[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 9, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H2477-H3214]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

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House of Representatives

  EXPLANATORY STATEMENT SUBMITTED BY MS. DeLAURO, CHAIR OF THE HOUSE 
   COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, REGARDING THE HOUSE AMENDMENT TO THE 
  SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2471, CONSOLIDATED APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2022

  The following is an explanation of the Consolidated Appropriations 
Act, 2022.
                                  ____


   DIVISION G--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED 
                   AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2022

       The following statement is an explanation of the effects of 
     Division G, which provides appropriations for the Department 
     of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 
     the Forest Service, the Indian Health Service, and related 
     agencies for fiscal year 2022.
       The joint explanatory statement accompanying this division 
     is approved and indicates congressional intent. Unless 
     otherwise noted, the language set forth in House Report 117-
     83 carries the same weight as language included in this joint 
     explanatory statement and should be complied with unless 
     specifically addressed to the contrary in this joint 
     explanatory statement. While some language is repeated for 
     emphasis, it is not intended to negate the language referred 
     to above unless expressly provided herein.
       In cases where the House report or this joint explanatory 
     statement direct the submission of a report, such report is 
     to be submitted to both the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations. Where this joint explanatory statement refers 
     to the Committees or the Committees on Appropriations, unless 
     otherwise noted, this reference is to the House Subcommittee 
     on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies and the Senate 
     Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies.
       Each department and agency funded in this Act is directed 
     to follow the directions set forth in this Act and the 
     accompanying statement and to not reallocate resources or 
     reorganize activities except as provided herein or otherwise 
     approved by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees 
     through the reprogramming process as referenced in this Act. 
     This joint explanatory statement addresses only those 
     agencies and accounts for which there is a need for greater 
     explanation than provided in the Act itself. Funding levels 
     for appropriations by account, program, and activity, with 
     comparisons to the fiscal year 2021 enacted level and the 
     fiscal year 2022 budget request, can be found in the table at 
     the end of this division.
       Unless expressly stated otherwise, any reference to ``this 
     Act'' or ``at the end of this statement'' shall be treated as 
     referring only to the provisions of this division.
       Continued Directives.--The Committees continue the 
     directives in the explanatory statement accompanying Public 
     Law 116-94 regarding Everglades Restoration and Domestic 
     Production of Critical Minerals. Directives regarding 
     Transparency of Information Regarding Grants, Agreements, 
     Research, and Conferences Attendance in the explanatory 
     statement accompanying Public Law 116-260 are also continued.
       Deferred Maintenance.--The Department of the Interior and 
     the Forest Service are directed to maintain updated 5-year 
     deferred maintenance plans that, to the extent practicable, 
     include a list of all outstanding deferred maintenance needs, 
     and to provide them to the Committees on a quarterly basis.
       Disaster Recovery Needs.--The Committees direct the 
     Department of the Interior and the other agencies funded in 
     this bill to establish quarterly reporting requirements for 
     their component bureaus, regions, offices, and programs, as 
     appropriate, to maintain up-to-date comprehensive information 
     for supplemental funding needs related to disaster recovery.
       Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act.--The Department 
     of the Interior and the Forest Service are directed to 
     annually post on a centralized agency website the list of 
     Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (FLREA) (Public Law 
     108-447) projects and activities performed in each fiscal 
     year, which should include a project or activity title, 
     description, location, and amount obligated. Each land 
     management agency that is unable to complete this directive 
     shall submit a report to the Committees within 90 days of 
     enactment of this Act detailing the specific steps the agency 
     plans to take to secure the capabilities needed to provide 
     proper transparency on the spending of FLREA funds.
       Federal Law Enforcement.--The agreement notes that the 
     explanatory statement accompanying the Commerce, Justice, 
     Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022 
     directs the Attorney General to ensure implementation of 
     evidence-based training programs on de-escalation and the 
     use-of-force, as well as on police community relations, and 
     the protection of civil rights, that are broadly applicable 
     and scalable to all Federal law enforcement agencies. The 
     agreement further notes that several agencies funded by this 
     Act employ Federal law enforcement officers and are Federal 
     Law Enforcement Training Centers partner organizations. The 
     agreement directs such agencies to consult with the Attorney 
     General regarding the implementation of these programs for 
     their law enforcement officers. The agreement further directs 
     such agencies to submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations on their efforts relating to such 
     implementation no later than 180 days after consultation with 
     the Attorney General. In addition, the agreement directs such 
     agencies, to the extent that they are not already 
     participating, to consult with the Attorney General and the 
     Director of the FBI regarding participation in the National 
     Use-of-Force Data Collection. The agreement further directs 
     such agencies to submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations, no later than 180 days after enactment of 
     this Act, on their efforts to so participate.
       Firefighting Aviation Contracts.--In light of the receipt 
     of the report directed in the explanatory statement 
     accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 
     (Public Law 116-260), the Forest Service and the Department 
     of the Interior are urged to continue working with relevant 
     stakeholders to evaluate ways to address impediments on the 
     use of long-term contracts and other contracting strategies 
     or approaches for wildland fire suppression activities.
       Great American Outdoors Act.--At the end of this 
     explanatory statement, the Committees have included 
     allocation of projects pursuant to the Great American 
     Outdoors Act (Public Law 116-152).
       Mitigation Activities from Border Barrier Construction.--
     The agreement does not include direction requiring a report 
     on the impacts of border barrier construction.
       Training, Hiring, and Public Lands Education in Alaska.--
     The directive in Public Law 116-94 regarding conducting 
     annual Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act 
     training by the Department of the Interior and the Forest 
     Service is continued. The Committees also recognize the 
     importance of Alaska Public Land Information

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     Centers as partners and tools to educate the public regarding 
     Alaska's unique public lands and encourages the agencies to 
     look for opportunities to strengthen these critical 
     partnerships.
       Tribal Lease Payments.--The Committees are aware of recent 
     litigation in Federal courts regarding what constitutes 
     reasonable lease costs under the 105(l) program. As part of 
     the consultation required by language in Title IV of this 
     Act, the Indian Health Service and the Department of the 
     Interior are expected to consult with Tribes and Tribal 
     organizations regarding agency regulations and policies that 
     determine the amount of space and other standards necessary 
     to carry out Federal programs under a section 105(l) lease, 
     and to ensure that such regulations and policies are 
     consistent, transparent, and clearly communicated to affected 
     Tribes. The Service and the Department are expected to 
     periodically update the Committees on the status of the 
     consultation.
       Wild Horses and Burros.--The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and 
     Burros Act of 1971 conferred primary responsibility for wild 
     horses across the rangelands of the American West to the 
     Bureau of Land Management (BLM). However, given the 
     challenges posed by rising horse populations coupled with 
     degraded range, climate change, and invasive species, the 
     consequences of inaction will have a cascading impact on all 
     plants, animals, and people that share these lands and finite 
     resources. This is a national crisis on our public lands and 
     requires the expertise and resources of various bureaus and 
     agencies; BLM should not shoulder the responsibility alone. 
     To address this urgent problem, the Secretary of the Interior 
     is directed to establish a task force with representation 
     from the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
     Service, U.S. Geological Survey, and any other Bureau the 
     Secretary deems appropriate. In subsequent years, task force 
     membership will be expanded to include representatives of the 
     U.S. Department of Agriculture and other agencies with 
     essential skills and expertise. Any strategy or 
     recommendation of the task force will not include any sale or 
     actions that result in the destruction of healthy animals, 
     which continues to be prohibited by this bill and should be 
     in line with the goals and strategies of the Bureau of Land 
     Management's May 2020 report to Congress on achieving a 
     sustainable program through aggressive, non-lethal population 
     control strategy (May 2020 report). The Secretary is to 
     report to the Committees within 90 days of enactment of this 
     Act on the establishment of this task force and a proposed 
     meeting schedule. The Bureau of Land Management is to report 
     to the Committees on a quarterly basis on the status of this 
     program, staffing updates, and the work of the task force.


                    land and water conservation fund

       With the August 4, 2020, enactment of the Great American 
     Outdoors Act (Public Law 116-152), Congress provided a 
     permanent appropriation of $900,000,000 per year from the 
     Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). The Act also 
     mandated that account allocations and detailed project 
     information be proposed by the administration each year 
     through the President's annual budget submission, and that 
     such allocations, following review by the Committees on 
     Appropriations, may be modified through an alternate 
     allocation. A detailed table showing the LWCF allocation by 
     agency, account, activity, and project, including lists of 
     specific Federal land acquisition projects and Forest Legacy 
     Program projects, including congressionally directed 
     spending, accompanies this explanatory statement. The 
     agencies are expected to continue to follow the directions 
     included in the explanatory statement accompanying the 
     Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260) 
     under General Implementation, except that no funds are 
     provided for acquisition contingencies. Specific additional 
     directions follow.
       Fish and Wildlife Service.--The Service is expected to 
     provide outreach to all units of the National Wildlife Refuge 
     System, including Clarks, McKinney, Ottawa, Loxahatchee, and 
     Edwards, to ensure these refuges are aware of all funding 
     opportunities available. There is an accumulating backlog of 
     parcels available at Clarks River National Wildlife Refuge 
     and the Service is strongly encouraged to begin the proper 
     due diligence work in order for the refuge to access 
     available funding opportunities. The newly-established Green 
     River National Wildlife Refuge is eligible for funding under 
     the recreational access and inholding lines and the Service 
     is encouraged to use these additional funding tools at Green 
     River, as it does for other refuge units. The Service is also 
     encouraged to consider habitat conservation plan land 
     acquisition applications that enhance efforts to establish 
     State research forests through the Cooperative Endangered 
     Species Conservation Fund. Further, the Service should 
     utilize available funding from the recreational access and 
     inholding/emergencies and hardships lines to account for any 
     additional project cost need as identified on the fiscal year 
     2022 ranked project list.
       National Park Service.--The Service is directed to report 
     to the Committees within 90 days of enactment of this Act on 
     a strategy for obligating balances in the State Conservation 
     Grant formula and competitive programs from fiscal year 2018 
     and prior years that are not associated with any particular 
     State's allocation. The Service is further directed to submit 
     a report within 180 days of enactment of this Act detailing 
     the recommendations developed by a working group of 
     interested stakeholders to assist States in managing their 
     obligations and compliance responsibilities related to LWCF, 
     as addressed in Senate Report 116-123.
       The Service requested and received approval to reprogram 
     Acquisition funds in fiscal year 2021 which adjusted projects 
     on the fiscal year 2022 agency priority list. The Service is 
     encouraged to use the non-project subactivity lines as 
     appropriate to complete any additional projects associated 
     with the reprogramming and subsequent adjustments, including 
     acquisitions at Harpers Ferry, Petroglyph, Congaree, and 
     Sleeping Bear Dunes. The Ste. Genevieve National Historical 
     Park was designated as a new park unit in October 2020 and 
     the Service is encouraged to provide outreach to the 
     community so that interested stakeholders are aware of 
     available acquisition funding opportunities.
       Forest Legacy Program.--The Forest Service is directed to 
     use a portion of unobligated balances from fiscal year 2018 
     and prior years as needed to complete all of the projects 
     listed in the table accompanying this explanatory statement. 
     Use of additional unobligated balances may be proposed in 
     accordance with the Committees' established reprogramming 
     guidelines for projects included in the supplemental list 
     submitted to the Committees pursuant to Public Law 116-220 
     but not specifically listed in the table.


                        reprogramming guidelines

       The following are the procedures governing reprogramming 
     actions for programs and activities funded in the Department 
     of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Act. The agencies funded in this Act are 
     reminded that these reprogramming guidelines are in effect, 
     and must be complied with, until such time as the Committees 
     modify them through bill or report language.
       Definitions.--``Reprogramming,'' as defined in these 
     procedures, includes the reallocation of funds from one 
     budget activity, budget line-item, or program area to another 
     within any appropriation funded in this Act. In cases where 
     either the House or Senate Committee on Appropriations report 
     displays an allocation of an appropriation below that level, 
     the more detailed level shall be the basis for reprogramming.
       For construction, land acquisition, and forest legacy 
     accounts, a reprogramming constitutes the reallocation of 
     funds, including unobligated balances, from one construction, 
     land acquisition, or forest legacy project to another such 
     project.
       A reprogramming shall also consist of any significant 
     departure from the program described in the agency's budget 
     justifications. This includes all proposed reorganizations or 
     other workforce actions detailed below which affect a total 
     of 10 staff members or 10 percent of the staffing of an 
     affected program or office, whichever is less, even without a 
     change in funding. Any change to the organization table 
     presented in the budget justification shall also be subject 
     to this requirement.
       Agencies are reminded that this agreement continues 
     longstanding General Guidelines for Reprogramming that 
     require agencies funded by this Act to submit reorganization 
     proposals for the Committees' review prior to their 
     implementation. It is noted that such reprogramming 
     guidelines apply to proposed reorganizations, workforce 
     restructure, reshaping, transfer of functions, or bureau-wide 
     downsizing and include closures, consolidations, and 
     relocations of offices, facilities, and laboratories. In 
     addition, no agency shall implement any part of a 
     reorganization that modifies regional or State boundaries for 
     agencies or bureaus that were in effect as of the date of 
     enactment of this Act unless approved consistent with the 
     General Guidelines for Reprogramming procedures specified 
     herein. Any such reprogramming request submitted to the 
     Committees on Appropriations shall include a description of 
     anticipated benefits, including anticipated efficiencies and 
     cost-savings, as well as a description of anticipated 
     personnel impacts and funding changes anticipated to 
     implement the proposal.
       General Guidelines for Reprogramming.--
       (a) A reprogramming should be made only when an unforeseen 
     situation arises, and then only if postponement of the 
     project or the activity until the next appropriation year 
     would result in actual loss or damage.
       (b) Any project or activity, which may be deferred through 
     reprogramming, shall not later be accomplished by means of 
     further reprogramming, but instead, funds should again be 
     sought for the deferred project or activity through the 
     regular appropriations process.
       (c) Except under the most urgent situations, reprogramming 
     should not be employed to initiate new programs or increase 
     allocations specifically denied or limited by Congress, or to 
     decrease allocations specifically increased by the Congress.
       (d) Reprogramming proposals submitted to the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations for approval will be 
     considered as expeditiously as possible, and the Committees 
     remind the agencies that in order to process reprogramming 
     requests, adequate and timely information must be provided.
       Criteria and Exceptions.--A reprogramming must be submitted 
     to the Committees in writing prior to implementation if it 
     exceeds $1,000,000 annually or results in an increase or 
     decrease of more than 10 percent annually in affected 
     programs or projects, whichever amount is less, with the 
     following exceptions:

