative medicine, $104,644,000.
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to minority health and health
disparities research, $157,812,000.
John E. Fogarty International Center
For carrying out the activities at the John E. Fogarty
International Center, $56,940,000.
National Library of Medicine
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to health information
communications, $277,658,000, of which $4,000,000 shall be
available until expended for improvement of information
systems: Provided, That in fiscal year 2002, the Library may
enter into personal services contracts for the provision of
services in facilities owned, operated, or constructed under
the jurisdiction of the National Institutes of Health.
office of the director
(including transfer of funds)
For carrying out the responsibilities of the Office of the
Director, National Institutes of Health, $235,540,000, of
which $53,540,000 shall be for the Office of AIDS Research:
Provided, That funding shall be available for the purchase of
not to exceed 29 passenger motor vehicles for replacement
only: Provided further, That the Director may direct up to 1
percent of the total amount made available in this or any
other Act to all National Institutes of Health appropriations
to activities the Director may so designate: Provided
further, That no such appropriation shall be decreased by
more than 1 percent by any such transfers and that the
Congress is promptly notified of the transfer: Provided
further, That the National Institutes of Health is authorized
to collect third party payments for the cost of clinical
services that are incurred in National Institutes of Health
research facilities and that such payments shall be credited
to the National Institutes of Health Management Fund:
Provided further, That all funds credited to the National
Institutes of Health Management Fund shall remain available
for 1 fiscal year after the fiscal year in which they are
deposited.
buildings and facilities
(including transfer of funds)
For the study of, construction of, and acquisition of
equipment for, facilities of or used by the National
Institutes of Health, including the acquisition of real
property, $309,600,000, to remain available until expended,
of which $26,000,000 shall be for the John Edward Porter
Neuroscience Research Center: Provided, That notwithstanding
any other provision of law, single contracts or related
contracts, which collectively include the full scope of the
project, may be employed for the development and construction
of the first and second phases of the John Edward Porter
Neuroscience Research Center: Provided further, That the
solicitations and contracts shall contain the clause
``availability of funds'' found at 48 CFR 52.232-18: Provided
further, That the Director may transfer up to $75,000,000 to
International Assistance Programs, ``Global Fund to Fight
HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis'', to remain available
until expended.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
substance abuse and mental health services
For carrying out titles V and XIX of the Public Health
Service Act with respect to substance abuse and mental health
services, the Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill
Individuals Act of 1986, and section 301 of the Public Health
Service Act with respect to program management,
$3,138,279,000, of which $28,721,000 shall be available for
the projects and in the amounts specified in the statement of
the managers on the conference report accompanying this Act.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
healthcare research and quality
For carrying out titles III and IX of the Public Health
Service Act, and part A of title XI of the Social Security
Act, $2,600,000; in addition, amounts received from Freedom
of Information Act fees, reimbursable and interagency
agreements, and the sale of data shall be credited to this
appropriation and shall remain available until expended:
Provided, That the amount made available pursuant to section
926(b) of the Public Health Service Act shall not exceed
$296,145,000.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Grants to States for Medicaid
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles XI
and XIX of the Social Security Act, $106,821,882,000, to
remain available until expended.
For making, after May 31, 2002, payments to States under
title XIX of the Social Security Act for the last quarter of
fiscal year 2002 for unanticipated costs, incurred for the
current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary.
For making payments to States or in the case of section
1928 on behalf of States under title XIX of the Social
Security Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 2003,
$46,601,937,000, to remain available until expended.
Payment under title XIX may be made for any quarter with
respect to a State plan or plan amendment in effect during
such quarter, if submitted in or prior to such quarter and
approved in that or any subsequent quarter.
Payments to Health Care Trust Funds
For payment to the Federal Hospital Insurance and the
Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds, as
provided under section 1844 of the Social Security Act,
sections 103(c) and 111(d) of the Social Security Amendments
of 1965, section 278(d) of Public Law 97-248, and for
administrative expenses incurred pursuant to section 201(g)
of the Social Security Act, $81,979,200,000.
Program Management
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles XI,
XVIII, XIX, and XXI of the Social Security Act, titles XIII
and XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, and the Clinical
Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988, not to exceed
$2,440,798,000, to be transferred from the Federal Hospital
Insurance and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance
Trust Funds, as authorized by section 201(g) of the Social
Security Act; together with all funds collected in accordance
with section 353 of the Public Health Service Act and section
1857(e)(2) of the Social Security Act, and such sums as may
be collected from authorized user fees and the sale of data,
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which shall remain available until expended, and together
with administrative fees collected relative to Medicare
overpayment recovery activities, which shall remain available
until expended: Provided, That all funds derived in
accordance with 31 U.S.C. 9701 from organizations established
under title XIII of the Public Health Service Act shall be
credited to and available for carrying out the purposes of
this appropriation: Provided further, That $18,200,000
appropriated under this heading for the managed care system
redesign shall remain available until expended: Provided
further, That $100,000 of the amount available for research,
demonstration, and evaluation activities shall be awarded to
the Regional Nursing Centers Consortium in Philadelphia to
initiate a demonstration project to evaluate 15 nurse-managed
health centers in urban and rural areas across Pennsylvania:
Provided further, That $200,000 of the amount available for
research, demonstration, and evaluation activities shall be
awarded to the Madonna Rehabilitation Center in Lincoln,
Nebraska to create a new standard of rehabilitation practice
and program design for children and adults with disabilities:
Provided further, That $250,000 of the amount available for
research, demonstration, and evaluation activities shall be
awarded to the Cook County, Illinois Bureau of Health for the
Asthma Champion Initiative to reduce morbidity and mortality
from asthma in high prevalence areas: Provided further, That
$250,000 of the amount available for research, demonstration,
and evaluation activities shall be awarded to the Illinois
Primary Health Care Association to implement the Shared
Integrated Management Information System providing
centralized case management, reimbursement and administrative
support services: Provided further, That $500,000 of the
amount available for research, demonstration, and evaluation
activities shall be awarded to Project Access in Muskegon,
Michigan to offer affordable insurance to uninsured workers,
primarily in small business, and low-income individuals:
Provided further, That $590,000 of the amount available for
research, demonstration, and evaluation activities shall be
awarded to Santa Clara County, California, for the outreach
and application assistance aspects of its Children's Health
Initiative, to demonstrate means of expanding enrollment of
eligible children in Medicaid, SCHIP and other available
health care programs: Provided further, That $800,000 of the
amount available for research, demonstration, and evaluation
activities shall be awarded to the Fishing Partnership Health
Plan, based in Boston, Massachusetts, for a demonstration
project on the efficacy of using a community-based health
benefit program to provide health care coverage for lower-
income independently employed workers and their families:
Provided further, That $800,000 of the amount available for
research, demonstration, and evaluation activities shall be
awarded to the Mind-Body Institute of Boston, Massachusetts
to continue and expand a demonstration project: Provided
further, That $900,000 of the amount available for research,
demonstration, and evaluation activities shall be awarded to
the Children's Hospice International demonstration program to
provide a continuum of care for children with life-
threatening conditions and their families: Provided further,
That $1,500,000 of the amount available for research,
demonstration, and evaluation activities shall be awarded to
the Iowa Department of Public Health for the continuation of
a prescription drug cooperative demonstration: Provided
further, That $2,000,000 of the amount available for
research, demonstration, and evaluation activities shall be
awarded to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in Los Angeles for
a demonstration of residential and outpatient treatment
facilities: Provided further, That the Secretary of Health
and Human Services is directed to collect fees in fiscal
year 2002 from Medicare+Choice organizations pursuant to
section 1857(e)(2) of the Social Security Act and from
eligible organizations with risk-sharing contracts under
section 1876 of that Act pursuant to section 1876(k)(4)(D)
of that Act.
Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund
For carrying out subsections (d) and (e) of section 1308 of
the Public Health Service Act, any amounts received by the
Secretary in connection with loans and loan guarantees under
title XIII of the Public Health Service Act, to be available
without fiscal year limitation for the payment of outstanding
obligations. During fiscal year 2002, no commitments for
direct loans or loan guarantees shall be made.
Administration for Children and Families
Payments to States for Child Support Enforcement and Family Support
Programs
For making payments to States or other non-Federal entities
under titles I, IV-D, X, XI, XIV, and XVI of the Social
Security Act and the Act of July 5, 1960 (24 U.S.C. ch. 9),
$2,447,800,000, to remain available until expended; and for
such purposes for the first quarter of fiscal year 2003,
$1,100,000,000, to remain available until expended.
For making payments to each State for carrying out the
program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children under
title IV-A of the Social Security Act before the effective
date of the program of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
(TANF) with respect to such State, such sums as may be
necessary: Provided, That the sum of the amounts available to
a State with respect to expenditures under such title IV-A in
fiscal year 1997 under this appropriation and under such
title IV-A as amended by the Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 shall not exceed the
limitations under section 116(b) of such Act.
For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year,
payments to States or other non-Federal entities under titles
I, IV-D, X, XI, XIV, and XVI of the Social Security Act and
the Act of July 5, 1960 (24 U.S.C. ch. 9), for the last 3
months of the current fiscal year for unanticipated costs,
incurred for the current fiscal year, such sums as may be
necessary.
low income home energy assistance
For making payments under title XXVI of the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1981, $1,700,000,000.
For making payments under title XXVI of the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1981, $300,000,000: Provided, That
these funds are for the unanticipated home energy assistance
needs of one or more States, as authorized by section 2604(e)
of the Act: Provided further, That these funds are hereby
designated by Congress to be emergency requirements pursuant
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided further, That these
funds shall be made available only after submission to
Congress of an official 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.
refugee and entrant assistance
For making payments for refugee and entrant assistance
activities authorized by title IV of the Immigration and
Nationality Act and section 501 of the Refugee Education
Assistance Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-422), $450,203,000:
Provided, That funds appropriated pursuant to section 414(a)
of the Immigration and Nationality Act for fiscal year 2002
shall be available for the costs of assistance provided and
other activities through September 30, 2004: Provided
further, That up to $10,000,000 is available to carry out the
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.
For carrying out section 5 of the Torture Victims Relief
Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-320), $10,000,000.
Payments to States for the Child Care and Development Block Grant
For carrying out sections 658A through 658R of the Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (The Child Care and
Development Block Grant Act of 1990), $2,099,994,000 shall be
used to supplement, not supplant state general revenue funds
for child care assistance for low-income families: Provided,
That $19,120,000 shall be available for child care resource
and referral and school-aged child care activities, of which
$1,000,000 shall be for the Child Care Aware toll free
hotline: Provided further, That, in addition to the amounts
required to be reserved by the States under section 658G,
$272,672,000 shall be reserved by the States for activities
authorized under section 658G, of which $100,000,000 shall be
for activities that improve the quality of infant and toddler
care: Provided further, That $10,000,000 shall be for use by
the Secretary for child care research, demonstration, and
evaluation activities.
social services block grant
For making grants to States pursuant to section 2002 of the
Social Security Act, $1,700,000,000: Provided, That
notwithstanding subparagraph (B) of section 404(d)(2) of such
Act, the applicable percent specified under such subparagraph
for a State to carry out State programs pursuant to title XX
of such Act shall be 10 percent.
Children and Families Services Programs
(including rescissions)
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, the Runaway
and Homeless Youth Act, the Developmental Disabilities
Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, the Head Start Act, the
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, sections 310 and
316 of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, as
amended, the Native American Programs Act of 1974, title II
of Public Law 95-266 (adoption opportunities), the Adoption
and Safe Families Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-89), sections
1201 and 1211 of the Children's Health Act of 2000, the
Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1988, the Early Learning
Opportunities Act, part B(1) of title IV and sections 413,
429A, 1110, and 1115 of the Social Security Act, and sections
40155, 40211, and 40241 of Public Law 103-322; for making
payments under the Community Services Block Grant Act,
section 473A of the Social Security Act, and title IV of
Public Law 105-285, and for necessary administrative expenses
to carry out said Acts and titles I, IV, X, XI, XIV, XVI, and
XX of the Social Security Act, the Act of July 5, 1960 (24
U.S.C. ch. 9), the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981,
title IV of the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 501
of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980, section 5 of
the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-320),
sections 40155, 40211, and 40241 of Public Law 103-322,
sections 310 and 316 of the Family Violence Prevention and
Services Act, as amended, and section 126 and titles IV and V
of Public Law 100-485, $8,429,183,000, of which $43,000,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2003, shall be for
grants to States for adoption incentive payments, as
authorized by section 473A of title IV of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 670-679) and may be made for adoptions
completed in fiscal years 2000 and 2001; of which
$738,821,000 shall be for making payments under the Community
Services Block Grant Act; and of which $6,537,906,000 shall
be for making payments under the Head Start Act, of which
$1,400,000,000 shall become available October 1, 2002 and
remain available through September 30, 2003: Provided, That
to the extent Community Services Block Grant funds are
distributed as grant funds by a State to an eligible entity
as provided under the Act, and have not been expended by such
entity, they shall remain with such entity for carryover into
the next fiscal year for expenditure by such entity
consistent with program purposes: Provided further, That all
eligible entities currently in good standing in
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the Community Services Block Grant program shall receive an
increase in funding proportionate to the increase provided in
this Act for the Community Services Block Grant: Provided
further, That $88,133,000 shall be for activities authorized
by the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, notwithstanding the
allocation requirements of section 388(a) of such Act, of
which $39,739,900 is for the transitional living program:
Provided further, That $30,000,000 is for a compassion
capital fund to provide grants to charitable organizations to
emulate model social service programs and to encourage
research on the best practices of social service
organizations: Provided further, That the Secretary shall
establish procedures regarding the disposition of intangible
property which permits grant funds, or intangible assets
acquired with funds authorized under section 680 of the
Community Services Block Grant Act, as amended, to become the
sole property of such grantees after a period of not more
than 12 years after the end of the grant for purposes and
uses consistent with the original grant: Provided further,
That funds appropriated for section 680(a)(2) of the
Community Services Block Grant Act, as amended, shall be
available for financing construction and rehabilitation and
loans or investments in private business enterprises owned by
community development corporations.
Funds appropriated for fiscal year 2002 under section
429A(e), part B of title IV of the Social Security Act shall
be reduced by $6,000,000.
Funds appropriated for fiscal year 2002 under section
413(h)(1) of the Social Security Act shall be reduced by
$15,000,000.
promoting safe and stable families
For carrying out subpart 2 of part B of title IV of the
Social Security Act, $305,000,000. In addition, for such
purposes, $70,000,000 to carry out such subpart.
payments to states for foster care and adoption assistance
For making payments to States or other non-Federal entities
under title IV-E of the Social Security Act, $4,885,600,000.
For making payments to States or other non-Federal entities
under title IV-E of the Social Security Act, for the first
quarter of fiscal year 2003, $1,754,000,000.
Administration on Aging
Aging Services Programs
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the
Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended, and section 398 of
the Public Health Service Act, $1,199,814,000, of which
$5,000,000 shall be available for activities regarding
medication management, screening, and education to prevent
incorrect medication and adverse drug reactions.
Office of the Secretary
General Departmental Management
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided, for general
departmental management, including hire of six sedans, and
for carrying out titles III, XVII, and XX of the Public
Health Service Act, and the United States-Mexico Border
Health Commission Act, $341,703,000, together with
$5,851,000, to be transferred and expended as authorized by
section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act from the
Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Supplemental Medical
Insurance Trust Fund: Provided, That of the funds made
available under this heading for carrying out title XX of the
Public Health Service Act, $11,885,000 shall be for
activities specified under section 2003(b)(2), of which
$10,157,000 shall be for prevention service demonstration
grants under section 510(b)(2) of title V of the Social
Security Act, as amended, without application of the
limitation of section 2010(c) of said title XX: Provided
further, That of this amount, $50,000,000 is for minority
AIDS prevention and treatment activities; and $21,998,000
shall be for an Information Technology Security and
Innovation Fund for Department-wide activities involving
cybersecurity, information technology security, and related
innovation projects.
office of inspector general
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General
in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act
of 1978, as amended, $35,786,000: Provided, That, of such
amount, necessary sums are available for providing protective
services to the Secretary and investigating non-payment of
child support cases for which non-payment is a Federal
offense under 18 U.S.C. section 228.
office for civil rights
For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights,
$28,691,000, together with not to exceed $3,314,000, to be
transferred and expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1)
of the Social Security Act from the Hospital Insurance Trust
Fund and the Supplemental Medical Insurance Trust Fund.
policy research
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided,
research studies under section 1110 of the Social Security
Act and title III of the Public Health Service Act,
$2,500,000: Provided, That in addition to amounts provided
herein, funds from amounts available under section 241 of the
Public Health Service Act may be used to carry out national
health or human services research and evaluation activities:
Provided further, That the expenditure of any funds available
under section 241 of the Public Health Service Act are
subject to the requirements of section 205 of this Act.
Retirement Pay and Medical Benefits for Commissioned Officers
For retirement pay and medical benefits of Public Health
Service Commissioned Officers as authorized by law, for
payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection
Plan and Survivor Benefit Plan, for medical care of
dependents and retired personnel under the Dependents'
Medical Care Act (10 U.S.C. ch. 55), and for payments
pursuant to section 229(b) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 429(b)), such amounts as may be required during the
current fiscal year.
public health and social services emergency fund
For expenses necessary to support activities related to
countering potential biological, disease and chemical threats
to civilian populations, $242,949,000: Provided, That this
amount is distributed as follows: Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, $181,919,000, of which $52,000,000 shall
remain available until expended for the National
Pharmaceutical Stockpile; and Office of Emergency
Preparedness, $61,030,000.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 201. Funds appropriated in this title shall be
available for not to exceed $37,000 for official reception
and representation expenses when specifically approved by the
Secretary.
Sec. 202. The Secretary shall make available through
assignment not more than 60 employees of the Public Health
Service to assist in child survival activities and to work in
AIDS programs through and with funds provided by the Agency
for International Development, the United Nations
International Children's Emergency Fund or the World Health
Organization.
Sec. 203. None of the funds appropriated under this Act may
be used to implement section 399L(b) of the Public Health
Service Act or section 1503 of the National Institutes of
Health Revitalization Act of 1993, Public Law 103-43.
Sec. 204. None of the funds appropriated in this Act for
the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, and the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration shall be used to pay the
salary of an individual, through a grant or other extramural
mechanism, at a rate in excess of Executive Level I.
Sec. 205. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be
expended pursuant to section 241 of the Public Health Service
Act, except for funds specifically provided for in this Act,
or for other taps and assessments made by any office located
in the Department of Health and Human Services, prior to the
Secretary's preparation and submission of a report to the
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and of the House
detailing the planned uses of such funds.
Sec. 206. Notwithstanding section 241(a) of the Public
Health Service Act, such portion as the Secretary shall
determine, but not more than 1.25 percent, of any amounts
appropriated for programs authorized under said Act shall be
made available for the evaluation (directly, or by grants or
contracts) of the implementation and effectiveness of such
programs.
(transfer of funds)
Sec. 207. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary
funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985, as amended) which are appropriated for
the current fiscal year for the Department of Health and
Human Services in this Act may be transferred between
appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be increased
by more than 3 percent by any such transfer: Provided, That
an appropriation may be increased by up to an additional 2
percent subject to approval by the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That the
Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are
notified at least 15 days in advance of any transfer.
Sec. 208. The Director of the National Institutes of
Health, jointly with the Director of the Office of AIDS
Research, may transfer up to 3 percent among institutes,
centers, and divisions from the total amounts identified by
these two Directors as funding for research pertaining to the
human immunodeficiency virus: Provided, That the Congress is
promptly notified of the transfer.
Sec. 209. Of the amounts made available in this Act for the
National Institutes of Health, the amount for research
related to the human immunodeficiency virus, as jointly
determined by the Director of the National Institutes of
Health and the Director of the Office of AIDS Research, shall
be made available to the ``Office of AIDS Research'' account.
The Director of the Office of AIDS Research shall transfer
from such account amounts necessary to carry out section
2353(d)(3) of the Public Health Service Act.
Sec. 210. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be
made available to any entity under title X of the Public
Health Service Act unless the applicant for the award
certifies to the Secretary that it encourages family
participation in the decision of minors to seek family
planning services and that it provides counseling to minors
on how to resist attempts to coerce minors into engaging in
sexual activities.
Sec. 211. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
(including funds appropriated to any trust fund) may be used
to carry out the Medicare+Choice program if the Secretary
denies participation in such program to an otherwise eligible
entity (including a Provider Sponsored Organization) because
the entity informs the Secretary that it will not provide,
pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for
abortions: Provided, That the Secretary shall make
appropriate prospective adjustments to the capitation payment
to such an entity (based on an actuarially sound estimate of
the expected costs of providing the service to such entity's
enrollees): Provided further, That nothing in this section
shall be construed to change the Medicare program's coverage
for such services and a Medicare+Choice organization
described in this section shall be responsible for informing
enrollees where to obtain information about all Medicare
covered services.
Sec. 212. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no
provider of services under title X of
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the Public Health Service Act shall be exempt from any State
law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse,
child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest.
Sec. 213. The Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 (Public Law 101-
167) is amended--
(1) in section 599D (8 U.S.C. 1157 note)--
(A) in subsection (b)(3), by striking ``1997, 1998, 1999,
2000, and 2001'' and inserting ``1997, 1998, 1999, 2000,
2001, and 2002''; and
(B) in subsection (e), by striking ``October 1, 2001'' each
place it appears and inserting ``October 1, 2002''; and
(2) in section 599E (8 U.S.C. 1255 note) in subsection
(b)(2), by striking ``September 30, 2001'' and inserting
``September 30, 2002''.
Sec. 214. (a) Except as provided by subsection (e) none of
the funds appropriated by this Act may be used to withhold
substance abuse funding from a State pursuant to section 1926
of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x-26) if such
State certifies to the Secretary of Health and Human Services
by May 1, 2002 that the State will commit additional State
funds, in accordance with subsection (b), to ensure
compliance with State laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco
products to individuals under 18 years of age.
(b) The amount of funds to be committed by a State under
subsection (a) shall be equal to 1 percent of such State's
substance abuse block grant allocation for each percentage
point by which the State misses the retailer compliance rate
goal established by the Secretary of Health and Human
Services under section 1926 of such Act.
(c) The State is to maintain State expenditures in fiscal
year 2002 for tobacco prevention programs and for compliance
activities at a level that is not less than the level of such
expenditures maintained by the State for fiscal year 2001,
and adding to that level the additional funds for tobacco
compliance activities required under subsection (a). The
State is to submit a report to the Secretary on all fiscal
year 2001 State expenditures and all fiscal year 2002
obligations for tobacco prevention and compliance activities
by program activity by July 31, 2002.
(d) The Secretary shall exercise discretion in enforcing
the timing of the State obligation of the additional funds
required by the certification described in subsection (a) as
late as July 31, 2002.
(e) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used
to withhold substance abuse funding pursuant to section 1926
from a territory that receives less than $1,000,000.
Sec. 215. In order for the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention to carry out international health activities,
including HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease, chronic and
environmental disease, and other health activities abroad
during fiscal year 2002, the Secretary of Health and Human
Services is authorized to--
(1) utilize the authorities contained in subsection 2(c) of
the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, as
amended, and
(2) utilize the authorities contained in 22 U.S.C. sections
291 and 292 and directly or through contract or cooperative
agreement to lease, alter or renovate facilities in foreign
countries, to carry out programs supported by this
appropriation notwithstanding PHS Act section 307.
In exercising the authority set forth in (1) and (2), the
Secretary of Health and Human Services shall consult with the
Department of State to assure that planned activities are
within the legal strictures of the State Department Basic
Authorities Act of 1956, as amended, and other applicable
parts of U.S.C. Title 22.
Sec. 216. The Division of Federal Occupational Health may
utilize personal services contracting to employ professional
management/administrative and occupational health
professionals.
Sec. 217. Notwithstanding any other provision of law
relating to vacancies in offices for which appointments must
be made by the President, including any time limitation on
serving in an acting capacity, the Acting Director of the
National Institutes of Health as of January 12, 2000, may
serve in that position until a new Director of the National
Institutes of Health is confirmed by the Senate.
Sec. 218. Section 582 of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 290hh-1(f)) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``(g) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the
`Donald J. Cohen National Child Traumatic Stress
Initiative'.''.
This title may be cited as the ``Department of Health and
Human Services Appropriations Act, 2002''.
TITLE III--DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Education for the Disadvantaged
For carrying out title I of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 (``ESEA'') and section 418A of the
Higher Education Act of 1965, $12,346,900,000, of which
$4,777,199,000 shall become available on July 1, 2002, and
shall remain available through September 30, 2003, and of
which $7,383,301,000 shall become available on October 1,
2002, and shall remain available through September 30, 2003,
for academic year 2002-2003: Provided, That $235,000,000
shall be available for comprehensive school reform grants
under part F of the ESEA: Provided further, That $15,000,000
of the amount appropriated for title I, part B, subpart 1
shall become available October 1, 2001, and shall remain
available through September 30, 2003, for evaluation and
technical assistance: Provided further, That the funds
provided for title I, part B, subpart 2 shall become
available October 1, 2001, and shall remain available through
September 30, 2003: Provided further, That $7,172,971,000
shall be available for basic grants under section 1124:
Provided further, That up to $3,500,000 of these funds shall
be available to the Secretary of Education on October 1,
2001, to obtain updated educational-agency-level census
poverty data from the Bureau of the Census: Provided further,
That $1,365,031,000 shall be available for concentration
grants under section 1124A: Provided further, That
$1,018,499,000 shall be available for targeted grants under
section 1125: Provided further, That $793,499,000 shall be
available for education finance incentive grants under
section 1125A.
Impact Aid
For carrying out programs of financial assistance to
federally affected schools authorized by title VIII of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965,
$1,143,500,000, of which $982,500,000 shall be for basic
support payments under section 8003(b), $50,000,000 shall be
for payments for children with disabilities under section
8003(d), $48,000,000 shall be for construction under section
8007 and shall remain available through September 30, 2003,
$55,000,000 shall be for Federal property payments under
section 8002, and $8,000,000, to remain available until
expended, shall be for facilities maintenance under section
8008: Provided, That $3,000,000 of the funds for section 8007
shall be available for the local educational agencies and in
the amounts specified in the statement of the managers on the
conference report accompanying this Act.
school improvement programs
For carrying out school improvement activities authorized
by titles II, IV, V, VI, and parts B and C of title VII of
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; part B of
title II of the Higher Education Act; the McKinney-Vento
Homeless Assistance Act; and the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
$7,827,473,000, of which $1,717,609,000 shall become
available October 1, 2001, and shall remain available through
September 30, 2003, of which $2,801,597,000 shall become
available on July 1, 2002, and remain available through
September 30, 2003, and of which $1,765,000,000 shall become
available on October 1, 2002, and shall remain available
through September 30, 2003, for academic year 2002-2003:
Provided, That $75,000,000 for continuing and new grants to
demonstrate effective approaches to comprehensive school
reform shall be allocated and expended in the same manner as
the funds provided under the Fund for the Improvement of
Education for this purpose were allocated and expended in
fiscal year 2001: Provided further, That $142,189,000 shall
be available to support the activities authorized under
subpart 4 of part D of title V of the ESEA, of which up to 5
percent shall become available on October 1, 2001, for
evaluation, technical assistance, school networking, peer
review of applications, and program outreach activities and
of which not less than 95 percent shall become available on
July 1, 2002, and remain available through September 30,
2003, for grants to local educational agencies: Provided
further, That funds made available to local educational
agencies under this subpart shall be used only for activities
related to establishing smaller learning communities in high
schools: Provided further, That of the amount made available
for subpart 3, part C, of title II of the ESEA, $2,000,000
shall be used by the Center for Civic Education to implement
a comprehensive program to improve public knowledge,
understanding, and support of the Congress and the state
legislatures: Provided further, That $269,906,000 of the
funds for subpart 1, part D of title V of the ESEA shall be
available for the projects and in the amounts specified in
the statement of the managers on the conference report
accompanying this Act.
Indian Education
For expenses necessary to carry out, to the extent not
otherwise provided, title VII, part A of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965, $120,368,000.
bilingual and immigrant education
For carrying out title III, part A of the ESEA,
$665,000,000, of which $415,000,000 shall become available on
July 1, 2002, and shall remain available through September
30, 2003.
Special Education
For carrying out the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act, $8,672,804,000, of which $3,315,233,000 shall
become available for obligation on July 1, 2002, and shall
remain available through September 30, 2003, and of which
$5,072,000,000 shall become available on October 1, 2002, and
shall remain available through September 30, 2003, for
academic year 2002-2003: Provided, That $9,500,000 shall be
for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic to support the
development, production, and circulation of recorded
educational materials: Provided further, That $1,500,000
shall be for the recipient of funds provided by Public Law
105-78 under section 687(b)(2)(G) of the Act to provide
information on diagnosis, intervention, and teaching
strategies for children with disabilities: Provided further,
That the amount for section 611(c) of the Act shall be equal
to the amount available for that section under Public Law
106-554, increased by the amount of inflation as specified in
section 611(f)(1)(B)(ii) of the Act: Provided further, That
$8,380,000 of the funds for section 672 of the Act shall be
available for the projects and in the amounts specified in
the statement of the managers on the conference report
accompanying this Act.
rehabilitation services and disability research
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Assistive Technology Act of
1998, and the Helen Keller National Center Act,
$2,945,813,000, of which $56,552,000 shall remain available
through September 30, 2003: Provided, That the funds provided
for title I of the Assistive Technology Act of 1998 (``the AT
Act'') shall be allocated notwithstanding section 105(b)(1)
of the AT Act: Provided further, That in the case of a State
that was in the third year of a 3-year extension grant made
pursuant to section 101(f) of the Assistive Technology Act of
1998 for fiscal
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year 2001, the Secretary of Education shall award under such
section an additional 1-year extension of the grant to such
State for fiscal year 2002 in an amount equal to the amount
the State received under such section for fiscal year 2001:
Provided further, That each State shall be provided $50,000
for activities under section 102 of the AT Act: Provided
further, That $36,552,000 shall be used to support grants for
up to 3 years to States under title III of the AT Act, of
which the Federal share shall not exceed 75 percent in the
first year, 50 percent in the second year, and 25 percent in
the third year, and that the requirements in section
301(c)(2) and section 302 of that Act shall not apply to such
grants: Provided further, That $3,746,000 of the funds for
section 303 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 shall be
available for the projects and in the amounts specified in
the statement of the managers on the conference report
accompanying this Act.
Special Institutions for Persons With Disabilities
american printing house for the blind
For carrying out the Act of March 3, 1879, as amended (20
U.S.C. 101 et seq.), $14,000,000.
national technical institute for the deaf
For the National Technical Institute for the Deaf under
titles I and II of the Education of the Deaf Act of 1986 (20
U.S.C. 4301 et seq.), $55,376,000, of which $5,376,000 shall
be for construction and shall remain available until
expended: Provided, That from the total amount available, the
Institute may at its discretion use funds for the endowment
program as authorized under section 207.
gallaudet university
For the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, the Model
Secondary School for the Deaf, and the partial support of
Gallaudet University under titles I and II of the Education
of the Deaf Act of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.),
$96,938,000: Provided, That from the total amount available,
the University may at its discretion use funds for the
endowment program as authorized under section 207.
Vocational and Adult Education
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the
Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education
Act, the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, and title
VIII-D of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, and
Public Law 102-73, $1,934,060,000, of which $1,136,560,000
shall become available on July 1, 2002 and shall remain
available through September 30, 2003 and of which
$791,000,000 shall become available on October 1, 2002 and
shall remain available through September 30, 2003: Provided,
That of the amounts made available for the Carl D. Perkins
Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, $6,500,000
shall be for tribally controlled postsecondary vocational and
technical institutions under section 117: Provided further,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law or any
regulation, the Secretary of Education shall not require the
use of a restricted indirect cost rate for grants issued
pursuant to section 117 of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and
Applied Technology Education Act: Provided further, That
$9,500,000 shall be for carrying out section 118 of such Act:
Provided further, That of the amounts made available for the
Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education
Act, $5,000,000 shall be for demonstration activities
authorized by section 207: Provided further, That of the
amount provided for Adult Education State Grants, $70,000,000
shall be made available for integrated English literacy and
civics education services to immigrants and other limited
English proficient populations: Provided further, That of the
amount reserved for integrated English literacy and civics
education, notwithstanding section 211 of the Adult Education
and Family Literacy Act, 65 percent shall be allocated to
States based on a State's absolute need as determined by
calculating each State's share of a 10-year average of the
Immigration and Naturalization Service data for immigrants
admitted for legal permanent residence for the 10 most recent
years, and 35 percent allocated to States that experienced
growth as measured by the average of the 3 most recent years
for which Immigration and Naturalization Service data for
immigrants admitted for legal permanent residence are
available, except that no State shall be allocated an amount
less than $60,000: Provided further, That of the amounts made
available for the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act,
$9,500,000 shall be for national leadership activities under
section 243 and $6,560,000 shall be for the National
Institute for Literacy under section 242: Provided further,
That $22,000,000 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.
Student Financial Assistance
For carrying out subparts 1, 3 and 4 of part A, section
428K, part C and part E of title IV of the Higher Education
Act of 1965, as amended, $12,285,500,000, which shall remain
available through September 30, 2003.
The maximum Pell Grant for which a student shall be
eligible during award year 2002-2003 shall be $4,000.
Federal Family Education Loan Program Account
For Federal administrative expenses to carry out guaranteed
student loans authorized by title IV, part B, of the Higher
Education Act of 1965, as amended, $49,636,000.
Higher Education
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided,
section 121 and titles II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII of the
Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, section 1543 of the
Higher Education Amendments of 1992, title VIII of the Higher
Education Amendments of 1998, and the Mutual Educational and
Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, $2,031,048,000, of which
$5,000,000 for interest subsidies authorized by section 121
of the Higher Education Act of 1965, shall remain available
until expended: Provided, That $10,000,000, to remain
available through September 30, 2003, shall be available
to fund fellowships for academic year 2003-2004 under part
A, subpart 1 of title VII of said Act, under the terms and
conditions of part A, subpart 1: Provided further, That
$1,000,000 is for data collection and evaluation
activities for programs under the Higher Education Act of
1965, including such activities needed to comply with the
Government Performance and Results Act of 1993: Provided
further, That $17,500,000 shall be available for tribally
controlled colleges and universities under section 316 of
the Higher Education Act of 1965: Provided further, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds made
available in this Act to carry out title VI of the Higher
Education Act of 1965, as amended, and section 102(b)(6)
of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of
1961 may be used to support visits and study in foreign
countries by individuals who are participating in advanced
foreign language training and international studies in
areas that are vital to United States national security
and who plan to apply their language skills and knowledge
of these countries in the fields of government, the
professions, or international development: Provided
further, That up to one percent of the funds referred to
in the preceding proviso may be used for program
evaluation, national outreach, and information
dissemination activities: Provided further, That
$149,722,000 of the funds for part B of title VII of the
Higher Education Act of 1965 shall be available for the
projects and in the amounts specified in the statement of
the managers on the conference report accompanying this
Act.
Howard University
For partial support of Howard University (20 U.S.C. 121 et
seq.), $237,474,000, of which not less than $3,600,000 shall
be for a matching endowment grant pursuant to the Howard
University Endowment Act (Public Law 98-480) and shall remain
available until expended.
College Housing and Academic Facilities Loans Program
For Federal administrative expenses authorized under
section 121 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, $762,000 to
carry out activities related to existing facility loans
entered into under the Higher Education Act of 1965.
Historically Black College and University Capital Financing Program
Account
The total amount of bonds insured pursuant to section 344
of title III, part D of the Higher Education Act of 1965
shall not exceed $357,000,000, and the cost, as defined in
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of such
bonds shall not exceed zero.
For administrative expenses to carry out the Historically
Black College and University Capital Financing Program
entered into pursuant to title III, part D of the Higher
Education Act of 1965, as amended, $208,000.
Education Research, Statistics, and Assessment
For carrying out activities authorized by the Educational
Research, Development, Dissemination, and Improvement Act of
1994, including part E; the National Education Statistics Act
of 1994, including sections 411 and 412; section 4 of the No
Child Left Behind Act of 2001; and title VI, part A of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act, $443,870,000:
Provided, That $58,000,000 of the amount available for the
national education research institutes shall be allocated
notwithstanding section 912(m)(1)(B-F) and subparagraphs (B)
and (C) of section 931(c)(2) of Public Law 103-227.
Departmental Management
Program Administration
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the
Department of Education Organization Act, including rental of
conference rooms in the District of Columbia and hire of two
passenger motor vehicles, $424,212,000.
Office for Civil Rights
For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights, as
authorized by section 203 of the Department of Education
Organization Act, $79,934,000.
Office of the Inspector General
For expenses necessary for the Office of the Inspector
General, as authorized by section 212 of the Department of
Education Organization Act, $38,720,000.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 301. No funds appropriated in this Act may be used for
the transportation of students or teachers (or for the
purchase of equipment for such transportation) in order to
overcome racial imbalance in any school or school system, or
for the transportation of students or teachers (or for the
purchase of equipment for such transportation) in order to
carry out a plan of racial desegregation of any school or
school system.
Sec. 302. None of the funds contained in this Act shall be
used to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation
of any student to a school other than the school which is
nearest the student's home, except for a student requiring
special education, to the school offering such special
education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964. For the purpose of this section an
indirect requirement of transportation of students includes
the transportation of students to carry out a plan involving
the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the
pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any
combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clustering.
The prohibition described in this section does not include
the establishment of magnet schools.
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Sec. 303. No funds appropriated under this Act may be used
to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer
and meditation in the public schools.
(transfer of funds)
Sec. 304. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary
funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985, as amended) which are appropriated for
the Department of Education in this Act may be transferred
between appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be
increased by more than 3 percent by any such transfer:
Provided, That the Appropriations Committees of both Houses
of Congress are notified at least 15 days in advance of any
transfer.
Sec. 305. (a) Section 1543(a) of the Higher Education
Amendments of 1992 (20 U.S.C. 1070 note) is amended by
striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
``(2) Award determination.--The amount of the financial
assistance provided to an athlete described in paragraph (1)
shall be determined in accordance with criteria, and in
amounts, specified in the application of the center under
subsection (c). Such assistance shall not exceed the
athlete's cost of attendance as determined under section 472
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087ll).
``(3) Information on distribution of assistance.--Each
center providing such assistance shall annually report to the
Secretary such information as the Secretary may reasonably
require on the distribution of such assistance among athletes
and institutions of higher education. The Secretary shall
compile such reports and submit them to the Committees on
Education and the Workforce and Appropriations of the House
of Representatives and the Committees on Health, Education,
Labor, and Pensions and Appropriations of the Senate.''.
(b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply with
respect to any funds appropriated pursuant to section 1543(d)
of the Higher Education Amendments of 1992, including funds
appropriated pursuant to that section in fiscal years 2000
and 2001, that are available for financial assistance under
section 1543 on or after the date of enactment of this Act.
Sec. 306. (a) Notwithstanding sections 413D, 442, and 488
of the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Secretary of
Education may reallocate, from funds made available under the
heading ``Student Financial Assistance'' to carry out part C
of title IV of that Act, excess allocations for fiscal year
2002 in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 in the aggregate
to institutions of higher education described in subsection
(b) for the purposes described in subsection (c). The
reallocation to each such institution shall be made in
accordance with subsection (d). Such excess allocations shall
remain available for obligation until March 31, 2004.
(b) An institution of higher education may receive a
reallocation under subsection (a) if the institution--
(1) is, on the date of enactment of this Act, participating
in the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant and
Federal Work Study programs under subpart 3 of part A, and
part C of title IV of that Act, respectively;
(2) initially began participating in both such programs
during or after 1989, but not later than 1999;
(3) has a current enrollment of not less than 2,000
students;
(4) provides educational programs for which the institution
awards baccalaureate and graduate degrees;
(5) has experienced an actual enrollment increase of 75
percent or more since the institution began participating in
such programs; and
(6) charged, for academic year 2000-2001, in-State tuition
and fees for a full-time undergraduate student that were less
than such tuition and fees charged by the institution for
academic year 1998-1999.
(c) An institution of higher education that receives a
reallocation under subsection (a) may use that reallocation
for Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants or
Federal Work Study awards.
(d)(1) A reallocation made under subsection (a) to an
institution described in subsection (b) shall be determined
by calculating the difference between--
(A) the amount (commonly referred to as the ``base
guarantee'') that the institution received under section
413D(a) or 442(a) of that Act, as the case may be; and
(B) the amount that the institution would receive pursuant
to section 413D(a)(2)(B)(ii) or 442(a)(2)(B)(ii) of that Act,
as the case may be, if the institution were beginning its
program participation in the 2002-2003 academic year.
(2) If the amounts available for reallocation under
subsection (a) are insufficient to fully fund the amounts
determined under paragraph (1) of this subsection to each
institution described in subsection (b), then the amount to
be reallocated to each such institution shall be ratably
reduced.
(e) The Secretary may use such data as he determines
appropriate in order to carry out this section.
Sec. 307. If this Act is enacted before H.R. 1, the No
Child Left Behind Act of 2001, is enacted, then references to
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 or to any
other Acts that would be amended by H.R. 1 shall be read to
be references to those Acts as they would be amended by H.R.
1 (including amendments made by H. Con. Res. 289, as passed
by the House and the Senate).
This title may be cited as the ``Department of Education
Appropriations Act, 2002''.
TITLE IV--RELATED AGENCIES
Armed Forces Retirement Home
For expenses necessary for the Armed Forces Retirement Home
to operate and maintain the United States Soldiers' and
Airmen's Home and the United States Naval Home, to be paid
from funds available in the Armed Forces Retirement Home
Trust Fund, $71,440,000, of which $9,812,000 shall remain
available until expended for construction and renovation of
the physical plants at the United States Soldiers' and
Airmen's Home and the United States Naval Home: Provided,
That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a single
contract or related contracts for development and
construction, to include construction of a long-term care
facility at the United States Naval Home, may be employed
which collectively include the full scope of the project:
Provided further, That the solicitation and contract shall
contain the clause ``availability of funds'' found at 48 CFR
52.232-18 and 252.232-7007, Limitation of Government
Obligations.
Corporation for National and Community Service
Domestic Volunteer Service Programs, Operating Expenses
For expenses necessary for the Corporation for National and
Community Service to carry out the provisions of the Domestic
Volunteer Service Act of 1973, as amended, $328,895,000:
Provided, That none of the funds made available to the
Corporation for National and Community Service in this Act
for activities authorized by part E of title II of the
Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 shall be used to
provide stipends or other monetary incentives to volunteers
or volunteer leaders whose incomes exceed 125 percent of the
national poverty level.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
For payment to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as
authorized by the Communications Act of 1934, an amount which
shall be available within limitations specified by that Act,
for the fiscal year 2004, $380,000,000: Provided, That no
funds made available to the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting by this Act shall be used to pay for receptions,
parties, or similar forms of entertainment for Government
officials or employees: Provided further, That none of the
funds contained in this paragraph shall be available or used
to aid or support any program or activity from which any
person is excluded, or is denied benefits, or is
discriminated against, on the basis of race, color, national
origin, religion, or sex: Provided further, That in addition
to the amounts provided above, $25,000,000, for costs related
to digital program production, development, and distribution,
associated with the transition of public broadcasting to
digital broadcasting, to be awarded as determined by the
Corporation in consultation with public radio and
television licensees or permittees, or their designated
representatives.
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Salaries and Expenses
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service to carry out the functions vested in it
by the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. 171-
180, 182-183), including hire of passenger motor vehicles;
for expenses necessary for the Labor-Management Cooperation
Act of 1978 (29 U.S.C. 175a); and for expenses necessary for
the Service to carry out the functions vested in it by the
Civil Service Reform Act, Public Law 95-454 (5 U.S.C. ch.
71), $39,982,000, including $1,500,000, to remain available
through September 30, 2003, for activities authorized by the
Labor-Management Cooperation Act of 1978 (29 U.S.C. 175a):
Provided, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, fees charged,
up to full-cost recovery, for special training activities and
other conflict resolution services and technical assistance,
including those provided to foreign governments and
international organizations, and for arbitration services
shall be credited to and merged with this account, and shall
remain available until expended: Provided further, That fees
for arbitration services shall be available only for
education, training, and professional development of the
agency workforce: Provided further, That the Director of the
Service is authorized to accept and use on behalf of the
United States gifts of services and real, personal, or other
property in the aid of any projects or functions within the
Director's jurisdiction.
Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
Salaries and Expenses
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mine Safety and
Health Review Commission (30 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), $6,939,000.
