[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 168 (Thursday, December 22, 2005)]
[House]
[Pages H13183-H13184]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  OMISSION FROM THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD OF SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2005 
                        (BOOK II) AT PAGE H12641

                               CHAPTER 7

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                     Federal Highway Administration


                          federal-aid highways

                          (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

                              (RESCISSION)

       The conference agreement includes a rescission of 
     $1,143,000,000 of the unobligated balances of funds 
     apportioned to the States under chapter 1 of title 23, United 
     States Code, excluding safety programs and funds set aside 
     within the State for population areas. The conferees direct 
     the Federal Highway Administration to administer the 
     rescission by allowing each State maximum flexibility in 
     making adjustments among the apportioned highway programs.

                    Federal Railroad Administration


    EFFICIENCY INCENTIVE GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER 
                              CORPORATION

                              (RESCISSION)

       The conference agreement rescinds $8,300,000 from 
     Efficiency Incentive Grants to the National Railroad 
     Passenger Corporation and repeals section 135 of Division A 
     of Public Law 109-115.

                               CHAPTER 8

                      GOVERNMENT-WIDE RESCISSIONS

        The conference agreement includes a 1 percent across-the-
     board rescission to discretionary budgetary resources 
     provided in fiscal year 2006 regular appropriations Acts, as 
     well as to any previously enacted fiscal year 2006 advance 
     appropriation and to any contract authority subject to 
     limitation. The rescission does not apply to the Department 
     of Veterans Affairs or spending designated as an emergency 
     requirement.

               TITLE IV--HURRICANE EDUCATION RECOVERY ACT

    Subtitle A--Elementary and Secondary Education Hurricane Relief

       The conference agreement includes language that authorizes 
     assistance to elementary and secondary students and schools 
     impacted by the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico in calendar 
     year 2005. Funding to carry out this authority is included in 
     chapter 6 of title 1.

             Subtitle B--Higher Education Hurricane Relief

       The conference agreement includes temporary waivers to and 
     modifications of certain higher education act requirements in 
     order to provide flexibility to and ease financial burdens on 
     postsecondary students and institutions impacted by the 
     hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico in calendar year 2005.

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      Subtitle C--Education and Related Programs Hurricane Relief

       The conference agreement includes language to extend 
     certain deadlines of the individuals with disabilities 
     education act and waivers relating to Head Start and the 
     Child Care and Development Block Grant. This language is 
     included to facilitate assistance related to the hurricanes 
     in the Gulf of Mexico in calendar year 2005.

         TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS AND TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS

       The conference agreement includes a provision relating to 
     the availability of funds.
       The conference agreement includes a provision relating to 
     any reference to ``this Act''.
       The conference agreement includes a provision removing the 
     authority to make further transfers to or from the Emergency 
     Response Fund.
       The conference agreement includes a technical correction 
     regarding funds appropriated to the Cooperative State 
     Research Education and Extension Service.
        The conference agreement includes a technical correction 
     to the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2005, 
     relating to the Animas-La Plata project.
       The conference agreement includes a technical correction to 
     the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006, 
     relating to the San Gabriel Basin Restoration Fund.
       The conference agreement includes a technical correction to 
     the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006, 
     relating to the Placer County, California, wastewater 
     treatment project.
       The conference agreement includes a technical correction to 
     the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006, 
     relating to the Central New Mexico Project.
       The conference agreement includes a provision correcting an 
     enrollment error in the Energy and Water Development 
     Appropriations Act, 2006, relating to a Hurricane Protection 
     Study in Louisiana.
       The conference agreement includes a technical correction to 
     the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006, 
     related to the Western Area Power Administration.
       The conference agreement includes a general provision 
     making $50,000,000 available to the New York State Uninsured 
     Employers Fund and $75,000,000 to the Centers for Disease 
     Control and Prevention for purposes related to the September 
     11, 2001 terrorist attacks. These funds replace $125,000,000 
     included in the supplemental appropriations for New York 
     State made following the September 11th attacks that were 
     unable to be spent for administering worker compensation 
     claims and were rescinded in the regular FY 2006 Labor-HHS-
     Education Appropriations Act.
       The conference agreement includes language that amends the 
     Flexibility for Displaced Workers Act (Public Law 109-72) to 
     strike ``Hurricane Katrina'' and insert ``hurricanes in the 
     Gulf of Mexico in calendar year 2005'' each place it appears.
       The conference agreement includes a provision that amends 
     section 124 of Public Law 109-114.
       The conference agreement includes a provision that amends 
     section 128 of Public Law 109-114.
       The conference agreement includes a provision that makes a 
     technical correction to a military construction project in 
     Public Law 109-114.
       The conference agreement includes a provision that makes a 
     technical correction to the short title of Public Law 109-
     114.
       The conference agreement makes technical corrections to the 
     capital investment grants listed in Public Law 109-115.
       The conference agreement clarifies activities that are 
     subject to section 205 of division A of Public Law 109-115.
       The conference agreement makes a technical correction to an 
     economic development grant in Public Law 108-447.
       The conference agreement makes technical corrections to 
     economic development grants in Public Law 109-115.
       The conference agreement makes technical corrections to an 
     economic development grant in Public Law 108-447.
       The conference agreement precludes the funds appropriated 
     to the 2001 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for 
     Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks from being 
     transferred to or from the Emergency Response Fund.

                   Conference Total--With Comparison

       The total new budget (obligational) authority for the 
     fiscal year 2006 recommended by the Committee of Conference 
     and comparisons to the 2006 budget estimates for 2006 follow:

                       [In thousands of dollars]

Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority, fiscal year 4,825,347
Conference agreement, fiscal year 2006                         -618,007
Conference agreement compared with:
  Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority, fiscal ye-5,443,354

         DIVISION C--AMERICAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND SECURITY

       The conference report includes division C concerning the 
     lease of lands for oil and gas exploration and production 
     within a defined area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

      DIVISION D--DISTRIBUTION OF REVENUES AND DISASTER ASSISTANCE

       The conference report includes division D, which provides 
     for the distribution of revenues derived from bonus, rental, 
     and royalty receipts from federal oil and gas leasing and 
     operations within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and 
     from receipts derived from the Digital Television Transition 
     and Public Safety Fund.

                               DIVISION E

       The conference agreement includes as division E the 
     ``Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act''.
     Bill Young,
     David Hobson,
     Henry Bonilla,
     R.P. Frelinghuysen,
     Todd Tiahrt,
     Roger F. Wicker,
     Jack Kingston,
     Kay Granger,
     James T. Walsh,
     Robert B. Aderholt,
     Jerry Lewis,
     John P. Murtha,
     Norman D. Dicks
       (Except for Division C as to ANWR),
     Martin Olav Sabo
       (Except for 1% cut in Division B and Division C),
     Peter J. Visclosky
       (Except for Division C and Division B as to 1% cut and 
     avian flu section),
     James P. Moran
       (Except for Division B and Division C as to 1% cut, avian 
     flu and ANWR provision),
     Marcy Kaptur
       (Except for ANWR provision and Division B and Division C as 
     to 1% cuts and avian flu),
     Chet Edwards
       (Except for 1% cut),
     David R. Obey
       (Except for Division C, Division B as to 1% cut and avian 
     flu),
                                Managers on the Part of the House.

     Ted Stevens,
     Thad Cochran,
     Arlen Specter,
     Pete V. Domenici,
     Kit Bond,
     Mitch McConnell,
     Richard C. Shelby,
     Judd Gregg,
     Kay Bailey Hutchison,
     Conrad Burns.

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