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       (a) With regard to the Tribal priority allocations of the 
     Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Bureau of Indian Education 
     (BIE), there is no restriction on reprogrammings among these 
     programs. However, the Bureaus shall report on all 
     reprogrammings made during a given fiscal year no later than 
     60 days after the end of the fiscal year.
       (b) With regard to the EPA, the Committees do not require 
     reprogramming requests associated with the States and Tribes 
     Partnership Grants or up to a cumulative total of $5,000,000 
     from carryover balances among the individual program areas 
     delineated in the Environmental Programs and Management 
     account, with no more than $1,000,000 coming from any 
     individual program area. No funds, however, shall be 
     reallocated from individual Geographic Programs.(c) With 
     regard to the National Park Service, the Committees do not 
     require reprogramming requests associated with the park base 
     within the Park Management activity in the Operation of the 
     National Park System Account. The Service is required to 
     brief the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on 
     spending trends for the park base within 60 days of enactment 
     of this Act.
       Assessments.--``Assessment'' as defined in these procedures 
     shall refer to any charges, reserves, or holdbacks applied to 
     a budget activity or budget line item for costs associated 
     with general agency administrative costs, overhead costs, 
     working capital expenses, or contingencies.
       (a) No assessment shall be levied against any program, 
     budget activity, subactivity, budget line item, or project 
     funded by the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Act unless such assessment and the basis 
     therefor are presented to the Committees in the budget 
     justifications and are subsequently approved by the 
     Committees. The explanation for any assessment in the budget 
     justification shall show the amount of the assessment, the 
     activities assessed, and the purpose of the funds.
       (b) Proposed changes to estimated assessments, as such 
     estimates were presented in annual budget justifications, 
     shall be submitted through the reprogramming process and 
     shall be subject to the same dollar and reporting criteria as 
     any other reprogramming.
       (c) Each agency or bureau which utilizes assessments shall 
     submit an annual report to the Committees, which provides 
     details on the use of all funds assessed from any other 
     budget activity, line item, subactivity, or project.
       (d) In no case shall contingency funds or assessments be 
     used to finance projects and activities disapproved or 
     limited by Congress or to finance programs or activities that 
     could be foreseen and included in the normal budget review 
     process.
       (e) New programs requested in the budget should not be 
     initiated before enactment of the bill without notification 
     to, and the approval of, the Committees. This restriction 
     applies to all such actions regardless of whether a formal 
     reprogramming of funds is required to begin the program.
       Quarterly Reports.--All reprogrammings between budget 
     activities, budget line-items, program areas, or the more 
     detailed activity levels shown in this agreement, including 
     those below the monetary thresholds established above, shall 
     be reported to the Committees within 60 days of the end of 
     each quarter and shall include cumulative totals for each 
     budget activity or budget line item, or construction, land 
     acquisition, or forest legacy project.
       Land Acquisitions, Easements, and Forest Legacy.--Lands 
     shall not be acquired for more than the approved appraised 
     value, as addressed in section 301(3) of Public Law 91-646, 
     unless such acquisitions are submitted to the Committees on 
     Appropriations for approval in compliance with these 
     procedures.
       Land Exchanges.--Land exchanges, wherein the estimated 
     value of the Federal lands to be exchanged is greater than 
     $1,000,000, shall not be consummated until the Committees 
     have had 30 days in which to examine the proposed exchange. 
     In addition, the Committees shall be provided advance 
     notification of exchanges valued between $500,000 and 
     $1,000,000.
       Budget Structure.--The budget activity or line item 
     structure for any agency appropriation account shall not be 
     altered without advance approval of the Committees.

                  TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                       Bureau of Land Management


                   management of lands and resources

       Management of Lands and Resources (MLR).--The bill provides 
     $1,281,940,000 for the Management of Lands and Resources 
     appropriation. All programs and activities are funded at the 
     amounts enacted in fiscal year 2021 unless otherwise 
     specified below or in the table at the end of this division. 
     Fixed costs are provided. The Bureau is expected to comply 
     with the instructions and requirements at the beginning of 
     this division and in House Report 117-83 unless otherwise 
     specified below. While some language is repeated for 
     emphasis, it is not intended to negate the language referred 
     to above unless expressly provided herein.
       Wild Horse and Burro Program.--The bill provides 
     $137,093,000 for the Wild Horse and Burro program, of which 
     up to $11,000,000 shall be used for administration of and 
     research on reversible immunocontraceptive fertility control. 
     This agreement continues support for the Bureau's May 2020 
     report on achieving a sustainable program through an 
     aggressive, non-lethal population control strategy and 
     emphasizes the need for adequate staffing to execute the 
     program. The Bureau is expected to continue and expand 
     efforts in line with the May 2020 report. Along with the 
     directives in House Report 117-83, this includes increased 
     gathers which will also help implement the vaccine strategy, 
     improving on-range removal capacity, and securing a greater 
     number of less costly and longer-term off-range holding 
     facilities and pastures. The Bureau is strongly encouraged to 
     leverage funding through public-private partnerships with the 
     help of the Foundation for America's Public Lands. The Bureau 
     shall continue to abide by the Comprehensive Animal Welfare 
     Program and the statutory restrictions on sale without 
     restriction. Direction for a Wild Horse and Burro Task Force 
     and regular and timely briefings are outlined in the 
     beginning of this division and in the Office of the 
     Secretary.
       Wildlife Habitat Management.--The agreement provides 
     $140,747,000 which includes $10,600,000 for Plant 
     Conservation and Restoration, $70,000,000 for sage-grouse 
     habitat, and $31,000,000 for Threatened and Endangered 
     Species. The Bureau is encouraged to ramp up its use of 
     reporting tools to gain a better understanding of completed 
     recovery efforts and to provide annual species expenditure 
     reporting information to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
       Recreation Management.--The agreement provides $78,928,000 
     which includes $3,097,000 for National Wild and Scenic Rivers 
     and $6,547,000 for National Scenic and Historic Trails.
       Energy and Minerals.--The agreement provides $216,535,000.
       Legacy Wells.--The agreement provides no less than 
     $22,100,000 for legacy well remediation to maintain program 
     capacity and continue progress toward cleanup of the next 
     cluster of legacy wells in need of remediation. The report, 
     ``National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska: 2020 Legacy Wells 
     Strategic Plan,'' is appreciated, as is the Bureau's 
     continued commitment to coordinate with State and local 
     regulators.
       Locatable Minerals.--Any Bureau review of regulations on 
     mineral production should include regulations governing 
     locatable mineral activities.
       Oil and Gas Management.--The Bureau is directed to brief 
     the Committees on the Department's review of the onshore oil 
     and gas leasing program and any planned actions as a result 
     of it within 120 days of enactment of this Act. Further, the 
     Bureau is directed to increase staffing and resources 
     necessary to support improvements to the oil and gas program.
       Renewable Energy.--The agreement directs the Bureau to 
     brief the Committees within 90 days of enactment of this Act 
     on any planned rulemakings and how those interact with or 
     support the directives contained in Public Law 116-260 on 
     renewable energy and the competitive leasing rule.
       Resource Protection and Maintenance.--The agreement 
     provides $136,140,000 which includes $3,343,000 for abandoned 
     mine land sites.
       Transportation and Facilities Maintenance.--The agreement 
     provides $79,035,000 which includes $100,000 for fleet 
     related infrastructure.
       Workforce and Organizational Support.--The agreement 
     provides $165,875,000 which includes $400,000 for Diversity, 
     Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility.
       National Landscape Conservation System.--The agreement 
     provides $49,274,000 and expects that this increase will 
     create capacity to initiate or revise management plans for 
     monuments such as Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Rio 
     Grande del Norte National Monument, and address other high 
     priority areas.
     Other Directives.--
       Budget Structure.--The Bureau should consider a budget 
     restructure to include a dedicated trails budget line item or 
     to include congressionally-designated rivers and trails as 
     component subactivities within the National Landscape 
     Conservation System.
       Bicycle Accessible Trails.--The Bureau is encouraged to 
     identify and complete more plans to enhance bicycle 
     opportunities on BLM trails in locations where those uses are 
     appropriate and conducted in accordance with the applicable 
     land management plan, particularly in states such as New 
     Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada.
       Bonneville Salt Flats.--The Bureau and the State of Utah 
     have a shared interest in the long-term sustainability of the 
     Bonneville Salt Flats and entered into a memorandum of 
     understanding in April 2020 to improve coordination of 
     planning and management for the area. The Bureau is directed 
     to brief the Committees within 45 days of enactment of this 
     Act on the progress in this effort, including what financial 
     support the Bureau either has or intends to provide and the 
     elements of the Bureau's restoration strategy.
       Circumpolar Wildland Fire.--The Bureau is directed to 
     collaborate with the Arctic Council to promote international 
     cooperation and sharing of knowledge, resources, and training 
     across the Arctic region to respond to increased wildland 
     fire activity due to climate change.
       Coos Bay Wagon Road Lands.--The agreement expects the 
     Bureau to fully cooperate with the appraisal committee to 
     determine whether the county payments are being made in 
     accordance with the Coos Bay Wagon Road Act (Public Law 76-
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     should be appraised in a manner that reflects the differences 
     in how Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant lands are managed compared 
     to private lands of similar character, including restrictions 
     on timber activities. Sudden Oak Death treatments are to 
     continue at current levels.
       National Trails.--In coordination with its trail partners, 
     the Bureau is directed to update exhibits at its trail 
     interpretive centers to reflect these themes and provide a 
     project list within 120 days of enactment of this Act. 
     Funding for the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trial and 
     Iditarod National Historic Trail should be maintained at not 
     less than the enacted level. The agreement supports the 
     concept of the proposed ``Alaska Long Trail,'' which will 
     interconnect Alaska communities from Seward to Fairbanks, 
     providing direct economic benefit and expanded recreational 
     access and expects the Bureau to offer material support as 
     the effort takes shape.
       Public Lands Policy.--Within available funds, the agreement 
     supports efforts by the Bureau to work with a land grant 
     university to create a framework for assessment, inventory, 
     and monitoring of social and economic data related to how 
     individuals and communities are affected by public lands 
     management decisions. The Bureau should also take steps to 
     understand how to use focused data gathered from social 
     science best management practices to improve the public 
     engagement process, including engagement on environmental 
     justice and underrepresented populations. These efforts will 
     assist urban and rural communities, policymakers, resource 
     managers, and resource users to engage effectively in the 
     public land policy process.
       Range Management.--The Bureau is directed, to the greatest 
     extent practicable, to make vacant grazing allotments 
     available to a holder of a grazing permit or lease when lands 
     covered by the holder of the permit or lease are unusable 
     because of drought or wildfire. The Bureau is encouraged to 
     improve the management of active allotments and reduce any 
     backlog of permits. The Bureau is directed to brief the 
     Committees within 90 days of enactment of this Act on 
     progress made towards reviewing permits currently in the 
     backlog. The Bureau will continue the quantitative, science-
     based analysis of the risk of disease transmission between 
     domestic and bighorn sheep required in the explanatory 
     statement accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
     2016 (Public Law 114-113).
       Signage for Wilderness Areas.--The Bureau is expected to 
     ensure that the public is adequately informed regarding the 
     lands protected as well as routes that are open or closed 
     with properly posted and maintained signage for the areas 
     protected by Public Law 116-9. To help inform the public, the 
     Bureau should properly post signage and conduct regular 
     reviews to ensure that signage is maintained, and in good 
     readable condition, and to replace any damaged or unreadable 
     signs in a timely manner.
       Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNPLMA).--Funds 
     from the SNPLMA account are to be used for activities 
     authorized under Public Law 105-263.
       Tribal Coordination on Energy.--The Bureau is directed to 
     continue to fulfill its fiduciary trust responsibilities by 
     coordinating with Fort Berthold Tribal authorities for 
     activities that impact the Fort Berthold Reservation.


                   oregon and california grant lands

       The bill provides $117,283,000 for the Oregon and 
     California Grant Lands appropriation. Specific allocations at 
     the activity and subactivity level are contained in the table 
     at the back of this explanatory statement. The Bureau is 
     directed to continue the fire protection agreement with the 
     State of Oregon to maintain or enhance the current level of 
     fire protection for BLM-managed lands in Western Oregon; to 
     aggressively target hazardous fuels treatments and report 
     annually on the amount spent, as well as the scope of 
     hazardous fuels management required across Oregon and 
     California Grant Lands; and to regularly report its timber 
     sale accomplishments for sales that have been sold and 
     awarded rather than merely offered for sale. The Bureau is 
     expected to report these activities in a manner consistent 
     with the U.S. Forest Service and only count awarded volume.
       Sudden Oak Death Syndrome.--The agreement provides funding 
     adequate to continue efforts at fighting Sudden Oak Death 
     syndrome.


                           range improvements

       The bill provides $10,000,000 to be derived from public 
     lands receipts and Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act lands 
     grazing receipts.


               service charges, deposits, and forfeitures

       The bill provides an indefinite appropriation estimated to 
     be $30,000,000 for Service Charges, Deposits, and 
     Forfeitures.


                       miscellaneous trust funds

       The bill provides an indefinite appropriation estimated to 
     be $26,000,000 for Miscellaneous Trust Funds.