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Office of Library Services: Grants and Administration
For carrying out subtitle B of the Museum and Library
Services Act, $197,602,000: Provided, That of the amount
provided, $2,000,000 shall be awarded to the National Museum
of African American History and Culture Plan for Action
Presidential Commission, $250,000 shall be awarded to
American Village Project in Montevallo, Alabama, $20,000
shall be awarded to Evergreen-Conecuh Public Library,
Alabama, $50,000 shall be awarded to Gordo Public Library,
Pickens County Commission, Alabama, $300,000 shall be awarded
to Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama, $1,500,000 shall be
awarded to National Museum for Women in the Arts, $300,000
shall be awarded to Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights
Multicultural Center, $50,000 shall be awarded to Heard
Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, $800,000 shall be awarded to
Children's Museum of Los Angeles, California, $150,000 shall
be awarded to Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles,
California, $750,000 shall be awarded to Natural History
Museum of Los Angeles County, California, $290,000 Santa
Barbara Maritime Museum, $25,000 Santa Maria Valley Discovery
Museum, California, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to The Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco, $150,000 shall be awarded to
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Bethel Public Library, Connecticut, $500,000 shall be awarded
to Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut, $250,000 shall
be awarded to Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Georgia,
$700,000 shall be awarded to Bishops Museum in Honolulu,
Hawaii, $500,000 shall be awarded to Grout Museum in
Waterloo, Iowa, $61,000 shall be awarded to Iowa State
Historical Society, $389,000 shall be awarded to The National
Audobon Society's ARK Museum in Dubuque, Iowa, $750,000 shall
be awarded to University of Idaho Performance and Education
Facility, $50,000 shall be awarded to Adler Planetarium and
Astronomy Museum, $100,000 shall be awarded to Johnson County
Museum of History, Franklin, Indiana, $125,000 shall be
awarded to Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts,
$1,000,000 shall be awarded to Shakespeare Rose Theater,
$150,000 shall be awarded to Springfield-Greene County
Library, Springfield, Missouri, $1,160,000 shall be awarded
to Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, $850,000 shall be
awarded to University of Mississippi Foundation, Oxford,
Mississippi, $350,000 shall be awarded to University of
Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, $132,000 shall be awarded
to Lois Morgan Edward Memorial Library, Nashville, North
Carolina, $100,000 shall be awarded to Rocky Mount Children's
Museum, $100,000 shall be awarded to Confluence Visitor
Center in Williston, North Dakota and the North Dakota State
Historical Society, $100,000 shall be awarded to Fort Mandan
Visitor's Center, $100,000 shall be awarded to Mandan-on-a-
Slant Museum, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to Franklin Pierce
College, $160,000 shall be awarded to Monmouth University,
West Long Branch, New Jersey, $100,000 shall be awarded to
Princeton Public Library, Mercer County, New Jersey, $125,000
shall be awarded to Albany Institute for History and Art,
$1,000,000 shall be awarded to Brooklyn Historical Society,
New York, $22,500 shall be awarded to Buffalo and Erie County
Library System, Buffalo, New York, $250,000 shall be awarded
to Center for Jewish History, New York, New York, $150,000
shall be awarded to Children's Museum of Manhattan, New
York, $105,000 shall be awarded to Four County Library
System, Vestal, New York, $500,000 shall be awarded to
Hunter College, New York, $200,000 shall be awarded to
Long Island Maritime Museum in West Sayville, New York,
$750,000 shall be awarded to Lower East Side Tenement
Museum, New York, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to New York
Hall of Science, $22,500 shall be awarded to NIOGA Library
System of Niagara and Orleans County, New York, $100,000
shall be awarded to The Woodstock Guild of Craftsmen,
Inc., Woodstock, New York, $100,000 shall be awarded to
Clark County Historical Museum, $40,000 shall be awarded
to Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland, Ohio, $500,000
shall be awarded to Crawford Museum, Cleveland, Ohio,
$42,000 shall be awarded to Farmer's Castle Museum in
Belpre, $500,000 shall be awarded to MAPS Air Museum,
Canton Ohio, $44,000 shall be awarded to McKinley Museum,
Canton, Ohio, $50,000 shall be awarded to University of
Oregon Museum of Natural History in Eugene, Oregon,
$150,000 shall be awarded to Academy of Natural Sciences
in Philadelphia County, $100,000 shall be awarded to
Beaver Area Memorial Library, Beaver County, Pennsylvania,
$300,000 shall be awarded to Delaware Valley Historical
Aircraft Association, $100,000 shall be awarded to
Discovery Square, Inc. in Erie, Pennsylvania, $200,000
shall be awarded to Everhart Museum in Scranton,
Pennsylvania, $300,000 shall be awarded to National
Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $126,000
shall be awarded to Northland Public Library Authority,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, $235,000 shall be awarded to
Penn Hills Public Library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
$250,000 shall be awarded to Philadelphia Zoo, $100,000
shall be awarded to Pittsburgh Children's Museum, $700,000
shall be awarded to Please Touch Museum at the Children's
Museum of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $50,000 shall be
awarded to Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania,
$50,000 shall be awarded to Bamberg County Library in
Bamberg, South Carolina, $50,000 shall be awarded to
Clarendon County Library in Manning, South Carolina,
$500,000 shall be awarded to Marion Wright Edelman Public
Library, Bennettsville, South Carolina, $600,000 shall be
awarded to The Children's Discovery House, Murfreesboro,
Tennessee, $150,000 shall be awarded to The International
Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee, $500,000
shall be awarded to El Progreso Library, Uvalde, Texas,
$500,000 shall be awarded to Vietnam Archive Center, Texas
Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, $800,000 shall be awarded
to Children's Museum of Virginia, Portsmouth, Virginia,
$325,000 shall be awarded to Virginia Living Museum,
$100,000 shall be awarded to Burlington City Arts in
Burlington, Vermont, $125,000 shall be awarded to Lake
Champlain Science Center in Burlington, Vermont, $175,000
shall be awarded to Vermont Historical Society in
Montpelier, Vermont, $100,000 shall be awarded to Beaver
Creek Reserve Education Center, Fall Creek, Wisconsin,
$500,000 shall be awarded to The Kenosha Civil War Museum
in Kenosha, Wisconsin, $75,000 shall be awarded to Village
of Hawkins, Wisconsin, and $500,000 shall be awarded to
Weis Earth Science Museum in Menasha, Wisconsin.
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
salaries and expenses
For expenses necessary to carry out section 1805 of the
Social Security Act, $8,250,000, to be transferred to this
appropriation from the Federal Hospital Insurance and the
Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds.
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses for the National Commission on
Libraries and Information Science, established by the Act of
July 20, 1970 (Public Law 91-345, as amended), $1,000,000.
National Council on Disability
Salaries and Expenses
For expenses necessary for the National Council on
Disability as authorized by title IV of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973, as amended, $2,830,000.
National Education Goals Panel
For expenses necessary for costs associated with the
termination of the National Education Goals Panel, $400,000.
National Labor Relations Board
Salaries and Expenses
For expenses necessary for the National Labor Relations
Board to carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor-
Management Relations Act, 1947, as amended (29 U.S.C. 141-
167), and other laws, $226,438,000: Provided, That no part of
this appropriation shall be available to organize or assist
in organizing agricultural laborers or used in connection
with investigations, hearings, directives, or orders
concerning bargaining units composed of agricultural laborers
as referred to in section 2(3) of the Act of July 5, 1935 (29
U.S.C. 152), and as amended by the Labor-Management Relations
Act, 1947, as amended, and as defined in section 3(f) of the
Act of June 25, 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203), and including in said
definition employees engaged in the maintenance and
operation of ditches, canals, reservoirs, and waterways
when maintained or operated on a mutual, nonprofit basis
and at least 95 percent of the water stored or supplied
thereby is used for farming purposes.
National Mediation Board
Salaries and Expenses
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the
Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 151-188), including
emergency boards appointed by the President, $10,635,000.
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
Salaries and Expenses
For expenses necessary for the Occupational Safety and
Health Review Commission (29 U.S.C. 661), $8,964,000.
Railroad Retirement Board
Dual Benefits Payments Account
For payment to the Dual Benefits Payments Account,
authorized under section 15(d) of the Railroad Retirement Act
of 1974, $146,000,000, which shall include amounts becoming
available in fiscal year 2002 pursuant to section
224(c)(1)(B) of Public Law 98-76; and in addition, an amount,
not to exceed 2 percent of the amount provided herein, shall
be available proportional to the amount by which the product
of recipients and the average benefit received exceeds
$146,000,000: Provided, That the total amount provided herein
shall be credited in 12 approximately equal amounts on the
first day of each month in the fiscal year.
Federal Payments to the Railroad Retirement Accounts
For payment to the accounts established in the Treasury for
the payment of benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act for
interest earned on unnegotiated checks, $150,000, to remain
available through September 30, 2003, which shall be the
maximum amount available for payment pursuant to section 417
of Public Law 98-76.
Limitation on Administration
For necessary expenses for the Railroad Retirement Board
for administration of the Railroad Retirement Act and the
Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, $97,700,000, to be
derived in such amounts as determined by the Board from the
railroad retirement accounts and from moneys credited to the
railroad unemployment insurance administration fund.
Limitation on the Office of Inspector General
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General
for audit, investigatory and review activities, as authorized
by the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, not more
than $6,261,000, to be derived from the railroad retirement
accounts and railroad unemployment insurance account:
Provided, That none of the funds made available in any other
paragraph of this Act may be transferred to the Office; used
to carry out any such transfer; used to provide any office
space, equipment, office supplies, communications facilities
or services, maintenance services, or administrative services
for the Office; used to pay any salary, benefit, or award for
any personnel of the Office; used to pay any other operating
expense of the Office; or used to reimburse the Office for
any service provided, or expense incurred, by the Office.
Social Security Administration
Payments to Social Security Trust Funds
For payment to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
and the Federal Disability Insurance trust funds, as provided
under sections 201(m), 217(g), 228(g), and 1131(b)(2) of the
Social Security Act, $434,400,000.
Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners
For carrying out title IV of the Federal Mine Safety and
Health Act of 1977, $332,840,000, to remain available until
expended.
For making, after July 31 of the current fiscal year,
benefit payments to individuals under title IV of the Federal
Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, for costs incurred in the
current fiscal year, such amounts as may be necessary.
For making benefit payments under title IV of the Federal
Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 for the first quarter of
fiscal year 2003, $108,000,000, to remain available until
expended.
Supplemental Security Income Program
For carrying out titles XI and XVI of the Social Security
Act, section 401 of Public Law 92-603, section 212 of Public
Law 93-66, as amended, and section 405 of Public Law 95-216,
including payment to the Social Security trust funds
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for administrative expenses incurred pursuant to section
201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, $21,277,412,000, to
remain available until expended: Provided, That any portion
of the funds provided to a State in the current fiscal year
and not obligated by the State during that year shall be
returned to the Treasury.
In addition, $200,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2003, for payment to the Social Security trust
funds for administrative expenses for continuing disability
reviews as authorized by section 103 of Public Law 104-121
and section 10203 of Public Law 105-33. The term ``continuing
disability reviews'' means reviews and redeterminations as
defined under section 201(g)(1)(A) of the Social Security
Act, as amended.
For making, after June 15 of the current fiscal year,
benefit payments to individuals under title XVI of the Social
Security Act, for unanticipated costs incurred for the
current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary.
For making benefit payments under title XVI of the Social
Security Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 2003,
$10,790,000,000, to remain available until expended.
Limitation on Administrative Expenses
For necessary expenses, including the hire of two passenger
motor vehicles, and not to exceed $35,000 for official
reception and representation expenses, not more than
$7,035,000,000 may be expended, as authorized by section
201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, from any one or all of
the trust funds referred to therein: Provided, That not less
than $1,800,000 shall be for the Social Security Advisory
Board: Provided further, That unobligated balances at the end
of fiscal year 2002 not needed for fiscal year 2002 shall
remain available until expended to invest in the Social
Security Administration information technology and
telecommunications hardware and software infrastructure,
including related equipment and non-payroll administrative
expenses associated solely with this information technology
and telecommunications infrastructure: Provided further, That
reimbursement to the trust funds under this heading for
expenditures for official time for employees of the Social
Security Administration pursuant to section 7131 of title 5,
United States Code, and for facilities or support services
for labor organizations pursuant to policies, regulations, or
procedures referred to in section 7135(b) of such title shall
be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, with interest, from
amounts in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, as
soon as possible after such expenditures are made.
From funds provided under the first paragraph, not less
than $200,000,000 shall be available for conducting
continuing disability reviews.
In addition to funding already available under this
heading, and subject to the same terms and conditions,
$433,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2003,
for continuing disability reviews as authorized by section
103 of Public Law 104-121 and section 10203 of Public Law
105-33. The term ``continuing disability reviews'' means
reviews and redeterminations as defined under section
201(g)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act, as amended.
In addition, $100,000,000 to be derived from administration
fees in excess of $5.00 per supplementary payment collected
pursuant to section 1616(d) of the Social Security Act or
section 212(b)(3) of Public Law 93-66, which shall remain
available until expended. To the extent that the amounts
collected pursuant to such section 1616(d) or 212(b)(3) in
fiscal year 2002 exceed $100,000,000, the amounts shall be
available in fiscal year 2003 only to the extent provided in
advance in appropriations Acts.
From funds previously appropriated for this purpose, any
unobligated balances at the end of fiscal year 2001 shall be
available to continue Federal-State partnerships which will
evaluate means to promote Medicare buy-in programs targeted
to elderly and disabled individuals under titles XVIII and
XIX of the Social Security Act.
Office of Inspector General
(including transfer of funds)
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General
in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act
of 1978, as amended, $19,000,000, together with not to exceed
$56,000,000, to be transferred and expended as authorized by
section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act from the Federal
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal
Disability Insurance Trust Fund.
In addition, an amount not to exceed 3 percent of the total
provided in this appropriation may be transferred from the
``Limitation on Administrative Expenses'', Social Security
Administration, to be merged with this account, to be
available for the time and purposes for which this account is
available: Provided, That notice of such transfers shall be
transmitted promptly to the Committees on Appropriations of
the House and Senate.
United States Institute of Peace
Operating Expenses
For necessary expenses of the United States Institute of
Peace as authorized in the United States Institute of Peace
Act, $15,104,000.
TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 501. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education are authorized to transfer unexpended
balances of prior appropriations to accounts corresponding to
current appropriations provided in this Act: Provided, That
such transferred balances are used for the same purpose, and
for the same periods of time, for which they were originally
appropriated.
Sec. 502. No part of any appropriation contained in this
Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current
fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
Sec. 503. (a) No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall be used, other than for normal and recognized
executive-legislative relationships, for publicity or
propaganda purposes, for the preparation, distribution, or
use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio,
television, or video presentation designed to support or
defeat legislation pending before the Congress or any State
legislature, except in presentation to the Congress or any
State legislature itself.
(b) No part of any appropriation contained in this Act
shall be used to pay the salary or expenses of any grant or
contract recipient, or agent acting for such recipient,
related to any activity designed to influence legislation or
appropriations pending before the Congress or any State
legislature.
Sec. 504. The Secretaries of Labor and Education are
authorized to make available not to exceed $23,000 and
$15,000, respectively, from funds available for salaries and
expenses under titles I and III, respectively, for official
reception and representation expenses; the Director of the
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is authorized to
make available for official reception and representation
expenses not to exceed $2,500 from the funds available for
``Salaries and expenses, Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service''; and the Chairman of the National Mediation Board
is authorized to make available for official reception and
representation expenses not to exceed $2,500 from funds
available for ``Salaries and expenses, National Mediation
Board''.
Sec. 505. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
no funds appropriated under this Act shall be used to carry
out any program of distributing sterile needles or syringes
for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug.
Sec. 506. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that, to the
greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products
purchased with funds made available in this Act should be
American-made.
(b) In providing financial assistance to, or entering into
any contract with, any entity using funds made available in
this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the greatest
extent practicable, shall provide to such entity a notice
describing the statement made in subsection (a) by the
Congress.
(c) If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal
agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing
a ``Made in America'' inscription, or any inscription with
the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the
United States that is not made in the United States, the
person shall be ineligible to receive any contract or
subcontract made with funds made available in this Act,
pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility
procedures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title
48, Code of Federal Regulations.
Sec. 507. When issuing statements, press releases, requests
for proposals, bid solicitations and other documents
describing projects or programs funded in whole or in part
with Federal money, all grantees receiving Federal funds
included in this Act, including but not limited to State and
local governments and recipients of Federal research grants,
shall clearly state: (1) the percentage of the total costs of
the program or project which will be financed with Federal
money; (2) the dollar amount of Federal funds for the project
or program; and (3) percentage and dollar amount of the total
costs of the project or program that will be financed by non-
governmental sources.
Sec. 508. (a) None of the funds appropriated under this
Act, and none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds
are appropriated under this Act, shall be expended for any
abortion.
(b) None of the funds appropriated under this Act, and none
of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are
appropriated under this Act, shall be expended for health
benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion.
(c) The term ``health benefits coverage'' means the package
of services covered by a managed care provider or
organization pursuant to a contract or other arrangement.
Sec. 509. (a) The limitations established in the preceding
section shall not apply to an abortion--
(1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or
incest; or
(2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical
disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a
life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from
the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a
physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an
abortion is performed.
(b) Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed as
prohibiting the expenditure by a State, locality, entity, or
private person of State, local, or private funds (other than
a State's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching
funds).
(c) Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed as
restricting the ability of any managed care provider from
offering abortion coverage or the ability of a State or
locality to contract separately with such a provider for such
coverage with State funds (other than a State's or locality's
contribution of Medicaid matching funds).
Sec. 510. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act
may be used for--
(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research
purposes; or
(2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are
destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of
injury or death greater than that allowed for research on
fetuses in utero under 45 CFR 46.208(a)(2) and section 498(b)
of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g(b)).
(b) For purposes of this section, the term ``human embryo
or embryos'' includes any organism, not protected as a human
subject under 45
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CFR 46 as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is
derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any
other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid
cells.
Sec. 511. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act
may be used for any activity that promotes the legalization
of any drug or other substance included in schedule I of the
schedules of controlled substances established by section 202
of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812).
(b) The limitation in subsection (a) shall not apply when
there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic
advantage to the use of such drug or other substance or that
federally sponsored clinical trials are being conducted to
determine therapeutic advantage.
Sec. 512. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be obligated or expended to enter into or renew a contract
with an entity if--
(1) such entity is otherwise a contractor with the United
States and is subject to the requirement in section 4212(d)
of title 38, United States Code, regarding submission of an
annual report to the Secretary of Labor concerning employment
of certain veterans; and
(2) such entity has not submitted a report as required by
that section for the most recent year for which such
requirement was applicable to such entity.
Sec. 513. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used to promulgate or adopt any final standard under
section 1173(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320d-
2(b)) providing for, or providing for the assignment of, a
unique health identifier for an individual (except in an
individual's capacity as an employer or a health care
provider), until legislation is enacted specifically
approving the standard.
Sec. 514. (a) Section 10 of the Native Hawaiian Health Care
Improvement Act (42 U.S.C. 11709) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a) in the matter preceding paragraph
(1), by striking ``Kamehameha School/Bishop Estate'' and
inserting ``Papa Ola Lokahi''; and
(2) in subsection (b)(1)(C), by striking ``Kamehameha
School/Bishop Estate'' and inserting ``Papa Ola Lokahi''.
(b) Section 338K(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 254s(a)) is amended by striking ``Kamehameha School/
Bishop Estate'' and inserting ``Papa Ola Lokahi''.
Sec. 515. (a) In this section the term ``qualified
magistrate judge'' means any person who--
(1) retired as a magistrate judge before November 15, 1988;
and
(2) on the date of filing an election under subsection
(b)--
(A) is serving as a recalled magistrate judge on a full-
time basis under section 636(h) of title 28, United States
Code; and
(B) has completed at least 5 years of full-time recall
service.
(b) The Director of the Administrative Office of the United
States Courts may accept the election of a qualified
magistrate judge to--
(1) receive an annuity under section 377 of title 28,
United States Code; and
(2) come within the purview of section 376 of such title.
(c) Full-time recall service performed by a qualified
magistrate judge shall be credited for service in calculating
an annuity elected under this section.
(d) The Director of the Administrative Office of the United
States Courts may promulgate regulations to carry out this
section.
Sec. 516. Amounts made available under this Act for the
administrative and related expenses for departmental
management for the Department of Labor, the Department of
Health and Human Services, and the Department of Education,
shall be reduced on a pro rata basis by $25,000,000:
Provided, That this provision shall not apply to the Food and
Drug Administration and the Indian Health Service: Provided
further, That not later than 15 days after the enactment of
this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
shall report to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations the accounts subject to the pro rata
reductions and the amount to be reduced in each account.
TITLE VI--EXTENSION OF MARK-TO-MARKET PROGRAM FOR MULTIFAMILY ASSISTED
HOUSING
SEC. 601. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This title may be cited as the ``Mark-to-
Market Extension Act of 2001''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this
title is as follows:
TITLE VI--EXTENSION OF MARK-TO-MARKET PROGRAM FOR MULTIFAMILY ASSISTED
HOUSING
Sec. 601. Short title and table of contents.
Sec. 602. Purposes.
Sec. 603. Effective date.
Subtitle A--Multifamily Housing Mortgage and Assistance Restructuring
and Section 8 Contract Renewal
Sec. 611. Definitions.
Sec. 612. Mark-to-market program amendments.
Sec. 613. Consistency of rent levels under enhanced voucher assistance
and rent restructurings.
Sec. 614. Eligible inclusions for renewal rents of partially assisted
buildings.
Sec. 615. Eligibility of restructuring projects for miscellaneous
housing insurance.
Sec. 616. Technical corrections.
Subtitle B--Office of Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring
Sec. 621. Reauthorization of Office and extension of program.
Sec. 622. Appointment of Director.
Sec. 623. Vacancy in position of Director.
Sec. 624. Oversight by Federal Housing Commissioner.
Sec. 625. Limitation on subsequent employment.
Subtitle C--Miscellaneous Housing Program Amendments
Sec. 631. Extension of CDBG public services cap exception.
Sec. 632. Use of section 8 enhanced vouchers for prepayments.
Sec. 633. Prepayment and refinancing of loans for section 202
supportive housing.
Sec. 634. Technical correction.
SEC. 602. PURPOSES.
The purposes of this title are--
(1) to continue the progress of the Multifamily Assisted
Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (referred to in
this section as ``that Act'');
(2) to ensure that properties that undergo mortgage
restructurings pursuant to that Act are rehabilitated to a
standard that allows the properties to meet their long-term
affordability requirements;
(3) to ensure that, for properties that undergo mortgage
restructurings pursuant to that Act, reserves are set at
adequate levels to allow the properties to meet their long-
term affordability requirements;
(4) to ensure that properties that undergo mortgage
restructurings pursuant to that Act are operated efficiently,
and that operating expenses are sufficient to ensure the
long-term financial and physical integrity of the properties;
(5) to ensure that properties that undergo rent
restructurings have adequate resources to maintain the
properties in good condition;
(6) to ensure that the Office of Multifamily Housing
Assistance Restructuring of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development continues to focus on the portfolio of
properties eligible for restructuring under that Act;
(7) to ensure that the Department of Housing and Urban
Development carefully tracks the condition of those
properties on an ongoing basis;
(8) to ensure that tenant groups, nonprofit organizations,
and public entities continue to have the resources for
building the capacity of tenant organizations in furtherance
of the purposes of subtitle A of that Act; and
(9) to encourage the Office of Multifamily Housing
Assistance Restructuring to continue to provide participating
administrative entities, including public participating
administrative entities, with the flexibility to respond to
specific problems that individual cases may present, while
ensuring consistent outcomes around the country.
SEC. 603. EFFECTIVE DATE.
Except as provided in sections 616(a)(2), 633(b), and
634(b), this title and the amendments made by this title
shall take effect or are deemed to have taken effect, as
appropriate, on the earlier of--
(1) the date of the enactment of this title; or
(2) September 30, 2001.
Subtitle A--Multifamily Housing Mortgage and Assistance Restructuring
and Section 8 Contract Renewal
SEC. 611. DEFINITIONS.
Section 512 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and
Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(19) Office.--The term `Office' means the Office of
Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring established
under section 571.''.
SEC. 612. MARK-TO-MARKET PROGRAM AMENDMENTS.
(a) Funding for Tenant and Nonprofit Participation.--
Section 514(f)(3)(A) of the Multifamily Assisted Housing
Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note)
is amended--
(1) by striking ``Secretary may provide not more than
$10,000,000 annually in funding'' and inserting ``Secretary
shall make available not more than $10,000,000 annually in
funding, which amount shall be in addition to any amounts
made available under this subparagraph and carried over from
previous years,''; and
(2) by striking ``entities), and for tenant services,'' and
inserting ``entities), for tenant services, and for tenant
groups, nonprofit organizations, and public entities
described in section 517(a)(5),''.
(b) Exception Rents.--Section 514(g)(2)(A) of the
Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of
1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by striking
``restructured mortgages in any fiscal year'' and inserting
``portfolio restructuring agreements''.
(c) Notice to Displaced Tenants.--Section 516(d) of the
Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of
1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by striking ``Subject
to'' and inserting the following:
``(1) Notice to certain residents.--The Office shall notify
any tenant that is residing in a project or receiving
assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) at the time of rejection under this
section, of such rejection, except that the Office may
delegate the responsibility to provide notice under this
paragraph to the participating administrative entity.
``(2) Assistance and moving expenses.--Subject to''.
(d) Restructuring Plans for Transfers of Prepayment
Projects.--The Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and
Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended--
(1) in section 524(e), by adding at the end the following
new paragraph:
``(3) Mortgage restructuring and rental assistance
sufficiency plans.--Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the owner
of the project may request, and the Secretary may consider,
mortgage restructuring and rental assistance
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sufficiency plans to facilitate sales or transfers of
properties under this subtitle, subject to an approved plan
of action under the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation
Act of 1987 (12 U.S.C. 1715l note) or the Low-Income Housing
Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990 (12
U.S.C. 4101 et seq.), which plans shall result in a sale or
transfer of those properties.''; and
(2) in the last sentence of section 512(2), by inserting
``, but does include a project described in section
524(e)(3)'' after ``section 524(e)''.
(e) Addition of Significant Features.--Section 517 of the
Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of
1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended--
(1) by striking subsection (c) (except that the striking of
such subsection may not be construed to have any effect on
the provisions of law amended by such subsection, as such
subsection was in effect before the date of the enactment of
this Act);
(2) in subsection (b)--
(A) in paragraph (7), by striking ``(7)'' and inserting
``(1)''; and
(B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(2) Addition of significant features.--
``(A) Authority.--An approved mortgage restructuring and
rental assistance sufficiency plan may require the
improvement of the project by the addition of significant
features that are not necessary for rehabilitation to the
standard provided under paragraph (1), such as air
conditioning, an elevator, and additional community space.
The Secretary shall establish guidelines regarding the
inclusion of requirements regarding such additional
significant features under such plans.
``(B) Funding.--Significant features added pursuant to an
approved mortgage restructuring and rental assistance
sufficiency plan may be paid from the funding sources
specified in the first sentence of paragraph (1)(A).
``(C) Limitation on owner contribution.--An owner of a
project may not be required to contribute from non-project
resources, toward the cost of any additional significant
features required pursuant to this paragraph, more than 25
percent of the amount of any assistance received for the
inclusion of such features.
``(D) Applicability.--This paragraph shall apply to all
eligible multifamily housing projects, except projects for
which the Secretary and the project owner executed a mortgage
restructuring and rental assistance sufficiency plan on or
before the date of the enactment of the Mark-to-Market
Extension Act of 2001.''; and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (6) of subsection (b) the
following:
``(c) Rehabilitation Needs and Addition of Significant
Features.--''.
(f) Look-Back Projects.--Section 512(2) of the Multifamily
Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42
U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by adding after the period at
the end of the last sentence the following: ``Notwithstanding
any other provision of this title, the Secretary may treat a
project as an eligible multifamily housing project for
purposes of this title if (I) the project is assisted
pursuant to a contract for project-based assistance under
section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 renewed
under section 524 of this Act, (II) the owner consents to
such treatment, and (III) the project met the requirements of
the first sentence of this paragraph for eligibility as an
eligible multifamily housing project before the initial
renewal of the contract under section 524.''.
(g) Second Mortgages.--Section 517(a) of the Multifamily
Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42
U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ``no more than the''
and inserting the following: ``not more than the greater of--
``(i) the full or partial payment of claim made under this
subtitle; or
``(ii) the''; and
(2) in paragraph (5), by inserting ``of the second
mortgage, assign the second mortgage to the acquiring
organization or agency,'' after ``terms''.
(h) Exemptions From Restructuring.--Section 514(h)(2) of
the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act
of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by inserting before
the semicolon the following: ``, or refinanced pursuant to
section 811 of the American Homeownership and Economic
Opportunity Act of 2000 (12 U.S.C. 1701q note)''.
SEC. 613. CONSISTENCY OF RENT LEVELS UNDER ENHANCED VOUCHER
ASSISTANCE AND RENT RESTRUCTURINGS.
Subtitle A of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and
Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended
by adding at the end the following new section:
``SEC. 525. CONSISTENCY OF RENT LEVELS UNDER ENHANCED VOUCHER
ASSISTANCE AND RENT RESTRUCTURINGS.
``(a) In General.--The Secretary shall examine the
standards and procedures for determining and establishing the
rent standards described under subsection (b). Pursuant to
such examination, the Secretary shall establish procedures
and guidelines that are designed to ensure that the amounts
determined by the various rent standards for the same
dwelling units are reasonably consistent and reflect rents
for comparable unassisted units in the same area as such
dwelling units.
``(b) Rent Standards.--The rent standards described in this
subsection are as follows:
``(1) Enhanced vouchers.--The payment standard for enhanced
voucher assistance under section 8(t) of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(t)).
``(2) Mark-to-market.--The rents derived from comparable
properties, for purposes of section 514(g) of this Act.
``(3) Contract renewal.--The comparable market rents for
the market area, for purposes of section 524(a)(4) of this
Act.''.
SEC. 614. ELIGIBLE INCLUSIONS FOR RENEWAL RENTS OF PARTIALLY
ASSISTED BUILDINGS.
Section 524(a)(4)(C) of the Multifamily Assisted Housing
Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note)
is amended by adding after the period at the end the
following: ``Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Secretary shall include in such budget-based cost increases
costs relating to the project as a whole (including costs
incurred with respect to units not covered by the contract
for assistance), but only (I) if inclusion of such costs is
requested by the owner or purchaser of the project, (II) if
inclusion of such costs will permit capital repairs to the
project or acquisition of the project by a nonprofit
organization, and (III) to the extent that inclusion of such
costs (or a portion thereof) complies with the requirement
under clause (ii).''.
SEC. 615. ELIGIBILITY OF RESTRUCTURING PROJECTS FOR
MISCELLANEOUS HOUSING INSURANCE.
Section 223(a)(7) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C.
1715n(a)(7)) is amended--
(1) by striking ``under this Act: Provided, That the
principal'' and inserting the following: ``under this Act, or
an existing mortgage held by the Secretary that is subject to
a mortgage restructuring and rental assistance sufficiency
plan pursuant to the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and
Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note), provided
that--
``(A) the principal'';
(2) by striking ``except that (A)'' and inserting ``except
that (i)'';
(3) by striking ``(B)'' and inserting ``(ii)'';
(4) by striking ``(C)'' and inserting ``(iii)'';
(5) by striking ``(D)'' and inserting ``(iv)'';
(6) by striking ``: Provided further, That a mortgage'' and
inserting the following ``; and
``(B) a mortgage'';
(7) by striking ``or'' at the end; and
(8) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
``(C) a mortgage that is subject to a mortgage
restructuring and rental assistance sufficiency plan pursuant
to the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability
Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) and is refinanced under
this paragraph may have a term of not more than 30 years;
or''.
SEC. 616. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.
(a) Exemptions From Restructuring.--
(1) In general.--Section 514(h) of the Multifamily Assisted
Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f
note) is amended to read as if the amendment made by section
531(c) of Public Law 106-74 (113 Stat. 1116) were made to
``Section 514(h)(1)'' instead of ``Section 514(h)''.
(2) Retroactive effect.--The amendment made by paragraph
(1) of this subsection is deemed to have taken effect on the
date of the enactment of Public Law 106-74 (113 Stat. 1109).
(b) Other.--The Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and
Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended--
(1) in section 511(a)(12), by striking ``this Act'' and
inserting ``this title'';
(2) in section 513, by striking ``this Act'' each place
such term appears in subsections (a)(2)(I) and (b)(3) and
inserting ``this title'';
(3) in section 514(f)(3)(B), by inserting ``Housing'' after
``Multifamily'';
(4) in section 515(c)(1)(B), by inserting ``or'' after the
semicolon;
(5) in section 517(b)--
(A) in each of paragraphs (1) through (6), by capitalizing
the first letter of the first word that follows the paragraph
heading;
(B) in each of paragraphs (1) through (5), by striking the
semicolon at the end and inserting a period; and
(C) in paragraph (6), by striking ``; and'' at the end and
inserting a period;
(6) in section 520(b), by striking ``Banking and''; and
(7) in section 573(d)(2), by striking ``Banking and''.
Subtitle B--Office of Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring
SEC. 621. REAUTHORIZATION OF OFFICE AND EXTENSION OF PROGRAM.
Section 579 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and
Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended--
(1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following
new subsection:
``(a) Repeals.--
``(1) Mark-to-market program.--Subtitle A (except for
section 524) is repealed effective October 1, 2006.
``(2) OMHAR.--Subtitle D (except for this section) is
repealed effective October 1, 2004.'';
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ``October 1, 2001'' and
inserting ``October 1, 2006'';
(3) in subsection (c), by striking ``upon September 30,
2001'' and inserting ``at the end of September 30, 2004'';
and
(4) by striking subsection (d) and inserting the following
new subsection:
``(d) Transfer of Authority.--Effective upon the repeal of
subtitle D under subsection (a)(2) of this section, all
authority and responsibilities to administer the program
under subtitle A are transferred to the Secretary.''.
SEC. 622. APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR.
(a) In General.--Section 572 of the Multifamily Assisted
Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f
note) is amended by striking subsection (a) and inserting the
following new subsection:
``(a) Appointment.--The Office shall be under the
management of a Director, who shall be appointed by the
President from among individuals who are citizens of the
United States and have a demonstrated understanding of
financing and mortgage restructuring for affordable
multifamily housing.''.
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(b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a)
shall apply to the first Director of the Office of
Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development appointed after
the date of the enactment of this Act, and any such Director
appointed thereafter.
SEC. 623. VACANCY IN POSITION OF DIRECTOR.
(a) In General.--Section 572 of the Multifamily Assisted
Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f
note) is amended by striking subsection (b) and inserting
the following new subsection:
``(b) Vacancy.--A vacancy in the position of Director shall
be filled by appointment in the manner provided under
subsection (a). The President shall make such an appointment
not later than 60 days after such position first becomes
vacant.''.
(b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a)
shall apply to any vacancy in the position of Director of the
Office of Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development which occurs or
exists after the date of the enactment of this Act.
SEC. 624. OVERSIGHT BY FEDERAL HOUSING COMMISSIONER.
(a) In General.--Section 578 of the Multifamily Assisted
Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f
note) is amended to read as follows:
``SEC. 578. OVERSIGHT BY FEDERAL HOUSING COMMISSIONER.
``All authority and responsibilities assigned under this
subtitle to the Secretary shall be carried out through the
Assistant Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development who is the Federal Housing Commissioner.''.
(b) Report.--The second sentence of section 573(b) of the
Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of
1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by striking
``Secretary'' and inserting ``Assistant Secretary of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development who is the
Federal Housing Commissioner''.
SEC. 625. LIMITATION ON SUBSEQUENT EMPLOYMENT.
Section 576 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and
Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended
by striking ``2-year period'' and inserting ``1-year
period''.
Subtitle C--Miscellaneous Housing Program Amendments
SEC. 631. EXTENSION OF CDBG PUBLIC SERVICES CAP EXCEPTION.
Section 105(a)(8) of the Housing and Community Development
Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5305(a)(8)) is amended by striking
``through 2001'' and inserting ``through 2003''.
SEC. 632. USE OF SECTION 8 ENHANCED VOUCHERS FOR PREPAYMENTS.
Section 8(t)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 1937
(42 U.S.C. 1437f(t)(2)) is amended by inserting after
``insurance contract for the mortgage for such housing
project'' the following: ``(including any such mortgage
prepayment during fiscal year 1996 or a fiscal year
thereafter or any insurance contract voluntary termination
during fiscal year 1996 or a fiscal year thereafter)''.
SEC. 633. PREPAYMENT AND REFINANCING OF LOANS FOR SECTION 202
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING.
(a) In General.--Section 811 of the American Homeownership
and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 (12 U.S.C. 1701q note)
is amended by striking subsection (e).
(b) Effectiveness Upon Date of Enactment.--The amendment
made by subsection (a) of this section shall take effect upon
the date of the enactment of this Act and the provisions of
section 811 of the American Homeownership and Economic
Opportunity Act of 2000 (12 U.S.C. 1701q note), as amended by
subsection (a) of this section, shall apply as so amended
upon such date of enactment, notwithstanding--
(1) any authority of the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development to issue regulations to implement or carry out
the amendments made by subsection (a) of this section or the
provisions of section 811 of the American Homeownership and
Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 (12 U.S.C. 1701q note); or
(2) any failure of the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development to issue any such regulations authorized.
SEC. 634. TECHNICAL CORRECTION.
(a) In General.--Section 101(a) of Public Law 100-77 (42
U.S.C. 11301 note) is amended to read as if the amendment
made by section 1 of Public Law 106-400 (114 Stat. 1675) were
made to ``Section 101'' instead of ``Section 1''.
(b) Retroactive Effect.--The amendment made by subsection
(a) of this section is deemed to have taken effect
immediately after the enactment of Public Law 106-400 (114
Stat. 1675).
TITLE VII--MENTAL HEALTH PARITY
SEC. 701. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS
(a) ERISA.--Section 712(f) of the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1185a(f)) is amended
by striking ``September 30, 2001'' and inserting ``December
31, 2002''.
(b) PHSA.--Section 2705(f) of the Public Health Service Act
(42 U.S.C. 300gg-5(f)) is amended by striking ``September 30,
2001'' and inserting ``December 31, 2002''.
(c) Internal Revenue Code of 1986.--Section 9812(f) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking
``September 30, 2001'' and inserting ``December 31, 2002''.
SEC. 702. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT.
Notwithstanding Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping
Guidelines set forth in the joint explanatory statement of
the committee of conference accompanying Conference Report
105-217, the provisions of this title that would have been
estimated by the Office of Management and Budget as changing
direct spending or receipts under section 252 of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 were it
included in an Act other than an appropriations Act shall be
treated as direct spending or receipts legislation, as
appropriate, under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and by the Chairmen of
the House and Senate Budget Committees, as appropriate, under
the Congressional Budget Act.
This Act may be cited as the ``Departments of Labor, Health
and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2002''.
And the Senate agree to the same.
Ralph Regula,
C.W. Bill Young,
Ernest J. Istook, Jr.,
Dan Miller,
Roger F. Wicker,
Anne M. Northup,
Randy ``Duke'' Cunningham,
Kay Granger,
John E. Peterson,
Don Sherwood,
David Obey,
Steny Hoyer,
Nancy Pelosi,
Nita Lowey,
Rosa DeLauro,
Jesse Jackson, Jr,
Patrick J. Kennedy,
Managers on the Part of the House.
Tom Harkin,
Ernest Hollings,
Daniel Inouye,
Harry Reid,
Herb Kohl,
Patty Murray,
Mary Landrieu,
Robert C. Byrd,
Arlen Specter,
Thad Cochran,
Judd Gregg,
Larry E. Craig,
Ted Stevens,
Kay Bailey Hutchison,
Mike DeWine,
Managers on the Part of the Senate.
JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE
The managers on the part of the House and Senate at the
conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the
amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 3061) making
appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2002, and for other purposes,
submit the following joint statement of the House and Senate
in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon by the
managers and recommended in the accompanying conference
report.
In implementing this agreement, the Departments and
agencies should comply with the language and instructions set
forth in House Report 107-229 and Senate Report 107-84.
In the case where the language and instructions in either
report specifically address the allocation of funds, the
Departments and agencies are to follow the funding levels
specified in the Congressional budget justifications
accompanying the fiscal year 2002 budget or the underlying
authorizing statute and should give full consideration to all
items, including items allocating specific funding included
in the House and Senate reports. With respect to the
provisions in the House and Senate reports that specifically
allocate funds, each has been reviewed and those that are
jointly concurred in have been included in this joint
statement.
The conferees specifically endorse the provisions of the
House Report 105-205 directing ``. . . the Departments of
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and the
Social Security Administration and the Railroad Retirement
Board to submit operating plans with respect to discretionary
appropriations to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations. These plans, which are to be submitted within
30 days of the final passage of the bill, must be signed by
the respective Departmental Secretaries, the Social Security
Commissioner and the Chairman of the Railroad Retirement
Board.''
The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002
incorporates the following agreements of the managers:
TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION
Training and Employment Services
The conference agreement includes $5, 630,282,000 for
training and employment services instead of $5,583,147,000 as
proposed by the House and $5,533,281,000 as proposed by the
Senate. Of the amount appropriated, $2,463,000,000 is an
advance appropriation for fiscal year 2003, as proposed by
the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $1,127,965,000 for Youth
Training, which is the Senate level. Funding for the Youth
Opportunity Grants, $225,100,000, provided within the total
for this activity in the House bill, is provided separately
in the conference agreement as proposed by the Senate. These
grants are aimed at increasing the long-term employment of
youth who live in empowerment zones, enterprise communities,
and other high-poverty areas.
The conference agreement includes $1,549,000,000 for the
Dislocated Worker program, which is the same as the Senate
level.
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The conferees intend that 80 percent of the funds provided
will be used for State formula grants and 20 percent for
National Emergency Grants as authorized under the Workforce
Investment Act of 1998 and provided in the House bill.
The conferees have been informed that the Department plans
to cut dislocated worker funding in program year 2001 for
community-based organizations and, therefore, strongly urge
the Administration to continue, at least at current services
levels, job training activities for these organizations.
The conference agreement includes $57,000,000 for Native
Americans instead of $55,000,000 as proposed by the House and
$57,800,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $80,770,000 for
activities authorized under Section 167 of the Workforce
Investment Act, reflected in two separate line items on the
table accompanying the conference agreement: ``Migrant and
Seasonal Farmworkers'' and ``National Activities/Other''.
Under the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers line item, the
conference agreement provides $79,751,000. The agreement
includes bill language directing that $4,786,000 of this
amount be used for migrant and seasonal farmworker housing
grants. The conferees agree that the remaining amount should
be used for State service area grants, including funding
grantees in those States impacted by formula changes at their
comparable 1998 levels. Within the National Activities/Other
line item, the conference agreement includes $1,019,000 to be
used for Section 167 training, technical assistance and
related activities, including funds for migrant rest center
activities. The agreement anticipates that the Department
will continue valuable technical assistance services provided
by the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs.
The conference agreement includes $1,459,200,000 for Job
Corps. Within the total, $1,328,825,000 is provided for
continuing operations of the program and $130,375,000 is for
renovation and construction of Job Corps centers. The
additional $10,000,000 above the request in construction and
renovation is for the first year costs for a minimum of two
new Job Corps centers. The Secretary is urged to initiate the
process of selecting and designing these new centers in the
2002 fiscal year and to include additional required funding
in subsequent budget requests, beginning with fiscal year
2003.
The conference agreement includes a citation to the Women
in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations Act as
proposed by the House. The Senate bill did not cite this Act.
The conference agreement provides that funds for the
National Skill Standards Board shall become available October
1, 2001 as proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not
contain this provision.
The conferees urge the Secretary to target funds to fill
vacancies in caring for our nation's elderly and disabled
with those workers recently unemployed. Training for long-
term care workers should be a high priority for the use of
Workforce Investment Act funds both at the federal level and
in the States.
The conferees urge the Department of Labor, in cooperation
with the Health Resources and Services Administration, to
assess the shortage of frontline caregivers in long-term care
settings (certified nurse aids, licensed practical nurses)
and make comprehensive recommendations to address the
increasing demand of an aging baby-boomer generation, and
report findings and recommendations to the House and
Senate Appropriations Committees by June 2002.
With respect to the projects listed below for pilots and
demonstrations, the conferees encourage the Department to
ensure that these projects are coordinated with local
Workforce Investment Boards. The conferees also encourage the
Department to ensure that project performance is adequately
documented and evaluated. The conference agreement includes
the following amounts for the following projects and
activities:
Bristol Bay Native Association vocational job training program.$500,000
Recruitment and retention of Alaska Natives in nursing at University
of Alaska in Anchorage........................................500,000
Center for Textile Training and Apparel Technology at Central
Alabama Community College.....................................750,000
Arkansas Enterprise Group's Good Faith Fund to focus on employment
training and career path development for low-income residents of
the Delta Region in Arkansas..................................150,000
University of Arkansas Medical Sciences BioVentures Incubator for
equipment needed for wetlabs used in training.................200,000
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, to develop
technology training programs..................................250,000
City of Compton to support the Compton Youth Succeed Initiative.250,000
Greater Sacramento Urban League, Sacramento, CA, for job training
activities....................................................270,000
Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA, for the Brentwood Outreach
Center to develop model program to serve low-income minorities440,000
Pride Industries, Roseville, CA, to create long-term jobs for
persons with disabilities and other barriers to employment..1,000,000
Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency for the Sacramento Pre-
Apprenticeship Construction Job Training Program..............800,000
Urban League of Metropolitan Denver, CO, for Project Connect
Technical Training Program....................................100,000
Asnuntuck Community College, Enfield, CT, to develop skills sets for
the manufacturing sector......................................500,000
Hispanic Center of Greater Danbury, Danbury, CT, to provide career
services to minority populations.............................$150,000
National Student Partnerships continuation project for expansion to
10 new sites..................................................550,000
Waterbury Adult Education Technical Center to provide occupational
training to workers at small firms............................400,000
Jobs for America's Grads (JAG) program $1,000,000.............1,000,000
Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation, Tallahassee, FL, for a
pilot program to recruit and train health care workers......2,000,000
American Indian Science and Engineering Society for the Rural
Computer Utilization Training Program.........................500,000
Bishops Museum..................................................800,000
High Tech Training--Maui, HI....................................500,000
Maui Economic Development Board for the Rural Computer Utilization
Training Program............................................1,000,000
Remote Rural Hawaii Job Training Project......................5,000,000
Samoan/Asian Pacific Job Training--Hawaii.....................3,500,000
Training & Education Opportunities at the University of Hawaii at
Maui........................................................5,000,000
Iowa Policy Project for a study on temporary and contingent work500,000
The Joblinks program..........................................1,000,000
University of Northern Iowa's Program for Integrating Immigrants and
Refugees into the Workforce...................................250,000
Harvey Community Center, Harvey, IL, for a demonstration project to
provide job training for low income individuals/families......200,000
Lakeside Community Committee, Chicago, IL, for a job training
program targeting the hard core unemployed....................440,000
Opportunity, Inc. in Highland Park, IL to implement a model job
training program to integrate workers with disabilities into a
manufacturing workplace.......................................125,000
Policy Research Action Group in Chicago to train inner-city
residents for careers in the automotive industry..............125,000
Safer Foundation, Chicago, IL to continue the Workplace Acclimation
Program for Ex-Offenders......................................400,000
Labor Institute for Training, Indianapolis, IN, to expand and
improve services to newly dislocated and incumbent workers....152,000
Career Resources, Inc., Louisville, KY, to establish a workforce
computer training program.....................................100,000
Career Vision Inc., Louisville, KY, to establish a distance learning
pilot program for computer-based employment skills for youths and
adults with disabilities......................................100,000
Center for Women and Families, Louisville, KY, to expand technology
training and professional education for women affected by domestic
violence......................................................700,000
Clifty Heights Community Development Organization, Inc, Science
Hill, KY, for program development, operation and equipment....200,000
Custom Quality Services, Louisville, KY, for training for their
disabled employees.............................................30,000
New Vision Enterprises, Louisville, KY, for an employment program
for people with disabilities..................................100,000
University of Louisville Center for Supply Chain Workforce
Development...................................................800,000
Louisiana National Guard for the Louisiana Job Challenge Program to
fund a trade/skill training program for at-risk teenagers.....200,000
Military Educational Training Enhancement Fund, Carville, LA, for a
job challenge program for at risk youth.......................500,000
Kennebec Valley Technical College to develop a Precision Machining
Technology Program to address the critical workforce shortage in
Maine's metal products industry...............................400,000
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United Technologies Center to develop a Photonics Training Pilot
Project, to regional technical high school students in the field
of photonics..................................................400,000
Focus: HOPE in Detroit, MI to provide training programs to women and
minorities through their Information Tech Center..............500,000
Michigan Technology Commercialization, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, for
planning activities...........................................350,000
Mott Community College, Flint, MI to develop simulation curriculum
in virtual machining........................................1,000,000
Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans to support their workforce
readiness program for homeless veterans.......................500,000
Northeast Higher Education District (NHED) in Minnesota to design a
Rural Telework Center which will provide workforce programs and
employment opportunities in IT jobs.........................1,000,000
Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO, for
economic and workforce development............................900,000
Alcorn Biotechnology Center, Lorman, MS for entrepreneurial trai150,000
Mississippi Delta Community College Business Services Center....300,000
Mississippi State Board for Community and Junior Colleges for an
automotive workforce training program in Madison County, MS.5,000,000
Mississippi State University Nursery Assistance.................800,000
Mississippi State University, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems,
Mississippi State, MS, for automotive engineering training....200,000
Mississippi Valley Biometric Technology, Itta Bena, MS..........150,000
Minot State University, Minot, ND, for the Minot Job Corps
Fellowship Training Program...................................385,000
Traill County Technology Center at Mayville State University to
retain graduates in business in Traill County, ND.............175,000
New Hampshire Motor Transport Association to recruit, train, and
retrain truck drivers in Concord, NH..........................375,000
Youth Opportunities in Retailing, Inc., to work in cooperation with
schools and community organizations to teach sales and service
skills to develop a future workforce..........................200,000
City of Las Vegas for worker initiatives in response to post-
terrorist attack layoffs....................................1,750,000
NevadaWorks to create a job skills training program to help
residents meet the employment needs of new businesses in the a250,000
Reno/Sparks Chamber of Commerce--Workforce Learning Academy Summ150,000
Audrey Cohen College, New York City, for Welfare to Careers Prog475,000
Healthcare Association of New York State to develop the Center for
Health Care Workforce Innovations.............................150,000
Westchester-Putnam Counties Consortium for Worker Education and
Training, Inc., Yonkers, NY, for outreach and training for
construction workers..........................................500,000
Eastern Ohio Training Center, Cambridge, OH, for instructional
software, training materials, computer hardware and accessorie300,000
Westside Industrial Retention and Expansion Network to expand
metalworking training programs................................500,000
State Board of Career and Technology Education, Stillwater, OK, to
develop and update training modules...........................300,000
Altoona Blair County Development Corporation Workforce Initiativ200,000
College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development to expand
training programs in Philadelphia.............................300,000
Community Empowerment Association, Inc. for community re-entry of
offenders job training in Allegheny County....................100,000
Community Loan Fund of Southwestern Pennsylvania to expand its
``Family-Wage Job Initiative''................................200,000
Economic Growth Connection of Westmoreland, PA, to establish a
training network consortium...................................250,000
Lehigh Valley Workforce Investment Board for the implementation of a
training and curriculum program...............................100,000
National Student Partnerships for the opening of drop-in centers at
Temple University, establishing staffed centers at the University
of Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh, and 18 current
sites.........................................................150,000
Northwest Pennsylvania Industrial Resources Center, Inc., Erie, PA,
for development and distribution of Foundation Skills Curriculum
for Wood/Forest Industry......................................100,000
Nueva Esperanza for the administration of the Nueva Esparanza
Telework Center in Philadelphia...............................200,000
Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corporation to provide support services
in the community for workers seeking technology training in
Philadelphia..................................................100,000
Olde Kensington Redevelopment Corporation in Philadelphia for the
establishment of the North Philadelphia Senior Development
Project--to maximize seniors' self-sufficiency and independent
community residence through technology training...............100,000
Pennsylvania Association of Individuals with Disabilities to develop
programs to help disabled individuals to move into the workfor500,000
Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board to train workforce in
technology occupations in Alleghany County....................200,000
UMWA Career Centers, Inc. to provide training and placement services
to dislocated coalminers...................................$2,000,000
University Technology Park/Westchester University to establish a
Computer and Internet Training Center.........................200,000
Venango Economic Development Corporation, Oil City, PA, to quantify
the need for technology training in rural areas...............200,000
Intertribal Bison Cooperative in Rapid City, SD to provide
employment training...........................................300,000
Midland College, Midland, TX, for training and safety programs for
students desiring to work in the oil and gas industry.......1,600,000
Permian Basin Energy Education Project, Midland Community College
and Odessa College............................................250,000
Project Quest for innovations to improve program performance in the
delivery of training to the unemployed and the underemployed..440,000
Alexandria /Arlington Workforce Investment Board to increase
employment of the disabled....................................300,000
Chantilly Mews Preservation Program, Springfield, VA, to purchase
educational equipment and software............................100,000
Martinsville-Henry County Chamber of Commerce, Martinsville, VA, for
Workforce Learning Academies...................................50,000
SERVE, Inc., Manassas, VA, for job training and employment servi400,000
Southwest Virginia Community College for Work Keys...............70,000
Champlain College in Burlington, VT, for the Vermont
Telecommunications Application Center (VTAC) to understand, plan
and leverage the opportunities of advanced technology.........250,000
Cyberskills Vermont Workforce Development Initiative in Burlington,
VT, to provide community-based job training programs for low and
medium income residents.......................................200,000
Lake Champlain Life-Long Learning Fund in Burlington, VT, to plan
development of a fully integrated academic and technical
curriculum for secondary and adult technical education.........50,000
Vermont Department of Employment and Training in Montpelier to
develop a Registered Apprenticeship Program designed to provide
opportunities to a wider range of individuals who are not bound
for college but require instruction in new occupational areas.200,000
Vermont Technical College in Randolph Center to work in
collaboration with the Vermont State College System to develop a
Vermont Workforce and Training Initiative which will be a regional
system for technological and skills development...............300,000
Seattle King County Workforce Development Council, Seattle, WA, for
the purpose of retraining displaced Boeing employees..........800,000
Green Bay Area Workforce Development Board in Green Bay, WI, to
create a public-private partnership providing training for
specific employer needs in the area.........................1,200,000
The Superior-Douglas County Senior Computer Training in Superior,
WI, to expand a computer lab used to train the senior workforce
for new technologies...........................................32,000
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University of Wisconsin-Extension Service for the Northern Economic
Development Initiative for baseline analysis, strategic planning
and workforce training in northern Wisconsin..................175,000
Workforce Development Board of South Central WI, located in Madison,
WI, to create an industry partnership that develops workers for
targeted applications.......................................1,140,000
West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation to expand IT
training and establish a pilot curriculum.........................
700,000
Community Service Employment for Older Americans
The conference agreement appropriates $445,100,000 for
Community Service Employment for Older Americans, instead of
$440,200,000 as proposed by the House and $450,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
Federal Unemployment Benefits and Allowances
The conference agreement provides $415,650,000 for Federal
Unemployment Benefits and Allowances as proposed by the House
and the Senate. The conferees did not provide these funds
contingent upon enactment of authorizing legislation as
proposed by the House. The Senate bill did not include this
provision.
State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations
The conference agreement provides $3,401,338,000 for State
Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations
instead of $3,400,338,000 as proposed by the House and
$3,430,338,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conferees include $50,680,000 instead of the
$49,680,000 proposed by the House and $51,680,000 proposed by
the Senate for employment service national activities.
The conferees include $120,000,000 for One-Stop/America's
Labor Market Information system as proposed by the House,
instead of $148,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conferees include a provision directing that funds
recovered in the settlement of litigation between the State
of Mississippi and a contractor relating to the acquisition
of an automated system for benefit payments be transferred
from the Treasury to the State of Mississippi.
Program Administration
The conference agreement appropriates $161,863,000 for
Program Administration, the same as the House level. The
detailed table at the end of this joint statement reflects
the activity distribution agreed to by the conferees.
The conferees also include funding, as listed in the Senate
report, for management and oversight of pilot and
demonstration projects.
Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration
Salaries and Expenses
The conference agreement appropriates $109,866,000 for the
Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, salaries and
expenses, as proposed by the House instead of $112,418,000 as
proposed by the Senate. Within the total, $85,525,000 is
provided for enforcement and compliance, $20,205,000 is
provided for policy, regulation, and public service, and
$4,136,000 is included for program oversight.
Employment Standards Administration
Salaries and Expenses
The conference agreement appropriates $371,201,000 for the
Employment Standards Administration, salaries and expenses,
instead of the $369,631,000 as proposed by the House and
$377,145,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the total,
$156,092,000 is provided for enforcement of wage and hour
standards, $30,632,000 is provided for the office of labor-
management standards, $77,914,000 for federal contractor EEO
standards enforcement, $91,356,000 for federal programs for
worker compensation, and $13,226,000 for program direction
and support.
The Senate conferees do not concur with the House report
language regarding Davis-Bacon wage determination process
reforms. The conferees request the Department of Labor to
submit a report not later than June 30, 2002, outlining
specific changes, which are proposed to modernize the Davis-
Bacon wage determination process under the reengineering
approach.
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund
The conference agreement includes $136,000,000 for the
administrative expenses related to the processing of claims
for the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation
Act, the same as both the House and Senate.
The conferees are aware that a significant number of
possible beneficiaries reside in West Texas near the Pantex
facility. The conferees encourage the Secretary to establish
a full-time resource center in West Texas in order to provide
sufficient services to those who may qualify for benefits
under the law.
Black Lung Disability Trust Fund
The conference agreement includes a definite annual
appropriation of $1,035,759,000 for black lung benefit
payments and interest payments on advances made to the Trust
Fund as proposed by the House instead of an indefinite
permanent appropriation as proposed by the Senate.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Salaries and Expenses
The conference agreement includes $443,651,000 for the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration instead of
$435,307,000 as proposed by the House and $450,262,000 as
proposed by the Senate. The detailed table at the end of this
joint statement reflects the activity distribution agreed to
by the conferees.
Mine Safety and Health Administration
Salaries and Expenses
The conference agreement includes $254,768,000 for the Mine
Safety and Health Administration instead of $251,725,000 as
proposed by the House and $256,093,000 as proposed by the
Senate. The detailed table at the end of this joint statement
reflects the activity distribution agreed to by the
conferees.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Salaries and Expenses
The conference agreement includes $476,554,000 for the
Bureau of Labor Statistics rather than $477,108,000 as
provided by the House and $476,000,000 as proposed by the
Senate. The detailed table at the end of this joint statement
reflects the activity distribution agreed to by the
conferees.
Office of Disability Employment Policy
Salaries and Expenses
The conference agreement includes $38,158,000 for the
Office of Disability Employment Policy instead of $33,053,000
as proposed by the House and $43,263,000 as proposed by the
Senate. Within the total, $2,640,000 is specifically for the
President's Task Force on Employment of Adults with
Disabilities, the same as in the House bill.
The conference agreement includes $1,000,000, as provided
by the Senate, for three pilot programs for Federal
employment for individuals with significant disabilities from
home-based workstations. The conferees intend that Federal
agencies include in these pilots all appropriate
positions, whether the work is performed in-house,
contracted, or outsourced in the types of jobs which can
be performed from home, such as customer service/call
contact centers, and claims, loan or financial transaction
processing operations.
Departmental Management
Salaries and Expenses
The conference agreement includes $379,088,000 for
Departmental Management, salaries and expenses, instead of
$383,878,000 as proposed by the House and $361,834,000 as
proposed by the Senate. The detailed table at the end of this
joint statement reflects the activity distribution agreed to
by the conferees.
Within the total provided for this account, the conference
agreement appropriates $50,000,000 for the Department-wide
information technology crosscut.
The conference agreement includes $148,282,000 for the
Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), instead of
$147,982,000 as provided in both the House and Senate bills.
The conference agreement also includes language authorizing
the expenditure of funds for bilateral and multilateral
technical assistance and other international labor
activities, and general grant authority for the agency.
Within the total provided, $82,000,000 is to assist
developing countries with the elimination of child labor. Of
this amount, $45,000,000 is for the International Labor
Organization's International Programme for the Elimination of
Child Labor. In addition, $37,000,000 is provided for
bilateral assistance, made available through September 30,
2003, to improve access to basic education in international
areas with a high rate of abusive and exploitative child
labor. The conference agreement further includes $20,000,000
for multilateral technical assistance and $17,000,000 for
bilateral technical assistance. These funds help developing
countries implement core labor standards, strengthen the
capacities of Ministries of Labor to enforce national labor
laws, and protect internationally-recognized worker rights.
The conference agreement further includes $5,000,000 for ILAB
to build its own permanent capacity to monitor and report
regularly and in-depth to the Congress on the extent to which
foreign countries with trade and investment agreements with
the United States respect internationally-recognized worker
rights and effectively promote core labor standards. The
conference agreement also includes $10,000,000 for global
workplace-based HIV-AIDS education and prevention programs.
The conferees agree that the Secretary may transfer up to 5
percent of ILAB funding, exempting child labor protection and
monitoring amounts, for other unspecified ILAB activities.
The conferees also agree that no funds shall be transferred
from amounts included for child labor protection and
monitoring activities.
The conferees also include funding for the following
activity:
--$300,000 to the University of Iowa for work on child
labor.
Within the total amount provided for ILAB, the conferees
expect the Department to work with the U.S. Department of
State to post additional labor attaches overseas. The
conferees expect the Department to submit a plan detailing
the countries with which the U.S. has bilateral or regional
trade and investment agreements and to which it would propose
to send labor attaches, as well as the entire cost attendant
to such overseas assignments. The conferees
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also strongly encourage the Secretary to continue the Labor
Exchange Program with the State Department through which
employees throughout the Labor Department have the
opportunity to serve as labor attaches abroad in countries
that ILAB and State determine to have significant problems
with respect to child labor and other core labor standards.
The conferees expect the Department to submit a draft of the
plan, developed in collaboration with the Department of
State, to the Committees on Appropriations no later than
March 31, 2002.
The conferees urge ILAB to submit a report by September 1,
2002 to the Committees on Appropriations on the nature and
scope of technical assistance funds already appropriated in
prior fiscal years. Similar language was included in the
Senate report. In addition, the conferees urge ILAB to report
by June 30, 2002 on the study that was undertaken by the
Department with regard to regular reporting of working
conditions in the production of apparel imported into the
U.S. The Senate report contained similar language.
The conferees note that the Department had a significant
lapse in full-time equivalent usage at the end of fiscal year
2001, particularly in the worker protection programs. The
conferees recognize that this was partly due to the
transition from the previous Administration to the current
one, as well as to some uncertainty regarding the final 2001
budget level. It is the conferees' intention that the
Department should make every effort to ensure that the
programs are appropriately staffed to perform their mandated
responsibilities and meet performance goals. The conferees
are pleased to note, from the data most recently available,
that the Department has been able to achieve wholly, in part,
or exceed over 90 percent of its performance objectives. The
conference agreement directs the Department to prepare a
report detailing its hiring plans for fiscal year 2002 and to
submit the report no later than January 15, 2002.
The conferees are aware of the important work the
Department is doing to encourage small businesses to develop
alcohol and drug-free workplace programs. Therefore, the
conferees recommend continuation of the Working Partners
Program within the Department's Office of Policy.
Veterans Employment and Training
The conferees appropriate $212,703,000 for veterans
employment and training, instead of the $211,703,000 as
proposed by the House and $213,703,000 as proposed by the
Senate. Within the funds provided, $18,250,000 is included
for the homeless veterans program and $7,550,000 is included
for the veterans workforce investment programs.
General Provisions
Dislocated Worker Assistance to Airport Career Centers
The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the
Senate provision regarding appropriations to enable airport
career centers in New York and New Jersey to provide
dislocated worker employment and training assistance to
workers in the airline and related industries who have been
dislocated as a result of the September 11, 2001 attack. The
House bill contains no similar provision.
Vocational Rehabilitative Services
The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the
Senate provision regarding assistance to individuals with
disabilities from New York and New Jersey who
require vocational rehabilitative services as a result of
September 11. The House bill contains no similar
provision.
TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Health Resources and Services
The conference agreement includes $6,081,237,000 for health
resources and services instead of $5,691,480,000 as proposed
by the House and $5,501,343,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes bill language identifying
$311,978,000 for the construction and renovation of health
care and other facilities instead of $10,000,000 as proposed
by the Senate. The House bill contained no similar provision.
These funds are to be used for the following projects: Prince
George's Hospital Center, Cheverly, Maryland; Whitman-Walker
Clinic, Inc., Washington, D.C.; ARCH (Adolescent Residential
Center for Help) Facility, Anchorage, Alaska; Southcentral
Foundation's Pathways Home Residential Substance Abuse
Treatment Facility, Anchorage, Alaska; Baptist Health
Foundation, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama; Pickens County Medical
Center, Carrollton, Alabama; Thomas Hospital, Fairhope,
Alabama; University of South Alabama Gulf Coast Cancer Center
and Research Institute; University of Alabama School of
Medicine, Huntsville Primary Care Center; Cooper Green
Hospital in Alabama; Hospice of West Alabama; University of
Alabama, Birmingham, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
Institute; Arkansas Children's Hospital; Children's Health
Fund in Arkansas; Advance Care Hospital, Hot Springs,
Arkansas; College of Nursing, University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences; Community Healthcare of Douglas, Douglas,
Arizona; Copper Queen Community Hospital, Bisbee, Arizona;
Sierra Vista Health Center, Sierra Vista, Arizona; University
of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; Cochise County Department of
Health, Arizona; Pima County Department of Health, Arizona;
Santa Cruz County Department of Health, Arizona; Yuma County
Department of Health, Arizona; Maricopa Integrated Health
System, Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona; University
of Southern California Alfred E. Mann Institute and
Biomedical Engineering Center; California School of
Professional Psychology, Center for Innovation in Behavioral
Health, San Diego; Children's Regional Emergency Care Center
at Children's Hospital and Health Center, San Diego,
California; Sharp Coronado Hospital, Coronado, California;
Placer County Children's Emergency Shelter, Auburn,
California; Psychiatric Emergency Services Center, San Mateo
County, California Health Center; Hartnell College, Regional
Health Occupations Resource Center, Salinas, California; The
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles; University of Southern
California Keck School of Medicine; Paradise Valley Hospital,
Complementary Medicine Center, National City, California;
Grossmont College, El Cajon, California; Riverside-San
Bernardino South Clinic, Temecula, California; La Clinica de
la Raza, Oakland, California; Loma Linda University Medical
Center, Trauma/Emergency Medical Services Center, Loma Linda,
California; Los Angeles Eye Institute, Los Angeles,
California; Touro University School of Osteopathic Medicine,
Mare Island, California; San Francisco Community Clinic
Consortium, San Francisco, California; Community Medical
Centers, Fresno, California; AltaMed Health Services
Corporation, Los Angeles, California; Pediatric and Family
Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; East Los Angeles
Health Task Force, Los Angeles, California; Alliance Medical
Center, Healdsburg, California; Center Point, Inc., San
Rafael, California; Colorado State University
Bioenvironmental Hazards Level-3 Facility; University of
Northern Colorado Low-Incidence Disabilities Center; The
Rocky Mountain Regional Trauma Center at Denver Health;
National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver,
Colorado; Boys Village Youth and Family Services, Milford,
Connecticut; John D. Thompson Hospice Institute for
Education, Training and Research, Branford, Connecticut;
Southern Connecticut State University, School of Nursing, New
Haven, Connecticut; Jefferson Senior Citizens Center,
Monticello, Florida; Northwest Florida Community Hospital;
Camillus House, Inc., Miami, Florida; Ambulatory Care Center
at Miami Children's Hospital, Miami, Florida; Economic
Opportunity Family Health Center, Miami, Florida; Florida
Association of Community Health Centers; University of
Florida College of Dentistry; University of Miami School of
Medicine, Batchelor Children's Health Center; Columbia County
Senior Services, Lake City Florida; Enrichment Center,
Brooksville, Florida; Bridges of America, Inc., St.
Petersburg, Florida; Community Health Centers of Pinellas,
Inc., Johnnie Ruth Clark Health Center, St. Petersburg,
Florida; University of South Florida Health Sciences Center
and College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida; Paul D. Coverdell
Building at the Institute of Biomedical and Health Sciences
at the University of Georgia; Marcus Institute, Atlanta,
Georgia; West End Medical Centers, Atlanta, Georgia; J.P.
Carr Human Services Complex in Rockdale County, Georgia;
Oakhurst Medical Centers, Decatur and Stone Mountain,
Georgia; Maui Community Health Center; Molokai General
Hospital; Community Health Care Inc., Davenport, Iowa; Des
Moines University Osteopathic Medical Center; Grandview
Health Center, Des Moines, Iowa; Mercy Medical Center, Des
Moines, Iowa; Neumann College, Aston, Pennsylvania; Palmer
Chiropractic College, Davenport, Iowa; Peoples Community
Health Clinic, Waterloo, Iowa; Primary Health Care Inc., Des
Moines, Iowa; River Hills Community Health Center, Ottumwa,
Iowa; Siouxland Community Health Center, Sioux City, Iowa;
South East Iowa Community Health Centers, Burlington, Iowa;
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa; Children's
Memorial Hospital, Children's Memorial Institute for
Education and Research, Chicago, Illinois; Loretto Hospital,
Chicago, Illinois; Prentice Women's Hospital, Northwestern
Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; Edward Health Services
Women's & Children's Pavilion, Naperville, Illinois; La
Rabida Children's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; Community
Health Care, Inc., Rock Island, Illinois; Carl Sandburg
College, Galesburg, Illinois; Access Community Health Center,
Chicago, Illinois; Marklund Children's Home, West Chicago,
Illinois; Rush-Copley Medical Center, Aurora, Illinois;
Valley West Community Hospital, Sandwich, Illinois; Marklund
Children's Home, Bloomingdale, Illinois; Chicago Family
Health Center, Chicago, Illinois; The Clinic in Altgeld,
Chicago, Illinois; Condell Medical Center, Libertyville,
Illinois; Lake County Health Department and Community Health
Center, Waukegan, Illinois; Edward Hospital, Naperville,
Illinois; Northwestern University Center for Genomics and
Molecular Medicine, Evanston, Illinois; Women's Health Center
at Proctor Hospital in Peoria, Illinois; Southern Illinois
University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois;
Riverside Medical Center, Kankakee, Illinois; Union Hospital,
Midwest Center for Rural Health, Terre Haute, Indiana;
Indiana University Midwest Proton Radiation Institute,
Bloomingdale, Indiana; Indiana Genomics Initiative, Indiana
University School of Medicine; Bethany Medical Center, Kansas
City,
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Kansas; Kansas University Imaging Facilities; Harrison
Memorial Hospital Dialysis Center, Cynthiana, Kentucky; Jane
Todd Crawford Hospital, Greensburg, Kentucky; St.
Catharine's College, St. Catharine, Kentucky; University
of Louisville Cardiac Assist Device Center; James Taylor
Memorial Nursing Home, Louisville, Kentucky; Park DuValle
Community Health Center, Louisville, Kentucky; Kentucky
Communities Economic Opportunity Council, Inc.,
Appalachian Regional Wellness Center, Barbourville,
Kentucky; Martin County Community Center, Inc., Health and
Wellness Resource Center, Inez, Kentucky; University of
Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky; Lake
Charles Memorial Hospital, Lake Charles, Louisiana; Allied
Health Sciences Building at the University of Louisiana,
Monroe; East Jefferson Community Health Center, Jefferson
Parish, Louisiana; Innis, Louisiana Community Health
Center; Louisiana Memorial Hospital, Lake Charles,
Louisiana; Louisiana State University Pennington
Biomedical Center; Louisiana State University Health
Science Center, Shreveport, Louisiana; Louisiana State
University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana;
Manet Community Health Center, Massachusetts; Jaharis
Family Center on Biomedical Research and Nutrition;
Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories at the University of
Massachusetts; Northeastern University Bouve College of
Health Sciences; Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center,
Brockton, Massachusetts; J. Joseph Moakley Medical
Services Building, Boston Medical Center, Boston,
Massachusetts; Brandeis University National Center for
Behavioral Genomics, Waltham, Massachusetts; City of
Malden, Massachusetts, Urgent Care Clinic and Family
Health Center at Malden Hospital; University of
Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, University Campus,
Worcester, Massachusetts; Lowell Community Health Center,
Lowell, Massachusetts; Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Joint
Venture between the University of Massachusetts and
Baystate Medical Center; Holyoke Hospital, Holyoke,
Massachusetts; Jackson Laboratory in Maine; Saginaw
Cooperative Hospitals, Saginaw, Michigan; Detroit Medical
Center, Detroit, Michigan; Community Health and Social
Services, Detroit, Michigan; Samaritan Center, Detroit,
Michigan; Madonna University, Livonia, Michigan;
Charlevoix Area Hospital in Traverse City, Michigan;
Marquette General Health System; Wayne State University
and the University of Detroit Mercy; Ele's Place Healing
Center, Lansing, Michigan; Hillsdale Community Health
Center, Hillsdale, Michigan; American Lung Association of
Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota; Model Cities Health
Center, St. Paul, Minnesota; North End Health Center, St.
Paul, Minnesota; West Side Community Health Services
Dental Clinic, St. Paul, Minnesota; Fairview University
Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; West Side
Community Health Services Minneapolis Clinic, St. Paul,
Minnesota; Ozark Tri-County Health Care Consortium Inc.,
Anderson, Missouri; University of Missouri Center for
Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering Research, Kansas
City; Cross Trails Medical Center, Bollinger County,
Missouri; Douglas County Public Health Services Group;
Northeast Missouri Health Council, Kirksville, Missouri;
Samuel U. Rodgers Community Health Center, Kansas City,
Missouri; Christian Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri; Logan
College of Chiropractic, Chesterfield, Missouri; Operation
Breakthrough, Kansas City, Missouri; University of
Missouri-Kansas City Institute for Biomedical Research;
Family Care Health Centers, St. Louis, Missouri; Kansas
City Area Life Sciences Institute, Kansas City, Missouri;
Center for Delta Health, Stoneville, Mississippi; Guyton
Building, University of Mississippi Medical Center;
Mississippi State School of Agriculture/Agromedicine;
Mississippi State University Social Science Research
Center; Neshoba County General Hospital, Philadelphia,
Mississippi; Health and Wellness Center at Jackson State
University, Jackson, Mississippi; Gilmore Hospital, Amory,
Mississippi; McLaughlin Animal Facility and Research
Laboratories, Great Falls, Montana; University of Montana
National Center for Health Care Informatics; Greene County
Health Care, Inc., North Carolina; Northeast Medical
Center and the Carrabus College of Health Sciences,
Concord, North Carolina; Ruth and Billy Graham Children's
Center, Asheville, North Carolina; Durham County Hospital
Corporation, Durham, North Carolina; McDowell Hospital,
McDowell County, North Carolina; Education and Research
Consortium of Western North Carolina, Inc., Asheville,
North Carolina; University of North Carolina Biomedical
Research and Teaching Facility; University of North Dakota
School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North
Dakota; Ai Ki Ruti Substance Abuse Treatment Center in
Winnebago, Nebraska; Boys Town National Research Hospital
National Learning and Technology Center for Childhood
Deafness and Vision Disorders, Omaha, Nebraska; Nebraska
Health Systems, Omaha, Nebraska; University of Nebraska
Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska; University of Medicine
and Dentistry of New Jersey Cancer Institute, New
Brunswick, New Jersey; Hunterdon Medical Center,
Flemington, New Jersey; Child Health Institute of New
Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Leon G. Smith
Infectious Disease Institute, Saint Michael's Medical
Center, Newark, New Jersey; Englewood Hospital and Medical
Center Advanced Breast Care Center, Englewood, New Jersey;
Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New
Jersey; Holy Name Hospital, Teaneck, New Jersey; Cooper
Hospital, Camden New Jersey; Kessler Rehabilitation
Research Institute in West Orange, New Jersey; First
Choice Community Clinic, Albuquerque, New Mexico; New
Mexico State University, College of Health and Social
Services, Las Cruces, New Mexico; University of Nevada,
Reno Biotechnology and Genomics Center; Huntsman Cancer
Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah; University Medical Center
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Las Vegas, Nevada;
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Cancer Institute; North
Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Hillside Hospital;
Little Falls Hospital and Residential Health Care
Facility, Little Falls, New York; University of Buffalo
Bioinformatics Center; New York University School of
Medicine; The National Center for Muskuloskeletal Research
at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York;
Dominican College Center for Health Sciences, Orangeburg,
New York; Village of Kiryas Joel, Maternal and Infant
Health Care Convalescence Center, Monroe, New York;
Ellenville Regional Hospital, Ellenville, New York;
Kingston Hospital, Kingston, New York; Putnam Hospital,
Camel, New York; Nassau University Medical Center, East
Meadow, New York; Open Door Family Medical Center, Edison
School Clinic, Port Chester, New York; Mount Sinai
Hospital, New York, New York; Lewis County General
Hospital, Lowville, New York; Albany Medical Center,
Albany, New York; Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center,
New York, New York; New York University Downtown Hospital,
New York, New York; State University of New York Downstate
Medical Center, Advanced Biotechnology Incubator,
Brooklyn, New York; Children's Hospital, Buffalo, New
York; North General Hospital, New York, New York;
University of Rochester Medical Center, Children's
Hospital at Strong Clinical Genetics Center; Columbia
Memorial Hospital, Hudson, New York; Glens Falls Hospital,
Glens Falls, New York; Mary McClellan Hospital, Inc.,
Cambridge, New York; Kings County Hospital Center,
Brooklyn, New York; Department of Emergency Medicine,
State University of New York Upstate Medical University,
Syracuse, New York; Hospice of Finger Lakes, Auburn, New
York; National Kidney Foundation of Central New York;
State University of New York Upstate Medical University;
St. Joseph Community Center, Lorain, Ohio; Akron
Children's Hospital; Cincinnati's Children's Hospitals;
Columbus Children's Hospital; Huron Hospital Emergency
Department; Mercy Hospital, Hamilton, Ohio; Rainbow
Babies' and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio; Stella
Maris Detoxification Center, Cleveland, Ohio; Hopeland
Health Center, Grandview Hospital and Medical Center,
Dayton, Ohio; Hospice and Health Services of Fairfield
County, Lancaster, Ohio; Mary Rutan Hospital,
Bellefontaine, Ohio; Regional Outpatient Cancer Center,
Springfield, Ohio; Tecumseh YMCA Health and Wellness
Center, New Carlisle, Ohio; University Hospitals of
Cleveland, Department of Psychiatry, Center of Excellence
for the Care of Adolescents and Adults with Bipolar
Illness and Other Severe Mental Disorders, Cleveland,
Ohio; Barnesville Hospital, Barnesville, Ohio; Beallsville
E-Squad, Beallsville, Ohio; Belmont Community Hospital,
Bellaire, Ohio; University of Findlay, Findlay, Ohio;
University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Medical Sciences
Building; Joel Pomerene Hospital, Millersburg, Ohio; Knox
Community Hospital, Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Ohio State
University Biomedical Research and Education Center,
Columbus, Ohio; Red Center, Massillon, Ohio; Stark State
College of Technology, Canton, Ohio; Walsh University
Bioinformatics Laboratory, Medical Sciences Building,
North Canton, Ohio; Malone College Health and Wellness
Center, Canton, Ohio; Mercy Hospital, Scranton,
Pennsylvania; NorthEast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services,
Cleveland, Ohio; Family and Children's Services, Tulsa,
Oklahoma; St Anthony Hospital, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma;
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation; Virginia Garcia
Collaborative Health Center in Hillsboro, Oregon;
Volunteers in Medicine Clinic, Eugene, Oregon; Community
Outreach, Corvallis, Oregon; Salud Medical Center,
Woodburn, Oregon; Delaware Valley Community Health, Inc.,
Maria de los Santos Community Health Center, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine,
Erie, Pennsylvania; United Cerebral Palsy of Southwestern
Pennsylvania, Washington, Pennsylvania; Brookville
Hospital, Brookville, Pennsylvania; Bucktail Medical
Center, Renova, Pennsylvania; Charles Cole Memorial
Hospital, Coudersport, Pennsylvania; Clarion Hospital,
Clarion, Pennsylvania; Jersey Shore Hospital, Jersey
Shore, Pennsylvania; Kane Community Hospital, Kane,
Pennsylvania; Punxsutawney Area Hospital, Punxsutawney,
Pennsylvania; Soldier and Sailors Memorial Hospital,
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania; Warren General Hospital, Warren,
Pennsylvania; Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Clinical Learning and Assessment Center; Endless Mountains
Health Systems, Montrose, Pennsylvania; Memorial Hospital
Inc., Towanda, Pennsylvania; Moses Taylor Health Care
System, Scranton, Pennsylvania; Philadelphia College of
Osteopathic Medicine's Sullivan County Medical Clinic,
LaPorte, Pennsylvania; Fulton County Medical Center,
McConnellsberg, Pennsylvania; Albert Einstein Healthcare
Network in Philadelphia; Carnegie Mellon University;
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Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh; Crozer-Keystone Health
System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Fox Chase Cancer
Center and Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown
University; Inner Harmony Wellness Center, Clarks Summit,
Pennsylvania; Kidspeace National Outpatient Health Center;
Magee-Womens Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Sacred
Heart Hospital, Allentown, Pennsylvania; Shamokin Area
Community Hospital, Coal Township, Pennsylvania;
Susquehanna School for the Blind and Vision Impaired;
Temple University Health System, Episcopal Hospital
campus; University of Pennsylvania, Comprehensive Cancer
Treatment and Research Center; Wills Eye Hospital,
National Center for Clinical Research, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; Wistar Institute; Children's Health Fund;
Caribbean Primate Research Center, University of Puerto
Rico; Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital, East Providence,
Rhode Island; Thundermist Health Associates, Woonsocket,
Rhode Island; Cancer Prevention Research Center,
University of Rhode Island, Kingston; Newport Hospital,
Newport, Rhode Island; Women and Infants Hospital,
Providence, Rhode Island; Williamsburg Regional Hospital,
Kingstree, South Carolina; Medical University of South
Carolina Oncology Center, Charleston, South Carolina;
Voorhees College, Center of Excellence in Rural and
Minority Health; University of South Carolina School of
Public Health, Columbia, South Carolina; Community
Memorial Hospital, Redfield, South Dakota; Crow Creek
Sioux Tribe, Fort Thompson, South Dakota; Ellen Stephen
Hospice, Kyle, South Dakota; Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, Inc.,
Porcupine, South Carolina; St. Bernard's Hospital,
Milbank, South Dakota; University of South Dakota, School
of Medicine; Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt University
Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; East Tennessee State
University, Quillen College of Medicine, Johnson City,
Tennessee; Tennessee Tech, School of Nursing, Chattanooga,
Tennessee; University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center, Houston, Texas; Institute for Research and
Rehabilitation, Houston, Texas; Val Verde Regional Medical
Center, Del Rio, Texas; Memorial Hermann The Woodlands
Hospital, The Woodlands, Texas; Fort Bend Hospital,
Missouri City, Texas; Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at
Cook Children's Medical Center, Fort Worth, Texas;
University of North Texas Health Science Center; Driscoll
Children's Hospital, Pediatric Clinic, McAllen, Texas;
Baylor College of Medicine and Texas A&M University,
Michael E. DeBakey Institute; University of Texas,
Southwestern Comprehensive Stroke Center; Houston County
Hospital, Crockett, Texas; University of Texas Health
Science Center, Texas Diabetes Institute, San Antonio;
Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia; Massey
Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond,
Virginia; Medical Clinic, Haysi, Virginia; Northwest
Community Services, Front Royal, Virginia; Our Health,
Inc., Winchester, Virginia; Rutland Regional Medical
Center, Rutland, Vermont; Spectrum Youth and Family
Services, Burlington, Vermont; Vermont Department of
Health, Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs,
Primary Care Facility; University of Vermont College of
Medicine and Fletcher Allen Health Care; Northeast
Washington County Community Health Center, Plainfield,
Vermont; University of Washington, Life Sciences Facility,
Seattle, Washington; Lourdes Health Network, Pasco,
Washington; Puget Sound Blood Center, Seattle, Washington;
Memorial Hospital of Iowa County, Dodgeville, Wisconsin;
Northcentral Technical College, Wausau, Wisconsin;
Chippewa Valley Technical College Health Education Center,
Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Marquette University School of
Dentistry in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Marshfield Clinic,
Marshfield, Wisconsin; Marshall University Biotechnology
Science Center; University of Charleston, Riggleman Hall;
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Ambulatory
Care Facility; and Friends-R-Fun, Summersville, West
Virginia.
The conferees urge HRSA to give full and fair consideration
to a proposal from Yeshiva University, Einstein Medical
College.
The conference agreement includes bill language to limit
the amount available for Federal tort claims within community
health centers funding to not more than $15,000,000 as
proposed by the House instead of $5,000,000 as proposed by
the Senate.
The conference agreement includes bill language identifying
$265,085,000 for family planning instead of $264,170,000 as
proposed by the House and $266,000,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
The conference agreement does not include bill language to
provide $30,000,000 for abstinence education in fiscal year
2003 as proposed by the Senate. The House bill contained no
similar provision. The conferees agree with the President's
request to fund this program on a current year basis.
The conference agreement includes $1,343,723,000 for
community health centers as proposed by the Senate instead of
$1,318,559,000 as proposed by the House. The conferees concur
with language contained in the Senate report that not less
than $7,000,000 be provided for Native Hawaiian health care
activities.
The conferees urge HRSA to give full and fair consideration
to proposals to support expanded services to reach priority
populations in under-served communities in Kane, Marion,
Saline, and Will, Illinois counties on the southwest side of
Chicago and in the AAPI community on the north side of
Chicago.
The conferees urge HRSA to give full and fair consideration
to proposals to support expanded services to reach priority
populations in under-served communities in Greene, Howell,
Washington, Benton, Sullivan, Vernon, and Ozark counties,
Missouri.
The conference agreement includes $46,511,000 for the
national health service corps, field placements instead of
$42,511,000 as proposed by the House and $49,511,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $107,000,000 for national
health service corps, recruitment instead of $100,000,000 as
proposed by the House and $104,916,000 as proposed by the
Senate. Within the total provided, $8,000,000 is for State
offices of rural health.
The conference agreement includes $662,768,000 for health
professions instead of $669,992,000 as proposed by the House
and $596,369,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the total
provided, $285,000,000 is for children's hospitals graduate
medical education.
The conferees provide $2,000,000 to establish a graduate
psychology education program. These funds are to be used
consistent with language contained in the House report.
The conferees provide $8,000,000 to expand graduate medical
education curriculum in geriatrics. These funds are to be
used consistent with language contained in the House report.
In convening the panel to examine the education and
training requirements for all nursing occupations, as
directed in the Senate report, the Secretaries of the
Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of
Labor shall also collaborate with the American Association of
Community Colleges, the American Organization of Nurse
Executives, and the National League for Nursing, and ensure
that a representative spectrum of views on relevant issues is
considered.
The conferees note the value of the Native Hawaiian Center
of Excellence in Nursing in addressing the nursing shortage
in Hawaii.
The conference agreement includes $17,841,000 for Hansen's
disease services instead of $17,491,000 as proposed by the
House and $18,391,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the
total provided, $350,000 is for the Diabetes Lower Extremity
Amputation Prevention program at the University of South
Alabama.
The conference agreement includes $731,615,000 for the
maternal and child health block grant instead of $740,000,000
as proposed by the House and $719,087,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
The conference agreement includes bill language designating
$115,236,000 of the funds provided for the block grant for
special projects of regional and national significance
(SPRANS) instead of $116,145,000 as proposed by the House.
The Senate bill did not earmark funds for this purpose. It is
intended that $4,000,000 of the SPRANS amount will be used to
enhance the sickle cell newborn screening program and its
locally based outreach and counseling efforts. The conferees
urge HRSA to give full and fair consideration to a proposal
by the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America. It is also
intended that $4,000,000 of the SPRANS amount will be used
for Columbia Hospital for Women Medical Center in Washington,
D.C., to support community outreach programs for women,
$565,000 will be used for the Milwaukee Health Department for
a pilot program providing health care services to at-risk
children in day care, and $50,000 will be used for the Center
for Great Expectations, Somerville, New Jersey to provide
prenatal health care, education, and counseling for pregnant
teens.
Funding for the continuation of the traumatic brain injury
State demonstration projects is provided as a separate line
item in the table as proposed by the Senate. The House
provided funding for this purpose within the SPRANS amount.
The conference agreement includes $10,000,000 for
abstinence education as proposed by the House instead of
$15,000 as proposed by the Senate. This additional funding
brings the total discretionary amount available for
abstinence education in fiscal year 2002 to $40,000,000.
The conference agreement includes $99,000,000 for healthy
start instead of $102,000,000 as proposed by the House and
$89,996,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conferees urge
HRSA to give preference to current and former grantees with
expiring or recently expired project periods, including
grantees that did not receive renewed funding but whose grant
applications were approved but not funded during fiscal year
2001.
The conference agreement includes $51,928,000 for rural
health outreach grants instead of $51,863,000 as proposed by
the House and $52,921,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conferees continue to be concerned about the health
care needs of those in the Mississippi River Delta region.
The conferees concur with the budget request and provide
$6,800,000 to continue HRSA's ongoing initiative which is
providing funding and technical assistance to help
underserved rural communities identify and better address
their health care needs and to help small rural hospitals
improve their financial and operational performance. The
conferees recommend that HRSA consult with the Delta Regional
Authority (DRA), given DRA's ongoing relationship with
communities in the Delta.
The conferees include the following amounts for the
following projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:
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--$75,000 is for Ellen Stephen Hospice in Kyle, South
Dakota to provide end-of-life care for Native Americans on
the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation;
--$100,000 is for the Mississippi Disease State Management
program at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy,
which focuses on providing information and medications to the
underserved, particularly those with diabetes and asthma;
--$100,000 is for the Northwest Health Center in Pascoag,
Rhode Island to support health care services for low-income
individuals;
--$100,000 is for the People of Color AIDS Foundation in
Santa Fe, New Mexico for education, prevention, and HIV
testing services in northern New Mexico;
--$200,000 is for the Louisiana Public Health Institute,
Center for Community Capacity Enhancement to promote
community partnerships in order to address health improvement
priorities;
--$200,000 is for Health Centers of Northern New Mexico in
Espanola, San Miguel and Truchas, New Mexico to improve
service delivery and access to care for low-income families
in Northern New Mexico;
--$200,000 is for the Geisinger Health Systems Rural Stroke
Care Partnership in Danville, Pennsylvania;
--$200,000 is for the Eastside Neighborhood Center, Inc. in
Pierre, South Dakota for the Frontier School Health
Initiative to provide health care services to children in
rural areas who do not receive regular health care services;
--$215,000 is for Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Crystal
City, Missouri for its rural health outreach activities;
--$250,000 is for the St. Nicholas Free Clinic in Paducah,
Kentucky to establish health education and wellness promotion
programs for the working-poor of Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle,
Fulton, Graves, Hiuskman, Livingston, McCracken, and Marshall
Counties;
--$250,000 is for the Buncombe County Medical Society in
North Carolina for Project Access;
--$300,000 is for the Western Kentucky University Healthy
Farm Families Initiative;
--$300,000 is for the Carolina's Health Care Systems;
--$300,000 is for the University of Nebraska Medical
Center, 500 mile medical center;
--$330,000 is for Mercy Housing health care technical
support, to provide health care in coordination with
affordable housing to low income families, seniors, and
individuals with disabilities;
--$370,000 is for the Clackamas County, Oregon, Public
Health Division, for rural outreach activities;
--$400,000 is for the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior in
Bayfield, Wisconsin for dental services;
--$425,000 is for the Southern University Nurse Managed
Family Health Center in Baton Rouge for a health clinic on
campus and a mobile health clinic;
--$500,000 is for the State of Alaska: ``A Counselor in
Every Village'' program to train behavioral health counselors
and provide their services in Alaskan villages; and Alaska
Native Health Board to expand the Alaska Community Health
Aide program in rural Alaska and to update training
materials;
--$500,000 is for the Western Kentucky University Emergency
Medical Services Academy;
--$500,000 is for the Western Kentucky University Mobile
Health Screening program;
--$500,000 is for the Louisiana State University Health
Science Center in New Orleans to reduce diabetes-related foot
amputations in a high-risk population;
--$500,000 is for the Penn State Hershey Medical Center to
expand access to healthcare in rural areas of central
Pennsylvania;
--$500,000 is for the Huntsman Cancer Institute to develop
a pilot project involving mobile clinics equipped with
Positron Emission Tomography to educate Native Americans on
cancer risk, early detection, prevention and treatment;
--$550,000 is for the Center for Sustainable Health
Outreach at the University of Southern Mississippi;
--$800,000 is for the Tennessee Hospital Education Research
Foundation in Nashville, Tennessee for the Center for Health
Workforce Planning;
--$500,000 is for the Cooperative Education Service Agency
#11 in Turtle Lake, Wisconsin for dental services;
--$1,000,000 is for the Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairman's
Health Board in Aberdeen, South Dakota to support the
Northern Plains Healthy Start project;
--$1,000,000 is for the Center for Acadiana Genetics and
Hereditary Health Care at Louisiana State University Medical
Center to continue and expand the development of the center;
--$1,200,000 is for Creighton University's Accelerated
Nursing Program in Omaha, Nebraska; and
--$1,250,000 is for the Montana Comprehensive Health
Association in Helena, Montana to develop a demonstration
program to bring insurance coverage to high-risk individuals.
The conference agreement includes $16,810,000 for rural
health research instead of $12,099,000 as proposed by the
House and $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conferees include the following amounts for the
following projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:
--$200,000 is for the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford,
Center for Rural Health Practices;
--$250,000 is for the Healthcare Association of New York
State for a Center for Health Care Workforce Innovations
--$300,000 is for Bassett Healthcare to develop and
initiate a comprehensive cardiovascular research initiative
to demonstrate the effectiveness of an integrated cardiac
care program in rural New York;
--$360,000 is for the University of South Dakota to
establish a cooperative academic Rural Primary Care and
Health Service Research Center to help define the status of
health care delivery in South Dakota;
--$400,000 is for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences
Center at El Paso and the University of Texas at El Paso for
joint research and education on the health problems of
migrant workers;
--$400,000 is for the University of Vermont, School of
Nursing in Burlington, Vermont to create a nursing center of
excellence that will assist policy formulation regarding the
severe shortage of nurses, especially in rural areas;
--$1,400,000 is for Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls,
South Dakota to develop and apply computerized radiography
within multiple rural and tertiary level medical care
settings;
--$1,500,000 is for the University of North Dakota School
of Medicine to support its rural health program in
preventative medicine and behavioral sciences; and
--$2,000,000 is for the Raleigh County Commission in
Beckley, West Virginia for an Educational Mall to serve as a
coordinating and research location for rural health
initiatives, especially in preventative medicine.