                United States Fish and Wildlife Service


                          resource management

                     (including transfer of funds)

       The bill provides $1,451,545,000 for Resource Management. 
     All programs and activities are funded at the amounts enacted 
     in fiscal year 2021 unless otherwise specified below or in 
     the table at the end of this division. Fixed costs are 
     provided. The Service is expected to comply with the 
     instructions and requirements at the beginning of this 
     division and in House Report 117-83 unless otherwise 
     specified below. While some language is repeated for 
     emphasis, it is not intended to negate the language referred 
     to above unless expressly provided herein.
       The Service is expected to comply with language contained 
     in the explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 116-260, 
     the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 regarding 
     Traditional Knowledge, Subsistence Activities, Polar Bear 
     Tourism, Continued Funding Prohibitions, Sea Otters, and 
     Ozark Hellbender. The agreement reiterates the direction in 
     House Report 117-83 and the explanatory statement 
     accompanying Public Law 116-260 regarding American red 
     wolves. In addition, language contained in Senate Report 116-
     123 subtitled Native Handicrafts, Central Everglades Planning 
     Project, Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Wildlife 
     Trafficking, Invasive Species, and Unknown Florida Panther 
     Disorder is restated. The agreement reiterates that the 
     Service's 2016 regulation does not apply to Alaska Native 
     handicrafts made from walrus ivory and mammoth ivory.
       Ecological Services.--The agreement provides $277,409,000 
     for programs and activities within Ecological Services, 
     including $21,279,000 for listing.
       Planning and Consultation.--The agreement provides 
     $112,092,000 which maintains $4,000,000 for Gulf Coast 
     restoration activities.
       Conservation and Restoration.--The agreement provides 
     $35,666,000 for conservation and restoration activities which 
     includes $6,220,000 for Marine Mammals with the increase 
     directed toward manatees. The Service is expected to complete 
     the survey and stock assessment of northern sea otters in 
     Southeast Alaska and assess this population relative to the 
     optimum sustainable level, improve management strategies, and 
     document ecological impacts of sea otters. Upon finalization 
     of this report, the Service shall transmit the report to the 
     Committees. The agreement includes a $500,000 reduction as 
     requested.
       Geospatial Data.--The agreement encourages the Service to 
     work with partners to develop a geospatial index that 
     includes tools to combine information from a wide variety of 
     datasets into a single compatible framework, while protecting 
     sensitive data and landowner information, in order to protect 
     the Great Plains grassland habitat and the species that rely 
     on them.
       Conservation Banking Report.--The Service is directed to 
     report back within 60 days of enactment of this Act on the 
     status of meeting the directive in section 329 of the William 
     M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act, 2021 
     (Public Law 116-283), related to issuing regulations for 
     wildlife conservation banking programs.
       Recovery.--The agreement provides $108,372,000 for 
     activities in support of the recovery and delisting of 
     threatened and endangered species which includes: $3,750,000 
     for the State of the Birds; $1,300,000 for the Prescott Grant 
     program; and $1,000,000 for the wolf-livestock demonstration 
     program. The agreement supports focused efforts by the 
     Service to prevent extinction of the most critically 
     endangered species, particularly keystone species because of 
     the significant impact they have on ecosystem health, but 
     reminds the Service of the critical importance of continuing 
     to reduce the backlog of 5-year reviews and associated 
     inherently Federal responsibilities.
       The agreement provides $9,500,000 for Recovery Challenge 
     matching grants. Recovery Challenge grants are to be used to 
     develop and update recovery plans and implement high priority 
     recovery actions as prescribed in recovery plans to recover 
     federally listed species. Actions should include, but are not 
     limited to, genetically-sound breeding, rearing, and 
     reintroduction programs. Longstanding partnerships, including 
     for the northern aplomado falcon and California condor, would 
     be funded at no less than their current levels, and partner 
     contributions should be no less than their current amounts 
     and provide at least a 50:50 partner match, which may include 
     in-kind services. The remaining funds should be dedicated to 
     new partnerships and should require at least a 50:50 partner 
     match, which may include in-kind services. Unless an affected 
     State is a partner on the project, no funds may be awarded to 
     a project until the project partners have consulted with such 
     State. Program direction contained in House Report 117-83 
     regarding working with the National Fish and Wildlife 
     Foundation remains in effect.
       Florida Grasshopper Sparrow.--The Service is directed to 
     continue to support the Florida grasshopper sparrow recovery 
     efforts and the captive breeding program as managed by its 
     conservation partners as referenced in Senate Report 116-123 
     and the agreement provides $200,000.
       Western Monarch Butterfly Populations.--Western monarch 
     populations are in decline and the agreement provides no less 
     than $4,000,000 across the account for western monarchs and 
     pollinator recovery. Further, the Service is directed to 
     provide a report within 120 days of enactment of this Act on 
     whether there are Service-managed lands that could serve as 
     milkweed habitat corridors for migrating western monarchs.
       Habitat Conservation.--The agreement provides $71,331,000 
     for habitat conservation programs, of which $57,715,000 is 
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     for Fish and Wildlife program and $13,616,000 is for the 
     Coastal Program. The agreement provides $1,750,000 for the 
     Chesapeake Bay nutria eradication project.
       Klamath Restoration.--The Service is directed to consider 
     additional activities that could be undertaken to recover 
     endangered and threatened species, restore habitat, and 
     improve the health of the Klamath Basin National Wildlife 
     Refuges with the funds provided in fiscal year 2022 and 
     during the fiscal year 2023 budget formulation. The Service 
     is encouraged to continue to coordinate with the Bureau of 
     Reclamation where appropriate and consult with Tribes. Within 
     Habitat Conservation, the agreement provides no less than the 
     fiscal year 2021 enacted level for Klamath River habitat 
     restoration.
       National Wildlife Refuge System.--The agreement provides 
     $518,761,000 for the National Wildlife Refuge System.
       Wildlife and Habitat Management.--The agreement provides: 
     $15,925,000 for invasive species to focus on high priority 
     invasive species including nutria, buffelgrass, and 
     cheatgrass; $1,750,000 for the Chesapeake Bay nutria 
     eradication project; $500,000 to help refuges improve water 
     efficiency in order to maintain, improve, replace and upgrade 
     refuge infrastructure on areas such as the Quivira National 
     Wildlife Refuge; $2,000,000 for Marine National Monuments 
     including $700,000 for the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts 
     Marine National Monument; $23,924,000 for inventory and 
     monitoring including no less than $2,000,000 for western 
     monarchs and pollinators. Focusing on chronic wasting disease 
     is encouraged.
       In lieu of the direction in House Report 117-83 regarding 
     changes to trapping practices, the Service is directed to 
     conduct an evaluation of trapping practices on Service lands 
     in collaboration with the U.S Department of Agriculture, 
     Wildlife Services and to brief the Committees on their 
     findings including information regarding alternative non-
     lethal methods and equipment that may be used to remove 
     invasive species or native pest species that behave like 
     invasive species. House directives regarding signage and 
     annual reporting are continued.
       Chesapeake Marshlands National Wildlife Refuge Complex.--
     The Service's collaboration with non-Federal partners to 
     develop and implement the Blackwater 2100 ``A Strategy for 
     Salt Marsh Persistence in an Era of Climate Change'' is 
     supported as is the Service's ability to implement the 
     strategy while providing hunting, fishing, and other 
     recreational opportunities where compatible. Ongoing 
     engagement with the surrounding local communities will be the 
     key to successful implementation and community support. The 
     Service is also encouraged to sufficiently staff the refuge 
     complex which has not had a full-time refuge manager in four 
     years.
       Visitor Services.--The agreement includes $77,237,000 which 
     includes $6,000,000 for the Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnership 
     program.
       Refuge Management Plans.--The Service is encouraged to 
     prioritize updating refuge management plans that predate the 
     National Wildlife Refuge Improvement Act of 1997, to improve 
     the management of refuges in a manner consistent with the 
     strategic vision of the National Wildlife Refuge System.
       Conservation and Enforcement.--The agreement provides 
     $164,721,000 for other conservation and enforcement programs 
     as described below.
       Migratory Bird Management.--The agreement provides 
     $49,568,000 which includes $29,921,000 for Conservation and 
     Monitoring of which $600,000 is to manage bird-livestock 
     conflicts; and $15,562,000 is for the North American 
     Waterfowl Management Plan/Joint Ventures program.
       Law Enforcement.--The agreement provides $89,788,000 for 
     law enforcement activities, including a $1,000,000 general 
     program increase to help combat illegal global wildlife 
     trafficking and implement the Lacey Act, and $3,500,000 to 
     continue the Service's work with the Indian Arts and Crafts 
     Board to combat international trafficking of counterfeit arts 
     and crafts and to conduct criminal investigations of alleged 
     violations of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act.
       International Affairs.--The agreement provides $25,365,000 
     including $9,899,000 for International Conservation and 
     $15,466,000 for International Wildlife Trade. Funds are 
     provided to continue progress on the electronic permit 
     application and processing system. The Theodore Roosevelt 
     Genius Prizes for technological innovation to help conserve 
     and manage wildlife is maintained at the fiscal year 2021 
     enacted level. A reduction of $550,000 is included in 
     accordance with instructions as outlined in House Report 116-
     448.
       The Service is directed to provide the briefing required in 
     the explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 116-94 on 
     its current policy for sport-hunted trophies and its analysis 
     on exporting countries' conservation programs and species 
     survival within 60 days of enactment of this Act.
       Fish and Aquatic Conservation.--The agreement provides 
     $220,826,000 for fish and aquatic conservation programs.
       National Fish Hatchery System Operations.--The agreement 
     provides $71,776,000 which includes: $3,750,000 for Klamath 
     Basin restoration activities and directs the Service to work 
     with the affected Tribes on fish restoration activities; 
     $4,700,000 for mitigation of the Pacific Salmon Treaty and 
     directs the Service to work in cooperation with State fish 
     and game agencies and which includes $1,556,000 for 
     implementation of the Yukon River Salmon Agreement and 
     funding for anadromous salmonids. The Service is directed to 
     continue to work in cooperation with State fish and game 
     agencies on marking of anadromous fish and the agreement 
     maintains funding for mass marking at the fiscal year 2021 
     enacted level. None of the funds provided under this 
     subactivity may be used to terminate operations or to close 
     any facility of the National Fish Hatchery System. None of 
     the production programs listed in the March 2013 National 
     Fish Hatchery System Strategic Hatchery and Workforce 
     Planning Report may be reduced or terminated without advance, 
     informal consultation with affected States and Tribes.
       A $5,000,000 increase is provided for the Warm Springs Fish 
     Health Center (FHC) which provides disease diagnosis, 
     biosecurity and disease management, disease treatment and 
     prevention, fish health inspection services for Federal, 
     State, and Tribal hatcheries responsible for production of 
     salmonids and warm water species for recovery, restoration, 
     and recreational fisheries, and inspection and certificates 
     for the National Triploid Grass Carp Protection.
       Habitat Assessment and Restoration.--The agreement provides 
     $46,326,000, which includes $10,500,000 to implement the 
     Delaware River Basin Conservation Act which is supplemented 
     by $5,200,000 provided in Public Law 117-58 for fiscal year 
     2022; $18,598,000 for the National Fish Passage Program which 
     is supplemented by $40,000,000 provided in Public Law 117-58 
     for fiscal year 2022; and $5,750,000 to implement Klamath 
     Basin restoration activities.
       Population Assessment and Cooperative Management.--The 
     agreement provides $33,965,000 which includes $2,000,000 for 
     Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act grants; 
     $890,000 for Great Lakes Consent Decree; $818,000 for the 
     Lake Champlain Sea lamprey program; and $750,000 from within 
     available funds for snakehead eradication.
       Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission.--The 
     agreement provides $500,000 for the Connecticut River 
     Atlantic Salmon Compact, as authorized in Public Law 98-138, 
     for research, monitoring, conservation, and habitat 
     restoration work related to this high-priority watershed.
       Aquatic Invasive Species.--The agreement includes 
     $42,713,000 for aquatic invasive species programs, of which: 
     $2,319,000 is for Prevention; $4,338,000 is to implement 
     subsection 5(d)(2) of the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act which is 
     supplemented by $3,400,000 provided in Public Law 117-58 for 
     fiscal year 2022; $25,200,000 is for invasive carp as 
     outlined in House Report 117-83 and Senate Report 116-123 
     including not less than $3,200,000 for contract fishing; 
     $2,834,000 for NISA State Plans and $1,566,000 for NISA 
     implementation which help control the spread of invasive 
     carp; $3,500,000 is to prevent the spread of quagga and zebra 
     mussels; $1,000,000 is for research on hydrilla, eel, and 
     milfoil invasive grasses; and $1,011,000 is for Great Lakes 
     Sea Lamprey administration costs.
       The Service is expected to continue to pursue methods for 
     invasive species control that do not result in the addition 
     of chemical agents to the ecosystem and harmful secondary by-
     products such as algal blooms, as directed in the explanatory 
     statement accompanying Public Law 116-260.
       Cooperative Landscape Conservation.--The agreement includes 
     $12,802,000 for Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs).
       On February 1, 2022, the Service submitted a report 
     regarding landscape conservation; however, the report was not 
     responsive to the directive contained in the explanatory 
     statement accompanying Public Law 116-260. The information 
     requested on historic and present-day staffing and funding 
     allocations, the status of the 22 LCCs, and the transition of 
     the LCC activities is still expected. The Service is directed 
     to report quarterly to the Committees on the allocation of 
     fiscal year 2022 resources to address landscape scale 
     conservation, partnerships, staffing, project funding, and 
     technical assistance. The fiscal year 2023 budget request 
     should include a revised account structure to better reflect 
     the direction of the Science Applications Programs instead of 
     using subactivities that no longer represent the program.
       Science Support.--The agreement provides $23,233,000 for 
     the Science Support program, which includes $3,500,000 for 
     white nose syndrome; the fiscal year 2021 enacted level for 
     Gulf Coast ecosystem restoration; $4,000,000 for Chesapeake 
     WILD; and $2,000,000 for research on western monarch 
     butterflies and other pollinators. Best practices developed 
     in response to white nose syndrome are directed to be applied 
     in response to other new and emerging high-risk wildlife 
     diseases. The Service should also continue, along with the 
     U.S. Geological Survey, to lead and implement the North 
     American Bat Monitoring Program in association with other 
     Federal natural resource management agencies and offices, 
     States, Tribes, and non-governmental partners.
       Stewardship Priorities.--The agreement provides $6,813,000 
     in congressionally directed spending for stewardship projects 
     to further conservation goals. Further detail on these 
     projects is provided in the table titled ``Interior and 
     Environment Incorporation of Community Project Funding Items/
     Congressionally Directed Spending Items''' accompanying this 
     explanatory statement.
       General Operations.--The agreement provides $155,649,000 
     for general operations which includes an increase of $400,000 
     for diversity.
       The agreement continues support for the Everglades at not 
     less than the fiscal year 2021 enacted level.

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                              construction

                    (including rescission of funds)

       The bill provides $12,847,000 for Construction and includes 
     fixed costs, $150,000 for fleet related infrastructure, and a 
     rescission of $1,240,000 from prior year unobligated 
     balances. The agreement continues to support the Service's 
     objective priority-setting process and expects the Service to 
     follow its project priority list with the funds provided. 
     When a construction project is completed or terminated and 
     appropriated funds remain, the Service may use those balances 
     to respond to unforeseen reconstruction, replacement, or 
     repair of facilities or equipment damaged or destroyed by 
     storms, floods, fires, and similar unanticipated natural 
     events. The detailed allocation of funding by activity is 
     included in the table at the end of this explanatory 
     statement.


            cooperative endangered species conservation fund

                    (including rescission of funds)

       The bill provides $24,064,000 in discretionary funding from 
     the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund for 
     conservation grants, habitat conservation planning grants, 
     and program administration. In addition, the bill allocates 
     $32,800,000 in mandatory funding from the Land and Water 
     Conservation Fund for species recovery and habitat 
     conservation plan land acquisitions. The bill also includes a 
     rescission of $945,000 from prior year unobligated balances. 
     Detailed tables of funding recommendations below the account 
     level are provided at the end of this report.


                     national wildlife refuge fund

       The bill provides $13,228,000 for payments to counties from 
     the National Wildlife Refuge Fund.


               north american wetlands conservation fund

       The bill provides $48,500,000 for the North American 
     Wetlands Conservation Fund.


              neotropical migratory bird conservation fund

       The bill provides $5,000,000 for the Neotropical Migratory 
     Bird Conservation Fund.


                multinational species conservation fund

       The bill provides $20,000,000 for the Multinational Species 
     Conservation Fund. The detailed allocation of funding by 
     activity is included in the table at the end of this 
     explanatory statement.


                    state and tribal wildlife grants

       The bill provides $72,612,000 for State and Tribal Wildlife 
     Grants which includes $59,250,000 for State Wildlife Formula 
     grants, $7,362,000 for State Wildlife Competitive grants, and 
     $6,000,000 for Tribal Wildlife grants.

                         National Park Service


                 operation of the national park system

       The bill provides $2,767,028,000 for Operation of the 
     National Park System (ONPS), $78,741,000 above the enacted 
     level and $210,301,000 below the budget request. For this and 
     all other Service accounts funded in this bill, the Service 
     is expected to comply with the instructions and requirements 
     at the beginning of this division and in House Report 117-83, 
     unless otherwise specified below. Additional details, 
     instructions, and requirements follow below and in the table 
     at the end of this division.
       The Service is expected to execute its spending at the 
     levels provided. The Service may not redistribute the 
     recommendations in a fiscal year 2022 operating plan. The 
     Committees appreciate the Service's initial efforts to 
     identify spending trends within park base to help increase 
     fidelity to park management increases. The Service is 
     directed to continue to refine the Operation of the National 
     Park Service Realignment and collaborate with the Committees 
     with the goal to develop an updated methodology to improve 
     the budgeting process.
       The agreement provides fixed costs and funding for New 
     Responsibilities at New and Existing Park Areas. Additional 
     funding guidance is provided below.
       Resource Stewardship.--The bill includes: $4,900,000 for 
     the Partnership Wild & Scenic Rivers program and other 
     similarly managed rivers; $2,000,000 for Active Forest 
     Management; $5,000,000 for Quagga and Zebra Mussel programs; 
     $800,000 for Cave and Karst Ecosystem Research; $400,000 for 
     Recreational Access--Support Alaska Subsistence; and 
     $16,856,000 for the National Trails System. The agreement 
     provides $8,825,000 for the National Networks. Within this 
     amount, the African American Civil Rights Network is funded 
     at the requested level of $5,375,000 and the National 
     Underground Railroad Network to Freedom is funded at 
     $2,500,000.
       Visitor Services.--The bill accepts the proposed reduction 
     for non-recurring funding to support the 2021 Presidential 
     Inauguration and provides the requested increase for the 
     Commemorations Office. Funding is provided at the enacted 
     level for Recreational Access--Recreational Fishing, and the 
     National Capital Area Performing Arts Program. The Service is 
     encouraged to look for ways to leverage resources and 
     maximize support for the Every Kid Outdoors Program. The 
     agreement includes $14,546,000 for activities that support 
     programs like the Indian Youth Service Corps, the American 
     Sign Language Conservation Corps, the Ancestral Lands 
     Conservation Corps, Historically Black Colleges and 
     Universities Internship Program, the Latino Heritage 
     Internship Program, and the Scientists in Parks program. This 
     is a $3,000,000 increase over enacted.
       Park Protection.--The bill provides funding as requested 
     for the Statue of Liberty NM Security Contract, $3,000,000 
     for United States Park Police Workforce Capacity, and the 
     $4,100,000 requested for equipment. All other activities are 
     funded at no less than the enacted level.
       Facility Operations and Maintenance.--The proposed 
     reduction for DC Water and Sewer is accepted.
       Park Support.--The proposed transfers have been accepted 
     and $400,000 is provided for the Diversity, Inclusion, and 
     Compliance initiative. Funding for the Semiquincentennial 
     Commission is provided in a separate account outside of the 
     Service's budget, in accordance with the budget request.
       Global Positioning System Modernization.--The agreement 
     provides $4,000,000 for the replacement of Global Positioning 
     System (GPS) data collection devices used by the Service for 
     facilities planning, lands administration, visitor safety, 
     and infrastructure protection.
       National Park Foundation.--The agreement provides 
     $5,000,000 for the National Park Foundation, equal to the 
     fiscal year 2021 level.
       Funding is provided at the requested level for the 
     Roosevelt-Campobello International Park and the Katahdin 
     Woods and Waters National Monument. Increases are also 
     supported for the Honouliuli National Historic Site, the 
     Pearl Harbor National Memorial, Coltsville National Historic 
     Park, the Chesapeake Bay Office, and America's newest 
     National Park, the New River Gorge National Park and 
     Preserve.
       Additional Guidance.--The following additional guidance is 
     included:
       Appalachian National Scenic Trail.--The Appalachian 
     National Scenic Trail is a 2,190-mile linear park stretching 
     through 14 states and 88 counties--more than any other unit 
     of the National Park System. The Appalachian National Scenic 
     Trail draws visitors from all over the United States and the 
     world, bolstering the economy of the communities around the 
     trail. The Committees are aware that the Trail is 
     experiencing increased visitation and encourages the Service 
     to include sufficient resources in future budget requests to 
     meet its expanded visitor services, law enforcement, 
     compliance, and land acquisition requirements.
       Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park.--Within 
     the funds provided for Park Support, the Committees support 
     funding increases for Blackstone Valley National Historical 
     Park with the expectation that the Service will continue to 
     make funds available to the local coordinating entity to 
     maintain staffing and capacity to assist in management of the 
     park, as authorized in Public Law 113-291. The Committees 
     encourage the Park to work with partners to provide safe 
     recreational access along the Blackstone River and emphasize 
     the importance of the river through continuous access, 
     citizen science, and interpretive programming at the park. 
     The Service is directed to continue its work to complete a 
     General Management Plan for the Park, as required by Public 
     Law 113-291, and to prioritize activities that will advance 
     development of the Park, including the acquisition of Slater 
     Mill's historic dam.
       Continued Directives.--The Committees continue the 
     directives regarding Director's Order 21, Roosevelt-
     Campobello International Park, and Katahdin Wood and Waters 
     National Monument contained in Senate Report 116 123.
       Diversity in Hiring.--The Service is directed to focus on 
     building a workforce that reflects the diversity of America.
       National Trails System.--The Committees understand the 
     importance of providing adequate funding to develop and 
     maintain the National Trails System for future generations to 
     enjoy. The Committees urge the Service to continue its 
     efforts to support construction and maintenance projects and 
     volunteer coordination efforts, including activities in 
     support of non-unit National Scenic Trails.


                  NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION

       The bill provides $83,910,000 for national recreation and 
     preservation, $9,753,000 above the enacted level and 
     $9,396,000 below the budget request. The amounts recommended 
     by the Committees compared with the budget estimates by 
     activity are shown in the table at the end of this 
     explanatory statement.
       Cultural Programs.--The bill provides $2,157,000 for Native 
     American Graves Protection and Repatriation Grants; 
     $3,405,000 for Japanese Confinement Site Grants; and, 
     $2,750,000 for the competitive grant program authorized by 
     the 9/11 Memorial Act (Public Law 115-413). Funding is 
     recommended for financial assistance to nonprofit 
     organizations or institutions for the purpose of supporting 
     programs for Native Hawaiian or Alaska Native culture and 
     arts development at a total program level of $1,500,000, an 
     increase of $250,000 to the enacted level, which is provided 
     to support both continued program levels and encourage new 
     entities to apply. The bill provides the requested one-time 
     funding for the Oklahoma City Memorial Endowment.
       Heritage Partnership Programs.--The agreement provides 
     $27,144,000 for the Heritage Partnership Program. The 
     directive contained in the explanatory statement that 
     accompanied Public Law 116-6 with regards to funding 
     distribution is continued. Due to

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     concerns that efforts to complete management plans have been 
     delayed due to COVID-19, the Committees note that areas that 
     have not completed their management plan continue to be 
     eligible for funding regardless of the status of their 
     management plan.


                       HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND

       The bill provides $173,072,000 for historic preservation, 
     $28,772,000 above the enacted level and $21,272,000 above the 
     budget request.
       Competitive Grants.--The bill provides $21,750,000 for the 
     African American Civil Rights Grants, as requested. 
     Additionally, $4,625,000 is provided for the History of Equal 
     Rights grants and $1,250,000 for grants to underserved 
     communities.
       Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants.--The bill 
     provides $10,000,000 for historic revitalization grants and 
     retains the directives regarding the distribution of funding 
     included in Senate Report 116-123.
       Save America's Treasures.--The Save America's Treasures 
     program is provided $26,500,000. The Committees support this 
     program because of its important role in providing 
     preservation and conservation assistance to nationally 
     significant historical properties and collections, including 
     historic courthouses.
       Semiquincentennial Preservation Grants.--The bill provides 
     $10,000,000 for the Service to assist states in preparing for 
     the upcoming Semiquincentennial celebration and to celebrate 
     the Nation's history. Funds from this allocation should be 
     used for a competitive grant program to support the 
     restoration of sites that honor the 250th anniversary of the 
     country's founding, including Revolutionary War monuments. 
     Priority should be given to state-owned sites. A site must be 
     listed in, or be eligible to be listed in, the National 
     Register of Historic Places in order to be eligible.


                              CONSTRUCTION

       The bill provides $225,984,000 for construction, $2,077,000 
     above the enacted level and $52,579,000 below the budget 
     request.
       Line-Item Construction.--Funding for line-item construction 
     projects is provided as outlined in the table contained in 
     House Report 117-83.
       Ocmulgee River Corridor.--The Committees support the 
     Service's initiation of the Ocmulgee River Corridor Special 
     Resource Study to evaluate its potential for designation as a 
     national park unit and directs the Service to complete the 
     report in a timely manner.
       Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park.--Within 90 days of 
     enactment of this Act, the Service is directed to provide the 
     Committees a report detailing the planned repair, 
     rehabilitation, and restoration work at the Ste. Genevieve 
     National Historical Park during the next four fiscal years.


                          CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE

       The bill provides $15,000,000 for the Centennial Challenge 
     matching grant program, equal to the enacted level and the 
     budget request.