The conference agreement includes $39,197,000 for
telehealth instead of $27,609,000 as proposed by the House
and $5,609,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conferees include the following amounts for the
following projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:
--$45,000 is for the Oregon Community Health Information
Network for technology upgrades;
--$75,000 is for the University of South Alabama for the
Southwest Alabama Network for Education and Telemedicine;
--$100,000 is for the Oklahoma State Department of Health,
Oklahoma City for planning and development of a rural
telemedicine system;
--$100,000 is for the Coalition for Ultrasound Education
and Training to develop a comprehensive multi-institution
model distance learning network for the training of
ultrasound technologists and medical sonographers;
--$100,000 is for the University of Pittsburgh School of
Nursing, Nurse Anesthesia Program and LaRoche College for the
Nurse Anesthesia Rural and Elderly Expansion project;
--$200,000 is for the Primary Care Association of Hawaii;
--$200,000 is for Logan College of Chiropractic in
Chesterfield, Missouri for a distance learning project;
--$200,000 is for Clarion University and the Primary Care
Council of Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education;
--$250,000 is for Molokai General Hospital to use the
latest technology advances to provide health care in rural
areas;
--$250,000 is for Greene Memorial Hospital in Xenia, Ohio
for a Medical Safety Modernization project;
--$250,000 is for the Pennsylvania School of Optometry in
Philadelphia to establish a network of urban community-based
satellite centers to provide access to inner city,
underserved persons who need vision care;
--$250,000 is for the Pennsylvania Association of Home
Health Agencies to conduct a multi-facility examination of
telehomecare and concurrent development and analysis of the
Telenursing role as a solution to the nursing shortage,
working with Penn State University Health Policy and
Administration;
--$300,000 is for the University of Virginia for
telemedicine projects in southwest Virginia;
--$350,000 is for Fairview Ridges Hospital for a
demonstration to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity using
technology and communications methodologies;
--$400,000 is for Deaconess Billings Clinic Northwest Area
Center for Studies on Aging in Billings, Montana to address
healthcare problems associated with rural aging, and expand
access to specialty health care via telemedicine;
--$400,000 is for the Rocky Mountain Technology Foundation
in Billings, Montana through Rocky Mountain College and
Deaconess Billings College to provide telemedicine links to
rural areas;
--$400,000 is for the University of Vermont College of
Medicine and Fletcher Allen Health Care to support its use of
two-way interactive video telemedicine systems to reduce
disparities in the clinical care and medical education of
trauma;
--$440,000 is for the Telehealth Resource Center at the
University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas for a
telehealth initiative;
--$450,000 is for St. Vincent Hospital in Billings, Montana
to establish a regional video telecommunications network for
healthcare providers;
--$500,000 is for Central Michigan University in Mt.
Pleasant for the rural telehealth and community education
network to improve access and quality of health care to
migrants and underserved in rural populations;
--$500,000 is for the Alaska Telemedicine Advisory Council
for an Alaska telemedicine project;
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--$500,000 is for Memorial Medical Center in Springfield,
Illinois for an automated clinical information system;
--$500,000 is for the University of Montana, ImProving
Health Among Rural Montanans project for expansion of
existing capabilities of the campus-based Drug Information
Service;
--$500,000 is for the New Mexico-Hawaii Telehealth Outreach
for Unified Community Health (TOUCH) project in remote and
rural areas;
--$500,000 is for the Penn State Cancer Institute at
Hershey Medical Center to develop a digital informatics and
communications system to provide a virtual work environment
offering patient services across central and northeastern
Pennsylvania;
--$550,000 is for the North Idaho Rural Telehealth program
to help provide for the logical extension of more complete
telehealth services to additional, high-priority participants
and rural areas;
--$600,000 is for the Institute for Urban Family Health in
New York, New York for an information technology initiative;
--$600,000 is for North Dakota State University College of
Pharmacy to conduct a pilot study testing the safety, cost-
effectiveness and access to health care provided by new
telepharmacy technology in rural communities;
--$750,000 is for Susquehanna Health Systems in
Williamsport, Pennsylvania for an Electronic Medical
Information and Physician Access project;
--$750,000 is for the Morehouse School of Medicine to
develop networking capability at the National Center of
Primary Care;
--$800,000 is for the Fairview Lakes Regional Medical
Center in Wyoming, Minnesota for its telemedicine program;
--$800,000 is for the University of South Dakota in
Vermillion to implement a distance learning project to train
entry-level nursing home workers to become nurses;
--$850,000 is for the New York Presbyterian Hospital
telehealth initiative;
--$900,000 is for South Dakota State University to develop
and evaluate on-line health tracking to help manage chronic
conditions in tribal communities;
--$982,000 is for the Maricopa County, Arizona Correctional
Health Telemedicine Initiative;
--$1,000,000 is for Baycare Health Systems in Clearwater,
Florida for a Medical Information Systems Initiative;
--$1,000,000 is for Case Western Reserve University in
Cleveland, Ohio for a Netwellness Internet health program;
--$1,000,000 is for Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive
Health Services for Phase II of a telemedicine system to link
its patients with the research capabilities of the American
Health Foundation;
--$1,100,000 is for Northeastern Ohio Universities College
of Medicine in Rootstown, Ohio for implementation of the
Medical Education Network Teaching Ohio Region III;
--$1,500,000 is for the Idaho State University Telehealth
Integrated Care Center to improve the quality and quantity of
access to healthcare for people living in Idaho's rural and
frontier areas by providing consultation and diagnosis over
long distance;
--$1,500,000 is for the Northeast Ohio Health Outreach
Network in Massillon, Ohio for a patient safety pilot
program;
--$1,721,000 is for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for
its e-Health program to improve access to specialized and
high quality health care in rural Nevada;
--$1,940,000 is for the University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center for support of the development and deployment of its
state of the art health care information technology system;
--$2,000,000 is for the University of South Dakota School
of Medicine;
--$2,085,000 is for the Education and Research Consortium
of Western North Carolina, Inc., Western North Carolina
Health Care Regional Center to provide computer hardware/
software acquisition, upgrade and installation as well as
training and consultation services for medical staff and
administrators; and
--$2,900,000 is for West Virginia University to provide
medical care to rural communities through the Mountaineer
Doctor Television (MDTV) program.
The conference agreement includes $20,000,000 for
authorized health-related activities of the Denali Commission
as proposed by the Senate. The House bill contained no
similar provision.
The conference agreement includes $18,993,000 for emergency
medical services for children instead of $19,000,000 as
proposed by the House and $18,986,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
The conference agreement includes $21,210,000 for poison
control instead of $16,421,000 as proposed by the House and
$24,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $7,500,000 for traumatic
brain injury instead of $10,000,000 as proposed by the
Senate. The House bill provided $5,000,000 for this purpose
within the maternal and child health block grant SPRANS
funding. Within the total provided, $1,500,000 is for
protection and advocacy services. These funds are to be used
consistent with language contained in the Senate report.
The conference agreement includes $6,000,000 for black lung
clinics as proposed by the House instead of $7,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $3,500,000 for trauma
care instead of $3,000,000 as proposed by the House and
$4,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $10,240,000 for nursing
loan repayment for shortage area service instead of
$2,279,000 as proposed by the House and $15,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes a total of $1,910,806,000
for Ryan White programs instead of $1,919,609,000 as proposed
by the House and $1,883,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Included in this amount is $619,585,000 for emergency
assistance, $977,485,000 for comprehensive care, $193,939,000
for early intervention, $70,998,000 for women, infants,
children, and youth, $13,500,000 for dental services, and
$35,299,000 for education and training centers.
The conference agreement includes bill language identifying
$639,000,000 for the Ryan White Title II State AIDS drug
assistance programs instead of $649,000,000 as proposed by
the House and $610,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Within the total provided, $123,200,000 is for the Minority
HIV/AIDS initiative. These funds are to be used consistent
with language contained in the House report.
The conferees concur with House report language under title
IV regarding the distribution of title IV funds.
The conferees are concerned about the increasing incidence
of HIV/AIDS infection in rural regions of the United States,
and are aware that HIV/AIDS disproportionately impacts
minority communities in underserved rural areas, particularly
in the Southeast. Therefore, States should utilize funds
provided under the Minority HIV/AIDS Initiative to fund
outreach strategies that assist in linking underserved
minority populations with State ADAPs, primary care, and
other HIV/AIDS treatment services.
The conferees are concerned about the formula-based
distribution of discretionary supplemental ADAP grant awards
to States with demonstrated need. The conferees encourage
HRSA to distribute these grant awards to eligible States
based on needs identified by the States, rather than a
formula based solely on living AIDS cases. The conferees also
encourage HRSA to consider capped program enrollment and
client waiting lists, in conjunction with the eligibility,
formulary, and medical criteria as among the ADAP access
restrictions that may qualify a State or territory for these
grant awards. The conferees also urge HRSA to provide
supplemental awards to States with an ADAP eligibility limit
in excess of 200 percent of the Federal poverty level when
those States meet any of the statutorily defined criteria.
The conference agreement includes $40,000,000 for rural
hospital flexibility grants instead of $35,000,000 as
proposed by the House and $25,000,000 as proposed by the
Senate. Within the total provided, $15,000,000 is for a rural
hospital performance improvement program. These funds would
be used for the small rural hospital prospective payment
systems grant program as created in section 409 of the
Balanced Budget Relief Act of 1999 and authorized in section
1820(g)(3) of the Social Security Act. These funds would also
be used to help rural hospitals comply with provisions of the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
and to reduce medical errors and support quality improvement.
The funds would be geared toward small rural hospitals that
are essential access points for Medicare and Medicaid
beneficiaries.
The conference agreement includes $4,000,000 for the
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act instead of $5,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate. The House bill contained no similar
provision.
The conference agreement includes $120,041,000 for the
community access program as proposed by the House instead of
$15,041,000 as proposed by the Senate. These funds are to be
used consistent with language contained in the House report.
The conference agreement includes $149,154,000 for program
management instead of $147,049,000 as proposed by the House
and $135,991,000 as proposed by the Senate. Of the increase
provided, $2,500,000 is for information technology.
The conferees are concerned by the recently announced plan
to abolish the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth and
reassign these functions to the HIV/AIDS Bureau. The
conferees have provided sufficient funds to continue the
operations of this Office as a component of the Office of the
Administrator.
The conferees include the following amounts for the
following projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:
--$80,000 is for the Wausau Health Foundation in Wausau,
Wisconsin for a survey and analysis of local health
professionals' career paths to better understand entry into
and exit from health professions;
--$100,000 is for the University of San Diego Institute for
the Advancement of Health Policy to assess through teaching,
research and delivery of services the impact of public policy
on families from vulnerable populations;
--$200,000 is for Luna County, New Mexico and the Columbus
Volunteer Fire Department to provide emergency medical
services to immigrants;
--$350,000 is for the Clinical Pharmacy Training program at
the University of Hawaii at Hilo;
--$475,000 is to support the efforts of the American
Federation of Negro Affairs Education and Research Fund of
Philadelphia;
--$500,000 is for the University of Washington Center for
Health Workforce Studies
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in Seattle, Washington for a demonstration project to collect
and analyze health workforce data;
--$800,000 is for the University of Iowa for the training
of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists;
--$1,000,000 is for the Washington Health Foundation for a
comprehensive demonstration project on improving nurse
retention; and
--$1,100,000 is for the Iowa Department of Public Health to
create a Center for Health Care Workforce Shortage.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Disease Control, Research, and Training
The conference agreement includes $4,293,151,000 for
disease control, research, and training instead of
$4,077,060,000 as proposed by the House and $4,418,910,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes bill language to earmark
$250,000,000 for equipment, construction, and renovation of
facilities as proposed by the Senate instead of $175,000,000
as proposed by the House. Within the total provided,
$6,000,000 is for data storage infrastructure hardware and
software upgrades to provide for the remote mirroring of
information between CDC data centers, and provide
heterogeneous connectivity to existing systems used at CDC,
to ensure protection, recovery, and availability of critical
data resources.
The conference agreement includes bill language to allow
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to enter
into a single contract or related contracts for the full
scope of development and construction of facilities as
proposed by the Senate. The House bill contained no similar
provision.
The conference agreement includes bill language to earmark
$143,763,000 for international HIV/AIDS instead of
$137,527,000 as proposed by the House and $154,527,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement does not include bill language to
earmark funds for the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile
within CDC. The agreement includes bill language for this
purpose within the Public Health and Social Services
Emergency Fund.
The conference agreement includes a total of $126,978,000
for the National Center for Health Statistics as proposed by
both the House and the Senate. The agreement also includes
bill language designating $23,286,000 of the total to be
available to the Center from the Public Health Service Act
evaluation set-aside as proposed by the House. The Senate
bill contained no similar provision.
The conferees urge CDC to review the Pregnancy Risk
Assessment Monitoring Survey to explore the feasibility of
establishing a uniform State and national reporting system of
pregnancy related complications for women, to provide
technical assistance to States in examining pregnancy related
health data, to track interventions and patterns of care
received, and to conduct research into the causes of and
interventions for pregnancy complications, especially for
complications relating to disparities in mother and infant
outcomes for different racial and ethnic populations.
The conference agreement includes $90,078,000 for birth
defects, developmental disabilities, disability and health
instead of $80,280,000 as proposed by the House and
$88,748,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Within the total provided, $12,000,000 is for fetal alcohol
syndrome, $3,000,000 is to support the Christopher Reeve
Paralysis Foundation, and $2,000,000 is to expand
surveillance and epidemiological efforts of Duchenne and
Becker muscular dystrophy in the United States.
Within the total provided, $2,800,000 is for a Special
Olympics Healthy Athletes Initiative to help train health
professionals and sensitize health care systems and
institutions to the special needs of individuals with mental
retardation; expand systems to make them accessible for
special needs individuals; help identify the nature and scope
of health challenges and health access barriers to persons
with mental retardation; and create and test models for
athlete health promotion at the local level.
Within the total provided, $2,500,000 above the budget
request is to expand autism and developmental disability
surveillance activities in additional States and $1,250,000
above the budget request is to establish an attention
deficit/hyperactivity disorder resource center.
The conferees support CDC's prevention activities for folic
acid and urge the agency to expand efforts to enhance State
and local activities to educate women about this effective
prevention strategy.
The conferees include the following amounts for the
following projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:
--$100,000 for the Birth Defects Monitoring and Prevention
Center at the University of South Alabama;
--$150,000 for the California Teratogen Information Center
at the University of California, San Diego;
--$300,000 for the Children and Adults with Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD); and
--$750,000 for the University of Louisville Craniofacial
Birth Defects Research Center.
The conference agreement includes $747,823,000 for chronic
disease prevention and health promotion instead of
$722,495,000 as proposed by the House and $701,654,000 as
proposed by the Senate. Programs within this account are
funded at the following levels:
Arthritis...................................................$13,896,000
Breast and Cervical Cancer..................................192,598,000
Cancer Prevention and Control................................76,662,000
Cancer Registries........................................(40,000,000)
Colorectal Cancer........................................(12,000,000)
Other Cancers.............................................(4,357,000)
Ovarian Cancer............................................(4,596,000)
Prostate Cancer..........................................(14,062,000)
Skin Cancer...............................................(1,647,000)
Community Health Promotion...................................15,243,000
Diabetes.....................................................61,754,000
Epilepsy......................................................6,527,000
Heart Disease and Stroke.....................................37,384,000
Iron Overload...................................................477,000
National Campaign to Change Children's Health Behaviors......68,400,000
Nutrition/Physical Activity..................................27,505,000
Oral Health..................................................10,839,000
Prevention Centers...........................................26,182,000
Safe Motherhood/Infant Health................................50,790,000
School Health................................................58,495,000
Tobacco.....................................................101,071,000
Within the total provided, $68,400,000 is for the National
Campaign to Change Children's Health Behaviors. These funds
are to be used consistent with language contained in the
House report. The conferees do not provide funds to continue
the Health Resources and Services Administration and the
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
activities.
The conferees concur with the Senate report language
encouraging CDC to continue public and professional awareness
activities with respect to pulmonary hypertension.
With the additional funding provided for oral health, the
conferees understand that priority will be given to
completing the funding of cooperative agreements to
strengthen State oral disease prevention programs. These
programs may include projects that will include dental
sealant programs for children and community fluoridation
projects.
The conferees include the following amounts for the
following projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:
Within the total for breast and cervical cancer, $50,000 is
for SHAREing & CAREing, Inc., Astoria, New York for an
outreach, education and breast cancer screening program;
$150,000 is for a breast cancer demonstration project at the
Healthcare Association of New York State; and $250,000 is for
the Swope Parkway Health Center Breast and Cervical Cancers
Demonstration and Outreach project in Kansas City, Missouri.
Within the total for comprehensive cancer control, $250,000
is for the Rhode Island Cancer Council in Pawtucket, Rhode
Island for public education and professional outreach;
$440,000 is for the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center in Houston, Texas for a comprehensive cancer control
program to address minority and medically underserved
populations; and $500,000 is for the St. Mary's Medical
Center Comprehensive Cancer Care Center in Long Beach,
California.
Within the total provided for prostate cancer, $290,000 is
for the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas for
satellite prostate cancer testing centers to carry out
programs of prevention, education and testing related to
prostate cancer.
Within the total provided for community health promotion,
$2,800,000 is to develop a model project to test the efficacy
of glaucoma screening using mobile units. The conferees
further suggest the program establish protocols to conduct
outreach, identify staffing needs, provide patient education
regarding glaucoma management, address other eye conditions,
and make appropriate referrals to eye care professionals.
Within the total provided for community health promotion,
$1,200,000 is for the Mind-Body Medical Institute in Boston,
Massachusetts to continue practice-based assessments,
identification, and study of promising and heavily used mind/
body practices.
Within the total provided for community health promotion,
$225,000 is for the Roger Williams Medical Center Healthlink
in Providence, Rhode Island for a disease prevention
initiative for senior retirees; $250,000 is for Valley
Children's Hospital in California for a mobile asthma care
program to reduce the incidence of asthma in the region and
reduce the related costs of hospital-based treatment;
$300,000 is for Pikeville College, School of Osteopathic
Medicine to conduct epidemiological studies in the
Appalachian Region of Southeastern Kentucky; $500,000 is for
Community Health Centers in Hawaii for a childhood rural
asthma project; $500,000 is for the State of Alaska for a
program to reduce high anemia rates of children in the Yukon
Delta and the Bristol Bay region; and $1,000,000 is for the
University of Texas, Dallas for the Southwestern Medical
Center, National Multiple Sclerosis Training Center.
Within the total for diabetes prevention, $100,000 is a
diabetes care program at the Clinica Monsenor Oscar A. Romero
in Los Angeles, California; $250,000 is for a diabetes and
diabetic retinopathy demonstration at the Oklahoma Center for
the Advancement of Science and Technology in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma; $440,000 is for the University of Arizona in Tucson
for a Border Health Initiative; $500,000 is for the Texas
Tech University Center for Diabetes Prevention and Control;
and $1,600,000 is for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and
Cheyenne Sioux Tribe for the Dakota Plains Diabetes Center.
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Within the total provided for heart disease and stroke,
$4,500,000 is for the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke
Registry.
Within the total for heart disease and stroke, $130,000 is
for the Wausau Health Foundation in Wausau, Wisconsin, for a
school-based program to increase awareness of cardiovascular
disease and the importance of prevention and to document
prevalence of cardiovascular disease in youth; $200,000 is
for a Cardiac Outreach program at HealthReach NY in Flushing,
New York; and $440,000 is for the Stroke Belt Research and
Intervention Network at the University of Alabama,
Birmingham.
Within the total provided for nutrition and physical
activity, $5,000,000 is for efforts to eliminate
micronutrient malnutrition and $475,000 is for a study by the
Institute of Medicine on childhood obesity as described in
the Senate report.
Within the total for nutrition and physical activity,
$125,000 is for the Village of Park Forest, Illinois Health
Department, for preventive health education and screening
projects in fields such as nutrition, chronic illness, food
safety, health screening, and hygiene, and nutrition
education for school children; $200,000 is for the Great
South Bay YMCA in Bay Shore, New York, for its Fit Kids
education and health promotion program; $500,000 is for the
State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services for
an Obesity Prevention and Control program; and $2,000,000 is
for West Virginia University to establish the Center on
Obesity.
Within the total for prevention centers, $250,000 is for
the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute to support
infectious disease, cancer and cardiovascular disease, and
prevention research at the Kansas City Proteomics Consortium.
Within the total for safe motherhood, $2,650,000 is for the
Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies
in Tampa, Florida, of which $1,500,000 is for training
paraprofessionals in the health-care field.
Within the total for school health, $225,000 is for the
School of Optometry at the University of Missouri, St. Louis
for a program of mobile vision screenings for school
children.
The conference agreement includes $153,753,000 for
environmental health instead of $146,683,000 as proposed by
the House and $171,863,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Within the total provided, $37,149,000 is for the
environmental health laboratory, $33,201,000 is for
environmental health activities, $35,193,000 is for asthma,
and $42,140,000 is for lead poisoning.
Within the total provided, $2,200,000 is to expand the
physician education and public awareness program for primary
immune deficiency disease.
The conferees have included funds for a CDC assessment, in
conjunction with the Iowa Department of Public Health, on the
effect of environmental factors on rural health.
The conferees include the following amounts for the
following projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:
--$130,000 is for Environment and Human Health, Inc. in
North Haven, Connecticut to research and track asthma among
the school-age population in Connecticut;
--$300,000 is for the Sustainable Resource Center in
Minneapolis, Minnesota to focus on lead poisoning remediation
and education;
--$300,000 is for Citizens Against Toxic Exposure in
Pensacola, Florida to locate and screen individuals for
health problems associated with local toxic pollution and to
assist those who have been exposed to these environmental
toxins;
--$350,000 is for the Community Lead Education and
Reduction Corps (CLEARCorps) in St. Louis, Missouri to fight
childhood lead poisoning;
--$440,000 is for the San Antonio Metropolitan Health
District to expand an assessment of human exposure to
environmental contaminants near Kelly Air Force Base, Texas;
--$700,000 is for the University of Montana at Missoula,
Center for Environmental Health Sciences to support research
on the impact of environmental factors in causing or
exacerbating human diseases; and
--$850,000 is for the University of West Florida for an
environmental health study in Escambia and Santa Rosa
Counties.
The conference agreement includes $80,303,000 for epidemic
services and response as proposed by the House instead of
$85,303,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $1,135,532,000 for HIV/
AIDS, STD and TB prevention instead of $1,148,452,000 as
proposed by the House and $1,121,612,000 as proposed by the
Senate. Included in this amount is $835,293,000 for HIV/AIDS
activities, of which $143,763,000 is for global HIV/AIDS
activities; $167,450,000 for STD activities; and $132,789,000
for TB activities.
Within the total provided for HIV/AIDS, $96,000,000 is for
the Minority HIV/AIDS initiative. These funds are to be used
consistent with language contained in the House report.
The conferees are concerned about the increasing incidence
of HIV/AIDS infection in rural regions of the United States,
and are aware that HIV/AIDS disproportionately impacts
minority communities in underserved rural areas, particularly
in the Southeast. Therefore, CDC should develop strategies
with States to implement interventions targeted to these
communities.
Within the total provided for tuberculosis, $500,000 is for
the State of Alaska for a tuberculosis control and prevention
program.
The conference agreement includes $627,895,000 for
childhood immunization instead of $599,645,000 as proposed by
the House and $637,145,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Included in this amount is $223,527,000 for vaccine purchase,
$200,697,000 for operation/infrastructure activities,
$107,400,000 for global polio eradication activities,
$26,388,000 for measles eradication activities, and
$69,883,000 for prevention activities. In addition, the
Vaccines for Children (VFC) program funded through the
Medicaid program is expected to provide $795,553,000 in
vaccine purchases and distribution support in fiscal year
2002, for a total program level of $1,423,448,000.
The conference agreement includes $344,858,000 for
infectious diseases instead of $343,018,000 as proposed by
the House and $331,518,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Within the total provided, $4,000,000 above the budget
request is for a prevention program to control and reduce the
incidents of hepatitis C. This funding is to develop State-
based programs and demonstrations to learn the most feasible
approach to integrating hepatitis C and B screening,
counseling, and referral programs into existing HIV and STD
State programs. The conferees also urge CDC to more
aggressively undertake the implementation of the National
Hepatitis C Prevention Strategy with greater emphasis on
communication of information about hepatitis C to health care
professionals, and educate the general public and groups at
increased risk for infection.
Within the total provided, $4,000,000 above the budget
request is to continue planned activities and expand efforts
to control the West Nile virus.
Within the total provided, $2,200,000 is to establish a
comprehensive thalassemia-based blood safety and surveillance
program.
Within the total provided, $1,500,000 is for the
establishment of a national autopsy network for prion disease
surveillance. These funds are to be used consistent with
language contained in the House report. The conferees urge
CDC to give full and fair consideration to a proposal from
the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center at
Case Western Reserve University.
The conferees encourage CDC to consider funding the
Pediatric Prevention Network (PPN) and its efforts to improve
infection control for children. The PPN works to decrease
health-care acquired infections in hospitalized children,
with special emphasis on blood stream infections and the
transmission of resistant organisms.
It is estimated that 30 million people reside in, or are
adjacent to, areas considered endemic for the soil organism
that causes Valley Fever. The conferees encourage CDC to
support ongoing efforts in the development of a vaccine,
including appropriate epidemiological and surveillance
activities.
The conferees support the implementation of the
demonstration project developed through the enhancing the
monitoring of pharmaceutical services and patient safety
through connectivity project.
The conferees include the following amounts for the
following projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:
--$200,000 for the Border Health Institute in El Paso,
Texas for research related to infectious diseases and other
public health problems affecting the U.S.-Mexico border
region;
--$440,000 for the Children's Medical Center of Dallas,
Center for Infectious Diseases, Advanced Diagnostics, and
Emerging Pathogens for efforts to improve the early
detection, prevention and control of meningitis, sepsis,
pneumonia and myocarditis and for research on the immune
responses of at-risk populations;
--$500,000 is for the University of Idaho, Post Falls for
biomedical sensor electronics development; and
--$500,000 for the State of Utah Health Department to
assist local health authorities in ensuring the safety of
food and to protect against communicable disease outbreaks
during the 2002 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Salt
Lake City.
The conference agreement includes $149,767,000 for injury
control instead of $143,655,000 as proposed by the House and
$146,655,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Within the total provided, $2,000,000 above the budget
request is to expand current activities to better understand
the scope of child abuse and neglect and its consequences.
These activities could include examining child fatality
review systems, supporting States in their collection of
surveillance data, improving data collection on the incidence
of child maltreatment through the development of consensus
definitions, and supporting the implementation and evaluation
of interventions aimed at the prevention of child
maltreatment.
Within the total provided, $1,500,000 above the budget
request is for the National Violent Death Reporting System to
gather information on the circumstances of violent deaths and
develop effective methods of prevention and intervention.
Within the total provided, $125,000 is for the trauma
information and exchange program.
The conferees have included funds for the continuation of
the Iowa Injury Control Center.
The conferees include the following amounts for the
following projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:
--$37,000 for the Save A Life Foundation, Inc. in Schiller
Park, Illinois to expand the training of its basic life
supporting first aid program;
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--$100,000 for the Westchester County, New York, Department
of Emergency Services to develop and implement a training
program in pediatric trauma for pre-hospital providers; and
--$450,000 for the National SAFE KIDS Campaign, Washington
DC for its SAFE KIDS AT HOME project to improve child health
through outreach to public housing and other at-risk
communities.
The conference agreement includes $276,460,000 for
occupational safety and health instead of $270,135,000 as
proposed by the House and $276,135,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
Within the total provided, $2,000,000 is for the Education
and Research Centers to expand research activities in support
of implementation of NORA and $2,000,000 is to develop an
intramural and extramural prevention research program that
will target all aspects of workplace violence and to
coordinate its efforts with the Departments of Justice and
Labor.
The conferees have provided sufficient funds for NIOSH to
carry out research and related activities aimed at protecting
workers who respond to public health needs in the event of a
terrorist incident.
The conferees are aware of the research on construction
worker safety and health being done by the Center to Protect
Worker Rights.
The conferees include the following amounts for the
following projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:
--$125,000 for the University of Buffalo, Division of
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine for a joint educational
program with Millard Fillmore Hospital's Sleep Disorder
Center in Buffalo, New York and Mount St. Mary's Hospital
Sleep Disorder Center in Lewiston, New York to increase
knowledge of sleep disorders; and
--$200,000 is for the Occupational and Environmental Health
Center of Rhode Island for research, tracking and
investigation of employment-related disease.
The conference agreement includes $148,520,000 for public
health improvement instead of $149,910,000 as proposed by the
House and $114,910,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Within the total provided, $17,500,000 is for development
and implementation of a nationwide environmental health
tracking network and capacity development in environmental
health at State and local health Departments.
Within the total provided, $2,500,000 above the budget
request is for prevention research. These funds are to be
used consistent with language contained in the Senate report.
The conferees urge CDC to give full and fair consideration
to a proposal from the CNA Corporation.
The conferees include the following amounts for the
following projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:
--$60,000 is for the Lawrence-Douglas County Health
Department in Lawrence, Kansas for assessment, training and
equipment related to public health information systems
infrastructure;
--$150,000 is for the Interstitial Cystitis (IC)
Association CURE program in Rockville, Maryland for
activities to broaden the understanding of IC;
--$350,000 is for the New England Medical Center to develop
predictive instrument research in technology to reduce
medical errors;
--$400,000 is for the University of Vermont College of
Medicine to support the Vermont Oxford Network and its
efforts to improve the quality of health care available to
children born prematurely through the reduction of medical
errors;
--$400,000 is for the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute
Cancer Epidemiology Research Program in Northeastern
Pennsylvania;
--$500,000 is for the Institute for Clinical Evaluation for
the reduction of medical errors through the development and
demonstration of virtual reality medical technology
simulation training for training health care workers in
medical procedures;
--$500,000 is for the University of Louisville and Kosair
Children's Hospital Sleep Medicine Center;
--$500,000 is for the National Emergency Response and
Rescue Training Center's Integrated Health and Medical
Weapons of Mass Destruction Training Program in College
Station, Texas;
--$650,000 is for the University of Georgia to establish a
Center for Leadership in Education and Applied Research in
Mass Destruction Defense to train health professionals to
respond to chemical and biological attacks;
--$700,000 is for the Kirkwood Community College in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa for the National Mass Fatalities Institute;
--$800,000 is to continue the development of the Delaware
Electronic Reporting Systems (DEERS) to track diseases;
--$900,000 is for the Center for the Study of Bioterrorism
and Emerging Infections at the St. Louis University School of
Public Health;
--$1,000,000 is for Westchester County, New York to conduct
readiness assessments of all response systems, including
emergency response and management systems, hospitals, the
county health department, equipment needs and communications
systems, in the development of a comprehensive bioterrorism
response plan;
--$1,000,000 is for the University of Kentucky Center for
Improving Medication-Related Outcomes;
--$1,000,000 is for the Delta Health and Prevention
Research Initiative at Delta State University;
--$1,000,000 is for the Public Health Service Noble
Training Center for the development of a comprehensive
bioterrorism curriculum and the conduct of on-site training
for health care professionals to be done in conjunction with
appropriate Federal agencies, Auburn University and the
University of Alabama at Birmingham;
--$1,000,000 is for Iowa State University for the creation
of a Center for Food Security and Public Health;
--$1,000,000 is for the University of Iowa for the planning
of a Hygienic Lab;
--$1,000,000 is for the Center for Civilian Biodefense
Strategies at Johns Hopkins University to improve the
nation's medical and public health preparedness and response
to bioterrorism;
--$1,000,000 is for the University of Texas Medical Branch,
National Rapid Response Bioterrorism Defense Center;
--$1,200,000 is for the Oral Vaccine Institute in Las
Vegas, Nevada for the development of innovative oral vaccine
delivery alternatives;
--$1,500,000 is for the University of Louisville Center for
the Deterrence of Biowarfare and Bioterrorism; and
--$2,000,000 is for West Virginia University for continued
development of the virtual medical campus.
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
The conference agreement includes $4,190,405,000 for the
National Cancer Institute instead of $4,146,291,000 as
proposed by the House and $4,258,516,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
The conferees urge NCI to continue supporting cancer
genomics projects with the goal of identifying potential
cancer therapies.
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
The conference agreement includes $2,576,125,000 for the
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute instead of
$2,547,675,000 as proposed by the House and $2,618,966,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
The conference agreement includes $343,327,000 for the
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
instead of $339,268,000 as proposed by the House and
$348,767,000 as proposed by the Senate.
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
The conference agreement includes $1,466,833,000 for the
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
Diseases instead of $1,446,705,000 as proposed by the House
and $1,501,476,000 as proposed by the Senate.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
The conference agreement includes $1,328,188,000 for the
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
instead of $1,306,321,000 as proposed by the House and
$1,352,055,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conferees understand that over two million Americans
suffer from epilepsy, with one million suffering from
uncontrolled seizures. The conferees are interested in the
acceleration of epilepsy research and encourage NINDS to take
steps to jumpstart promising epilepsy research areas. In
particular, the conferees urge NINDS to establish an annual
lectureship in the epilepsy research field to provide the
intellectual stimulation to prompt new findings in both the
NINDS intramural program and the extramural community. The
conferees request that NINDS consider naming the lectureship
in memory of Judith Hoyer. Mrs. Hoyer had epilepsy; she spent
her life helping families dealing with the condition and
promoting research into a cure and a better quality of life
for those with epilepsy. Such a lectureship would continue
her legacy of stimulating important epilepsy research.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
The conference agreement includes $2,372,278,000 for the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases instead
of $2,337,204,000 as proposed by the House and $2,375,836,000
as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes bill language to give the
Director discretion to transfer up to $25,000,000 to
International Assistance Programs, Global Fund to Fight HIV/
AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis as proposed by the House. The
Senate bill included a general provision to transfer this
amount to the Global Fund.
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
The conference agreement includes $1,725,263,000 for the
National Institute of General Medical Sciences instead of
$1,706,968,000 as proposed by the House and $1,753,465,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
The conference agreement includes $1,113,605,000 for the
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
instead of $1,088,208,000 as proposed by the House and
$1,123,692,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conferees note the achievements of the NICHD Study of
Early Child Care and Youth Development and urge its
continuation, including its program of data collection and
dissemination of findings.
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The conferees are pleased to hear that over the past year,
NICHD has begun to plan a major initiative on stillbirth. In
March, the Institute convened scientific and medical experts
from around the country to explore the available information
about the incidence of stillbirth, its varying causes, and
the opportunities for research. The conferees urge NICHD to
build upon this knowledge by planning for a prospective
investigation of the scope and causes of stillbirth
nationally and internationally. The conferees also encourage
NICHD to work with professional organizations on this issue
to assess current knowledge and develop research
opportunities in the management of stillbirth.
National Eye Institute
The conference agreement includes $581,366,000 for the
National Eye Institute instead of $566,725,000 as proposed by
the House and $614,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
The conference agreement includes $566,639,000 for the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences instead
of $557,435,000 as proposed by the House and $585,946,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
National Institute on Aging
The conference agreement includes $893,443,000 for the
National Institute on Aging instead of $873,186,000 as
proposed by the House and $909,174,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
The conference agreement includes $448,865,000 for the
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin
Diseases instead of $440,144,000 as proposed by the House and
$460,202,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome is a multi-systemic disorder
that was first recognized in 1989. The conferees encourage
NIAMS to enhance research efforts to identify the cause of
this disease and develop a better understanding of the
characterization of pathophysiological events leading to the
chronic phase of the disease.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
The conference agreement includes $342,072,000 for the
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication
Disorders instead of $334,161,000 as proposed by the House
and $349,983,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conferees continue to support the expansion of NIDCD's
research on the efficacy of new hearing screening
technologies through all available mechanisms, as
appropriate, including clinical studies on screening
methodologies and studies on the efficacy of intervention and
follow-up, and related research.
National Institute of Nursing Research
The conference agreement includes $120,451,000 for the
National Institute of Nursing Research instead of
$116,773,000 as proposed by the House and $125,659,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
The conference agreement includes $384,238,000 for the
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism instead of
$379,026,000 as proposed by the House and $390,761,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
The conference agreement includes $888,105,000 for the
National Institute on Drug Abuse instead of $900,389,000 as
proposed by the House and $902,000,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
National Institute of Mental Health
The conference agreement includes $1,248,626,000 for the
National Institute of Mental Health instead of $1,228,780,000
as proposed by the House and $1,279,383,000 as proposed by
the Senate.
National Human Genome Research Institute
The conference agreement includes $429,515,000 for the
National Human Genome Research Institute instead of
$423,454,000 as proposed by the House and $440,448,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
The conference agreement includes $111,984,000 for the
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
instead of $39,896,000 as proposed by the House and
$140,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conferees commend NIH for agreeing to establish a task
force comprising both NIH staff and representatives of the
extramural research community to review all current imaging
and bioengineering grants and identify those that are
appropriate for transfer to the newly-established National
Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).
Toward that end, the conferees support the agreement to
create a nine-member task force that includes representatives
of NIH (three members), the extramural imaging community
(three members), and the bioengineering community (three
members), with representatives of the outside groups to be
appointed by the appropriate professional organizations in
those fields. The conferees direct the task force to
establish criteria to be applied consistently to all grants
under consideration. The conferees urge that these criteria
ensure that research projects with applications to multiple
disease processes or organ systems should generally reside in
NIBIB in accordance with the intent of Congress in creating
the new Institute. The Director of the NIH shall submit a
report on the findings of the task force to the House and
Senate Appropriations Committees by March 31, 2002.
While the conferees are pleased that progress has been
achieved in implementing the legislation that created NIBIB,
they have been concerned that the amount of research grants
proposed by the NIH for transfer to the new Institute falls
short of previous assessments of NIH support for basic
biomedical imaging and bioengineering as expressed in NIH
statements to the Congress. Creation of the joint NIH-
extramural task force should help to ensure that all parties
have confidence in the process.
National Center for Research Resources
The conference agreement includes $1,011,594,000 for the
National Center for Research Resources instead of
$966,541,000 as proposed by the House and $1,014,044,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes bill language to earmark
$110,000,000 for extramural facilities construction grants
instead of $97,000,000 as proposed by the House and
$125,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also
includes bill language to earmark $5,000,000 of these funds
to begin construction of facilities for a Chimp Sanctuary as
proposed by the House. The Senate bill contained no similar
provision.
Within the total provided, $160,000,000 is for the
Institutional Development Awards program and $271,580,000 is
for the General Clinical Research Centers.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The conference agreement includes $104,644,000 for the
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
instead of $99,288,000 as proposed by the House and
$110,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
The conference agreement includes $157,812,000 for the
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
instead of $157,204,000 as proposed by the House and
$158,421,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conferees concur with language contained in the House
report regarding the newly established National Center for
Minority Health and Health Disparities. The conferees
encourage the Center to move forward in implementing the
Research Endowment and Centers of Excellence programs as
ongoing initiatives.
John E. Fogarty International Center
The conference agreement includes $56,940,000 for the John
E. Fogarty International Center instead of $56,021,000 as
proposed by the House and $57,874,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
National Library of Medicine
The conference agreement includes $277,658,000 for the
National Library of Medicine instead of $273,610,000 as
proposed by the House and $281,584,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
Office of the Director
(Including Transfer of Funds)
The conference agreement includes $235,540,000 for the
Office of the Director instead of $232,098,000 as proposed by
the House and $236,408,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
agreement includes a designation in bill language of
$53,540,000 for the operations of the Office of AIDS
Research.
Within the total provided, $10,341,000 is for the Office of
Rare Diseases and $17,000,000 is for the Office of Dietary
Supplements.
The conferees are agreed that NIH should continue to
allocate funds for biomedical research on the basis of
scientific opportunity, taking into consideration the many
other factors identified by NIH as being relevant to funding
decisions, such as the infectious nature of a disease, the
number of cases and deaths associated with a disease, the
costs of disease treatment, and/or other costs associated
with a disease. The conferees also expect NIH to carefully
consider the language in the House and Senate reports and
give it appropriate weight when determining funding
allocations across disease areas. Regarding the cases in
which the House or Senate reports reference funding levels
for a specific disease, the conferees are agreed that
these are intended only to express relative priority and
are not funding earmarks.
The conferees concur with language contained in the Senate
report regarding the pediatric research initiative.
The conferees recognize the significance of child abuse and
neglect as a serious public health problem. The conferees
commend the efforts of NIH, under the leadership of NIMH, for
convening a working group of organizations and relevant
Federal agencies to facilitate collaborative and cooperative
efforts on child abuse and neglect research. The conferees
encourage NIH to continue to address this public health
problem and request that the Director of NIH be prepared to
report on the progress of this research at the fiscal year
2003 appropriations hearing.
The conferees are concerned about the impact of Tropical
Storm Allison on the research programs and institutions
located in Houston, Texas, in particular Baylor College of
Medicine and the University of Texas at Houston Health
Sciences Center. The conferees recognize the efforts of NIH
to extend application deadlines and provide administrative
supplements to affected grantees.
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The conferees strongly encourage NIH to continue this
practice and, to the extent practicable, provide one-year
extensions for those investigators who need them.
The conferees recognize the association between religion
and positive health outcomes. This may be the result of the
emphasis of some religions on healthy behaviors. For example,
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, also known
as the Mormon religion, encourages members to adopt health-
promoting behaviors and proscribes behaviors associated with
poor health outcomes, such as smoking or substance abuse. The
conferees encourage NIH to examine further the association
between religion and health outcomes and how some religious
organizations effectively promote healthy behaviors among
their members.
The conferees continue to be very interested in matching
the increased needs of researchers, particularly NIH
grantees, as well as intramural and university-based
researchers, who rely upon human tissues and organs to study
human diseases and to search for cures. The conferees are
aware that NIH is in the process of encouraging the
Institutes and Centers to expand support for NDRI and urge
NIH to submit a written progress report to the House and
Senate Committees on Appropriations no later than February 1,
2002.
Buildings and Facilities
The conference agreement includes $309,600,000 for
buildings and facilities instead of $311,600,000 as proposed
by the House and $306,600,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes bill language to give the
Director discretion to transfer up to $75,000,000 to
International Assistance Programs, Global Fund to Fight HIV/
AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis as proposed by the House. The
Senate bill included a general provision to transfer
$70,000,000 to the Global Fund.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
The conference agreement includes $3,138,279,000 for
substance abuse and mental health services instead of
$3,131,558,000 as proposed by the House and $3,088,456,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement does not include bill language as
proposed by the Senate to earmark funds to carry out subtitle
C of title XXXVI of the Children's Health Act of 2000. The
House bill contained no similar provision. The conferees
provide funding for this purpose within the Center for
Substance Abuse Prevention.
The conference agreement does not include bill language to
earmark funds for mental health providers serving public
safety workers affected by disasters of national
significance. The House bill contained no similar provision.
The conferees provide funding for this purpose within the
Center for Mental Health Services.
Center for Mental Health Services
The conference agreement includes $433,000,000 for the
mental health block grant instead of $440,000,000 as proposed
by the House and $420,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $96,694,000 for
children's mental health instead of $97,694,000 as proposed
by the House and $91,694,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $32,500,000 for
protection and advocacy instead of $33,000,000 as proposed by
the House and $32,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $230,067,000 for programs
of regional and national significance instead of $223,499,000
as proposed by the House and $208,599,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
Within the total provided, $95,000,000 is for continuation
and expansion of youth violence prevention programs.
Within the total provided, $20,000,000 is provided under
section 582 of the Public Health Service Act to support
grants to local mental health providers for the purposes of
developing knowledge of best practices and providing mental
health services to children and youth suffering from post-
traumatic stress disorder as a result of having witnessed or
experienced a traumatic event.
Within the total provided, $7,000,000 is for the Minority
HIV/AIDS initiative. These funds are to be used consistent
with language contained in the House report.
Within the total provided, $5,000,000 is to provide mental
health outreach and treatment to the elderly.
Within the total provided, $4,000,000 is for grants to
develop and implement programs to divert individuals with a
mental health illness from the criminal justice system to
community-based services and for related training and
technical assistance as authorized by section 520G of the
Public Health Service Act.
Within the total provided, $3,000,000 is to establish a
National Suicide Prevention Resource Center to provide
technical assistance in developing, implementing, and
evaluating effective suicide prevention programs. These funds
are to be used consistent with language contained in the
Senate report.
Within the total provided, $2,500,000 is for mental health
providers serving public safety workers affected by disasters
of national significance.
The conferees include the following amounts for the
following projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:
--$46,000 for Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital Association,
Hot Springs, Arkansas for a school-based student/family
psychotherapy program;
--$50,000 is for the Wisconsin Primary Healthcare
Association in Madison, Wisconsin to provide mental health
services to farm families affected by economic problems
related to agriculture;
--$100,000 is for American Trauma Society's 2nd Trauma
Program;
--$150,000 is for the Weingart Center in Los Angeles,
California to develop and expand mental health support and
long-term case management within transitional housing and
clinical programs;
--$160,000 is for the Hispanic Counseling Center in
Hempstead, New York for mental health, alcoholism, and
substance abuse treatment services;
--$172,000 is for Family Communications Inc. in Pittsburgh
for an antiviolence program entitled the National Preschool
Anger Management Project;
--$200,000 is for the Bert Nash Community Mental Health
Center in Lawrence, Kansas to provide mental health services
in schools and other settings to prevent juvenile crime and
substance abuse among high-risk youth;
--$200,000 is for the Concord-Assabet Family Services
Center for a model transitional living program for troubled
youth;
--$250,000 is for the further development, testing, and
implementation of the computerization of the Texas Medication
Algorithm Project (T-MAP) in Tarrent County, Texas;
--$250,000 is for the Texas Department of Mental Health and
Retardation for further development of Texas Medication
Algorithm Project (T-MAP)
--$350,000 is for Casa Myrna Vazquez in Boston to support
domestic violence services and related services;
--$350,000 is for Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital in East
Providence, Rhode Island for a school-based adolescent mental
health initiative;
--$400,000 is for the Corporation for Supportive Housing,
New York, New York to advise and assist supportive housing
organizations in providing mental health and substance abuse
services;
--$490,000 is for Pacific Clinics in Arcadia, California to
support a school-based mental health demonstration program
for Latina adolescents;
--$500,000 is for the Life Quest Community Mental Health
Center for its program for treatment of co-occurring
disorders among the population of Mat-Su Valley;
--$500,000 is for the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa,
Alabama for the Geriatric Mental Health Research Center;
--$650,000 is for the University of Connecticut for an
urban health initiative, jointly with Yale University, to
improve mental health services to underserved, high-risk
urban residents;
--$700,000 is for the Providence Center for Counseling and
Psychiatric Services in Providence, Rhode Island for an early
intervention preschool and parent training program;
--$800,000 is for the Mentally Ill Offender Crime Reduction
demonstration in Ventura County, California;
--$800,000 is for the Yale University, Child Study Center
to support collaborative programs aimed at addressing the
needs of children exposed to violence and based on the Child
Development-Community Policing program model;
--$850,000 is for the Iowa State University extension for
the training of rural mental health providers; and
--$1,000,000 is for the Ch'eghutsen comprehensive mental
health services program for children in Interior Alaska.
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
The conference agreement includes $291,572,000 for programs
of regional and national significance instead of $305,122,000
as proposed by the House and $276,122,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
Within the total provided, $57,000,000 is for the Minority
HIV/AIDS initiative. These funds are to be used consistent
with language contained in the House report.
Within the total provided, $9,000,000 above last year's
level is for grants to develop and expand mental health and
substance abuse treatment services for homeless individuals
as authorized by section 506 of the Public Health Service
Act. The intent of this section was to permit grants to be
made to projects which provide either mental health services,
substance abuse services, or services in both fields. This
allows communities greater flexibility to provide the
services they believe to be the most urgent. While the
resources have been included within the Center for Substance
Abuse Treatment (CSAT), the conferees believe that the most
effective outcomes will be achieved in addressing the
multiple needs of homeless individuals if CSAT and the Center
for Mental Health Services work cooperatively. The conferees
further intend that these funds could be used in conjunction
with permanent supportive housing programs for homeless
people in support of the Secretary's initiative to reduce
chronic homelessness.
Within the total provided, $10,000,000 is to expand support
of clinically based treatment and related services for adult,
juvenile, and family drug courts and individuals returning to
the community who are on probation, parole, or unsupervised
release.
Within the total provided, $3,000,000 is for the Addiction
and Technology Transfer Center program. These funds are to be
used consistent with language contained in the House report.
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The conferees urge SAMHSA to give full and fair
consideration to a proposal by the National Center on
Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
The conferees include the following amounts for the
following projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:
--$50,000 is for Recovery House in Wallingford, Vermont to
develop a day treatment program for substance abuse
counseling and other support services for pregnant women and
women with dependent children;
--$100,000 is for Haymarket West in Schaumburg, Illinois to
expand its comprehensive substance abuse treatment and
related services;
--$100,000 is for Treatment Alternatives for Safe
Communities in Chicago, Illinois for a substance abuse
treatment program;
--$100,000 is for ThedaCare Behavioral Health in Menasha,
Wisconsin to establish pilot models for expanded regional
substance abuse prevention and treatment services for youth
and families;
--$200,000 is for the Dimock Community Health Center to
support inpatient detoxification and behavioral health
programs;
--$200,000 is for the Vinland Center in Loretto, Minnesota
to offer specialized residential treatment programs for
adults with cognitive and functional impairments;
--$200,000 is for the Vermont Department of Health,
Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs for long-term
residential treatment services for adolescents with
significant substance abuse problems in Bradford, Vermont;
--$200,000 is for Lutheran Social Services in Appleton,
Wisconsin to expand alcohol abuse prevention programs for
older adults in northern Wisconsin;
--$250,000 is for the Pennington County Detention Center in
South Dakota for mental health and substance abuse treatment
services;
--$400,000 is for the WestCare Foundation, Inc. in Las
Vegas, Nevada to demonstrate and evaluate the Batterers
Intervention Demonstration project;
--$500,000 is for the Cook Inlet Tribal Council to treat
women and children with substance abuse problems in Kenai;
--$500,000 is for the Vermont Department of Health,
Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs to establish
pilot projects in Rutland and Burlington that will develop
prevention and treatment strategies for combating substance
abuse problems in urban and rural settings;
--$500,000 is for the United Community Center/Centro de la
Comunidad to establish a demonstration project integrating
substance abuse treatment programs into domestic violence
intervention and outreach programs geared toward Hispanic
women;
--$750,000 is for the Cook Inlet Tribal Council's Ernie
Turner Center to provide outpatient substance abuse
treatment;
--$750,000 is for the Fairbanks Native Association's
Lifegivers program;
--$750,000 is for the Southcentral Foundation's Pathways
Home Residential Treatment Center for Adolescent Substance
Abusers;
--$800,000 is for Diversion Alternatives, Inc. in Ft.
Worth, Texas for a comprehensive outpatient substance abuse
treatment program;
--$1,000,000 is for the San Francisco Department of Public
Health, for its model substance abuse treatment on demand
initiative; and
--$2,500,000 is for the City of Baltimore, Maryland to
expand its drug treatment services.
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
The conference agreement includes $198,140,000 for programs
of regional and national significance instead of $187,215,000
as proposed by the House and $199,013,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
Within the total provided, $38,100,000 is for the Minority
HIV/AIDS initiative. These funds are to be used consistent
with language contained in the House report.
Within the total provided, $12,500,000 is to expand efforts
to identify, disseminate, and implement effective fetal
alcohol syndrome prevention and treatment programs.
Within the total provided, $5,000,000 is to carry out the
Ecstasy Anti-Proliferation Act of 2000.
Within the total provided, $5,000,000 is for grants to
public and nonprofit entities to carry out school-based and
community-based programs concerning the dangers of
methamphetamine abuse and addiction.
The conferees urge SAMHSA to give full and fair
consideration to a proposal by the National Center on
Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
The conferees include the following amounts for the
following projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:
--$75,000 is for the Start S.M.A.R.T. Foundation in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for the development of a pilot
project to examine the optimal ways of distributing ``QED,''
a new saliva alcohol test;
--$100,000 is for the Syracuse University for the Twelve
Point for Substance Abuse Prevention program;
--$100,000 is for the Rock Island County Council on
Addictions in East Moline, Illinois for its Healthy Youth
Prevention Program;
--$150,000 is for the Palm Beach County Community Services
Department for the Free to Grow Program that provides drug
prevention services to families of pre-schoolers;
--$150,000 is for the State University of New York Upstate
Medical University for the Developmental Exposure Alcohol
Research Center;
--$250,000 is for the Northwestern Community Services Board
in Front Royal, Virginia for a Warren County Drug Initiative;
--$300,000 is for the Orleans Parish, SE Louisiana Drug
Prevention Education program for student drug testing
assessment, counseling, treatment, drug education, outreach
services and program evaluation;
--$400,000 is for the Institute for Research, Education,
and Training in Addictions in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at St.
Francis Health System to facilitate the coordination of
approaches to research, treatment and health policy
development;
--$500,000 is for Coalition for Safe and Drug Free St.
Petersburg, Inc. in St. Petersburg, Florida for a
demonstration project;
--$600,000 is for Chrysalis House, Inc. in Fayette County,
Kentucky for substance abuse prevention programs;
--$750,000 is for the Anchorage Department of Health for
drug and alcohol prevention programs to reach 50 percent of
Alaska's population;
--$800,000 is for Fenway Community Health in Boston,
Massachusetts to expand its HIV prevention, mental health,
and substance abuse programs;
--$1,200,000 is for the Ohio Prevention in Education
Resource Center in Cincinnati, Ohio for the Bridgebuilders
project; and
--$1,250,000 is for Community Health Centers in the Big
Island of Hawaii for a youth anti-drug program.
Program Management
The conference agreement includes $91,451,000 for program
management instead of $80,173,000 as proposed by the House
and $96,173,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Within the total provided, $3,278,000 is to continue
testing the effectiveness of Community Assessment and
Intervention Centers in providing integrated mental health
and substance abuse services to troubled and at-risk children
and youth, and their families in four Florida communities.
Building upon successful juvenile programs, this effort
responds directly to nationwide concerns about youth
violence, substance abuse, declining levels of service
availability and the inability of certain communities to
respond to the needs of their youth in a coordinated manner.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Healthcare Research and Quality
The conference agreement includes $2,600,000 in
appropriated funds instead of $168,435,000 as proposed by the
House and $291,245,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement designates $296,145,000 to be
available to the agency under the Public Health Service Act
one percent evaluation set-aside instead of $137,810,000 as
proposed by the House. The Senate bill contained no similar
provision.
Within the total provided, $55,000,000 is to determine ways
to reduce medical errors.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Program Management
The conference agreement includes $2,440,798,000 for
program management instead of $2,361,158,000 as proposed by
the House and $2,464,658,000 as proposed by the Senate. An
additional appropriation of $700,000,000 has been provided
for the Medicare Integrity Program through the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
Research, Demonstration, and Evaluation
The conference agreement includes $118,201,000 for
research, demonstration, and evaluation instead of
$55,311,000 as proposed by the House and $125,311,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
Within the total provided, $40,000,000 is for Real Choice
Systems Change Grants to States. These funds are to be used
consistent with language contained in the Senate report.
Within the total provided, $15,000,000 is to continue the
Nursing Home Transition Initiative.
The conferees do not concur with the Senate report language
regarding the extension of Disease State Management Programs
to Medicare demonstration projects.
The conferees have included sufficient funds to continue a
Medicare demonstration project to test the effectiveness of
using lifestyle changes to treat heart disease.
The agreement includes bill language for the following
projects and activities for fiscal year 2002:
--$100,000 is for the Regional Nursing Centers Consortium
in Philadelphia to initiate a demonstration project to
evaluate 15 nurse-managed health centers in urban and rural
areas across Pennsylvania;
--$200,000 is for the Madonna Rehabilitation Center in
Lincoln, Nebraska to create a new standard of rehabilitation
practice and program design for children and adults with
disabilities;
--$250,000 is for the Cook County, Illinois Bureau of
Health for the Asthma Champion Initiative to reduce morbidity
and mortality from asthma in high prevalence areas;
--$250,000 is for the Illinois Primary Health Care
Association to implement the Shared Integrated Management
Information System providing centralized case management,
reimbursement and administrative support services;
--$500,000 is for Project Access in Muskegon, Michigan to
offer affordable insurance to uninsured workers, primarily in
small business, and low-income individuals;
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--$590,000 is for Santa Clara County, California for the
outreach and application assistance aspects of its Children's
Health Initiative, to demonstrate means of expanding
enrollment of eligible children in Medicaid, SCHIP and other
available health care programs;
--$800,000 is for the Fishing Partnership Health Plan,
based in Boston, Massachusetts for a demonstration project on
the efficacy of using a community-based health benefit
program to provide health care coverage for lower-income
independently employed workers and their families;
--$800,000 is to continue a demonstration project being
conducted at the Mind-Body Institute of Boston,
Massachusetts, and expand the demonstration so that eligible
patients shall also include those who have undergone coronary
bypass surgery or angioplasty and do not have reduced blood
flow to the heart, and/or angina;
--$900,000 is for the Children's Hospice International
demonstration program to provide a continuum of care for
children with life-threatening conditions and their families;
--$1,500,000 is for the Iowa Department of Public Health
for the continuation of a prescription drug cooperative
demonstration; and
--$2,000,000 is for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in Los
Angeles for a demonstration of residential and outpatient
treatment facilities.
Medicare Contractors
The conference agreement includes $1,534,500,000 for
Medicare contractors instead of $1,522,000,000 as proposed by
the House and $1,547,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Within the total provided, $52,000,000 is for the
Medicare+Choice information campaign and $12,500,000 is to
support grants for State Health Insurance Counseling and
Assistance programs.
State Survey and Certification
The conference agreement includes $256,397,000 for State
survey and certification instead of $252,147,000 as proposed
by the House and $260,647,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Federal Administration
The conference agreement includes $531,700,000 for Federal
administration as proposed by both the House and the Senate.
The conferees understand that CMS is developing a
comprehensive regulation establishing a new fee schedule for
ambulance payments as required by the Balanced Budget Act of
1997. The conferees believe it is equally important to
implement condition codes and urge CMS to do so
simultaneously with the new fee schedule.
The conferees are aware of underpayment to certain
hospitals that treat newborns with life threatening
respiratory diseases and encourage CMS to implement a
methodology to reimburse hospitals for inhaled nitric oxide
treatment for neonatal hypoxic respiratory failure.
The conferees strongly concur with Senate report language
regarding the Medicaid upper payment limit agreement that was
included in the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency
Supplemental Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001.
Administration for Children and Families
Low Income Home Energy Assistance
The conference agreement specifies that the contingency
funds are for the unanticipated home energy assistance needs
of one or more States, consistent with language contained in
the House bill. The Senate bill did not include such a
provision.
The conference agreement specifies that the contingency
funds shall be made available only after submission to the
Congress of an official budget request as proposed by the
Senate, instead of a formal budget request as proposed by the
House.
The conferees note that the amount provided by the Congress
in the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2001 was
$150,000,000 more than requested by the Administration
because of serious concerns about low-income households which
had experienced significant increases in their home heating
costs during the harsh winter of the past year. In addition,
many States exhausted their LIHEAP allocations as the program
served one million households more than it had in the
previous year. The conferees are concerned that the
combination of circumstances, according to objective data
sources, has left many low income households with utility
debts at levels considerably higher than the previous year,
while applications for this coming heating season are coming
in at rates significantly higher than last year. Therefore,
the conferees encourage the Administration to release funds
to reduce the energy burden on low income households
throughout the nation. The conferees recognize that the
contingency fund was authorized to meet the additional home
energy assistance needs of one or more States arising from a
natural disaster or other emergency, which includes a
significant increase in the cost of home energy, a
significant increase in home energy disconnections or a
significant increase in unemployment, layoffs, or the number
of households applying for unemployment benefits. The
conferees understand that the latest Department of Labor
employment data indicate the unemployment rate has risen
almost one full percentage point in the last two months,
while payroll employment has fallen by almost 800,000.
Refugee and Entrant Assistance
The conference agreement appropriates $460,203,000, instead
of $460,224,000 as proposed by the House and $445,224,000
proposed by the Senate. Within this amount, for Social
Services, the agreement provides $158,600,000 instead of
$156,621,000 as proposed by the House and $143,621,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The conferees specify that funds for section 414 of the
Immigration and Nationality Act shall be available for three
fiscal years, as proposed by the House.
The conference agreement includes $15,000,000 that is to be
used under social services to increase educational support to
schools with a significant proportion of refugee children,
consistent with language contained in the House report.
The agreement also includes $19,000,000 for increased
support to communities with large concentrations of refugees
whose cultural differences make assimilation especially
difficult justifying a more intense level and longer duration
of Federal assistance, consistent with language contained in
the House report.
Child Care and Development Block Grant
The conference agreement includes $2,099,994,000 for the
Child Care and Development Block Grant, instead of
$2,199,987,000 as proposed by the House and $2,000,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate. Within the funds provided for child
care resources and referrals, the agreement also includes
$1,000,000 for the Child-Care Aware toll-free hotline
operated by the National Association of Child Care Resource
and Referral Agencies.
Social Services Block Grant
The conference agreement provides that States may transfer
up to 10 percent of TANF funds to SSBG as proposed by the
House. The Senate proposed a transfer amount of 5.7 percent.
Children and Families Services Programs
(including rescissions)
The conference agreement includes $8,429,183,000 for
children and families services programs instead of
$8,275,442,000 as proposed by the House and $8,592,496,000 as
proposed by the Senate. In addition, the agreement rescinds
$21,000,000 from permanent appropriations as proposed by both
the House and the Senate.
Head Start
The conference agreement includes $6,537,906,000 for Head
Start instead of $6,475,812,000 as proposed by the House and
$6,600,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement
includes an advance appropriation of $1,400,000,000 for Head
Start for fiscal year 2003 as proposed by both the House and
the Senate.
Runaway Youth
The conference agreement includes $88,133,000 for runaway
youth instead of $105,133,000 as proposed by the Senate and
$71,133,000 as proposed by the House. Within the funds
provided, $39,739,900 is available for the transitional
living program (TLP). The conference agreement includes these
additional resources to meet the needs of young people in
need of services.
The Administration proposed $33,000,000 for a separate
transitional living program designed to serve pregnant and
parenting youth. The conferees are aware of the need for and
share the Administration's interest in funding residential
services for young mothers and their children who are
unable to live with their own families because of abuse,
neglect, or other circumstances. The conferees also
recognize the need for and value of expanding transitional
living opportunities for all homeless youth. Therefore,
the conferees seek to preserve the flexibility afforded in
current law to respond to the needs of the young people
who are most at-risk and in greatest need of transitional
living opportunities in their communities by providing
additional resources to consolidated runaway and homeless
youth act programs.
It is the conferees' expectation that current and future
TLP grantees will continue to provide transitional living
opportunities and supports to pregnant and parenting homeless
youth, as is their current practice. To further ensure that
pregnant and parenting homeless youth are able to access
transitional living opportunities and supports in their
communities, the conferees encourage the Secretary, acting
through the network of federally-funded runaway and homeless
youth training and technical assistance providers, to offer
guidance to grantees and others on the programmatic
modifications required to address the unique needs of
pregnant and parenting youth and on the various sources of
funding available for residential services to this
population.
Child abuse
The conference agreement includes $22,013,000 for child
abuse state grants, instead of $23,000,000 as proposed by the
House and $21,026,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
agreement also includes $26,178,000 for child abuse
discretionary programs instead of $19,978,000 as proposed by
the House and $33,717,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within
the funds provided for child abuse prevention programs, the
agreement includes the following items:
Agape of Central Alabama, Inc., Montgomery, AL, for their work with
the children in need..........................................$45,000
Alameda County Social Services Agency for the Alternative Response
System........................................................440,000
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Alaska Native Health Board and the State of Alaska to develop and
implement statewide child abuse prevention and treatment plan for
Alaska Native children and parents............................450,000
Center for Women and Families, Louisville, KY, for child abuse
prevention....................................................300,000
Child Advocacy Center of the Ozarks, Inc., Monett, MO, for equipm50,000
Cornerstone Advocacy Service in Bloomington, MN, to provide
prevention and education services to children and adults who are
survivors of domestic violence................................300,000
Family and Children's Services for a child abuse prevention prog400,000
Family social service provider in Yellowstone County, MT, to deliver
early intervention services to at-risk families including the
provision of family social services...........................400,000
Farm Resource Center, Mound City, IL, for mental health and
substance abuse outreach to farm families.....................600,000
Healthy Families/Better Beginnings home visiting program for State
of AK and regional Native non-profit organizations..........2,000,000
Little Flower Children Services facility, Wading, NY, for a
comprehensive child abuse prevention and remediation program..800,000
Missouri Bootheel Healthy Start to implement community-based
education interventions.......................................500,000
Ohel Family Services in Brooklyn, NY, to provide intensive
treatment, crisis intervention, in-home support and rehabilitation
services to abused and neglected children in foster care......275,000
Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana to train teachers in the Greater New
Orleans area on how to recognize and report child abuse cases
among their students..........................................200,000
Project SafePlace in Louisville to conduct a demonstration project
serving at-risk youth in Kentucky.............................150,000
Safe Harbor Crisis Nursery, Kennewick, WA, for child abuse
prevention....................................................200,000
University of Notre Dame to develop model intervention effort to
help prevent child neglect and abuse..........................220,000
The conference agreement includes $7,498,000 for child
welfare training, instead of $6,998,000 as proposed by the
House and $7,998,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Adoption Awareness
The conference agreement includes $12,906,000 for adoption
awareness as proposed by the Senate instead of $9,906,000 as
proposed by the House. The conference agreement includes
$3,000,000 above the budget request to implement the Special
Needs Awareness Campaign in fiscal year 2002.
Compassion Capital Fund
The conference agreement includes $30,000,000 for the
compassion capital fund as proposed by the House instead of
$89,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. This new program is
part of the Administration's Faith Based Initiative. Funds
available for this program will be used for grants to public/
private partnerships that help small faith-based and
community-based organizations replicate or expand model
social services programs. The conferees also intend that
funding be used to support and promote rigorous evaluations
on the ``best practices'' among charitable organizations so
that successful models can be emulated and expanded by other
entities. The conferees expect funds made available through
this program to supplement and not supplant private resources
and encourage the Secretary to require private resources to
match grant funding provided to public/private partnerships.
Social Services and Income Maintenance Research
The conference agreement includes $31,250,000 for social
services and income maintenance research instead of
$27,000,000 as proposed by the House and $27,426,000 as
proposed by the Senate. The conferees continue to support the
agency's efforts to assist States in meeting the complex
information and systems reporting requirements of TANF and
have provided $1,000,000 to continue this initiative. The
State Information Technology Consortium is coordinating this
effort. Given the success of this effort, the conferees
believe that there can be better coordination of child
support enforcement activities. The flow of information
between Federal and State agencies and the court system
continues to be a critical factor in the success of the Child
Support Enforcement program. While some States have succeeded
in implementing seamless, cost-effective processes for
information-sharing among their human service agencies and
the courts, others have not. The conferees have included
$2,000,000 to expand this ongoing initiative so that the
State Information Technology Consortium can identify and
widely disseminate methods for improving the flow of
information between agencies and the court system. The
conferees also provide sufficient funding for the following:
Metropolitan Family Services for a demonstration project encouraging
more involved fathers........................................$400,000
Montana Child Care Financing Demonstration......................200,000
National Center for Appropriate Technology in Butte, MT.........150,000
University of Georgia to evaluate the feasibility of creating a
commission to carry out a comprehensive program of economic and
human resource development in the Southern Black Belt.........250,000
University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc., for a National
Center on Child Welfare Training Evaluation...................250,000
Community Services
The conference agreement includes $33,417,000 for community
based resource centers, instead of $34,000,000 as proposed by
the House and $32,834,000 as proposed by the Senate.
For Developmental Disabilities, the conference agreement
includes $35,000,000 for protection and advocacy services as
proposed by the Senate instead of $34,000,000 as proposed by
the House. It also includes $11,734,000 for special projects
as proposed by the Senate instead of $10,734,000 as proposed
by the House. For university affiliated programs, the
agreement includes $24,000,000 as proposed by the Senate
instead of $21,800,000 as proposed by the House.
The conference agreement includes $45,946,000 for Native
Americans, instead of $44,396,000 as proposed by the House
and $45,996,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conferees
recommend that the Administration on Native Americans
increase support for Native Hawaiian educational programs
which enhance their ability to participate effectively in the
governmental process. Within the total the conferees provide
funding for the following:
Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc.................................$350,000
Kawerak, Inc....................................................150,000
Tanana Chiefs Conference in interior Alaska.....................250,000
The conference agreement includes $650,000,000 for the
community services block grant instead of $620,000,000 as
proposed by the House and $675,000,000 as proposed by the
Senate. The conference agreement includes bill language
stipulating that all local entities that are in good standing
in the community services block grant program shall receive
an increase in funding for the next program year that is
proportionate to the overall increase in the appropriation
provided for the block grant. The conference agreement also
includes bill language proposed by the Senate that clarifies
that the community economic development grant funds may be
used to finance construction and rehabilitation.
The conference agreement also includes $32,517,000 for
economic development, instead of $30,034,000 as proposed by
the House and $35,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
conferees also set aside $5,500,000 within the community
economic development program for the job creation
demonstration authorized under the Family Support Act. The
conference agreement also includes $7,000,000 for the rural
community facilities program described in the House and
Senate reports, as proposed by the Senate, instead of
$5,321,000 as proposed by the House.
For National Youth Sports, the agreement includes
$17,000,000 as proposed by the House instead of $16,000,000
as proposed by the Senate. For the community food program,
the agreement includes $7,314,000 as proposed by the Senate
instead of $6,000,000 as proposed by the House.
The conference agreement also includes $124,459,000 for
Battered Women's Shelters instead of $126,918,000 as proposed
by the House and $122,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. For
the Early Learning Fund, the agreement includes $25,000,000
as proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not include
funding for this program. The agreement also includes
$1,500,000 for the Faith Based Center instead of $3,000,000
as proposed by the House. The Senate bill did not include
funding for this program.
promoting safe and stable families
The conference agreement appropriates funds for promoting
safe and stable families under subpart 2 of part B of title
IV of the Social Security Act, as proposed by the House. The
Senate proposed providing funds under section 430 of the
Social Security Act.
payments to states for foster care and adoption assistance
The conference agreement includes $6,621,500,000 as
proposed by the House instead of $6,621,100,000 as proposed
by the Senate.
Administration on Aging
aging services programs
The conference agreement includes $1,199,814,000 for aging
services programs instead of $1,144,832,000 as proposed by
the House and $1,209,756,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $357,000,000 for
supportive centers, instead of $327,075,000 as proposed by
the House and $366,500,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
agreement also includes $21,123,000 for preventive health
services as proposed by the
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House instead of $22,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
conferees intend that $5,000,000 be made available from
preventive health services for activities regarding
medication management, screening, and education to prevent
incorrect medication and adverse drug reactions.
The conference agreement also includes $17,681,000 for
ombusdsman/elder abuse prevention activities, instead of
$14,181,000 as proposed by the House and $18,181,000 as
proposed by the Senate. The agreement also includes
$141,500,000 for family caregivers, instead of $137,000,000
as proposed by the House and $146,000,000 as proposed by the
Senate. Within the funds provided for family caregivers,
the agreement includes $5,500,000 for Native American
caregivers. The Senate bill provided $6,000,000 for this
purpose.
The conference agreement includes $390,000,000 for
congregate meals, instead of $396,000,000 as proposed by the
House and $384,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
conference agreement includes $176,500,000 for home delivered
meals, instead of $176,000,000 as proposed by the House and
$177,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also
includes $25,729,000 for grants to Indians instead of
$25,457,000 as proposed by the House and $26,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The agreement includes $38,280,000 for aging research and
demonstrations instead of $19,100,000 as proposed by the
House and $36,574,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the
funds, the conferees have included sufficient funding for an
osteoporosis prevention education program aimed at post-
menopausal women. The conferees also include the following
amounts under aging research and training:
Adult Day Care of Winchester, Winchester, VA, to provide adult day
care for individuals with Alzheimer's disease................$150,000
Allegheny County Homestead Apartments LIFE Center...............300,000
Alzheimer's Family Day Center, Falls Church, VA, to provide adult
day care for individuals with Alzheimer's disease.............250,000
Area Agency on Aging of Southeast Arkansas, Inc., for demonstration
project for non-Medicaid eligible elderly.....................500,000
Area Agency on Aging of Southwest Arkansas for family care-giving
research project..............................................231,000
Champlain Senior Center in Burlington, VT, to support its efforts to
help low-income seniors remain independent and active for as long
as possible through the use of technology.....................100,000
Civic Ventures for Experience Corps initiative for older adults to
mentor young people...........................................800,000
Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups in Madison, WI, to provide
assistance and education to the legal community and the public
about elder financial abuse...................................136,000
Comprehensive Housing Assistance, Inc., Baltimore, MD, for
demonstration project on Naturally Occurring Retirement
Communities to the Baltimore Jewish Naturally Occurring Retirement
Community...................................................1,000,000
Council of Senior Centers and Services of NYC for ACCESS to
BENE*FITS Demonstration Project................................75,000
DuPage County Human Services Department, Wheaton, IL, ``Elder Abuse
and Neglect Program''.........................................100,000
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, for Anne and Louis
Green Alzheimer's Care and Research Center..................1,000,000
Florida International University, Miami, FL, National Policy and
Research Center on Nutrition and Aging ``Nutrition 2030 progra500,000
Garrett County Area Agency on Aging to increase access to nutrition
services for rural seniors.....................................25,000
Guadelupe Community Center, Los Angeles, CA, for a demonstration
project on delivery of outreach services to the elderly, including
non-English speaking seniors..................................440,000
Hmong Mutual Assistance Association in La Crosse, WI, to provide
employment, social, economic and educational assistance to elder
Hmong refugees................................................127,000
Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, Bronx, NY, for research
involving the use of music to assist individuals suffering from
stroke, dementia, Alzheimer's.................................500,000
INTEGRIS health system in Oklahoma for technology centers that
seniors could utilize for health education and community
interaction...................................................100,000
Iowa Department of Elder Affairs Seamless System to integrate senior
programs. In administering this award, the AoA and CMS should
provide the technical assistance and related support necessary to
develop and implement program changes.......................1,500,000
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, for the universal kitchen design
project to develop technologies for independent living for
individuals with disabilities.................................200,000
Jewish Association on Aging, Pittsburgh, for a demonstration project
on Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities.................200,000
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia for a
demonstration project on Naturally Occurring Retirement
Communities...................................................200,000
Jewish Federation of St. Louis to establish a Naturally Occurring
Retirement Communities (NORCs) demonstration project providing
supportive services to seniors..............................1,280,000
Mecklenburg County, NC, Nutrition 2000 program to help provide
nutritional care for homebound frail senior citizens........1,000,000
National Center for Seniors' Housing Research to enable the elderly
to live independently.........................................475,000
Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities, Cleveland, OH, for a
demonstration program.......................................1,000,000
Oregon Health Sciences University for Healthy Aging Project.....450,000
Rebuilding Together with Christmas in April to rehabilitate the
homes of the low income elderly...............................500,000
Senior Community Centers of San Diego for the Health Promotion/Harm
Reduction Demonstration Project................................90,000
Senior Specialists Agency on Aging of West Central Arkansas for
research on services to the aging.............................455,000
Social Research into Alzheimer's disease care options, best
practices and other Alzheimer's research priorities as specified
in the House Report.........................................3,685,000
SPRY Foundation to develop web-based resources and training programs
to help seniors access high-quality information and caregiver
support services..............................................367,000
Texas Tech Institute University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX,
for the Institute for Healthy Aging.........................1,000,000
The Motion Picture and Television Fund, in partnership with the
University of Southern California's Andrus School of Gerontology,
for the Eden Alternative demonstration project that seeks to
improve quality of care and life for seniors residing in nursing
homes and assisted living facilities..........................100,000
Tri-County Community Action Program, Berlin, NH, for demonstration
project........................................................50,000
Wayne County, MI, demonstration project to enhance services to the
elderly, including dementia patients, and to serve ethnic grou800,000
Westchester County Department of Senior Programs and Services for a
Senior Outreach to Senior program..............................20,000
Office of the Secretary
general departmental management
The conference agreement includes $347,554,000 for general
departmental management instead of $338,887,000 as proposed
by the House and $422,212,000 as proposed by the Senate. In
addition, the agreement provides $21,552,000 in program
evaluation funds as proposed by the House. The Senate did not
provide for evaluation funds in this account.
Within the total provided, $4,000,000 is for the United
States-Mexico Border Health Commission as proposed by the
Senate. The House did not specify an amount for the
Commission.
The conference agreement includes $500,000 for the National
Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine (NAS/IOM) to
develop a cost-effective strategy for reducing and preventing
underage drinking. The House had included funds for a similar
purpose within the appropriation for the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration, while the Senate bill
included funds for this purpose in this account.
To help develop a cost-effective strategy for reducing and
preventing underage drinking, the NAS/IOM shall review
existing Federal, State and non-governmental programs,
including media-based programs, designed to change the
attitudes and health behaviors of youth. Based on its review,
the NAS/IOM shall produce a strategy designed to prevent and
reduce underage drinking including: an outline and
implementation strategy, message points that will be
effective in changing the attitudes and health behaviors of
youth concerning underage drinking, target audience
identification, goals and objectives of the campaign, and the
estimated costs of development and implementation. The review
and recommendations of the NAS/IOM shall be reported to the
Committees on Appropriations of the Congress, the Secretary
of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Education, and
the U.S. Attorney General no later than nine months after the
date of enactment of this Act.
The conferees have heard concerns from state and local
health departments and community-based organizations about
the lack
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of availability of rapid HIV tests to identify individuals
with HIV disease. Rapid HIV tests are needed for increasing
the number of HIV-infected individuals who know they are
infected; for screening pregnant women in labor to prevent
transmission to their infants; for screening potential
recipients of smallpox or other live-virus vaccines against
potential agents of bioterrorism; and for emergency screening
of blood transfusions in the event of large-scale terrorist
attack. The conferees strongly encourage the Secretary to
expedite approval and make available simple, rapid HIV
diagnostic tests for use by a variety of health and
community-based personnel.
The conferees concur with language in the House report
regarding the coordination of men's health activities.
The conferees concur with language in the Senate report
regarding the ongoing research supported by the Office of
Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of
Health concerning ephedra and the corresponding language
relating to FDA rulemaking. The conferees urge the Secretary
to work with FDA and ODS to resolve this rulemaking matter
expeditiously so that the millions of Americans who use these
weight loss products can continue to do so responsibly.
Several states, such as Ohio in 1997 and Nebraska as recently
as 2001, have already taken action to put in place clear and
science-based regulatory parameters in an effort to preserve
consumer access and safeguard public health by precluding the
sale of ephedrine products marketed as street drug
alternatives. The conferees urge the Secretary to work with
industry and to take an active role in this regulatory
process and to ensure that any interim actions as well as the
final rule establish appropriate rules based on science. The
conferees also urge industry to share with the Department all
data from clinical studies with ephedra.
The conferees are concerned about the growing shortages of
qualified healthcare workers, particularly in underserved
rural and urban areas. The problem is at once an educational
issue, a labor issue, and a healthcare issue. The conferees
urge the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of
Labor and the Secretary of Education, to convene a high level
task force to develop both immediate and longer-term
solutions to these shortages. The conferees expect the
Secretary to be prepared to discuss this issue and the status
of the task force during the fiscal year 2003 budget
hearings.
The conferees are aware that patients who suffer terminal
illnesses face severe and excruciating pain. For such
patients, palliative care is essential. The conferees are
concerned that, although palliative care is well-established
in many other countries, most of the American public and many
health care professionals still know little about it. The
conferees urge the Secretary to work with organizations like
the American Medical Association and the American Board of
Hospice and Palliative Medicine, to disseminate appropriate
information to health care professionals and the public.
The conferees note that it has been seven years since
enactment of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act
and the Department has yet to promulgate good manufacturing
practices regulations as called for under the Act. These
regulations are crucial for consumer protection. The
conferees strongly urge the Secretary to publish these
regulations within 15 days of enactment of this Act.
The conference agreement includes $500,000 to augment the
resources of the Office of General Counsel for enforcement of
violations of DSHEA's labeling and content requirements as
recommended by the Senate. The House had no similar
provision.
The conferees understand the White House Commission on
Complementary and Alternative Medicine will release its final
report early in 2002. The conferees urge the Secretary to
form a coordinating unit to review the Commission's report
and implement ways to better coordinate the Department's many
CAM-related activities.
Within the total, the agreement includes funds above the
request for the Department's Information Collection Review
and Analysis System as proposed by the House.
The conference agreement includes $1,000,000 to launch a
public awareness campaign to inform Americans about the
existence of spare embryos and options for couples to adopt
an embryo or embryos in order to bear children, as proposed
by the Senate. The House had no similar provision. The
conferees further direct that the Secretary prepare and
submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations by April
1, 2002, outlining the Department's plans and timeline to
launch this campaign.
The conferees encourage the Secretary, in conjunction with
the CDC and relevant NIH institutes, to work with interested
members of the physician community to provide nationwide
access to a physician-only multi-media internet site. The
conferees are aware of such sites with webcast experience,
media response capability, and original content developed by
nationally recognized medical faculty. Access to this web-
based technology, which should function in conjunction with
Federal health agencies' information systems, will allow the
nation's primary care providers to receive important Federal
health news and alerts as well as up to date information on
treatment protocols for biological threats.
The conferees are aware of a proposal to develop a
Prescription Drug Surveillance System using independent,
real-time pharmaceutical transaction data. The conferees
encourage the Secretary to consider this proposal.
It has come to the conferees' attention that a number of
experts believe that more needs to be done in the area of
tissue engineering, including the development of a national
strategy. The conferees urge the Secretary to consider
developing such a national strategy, one that includes
collaborative research and entrepreneurship. The conferees
further urge the Secretary to consider using the
scientific expertise at the National Institute of
Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to execute the
strategy and encourage consideration of the establishment
of a Center for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative
Medicine through the Institute's extramural research
program.
The agreement provides $28,931,000 for the adolescent
family life program instead of $27,862,000 as proposed by the
House and $30,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
agreement includes bill language earmarking $11,885,000 under
the adolescent family life program for activities specified
under section 2003(b)(2) of the Public Health Service Act, of
which $10,157,000 shall be for prevention grants under
section 510(b)(2) of Title V of the Social Security Act,
without application of the limitation of section 2010(c) of
Title XX of the Public Health Service Act. The conference
agreement includes funds above the request to expand efforts
in providing care services.
The agreement provides $49,584,000 for minority health,
instead of $43,084,000 as proposed by the House and the
Senate. The conferees urge the Secretary, where appropriate,
to incorporate the out-year costs of fiscal year 2002 program
initiatives in the operating divisions as recommended by the
House.
The conferees concur with the House recommendation
regarding the importance of OMH partnerships with minority
health professions institutions. Specifically, the conferees
urge the Office to continue its successful cooperative
agreement with Meharry Medical College. In addition, the
conferees urge the OMH to give priority consideration to
partnering with the Morehouse School of Medicine. In
addition, the conferees urge the Office to retain Central
State University as the managing institution for the Family
Community Violence Prevention program. Also, the conferees
encourage the Office of Minority Health to work with
Morehouse College of Atlanta, Georgia and a consortium of
historically black colleges and universities to undertake the
planning and design phase of the National Minority Male
Project. The conferees also urge that during the
implementation phase of the project, the Office reach out and
involve as many interested minority institutions as possible.
The agreement provides $26,819,000 for the office of
women's health instead of $26,769,000 as proposed by the
House and $27,396,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
conferees urge the Secretary, where appropriate, to
incorporate the out-year costs of fiscal year 2002 program
initiatives in the operating divisions as recommended by the
House.
The agreement includes $1,000,000 to commission a Surgeon
General's report on osteoporosis and related bone diseases,
detailing the burden bone disease places on society and
highlighting preventive measures to improve and maintain bone
health throughout life as proposed by the Senate. The House
included no similar provision.
The agreement does not include $68,700,000 for bioterrorism
within this account as proposed by the Senate. Instead, funds
for bioterrorism preparedness and response are provided
within the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund
as proposed by the House.
Within the total provided, $50,000,000 is for minority HIV/
AIDS Initiative as proposed by the House and Senate. The
conferees concur with the House report regarding the purposes
and uses of these funds. The agreement deletes bill language
included by the House requiring the Secretary to submit an
operating plan prior to the obligation of these funds,
because the conferees expect this information to be included
in the general operating plan to be submitted by the
Department. The Senate had no similar provision.
The agreement includes $21,998,000 for the IT Security and
Innovation Fund, instead of $25,000,000 as proposed by the
House and $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conferees include the amounts for the following
projects and activities in fiscal year 2002 listed below. The
conferees direct that none of these project funds be
transferred to either the National Institutes of Health or
the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
For the Community Transportation Association of America to provide
technical assistance to human services transportation providers on
ADA requirements...........................................$1,000,000
For the ARCH National Resource Center on Respite and Crisis Services
in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to expand training, technical
assistance, evaluation and networking expertise in respite car200,000
Within the Office of Minority Health for Access Community Health
Network in Maywood/Chicago Heights IL to expand its women's health
programs......................................................100,000
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Within the Office of Minority Health for Padres Contra El Cancer in
Los Angeles to expand patient education programs and family
support services for Latino children with cancer..............200,000
Within the Office of Minority Health for Sisters Network, Inc. in
Houston, Texas, for an educational and outreach program on breast
cancer targeted to African-American women.....................150,000
Within the Office of Minority Health for the Baltimore City Health
Department to provide HIV/AIDS testing, counseling, and prevention
programs for high-risk persons................................500,000
Within the Office of Minority Health for the San Francisco
Department of Public Health, to expand and support San Francisco
General Hospital's capacity to provide HIV care and related
services with an emphasis on providing care for women and
minorities....................................................650,000
Within the Office of Minority Health for the Cleveland Clinic
Foundation, Cleveland, OH, for the development of community-based
programs and support of public education and outreach activities
on sarcoidosis and minority health..........................2,000,000
Within the Office of Minority Health for the AIDS Foundation of
Chicago, Illinois, for projects related to HIV/AIDS prevention and
treatment in minority and disadvantaged communities...........500,000
Within the Office of Minority Health for the Thomas Jefferson
University Hospital in Philadelphia, to create a Chinese language
and culture Primary Health Care Center where members of the
community can gain access to desperately needed linguistically
competent and culturally sensitive health care services.....1,500,000
Within the Office of Minority Health for the Glaucoma Caucus
Foundation to provide glaucoma screening and outreach activiti500,000
Within the Office of Minority Health for the University of Medicine
and Dentistry in NJ to focus research on key health areas that
disproportionately affect minority populations, and to educate and
train minority health providers...............................200,000
Within the Office of Minority Health for the County of San Diego to
provide treatment to TB patients along the Mexican border with
California....................................................200,000
Within the Office of Women's Health for the Adelphi Breast Cancer
Hotline and Support Program for counseling services and to address
psycho-social issues associated with breast cancer.............50,000
Office of Inspector General
The conference agreement includes $35,786,000 for the
Office of Inspector General as proposed by the House and
Senate. The conferees do not include language proposed by the
House to limit the amount of funds available to the Inspector
General in fiscal year 2002 under the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to not
more than $130,000,000. The Senate bill contained no similar
provision.
The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the
Senate authorizing the use of funds for the hire of vehicles
for investigations. The House bill had no similar provision.
In addition, the agreement deletes language proposed by the
Senate permanently authorizing the use of funds to provide
protective services to the Secretary and to investigate non-
payment of child support cases for which non-payment is a
federal offense. Like the House bill, the agreement includes
language providing this authority for one year.
The conferees request the Inspector General to conduct an
audit of all federal amounts and activities allocated for
AIDS prevention programs in the Act and to report its
findings to the Congress.
Policy Research
The conference agreement includes $2,500,000 for policy
research as proposed by the House, instead of $20,500,000 as
proposed by the Senate. The agreement also includes language
proposed by the House providing authority to the Secretary to
utilize evaluation funds available under section 241 of the
Public Health Service Act. The conferees understand that this
authority, along with the $2,500,000 in appropriated funds,
will yield a program level of at least $20,500,000 in fiscal
year 2002.
The conference agreement also includes language proposed by
the House requiring the Secretary to comply with section 205
of this Act before utilizing section 241 funds to support
Policy Research activities. The Senate bill contained no
similar provision. In addition, the conferees are aware that
the national poverty center grant expired on June 30, 2001,
and expect the Secretary to hold a national competition to
award a new five-year grant or grants. This agreement
includes sufficient funds to continue to support one or more
national poverty research centers on a competitive basis.
Within the funds available, $7,125,000 is to continue to
study the outcomes of welfare reform and to assess the
impacts of policy changes on the low-income population. The
conferees recommend that this effort include the collection
and use of state-specific surveys, state and federal
administration data, and data administratively linking the
National Database of New Hires, other child support
enforcement data, TANF and Medicaid records together. These
studies should focus on assessing the well-being of the low
income population, developing and reporting reliable and
comparable state-by-state measures of family hardship and
well-being, the utilization of other support programs and the
impact of child support enforcement efforts. These studies
should continue to measure outcomes for a broad population of
current, former and potential welfare recipients, as well as
other special populations affected by state TANF policies.
The conferees further expect these studies to analyze how the
earnings of custodial and non-custodial parents who are, or
have had children who are, current or former welfare
recipients have changed over time and whether the pattern is
significantly different among states. The conferees request a
report on these topics to be submitted to House and Senate
Appropriations Committees by May 1, 2002.
PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES EMERGENCY FUND
The conference agreement includes $242,949,000 for the
Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund instead of
$300,619,000 as proposed by the House. The Senate provided
$181,919,000 within the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and $68,700,000 within General Departmental
Management for these activities.
The amount provided includes $181,919,000 for the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention for the following
bioterrorism and related activities:
--$2,000,000 to continue to discover, develop, and
transition anti-infective agents to combat emerging diseases;
--$18,040,000 for the third year of a collaborative
research program on the anthrax vaccine;
--$34,000,000 for a national health alert network; and
--$127,879,000 for all other activities.
The remaining $61,030,000 is for the Office of Emergency
Preparedness for bioterrorism-related activities.
General Provisions
NIH and SAMHSA Salary Cap
The conference agreement includes a modified provision
limiting the use of the National Institutes of Health, the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration funds to pay
the salary of an individual, through a grant or other
extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess of Level I of the
Executive Schedule.
Evaluation Tap
The conference agreement includes a provision to allow for
not more than a 1.25 percent evaluation tap pursuant to
section 241 of the Public Health Service Act. The House bill
contained a provision to allow for a one percent evaluation
tap and the Senate bill contained a provision to allow for an
evaluation tap of not more than two percent.
Transfer Authority
The conference agreement includes modified language to
provide general transfer authority for the Department of
Health and Human Services. The language limits the amount an
appropriation can be increased by a transfer to not more than
three percent as proposed by the Senate instead of ten
percent as proposed by the House. The language also allows an
appropriation to be increased by an additional two percent
subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations.
Extension of Certain Adjudication Provisions
The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by
the Senate to extend the refugee status for persecuted
religious groups. The House bill contained no similar
provision.
CDC International Authority
The conference agreement includes a modified provision to
provide authority to support CDC carrying out international
HIV/AIDS and other infectious and chronic disease activities
abroad.
Division of Federal Occupational Health
The conference agreement includes a provision to allow the
Division of Federal Occupational Health to use personal
services contracting to employ professional management/
administrative and occupational health professionals as a
general provision as proposed by the House. The Senate bill
contained a similar provision within the Health Resources and
Services Administration.
NIH Obligations
The conference agreement does not include a provision
proposed by the House to limit NIH obligations. The Senate
bill contained no similar provision.
NIH Acting Director
The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by
the Senate to allow the NIH Acting Director to remain in that
position until a new Director of NIH is confirmed
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by the Senate. The House bill contained no similar provision.