                    United States Geological Survey


                 SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The bill provides $1,394,360,000 for Surveys, 
     Investigations, and Research of the U.S. Geological Survey 
     (USGS, or the Survey). All programs and activities are funded 
     at the amounts enacted in fiscal year 2021 unless otherwise 
     specified below or in the table at the end of this division. 
     Fixed costs are provided. The Survey is expected to comply 
     with the instructions and requirements at the beginning of 
     this division and in House Report 117-83 unless otherwise 
     specified below. While some language is repeated for 
     emphasis, it is not intended to negate the language referred 
     to above unless expressly provided herein.
       Ecosystems.--The agreement provides $277,897,000 as 
     outlined below.
       Environmental Health Program.--The agreement provides 
     $26,489,000 for Environmental Health, which includes 
     $11,100,000 for Contaminant Biology and $15,389,000 for Toxic 
     Substances Hydrology. The agreement includes no less than 
     $2,750,000 for research on harmful algal blooms and 
     $2,700,000 for research on the transmission of per- and 
     polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFOA/PFAS) in watersheds and 
     aquifers. The Survey is to continue its research as directed 
     in House Report 117-83.
       The bill provides $500,000 to continue competitively 
     awarding grants for applied research to develop a system for 
     integrating sensors. By working with partners, such as 
     academic institutions, small businesses, and other government 
     research organizations to submit innovative proposals to 
     perform complementary development of technologies, the Survey 
     can develop a convergent platform that enables existing and 
     future sensor technologies to be deployed in extreme 
     environments where real-time information is required.
       Microplastics.--The Survey is developing a strategic vision 
     for its microplastics research, including a review of the 
     current science gaps and how Survey expertise and 
     capabilities can address those gaps. The Survey is encouraged 
     to brief the Committees on its findings after release.
       Species Management Research Program.--The agreement 
     provides $55,418,000. There are long-term hydrological and 
     ecological challenges associated with saline lakes in the 
     Great Basin States and the Survey is encouraged to address 
     related science needs in tandem with the Integrated Water 
     Availability Assessment for saline lakes that is provided for 
     under the Water Resources mission area.
       The Survey is directed to provide a briefing to the 
     Committees within 180 days of enactment of this Act on the 
     merits of funding phenology related efforts to collect, 
     maintain, and share information on seasonal timing to support 
     resource management, climate adaptation, agriculture, and 
     human health.
       Land Management Research Program.--The agreement provides 
     $58,103,000 including $6,000,000 for Chesapeake Bay 
     activities.
       Biological Threats and Invasive Species Research Program.--
     The agreement provides $40,431,000 including $4,720,000 for 
     chronic wasting disease. In carrying out chronic wasting 
     disease research, the Survey should continue to collaborate 
     with institutions of higher education as directed in House 
     Report 117-83 and may consult, partner, or contract with the 
     Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the National 
     Academy of Sciences, State and Federal public and private 
     entities, and any chronic wasting disease task forces and 
     working groups. Collaboration should continue with partners 
     to develop early detection tools and compounds to disrupt 
     transmission of the disease. In particular, the agreement 
     encourages research and investment into carcass disposal 
     methods to mitigate the spread of chronic wasting disease, 
     and the Survey is urged to consult with the Environmental 
     Protection Agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
     Tribes, and States to develop recommendations for carcass 
     disposal methods that are compliant with relevant Federal 
     clean air and water and solid waste regulations. The Survey 
     is also encouraged to work in collaboration with the Fish and 
     Wildlife Service to aid State and Tribal wildlife agencies in 
     the application of existing human dimensions research to the 
     management and prevention of chronic wasting disease. Funding 
     is continued at the enacted level for white-nose syndrome 
     (WNS) research and the direction found in Senate Report 116-
     123 is continued for WNS research. The agreement provides 
     $600,000 for coral disease and $11,000,000 for invasive carp 
     research, of which $3,000,000 is for research on grass carp. 
     The direction found in Senate Report 116-123 is continued for 
     invasive carp, coral disease, and invasive species research, 
     detection, and response efforts. Additional resources for 
     invasives species were provided in Public Law 117-58 to the 
     Office of the Secretary.
       Climate Adaptation Science Center and Land Change Science 
     Program.--The agreement provides $71,450,000 of which 
     $51,903,000 is for the National and Regional Climate 
     Adaptation Science Centers including $2,000,000 for Tribal 
     climate adaptation science. The agreement also provides 
     $19,547,000 for Land Change Science which includes $150,000 
     for biological carbon sequestration.
       Cooperative Research Units Program.--Cooperative Research 
     Units (CRUs) are funded at $26,006,000 in accordance with the 
     specifications outlined in House Report 117-83. Of the funds 
     provided, $250,000 is for research into the causes of 
     malignant melanomas affecting 25 percent or more of brown 
     bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus) in some northern New England 
     waters and related fishery research at the host institution.
       Great Lakes Science.--The Committees support Great Lakes 
     science and the USGS collaboration with the broader Great 
     Lakes Partnership to implement priority science. These 
     resources will ensure delivery of information needed for 
     Great Lakes management decisions. Funding for Great Lakes 
     Science is provided at no less than $14,000,000.
       Energy and Mineral Resources.--The agreement provides 
     $95,223,000 for Energy and Mineral Resources. Mineral 
     Resources is funded at $63,737,000 which maintains 
     $10,598,000 for the critical minerals Earth Mapping Resources 
     Initiative (Earth MRI) and provides $3,774,000 for mine waste 
     research and to characterize mine waste as a potential source 
     for critical minerals. Energy Resources is funded at 
     $31,486,000 including $1,977,000 for geologic carbon 
     sequestration, a portion of which is to advance the 
     understanding of alkalinity sources of carbon mineralization 
     as outlined in House Report 117-83, $200,000 is for 
     geophysical data acquisition and $175,000 is for the 
     inventory of greenhouse gases.
       Public Law 117-58 provides $64,000,000 in fiscal year 2022 
     for Earth MRI and funding to the Department of Energy (DOE) 
     for critical minerals research and the agreement urges USGS 
     to expand their collaboration with DOE in this field.
       The Survey is expected to continue critical mineral mapping 
     efforts in Alaska, pursuant to the budget request, at no less 
     than the fiscal year 2021 enacted level and to brief the 
     Committees on such efforts within 90 days of enactment of 
     this Act.
       The Survey is expected to provide the report on potential 
     initiatives to increase the domestic supply of critical 
     minerals as directed in the explanatory statement 
     accompanying Public Law 116-260.
       Natural Hazards.--The agreement provides $185,998,000 for 
     the Natural Hazards Program, including $90,037,000 for 
     earthquake hazards. Within this funding, $28,600,000 is 
     included for continued development and expansion of the 
     ShakeAlert West Coast earthquake early warning (EEW) system. 
     Continued efforts to complete and operate the EEW system on 
     the West Coast are supported. Concerns remain regarding the 
     lack of knowledge and offshore real time instrumentation 
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     for the Cascadia subduction zone. Our increased scientific 
     understanding of earthquakes and the ocean environment will 
     benefit from the wealth of offshore data collected and the 
     continued development of an early earthquake warning system 
     for the Cascadia system.
       The agreement continues no less than the enacted level for 
     the national seismic hazard map, including for expansion to 
     Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, for regional networks to 
     operate and maintain recently acquired USArray stations, for 
     the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) and for regional 
     seismic networks including the Central and Eastern U.S. 
     Network. In addition, the agreement recognizes concern that 
     updates to the national seismic hazard maps do not 
     consistently include the entire country and urges the Survey 
     to update the maps for all 50 states and provides $500,000 
     for the maps for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
       The agreement provides $33,282,000 for volcano hazards.
       In 2019 the National Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring 
     System (NVEWS) was initiated. The Survey is completing the 
     two prerequisite steps to NVEWS expansion and upgrades and is 
     encouraged to accelerate the pace of these activities where 
     possible. The agreement provides $2,172,000 to begin 
     implementation of NVEWS as well as $1,800,000 for the Early 
     Warning System and $770,000 for Next Generation hazards 
     assessments.
       Concerns remain that systems and equipment used to monitor, 
     detect, and warn the public of volcanic and seismic hazards, 
     including lahars and earthquakes on high-threat volcanoes, 
     are outdated and inadequate. The funding provided supports 
     efforts to repair, upgrade, and expand systems and equipment 
     that monitor, detect, and provide early warning of volcanic 
     hazards with a focus on high-threat volcanoes.
       The agreement includes $8,929,000 for landslide hazards 
     which includes $750,000 for science outlined in House Report 
     117-83. In light of the increasing frequency of catastrophic 
     wildfires, the Survey is encouraged to prioritize efforts to 
     predict and reduce the risk of post-wildfire landslides.
       The Survey is directed to continue to collaborate with the 
     National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and State and 
     local governments to assess landslide potential and hazards 
     and implement tsunami warning capabilities in Prince William 
     Sound, including through the use of physical instrumentation 
     or remote sensing technologies, particularly where the threat 
     of a landslide and tsunami presents the most serious risks to 
     Sound residents, visitors, and property. The Survey is 
     encouraged to expand this work to areas in Southeast Alaska 
     that have recently experienced landslides and will continue 
     to face the threat of devastating landslides. Further, the 
     Survey is directed to brief the Committees within 60 days of 
     enactment of this Act on what resources are needed to aid the 
     development and deployment of early warning technologies to 
     affected communities.
       The agreement provides $7,212,000 for the Global 
     Seismographic Network; $4,673,000 for Geomagnetism including 
     $2,888,000 for the expansion of magnetometer observatories 
     and the fiscal year 2021 enacted level for the 
     magnetotelluric survey to advance the collection of 
     magnetotelluric observations of the Earth's naturally 
     occurring electric and magnetic fields in the U.S. regions; 
     and $41,865,000 for Coastal/Marine Hazards which includes 
     $10,674,000 for coastal hazards, $1,200,000 for coastal blue 
     carbon, and $950,000 for risk reduction and community 
     resilience.
       Emergent Hazards.--Within 90 days of enactment of this Act, 
     the Survey is directed to brief the Committees on the need 
     and potential of partnering with universities for a scalable, 
     automated system that is capable of rapidly identifying 
     emerging hazard threats and their potential impacts using 
     remote sensing data to provide an impact model product 
     capable of identifying and supporting response to emergent 
     hazard threats.
       Water Resources.--The agreement provides $285,894,000 for 
     Water Resources, with $65,529,000 for activities associated 
     with the Cooperative Matching Funds. Water Availability and 
     Use Science is funded at $64,501,000, which includes 
     $1,000,000 for the U.S. Mexico transboundary aquifer 
     assessment; $1,750,000 for research on water extraction for 
     bottling and a phased study as directed in House Report 117-
     83; and $1,500,000 for the Survey's work with the Open ET 
     consortium and the Open ET software system.
       The agreement includes $13,500,000 for integrated water 
     prediction to continue to utilize the best available 
     technology to develop advanced modeling tools, state-of-the-
     art forecasts, and decision support systems and to 
     incorporate these capabilities into daily water operations.
       The bill includes at least $2,000,000 to complete a 
     groundwater model-based decision support system to support 
     water sustainability decision-making and a basin-wide model 
     and monitoring program for irrigation water-use for the 
     Mississippi Alluvial Plain. In addition, the Survey is 
     provided funds to transition tools and resources produced 
     through the Mississippi Alluvial Plain project into resources 
     that support Integrated Water Availability Assessments in 
     targeted basins of interest including the Gulf of Mexico 
     Coastal Plain. The bill provides $4,975,000 for integrated 
     water availability assessments and includes no less than 
     $1,250,000 for the Survey to establish a regional Integrated 
     Water Availability Assessment study program to assess and 
     monitor the hydrology of saline lakes in the Great Basin and 
     the migratory birds and other wildlife dependent on those 
     habitats.
       Groundwater and Streamflow Information is funded at 
     $110,651,000 which includes $500,000 to maintain operational 
     capacity within the existing super-gage network along the 
     Ohio River in basins containing unique geology, distinct 
     soils, and a significant agricultural presence. The agreement 
     also includes $25,215,000 for Federal priority streamgages 
     and $29,000,000 for the Next Generation Water Observing 
     System (NGWOS). The agreement provides resources necessary to 
     operate and maintain the fully deployed NGWOS in the Delaware 
     River Basin and the Survey is encouraged to continue to study 
     and monitor surface water and groundwater in the lower basin 
     of the Delaware River and to provide geologic mapping of the 
     basin in support of the pilot through the National Geologic 
     Mapping Program. The Survey is encouraged to partner, where 
     appropriate, with State and local government officials and 
     with the academic research community. Funding for NGWOS 
     includes $4,500,000 to work with universities to develop 
     innovative water resource sensor technologies that are 
     scalable to regional and national monitoring networks.
       The agreement provides at least $1,500,000 for the Survey 
     to install streamgages on certain transboundary rivers, 
     including those at risk from mining pollution originating in 
     Canada, including in the Kootenai watershed; at least 
     $1,500,000 for implementation of the baseline strategy for 
     transboundary rivers, as outlined by the Survey's Water 
     Quality Baseline Assessment for Transboundary Rivers; and 
     $120,000 for the streamgage on the Unuk River. The Survey is 
     directed to continue to expand its streamgage monitoring of 
     transboundary watersheds and to work with the Environmental 
     Protection Agency to ensure the relevant equipment is 
     deployed to the Kootenai watershed to support the agency's 
     work to evaluate and reduce transboundary pollution. The 
     direction is continued that the Survey enter into a formal 
     partnership with local Tribes and other Federal agencies as 
     necessary in the area to develop a water quality strategy for 
     the transboundary rivers.
       On-going monitoring of critical water budget components in 
     the Klamath Basin is critical to provide the information 
     needed to assess controls of inflow to Upper Klamath Lake 
     from surface water and groundwater, improve snowmelt 
     prediction, and forecast impacts of drought and other drivers 
     on water availability for both human and ecological uses and 
     the agreement provides $1,000,000 to expand this work.
       Hydrological Science Talent Pipeline.--Robust participation 
     with universities in the hydrologic sciences is essential to 
     building a talent pipeline as well as building capacity to 
     support future hydrological research and operational efforts. 
     To support this, the agreement provides $2,000,000 within the 
     Water Availability and Use Science Program and $2,000,000 
     within the National Groundwater and Streamflow Information 
     Program above the enacted levels to pursue such cooperative 
     research agreements with an emphasis on locations where the 
     Survey has pending hydrological facilities as well as where 
     there are other Federal operational hydrologic resources.
       The agreement includes $96,742,000 for the National Water 
     Quality program which includes $6,490,000 for harmful algal 
     bloom research. The agreement provides $1,600,000 to support 
     PFAS substances research. The Survey is directed to consult 
     with States and Tribes to determine priority mapping areas 
     for PFAS contamination. Within funds provided, the Survey is 
     directed to prioritize advanced testing capable of detecting 
     suites of PFAS compounds and individual PFAS chemicals in the 
     environment to support nationwide sampling for these 
     chemicals in estuaries, lakes, streams, springs, wells, 
     wetlands, and soil and funding is provided to support a 
     nationwide PFAS sampling survey and the associated methods 
     development (per the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act 
     or NDAA). The agreement is supportive of the Survey's efforts 
     to understand groundwater vulnerability, specifically in 
     shallow fractured bedrock terrain, and directs this work to 
     continue. Water Resources Research Institutes are funded at 
     $14,000,000 for research as discussed in House Report 117-83 
     of which $1,500,000 is for research on the control and 
     management of aquatic invasive species in the Upper 
     Mississippi River region.
       Special Initiatives.--The agreement provides an additional 
     amount of $1,000,000 in congressionally directed spending for 
     the Survey to work with the State of Alaska to develop an 
     implementation plan to be completed within two years in order 
     to put Shake Alert/Earthquake Early Warning in Alaska. 
     Further detail on this project is located in the table titled 
     ``Interior and Environment Incorporation of Community Project 
     Funding Items/Congressionally Directed Spending Items'' 
     accompanying this explanatory statement.
       Core Science Systems.--The agreement provides $263,802,000, 
     which includes $26,353,000 for science, synthesis, analysis, 
     and research. Public Law 117-58 provides $8,668,000 in fiscal 
     year 2022 for the National Geologic and Geophysical Data 
     Preservation which supplements base funding. The agreement 
     provides $42,431,000 for the National Cooperative Geologic 
     Mapping of which the increase above fixed costs is for Phase 
     Three of the National Geologic Map Database as outlined in 
     House Report 117-83.

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       The National Geospatial program is funded at $87,526,000 
     and includes a $4,250,000 increase for the 3D Elevation 
     Program (3 DEP) to accelerate completion of a nationwide 
     baseline of high-resolution topographic elevation data, of 
     which not less than $250,000 is focused on Tribal lands; and 
     not less than $3,000,000 is focused on Federal lands in 
     western states. No less than $9,500,000 is provided for the 
     Alaska mapping and map modernization initiative, which 
     includes modernizing Alaskan hydrography datasets. In 
     addition, $1,900,000 is provided for the United States Board 
     of Geographic Names and $850,000 is provided for the National 
     Digital Trails project.
       The agreement supports the continued operations of the 
     Alaska Mapping Executive Committee (AMEC). The National 
     Geospatial Program will continue its role in advancing the 
     goals, objectives, and approaches collaboratively developed 
     as part of the AMEC Alaska Coastal Mapping Strategy, to 
     include collection and distribution of topography and 
     orthoimagery in coastal areas. The agreement directs a 
     briefing on the resources needed to enhance understanding of 
     subsidence including what would be required to pivot from the 
     National Land Cover Database to develop a National Land Level 
     Change database. It is expected that any funding awarded 
     outside the Federal sector will undergo a competitive review 
     process.
       The National Land Imaging program is funded at $107,492,000 
     which includes $84,788,000 for Satellite Operations and 
     maintains the enacted level for the National Civil 
     Applications Center. The agreement recognizes the value of 
     the Remote Sensing State Grants program and directs the 
     Survey to continue funding the grant program at the enacted 
     level to ensure the on-going viability of the program 
     nationwide.
       Science Support.--The agreement includes $99,736,000 which 
     includes $77,520,000 for administration and management 
     including $800,000 for diversity and $150,000 for fleet 
     related infrastructure, and $22,216,000 for Information 
     Services.
       Facilities.--The agreement includes $184,810,000 for 
     facilities, deferred maintenance and capital improvement. 
     Public Law 117-58 provides $167,000,000 in fiscal year 2022 
     for the USGS Energy and Minerals Research Facility.