Global HIV/AIDS Transfer Fund
The conference agreement does not include a provision
proposed by the Senate to transfer funds from the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and NIH
Buildings and Facilities to International Assistance
Programs, ``Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and
Tuberculosis'' as a general provision. The agreement provides
for this transfer within the individual accounts as proposed
by the House.
Enforcement of Labeling Provisions of the Dietary Supplement Health and
Education Act of 1994
The conference agreement does not include a provision
proposed by the Senate to earmark funds for the Office of the
General Counsel to provide legal support for enforcement of
the labeling provisions of the Dietary Supplement Health and
Education Act of 1994. The House bill contained no similar
provision. The agreement addresses this issue under General
Departmental Management.
Sense of the Senate Regarding Good Manufacturing Practices
The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the
Senate provision regarding good manufacturing practices. The
House bill contained no similar provision.
Federal Use of AIDS Prevention Funds
The conference agreement does not include a provision
proposed by the Senate to require the Inspector General to
audit all Federal amounts allocated to AIDS Prevention
programs. The House bill contained no similar provision.
Sense of the Senate Regarding Hospital Reimbursement
The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the
Senate provision regarding reimbursement of certain hospitals
testing and treating individuals for exposure to anthrax. The
House bill contained no similar provision. The conferees
encourage the Department to assist and fairly compensate
hospitals and other health providers that respond to
emergency public health threats.
Sense of the Senate Regarding Lead Poisoning Screening and Medicaid
The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the
Senate provision regarding lead poisoning screenings and
treatments under the Medicaid program. The House bill
contained no similar provision. The conferees encourage CMS
to work with medical providers to ensure that all eligible
children receive a lead poison screening and appropriate
treatment as required by the Medicaid program.
Sense of the Senate Regarding Lead Poisoning Screening and SCHIP
The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the
Senate provision regarding lead poisoning screenings and
treatments under the SCHIP program. The House bill contained
no similar provision. The conferees encourage the Department
to consider expanding SCHIP to allow funds to be used for
lead poison screenings.
Sense of the Senate Regarding Childhood Lead Screening
The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the
Senate provision regarding the establishment of a bonus
program for improvement of childhood lead screening rates.
The House bill contained no similar provision. The conferees
encourage the Department to consider establishing such a
program.
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
The conference agreement does not include a provision
proposed by the Senate to earmark funds for cancer prevention
and screening programs under section 471C of the Public
Health Service Act. The House bill contained no similar
provision. The agreement addresses this issue within the
Health Resources and Services Administration.
TANF Rescission
The conference agreement does not include a provision
proposed by the Senate to rescind $200,000,000 of TANF funds.
The House bill contained no similar provision.
Sense of the Senate Regarding Post-Abortion Depression and Psychosis
The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the
Senate provision regarding research on, and services for,
individuals with post-abortion depression and psychosis. The
House bill contained no similar provision.
Children's Traumatic Stress Program
The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by
the Senate to rename section 582 of the Public Health Service
Act. The House bill contained no similar provision.
TITLE III--DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED
The conference agreement includes $12,346,900,000 for
Education for the Disadvantaged instead of $12,571,400,000 as
proposed by the House and $11,926,400,000 as proposed by the
Senate. The agreement includes advance funding for this
account of $7,383,301,000 instead of $6,758,300,000 as
proposed by the House and $6,953,300,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
For Grants to Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) the
agreement provides $10,350,000,000 instead of $10,500,000,000
as proposed by the House and $10,200,000,000 as proposed by
the Senate. The conference agreement includes $7,172,971,000
for basic grants and $1,365,031,000 for concentration grants.
The agreement also includes $1,018,499,000 for targeted
grants, and $793,499,000 for education finance incentive
grants. Both targeted and education finance incentive grants
are authorized distributions of the title I formula that have
not previously been funded. For targeted grants, funds are
distributed based on a weighted count of the number of poor
children within the state. Distribution for education finance
incentive grants is based on the total number of poor
children within the State multiplied by the per pupil
expenditure, a state effort factor and a state equity factor.
There is a within-state allocation for education finance
incentive grants which is based on variations of the targeted
grant formula with the greatest targeting on high poverty
school districts in the states where the equity factor is
lowest. Concentration grants, targeted grants, and incentive
grants are all provided on an advance-funded basis.
The House bill proposed $8,037,000,000 for basic grants,
$1,684,000,000 for concentration grants, and $779,000,000 for
targeted grants. The Senate bill proposed $7,172,690,000 for
basic grants, $1,365,031,000 for concentration grants,
$1,000,000,000 for targeted grants, and $662,279,000 for
education finance incentive grants.
The conference agreement also provides $3,500,000 for
updated census poverty data from the Bureau of the Census, as
proposed by the Senate. The House bill contained no similar
provision.
The conference agreement includes $250,000,000 for the Even
Start program instead of $260,000,000 as proposed by the
House and $200,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement also includes $12,500,000 for
Literacy through School Libraries instead of $25,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not provide
funding for this program. This program is designed to improve
literacy skills and academic achievement of students by
providing students with increased access to up-to-date school
library materials, a well-equipped, technologically advanced
school library media center, and well-trained, professionally
certified school library media specialists.
The conference agreement includes $396,000,000 for the
migrant education program instead of $410,000,000 as proposed
by the House and $405,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
agreement also includes $48,000,000 for neglected and
delinquent youth instead of $46,000,000 as proposed by the
House and $50,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $235,000,000 for grants
to local educational agencies for comprehensive school
reform, compared to $310,000,000 as proposed by the House.
The Senate bill did not include funds for this activity. The
conference agreement permits up to 3 percent of these funds
to be used for quality improvement initiatives, as
authorized.
The conference agreement also includes $10,000,000 for
dropout prevention programs, instead of $15,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not provide
funding for this program.
The conference agreement includes $1,500,000 for the Close
Up Foundation as proposed by the House instead of $2,500,000
as proposed by the Senate.
IMPACT AID
The conference agreement includes $1,143,500,000 for the
Impact Aid programs instead of $1,130,500,000 as proposed by
both the House and the Senate. Within this amount,
$48,000,000 is provided for construction instead of
$35,000,000 as proposed by both the House and the Senate.
Sufficient funding is provided within the account for
construction for the following:
Killeen Independent School District, Texas, for capital impro$2,000,000
Ronan School District in Ronan, Montana to facilitate the
construction of a new middle school.........................1,000,000
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS
The conference agreement includes $7,827,473,000 for School
Improvement Programs instead of $7,673,584,000 as proposed by
the House and $8,751,514,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
agreement provides $6,062,423,000 in fiscal year 2002 and
$1,765,000,000 in fiscal year 2003 funding for this account.
Improving teacher quality
The conference agreement includes $2,850,000,000 for state
grants for improving teacher quality, instead of
$3,175,000,000 as proposed by the House and $3,039,834,000 as
proposed by the Senate. Of this amount, $1,150,000,000 is
provided as a fiscal year 2003 advance as proposed by the
Senate instead of $1,345,000,000 as proposed by the House.
Grants for Improving Teacher Quality consolidates and
streamlines the Eisenhower Professional Development program
and the Class Size Reduction program to allow greater
flexibility for local school districts. The purpose of this
part is to provide grants to States, school districts, State
agencies for higher education, and eligible partnerships to:
(1) increase student academic achievement through such
strategies as improving teacher and principal quality and
increasing the number of highly qualified teachers in the
classroom and highly qualified principals and assistant
principals in schools; (2) hold districts and schools
accountable for improvements in student academic achievement;
and (3) hold districts and schools accountable so that all
teachers teaching core
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academic subjects in public elementary schools and secondary
schools are highly qualified.
The conferees understand that the Eisenhower Professional
Development program, which has been consolidated into a
larger State Teacher Quality Improvement Grant program under
the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary School
Act, was funded at $485,000,000 in fiscal year 2001. The
Eisenhower program required that a minimum of $250,000,000 be
dedicated to math and science professional development
activities; however, the conferees understand that as much as
$375,000,000 was actually expended on math and science in
fiscal year 2001. The conferees believe that providing high-
quality math and science instruction is of critical
importance to our Nation's future competitiveness, and agree
that math and science professional development opportunities
should be expanded. The conferees therefore strongly urge the
Secretary and the States to continue to fund math and science
activities within the Teacher Quality Grant program at a
comparable level in fiscal year 2002.
The conference agreement also includes $12,500,000 for math
and science partnerships, instead of $25,000,000 as proposed
by the Senate. Math and science partnerships are intended to
improve the performance of students in the areas of
mathematics and science by encouraging States, institutions
of higher education, districts, elementary schools, and
secondary schools to participate in programs that: (1)
improve and upgrade the status and stature of mathematics and
science teaching by encouraging institutions of higher
education to assume greater responsibility for improving
mathematics and science teacher education; (2) focus on
education of mathematics and science teachers as a career-
long process; (3) bring mathematics and science teachers
together with scientists, mathematicians, and engineers to
improve their teaching skills; and (4) develop more rigorous
mathematics and science curricula that are aligned with State
and local academic achievement standards expected for
postsecondary study in engineering, mathematics, and science.
The conferees note that, although this is a separate
program designed specifically for the development of high
quality math and science professional development
opportunities, in no way do the conferees intend to
discourage the Secretary and States from using other federal
funding for math and science instructional improvement
programs. The conferees strongly urge the Secretary and
States to utilize funding provided by the Teacher Quality
Grant program, as well as other programs funded by
the federal government, to strengthen math and science
education programs across the Nation.
The conference agreement includes $88,000,000 for
activities designed to recruit and train new teachers. The
House bill proposed $50,000,000 for Troops to Teachers and
Transition to Teaching programs, while the Senate proposed
$95,000,000 for these activities as well as for a variety of
other national teacher improvement activities.
The conference agreement includes $53,000,000 for the
Troops-to-Teachers and Transition-to-Teaching programs
authorized under part C of title II of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act, as amended. Of this amount,
$18,000,000 is available to the Secretary to transfer to the
Department of Defense for Troops-to-Teachers and not less
than $35,000,000 shall be available for Transition-to-
Teaching. The conference agreement increases by 6 times the
amount made available for Troops-to-Teachers compared to last
year. The conferees are aware of the tremendous interest in
the Transition-to-Teaching initiative that is aimed at
recruiting and supporting mid-career professionals and
talented, recent college graduates to become teachers. In FY
2001, 172 applications requesting over $220,000,000 in
federal funds were submitted--seven times more than the
$31,000,000 available for awards. As a result, many grantees
received awards substantially less than requested and other
applicants were not funded at all. The conferees intend that
the Department use a portion of the additional resources for
Transition-to-Teaching to make supplemental awards to current
national grantees to enable them to accelerate multi-state
teacher recruitment efforts.
The conference agreement also includes $10,000,000 for the
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, as
proposed by the House and the Senate and $15,000,000 for the
early childhood educator professional development grants
program, as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also
includes $10,000,000 for principal recruitment. The House
bill did not include funding for these activities.
National writing project
The agreement also includes $14,000,000 for the National
Writing Project instead of $12,000,000 as proposed by the
House and $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Civic education
For Cooperative Education Exchanges, formerly the
International Education Exchange program, the conference
agreement includes $11,500,000, instead of $12,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not fund this
program. Within the total, $4,300,000 is included for the
Center for Civic Education and $4,300,000 is for the National
Council on Economic Education for economics education to
continue the work these organizations are doing in Central
and Eastern Europe and the newly independent states of the
former Soviet Union, as well as to expand significantly the
economic education and civic education programs already
underway in Russia. Also included is $2,900,000 for
competitive grants in economics and civics and/or government
education.
For Civic Education, the conference agreement includes
$15,500,000 instead of $12,000,000 as proposed by the House
and $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conferees
support allocating $1,500,000 of the total amount for a
continuation of the violence prevention demonstration
program, and $500,000 of the total amount for the Native
American civic education initiative. Further, the conferees
intend that $2,000,000 be allocated for a cooperative project
among the Center for Civic Education, the Center on Congress
at Indiana University, and the Trust for Representative
Democracy at the National Conference of State Legislatures to
implement a comprehensive program to improve public
knowledge, understanding, and support of American democratic
institutions.
Teaching of traditional American history
The conference agreement includes $100,000,000 for the
teaching of traditional American history, as proposed by the
Senate in the LIFE fund. The House bill did not propose
separate funding for this program.
Innovative education program strategies
For innovative education program strategies, the education
block grant, the conference agreement includes $385,000,000
as proposed by the House instead of $410,000,000 as proposed
by the Senate.
School renovation
The conference agreement does not include funding for
grants to local educational agencies for emergency school
renovation and repair activities. The House bill provided no
funding for this activity. The Senate bill provided
$925,000,000 for this purpose.
Education technology
The conference agreement includes $700,500,000 for
education technology state grants, instead of $1,000,000,000
as proposed by the House and $712,146,000 as proposed by the
Senate. The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act consolidates several technology programs
(including the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund and Local
Innovation Challenge Grants) into a State-based technology
grant program that sends more money to schools. In doing so,
it will facilitate comprehensive and integrated education
technology strategies that target the specific needs of
individual schools. Uses of funds include: (1) promoting
innovative State and local initiatives using technology to
increase academic achievement; (2) increasing access to
technology, especially for high-need schools; and (3)
improving and expanding teacher professional development in
technology.
The conference agreement also includes $62,500,000 for
teacher training in technology, instead of $125,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not include
separate funding for this activity.
The agreement also includes $22,000,000 for Ready to Learn
Television, instead of $16,000,000 as proposed by the House
and $24,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Safe and Drug Free Schools
The conference agreement includes $644,250,000 for the Safe
and Drug Free Schools and Communities Act as proposed by both
the House and the Senate.
Included within this amount is $472,017,000 for state
grants instead of $527,250,000 as proposed by the House and
$444,250,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The agreement also includes $172,233,000 for national
programs instead of $117,000,000 as proposed by the House and
$150,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within this amount,
the conferees include $100,000,000 to support the Safe
Schools/Healthy Students initiative.
Of the amount provided for Safe and Drug Free Schools
National programs, the conferees also agree that up to
$1,000,000 is available to the Secretary of Education, in
consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services,
to develop and disseminate recommendations and models to
assist communities in implementing emergency response,
evacuation and parental notification plans for schools and
other community facilities where children gather, and
coordinating these plans with local law enforcement,
public safety, health and mental health agencies. Further,
the conferees agree that $9,000,000 is available for
grants to enable local educational agencies to improve and
strengthen emergency response and crisis management plans,
including training school personnel, students and parents
in emergency response procedures and coordinating with
local law enforcement, public safety, health and mental
health agencies. The conferees intend that these funds
shall be available only to local educational agencies that
demonstrate a significant need for emergency preparedness
improvements and a lack of fiscal capacity to implement
these improvements. The conferees have provided extended
availability of funding for these two activities through
September 30, 2003.
Within the funds for national programs, the agreement also
provides $37,500,000 to fund coordinators. The conferees
understand that in the reauthorization of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act, this program has been expanded to
serve schools at all education levels.
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Mentoring, community service, and alcohol abuse reduction
programs
The conference agreement includes $17,500,000 for mentoring
programs, instead of $30,000,000 as proposed by the House and
$5,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also
includes $50,000,000 for grants for community service for
expelled or suspended students and $25,000,000 for grants to
reduce alcohol abuse as proposed by the Senate. The House
bill did not propose separate funding for these programs.
State assessments
The conference agreement includes $387,000,000 for
assessments instead of $400,000,000 as proposed by the House
and $352,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The new
assessment provisions in H.R. 1 require States to implement
annual reading and math assessments for grades 3-8, to hold
states and local school districts that use federal funds
accountable for improving student academic achievement.
Annual reading and math assessments are intended to provide
parents with the information they need to know how well their
child is doing in school, and how well the school is
educating their child. States may select and design
assessments of their choosing. However, State assessments
must be aligned with State academic standards, allow student
achievement to be comparable from year to year, be of
objective knowledge, be based on measurable, verifiable and
widely accepted professional assessment standards, and not
evaluate or assess personal or family beliefs and attitudes.
States will have until the 2005-2006 school year to develop
and implement these assessments.
The conferees understand that funding provided above the
trigger set in the authorizing law for state assessments will
be used for enhanced assessment instruments.
Public school choice
The conference agreement includes $25,000,000 to support
voluntary public school choice programs, instead of
$50,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not
provide funding for this program.
Magnet schools
The conferees concur with language in the House report
directing the Secretary, when allocating magnet schools
assistance funds, to give priority for funding to the
highest-quality applications remaining from the previous
year's competition before funding applications approved in a
new competition. The conferees also note that no funds are
included for a new competition in innovative programs, since
this program is no longer authorized.
Education for Homeless Children and Youth
The conference agreement includes $50,000,000 for Education
for Homeless Children and Youth as proposed by the House
instead of $36,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Education of Native Hawaiians
The conference agreement includes $30,500,000 for the
Education of Native Hawaiians instead of $33,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate and $28,000,000 as proposed by the
House. The conferees urge the Department to provide
$1,000,000 for construction and co-location, $7,000,000 for
curriculum development, $2,100,000 for community-based
learning centers, $3,500,000 for higher education, $1,250,000
for gifted and talented, $3,100,000 for special education,
$500,000 for Native Hawaiian education councils; and
$12,050,000 for family-based education centers.
Alaska Native Educational Equity
The conference agreement includes $24,000,000 for the
Alaska Native Educational Equity program instead of
$33,000,000 as proposed by the Senate and $15,000,000 as
proposed by the House.
Rural education
The conference agreement includes $162,500,000 for rural
education programs, instead of $200,000,000 as proposed by
the House and $125,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. This
program is intended to address the unique needs of rural
school districts that frequently: (1) lack the personnel and
resources needed to compete effectively for federal
competitive grants; and (2) receive formula grant allocations
in amounts too small to be effective in meeting their
intended purposes. The program consists of two parts:
Subpart 1--Small, Rural School Achievement Program--Under
subpart 1, a school district is able to combine funds under
various formula grant programs to carry out local activities
intended to improve the academic achievement of elementary
and secondary school students and the quality of instruction
provided to these students. In addition, grants under this
subpart would be awarded to eligible districts based on the
number of students in average daily attendance less the
amount they received from consolidated formula grant
programs.
Subpart 2--Rural and Low-Income School Program--If a
district did not qualify for funding under subpart 1, it
would be eligible for funding under subpart 2. Funds awarded
to districts or made available to schools under subpart 2 can
be used to carry out local activities intended to improve the
academic achievement of elementary and secondary school
students and the quality of instruction provided for these
students.
The conferees intend that the funds provided for rural
education programs be distributed equally between subpart 1
and subpart 2, as authorized.
Fund for the Improvement of Education (FIE)
The conference agreement includes $832,889,000 for the Fund
for the Improvement of Education. This program has
consolidated a number of programs that had previously been
funded as separate line items.
Within the total for FIE, the conference agreement includes
$32,500,000 for the elementary school counseling program,
instead of $30,000,000 as proposed by the House and
$35,000,000 as proposed by the Senate within the Local
Innovations for Education (LIFE) fund.
The conference agreement includes $25,000,000 for the
partnership in character education program under the Fund for
the Improvement of Education. The House bill recommended
$25,000,000 for this purpose as a separate program, while the
Senate bill included funding for this purpose under the LIFE
fund. The conferees encourage the Secretary to consider
funding projects that sensitize students to the painful
effects of bullying, ridicule and other forms of disrespect--
behaviors that frequently lie at the root of emotional and
physical injury that children inflict upon one another. The
conferees are supportive of such projects that help teachers
and students create a respectful, compassionate and ridicule-
free environment that nurtures both the emotional/social and
academic growth of students.
The conference agreement includes $142,189,000 for small,
safe and successful high schools, instead of $200,000,000 as
proposed by the House and $100,000,000 as proposed by the
Senate. The bill provides the funds on a forward funding
basis. The conferees concur in the direction in House Report
107-229 concerning this activity.
For the Reading is Fundamental program, the conference
agreement provides $24,000,000 instead of $23,000,000 as
proposed by the House and $25,000,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
The conference agreement also includes $11,250,000 for
Javits Gifted and Talented Education, instead of $7,500,000
as proposed by the House and $15,000,000 as proposed by the
Senate. The agreement includes $27,520,000 for Star Schools
instead of $59,300,000 as proposed by the Senate in the LIFE
fund. The House bill did not provide separate funding for
this program.
The agreement also includes $12,000,000 for the Ready to
Teach program, instead of $15,000,000 as proposed by the
Senate. The House bill did not include separate funding for
this activity. Funds may be used to develop high-quality,
curriculum-based digital content and a national
telecommunications-based program to improve the teaching of
core academic subjects.
The agreement also provides $14,000,000 for foreign
language assistance instead of $16,000,000 as proposed by the
Senate. The House bill did not include separate funding for
this activity.
For the Carol M. White Physical Education for Progress
program, the conference agreement includes $50,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not propose
funding for this program. The agreement also includes
$32,475,000 for community based technology centers instead of
$64,950,000 as proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not
propose funding for this program.
The conference agreement includes $5,000,000 for a program
to promote educational, cultural, apprenticeship and exchange
programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and their
historical whaling and trading partners in Massachusetts.
For Arts in Education, the conference agreement includes
$30,000,000 as proposed by both the House and the Senate. The
conferees provide that within this total, $8,650,000 is for
Very Special Arts, $6,000,000 is for the John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts, and $2,000,000 is to be used
to continue a youth violence prevention initiative. The
conferees agree that of the funds provided to Very Special
Arts, $1,650,000 is for planning for the 2004 International
Festival. In addition, $2,000,000 is for model professional
development programs for music educators and $4,000,000 is
for activities authorized under subpart 2 of the Arts in
Education program.
The conference agreement includes $40,000,000 for parental
assistance and local family information centers instead of
$45,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not
propose funding for this program. The conference agreement
also includes $3,000,000 for the Women's Educational Equity
Act as proposed by both the House and the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $75,000,000 for
continuing and new grants to local educational agencies for
comprehensive school reform. The House and Senate bills did
not include funds for this activity. The bill includes
language specifying that these funds shall be allocated and
expended in the same manner as in FY 2001 and provides the
funds on a forward funding basis. The conference agreement
includes funds to continue all existing grants and contracts
for comprehensive school reform capacity and dissemination
activities, including the national clearinghouse for
comprehensive school reform.
The conferees have included additional funds in this line
item for the Secretary to support programs and projects that
address national priorities in K-12 education. The conferees
note that projects to promote economic education are
authorized under this program and encourage the Secretary to
utilize funds to support these activities.
Within the total for FIE, the following amounts are
provided:
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American Airlines Travel Academy, Fort Worth, Texas, for a
demonstration project to implement a school-to-work education
curriculum focused on careers in the travel and tourism industry
in up to 10 school districts in New Jersey serving predominantly
low-income Hispanic students.................................$600,000
North Syracuse Central School, Cicero, New York for technology..200,000
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, for a model teacher
preparation program...........................................440,000
White Plains School District, New York, for after school and summer
academic programs serving at-risk elementary students.........260,000
``Project Promotion,'' a project of the Southern Penobscot Regional
Program for Children with Exceptionalities (SPRPCE) and Eastern
Maine Technical College for Paraprofessional Educators to pursue a
two-year college degree.......................................200,000
24 Challenge and Jumping Levels to continue the empirical study of
the math program in Philadelphia County........................50,000
Alabama School of Mathematics and Science Foundation, Mobile, AL,
for program development and equipment.........................300,000
Alaska Department of Education and Early Development for Alyeska
Central School, to prepare students in small rural schools for the
Alaska High School Qualifying exam through distance delivery of
core courses..................................................500,000
Alaska Department of Education for a remedial summer tutoring
program.......................................................800,000
Alaska Department of Education for its ``Qualified Teachers for
Alaska'' program............................................2,000,000
Alaska Geographic Alliance to work with the Library of Congress to
incorporate its ``Meeting of the Frontiers'' work into the Alaska
school history and geography curriculum.......................250,000
Alaska Mentoring Demonstration Project, Big Brothers/Big Sisters
agencies in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau and other partners to
extend the proven benefits of mentoring at-risk youth.........500,000
Albuquerque Public Schools to expand child and family development
services in the South Valley area of Albuquerque..............200,000
Alliance for the Arts, New York City, for arts education program600,000
Alliance Neighborhood Center, Alliance, OH, for after-school pro250,000
American Film Institute Screen Education Center and Initiative for
arts education curriculum development and teacher training....650,000
Amer-I-can program to assist at-risk youth with developing life
management skills , goals and self-esteem necessary to acquire
gainful employment..........................................1,000,000
American Theater Arts for Youth, Inc, Philadelphia, PA, for a
Mississippi Arts in Education program.........................150,000
American Theater Arts For Youth, Inc., for an Arts in Education
Program........................................................25,000
American Theater Arts for Youth, San Diego, CA, for educational
assistance in music and arts for students.....................100,000
American Theater Arts for Youth, Spokane, WA, for educational
assistance in music and arts for students in Spokane, WA.......50,000
AMISTAD America, Inc. to coordinate with school districts and
schools to provide students free admission, tours and history
lessons on the schooner Amistad vessel when it visits various
ports in the United States....................................810,000
Anchorage Community Theater School after school program in the
performing arts for grades K-12................................50,000
Appalachian Center for Economic Networks, Athens, Ohio, to expand a
computer entrepreneurship project...........................1,200,000
Art Share Los Angeles, California, for equipment and programmatic
support to expand an technology instructional program for at-risk
youth.........................................................150,000
Arts and Education in Concert, Centreville, VA, for violence
prevention programs...........................................250,000
Auburn City Board of Education, Auburn, AL, for technology.......38,000
Audubon Institute of New Orleans, LA to expand after-school programs
that offer safe, positive alternatives for at-risk students in
kindergarten through 8th grade................................100,000
Augusta Public School District, Augusta, KS, for staff development
in technology curriculum......................................250,000
Babyland Family Services, Newark, New Jersey for technology training
and extended learning opportunities for students, parents and
teachers......................................................200,000
Baltimore City Public School System to help complete wiring schools
to the Internet.............................................1,500,000
Bay County School District, Florida, for technology equipment,
supplies, teacher training, and student transportation for a
science education project in partnership with ZooWorld.........26,000
Beaver Local School District, Lisbon, OH, for educational
programming....................................................40,000
Belmont-Harrison Vocational School District, St. Clairsville, OH,
for educational programming....................................40,000
Bibb County Board of Education, Centreville, AL, for technology..38,000
Bloom Township High School District 206, Chicago Heights, Illinois,
to establish a work-study cooperative program.................450,000
Blue Springs Youth Outreach Unit, Blue Springs, MO, for educational
training in combating Goth culture............................273,000
Board of Education, Albertville City, AL, for technology
enhancements...................................................30,000
Board of Education, Arab City, AL, for technology enhancements...30,000
Board of Education, Attalla City, AL, for technology enhancements30,000
Board of Education, Cullman City, AL, for technology enhancements30,000
Board of Education, Fort Payne City, AL, for technology enhanceme30,000
Board of Education, Gadsdene City, AL, for technology enhancement30,000
Board of Education, Guntersville City, AL, for technology
enhancements...................................................30,000
Board of Education, Haleyville City, AL, for technology enhanceme30,000
Board of Education, Jasper City, AL, for technology enhancements.30,000
Board of Education, Oneonta City, AL, for technology enhancements30,000
Board of Education, Russellville City, AL, for technology
enhancements...................................................30,000
Board of Education, Winfield City, AL, for technology enhancement30,000
Boys and Girls Club of El Dorado, Arkansas, for after school
programs for at-risk youth.....................................14,000
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington, D.C., Silver Spring, MD
for after school programs for at-risk youth...................825,000
Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia to develop a school based
mentoring program..............................................75,000
Bridgeport Exempted Village School District, Bridgeport, OH, for
educational programming........................................40,000
Brooke High School, Wellsburg, WV, for educational programming...40,000
Brooklawn Youth Services, Louisville, KY, for comprehensive care
treatment and education for children with serious emotional
disabilities...................................................50,000
Brown University's Northeast and Islands Regional Educational
Laboratory to support the Knowledge Loom web site that provides
enrichment resources for educators............................100,000
Buckeye Local School District, Rayland, OH, for educational
programming....................................................40,000
Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, CT to expand
the arts-in-education program.................................440,000
Calhoun County Board of Education, Anniston, AL, for technology..38,000
Camp Fire Boys and Girls--First Texas Council, Ft. Worth, TX, for an
early childhood violence reduction program....................700,000
Canaan Community Development Corporation, Louisville, KY, after
school tutoring, mentoring and enrichment programs for at-risk
students.......................................................60,000
Centennial School District, Bucks County, PA, for activities
authorized by title V, part D, subpart 20 of ESEA.............500,000
Centennial School District, Circle Pines, Minnesota, for an after
school program................................................293,000
Center for Community Transformation, Chicago, IL, to support student
fellowships and ongoing secular educational activities in
community leadership transformation, including curriculum
development...................................................200,000
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Central Florida Community College, Ocala, FL, for Education Training
Consortium for teacher training, recruitment and retention....800,000
Challenger Learning Center at SciTrek, Atlanta, GA to use a
simulated mission control station and space laboratory to create a
dynamic learning environment for students in the areas of science
and technology................................................350,000
Chambers County Board of Education, LaFayette, AL, for technology38,000
Champions of Caring programs that encourage young people to take an
active role in their communities...............................50,000
CHAR High School-to-work vocational training program............100,000
Charter School Development Corporation in Las Vegas, Nevada to focus
on technology and college preparation.......................1,500,000
Chicago Children's Choir, Illinois, to support arts-integrated
academic curriculum development, musical equipment, textbooks, and
learning aids for the Choir Academy...........................225,000
Chicago Public Schools, Illinois, for after school programs.....100,000
Chicago State University for an innovative project designed to
support teacher training and expand technology................200,000
Children's Land Alliance Supporting Schools (CLASS).............200,000
Children's Literacy Initiative to supplement Head Start's distance
learning program as well as a teacher education program.......100,000
Chilton County Board of Education, Clanton, AL, for technology...38,000
Chippewa Falls Unified School District, WI, for after school
programs......................................................950,000
Choteau Elementary School in Choteau, Montana for an e-learning
pilot program.................................................500,000
Cincinnati Arts School, Inc., Cincinnati, OH, for development of the
school's academic and artistic curricula....................1,000,000
City of Boston for after-school programs........................200,000
City of Salt Lake, Utah, for the YouthCity Empowerment project to
establish after school centers..............................1,200,000
Clark County School District, Las Vegas, Nevada, to expand after
school programs for drop out prevention.......................440,000
Clark County, NV School District for a School-to-Work Program to
provide students who do not plan to attend college with
instruction in nursing and home health aid....................160,000
Classika Theatre, Arlington, Virginia, to expand the ARTsmarts and
SS VETA arts education initiatives in Arlington and Alexandria,
Virginia schools..............................................500,000
Clay County Board of Education, Ashland, AL, for technology......38,000
Cleburne County Board of Education, Heflin, AL, for technology...38,000
Coffeyville Public School District, Coffeyville, KS, for technol250,000
Columbia College in Chicago to establish a mentoring program
designed to improve minority student educational success and
retention.....................................................200,000
Columbiana County Career Center, Lisbon, OH, for educational
programming....................................................40,000
Communities in Schools of East Texas, Inc., Marshall, Texas, for
educational services to at-risk students......................240,000
Communities in Schools of Northeast Texas, Inc., Mount Pleasant,
Texas, for educational services to at-risk students...........240,000
Concord College Technology Center to equip new teachers with the
technical skills essential for the utilization of information
technologies in the classroom...............................1,000,000
Continuation and expansion of the Iowa Communications Network
statewide fiber optic demonstration.........................3,000,000
Cooperative Educational Services Agency #9, WI, for after school
programs....................................................1,200,000
Coosa County Board of Education, Rockford, AL, for technology....38,000
Council Bluffs Community Schools in Iowa for a demonstration on
testing software..............................................500,000
D.C. Everest School District, WI, for a history day project.....200,000
Dardanelle School District, Dardanelle, Arkansas, to establish a
center to use technology to enhance English, academic and
parenting skills for Hispanic students and adults..............50,000
Daycare Literacy Project in Salem, Oregon........................20,000
Depaul School, Louisville, KY, for technology needs..............45,000
Detroit Science Center, Detroit, Michigan, to develop science
education programs and exhibits to introduce students to science,
technology, and engineering...................................500,000
Discovery Place, North Carolina, for development of exhibits and
science education programs....................................440,000
Do Something, Inc., New York, New York, to implement the ``Community
Coaches'' leadership and citizenship program at up to 20 schools
in the Chicago metropolitan area..............................125,000
Dowling High School Project Intercept--mentoring and tutoring
program for low-income youth..................................300,000
Drop out prevention program in the Pendleton school district, Or125,000
Drug Free Pennsylvania to implement a demonstration project in
Dauphin County.................................................50,000
Early Reading Success Institute in Connecticut to broaden the
training of professionals in best practices in the delivery of
reading instruction...........................................800,000
East Liverpool School District, East Liverpool, OH, for educational
programming....................................................40,000
East Los Angeles Classic Theatre, East Los Angeles, California for
the ``Beyond Borders: Literacy Through Performing Arts'' literacy
program........................................................50,000
East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, California, for ``APPLES
Project'' to provide early childhood curriculum development,
professional development, parental instruction and program
dissemination.................................................230,000
East Providence School District, Rhode Island, for music curriculum
development, teacher recruitment and equipment purchases......400,000
Eastern College for computers, printers, computer cables,
telecommunications equipment and laboratory equipment for the
Center for Information, Science and Learning Resources in St
Davids, Pennsylvania..........................................100,000
Edison Local School District, Hammondsville, OH, for educational
programming....................................................40,000
Education Service District 117 in Wenatchee, WA to equip a community
technology center to expand technology-based training.........250,000
Educational Advancement Alliance of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to
establish computer centers in high schools and education cente500,000
Educational Service District 112, Vancouver, Washington, to
implement the Help One Student to Succeed (HOSTS) reading program
in elementary schools.........................................167,000
Eisenhower Foundation for a demonstration of full-service schools in
Iowa..........................................................500,000
El Dorado Public School District, El Dorado, KS, for PROJECT CON250,000
Electronic Data Systems Project to create a database that would
improve the acquisition, analysis and sharing of student
information.................................................1,000,000
Ellijay Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary, Ellijay, GA, to provide
educational programs for at-risk youth........................500,000
Ernie Pyle Middle School, Albuquerque, NM, for a middle school
initiative.....................................................50,000
Eufaula Independent School District Number 1, Oklahoma, for
instructional materials and teacher-related expenses..........250,000
Everybody Wins! In New York, NY to promote children's literacy and
love of learning through mentoring programs with adults.....1,000,000
Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, VA, Bridging the Digital
Divide........................................................150,000
Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, VA, for educator-to-educator
training......................................................260,000
Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, VA, Institute for Student
Achievement...................................................270,000
Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, VA, Pre-Delinquent and
Delinquent Prevention Program..................................40,000
Faith Academy Child Development Center, Hamlet, NC, for after school
program.......................................................100,000
Father Maloney's Boys' Haven, Louisville, Kentucky, for technolog20,000
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Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and University for
telecommunications equipment and for training programs necessary
to link educational institutions to a high bandwidth network..200,000
Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI, for curriculum development
and outreach..................................................500,000
First Gethsemane Center for Family Development, Louisville, KY,
after school tutoring, mentoring and enrichment programs for at-
risk students..................................................60,000
Five Towns Community Center, Nassau County, New York for after
school programs...............................................500,000
Florida 4-H Foundation Inc., Gainesville, Florida, for personnel and
other expenses to provide educational programs for youth
participants..................................................100,000
Florida Institute of Education, Jacksonville, FL, for Florida
Network of Readiness Hubs.....................................500,000
Fort Lewis College Child Development Center to serve young children
and their families, students, faculty and community in the Four
Corners Regions.............................................1,500,000
Foundation for the Improvement of Mathematics and Education in San
Diego, CA to improve math and science testing scores through the
advancement of curriculum and improvements in teacher/
administrator education.......................................150,000
Freedom Theatre: to provide greater access to its training program
for talented African Americans in Philadelphia.................25,000
Fresno At-Risk Youth Services to address the problems of at-risk
youths by coordinating the city's efforts through an education
program coordinator, working with targeted groups, and making peer
counselors available to students..............................200,000
Fresno Unified School District, in partnership with the City of
Fresno, California, for after school programs for middle schools
in disadvantaged communities..................................225,000
Friends of the Children in Portland, Oregon.....................100,000
Friends of the Children, providing full-time, paid adult mentors to
at-risk children, in Chester, Pennsylvania.....................50,000
Futures for Children, Albuquerque, New Mexico, to expand its
educational services to Native American children............1,000,000
Galena School district and other partners to assist Alaska Native
students attending boarding schools and colleges make the
transition from rural village life to educational residence
facility......................................................250,000
Galena School District for alternative education programs.......750,000
Garfield Middle School, Albuquerque, NM, ``Accelerated Reader
Program''......................................................50,000
General George S. Patton School District 133, Riverdale, Illinois,
for computer lab equipment and professional development for school
reform initiatives............................................150,000
Georgia Project, Inc. in Dalton, GA to support the academic and
social needs of Hispanic children and their families in northern
Georgia.......................................................650,000
Girard Community Committee Incorporated, Girard, OH, for educational
programming...................................................700,000
Glendale Unified School District in La Crescenta, California, to
expand after school programs at Valley View Elementary School,
Monte Vista Elementary School and Mountain Avenue Elementary
School.........................................................40,000
GlennOaks Therapeutic Day School, Addison, IL, to upgrade technology
and improve student safety for children with emotional and
behavioral problems...........................................200,000
GRAMMY Foundation, Santa Monica, California, for music education
programs....................................................1,200,000
Grand Valley State University Teacher Academy in Allendale, MI, to
train a cadre of master teachers who will develop curriculum and
will mentor pre-service and novice science and math teachers..200,000
Great Projects Film Company to produce ``Educating America,'' a
documentary T.V. series and multi-media project about challenges
facing public schools..........................................50,000
Greater Minneapolis Day Care Council, Minnesota, for a demonstration
initiative to improve early learning and after school programs350,000
Green Bay Area School District in Green Bay, Wisconsin to implement
a district-wide technology plan...............................750,000
Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center, Mobile, AL, to staff and
support science activities....................................400,000
Hackensack Public School District, Hackensack, New Jersey, to
establish an after school program at Jackson Avenue School.....75,000
Hamcock County Schools, New Cumberland, WV, for educational
programming....................................................40,000
Hampshire Educational Collaborative at Northampton, Massachusetts
for implementation of internet-based professional development for
K-12 teachers and early child care providers..................400,000
Hands Across Cultures Corporation, Espanola, New Mexico, for after
school programs at the Espanola and Pojoaque Valley School
Districts.....................................................500,000
Harrison Middle School, Albuquerque, NM, for an after-school prog50,000
Hawthorne Elementary Junior High School in Hawthorne, NV for the
One-on-one Laptop Computer Program............................420,000
Hazel Crest School District 152.5, Hazel Crest, Illinois, to
implement a comprehensive professional development program for
teachers and administrators to improve student achievement....100,000
Healthy Foundation in Murrieta, CA to conduct a study of the impact
of vitamin intake and the school performance of at-risk youth.500,000
Helen Keller Worldwide to expand the ChildSight Vision Screening
Program and provide eyeglasses to additional children whose
educational performance may be hindered because of poor visi1,000,000
Henry, Highlands, Glades and Okeechobee county school districts in
Florida for technology upgrades...............................500,000
Holy Redeemer Health System in Philadelphia for after-school
programs for at-risk children.................................250,000
Illinois Challenger Learning Center, Bloomington-Normal, IL, for
science and math programs.....................................250,000
Illinois Department of Education, Improving Reading Achievement for
Grades 7-12 program for Peoria School District #150............50,000
Illinois Department of Education, Improving Reading Achievement for
Grades 7-12 program for Springfield School District #186.......50,000
Illinois Math and Science Academy ``21st Century Information Fluency
Program''.....................................................900,000
Illinois State Board of Education ``Improving Reading Achievement
for grades 7-12'' for Kankakee District #111 and Champaign
District #4...................................................200,000
Illinois State Board of Education for Downers Grove School District
#99 ``Teacher Helping Teachers'' and Joliet Public School District
#86 ``Helping Hands Lead to Success'' mentoring programs......500,000
Illinois State Board of Education for Induction and Mentoring Model
Districts Program at Elgin, Illinois #46......................150,000
Illinois State Board of Education for the At Risk Student Program at
Aurora Illinois East 131 School District......................200,000
Illinois State Board of Education, ``Illinois Virtual High Sch1,500,000
Illinois State Board of Education, for curriculum development,
materials, and professional development activities to improve math
achievement in the middle grades in Decatur School District 61300,000
Illinois State Board of Education, Freeport School District #16 for
a Reading Improvement Achievement Pilot Program for grades 7-1250,000
Illinois State Board of Education, Rockford School District #205 for
a Reading Improvement Achievement Pilot Program for grades 7-1250,000
Illinois State Board of Education, to provide alternative learning
opportunities for at risk students in the Mt. Vernon Township High
School District #201, Christopher Unit #99, and Grayville
Community Unit School District #1.............................400,000
Illinois State Board of Education/Boys and Girls Clubs of America,
Springfield, IL, for Community Technology Centers.............300,000
Independence Public School District, Independence, KS, for teacher
training and curriculum development...........................250,000
Independent School District 834, Minnesota, for an after school
program.......................................................227,000
Indian Creek School District, Wintersville, OH, for educational
programming....................................................40,000
Indiana University-Purdue University, Ft. Wayne, IN, to enhance
educational and cultural programming through the development of
``Teleplex''..................................................650,000
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Infinity Project at Southern Methodist University...............500,000
Ingham County Intermediate School District, Mason, MI, for
Technology Enhancements for Capital Area Career Center........200,000
Innovative Directions, an Educational Alliance, Bronx County, New
York, for after school and summer academic enrichment programs.75,000
Institute for International Sport at the University of Rhode Island
to address issues of sportsmanship between athletes and their
parents, coaches and teachers.................................100,000
Institute for Student Achievement in Lake Success, NY to expand its
intervention program that provides academic enrichment and
counseling support for students performing in the lowest quartile
in their middle or high schools...............................200,000
Institute for Student Achievement, Manhasset, New York for
educational programs for at-risk students in the Mount Vernon
school district...............................................250,000
International Music Products Association, Carlsbad, CA, for school
music programs................................................100,000