                   BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT

                        OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT

       The bill provides $206,748,000 for the Ocean Energy 
     Management appropriation, which is partially offset through 
     the collection of rental receipts and cost recovery fees 
     totaling $43,000,000, resulting in a net appropriation of 
     $163,748,000. Specific allocations at the activity level are 
     contained in the table at the back of this explanatory 
     statement.
       Offshore Wind Site Identification.--The Bureau is expected 
     to continue to coordinate with the Department of Energy on 
     renewable energy research, to exchange information with 
     coastal States, and to work with stakeholders to study new 
     wind energy areas through its intergovernmental task forces, 
     including continuing existing and launching new data 
     collection campaigns in the Gulf of Maine. As the Bureau 
     refines the permitting process, it must include steps to 
     understand existing ocean uses by consulting early and often 
     with the commercial fishing industry and other stakeholders, 
     for which the Rhode Island Ocean Special Area Management Plan 
     provides a model. The Bureau must continue to partner with 
     the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other 
     co-operating agencies in the context of an ``all-of-
     government'' approach to offshore renewable energy. This 
     includes support for research, incorporation of agency data, 
     and consideration of recommendations on the siting and 
     development of offshore wind projects. The Bureau is directed 
     to notify the Committees prior to issuing leases that would 
     allow wind turbines to be constructed or located less than 22 
     nautical miles from the State of North Carolina shoreline.
       Regional Citizen Advisory Councils.--The Bureau's 
     commitment to working with Regional Citizen Advisory Councils 
     on collaborative scientific research projects, environmental 
     impact monitoring, and outreach activities is appreciated and 
     the Committees direct the Bureau to continue to support these 
     efforts.
       Marine Minerals.--The Bureau should continue existing 
     critical mineral assessments and activities at not less than 
     the fiscal year 2021 enacted levels. The Bureau is directed 
     to provide a briefing and a spend plan to the Committees on 
     Marine Minerals Program activities for fiscal year 2022 
     within 45 days of enactment of this Act.
       The agreement does not include the language in House Report 
     117-83 under the heading ``General Provision'' within the 
     Bureau of Ocean Energy Management related to OCS pre-leasing 
     and leasing activities.

             Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement


             OFFSHORE SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT

                    (INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS)

       The bill provides $205,848,000 for the Offshore Safety and 
     Environmental Enforcement appropriation. This amount is 
     partially offset through the collection of rental receipts, 
     cost recovery fees and inspection fees totaling $55,000,000, 
     resulting in a net appropriation of $150,848,000. Specific 
     allocations at the activity level are contained in the table 
     at the back of this explanatory statement. The bill also 
     contains a rescission of $10,000,000 from unobligated prior 
     year funds.
       The agreement does not include the language in House Report 
     117-83 under the heading ``Offshore Decommissioning'' related 
     to per barrel fees on oil and gas offshore activities.


                           OIL SPILL RESEARCH

       The bill provides $15,099,000 for Oil Spill Research.
       Arctic Oil Spill Research.--While domestic and 
     international activities in the Arctic Ocean are increasing, 
     research on marine safety and pollution prevention measures 
     has not kept pace. The Bureau is directed to report to the 
     Committees within 90 days of enactment of this Act on the 
     need and feasibility of establishing or partnering with 
     stakeholder research institutions on facilities that 
     naturally have or can recreate Arctic marine conditions for 
     oil spill detection and response research.

          Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement


                       REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY

       The bill provides $118,117,000 for the Regulation and 
     Technology appropriation. Included are fixed costs and the 
     following requested program increases: to establish an Indian 
     lands program; to enhance diversity, equity, inclusion and 
     accessibility capacity; and to restructure the Division of 
     Acquisition Management. Specific allocations at the activity 
     level are contained in the table accompanying this 
     explanatory statement.


                    ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND

       The bill provides $149,980,000 for the Abandoned Mine 
     Reclamation Fund appropriation. Of the funds provided, 
     $27,480,000 shall be derived from the Abandoned Mine 
     Reclamation Fund and $122,500,000 shall be derived from the 
     General Fund. Included are fixed costs and the following 
     requested program increases: for Federal emergency 
     reclamation projects; to assume responsibility for 
     reclamation of sites on certain Indian lands; to enhance 
     diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility capacity; and 
     to restructure the Division of Acquisition Management. The 
     detailed allocation of funding by activity is included in the 
     table accompanying this explanatory statement.
       Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization (AMLER).--The 
     bill provides a total of $122,500,000 for grants to States 
     and federally recognized Indian Tribes for the reclamation of 
     abandoned mine lands in conjunction with economic and 
     community development and reuse goals. For fiscal year 2022, 
     $79,890,000 shall be divided equally between the three 
     Appalachian States with the largest unfunded needs for the 
     reclamation of Priority 1 and Priority 2 sites as delineated 
     in the AML Inventory System; $31,956,000 shall be divided 
     equally between the next three Appalachian States with the 
     largest unfunded needs for the reclamation of Priority 1 and 
     Priority 2 sites as delineated in the AML Inventory System; 
     and $10,654,000 shall be for grants to federally recognized 
     Indian Tribes. The Office is expected to continue to follow 
     the additional program direction provided in Senate Report 
     116-123.

                             INDIAN AFFAIRS

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs


                      OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

       The bill provides $1,820,334,000 for Operation of Indian 
     Programs. All programs, projects, and activities are 
     maintained at fiscal year 2021 enacted levels, except 
     requested fixed costs and internal transfers, or unless 
     otherwise specified below. For this and all other Bureau 
     accounts funded in this bill, Indian Affairs is expected to 
     comply with the instructions and requirements at the 
     beginning of this division and in House Report 117-83, unless 
     otherwise specified below. Language contained in the 
     explanatory statement accompanying the Consolidated 
     Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260) regarding 
     Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), advanced 
     training for public safety and justice training needs, and 
     Indian Police Academy is restated. Additional details, 
     instructions, and requirements are included below and in the 
     table at the end of this division. Indian Affairs is reminded 
     of the importance of meeting reporting requirement deadlines 
     so that the Committees can properly evaluate programs. 
     Failure to do so could negatively impact future budgets.
       Tiwahe.--The bill includes additional funds as noted below 
     under Human Services and are to be used to expand the Tiwahe 
     Initiative to more Tribes for human services-related Tiwahe 
     activities. Further, the Committees expect funding to 
     existing Tiwahe pilot programs to continue in the same 
     amounts to the same recipients, including funding to support 
     women and children's shelters. Finally, the Committees 
     received the Federal and Tribal reports on the Tiwahe 
     Initiative, which include recommendations on future action 
     and expansion. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is directed 
     to submit a plan on how to expand the program to all Tribes 
     incrementally along with a strategy on how to consider 
     existing pilot programs during any expansion and be 
     consistent with the final report and available funding.
       Tribal Government.--The agreement provides $355,424,000 for 
     Tribal government programs, which includes an additional 
     $2,000,000 for Small and Needy Tribes and an additional 
     $1,000,000 for Tribal government program oversight for 
     requested uses. The Committees have consistently included 
     funding and directives regarding the Small and

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     Needy Tribes supplement and are concerned about the overall 
     administration of this important program. Within 180 days of 
     enactment of this Act, the Bureau shall provide a report that 
     includes a full listing of Tribes currently eligible for this 
     program and clearly identify whether each Tribe is receiving 
     the full level of funding defined under the current program 
     criteria as well as a status of efforts to update the formula 
     for the program. The report should include input gathered 
     from Tribes during consultation.
       The agreement also continues funding at fiscal year 2021 
     levels for school bus roads and NATIVE Act funding in the 
     Road Maintenance program. The Committees direct the Bureau to 
     report back within 60 days of enactment of this Act on funds 
     that have not been utilized for roads along with a strategy 
     outlining how to meet the increased demand to address tourism 
     needs across Indian Country. The Committees encourage the 
     Bureau to provide technical assistance to the maximum extent 
     practicable to recently federally recognized Tribes on how 
     best to leverage funding through existing programs. The 
     Bureau is further directed to provide to the Committees 
     within 120 days of enactment of this Act an analysis of 
     Alaska Natives' eligibility for both Housing Improvement 
     Program mortgage assistance grants and mortgages, as well as 
     any barriers to affording new, energy-efficient homes in 
     western Alaskan villages off the road system.
       Human Services.--The bill provides $164,310,000 for human 
     services programs, which includes $53,292,000 for Social 
     Services (TPA) and $78,494,000 for welfare assistance. Within 
     these funds, an additional $2,000,000 is to expand the Tiwahe 
     Initiative to new sites, as noted above, $1,000,000 is to 
     implement the Indian Child Protection and Family Violence 
     Prevention Act as proposed, and an additional $500,000 is for 
     a general program increase for welfare assistance. An 
     additional $500,000 is included to implement section 202 of 
     the Indian Child Welfare Act (25 U.S.C. Sec. 1932), for a 
     total of $17,313,000 for the Indian Child Welfare Act 
     program.
       Trust-Natural Resources Management.--The bill provides 
     $302,927,000 for natural resources management programs, which 
     continues funding at the fiscal year 2021 enacted level for 
     the Everglades. For Natural Resources (TPA), the agreement 
     provides $14,250,000, which includes an additional $1,000,000 
     for the Indian Youth Service Corps and a $3,000,000 general 
     program increase. Land acquisitions for newly recognized or 
     landless Tribes are fully funded at the authorized level of 
     $2,000,000. BIA is encouraged to work with the committees of 
     jurisdiction to evaluate whether a change in the 
     authorization is warranted.
       The Committees understand the Bureau is utilizing funding 
     to plug abandoned wells in the Mineral Estate. The Committees 
     direct the Bureau to report back to the Committees within 180 
     days of enactment of this Act outlining an initial estimate 
     of the number of plugged and unplugged wells, along with 
     estimated costs for those wells that are ready to be 
     completed, which entails well bore abandonment in the mineral 
     estate and well site remediation and restoration on the 
     surface estate. It is understood that the final estimated 
     number of unplugged wells and the associated cost estimates 
     to address will continue to be revised as BIA realty 
     processing is completed to identify presence or absence of 
     responsible parties.
       The Committees are aware that some Tribal communities have 
     a significant problem with trash collection and disposal, but 
     comprehensive data on the scope of the problem does not 
     exist. The Bureau is directed to conduct an assessment of how 
     Tribes collect and dispose of trash and report to the 
     Committees within 120 days of enactment of this Act.
       The agreement provides $45,687,000 for Rights Protection 
     Implementation, which maintains $1,500,000 for law 
     enforcement needs and includes an additional $1,700,000 for 
     operations and maintenance, both as required to implement the 
     Columbia River In-Lieu and Treaty Fishing Access Sites 
     Improvement Act (Public Law 116-99). The agreement also 
     includes a $1,000,000 general program increase. The agreement 
     provides $14,459,000 for Tribal management/development 
     programs, which includes an additional $1,000,000 to 
     implement Public Law 116-260 with respect to the return of 
     the National Bison Range to the Confederated Salish and 
     Kootenai Tribe as outlined in the budget request. Funding is 
     continued at fiscal year 2021 enacted levels for pilot 
     projects and programs for Alaska subsistence activities. The 
     Committees are aware the Bureau has entered into cooperative 
     agreements with Ahtna Inter-Tribal Resource Commission and 
     the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fisheries Commission, and 
     has initiated similar agreements with other organizations. 
     Therefore, the Committees expect these pilot projects and 
     programs to continue, and the Bureau is expected to keep the 
     Committees apprised of changes to the distribution 
     methodology. An additional $1,000,000 is included for 
     Endangered Species for uses proposed in the budget request.
       For Tribal Climate Resilience, the agreement includes 
     $31,971,000. This includes $5,000,000 for Tribal climate 
     adaptation grants and $8,000,000 for Tribal relocation 
     grants, for which all Tribes shall be eligible. For 
     agriculture and range programs, the bill provides 
     $37,827,000. This amount includes an additional $1,000,000 
     for the invasive species program.
       The Committees remind the Bureau that the Denali Commission 
     was designated as the lead coordinating agency for Alaska 
     Native village relocation in 2015, and the Commission has 
     been leading the efforts since then. The Committees recommend 
     the Bureau work closely with the Commission in order to avoid 
     duplication of work and to take advantage of the Commission's 
     expertise in the area when considering relocation grants.
       For the Forestry Programs, the agreement provides 
     $60,277,000, which provides a $3,000,000 general program 
     increase for the Forestry Program (TPA) and an additional 
     $2,000,000 for Forestry Projects. The Committees have heard 
     concerns from Tribes that BIA is not providing funding to 
     support the management of trust lands described in Public Law 
     115-103. The Bureau is directed to brief the Committees 
     within 90 days of enactment of this Act on how to address 
     these concerns.
       The Committees note that many Tribal communities are at a 
     heightened risk of wildfire. In order to address the risks, 
     the Committees direct the Bureau to consider pre-fire 
     detection technologies and adopt strategies for their 
     implementation. The Committees also direct the Bureau to 
     provide a report within one year of enactment of this Act 
     summarizing the fire detection deficits across Tribal lands.
       For Water Resources programs, the agreement recommends 
     $15,802,000. This includes an additional $2,000,000 for Water 
     Resources (TPA) and an additional $500,000 to partially fund 
     the request for water management, planning and pre-
     development. For Fish, Wildlife and Parks programs, the 
     agreement includes $20,506,000, which provides a $2,000,000 
     general program increase for Wildlife and Parks (TPA) and an 
     additional $1,000,000 for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks Projects 
     for operation of fish hatcheries. Within Minerals and Mining, 
     an additional $4,804,000 is provided for uses as outlined in 
     the budget request.
       Funding is continued at the fiscal year 2021 enacted level 
     for the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs to continue 
     its support for ongoing Tribal cultural resource 
     investigations in the Chaco Canyon region of the Southwest. 
     The Committees understand the investigation and reports will 
     be completed with base funds in 2022.
       Trust--Real Estate Services.--The bill provides 
     $150,190,000 for Real Estate Services, of which $3,000,000 is 
     to begin remediating open dumps and prepare for other 
     environmental quality challenges, and $3,326,000 is to 
     demolish and abate vacant BIA buildings at Shiprock as 
     detailed in the budget request. Funding is continued at 
     fiscal year 2021 enacted levels with fixed costs for the 
     Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act historical places. The 
     Committees are concerned with the Department's policy 
     restricting Osage Nation access to its own trust records 
     without a FOIA request. The Department should work with the 
     Nation to discover a way to provide ready access to the 
     records needed by the Nation and its members.
       Public Safety and Justice.--The bill provides $546,280,000 
     for public safety and justice programs. For Criminal 
     Investigations and Police Services, the agreement includes 
     $297,676,000. This amount includes an additional $4,000,000 
     to purchase bodyworn cameras and $7,500,000 as a general 
     program increase. Funding for MMIW cold cases, background 
     checks to hire more law enforcement officers, opioid 
     addiction assistance, and law enforcement to implement the 
     Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act 
     (NAGPRA) is continued at fiscal year 2021 enacted levels. The 
     Committees remain concerned about theft, looting, and 
     trafficking of sacred objects and items of cultural patrimony 
     and note the importance of enforcing NAGPRA and related laws. 
     The bill continues funding for opioids grants and provides 
     flexibility in the use of funds for Tribes with unique 
     circumstances that involve other illicit drugs as well.
       The agreement includes $62,000,000 to implement public 
     safety changes resulting from the McGirt v. Oklahoma Supreme 
     Court decision, which created an immediate and severe 
     shortage of police and investigative personnel in the 
     expanded Tribal criminal jurisdiction areas. BIA is directed 
     to consult with impacted Tribes regarding the allocation of 
     funds and to submit a subsequent reprogramming request to 
     allocate portions of the funding to Detention/Corrections and 
     Tribal Courts as necessary.
       The Committees direct the Bureau, working with other 
     Federal partners, to provide the Committees on Appropriations 
     within one year of enactment of this Act a report on the 
     training needs for Bureau law enforcement and Tribal law 
     enforcement with a comprehensive plan on how to recruit, 
     train, and fill vacancies. As part of this report, the 
     Committees expect the Bureau to identify partnerships with 
     Federal, State, and Tribal law enforcement entities for 
     things such as facilities and hiring processes that could be 
     utilized to address needs. The report should also identify 
     potential legislative changes to improve recruitment and 
     retention.
       The agreement includes $113,369,000 for Detention/
     Corrections, which includes a $5,000,000 general increase, 
     and continues the increases for Indian country detention 
     facilities and background checks provided in fiscal year 
     2021. Due to reports of high numbers of deaths in BIA-funded 
     detention facilities, the Committees direct the Office of the 
     Inspector General (OIG) to follow-up on closed OIG 
     recommendations to determine whether changes made by BIA in 
     response to prior