Invent Iowa to encourage kids to invent and hold fairs to display
those inventions..............................................100,000
Iowa Department of Education for additional bilingual and English as
a Second Language training in rapid growth areas of Iowa....1,055,000
Iowa Online AP Academy to continue and expand the online advanced
placement demonstration.....................................2,000,000
Iowa School Board Association Lighthouse for School Reform for the
training of school board members on education issues..........500,000
Isaac Stern Education Legacy in New York, NY to integrate distance
learning and educational technology with music education pro2,000,000
Jacksonville City Board of Education, Jacksonville, AL, for
technology.....................................................38,000
James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, College Park, Maryland,
for a National Youth Leadership Institute for K-12 students...250,000
Jefferson County Joint Vocational School, Bloomingdale, OH, for
educational programming........................................40,000
Jewish Family and Community Service in Chicago, IL for its
therapeutic program...........................................100,000
Jobs for Youth of Boston, Massachusetts for technical assistance and
training related to standards based education.................500,000
Junior Achievement of Delaware Valley, Inc. for a youth mentoring
initiative....................................................150,000
Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD, to complete the school-
to-work instructional model for its Career and Technology High
School........................................................440,000
Kenosha Unified School District, Kenosha, WI, for after-school
programs......................................................300,000
Kent State University, Kent, OH, to develop a replicable model for
supporting GED graduates in higher education..................500,000
Kentucky Opera, Louisville, KY, for educational outreach programs50,000
Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, for technology and science improvements
and upgrade.................................................1,000,000
Kids Voting South Dakota in Pierre, South Dakota, to expand the
program in the state, primarily to the nine Indian Reservation100,000
Kids Voting USA, Tempe, Arizona for a civics program to educate
children about the importance of voting.......................380,000
La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium in La Crosse, Wisconsin
to expand reading remediation services to literacy-impaired
adolescents...................................................375,000
Lake Metroparks, Concord, OH, for equipment...................1,000,000
Lawrence County School District, Mississippi, for a Parents as
Teachers program..............................................400,000
Lawrence Public Schools, Lawrence, Kansas, for after school programs
in the New York and East Heights elementary schools...........100,000
Learning Collaborative Inc., Milford, Connecticut, for the ``Pebbles
Project'' to demonstrate innovative technology to deliver
educational services to children medically unable to attend sc870,000
Lee County Board of Education, Opelika, AL, for technology.......38,000
Lee's Summit Education Foundation in Missouri, for Parents as
Teachers......................................................500,000
Lewiston-Auburn College/University of Southern Maine TEAMS program
to prepare teachers to meet the demands of Maine's 21st century
elementary and middle schools at Sherwood Heights Elementary
School in Auburn and Lewiston Middle School in Lewiston........50,000
Lincoln Center, New York City, for the Louis Armstrong Jazz
Curriculum project to provide arts education professional
development to teachers across the country....................250,000
Livingston Technical Academy, Howell, MI, for Technology
Enhancements..................................................150,000
Local Initiative Support Corporation Child Care Education.......400,000
Long Island Works Coalition to provide school-to-career partnerships
for students, and to provide them with the skills necessary for
successful employment.........................................100,000
Los Angeles County Office of Education, Downey, California, for the
Early Advantage Initiative to provide preschool and family
learning activities, and training for parents, child care
providers and community members...............................440,000
Loudonville Golden Center, Loudonville, OH, to develop a technology,
training and youth mentoring program for seniors and youths...130,000
Louisiana Arts and Sciences Center, Baton Rouge, LA, for
professional development......................................300,000
Louisiana Department of Education to implement an early childhood
development program for at risk children......................300,000
Louisiana Department of Education to implement the Voyager Universal
Literacy System in Louisiana..................................700,000
Louisiana District Attorney's Office, The Orleans Parish, Louisiana
for a School-Based Drug Awareness program.....................100,000
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, ``Project Catalyst''.....400,000
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, ``Project LIFE (Laboratory
Investigations and Field Experience'')........................400,000
Lyons Township High School District 204, Illinois, for a Quality
Teacher Recruitment Model Program.............................440,000
Macomb County Intermediate School District, Michigan for the ``Kids
Klub'' after school program...................................600,000
Macon County Board of Education, Tuskegee, AL, for technology....38,000
Madison County School District's School Needs Assessment in Madison
County, MS to conduct an impact study of the sudden influx of a
large number of new students in the school district...........500,000
Maine School Administrative District #58 in Kingfield, Maine, for
Pathway Partners rural education program, to help connect young
people to fundamental resources such as caring adults and safe
places........................................................200,000
Maine School Administrative District Number 64, East Corinth, Maine,
for the STAR technology teacher training project..............100,000
Malverne Afterschool Center, Malverne, NY, to expand an after school
program.......................................................100,000
Marshfield School District, WI, for computers, library books, and
supplies for a new elementary school...........................75,000
Martins Ferry School District, Martins Ferry, OH, for educational
programming....................................................40,000
Maryhurst Inc., Louisville, Kentucky, for an educational program.50,000
Math, Science and Technology Education Partnership K-12 cluster
pilot program in Albuquerque public schools.................1,250,000
Mehlville School District, St. Louis, Missouri, to implement a new
reading technology program.....................................75,000
Mellen School District, WI, for after school programs...........340,000
MENC (Music Education and Technology Advancement) to establish and
support standard music education and creativity, instructional
technology and professional development for approximately 4000 K-
12 public schools..............................................50,000
Meredith-Dunn School, Louisville, KY, technology infrastructure for
children with learning disabilities............................60,000
Mid-American Regional Council in Kansas City, Missouri to establish
the Finance CIRCLE demonstration initiative to improve financing
for early learning and after-school programs..................250,000
Midland School District, Midland, PA, for educational programming40,000
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Military Heritage Foundation, Carlisle, PA, Army Heritage and
Education Center to establish educational programs and materia150,000
Millikin University to assist inner-city and rural high school
students prepare for college..................................200,000
Milton Eisenhower Foundation, Washington, DC for a full-service
community school demonstration project in up to five locations450,000
Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee, Wisconsin to expand programs to
recruit, prepare and retain a diverse, effective, innovative
teaching force................................................350,000
Milwaukee Public Schools, Wisconsin, for after school programs..400,000
Milwaukee Public Schools, Wisconsin, for the Bradley School for
Technology and Trade High School for technology training and
curriculum implementation.....................................200,000
Mississippi Delta Education Initiative for teacher recruitment,
Delta University..............................................900,000
Murray State University, Murray, KY, Center for Teaching Excellence
in Science and Mathematics....................................800,000
Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY to expand its distance learning
program to give students and teachers access to their collecti220,000
Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT, to develop an Onboard and Online
Program.......................................................350,000
National Center for Youth Issues, Chattanooga, TN, to provide
Internet based resource in character education..............1,000,000
New Mexico Department of Education to provide on-line courses
aligned with state academic standards and curriculum to students
in rural and remote areas.....................................200,000
New York City Public Schools, New York to expand the New York City
Teaching Fellows Program to attract and retain certified teachers
in New York City Schools that need qualified teachers.........500,000
New York Hall of Science, Corona Park, New York, to expand the
Science Career Ladder and After-School Science Club programs for
middle school students........................................300,000
New Zion Community Development Foundation, Louisville, KY, after
school tutoring, mentoring and enrichment programs for at-risk
students.......................................................30,000
Newport Public Schools, Newport, Rhode Island, for early childhood
programs, specialized teacher recruitment and professional
development...................................................750,000
Newton Public School District, Newton, KS, to help incorporate
technology into the math curriculum...........................250,000
Nicholls State University to train faculty, reading specialists and
families in order to identify the reading disabilities of children
and adults in the Southern Gulf Coast region of Louisiana.....500,000
North Carolina Aquarium Society for development of environmental
education exhibits and distance learning programs for students440,000
North Carolina Electronics and Information Technologies Association
Education Foundation, for a technology demonstration project in
rural and underserved school districts........................250,000
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina for arts and
environmental education programs..............................100,000
North Carolina Museum of Life and Science for development of
BioQuest exhibits.............................................150,000
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina to expand
regional satellite centers to provide science and math education
to rural schools through the Science House....................600,000
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, WA, ``Star Nations
Program''.....................................................450,000
Northwood School District in Minong, Wisconsin to complete their
distance education project that enhances learning opportunities
and provides useful skill development..........................62,000
Nosotros, Hollywood, California to implement music education
activities, including purchasing instruments for low-income
students, for the Mariachi Plaza after school program.........100,000
Oakland Unified School District, California, for teacher
professional development......................................440,000
Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH, to expand the Council's
international programming...................................1,200,000
Ohio Center of Science and Industry, Columbus, OH, for the
development of a statewide science and math education service
program.....................................................5,000,000
Ohio Department of Education, Columbus, OH, ``Troops to Teachers
Ohio Demonstration''........................................2,500,000
Oklahoma State Department of Education, Oklahoma City, OK, for a
handheld computing initiative to be coordinated with the
University of Central Oklahoma in Edmund, OK................1,000,000
Olympic Park Institute to expand its scholarship fund to allow more
disadvantaged students to attend its environmental education
programs......................................................250,000
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY, for technology and
personnel.....................................................500,000
Opelika City Board of Education, Opelika, AL, for technology.....38,000
Operation Get Ahead, Hempstead, New York, for an Early Awareness for
College program for disadvantaged youth.......................200,000
Our Hope For Youth, Delaware, for an anti-school violence education
media program on in-school educational networks...............500,000
Oxford City Board of Education, Oxford, AL, for technology.......38,000
Pacific Islands Center for Educational Development in American S400,000
Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Washington to develop a hands-on
genetics exhibit to explain basic concepts of genetics and the
human genome project..........................................250,000
Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca, New York, for the
development of earth science educational programs.............100,000
PARENTS, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska, for creation of a full-working
parent matching, mentoring and home visit system to support
parents of children with disabilities for the state of Alaska.500,000
PARENTS, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska, for implementation and expansion
of their projects to train teachers, specialists and parents in
the use of technology to assist students with disabilities..1,000,000
Phenix City Board of Education, Phenix City, AL, for technology..38,000
Philadelphia Opera Sounds of Learning...........................100,000
Piedmont City Board of Education, Piedmont, AL, for technology...38,000
Pima Community College, Arizona, for an Achieving a College
Education initiative to help low-income and minority students
attend college................................................185,000
Pinellas County Florida School District, St. Petersburg, FL, for
technology for Title I schools..............................3,587,000
Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium.....................................200,000
Plymouth Community Renewal Center, Louisville, KY, after school
tutoring, mentoring and enrichment programs for at-risk student40,000
Pomona Unified School District, Pomona, CA, for a Literacy
Technology Center...........................................1,000,000
Port Chester-Rye Union Free School District, New York, for an after
school program at Thomas Edison Elementary School.............260,000
Potter Park Zoological Society, Lansing, MI, Expanding Educational
Programming ``The BIG Zoo Lesson''............................100,000
Prairie Lakes Education Cooperative in Madison, SD to advance
distance learning for Native Americans in BIA and tribal schoo500,000
Prime Time Family Reading Time to continue its family literacy
programs in Louisiana.........................................100,000
Prince William County, VA, Bilingual Literacy Extended Kindergarten
Program.......................................................140,000
Prince William County, VA, for assistance to Special Need Middle
School Students...............................................100,000
Prince William County, VA, Mathematics Intervention Program......90,000
Project Intercept to identify and intercept youth who display early-
stage problems, implement mentoring programs and offer sensitivity
training to teachers, principals and parents..................100,000
Project STARS (Strategies to Accelerate Reading Success) in Clark
County, NV to provide literacy intervention for students......900,000
Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ, for ``Center for
International Education and Entrepreneurship''................800,000
Randolph County Board of Education, Wedowee, AL, for technology..38,000
Reading Alabama, Inc. in Montgomery, Alabama....................150,000
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Reading Evaluation and Assessment Demonstration, Today Foundation in
Dallas, Texas.................................................200,000
Reading Together USA Program at the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro for tutoring program expansion.....................800,000
ReadNet Foundation, New York, NY, to fully implement web-based
simulation educational program................................600,000
Red Bluff Joint Union High School District, Red Bluff, CA, for
technology....................................................180,000
Resource Area for Teachers, San Jose, California, to provide
classroom learning materials and teacher training in use of
interactive materials.........................................340,000
Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Forces
of Change Collaborative Exhibit...............................200,000
Rio Linda Union School District, Rio Linda, CA, for technology..350,000
Riverside Community College District, Riverside, CA, for curriculum
development and related costs for the Riverside School for the
Arts..........................................................500,000
Robbie Valentine Stars Club Education Program, Louisville, KY, after
school tutoring, mentoring and enrichment programs for at-risk
students.......................................................50,000
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio, for
curriculum development, educational materials, and outreach
activities to expand the ``Rockin' the Schools'' music education
program to reach additional students..........................200,000
Rockford Public School District #205, Rockford, IL, for a magnet
schools program.............................................1,200,000
Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development in Detroit,
Michigan to expand Pathways to Freedom and Learning Center
programs......................................................200,000
Russell County Board of Education, Phenix City, AL, for technolog38,000
Rutgers University Law School to support a scholarship fund, public
interest activities, and its work with the LEAP Academy Charter
School, including the purchase of books and equipment.........540,000
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, New Jersey for
the RUNet 2000 to expand its innovative voice-video-data
communications system to bring the resources of the university to
more K-12 teachers and students.............................2,000,000
San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, for a distance
learning project..............................................150,000
San Diego Unified School District in CA, for ``The Blueprint for
Student Success in a Standards-Based System''...............1,000,000
San Luis Obispo County Office of Education, California, to develop,
maintain and distribute school violence emergency response kits75,000
Santa Barbara High School District, California, to develop a health
careers academy at San Marcos High School......................50,000
School District of Bruce, WI, for after school programs.........400,000
School District of Palm Beach County, Florida, to provide after
school and evening supplemental bilingual language instruction for
immigrant students and their parents..........................600,000
School District of Rhinelander, WI, for after school programs.1,000,000
Schoolcraft College, Livonia, MI, VistaTech Center for development
and technological equipment to provide extensive connectivity to
the Internet................................................1,000,000
Schurz Elementary School in Schurz, NV for the One-on-one Laptop
Computer Program..............................................249,000
Science and Math Teacher Academy University of North Texas and Paul
Quinn College.................................................200,000
Science Applications International Corporation, King of Prussia, PA,
for HUBS Education Program....................................200,000
ScienceSouth, Inc., Florence, South Carolina, for science education
programming, a science traveling exhibit, and outreach activit500,000
Shake-A-Leg Miami to develop curriculum and provide equipment for
its educational programs including its Marine Trade Sea School and
marine environmental education programs for students with and
without disabilities from Miami- Dade County public schools...150,000
Shawnee Gardens Tenants Association, Louisville, KY, for after
school programs................................................35,000
Shiloh Baptist Church Community Renewal Center, Louisville, KY,
after school tutoring, mentoring and enrichment programs for at-
risk students..................................................50,000
South Cook Education Consortium in Hazel Crest, IL, to support
computer laboratory facilitators, equipment and technology support
for community technology centers serving eight elementary school
districts in South Cook County, Illinois......................400,000
South Dakota Department of Education and Cultural Affairs for the
Distance Education Alliance to advance distance learning for South
Dakota Schools..............................................2,000,000
South Side School District, Hookstown, PA, for educational
programming....................................................40,000
Southeast Associated Ministries, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky, for an
after school programs..........................................20,000
Southeast Missouri State University's NASA Educator Resource Center
in Cape Girardeau, MO to make available to K-12 schools, teachers
and students a wide variety of educational materials related to
science, mathematics and space-science education..............170,000
Southeastern Environmental Education Alliance (SEEL) to improve
science and math education at the elementary and middle school
level.........................................................200,000
Southern Local School District, Salineville, OH, for educational
programming....................................................40,000
Southern Star Development Corporation, Louisville, KY, after school
tutoring, mentoring and enrichment programs for at-risk student40,000
Southwest Texas State University Center for School Improvement..250,000
Space Education Initiatives Inc., Green Bay, WI, for professional
development programs and technology...........................250,000
Spelman College Teacher as Leader Educational Initiative in Atlanta,
GA to provide early intervention and academic support through the
for at-risk, disadvantaged children and their families........500,000
Springfield School District, for the Schools Plus initiative to
provide after school services for elementary school students..440,000
St. Clair County Board of Education, Ashville, AL, for technology38,000
St. Clair County Educational Cooperative Board of Control,
Belleville, Illinois, for the development of hands-on learning
activities about the Mississippi River........................700,000
St. Clair County Intermediate School District, Michigan for the
``Kids Klub'' after school program............................400,000
St. Joseph's Indian School of Chamberlain, South Dakota, for after-
school programs, educational outreach, mentoring, equipment and
educational materials.........................................800,000
St. Stephens Family Life Center, Louisville, KY, after school
tutoring, mentoring and enrichment programs for at-risk student75,000
Stark County Parks, Canton, OH, for an Electronic Gateway Proj1,000,000
State of Alaska for Right Start extended-day kindergarten prog1,000,000
State of Louisiana for ``Louisiana Online''...................1,000,000
Steps to Success of Louisiana to expand its efforts to provide
parents of children from birth to three years of age with the
information and support necessary for their development.......250,000
Steubenville City Schools, Steubenville, OH, for educational
programming....................................................40,000
Sylacauga City Board of Education, Sylacauga, AL, for technology.38,000
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation,
Mountain View, California, to support project-based science and
math education at elementary, middle and high schools in Santa
Clara County, California......................................100,000
Talladega County Board of Education, Talladega, AL, for technolog38,000
Tallapoosa County Board of Education, Dadeville, AL, for technolo38,000
Teaneck Public School District, Teaneck, New Jersey, to establish
``Project Lighthouse'' after school programs at Benjamin Franklin
and Thomas Jefferson Middle Schools............................75,000
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TELACU Education Foundation in Los Angeles to provide interactive
computer literacy and tutoring to economically disadvantaged
Latino students.............................................1,800,000
The Boston History Collaborative to develop educational programs on
the history of Boston.........................................100,000
The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, for teacher training initiatives and
curriculum development........................................250,000
The Imaginarium in Anchorage to provide coursework, teaching
materials and teacher training in science and math to benefit
students in rural Alaska who do not have access to such courses
and teachers..................................................100,000
The Professional Partnership Laboratory School at Roger Williams
University in Bristol, Rhode Island to provide an innovative
learning environment for K-12 students in the Bristol-Warren
Regional School District......................................850,000
YMCAs of Sarasota, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater for expansion of
YMCA Character Development Schools which address school behavior
problems through family partnerships, counseling, case management,
parenting classes, and positive behavior modification interven250,000
THINK Together, Santa Ana, California for after school programs for
low-income students in Orange County, CA......................440,000
Thirteenth Place Youth and Family Services in Gadsden, AL, after-
school program.................................................10,000
Three Rivers Connect in Pittsburgh..............................100,000
Tides Foundation to provide assistance in supporting McKelvey
entrepreneurial college scholarships to rural, low income
Pennsylvania high school graduates. Funds shall be used for
screening of applicants, computers, books and other educational
tools, and outreach to inform students of the scholarship prog250,000
Toronto School District, Toronto, OH, for educational programming40,000
Trinity Family Life Center, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky, for an after
school programs................................................10,000
University of Akron, Akron, OH, for the ``Exercise in Hard Choic500,000
University of Akron, Ohio, for curriculum development, teacher
training and technology enhancements for the K-12 Urban School
Project.......................................................200,000
University of Alaska and Alaska Department of Education to establish
the Alaska Center for Excellence in Schools at the University of
Alaska........................................................500,000
University of Arkansas Little Rock to offer high school students a
web-based math course with the goal of reducing the number of
entering freshmen who need math remediation...................200,000
University of Iowa for a demonstration in Iowa of a computerized
reading program...............................................500,000
University of Nebraska, Kearney, Nebraska, for Minority Access to
Higher Education Program to help teachers to address the special
need of minority populations from grades K-12.................900,000
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, ``Mathematics and Science
Teacher Academy'' for professional development................850,000
University of New Orleans Millennium School Project to establish a
charter school district and redesign teacher education to support
school restructuring........................................1,000,000
University of Northern Iowa in collaboration with the Waterloo
Community Schools for the expansion of an early childhood
development center............................................600,000
University of Northern Iowa's National Center for Public and Private
School Foundations............................................200,000
University of Southern Maine, Orono, Maine, for the Electronic
Learning Marketplace to expand K-12 professional development and
improve educational standards and assessments statewide.......440,000
University of Southern Mississippi Gifted Center................100,000
University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the Urban
Educator Corps Partnership initiative.........................500,000
University of Wisconsin-Extension's School Readiness Project to
provide training and technical assistance to its partners in
preparing children for learning in school.....................200,000
Urban League of Metropolitan Denver, Colorado for an after school
program for at-risk youth in Aurora and northeast Denver......300,000
Utah Literacy Project to support the Utah Reading Excellence Act in
providing reading and training materials to rural schools.....600,000
Utah State Office of Education to help school districts test
effectiveness of administering yearly assessment using compute700,000
Vermont Higher Education Council in Essex Junction to develop
universal early learning programs to ensure that at least one
certified teacher will be available in center-based child care
programs......................................................200,000
Village of Riverdale, Illinois, to provide mentoring, conflict
resolution, and other intervention services for at-risk youth.100,000
Vocational Technical Center, New Cumberland, WV, for educational
programming....................................................40,000
Walnut Street Theater: for its Educational and Outreach program for
area K-12 schools, which includes an apprenticeship program, an
adopt a school program, and a summer camp......................25,000
Washington and Jefferson College: To support professional
development and quality education initiatives at the K-12 in the
Southwest Region of Pennsylvania..............................200,000
Washington Association of Career and Technical Education to update
training technology to ensure that it meets industry standards250,000
Washington Virtual Classroom Consortium to establish
interconnectivity between rural schools to create expanded
learning opportunities........................................750,000
Watertown Public Schools, Watertown, SD, to integrate technology in
the classroom by expanding wireless labs and computers........220,000
Watts Learning Center, Los Angeles, California for instructional
programming in reading and language arts......................285,000
Wausau School District, WI, for after school programs in middle
schools.......................................................850,000
Wellington Public School District, Wellington, KS, for teacher
training......................................................250,000
Wellsville Local School District, Wellsville, OH, for educational
programming....................................................40,000
West Allis/West Milwaukee School District, Wisconsin, for after
school centers serving low-income elementary students.........200,000
West Ed Eisenhower Regional Consortium for Science and Mathematics,
San Francisco, CA, for 24 Challenge and Jumping Levels Math...300,000
Westchester Philharmonic, Hartsdale, NY for the ``Philharmonic
Alive'' after school music and arts education pilot project....50,000
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, Joint Demonstration
Project for the ``Study of Wireless Technology in Education''.500,000
Wheeling Jesuit University NASA Center for Educational Technologies
to provide technology training to all elementary and secondary
West Virginia math and science teachers.....................3,600,000
Wheeling Park High School, Wheeling, WV, for educational programm40,000
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, Winston-Salem, NC, for
``Winston Net''...............................................100,000
Wisconsin Educational Partnership Initiative in Chippewa Falls,
Wisconsin for a professional development initiative...........350,000
Wisconsin Rapids Area Public School District, WI, for after school
programs......................................................700,000
WNVT/KidzOnline, Falls Church, VA, for online K-12 programming..800,000
Working in the Schools, Chicago to expand tutoring and mentoring
programs in the Chicago public schools........................100,000
WQED Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to provide math and science education
through its Learning Center...................................205,000
Yell County Schools in Arkansas to expand their bilingual programs
to address needs of a growing Hispanic population.............150,000
YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, for Community
Action Program................................................300,000
YMCA for a demonstration of youth mentoring and after school
activities in Iowa............................................770,000
YMCA of Central Stark County, Canton, OH, to implement a pilot
project to work with middle school youth during after school h200,000
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YMCA of Greater Seattle to expand their teen development activit500,000
YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee, Wisconsin to expand its Teen Agenda
to serve at-risk teenage youth..............................1,000,000
YMCA of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County to support women and
families through an at-risk youth center and other family supp250,000
Yosemite National Institutes, Sausalito, CA, to develop outreach
programs targeted toward minority, disadvantaged students.....500,000
Youth Alive, Inc., Louisville, KY, after school tutoring, mentoring
and enrichment programs for at-risk students...................30,000
YWCA of Anchorage for after-school enrichment programs to benefit
at-risk Anchorage schoolchildren and their mothers............500,000
Zero to Five Foundation, Los Angeles, California, to develop an
early childhood education and parenting project at the Los Angeles
Elementary School.............................................340,000
Big Brothers/ Big Sisters national program to double the number
children served in school-based mentoring.....................250,000
CAPE/PETE Net: to continue to develop its national demonstration
program for distance learning with 105 Pennsylvania universities
and colleges..................................................550,000
Cheyney University: to create a pilot ``Collaborative Center for
Teacher Preparation'' program by partnering with area school
districts.....................................................100,000
College of Physicians of Philadelphia: to expand its educational
outreach to all students in the Philadelphia School District
through a medical science museum-based experimental learning
program........................................................50,000
Communities In Schools of the Lehigh Valley: to further develop in-
school and after school programs for at-risk middle school and
high school students...........................................50,000
Eisenhower Foundation: to replicate the full community school
program that emphasizes the school as the central point of the
community.....................................................100,000
Indiana University of Pennsylvania: to establish a K-12 computer
services center for area school districts......................50,000
Microsociety: to further develop and disseminate the MICROSOCIETY
whole school model of comprehensive school reform in Philadelp200,000
Pennsylvania Ballet: for ``Accent on Dance'' program for elementary
and secondary school students for in-school and after school
programs.......................................................75,000
Philadelphia Orchestra: to allow the Orchestra to expand its 5
educational programs to reach broader and more diverse audienc175,000
Pittsburgh Technology Council: provide computer training to teachers
in school districts in the 13 county area......................50,000
Project 2000: to expand the existing program to the adjoining
housing project in Washington, DC.............................125,000
SEPCHE in Philadelphia to develop ``global curriculum'' to challenge
students to develop their knowledge of foreign languages and
culture, recognize relationships between history and current
issues, and collaborate with peers on oral and written
presentations.................................................750,000
The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship to expand the
program to Philadelphia........................................50,000
--$20,000,000 is included for a grant to the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania Department of Education to provide assistance
to low-performing school districts that are slated for
potential takeover and/or on the Education Empowerment List
as prescribed by Pennsylvania State Law. The initiative is
intended to improve the management and operations of the
school districts; assist with curriculum development; provide
after-school, summer and weekend programs; offer teacher and
principal professional development and promote the
acquisition and effective use of instructional technology and
equipment.
--$50,000,000 is included for a grant to the Iowa
Department of Education to expand the Iowa School
Construction Demonstration Project. The funds will be used to
build and repair public schools in Iowa.
--$18,000,000 for Project GRAD-USA Inc., in Houston, Texas
for continued support and expansion of the successful school
reform program.
--$9,000,000 for I CAN LEARN
--$2,000,000 for Reach Out and Read.
It has been brought to the conferees' attention that Tesoro
High School Knowledge Center in Las Flores, California is
establishing an electronic communications demonstration
project to customize storage, retrieval and dissemination of
information throughout the school. The project will consist
of state-of-the-art computers, networked within labs both
inside and outside of the school, with the capability to do
on-line research, multi-media development, video microfiche
research and desktop presentation. The conferees strongly
encourage the Department to consider funding this initiative.
It has been brought to the conferees' attention that the
Freedoms Foundation in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania conducts
educational programs for teachers and students in history,
constitutional rights, citizen's responsibilities, core
values and the private enterprise system. The conferees
strongly encourage the Department to consider funding this
initiative.
Charter Schools Homestead
The conference agreement does not include funding for
Charter Schools Homestead fund. The Senate bill proposed
$50,000,000 for this program; the House bill did not include
funding for it.
indian education
The conference agreement includes $120,368,000 for Indian
Education instead of $123,235,000 as proposed by the House
and $117,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the
totals, $97,133,000 is provided for grants to LEAs, instead
of $100,000,000 as proposed by the House and $94,265,000 as
proposed by the Senate. The agreement also includes
$3,235,000 for national activities as proposed by the House
instead of $2,735,000 as proposed by the Senate.
bilingual and immigrant education
The conference agreement includes $665,000,000 for
Bilingual and Immigrant Education programs instead of
$700,000,000 as proposed by the House and $600,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate. H.R. 1 consolidates the Bilingual
Education Act with the Emergency Immigrant Education Program.
Reform of existing law will focus existing programs on
teaching English to limited English proficient children
(LEP), including immigrant children and youth, and holding
states accountable for their LEP students attaining English.
H.R. 1 eliminates the requirement that 75 percent of federal
bilingual education funds are to be used for programs that
use a child's native language in instruction and also
requires that 95 percent of funds must go to the local level
to teach LEP children.
Special Education
The conference agreement includes $8,672,804,000 for
Special Education instead of $8,860,076,000 as proposed by
the House and $8,439,643,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
agreement provides $3,600,804,000 in fiscal year 2002 and
$5,072,000,000 in fiscal year 2003 funding for this account.
Included in these funds is $7,528,533,000 for Grants to
States part b instead of $7,714,685,000 as proposed by the
House and $7,339,685,000 as proposed by the Senate. This
funding level provides nearly an additional $1,200,000,000 to
assist the States in meeting the additional per pupil costs
of services to special education students.
The conference agreement includes $417,000,000 for Grants
for Infants and Families instead of $430,000,000 as proposed
by the House and $383,567,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $51,700,000 for state
program improvement grants instead of $54,200,000 as proposed
by the House and $49,200,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
agreement includes $78,380,000 for research and innovation
instead of $70,000,000 as proposed by both the House and the
Senate. Within the amounts provided for Special Education
Research and Innovation, the conference agreement includes
funding for the following:
2002 Paralympic Winter Games for the Salt Lake City Organizing
Committees or to a government agency or a not-for-profit
organization, to support venue operations, spectator services,
broadcast support, and ceremonies............................$850,000
Best Buddies International, Inc. in Miami, FL to enhance the lives
of people with mental retardation by providing opportunities for
one-to-one friendships and integrated employment..............500,000
Center for Discovery International Family Institute, Sullivan
County, NY, to develop a program initiative directed toward
acquisition, synthesis and application of information about
disabilities..................................................500,000
Center for Literacy and Assessment, University of Southern
Mississippi...................................................850,000
Easter Seals' Delta Project.....................................100,000
Fraser Child and Family Center, Richfield, Minnesota, for research,
technology, personnel development, and parent training to improve
services to children with neurological, emotional and behavioral
disorders.....................................................200,000
Hebrew Academy for Special Children, New York City for a
demonstration project to enhance academic and social outcomes of
developmentally disabled children and adults..................540,000
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Iowa Parent Training Information Center for pilot on referral and
legal advice..................................................100,000
Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD for computer technology to
expand distance learning opportunities for disabled students and
to provide professional development.........................1,700,000
Lady B. Ranch, Apple Valley, CA, for direct services related to the
Therapeutic Horseback Riding Program..........................150,000
Norman Howard School, Rochester, NY, for the Community Learning
Resource Initiative for children with learning disabilities...400,000
Puget Sound Educational Service District, Burien, Washington for a
pilot program to improve special education services and teacher
training......................................................490,000
Rainbows United, Wichita, KS, for research efforts and staff
development in special education programs.....................500,000
Spokane Guilds' School and Neuromuscular Center, Spokane, WA, to
evaluate the effectiveness of type of care provided at the cen500,000
University of Kentucky Special Education Instructional Technology
Initiative..................................................1,000,000
The agreement also includes $36,210,000 for technology and
media services as proposed by the Senate instead of
$31,710,000 as proposed by the House. The agreement includes
$9,500,000 for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic for the
purposes described in both the House and Senate reports.
The agreement also includes $1,500,000 for Public
Telecommunications Information and Training Dissemination as
proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not contain funds
for this activity.
rehabilitation services and disability research
The conference agreement includes $2,945,813,000 for
Rehabilitation Services and Disability Research instead of
$2,942,117,000 as proposed by the House and $2,932,617,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The conferees agree that, in reallocating any FY 2002 funds
that become available for reallocation to states under the
reallotment process authorized under section 110(b)(1) of the
Rehabilitation Act, the Department accord priority to states
that received a formula allocation providing less than a full
cost-of-living adjustment in FY 2002 and to the early
implementation states under the Ticket to Work and Self
Sufficiency Program that have experienced an increase in the
number of eligible applicants as a result of the
implementation of this program.
The conference agreement includes $11,897,000 for client
assistance state grants instead of $12,147,000 as proposed by
the Senate and $11,647,000 as proposed by the House. The
agreement also includes $21,238,000 for demonstration and
training programs instead of $16,492,000 as proposed by both
the House and the Senate. The conference agreement includes
$1,000,000 above the budget request to support programs
designed to improve the quality of applied orthotic and
prosthetic research and help meet the increasing demand for
provider services. Within the amounts provided for vocational
rehabilitation demonstration and training programs, the
conference agreement includes funding for the following
activities:
American Foundation for the Blind, for a National Literacy Center
for the Visually Impaired in Atlanta, Georgia................$266,000
Apple Patch Community Inc., Crestwood, KY, for vocational training
for adults with mental retardation.............................45,000
Cabrillo College Stroke Center, Santa Cruz, California, for a
demonstration project on classroom-based approaches to long-term
rehabilitation................................................200,000
Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation's Rehabilitation Research and
Training Center and Wichita State University to continue to help
people with disabilities obtain self-sufficient employment....500,000
Darden Rehabilitation Foundation in Gadsden, AL, for vocational
evaluation, employment preparation services and job developmen275,000
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Learning Disability Research
and Training at Krasnow Institute for continuation of learning
disability research...........................................400,000
Hot Springs Rehabilitation Center to expand their welding training
program so individuals with disabilities gain the vocational
skills needed to lead productive and independent lives........160,000
Lighthouse for the Blind to expand services that help deaf-blind
clients with daily tasks, to purchase adaptive computer equipment
and to provide interpreter services...........................500,000
Oakland Community College, Michigan, for a sign language instruction
interpreter training program, in conjunction with Deaf Community
Advocacy Network, to serve deaf and hard-of-hearing individual100,000
Orange County Public Schools, Maitland, FL, for the Virtual Reality-
Based Education & Training for the Deaf program...............800,000
Wisconsin Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, Madison, Wisconsin,
for the Tech Works project to train individuals with disabilities
for high-skill jobs in the information technology sector......500,000
The conference agreement includes $15,200,000 for
Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights instead of
$16,000,000 as proposed by the House and $14,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $62,500,000 for
Independent Living Centers instead of $63,000,000 as proposed
by the House and $60,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
agreement also includes $25,000,000 for services for older
blind individuals as proposed by the House instead of
$20,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes language which allows
states in their third year of a three-year assistive
technology extension grant to continue to receive an award in
fiscal year 2002. This language is provided to allow time for
the authorizing committees to review the Assistive Technology
program, as it now operates in the new policy landscape that
includes the Olmstead decision, final section 508 guidelines,
and the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act.
This language was not included in either the House or Senate
bills. However, the Senate bill included language providing
minimum grants of $500,000 for each state and $150,000 for
outlying areas.
The conferees also have included bill language contained in
the House bill to provide minimum grants of $50,000 to each
state for activities relating to protection and advocacy
systems. The Senate bill included language providing minimum
grants of $100,000 for states and $50,000 for outlying areas
for this purpose.
The conferees recommend that the Department of Education
reconsider whether there might be any circumstances under
which a placement in an extended employment setting should be
considered an acceptable outcome.
Special Institutions for Persons with Disabilities
American Printing House for the Blind
The conference agreement includes $14,000,000 for American
Printing House for the Blind as proposed by the Senate
instead of $13,000,000 as proposed by the House.
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
The conference agreement includes $55,376,000 for the
National Technical Institute for the Deaf as proposed by the
House instead of $54,976,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Gallaudet University
The conference agreement includes $96,938,000 for Gallaudet
University instead of $95,600,000 as proposed by the House
and $97,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Vocational and Adult Education
The conference agreement includes $1,934,060,000 for
Vocational and Adult Education instead of $2,006,060,000 as
proposed by the House and $1,818,060,000 as proposed by the
Senate. The agreement provides $1,143,060,000 in fiscal year
2002 and $791,000,000 in fiscal year 2003 funding for this
account.
The conference agreement includes $1,180,000,000 for
Vocational Education basic state grants instead of
$1,250,000,000 as proposed by the House and $1,100,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $108,000,000 for Tech
Prep, instead of $110,000,000 as proposed by the House and
$106,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $6,500,000 for Tribally
Controlled Postsecondary Vocational Institutions instead of
$7,000,000 as proposed by the Senate and $6,000,000 as
proposed by the House.
The conferees remain interested in the distribution of
funds available under section 117 Perkins Act, and request
that the Department report no later than August 1, 2002 on
how it is distributing funds as set out in the law. The
conferees further request that this report include the per
capita data used by the Department in distributing these
funds.
The conference agreement includes bill language allowing
grantees under section 117 of the Perkins Act to be exempt
from indirect cost rate requirements imposed by this program.
The conferees have included this bill language because they
recognize that there are certain circumstances in which
grantees might require additional flexibility not provided
under current law or regulation. However, the conferees
remain committed to maximizing federal resources for direct
educational services, as opposed to paying for administrative
and other indirect costs that do not increase access to high
quality vocational and technical post secondary education
programs for students served through this program. Therefore,
the conferees urge the Secretary to report to the Committees
on Appropriations and Education and the Workforce of the
House and the Committees on Appropriations and Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions of the Senate on the indirect
cost rates of grantees participating in this program,
including a justification for any grantee that
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has an indirect cost rate considerably greater than those
allowed under current law and regulation.
The agreement also includes $9,500,000 to continue the
occupational and employment information program instead of
$10,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not
include funding for this activity.
The conference agreement includes $5,000,000 for the tech-
prep education demonstration authorized under section 207 of
the Perkins Act as proposed by the Senate. The House did not
provide funding for this activity. The agreement also
includes $22,000,000 for State Grants for Incarcerated Youth
as proposed by the Senate instead of $17,000,000 as proposed
by the House.
The conference agreement includes $575,000,000 for adult
education state grants instead of $595,000,000 as proposed by
the House and $540,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Student Financial Assistance
The conference agreement includes $12,285,500,000 for
Student Financial Assistance instead of $12,410,100,000 as
proposed by the House and $12,284,100,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
The agreement provides a program level of $10,314,000,000
for Pell Grants as proposed by the Senate instead of
$10,458,100,000 as proposed by the House. The conferees note
that this is the largest increase in appropriations in the
Pell Grant program's history, bringing the total number of
students served to 4.3 million, the highest level in the
program's history. The Pell Grant program is of great
importance in a declining economy because it enables people
to develop new job skills so they can become more marketable
in highly competitive workplaces. The conferees strongly
support an increased maximum in the Pell Grant program and
have accordingly retained the maximum Pell Grant for academic
year 2002-2003 at $4,000 as set in both the House and Senate
bills.
The conferees are aware that the Department of Education is
currently projecting a funding shortfall of $716,000,000 in
the Pell Grant program for academic year 2001-2002. This
shortfall is the result of a larger-than-expected increase in
the number of independent students applying and qualifying
for the Pell Grant program in a worsening economy and was
exacerbated by the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
As such, the shortfall was not anticipated in either the
budget request or the House and Senate bills. The increase in
funding provided in the conference report will retire this
shortfall for academic year 2001-2002; however, the conferees
are aware that the Pell Grant program will experience an
additional shortfall in academic year 2002-2003 at the $4,000
maximum award level and strongly recommend that the
Administration propose a supplemental budget request to begin
to retire this shortfall in fiscal year 2002.
The conference agreement includes $725,000,000 for
Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants as proposed by
the House instead of $713,100,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The agreement also includes $67,500,000 for Perkins Loan
cancellations instead of $60,000,000 as proposed by the House
and $75,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also
includes $67,000,000 for Leveraging Educational Assistance
Partnerships (LEAP) instead of $55,000,000 as proposed by the
House and $70,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conferees support continuing funding for work colleges,
authorized in section 448 of the Higher Education Act of
1965. These funds help support comprehensive work-service-
learning programs at seven work colleges, and cooperative
efforts among the work colleges to expose other institutions
of higher education to the work college concept. Of the funds
provided, the conference agreement includes $4,000,000 to
continue and expand the work colleges program.
Higher Education
The conference agreement includes $2,031,048,000 for Higher
Education instead of $1,908,151,000 as proposed by the House
and $1,826,223,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Aid for Institutional Development
The conference agreement includes $73,625,000 for
strengthening institutions instead of $73,000,000 as proposed
by the House and $74,250,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
agreement also includes $86,000,000 for Hispanic Serving
Institutions instead of $81,500,000 as proposed by the House
and $77,750,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $206,000,000 for
Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities
instead of $215,000,000 as proposed by the House and
$197,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $49,000,000 for
Historically Black Graduate Institutions instead of
$50,000,000 as proposed by the House and $48,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $6,500,000 for Alaska and
Native Hawaiian Institutions instead of $7,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate and $6,000,000 as proposed by the
House.
The conference agreement includes $17,500,000 for
Strengthening Tribal Colleges instead of $18,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate and $17,000,000 as proposed by the
House. The conference agreement provides that the additional
funds for Strengthening Tribal Colleges and Universities for
fiscal year 2002 shall only be for grants for renovation and
construction of facilities, to help address urgently needed
facilities repair and expansion.
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
The conference agreement includes $180,922,000 for the Fund
for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education instead of
$52,400,000 as proposed by the House and $51,200,000 as
proposed by the Senate. Within the amounts provided for the
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, the
conference agreement includes funding for the following:
Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, California to upgrade and
purchase equipment for automotive and culinary training progr$350,000
Purchase College, NY to develop academic programs and implement a
computerized academic advising system.........................500,000
Africa-America Institute for the African Workforce and Market
Development Initiative which will employ new information
technologies to deliver education and training from American
universities to Africa........................................500,000
AIB College of Business, Des Moines, IA, to train court reporting
students in captioning........................................800,000
Alabama A&M University Research Institute, Huntsville, Alabama, for
continuation of research activities and operations............400,000
Albany Technical College in Albany, GA to reach out to rural
communities through the Interactive Distance Learning program and
give citizens the opportunity to improve their basic and technical
skills........................................................500,000
Alfred State College of Technology Court and Real-time Reporting
program, Alfred, NY, to train close-caption reporters.........800,000
Alverno College, Wisconsin, for technology equipment and upgrade500,000
Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, New Orleans,
Louisiana, for education outreach and to develop an African
American curatorship program..................................225,000
Arkansas State University Mountain Home Hearing Healthcare Degree
program to utilize distance learning technology to develop and
offer a new degree program for hearing health care practitione140,000
Assumption College in Worcester, Mass. for technology
infrastructure, training and support..........................200,000
Auburn University at Montgomery for instructional technology lab
equipment.....................................................100,000
Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA, for science center technology,
equipment and personnel.....................................1,000,000
Ball State University in Muncie, IN, technology education projec600,000
Bay Mills Community College, Brimley Michigan for instruction
equipment and technology infrastructure.......................200,000
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to develop an associates degree
program in nanotechnology at four community colleges in
southeastern Pennsylvania and to establish outreach programs in
local high schools............................................600,000
Beville State Community College in Sumiton, AL, for technology
upgrades......................................................500,000
Bloomsburg University: to provide computer wiring, computers and
training for teachers in the 25 surrounding school districts..100,000
Brookdale's Community College for design, acquisition and
installation of the technology component of ``New Jersey Coastal
Communiversity''..............................................500,000
Buena Vista University, Storm Lake, IA, for equipment.........1,000,000
Cal State, San Marcos, CA, Center for the Study of Books in Span300,000
Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ, ``Center of Excellence in Teaching''
to develop academic programs and workshops and to purchase
technology..................................................1,000,000
California State University Monterey Bay, for student support
services......................................................200,000
California State University, Monterey Bay, California, for a
cooperative project with Western Michigan University for a study
of wireless technology in education and industry...............75,000
California State University, San Bernardino, CA, for
telecommunications and equipment..............................500,000
California State University, Stanislaus, California, for
laboratories, curriculum development, faculty and scholarships for
a pre-licensure nursing program...............................225,000
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Cameron County Jr/Sr. High School, Emporium, PA, for technology
infrastructure................................................100,000
Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, to enhance distance learning
programs......................................................210,000
Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to expand
programs that address workforce development needs in the teaching
and nursing professions.......................................800,000
Center for International Trade, Oklahoma State University,
Stillwater, OK, for educational programs......................300,000
Central College, Pella, Iowa, for teacher training in technology and
for distance education programs.............................1,000,000
Centre County AVTS, Pleasant Gap, PA, for technology infrastruct100,000
Chattanooga State Technical Community College, Chattanooga, TN, to
support real time captioning training.........................700,000
City College of San Francisco, California, for the National
Articulation and Transfer Network.............................800,000
Clarion County Career Center, Shippenville, PA, for technology
infrastructure................................................100,000
Clark State Community College, Springfield, OH, to train and recruit
students in closed-captioning.................................250,000
Clemson University College of Health's ``Call Me MISTER'' program,
designed to recruit minority males as teachers in public schoo500,000
Clemson University Extension Service's Digital Divide program, to
partner with local communities, agencies, and organizations to
make information accessible to those who live in South Carolina's
least developed areas.........................................250,000
Clemson University's Strom Thurmond Institute, to address the effect
of increased funding on education.............................250,000
Cleveland State University, College of Education, Cleveland, OH, for
technology..................................................1,000,000
College of Charleston School of Sciences and Mathematics for
scientific and audio/visual equipment and telecommunications
systems.......................................................500,000
College of Southern Maryland, in conjunction with the Technical
Career Institute in New York City, to implement a Women in
Technology demonstration program..............................250,000
Columbia River Estuary Research Program at Oregon Graduate Institute
School of Science and Engineering certificate and degree programs
in Environmental Information Technology........................50,000
Columbia University Teachers College, New York City, NY to expand
teacher professional development and mentoring in high need
schools.......................................................430,000
Columbia University, New York, for a joint project with the Hostos
Community College of the City University of New York, New York,
for a distance learning initiative to train minority students in
foreign policy disciplines....................................100,000
Community College of Allegheny and the Orleans Technical Institute
to train captioners...........................................200,000
Contra Costa Community College, California, for the Bridge to the
Future pilot project to increase the enrollment of low-income
students......................................................400,000
Coudersport Area Jr/Sr. High School, Coudersport, PA, for technology
infrastructure................................................100,000
Darton College, Albany, Georgia, for personnel, curriculum
development, technology equipment and support for a rural
technology network............................................440,000
Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona, FL, for high technology
instructional equipment and technology infrastructure.........250,000
Delta State University's Delta Education Initiative in Cleveland,
MS, to improve birth through 12th grade education in the
impoverished Mississippi Delta................................500,000
Dominican University of California to develop a center for science
and technology to serve as a national model for the education of
female and minority scientists, nurse training and the use of
technology in education and outreach..........................300,000
D'Youville College, Buffalo, New York, to enhance distance learning
programs......................................................210,000
Early childhood leadership training initiative at Oregon State
University in Corvallis........................................75,000
East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA, for science
center equipment..............................................500,000
Eastern College, St Davids, PA, for telecommunications equipment200,000
Eastern Oregon University, LaGrande, OR, for technology equipmen500,000
Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, for purchase of equ1,000,000
Edmonds Community College to enhance programs related to child care
for students and staff, parent training courses and training for
early childhood educators, including the acquisition of equipm250,000
Edward Waters College, Jacksonville, Florida, to upgrade computer
technology and telecommunications.............................225,000
Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL, for Integrated Systems
Technology Program............................................250,000
Emerson College in Boston, Mass. for curriculum development in the
performing arts.............................................1,000,000
Emmanuel College in Boston, MA to improve academic programs
including technology improvements.............................850,000
Encore Series Inc. in Philadelphia for Music Education and Community
Outreach......................................................100,000
Enterprise Center in West Philadelphia to provide resources for
entrepreneurial education.....................................250,000
Florida Campus Compact, Tallahassee, Florida, to enhance service
learning on college campuses throughout Florida...............400,000
Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, FL, for curriculum
development and planning....................................1,000,000
Forsyth Technical Community College, Winston-Salem, NC, for an
Informational Technology Education Center.....................100,000
Franklin Pierce College computer upgrades.....................1,000,000
Franklin Pierce College distance learning initiative........100,000,000
Gadsden State Community College, Gadsen, AL, to recruit and train
individuals in performing real-time captioning services.......425,000
Gateway Technical College, Kenosha, WI, for equipment...........500,000
George J. Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute in Portland, Maine
to provide scholarships that allow students attending public high
schools in Maine to continue their education................1,000,000
Glendale Community College, Glendale, California, for equipment and
technology upgrades for the Cimmarusti Science Center.........400,000
Glenville State College, Glenville, West Virginia, for faculty,
curriculum development and equipment to establish a computer
science program...............................................200,000
Grambling State University to equip a Lifelong Learning and
Technology complex............................................500,000
Green River Community College's Communications Access Realtime
Translation (CART) Services Training to provide curriculum,
distance learning, scholarships and job placement in the area of
closed captioning.............................................250,000
Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, for equipment....................250,000
Heidelburg College, Tiffin, OH, for technology and equipment for
science buildings...........................................1,500,000
Higher Education Learning Center in Des Moines, Iowa for curriculum
development...................................................200,000
Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, FL, ``Teacher Development
Initiative''................................................1,000,000
Hofstra University, New York, for technology enhancements.......200,000
Holyoke Community College for technology education programs at the
College's Business and Technology Center......................350,000
Hood River Integrated Technology Center in Hood River, Oregon...150,000
Huntingdon College for Training Teachers in Technology in
Montgomery, Alabama...........................................200,000
Huntingdon College, Montgomery, AL, Super Sport Program for research
and equipment.................................................686,000
Illinois Community College Board ``Illinois Community College Online
initiative'' to purchase equipment to implement statewide online
degree model................................................1,000,000
Indian Hills College in Ottumwa, Iowa for technology upgrades and
equipment at the Bioprocess Training Center...................800,000
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Center for Corrections Education,
Indiana, PA, for technology, curriculum development, scholarships
and outreach activities.......................................600,000
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, to continue and expand
Project TEAM to recruit talented minority students into the field
of teaching...................................................675,000
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Information Technology Infrastructure, Alabama A&M in Normal,
Alabama.......................................................100,000
Institute of American History and Democracy, College of William and
Mary, Williamsburg, VA, for curriculum development............500,000
Iowa State University Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching
and the Center for Excellence in Science and Math Education...150,000
Iowa Student Aid Commission to continue a program of loan
forgiveness for teachers....................................2,000,000
Ivy Tech State College, Indiana, to establish a machine tool
training apprenticeship program at campuses in South Bend and East
Chicago, Indiana..............................................220,000
Ivy Tech State College-Northeast Region, Ft. Wayne, IN, for
equipment.....................................................150,000
Jack C. Davis Observatory, Western Nevada Community College to
procure educational materials and technology related to the
observatory's academic offerings..............................300,000
Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, to establish an e-
Center focused on electronic-based teaching and learning, research
and community outreach and services...........................200,000
Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL, for Little River
Canyon Field School program development and technology........412,000
Jefferson College, Hillsboro, Missouri, for the Instructional
Support Center to provide technology training and distance
learning programs in collaboration with the Gateway Community
College Consortium............................................450,000
Jefferson County-Dubois AVTS, Reynoldsville, PA for technology
infrastructure................................................100,000
Kean University, Union, NJ, Global University Studies Internship
Program.......................................................800,000
Kent State University, Kent, OH, for Institute for Computational
Science for the development of interdisciplinary and outreach
activities in research and education........................1,200,000
Keystone Central AVTS, Lock Haven, PA, for technology infrastruc100,000
Keystone Central School District in Pennsylvania, in collaboration
with Lock Haven University, to continue a model alternative sc750,000
Keystone College, LaPlume, PA, for technology upgrade...........150,000
Kishwaukee College, IL, for Computer Technology Center to purchase
computers and equipment.......................................400,000
La Roche College, Pacem In Terris Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, for
technology....................................................600,000
LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, New York, for
technology-based teacher training initiatives.................600,000
Lake Area Technical Institute in Watertown, SD to integrate
interactive learning in technical education programs through the
use of technology..............................................80,000
Lake Superior State University to develop and implement a new degree
program to meet industry's increasing demand for skilled trades
workers trained in new technologies...........................200,000
Lakeshore Technical College in Cleveland, Wisconsin to provide
training, distance learning, education and job placement services
for court reporters and captioners............................500,000
Landmark College in Putney, VT to develop a model implementation
system for improving access to public school and college
classrooms through the use of assistive technology............350,000
Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, NC, ``Applied Mathematics Progra650,000
Lehman College, New York City, New York for a distance learning
initiative to connect pre-service teachers with experienced
classroom teachers............................................440,000
Lewis and Clark Community College, Illinois for programmatic
activities related to study of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
at the Great Rivers Research and Education Center.............100,000
Lincoln University to purchase laboratory and computer equipment to
provide a six-week summer workshop for teachers within the
Philadelphia School District..................................100,000
Lorain County Community College, Elyria, Ohio for technology
upgrades for distance learning programs and advanced placement
programs......................................................480,000
Los Angeles Community College District, California, for the
Vocational Instructor Recruitment Initiative..................315,000
Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, CA, for equipment, personnel
and curriculum development for the Television Network distance
learning project..............................................800,000
Lourdes College, Sylvania, Ohio to upgrade laboratory equipment and
programs at the Life Lab for Natural and Environmental Science200,000
Macon State College, Macon, GA, for technology and faculty at the
Regional Center for Information Technology and Workforce
Development...................................................400,000
Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wisconsin to provide
training, distance learning, education and job placement services
for court reporters and captioners............................500,000
Madonna University, Livonia, Michigan for technology............175,000
Maricopa Community College District, Phoenix, Arizona, for the
Hispanic Nursing Fellows Program..............................400,000
Maryland Association of Community Colleges to reinforce community
colleges' ability to educate and train the Information Technology
workforce throughout Maryland...............................1,250,000
Maryland Institute for Minority Achievement and Urban Education,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD to develop, evaluate, and
implement promising practices for improving minority student
achievement and urban education...............................750,000
Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement Program, University
of California, Oakland, California to develop strategies to
prepare and support students for nursing careers..............200,000
Midstate College in Peoria, IL, to establish a real-time captioning
training program..............................................100,000
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities for Emerging Curriculum
for the 21st Century Program................................1,000,000
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, St. Paul, MN for
development of an e-monitoring environment..................1,000,000
Minority Math, Jackson State University.........................550,000
Minot State University to develop an Institute for Rural Human
Services that will study systems designed to meet the unique needs
of persons with disabilities living in rural communities......250,000
Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica Campus, Utica, NY, for
technology....................................................500,000
Montana State University--Northern in Havre, MT to develop curricula
and educational materials related to rural development program250,000
Montana State University-Bozeman distance learning opportunities for
rural and remote populations..................................500,000
Montana State University-Bozeman to launch a Coalition for
Establishing a National Teacher Enhancement Network...........500,000
Montclair State University, New Jersey, for the Center for Teacher
Preparation and Learning Technology to expand teacher training
programs......................................................750,000
Morris Brown College, Atlanta, GA, for computer and technology
equipment...................................................2,000,000
Mount St. Clare College, Clinton, IA, to create, test and implement
a technology-based undergraduate and graduate teacher training
program.....................................................1,000,000
Mt Vernon Nazarene College, Mt. Vernon, OH, equipment, technology
upgrades of the Natural Sciences and Social Sciences facility.500,000
Murray State University's Telecommunications Training and Learning
Center to assist Western Kentucky public schools in exploring new
technologies..................................................300,000
National Association of Student Personnel Administrators,
Washington, D.C., for a minority undergraduate fellows program to
increase minorities in higher education.......................250,000
National Aviary Conservation Education Technology Integration in
Pittsburgh....................................................250,000
New Jersey Institute of Technology to provide technological
equipment for expansion of their teacher training programs....350,000
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Niagara University, Lewiston, New York, to enhance distance learning
programs......................................................210,000
Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA for their International
Program to support staffing, curriculum development and equipment
acquisition...................................................650,000
North Carolina Community College System for information technology
upgrades......................................................250,000
North Central State Community College, Mansfield, OH, for equipment
and professional development..................................100,000
North Dakota State University for the Tech-Based Industry
Traineeship Program designed to enhance student postsecondary
experiences while providing innovative solutions to small business
needs.........................................................350,000
Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK for rural education
programs at the Center for Rural Development..................250,000
Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, Massachusetts, for
technology equipment for its Technology Training Center.......600,000
Northern Illinois University for the Lab for Structural Analysis and
Computer Modeling to purchase equipment.......................500,000
Northern Illinois University for the Nanoscale Science, Engineering,
and Technology Laboratory to purchase equipment.............2,000,000
Northern Kentucky University for the Institute for Freedom Studies
to promote understanding of the Underground Railroad..........920,000
Northern Potter Jr/Sr. High School, Ulysses, PA, for technology
infrastructure................................................100,000
Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, for
programmatic activities, including equipment, for the Lifelong
Learning Center on the West Bay campus........................500,000
Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT, for technology and equip500,000
Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education, Oklahoma City, OK, for
distance learning expansion.................................1,000,000
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, for technology in
coordination with other state and local telecommunications
projects, including the Ponca City broadband project and the
Oklahoma Municipal League's Telecommunications project........350,000
Oregon Health and Science University's Institute for Excellence in
Nursing in Portland, Oregon...................................250,000
Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, OR, for course
development and equipment.....................................300,000
Peirce College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for technology
enhancements, course development, faculty training, and outreach
activities to expand Peirce Online............................400,000
Philadelphia University, Pennsylvania, for technology equipment and
upgrades......................................................600,000
Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse...................................250,000
Portland State University, Oregon to recruit, prepare and support
secondary school administrators...............................440,000
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, to support public
service programs at the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government in
the College of Urban and Public Affairs.......................250,000
Research and evaluation agenda for health care delivery in Alaska
centered at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.............750,000
Rose State College, Midwest City, OK, for a closed-captioning pilot
program.....................................................1,000,000
Salve Regina University, Newport RI to expand and update its
distance education efforts to serve a larger potential student
market via web links and interactive communication............100,000
Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, to develop and
expand a nursing education and minority workforce training p1,000,000
San Bernardino Community College District, San Bernardino, CA, to
support the expansion of distance telecourse broadcasting...1,000,000
Santa Clarita Community College District, Santa Clarita, CA, for
equipment, personnel for the University Center................800,000
Science Education Technology initiative at University of Alabama440,000
Scott County LifeLong Learning Center, Scottsburg, Indiana, for the
purchase of industrial training equipment to support training
programs that focus on the development of transferable technical
skills........................................................808,000
Seminole State College, Seminole, OK, for technology and academic
programming...................................................200,000
Seneca Highlands AVTS, Port Allegany, PA, for technology
infrastructure................................................100,000
Sheldon-Jackson College Center for Life Long Learning for teacher
training to address the shortage of teachers in rural Alaska2,000,000
Shelton State Community College Electronics and Technology Training
in Tuscaloosa, Alabama........................................100,000
Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA, ``Loudoun Higher Education
Initiative''...................................................20,000
Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA, for a teacher technology
initiative....................................................380,000
Shippensburg University: for computer wiring and computers for the
Performing Arts Center........................................200,000
Shriver Peace Worker Program, Inc. to establish the Sargent Shriver
Peace Center...............................................10,000,000
South Dakota State University in Brookings to enhance the programs
offered by the Polytechnic Center of Excellence in the College of
Engineering...................................................640,000
South Florida Community College, Avon Park, FL, for equipment...500,000
South Suburban College, South Holland, Illinois, for personnel,
curriculum development, training and administrative expenses to
implement Project Higher Education aviation and aerospace
educational initiatives.......................................250,000
Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, MO to utilize
advanced communication and computer technology to improve
curricula and programs offered by its School of Visual and
Performing Arts...............................................900,000
Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO, River
Campus Initiative.............................................850,000
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in Peoria, IL, to establish
a real-time captioning training program........................25,000
Southern Methodist University, Texas, for a program to increase
enrollment and graduation of engineering students.............800,000
Southern New England School of Law, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts,
to support faculty, staff and student stipends for the
establishment of an immigration law clinic....................100,000
Southern New Hampshire University, to support expansion of a
distance learning program.....................................625,000
Southern University Center for Community Development, Baton Rouge to
coordinate the university's community outreach efforts.........75,000
Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, in partnership with the Atlanta
Public Schools, for a teacher training project to support urban
education.....................................................267,000
Spring Arbor University teaching consortium of higher education
institutions to develop voluntary standards to improve teacher
instruction of technology in the classroom....................125,000
St. John University, Oakdale, New York for the Institute for
Minority Teacher Development and Training to improve math and
science education in low-performing school districts and develop a
``future teachers'' project in middle and high schools........800,000
St. Louis Community College at Meramac (Kirkwood, MO) to train real-
time captioners to provide closed captioning to the deaf and hard-
of-hearing....................................................200,000
St. Mary Area Senior High School, St. Marys, PA, for technology
infrastructure................................................100,000
St. Norbert College in DePere, Wisconsin to enhance and expand a
field-based teacher training program..........................400,000
St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, FL, for an EPICENTER..2,000,000
St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, FL, for equipment,
technology, curriculum development and educational program
planning for students training in museum services...........1,000,000
St. Thomas University, Miami, FL, for computer and science
laboratory equipment..........................................500,000
Stark State College of Technology, North Canton, OH, Integrated
Systems Technology............................................990,000
State University of New York Empire State College for distance
learning project..............................................250,000
Stetson University, Deland, FL, for a scientific instrumentation,
technology and infrastructure project.......................2,500,000
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Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, for the expansion and
enhancement of ocean-based science and mathematics education
project.......................................................500,000
Stillman College, Zelpha Wells Cultural Education Center.........50,000
Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts, to establish and operate
the Moakley Archives and the Moakley Institute................750,000
Sun Area Career Training Center, New Berlin, PA, for technology
infrastructure................................................100,000
Surry Community College ``Viticulture Technology Program'' for
tools, equipment, resource materials, instructional staff, lab
supplies......................................................300,000
Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas, for equipment for
the optical observatory and for science education programs....500,000
Technology Innovation Challenge Grants for Tupelo Public Schoo1,000,000
Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, for technology.930,000
The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change in Memphis, TN, to
pursue a broad academic agenda that emphasizes the continued
importance of the Civil Rights Movement and encourages academic
research and community outreach...............................835,000
The Education and Research Consortium of Western North Carolina,
Inc., Asheville, NC, for technology............................40,000
The Research Foundation of the State University of New York,
Buffalo, NY, for technology...................................600,000
The Technology Center at Mountain State University in Beckley, WV,
to provide telecommunications equipment, including wiring for
interactive classrooms and tools to train students to create their
own electronic business opportunities.......................1,500,000
Tougaloo College, Mississippi, for establishment of the Leadership
Institute to address socioeconomic disparities within the
Mississippi Delta.............................................440,000
Trident Technical College, Charleston, South Carolina, to equip the
information technology center, electro-mechanical skills
laboratory, and the hospitality, tourism and culinary arts pro400,000
Union County College in Elizabeth, NJ to expand their program that
connects unemployed and underemployed older youth and adults to
the College's lifelong learning, literacy and occupational
training programs through the use of network technology.......250,000
University of Dubuque for the creation of a teacher training program
focused on environmental science..............................800,000
University of Alabama Science Education Technology Initiative in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama...........................................200,000
University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, for computer network and
computer security upgrades....................................400,000
University of Alaska and State of Alaska to create the Alaska
Digital Archives and Digital Library..........................500,000
University of Arizona for training and curriculum development at the
Program in Integrative Medicine...............................500,000
University of California at Santa Barbara, California, for the
Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Religion and Public Life
for research, fellowships, lecture series and community outrea500,000
University of Charleston, in cooperation with the Clay Center for
the Arts and Sciences, for technology equipment related to arts
and science education as well as outreach...................1,000,000
University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, for the ATLAS
(Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society) Project for
technology enhancement......................................1,000,000
University of Hawaii at Manoa for the Globalization Network prog300,000
University of Houston, Texas, for the Great Cities' Universities
Skills Enhancement Partnership Initiative to provide high skill
and professional training programs............................440,000
University of Idaho Advanced Computing and Modeling Laboratory to
provide independent technical expertise and applied research..700,000
University of Louisville-Northern Kentucky University's Urban
University Partnership for Math and Science Teaching........1,500,000
University of Massachusetts Schools for Marine Science and
Technology to improve marine science research programs, including
technology upgrades and equipment.............................600,000
University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Ann
Arbor, Michigan, for curriculum development and training....2,000,000
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, to expand software
education and training programs, and curriculum development...800,000
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK,
for technology................................................300,000
University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, for technology..........1,000,000
University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana, to upgrade
information technology equipment and infrastructure campus-wid500,000
University of South Alabama Preparatory Music Program in Mobile,
Alabama........................................................50,000
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, for a ``Globalization
Research Network''..........................................2,000,000
University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX, for technology1,732,000
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, for Governmental
Studies ``Youth Leadership Initiative''.....................1,200,000
University of Washington, Tacoma, Washington, for faculty,
curriculum development and equipment acquisition to establish a
technology institute..........................................100,000
University of West Alabama Electronic Campus in Livingston, Alab100,000
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for a collaborative effort to
develop a curriculum for social workers serving primarily rural,
impoverished, and vulnerable adults...........................213,000
University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Wisconsin for the Wisconsin
Agricultural Stewardship Initiative to develop and disseminate
environmentally-friendly practices and policies for production
agriculture, and related distance learning programs...........380,000
Upper Great Lakes Educational Technologies Inc., Marquette,
Michigan, for personnel, technology and support costs to design,
coordinate and implement ``Operation UP Link''................300,000
Urban College of Boston in Massachusetts to support higher education
program serving low-income and minority students............1,000,000
Venango County AVTS, Oil City, PA, for technology infrastructure100,000
Wallace Community College, Dothan AL, for new equipment.........114,000
Wallace Community College, Selma, Alabama for biology and chemistry
laboratory equipment and to incorporate science technology into
instruction....................................................70,000
Warren County AVTS, Warren, PA, for technology infrastructure...100,000
Waukesha County Technical College in Waukesha, Wisconsin and
Marquette University to develop a joint curriculum and transfer
program targeted to underserved populations in the fields of
nursing and engineering.......................................700,000
Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, to assist the Dumke College
of Health Professions for computer technology.................150,000
Wellsboro Area High School, Wellsboro, PA, for technology
infrastructure................................................100,000
West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation, Fairmont, West
Virginia, to support a collaborative effort with Fairmont State
College and DSD Laboratories of West Virginia to develop a
computer security curriculum and to strengthen an information
assurance center of excellence................................300,000
Western Governors University in Salt Lake City, UT to improve
distance learning education programs, including upgrades in
technology..................................................1,800,000
Western Kentucky University Technology Innovation Challenge Prog500,000
Westminster College, Fulton, MO, ``Winston Churchill Center for
Leadership Service'' for communications upgrades, recruitment of
staff and academic program development and implementation.....800,000
Widener University, Chester, PA, for technological infrastructure
improvements to educational entities..........................400,000
Widener University, Center for Social Work Education, Harrisburg,
PA, for curriculum development................................350,000
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William Tyndale College, Farmington Hills MI, to expand and enhance
its curriculum................................................850,000
Wilson College to expand and develop the ``Women with Children
Program,'' which assists single women with children in earning a
degree, becoming financially independent, and raising the
children's aspirations for educational accomplishment.........200,000
Wireless Computer Laboratory, East Central Community College,
Ellisville, Mississippi........................................50,000
Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities for a
collaboration project to consolidate administrative operations and
information technology........................................800,000
World Learning, Brattleboro, VT for foreign language training
programs......................................................200,000
Army War College: to develop a major educational center to provide a
joint research and teaching opportunities in military and social
history........................................................25,000
Cabrini College: for equipment and programmatic funding for the new
Center for Science, Education, and Technology, which will provide
a model elementary education classroom........................200,000
Keystone Virtual University: to establish a Pennsylvania University
``online'' university.........................................250,000
Lehigh University: for the Center for Promoting Healthy Development
for Individuals with Disabilities for research to develop
strategies that can improve the healthy development of individuals
with disabilities.............................................500,000
Military Heritage Foundation, Carlisle, PA, for Military History
Institute to provide joint research and teaching opportunities in
military and social history...................................175,000
Temple University for the Center for Research in Human Development
and Education for the development of innovative models to address
teacher recruitment, training and mentoring...................500,000
International Education
The conference agreement provides $98,500,000 for Title VI
and Fulbright-Hays International Education programs instead
of $93,000,000 as proposed by the House and $78,022,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The conferees find that our national security, stability
and economic vitality depend, in part, on American experts
who have sophisticated language skills and cultural knowledge
about the various areas of the world. An urgent need exists
to enhance the nation's in-depth knowledge of world areas and
transnational issues, and fluency of U.S. citizens in
languages relevant to understanding societies where Islamic
and/or Muslim culture, politics, religion, and economy are a
significant factor.
Therefore, the conferees have included an increase of
$20,478,000 for the Title VI/Fulbright-Hays programs to
increase the number of international experts (including those
entering government service and various professional
disciplines) with in-depth expertise and high-level
language proficiency in the targeted world areas of
Central and South Asia, the Middle East, Russia, and the
Independent States of the former Soviet Union. A portion
of these funds is intended to enhance the capacity of U.S.
higher education institutions to sustain these initiatives
over time.
The conferees intend that these additional funds be used
for priority initiatives within existing Title VI/Fulbright-
Hays mechanisms, but with increased flexibility to address
new challenges. Within the amount included in the bill,
$5,409,000 is provided to double the number of Title VI
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships to
students pursuing advanced training in Arabic, Azeri,
Persian/Dari, Pashto, Tajik, Uzbek, Urdu and other languages
spoken in the critical world regions of Central and South
Asia, the Middle East, and Russia/Eastern Europe. All current
FLAS institutions are eligible to receive supplemental awards
if they offer language training in these areas. The bill also
includes $3,448,000 to increase the amount of FLAS
fellowships from $21,000 to $25,000 as a first step toward
making these awards more competitive and to encourage more
students to pursue advanced language training, particularly
in areas important to national security. The conferees
encourage the award of Title VI fellowships to talented
students pursuing masters degrees who may be more likely to
pursue government service, and the use of these fellowships
for immersion foreign language training abroad.
Within the total amount in the bill, $3,368,000 is provided
for supplemental awards to existing Title VI national
resource centers (NRCs) specializing in Central and South
Asia, the Middle East, and Russia/Eastern Europe and to
establish four new centers, with FLAS fellowships
allocations, focused on these world regions from high
quality, unfunded applications from the most recent NRC and
FLAS competitions. The conferees encourage the creation of
distance learning initiatives to provide more universal
access to language training, summer language institutes
abroad, one-on-one language tutoring to accelerate student
progress to the highest levels of proficiency, engaging the
language resources of local heritage communities where
appropriate, and increased collaboration with the Title VI
language resource centers, the centers for international
business education and research, and the American overseas
research centers with a focus on the least commonly taught
languages and areas and underrepresented professional
disciplines. The conference agreement includes $1,000,000 to
establish three new language resource centers, each
specializing in either Central Asia, the Middle East, or
South Asia, to develop the resources needed to improve
foreign language teacher training for less commonly taught
languages, including research, curriculum and other
instructional materials, and language pedagogical strategies.
The conferees encourage the development of up-to-date,
interactive multi-media material specifically tailored for
targeted language instructional needs.
Further, the conference agreement includes an increase of
$4,975,000 for all other Title VI activities, including the
development of innovative techniques, including electronic
technologies, to collect, organize, preserve and disseminate
materials focused on the least commonly taught languages, and
for centers and programs focused on international business,
economic competitiveness and security issues, undergraduate
education, and research.
The conferees intend that $1,800,000 be used to expand
Fulbright-Hays overseas programs in targeted world areas to
increase opportunities for scholars and faculty to enhance
their language skills and cultural studies by conducting
research and training abroad. The conference agreement
includes bill language allowing section 102(b)(6) funds to be
used to support individuals planning to apply their advanced
language skills in fields outside of teaching, including
government, professional fields, or international
development, and language permitting up to one percent of the
Title VI/Fulbright-Hays funds provided to the Department to
be used for program evaluation, national outreach, and
information dissemination activities.
The conference agreement also provides $1,500,000 for the
Institute of International Public Policy.
TRIO
The conference agreement includes $802,500,000 for TRIO
instead of $800,000,000 as proposed by the House and
$805,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants
The conference agreement also includes $90,000,000 for
Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants, instead of $100,000,000
as proposed by the House and $54,000,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
Demonstrations in Disability
The agreement also includes $7,000,000 for Demonstrations
in Disability as proposed by the Senate instead of $6,000,000
as proposed by the House. The conferees are aware that,
although minorities comprise a significant number of students
with learning disabilities enrolled in postsecondary
institutions, no Historically Black Colleges or Universities
(HBCU) have been funded since the inception of this
demonstration program. The conferees note that subsection
762(c)(3) of the Higher Education Act requires the Secretary
to consider a range of types of institutions of higher
education when making awards under this program. Therefore,
the conferees strongly urge the Secretary to comply with this
requirement of the law by providing due consideration to
qualified applications from HBCUs, as well as Hispanic
Serving Institutions.
Other higher education programs
The conference agreement includes $2,000,000 for the
Underground Railroad Educational and Cultural Program as
proposed by the Senate instead of $1,750,000 as proposed by
the House. The agreement also includes $1,000,000 for GPRA
data and program evaluations as proposed by the House instead
of $1,500,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement also includes $4,000,000 for
Thurgood Marshall Scholarships instead of $5,000,000 as
proposed by the House, and $1,000,000 for B.J. Stupak Olympic
Scholarships as proposed by the House. The Senate bill did
not provide funding for these activities.
The conferees are concerned that fiscal year 2001 funding
for the Child Care Access Means Parents in School program was
not fully expended. The conferees provided additional funds
last year because of the understanding that a lack of
convenient and affordable childcare services is a significant
barrier preventing low-income parents from pursuing
postsecondary education. Therefore, the conferees encourage
the Department to work with colleges and universities and
relevant organizations to heighten awareness and increase
utilization of the financial assistance available through
this program.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
The conference agreement includes $237,474,000 for Howard
University instead of $242,474,000 as proposed by the House
and $232,474,000 as proposed by the Senate.
EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS AND ASSESSMENT
The conference agreement includes $443,870,000 for
Education Research, Statistics and Assessment instead of
$421,620,000 as
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proposed by the House and $389,567,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
The conferees provide $121,817,000 for research instead of
$147,567,000 as proposed by the House and $120,567,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The conferees provide $85,000,000 for statistics as
proposed by the House instead of $80,000,000 as proposed by
the Senate.
The conference agreement includes $67,500,000 for regional
educational labs instead of $70,000,000 as proposed by the
House and $65,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
conferees have provided this increase to address the
increased demand for technical assistance in comprehensive
school reform. The conferees intend that regional educational
laboratory funds shall be obligated and distributed on the
same basis as the fiscal year 2001 allocations not later than
January 31, 2002.
The conference agreement includes $107,500,000 for the
National Assessment for Educational Progress as proposed by
the House instead of $105,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Within this total, $2,500,000 is included for a trial urban
assessment study as proposed by the House. The agreement also
includes $4,053,000 for the National Assessment Governing
Board as proposed by the House instead of $4,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement also includes $58,000,000 to
continue multi-year grants and contracts for Comprehensive
Regional Assistance Centers, Regional Math and Science
Education Consortia, the Math and Science Clearinghouse, and
Technology-based technical assistance.
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT
The conference agreement includes $424,212,000 for
Departmental program administration as proposed by the Senate
instead of $427,212,000 as proposed by the House.
The conferees are very concerned that the Department has
made the decision in several programs to provide the full
grant amount of multiyear awards in the first year (front
loaded), rather than following the traditional practice of
providing funding one year at a time. This practice was
adopted for several programs during fiscal year 2001 without
prior notification to Congress and, in many cases,
represented a significant departure from the proposed program
implementation outlined in the Department's Justifications of
Appropriation Estimates to the Congress. The conferees
believe that this practice should be limited and utilized
only when justified by programmatic considerations. Moreover,
the conferees have a strong interest in receiving complete
and accurate information from the Department about the
proposed use of appropriations. Therefore, the conferees
direct the Secretary to provide notification and
justification to the Committees on Appropriations of the
House and Senate not later than 30 days prior to release of
any grant opportunities or notices inviting applications that
propose front-loaded grant awards or that express funding
priorities or competitive preferences for funding
availability significantly different from what is proposed in
Justifications of Appropriation Estimates to the Congress,
the House and Senate Committee reports accompanying
Department of Education appropriations bills or the Statement
of the Managers accompanying Department of Education
Appropriations Acts.
The conferees note that the legislation reauthorizing the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act has adopted many of
the Administration's proposals to consolidate a number of
categorical programs into teacher quality, technology,
bilingual and innovative education state grants. The
conferees expect that as a result of this legislation, the
Department will reassign personnel slots previously needed to
administer categorical programs to new program priorities.
The conferees are concerned that the International Education
and Graduate Programs Service has been understaffed and has
additional program responsibilities.
The conferees urge the Department to review the
organizational structures within the Department to (1)
strengthen the staff and support systems as international
education programs and responsibilities grow; (2) increase
outreach activities and information about funding
opportunities; (3) provide greater national accessibility by
government agencies, businesses, the media, and education
institutions to the expertise and knowledge these programs
produce; and (4) increase coordination among all
international education activities and programs within the
Department. The conferees direct the Department to submit a
letter report to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations by February 1, 2002 describing steps taken and
planned to address these program and management needs.
General Provisions
B.J. STUPAK OLYMPIC SCHOLARSHIPS
The conference agreement includes an amendment which makes
changes to the award determinations for the B.J. Stupak
Olympic Scholarship program. This language was not included
by either the House or the Senate.
SCHOOL RENOVATION
The conference agreement does not include language proposed
by the Senate relating to school renovation.
STUDENT LOANS FOR FOREIGN SCHOOLS
The conference agreement does not include language proposed
by the Senate relating to student loans for students
attending foreign schools.
The conferees are concerned about reports of students
obtaining Federal Family Education Loans by fraudulently
claiming to attend foreign schools. Since 1995, at least 25
individuals have been convicted of cashing student loan
checks without ever attending the foreign institution at
which they claimed to be students. Accordingly, the conferees
direct the General Accounting Office to examine and report on
the extent of fraud, waste, and abuse related to loans for
students attending foreign schools, steps taken by the
Department of Education to curb such abuses, and possible
additional steps, such as tighter disbursement controls, that
may be needed to solve this problem.
LEAP PROGRAM
The conference agreement does not include language proposed
by the Senate relating to the maintenance of effort
requirement in the LEAP program.
college work study
The conference agreement includes language that allows the
Secretary to reallocate funds under the College Work Study
program to certain institutions. Neither the House nor the
Senate bills contained this language.
references to the elementary and secondary education act
The conference agreement includes language clarifying that
references made in this Act to the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act are to be interpreted as referring to the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 as it was
amended by H.R. 1, the ``No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.''
Neither the House nor the Senate bills contained this
language.
TITLE IV--RELATED AGENCIES
Corporation for National and Community Service
DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER SERVICE PROGRAMS, OPERATING EXPENSES
The conference agreement includes $328,895,000 for the
Domestic Volunteer Service programs instead of $324,450,000
as proposed by the House and $321,276,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)
The conference agreement includes $85,287,000 for VISTA
instead of $83,074,000 as proposed by the House and
$86,500,000 as proposed by the Senate.
Volunteers in Homeland Security
The conference agreement includes $5,000,000 for Volunteers
in Homeland Security, a new activity authorized under Section
122 of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act which was not
included in either the House or the Senate bills. These funds
would be used to place senior and other volunteers in
community activities that are targeted specifically at
contributing to homeland defense. Grants will be made to
states and community organizations on a competitive basis and
will support public and nonprofit agencies' efforts in the
areas of public safety, public health, and disaster relief
and preparedness.
Since September 11, hundreds of volunteers have been
actively engaged in supporting relief efforts. Building on
this record, the Corporation will use these funds to place
additional volunteers in assignments targeted specifically at
mitigating the effects of the attacks and in enhancing
homeland security.
National Senior Volunteer Corps
The conference agreement includes $106,700,000 for the
Foster Grandparent Program (FGP) instead of $109,468,000 as
proposed by the House and $102,868,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
The conferees have provided sufficient funds to allow for a
stipend increase of ten cents per hour for participants in
both the Foster Grandparent and the Senior Companion
Programs. The conferees direct the Corporation to provide
such a stipend increase to these two programs.
One-third of the increases provided for the FGP, SCP, and
RSVP programs shall be used to fund Programs of National
Significance expansion grants to allow existing FGP, RSVP and
SCP programs to expand the number of volunteers serving in
areas of critical need as identified by Congress in the
Domestic Volunteer Service Act.
Sufficient funding has been included to provide a 2 percent
increase for administrative costs realized by all current
grantees in the FGP and SCP programs, and a 4 percent
increase for administrative costs realized by all current
grantees in the RSVP program. Funds remaining above these
amounts should be used to begin new FGP, RSVP and SCP
programs in geographic areas currently unserved. The
conferees expect these projects to be awarded via a
nationwide competition among potential community-based
sponsors.
The Corporation for National and Community Service shall
comply with the directive that use of funding increases in
the Foster Grandparent Program, Retired and Senior Volunteer
Program and VISTA not be restricted to America Reads
activities. The conferees further direct that the Corporation
shall not stipulate a minimum or maximum amount for PNS grant
augmentations.
The conference agreement includes $400,000 for senior
demonstration activities as proposed by both the House and
the Senate. These funds are to be used solely to carry
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out evaluations and to provide recruitment, training, and
technical assistance to local projects as described in the
budget request. No new demonstration projects may be begun
with these funds. None of the increases provided for FGP,
SCP, or RSVP in fiscal year 2002 may be used for
demonstration activities. The conferees further expect that
all future demonstration activities will be funded through
allocations made through Part E of the Domestic Volunteer
Service Act.
Funds appropriated for fiscal year 2002 may not be used to
implement or support service collaboration agreements or any
other changes in the administration and/or governance of
national service programs prior to passage of a bill by the
authorizing committees of jurisdiction specifying such
changes.
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
The conference agreement provides $380,000,000 in funding
for fiscal year 2004, instead of $365,000,000 as proposed by
the House and $395,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The conference agreement also includes $25,000,000 for
equipment and facilities to enable public broadcasters to
meet the statutory deadline for digital conversion as
proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement does not
provide these funds contingent upon authorization as proposed
by the House.
FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE
The conference agreement includes $39,982,000 for the
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service instead of
$40,482,000 as proposed by the Senate and $39,482,000 as
proposed by the House.
The conference agreement includes funds for FMCS to
continue their work to prevent youth violence by teaching
students mediation and conflict resolution techniques.
INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES
The conference agreement provides $197,602,000 for the
Institute of Museum and Library Services instead of
$168,078,000 as proposed by the House and the Senate. Within
the amount provided, the conference agreement specifies
$2,941,000 for library services to Native Americans and
Native Hawaiians as proposed by the Senate. The conference
agreement also specifies funding for the following:
National Museum of African American History and Culture Plan for
Action Presidential Commission.............................$2,000,000
American Village Project in Montevallo, Alabama.................250,000
Evergreen-Conecuh Public Library, Alabama........................20,000
Gordo Public Library, Pickens County Commission, Alabama.........50,000
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, for systems and technology
upgrades......................................................300,000
National Museum for Women in the Arts.........................1,500,000
Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center............300,000
Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, to develop exhibits and educational
programs about the historic Phoenix Indian School and the Native
Americans who attended the school..............................50,000
Children's Museum of Los Angeles, California, for development of
exhibits and educational programs.............................800,000
Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, California to complete and
install the ``Family and Community'' exhibit and for related
educational outreach programs.................................150,000
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, for
equipment and to develop exhibits and educational materials for
the Julian C. Dixon Institute for Cultural Studies............750,000
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum for the installation of an
environmental exhibit.........................................290,000
Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum, California, for the development
of exhibits and educational materials..........................25,000
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco to expand model arts
education programs at the de Young Museum...................1,000,000
Bethel Public Library, Connecticut, for technology upgrades and
collections...................................................150,000
Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut to plan and develop a
history of Waterbury exhibit..................................500,000
Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, GA, to expand outreach and
educational activities and programs...........................250,000
Bishops Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii..............................700,000
Grout Museum in Waterloo, Iowa for exhibits on the Sullivan brot500,000
Iowa State Historical Society to catalogue and archive the history
of workers in Iowa.............................................61,000
The National Audubon Society's ARK Museum in Dubuque, Iowa for
creation of exhibits and public education.....................389,000
University of Idaho Performance and Education Facility to preserve
the history of jazz and teach it to future generations........750,000
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum...........................50,000
Johnson County Museum of History, Franklin, IN, for personnel,
supplies and equipment........................................100,000
Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts, for equipment for the
Online Education Center to provide distance learning programs.125,000
Shakespeare Rose Theater to enhance the educational and cultural
programs in language, literacy and the arts for students and the
general public..............................................1,000,000
Springfield-Greene County Library, Springfield, MO, for education
and training..................................................150,000
Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, for technology enhancements
for the Global Access Library...............................1,160,000
University of Mississippi Foundation, Oxford, MS, for educational
and preservation programs at Rowan Oak, the home William Faulk850,000
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, for digitization of the
National Library of the Accounting Profession.................350,000
Lois Morgan Edward Memorial Library, Nashville, NC, for furniture,
equipment, automation and materials...........................132,000
Rocky Mount Children's Museum, North Carolina...................100,000
Confluence Visitor Center in Williston, ND and the North Dakota
State Historical Society for Lewis and Clark exhibits.........100,000
Fort Mandan Visitor's Center for exhibits and other interpretation
related to the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration.....100,000
Mandan-on-a-Slant Museum to replace exhibits that preserve the
Mandan Indian Heritage........................................100,000
Life Center library project at Franklin Pierce College, New
Hampshire...................................................1,000,000
Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, for collections and
technology equipment for the Guggenheim Memorial Library......160,000
Princeton Public Library, Mercer County, NJ, for library security,
inventory and circulation system, and technology enhancements to
support digital library initiatives...........................100,000
Albany Institute for History and Art for a two-part technology
project that will broaden public access to its collections and
improve services to its on-site and off-site constituencies...125,000
Brooklyn Historical Society, NY, for structural repairs and
environmental upgrades to preserve collections and for education
programs and exhibits.......................................1,000,000
Buffalo and Erie County Library System, Buffalo, NY, for technology
equipment......................................................22,500
Center for Jewish History, New York, NY, to support educational and
cultural programs and exhibits to facilitate the study of Jewish
history.......................................................250,000
Children's Museum of Manhattan, NY, to develop exhibits on the
Harlem Renaissance............................................150,000
Four County Library System, Vestal, NY, for technology enhancements
for a distance learning initiative............................105,000
Hunter College, NY, to identify, preserve and archive research
collections of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, and develop a
website.......................................................500,000
Long Island Maritime Museum in West Sayville, NY for archival and
educational programs..........................................200,000
Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NY, for its collections management
program to make collections available to the public, and for the
development and implementation of educational programs........750,000
New York Hall of Science to develop, expand, and display science-
related educational materials...............................1,000,000
NIOGA Library System of Niagara and Orleans County, NY for
technology improvements........................................22,500
The Woodstock Guild of Craftsmen, Inc., Woodstock, NY for the
development and promotion of the Byrdcliffe Centennial Exhibit100,000
Clark County Historical Museum for development, implementation, and
enhancement of cultural education exhibits, Ohio..............100,000
Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland, OH, to develop educational
exhibits and materials.........................................40,000
Crawford Museum, Cleveland, OH, for planning and educational
programming...................................................500,000
Farmer's Castle Museum in Belpre, to assist with technical
components that will enhance the visitors' experience..........42,000
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MAPS Air Museum, Canton OH, for equipment and education.........500,000
McKinley Museum, Canton, OH, for technology improvement to the
Ramsayer Research Library......................................44,000
University of Oregon Museum of Natural History in Eugene, OR.....50,000
Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia County for the
preservation of the Academy's collection of more than 22 million
natural sciences specimens, for the development and delivery of
natural sciences educational programming for children and the
general public and for environmental research.................150,000
Beaver Area Memorial Library, Beaver County, PA, for equipment..100,000
Delaware Valley Historical Aircraft Association.................300,000
Discovery Square, Inc. in Erie, PA for exhibit development......100,000
Everhart Museum in Scranton, PA.................................200,000
National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, PA.....................300,000
Northland Public Library Authority, Pittsburgh, PA, for digitiza126,000
Penn Hills Public Library in Pittsburgh, PA, to purchase library
materials and upgrade technology..............................235,000
Philadelphia Zoo................................................250,000
Pittsburgh Children's Museum: to develop educational exhibits and
programs for area K-12 schools................................100,000
Please Touch Museum at the Children's Museum of Philadelphia, PA, to
provide hands-on learning experiences for children............700,000
Wayne Art Center in Wayne, PA....................................50,000
Bamberg County Library in Bamberg, SC, for books and materials...50,000
Clarendon County Library in Manning, SC, for books and materials.50,000
Marion Wright Edelman Public Library, Bennettsville, SC, for library
collections and technology....................................500,000
The Children's Discovery House, Murfreesboro, TN, for the
development of hands-on and interactive exhibits and educational
programs......................................................600,000
The International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, TN.......150,000
El Progreso Library, Uvalde, TX, for computers, equipment.......500,000
Vietnam Archive Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, for
digitization..................................................500,000
Children's Museum of Virginia, Portsmouth, VA, for new programs and
exhibits, educational training opportunities for children and
teachers......................................................800,000
Virginia Living Museum..........................................325,000
Burlington City Arts in Burlington, VT for the creation of exhibits,
displays and programming at the Firehouse Center for the Visual
Arts..........................................................100,000
Lake Champlain Science Center in Burlington, VT for displays and
education.....................................................125,000
Vermont Historical Society in Montpelier, VT, to expand displays,
exhibits and programming......................................175,000
Beaver Creek Reserve Education Center, Fall Creek, WI, for
environmental and conservation education programs for elementary
and secondary students........................................100,000
The Kenosha Civil War Museum in Kenosha, WI for exhibits and
programming related to the Civil War..........................500,000
Village of Hawkins, WI, for library technology programs, including
equipment......................................................75,000
Weis Earth Science Museum in Menasha, WI for educational exhibits,
including interactive videos, simulated mine tunnels and
paleontological specimens.....................................500,000
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
The conference agreement includes $8,250,000 for the
medicare payment advisory commission, instead of $8,000,000
as proposed by the House, and $8,500,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
The conferees are concerned about the reported impact of
the Medicare Part B payment reduction scheduled to take
effect in 2002. The conferees urge MedPAC to study replacing
the sustainable growth rate (SGR) as a factor in determining
the update for Medicare Part B payments with a factor that
more fully accounts for the changes in the unit costs of
providing physicians' services and report back its findings
and recommendations to the Committees on Appropriations and
authorizing committees not later than March 1, 2002.
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
The conference agreement provides $1,000,000 for the
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science as
proposed by the House, instead of $1,495,000 as proposed by
the Senate.
National Education Goals Panel
The conference agreement provides $400,000 for close-out
costs associated with the termination of the National
Education Goals Panel. The Senate provided $2,000,000 for on-
going activities. The House did not propose funding for this
agency. The conferees note that this panel was not
reauthorized in the recent reauthorization of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act.
National Labor Relations Board
The conference agreement provides $226,438,000 for the
National Labor Relations Board as proposed by the Senate
instead of $221,438,000 as proposed by the House.
Railroad Retirement Board
LIMITATION ON THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
The conference agreement includes a limitation on transfers
from the railroad trust funds of $6,261,000 for
administrative expenses of the Office of Inspector General
instead of $6,480,000 as proposed by the Senate and
$6,042,000 as proposed by the House.
Social Security Administration
SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM
The conference agreement includes $21,277,412,000 for the
Supplemental Security Income Program as proposed by the
Senate instead of $21,270,412,000 as proposed by the House.
Within the funds provided, the conference agreement includes
$7,000,000 as proposed by the Senate for outreach efforts to
identify individuals who may be eligible for payment of the
cost of Medicare cost sharing under the Medicaid program. The
House report contained no similar provision.
United States Institute of Peace
The conference agreement provides $15,104,000 for the
United States Institute of Peace, instead of $15,000,000 as
proposed by the House and $15,207,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS
OFFICIAL EXPENSES
The conference agreement includes language to provide an
additional $3,000 from funds made available to the Department
of Labor in salaries and expenses accounts for official
receptions and representation expenses.
Distribution of Sterile Needles
The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by
the House that prohibits the use of funds in this Act to
carry out any program of distributing sterile needles or
syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug.
The Senate bill contained a similar provision except that it
would have allowed for such a program if the Secretary of
Health and Human Services determines that these programs are
effective in preventing the spread of HIV and do not
encourage the use of illegal drugs.
Buy American Act
The conference agreement deletes without prejudice a
provision proposed by the House to prohibit any funds made
available in this Act to any person or entity that violates
the Buy American Act. The Senate bill contained no similar
provision. The agreement includes a Sense of the Congress
provision regarding this issue that was proposed in both the
House and the Senate bills.
NIH License Agreements
The conference agreement does not include a provision
proposed by the House regarding NIH license agreements. The
Senate bill contained no similar provision.
Congressional Notification of Grant Awards
The conference agreement does not include a provision
proposed by the Senate to prohibit the Departments of Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education from making a grant
award totaling more than $500,000 unless the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations are notified. The House bill
contained no similar provision.
Secure Rural Schools Act
The conference agreement does not include a provision
proposed by the Senate to establish certain requirements
related to maintenance of effort for State expenditures on
public education. The House bill contained no similar
provision.
Sense of the Senate Regarding Low-Income Home Energy Assistance
The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the
Senate provision regarding Low-Income Home Energy Assistance.
The House bill contained no similar provision.
Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act
The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by
the Senate to change the names of eligible organizations
named in the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act. The
House bill contained no similar provision.
GAO Study Regarding Implementation of HIPAA Regulations
The conference agreement does not include a provision
proposed by the Senate to require GAO to report on the State
and local impacts of the administrative simplification
requirements of HIPAA. The House bill contained no similar
provision.
Election of an Annuity for Qualified Magistrate Judges
The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by
the Senate to provide for an election of an annuity under
section 377 of
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title 28, United States Code, for any qualified magistrate
judge. The House bill contained no similar provision.
Interior Appropriations
The conference agreement does not include a provision
proposed by the Senate to modify language contained in H.R.
2217, the Interior Appropriations bill. The House bill
contained no similar provision.
Across-the-Board Administrative and Related Expenses Reduction
The conference agreement includes a modified provision
proposed by the Senate to reduce administrative and related
expenses of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education. The House bill contained no similar
provision.
TITLE VII--MENTAL HEALTH PARITY
The conference agreement modifies language proposed by the
Senate amending the Public Health Service Act and the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act with respect to
equitable treatment in insurance coverage of mental
illnesses. The Senate amendment had expanded the provisions
in the respective Acts concerning parity in mental health
parity in mental health coverage. The conference agreement
instead extends for one year the previously expired mental
health parity provisions in the Public Health Service Act,
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986.
The conferees recognize the devastating impact of mental
illnesses on Americans from every walk of life and widespread
bipartisan support of mental health parity legislation in
both houses of Congress. The conferees strongly urge the
committees of jurisdiction in the House and the Senate to
convene early hearings and undertake swift consideration of
legislation to extend and improve mental health parity
protections during the second session of 107th Congress.
INFORMATION ON PASSENGERS AND CARGO
The conference agreement does not include a provision
proposed by the Senate to require advance electronic
information for air cargo and passengers entering the United
States. The House bill contained no similar provision.
Conference Agreement
The following table displays the amounts agreed to for each
program, project or activity with appropriate comparisons:
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Ralph Regula,
C.W. Bill Young,
Ernest J. Istook, Jr.,
Dan Miller,
Roger F. Wicker,
Anne M. Northup,
Randy ``Duke'' Cunningham,
Kay Granger,
John E. Peterson,
Don Sherwood,
David Obey,
Steny Hoyer,
Nancy Pelosi
Nita M. Lowey,
Rosa DeLauro,
Jesse Jackson, Jr.,
Patrick J. Kennedy,
Managers on the Part of the House.
Tom Harkin,
Ernest Hollings,
Daniel Inouye,
Harry Reid,
Herb Kohl,
Patty Murray,
Mary Landrieu,
Robert C. Byrd,
Arlen Specter,
Thad Cochran,
Judd Gregg,
Larry E. Craig,
Ted Stevens,
Kay Bailey Hutchison,
Mike DeWine,
Managers on the Part of the Senate.
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