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     recommendations are being implemented correctly. As part of 
     the review, the Committees expect the OIG to examine 
     appropriations provided for Detention/Corrections in prior 
     years to determine how the funds were spent and whether they 
     were spent correctly. This review should begin no later than 
     60 days of enactment of this Act.
       The agreement includes $24,898,000 for Law Enforcement 
     Special Initiatives, of which an additional $5,000,000 is to 
     continue addressing the MMIW effort, as requested. The 
     Committees expect the Bureau to provide a comprehensive 
     review of the MMIW Initiative to the Committees within 120 
     days of enactment of this Act, including all activities and 
     associated funding by line, fund distribution, number of cold 
     cases resolved, FTEs, law enforcement vacancies in each 
     Bureau region (even if not MMIW related), as well as the 
     number of public safety and justice background checks by 
     activity pending as of the date of enactment of this Act. 
     Funding for the Tiwahe recidivism initiative, equipment to 
     collect and preserve evidence at crime scenes, and victim 
     witness specialists is continued at fiscal year 2021 enacted 
     levels.
       For Tribal Justice Support, $30,809,000 is provided, which 
     continues $3,000,000 to implement and ensure compliance with 
     the Violence Against Women Act and provides an additional 
     $4,000,000 to address the needs of Tribes affected by Public 
     Law 93-280 as outlined in the Senate Report 116-123.
       An additional $5,000,000 is included for Tribal Courts 
     (TPA) for a total of $43,169,000, of which no more than 
     $1,000,000 may be used for operation and maintenance of 
     courts, as requested.
       Community and Economic Development.--The bill provides 
     $29,353,000 for community and economic development programs, 
     which includes $13,401,000 for Job Placement and Training 
     (TPA), $5,218,000 for Economic development (TPA), of which an 
     additional $2,000,000 is provided for business incubators, 
     and $10,734,000 is for community development central 
     oversight, of which an additional $1,500,000 is to implement 
     the NATIVE Act. The Committees direct funding of not less 
     than $7,500,000 be used for grants to Tribes, Tribal 
     organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations to carry out 
     Public Law 114-22. The agreement includes an additional 
     $1,500,000 for grants to federally recognized Indian Tribes 
     and Tribal organizations to provide native language 
     instruction and immersion programs to Native students not 
     enrolled at BIE schools, including those Tribes and 
     organizations in states without Bureau-funded schools.
       Executive Direction and Administrative Services.--The bill 
     includes $270,600,000 for executive direction and 
     administrative services, of which: $19,409,000 is for 
     Assistant Secretary support, which includes an additional 
     $500,000 to implement the PROGRESS Act, $800,000 to establish 
     the Diversity and Inclusion program for BIA and OST, and 
     $7,000,000 to implement the Native boarding school initiative 
     to review past boarding school policies and to prepare a 
     report on future efforts required to address this past wrong. 
     Within Administrative Services (Central), an additional 
     $2,800,000 is provided for uses as requested, and within 
     Information Resources Technology, a $6,200,000 increase is 
     provided for uses as requested. The bill includes $1,250,000 
     for Special Initiatives identified in table titled ``Interior 
     and Environment Incorporation of Community Project Funding 
     Items/Congressionally Directed Spending Items'' included at 
     the end of this division.


                       INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION

       The bill establishes a new account as requested and 
     provides $7,000,000 for Indian Land Consolidation. Within 30 
     days of enactment of this Act, the Bureau is directed to 
     submit administrative expense estimates and performance 
     metrics, including the proposed number of fractionated 
     interests to be purchased and acreage consolidated. Going 
     forward, the Bureau is expected to include this data in the 
     annual budget justification.


                         CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS

       The bill provides an indefinite appropriation for contract 
     support costs, consistent with fiscal year 2021 and estimated 
     to be $240,000,000 in fiscal year 2022.


                       PAYMENTS FOR TRIBAL LEASES

       The bill provides an indefinite appropriation for payments 
     under section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Determination and 
     Education Assistance Act, consistent with fiscal year 2021 
     and estimated to be $36,593,000 in fiscal year 2022.


                              CONSTRUCTION

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The bill provides $146,769,000 for Construction. All 
     programs, projects, and activities are maintained at fiscal 
     year 2021 levels, except for requested fixed cost and 
     transfers, or unless otherwise specified below.
       Public Safety and Justice Construction.--The bill provides 
     $47,811,000 for public safety and justice construction and 
     includes the following: $30,500,000 for facilities 
     replacement and new construction, which includes a $5,000,000 
     general program increase; $4,494,000 for employee housing; 
     $9,372,000 for facilities improvement and repair; $171,000 
     for fire safety coordination; and $3,274,000 for fire 
     protection.
       The Bureau is expected to distribute funds provided in this 
     Act to expeditiously complete construction of adult detention 
     center projects that were previously awarded. Remaining 
     amounts should be considered available for all public safety 
     and justice facilities, consistent with previous direction. 
     Direction is provided for the Bureau to: (1) produce a plan 
     on how to spend unobligated public safety and justice 
     balances on facilities in poor condition; and (2) provide the 
     plan to the Committees within 120 days of enactment of this 
     Act.
       The Committees note with concern the frustrations raised by 
     the San Carlos Apache Tribe about replacement of the 
     'Building 86' public safety facility operated by the Tribe 
     and directs the Bureau to continue to work with the Tribe, to 
     the maximum extent practicable, on a mutually agreeable path 
     forward. The Committees further direct the Bureau to brief 
     the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations no later 
     than 90 days after enactment of this Act on their current 
     efforts to find a solution.
       Resources Management Construction.--The bill provides 
     $74,060,000 for resources management construction programs. 
     Within this amount, $28,710,000 is for irrigation project 
     construction, of which $10,000,000 is continued for projects 
     authorized by the WIIN Act (Public Law 114-322). The 
     Committees expect the funds designated for WIIN Act 
     activities will be deposited into the Indian Irrigation Fund 
     to fund those projects authorized by Public Law 114-322. 
     Further, the agreement includes $2,706,000 for engineering 
     and supervision; $1,016,000 for survey and design; $665,000 
     for Federal power compliance; and $40,963,000 for dam safety 
     and maintenance, of which $2,500,000 is a general program 
     increase. The Committees direct the Bureau to begin dam 
     safety work expeditiously and to provide a report to the 
     Committees on the number of reservation dams in need of a 
     safety review and hazard classification.
       Other Program Construction.--The bill provides $24,898,000 
     for other program construction and includes $1,419,000 for 
     telecommunications; $4,069,000 for facilities and quarters, 
     which includes $150,000 for fleet management infrastructure; 
     and $19,410,000 for program management, which includes an 
     additional $10,000,000 for BIA to conduct an assessment of 
     BIA-owned water systems, contractual support to implement 
     projects, and address lead pipe issues at Indian Affairs 
     infrastructure and an additional $77,000 to continue the 
     project at Fort Peck.


 INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO 
                                INDIANS

       The bill provides $1,000,000 for Indian Land and Water 
     Claim Settlements and Miscellaneous Payments to Indians. 
     These funds are supplemented in fiscal year 2022 by not less 
     than $1,368,560,000 appropriated in Public Law 117-58, 
     ensuring that Indian Affairs will fully meet its statutory 
     obligations for all authorized settlement agreements to date.


                 INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The bill provides $11,833,000 for the Indian Guaranteed 
     Loan Program Account to facilitate business investments in 
     Indian Country.

                       Bureau of Indian Education


                 OPERATION OF INDIAN EDUCATION PROGRAMS

       Bureau of Indian Education.--The bill includes 
     $1,017,601,000 for Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) program 
     operations. All programs, projects, and activities are 
     maintained at fiscal year 2021 enacted levels, except for 
     requested fixed costs and internal transfers, or unless 
     otherwise specified below. For this and all other Bureau 
     accounts funded in this bill, BIE is expected to comply with 
     the instructions and requirements at the beginning of this 
     division and in House Report 117-83, unless otherwise 
     specified below. Additional details, instructions, and 
     requirements follow below and in the table at the end of this 
     division. Language contained in the explanatory statement 
     accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 
     (Public Law 116-260) regarding displaying amounts required to 
     comply with Department of Defense Education Activity is 
     restated.
       Elementary/Secondary Programs.--The bill includes 
     $638,865,000 for Elementary/Secondary Programs. Tribal grant 
     support costs are fully funded. An additional $1,500,000 is 
     included for Native language immersion grants at BIE-funded 
     schools within education program enhancements and an 
     additional $5,000,000 is included for a general program 
     increase for Indian Student Equalization Program Formula 
     Funds.
       Johnson O'Malley.--The agreement provides $21,198,000, as 
     requested.
       Post-Secondary Programs (forward funded).--Post-secondary 
     programs (forward-funded) are provided with $113,283,000, as 
     requested. The budget request did not include fixed costs for 
     Tribal colleges and universities or Tribal technical 
     colleges. Failure to request adequate resources to cover full 
     fixed cost requirements results in schools having to absorb 
     these escalating costs at the expense of other program 
     requirements. BIE is directed to collect this information and 
     include it in future budget requests. General program 
     increases are also provided for Scholarships and Adult 
     Education (TPA), special higher education scholarships, and 
     science post graduate scholarships.
       Education Management.--The agreement includes $59,888,000 
     for education program management, which includes $400,000 to 
     establish a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility 
     office and an additional $8,401,000 for Education IT for 
     requested uses. Within 90 days of enactment of this Act, BIE 
     is directed to provide a detailed spend plan with timelines 
     for the Education IT funds.


                         education construction

       Education Construction.--The bill provides $264,330,000 for 
     schools and related facilities

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     within the BIE system. All programs, projects, and activities 
     are maintained at fiscal year 2021 levels, except for 
     requested fixed costs and internal transfers, or unless 
     otherwise specified below. Language contained in the 
     explanatory statement accompanying the Consolidated 
     Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260) regarding 
     Tribal college and university operations, maintenance and 
     infrastructure needs is restated. The agreement includes the 
     following: $115,504,000 for replacement school campus 
     construction; $23,935,000 for replacement facility 
     construction; $1,000,000 for replacement/new employee 
     housing; $13,589,000 for employee housing repair; $95,302,000 
     for facilities improvement and repair; and $15,000,000 for 
     Tribal colleges and universities' facilities requirements.

           Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians


                         federal trust programs

                     (including transfer of funds)

       The agreement provides $109,572,000 for the Office of the 
     Special Trustee for American Indians (OST) and rejects the 
     proposed budget structure for a new Bureau of Trust Funds 
     Administration (BTFA) within the Office of the Assistant 
     Secretary-Indian Affairs. This should not be construed as 
     interfering with the statutorily required sunset of OST. This 
     amount includes fixed costs as requested and internal 
     transfers to effectuate historical trust accounting. It does 
     not include requested internal transfers for new employees, 
     nor are any funds included for these positions. However, to 
     ensure OST participates in the Department's Diversity, 
     Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility initiative in support of 
     Executive Orders 13985 and 13988, the agreement includes 
     $400,000 for Indian Affairs to perform these activities on 
     OST's behalf until the future of OST is resolved.
       The Committees remain concerned about whether OST has 
     completed its duties and responsibilities under the 1994 
     Indian Trust Reform Management Act (Public Law 103-412). In 
     fiscal year 2019, Congress adopted the Department's proposal 
     to shift OST's reporting structure from the Secretary to the 
     Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs. Congress did not adopt a 
     proposal providing the Department with unilateral authority 
     to create a new budget structure and bureau under Indian 
     Affairs.
       The Department's actions over the past years with respect 
     to this issue are concerning. In fiscal year 2021, Congress 
     rejected the proposed budget structure for BTFA and continued 
     funding OST. Yet the Department continues to take actions to 
     establish BTFA, including taking steps towards formalizing 
     BTFA by referencing BTFA in regulations despite BTFA not 
     having been approved and not providing sufficient information 
     to demonstrate compliance with Public Law 103-412. In 
     addition, Congress expected the Department to consult with 
     Tribes on the future of OST and its duties. Instead, the 
     Department consulted on how BTFA should perform OST's 
     functions.
       The Committees continue to need additional information to 
     evaluate the best path forward for any remaining OST 
     functions and responsibilities once OST sunsets. The 
     Government Accountability Office (GAO) has yet to complete 
     its work directed by Congress in fiscal year 2021, in part 
     because the Department has not provided GAO with requested 
     information in a timely manner. The Committees are committed 
     to working with the Department on a path forward to fulfill 
     its trust responsibilities. Therefore, the Department is 
     expected to work with GAO and provide the requested 
     information in a timely manner to help the Committees make a 
     more informed decision.

                          Departmental Offices

                        Office of the Secretary


                        departmental operations

                     (including transfer of funds)

       The bill provides $123,367,000 for the Office of the 
     Secretary, Departmental Operations appropriation. Specific 
     allocations at the activity level are contained in the table 
     at the back of this explanatory statement. Fixed costs are 
     provided as requested. Within the Executive Direction 
     activity, the proposed transfer is accepted. Within the 
     Leadership and Administration activity, funds are included to 
     carry out activities in support of the Secretary's 
     responsibilities under the Hawaiian Home Lands Recovery Act. 
     The Department is directed to maintain the Office of Native 
     Hawaiian Relations within the Office of the Assistant 
     Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget.
       Wild Horse and Burro Task Force.--The Secretary is to 
     establish a task force to bring experts from all relevant 
     Interior Bureaus together to address the challenge of wild 
     horses and burros as outlined in the beginning of this 
     division. This task force is to have monthly meetings to 
     review performance metrics, monitor outcomes, assess 
     milestone achievements, and address any delays or setbacks to 
     the implementation of the May 2020 report. The task force 
     should analyze Federal investments and determine if any 
     course correction is necessary. In subsequent years, task 
     force membership will be expanded as previously outlined. The 
     Secretary is to report to the Committees within 90 days of 
     enactment of this Act on the establishment of this task force 
     and a proposed meeting schedule.

                            Insular Affairs


                       ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES

       The bill provides $113,477,000 for Assistance to 
     Territories. The detailed allocation of funding is included 
     in the table at the end of this explanatory statement.

                      Compact of Free Association

       The bill provides $8,463,000 for Compact of Free 
     Association, equal to the fiscal year 2021 enacted level. A 
     detailed table of funding recommendations below the account 
     level is provided at the end of this explanatory statement.
       The agreement includes $5,000,000 as the third payment 
     towards the $20,000,000 requested by the Republic of the 
     Marshall Islands in September 2009, as authorized in section 
     111(d) of the Compact of Free Association Act of 1986 (Public 
     Law 99-239; 99 Stat. 1799; 48 USC 1911) and section 108(b) of 
     the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 
     (Public Law 108-188; 117 Stat. 2755; 48 USC 1921g).

                        Office of the Solicitor


                         salaries and expenses

       The bill provides $94,998,000 for the Salaries and Expenses 
     appropriation within the Office of the Solicitor. Specific 
     allocations at the activity level are contained in the table 
     at the back of this explanatory statement. The Committees 
     provide fixed costs and internal transfers, as requested. 
     Remaining funds may be used to fund necessary costs required 
     for office moves. To the extent funding is available, the 
     Committees urge the office to consider further increases to 
     staffing to address the department-wide backlog of pending 
     Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. FOIA Office staff 
     are directed to brief the Committees semiannually on their 
     efforts related to the backlog.

                      Office of Inspector General


                         salaries and expenses

       The bill provides $62,132,000 for the Office of Inspector 
     General.

                        Department-Wide Programs

                        Wildland Fire Management


                     (including transfers of funds)

       The bill provides $1,026,097,000 for Department of the 
     Interior Wildland Fire Management. Combined with $330,000,000 
     appropriated in the Wildfire Suppression Operations Reserve 
     Fund, the total amount for fire suppression operations at the 
     Department is $713,657,000. The detailed allocation of 
     funding by activity is included in the table accompanying 
     this explanatory statement.
       Other Operations.--The bill provides $271,897,000 for other 
     wildland fire management operations. Within hazardous fuels, 
     funding is included for Reserved Treaty Rights Lands for 
     Tribal Nations to participate in collaborative projects with 
     other landowners supporting the health and resiliency of 
     priority Tribal resources at high risk to wildfire. The 
     Department is directed to provide a briefing to the 
     Committees within 60 days of enactment of this Act on the 
     proposed distribution of hazardous fuels funding to its 
     component bureaus, the allocation methodology, and how it 
     takes into account areas with special designations, such as 
     the Oregon and California Grant Lands. The Department is 
     directed to provide $4,000,000 to the Joint Fire Science 
     program for fiscal year 2022, which combined with funding in 
     the Forest Service provides $8,000,000 in total. Direction 
     related to the Joint Fire Science Program is included under 
     the Forest and Rangeland Research heading in House Report 
     117-83. The Department shall report at the end of each fiscal 
     year the number of acres treated by prescribed fire, 
     mechanical fuels reduction, and thinning activities, as well 
     as the acres treated in wildland urban interface and the 
     costs associated with such activities.


              wildfire suppression operations reserve fund

                     (including transfers of funds)

       The bill includes $330,000,000 for the Wildfire Suppression 
     Operations Reserve Fund, which is $20,000,000 above the 
     enacted level. S. Con. Res. 14 (117th Congress), the 
     concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2022, 
     included a budget cap adjustment for wildfire suppression 
     costs and this additional funding is included for fiscal year 
     2022.


                    central hazardous materials fund

       The bill provides $10,036,000 for the Central Hazardous 
     Materials Fund appropriation.


                energy community revitalization program

                     (including transfers of funds)

       The agreement provides $5,000,000 for the Energy Community 
     Revitalization Program. The funding provided allows entities 
     to inventory, assess, decommission, reclaim, respond to 
     hazardous substance releases, and remediate abandoned 
     hardrock mines, orphaned oil and gas wells, and orphaned 
     infrastructure, including but not limited to, facilities, 
     pipelines, structures or equipment used in energy production 
     operations, as authorized by law. Public Law 117-58 provided 
     $4,700,000,000 for orphan oil and gas well cleanup. 
     Therefore, this agreement directs that the priority focus for 
     this funding be to address abandoned hardrock and non-coal 
     mine sites, including sand and gravel pits and abandoned 
     uranium mines on Federal, State, Indian, and other non-
     Federal lands. In subsequent fiscal years, the Committees 
     will examine the status of the remediation of abandoned 
     hardrock mines and orphaned oil and gas wells and their 
     associated infrastructure and direct how appropriated 
     resources should be allocated.

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           natural resource damage assessment and restoration

                natural resource damage assessment fund

       The bill provides $7,933,000 for the Natural Resource 
     Damage Assessment Fund appropriation. Specific allocations at 
     the activity level are contained in the table at the back of 
     this explanatory statement.


                          WORKING CAPITAL FUND

       The bill provides $91,436,000 for the Working Capital Fund 
     appropriation.


                  OFFICE OF NATURAL RESOURCES REVENUE

       The bill provides $169,640,000 for the Natural Resources 
     Revenue appropriation of which $1,000,000 is to support Osage 
     Trust Accounting activities as requested.
       Distribution of GOMESA Revenues.--The Office is directed to 
     distribute revenues from Gulf of Mexico operations in a 
     manner consistent with current law, including the Gulf of 
     Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) of 2006 (Public Law 109-
     432), as amended.

             General Provisions, Department of the Interior


                     (including transfers of funds)

       The bill includes various legislative provisions affecting 
     the Department in Title I of the bill, ``General Provisions, 
     Department of the Interior.'' The provisions are:
       Section 101 provides Secretarial authority for the intra-
     bureau transfer of program funds for expenditures in cases of 
     emergencies when all other emergency funds are exhausted.
       Section 102 provides for the Department-wide expenditure or 
     transfer of funds by the Secretary in the event of actual or 
     potential emergencies including forest fires, range fires, 
     earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, storms, oil spills, 
     grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks, and surface mine 
     reclamation emergencies.
       Section 103 provides for the use of appropriated funds by 
     the Secretary for contracts, rental cars and aircraft, 
     telephone expenses, and other certain services.
       Section 104 provides for the expenditure or transfer of 
     funds from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian 
     Education, and the Office of the Special Trustee for American 
     Indians, for Indian trust management and reform activities.
       Section 105 permits the redistribution of Tribal priority 
     allocation and Tribal base funds to alleviate funding 
     inequities.
       Section 106 authorizes the acquisition of lands for the 
     purpose of operating and maintaining facilities that support 
     visitors to Ellis, Governors, and Liberty Islands.
       Section 107 continues Outer Continental Shelf inspection 
     fees to be collected by the Secretary of the Interior.
       Section 108 provides the Secretary of the Interior with 
     authority to enter into multi-year cooperative agreements 
     with non-profit organizations for long-term care of wild 
     horses and burros.
       Section 109 addresses the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 
     responsibilities for mass marking of salmonid stocks.
       Section 110 allows the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau 
     of Indian Education to more efficiently and effectively 
     perform reimbursable work.
       Section 111 provides for the establishment of a Department 
     of the Interior Experienced Services Program.
       Section 112 requires funds to be available for obligation 
     and expenditure not later than 60 days after the date of 
     enactment.
       Section 113 provides the Secretary of the Interior the 
     ability to transfer funds among and between the Bureau of 
     Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian Education.
       Section 114 provides funding for the Payments in Lieu of 
     Taxes (PILT) program.
       Section 115 directs notification of any deviation in 
     procedure or equipment.
       Section 116 allows the National Park Service to convey 
     lands for purposes of transportation and recreation for a 
     specific project.
       Section 117 authorizes Tribally controlled schools access 
     to interagency motor vehicles in the same manner as if 
     performing activities under the Indian Self Determination and 
     Education Assistance Act.
       Section 118 extends the authorization for the Delaware 
     Water Gap National Recreation Area.
       Section 119 addresses National Heritage Areas.
       Section 120 authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to 
     conduct a study to evaluate resources associated with the 
     1965 Voting Rights March from Selma to Montgomery.
       Section 121 modifies a provision on the exhaustion of 
     administrative review.
       Section 122 provides the Secretary of the Interior with 
     certain pay authority for the Appraisal and Valuation 
     Services Office.
       Section 123 addresses the issuance of rules for sage-
     grouse.

               TITLE II--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

       The agreement provides $9,559,485,000 for the Environmental 
     Protection Agency (EPA). The Agency is expected to comply 
     with the instructions and requirements at the beginning of 
     this division and in House Report 117-83, unless otherwise 
     specified below. Additional details, instructions, and 
     requirements follow below and in the table at the end of this 
     division.
       Congressional Budget Justification.--The Committees direct 
     the Agency to include in future justifications the provisions 
     included in the joint explanatory statement accompanying 
     Public Law 116-260.
       Operating Plan.--Within 30 days of enactment of this Act, 
     the Agency is directed to submit to the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations its annual operating plan for 
     fiscal year 2022. The operating plan shall adhere to the 
     program area levels, and where applicable, the program 
     project levels, specified within this explanatory statement. 
     For program project levels not otherwise specified herein, 
     the operating plan should detail how the Agency plans to 
     allocate funds at the program project level. Further, the 
     budgets of each major office should be itemized to indicate 
     the source of funds for each major office by program project 
     level. Further, the Agency is directed to continue the 
     longstanding practice of submitting quarterly statement of 
     balances reports, and the Agency is directed to display data 
     separately for both the current fiscal year and the prior 
     fiscal year.
       Workforce and Staffing Plans.--The Committees direct the 
     Agency to adhere to the provisions included in the joint 
     explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 116-260.
       PFAS and Contaminants of Emerging Concern.--The Committees 
     encourage the Agency to continue to take action on PFAS, 
     including addressing contamination, advancing clean up and 
     treatment solutions, conducting research, and undertaking 
     needed rulemaking actions. Within 60 days of enactment of 
     this Act, the Agency is directed to brief the Committees on 
     planned fiscal year 2022 PFAS-related actions and provide the 
     Committees with a spend plan that details funding at the 
     program project level.
       Combination of Separate Fiscal Year Grant Funding.--The 
     Committees continue the directive contained in the joint 
     explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 116-260.

                         Science and Technology

       For Science and Technology programs, the agreement provides 
     $750,174,000. The bill transfers $30,985,000 from the 
     Hazardous Substance Superfund account to this account. The 
     agreement provides the following specific funding levels and 
     direction:
       Clean Air.--The agreement provides $134,314,000 for Clean 
     Air. The Committees are aware of a strong interest from a 
     number of stakeholders to generate Renewable Fuels Standard 
     credits from renewable electricity, also referred to as 
     ``eRINs''. The Committees understand that EPA is planning to 
     propose to revise the existing EPA regulations related to 
     eRINs as part of a future rulemaking action. The Committees 
     urge the Agency to undertake this rulemaking in a timely 
     manner to provide transparency and clarity for all 
     stakeholders and direct the Agency to brief the Committees on 
     its progress within 180 days of the enactment of this Act.
       Research: Air and Energy.--The agreement provides 
     $95,406,000 for Research: Air and Energy. Within available 
     funds, the Committees continue funding for the study under 
     the heading ``Partnership Research'' contained in the 
     explanatory statement of Public Law 115-141.
       Research: Chemical Safety and Sustainability.--The 
     agreement provides $127,447,000 for Research: Chemical Safety 
     and Sustainability. Of the funds provided, $1,500,000 shall 
     be used to develop and demonstrate nano-sensor technology 
     with functionalized catalysts that have potential to degrade 
     selected contaminants in addition to detecting and monitoring 
     pollutants.
       Research: National Priorities.--The agreement provides 
     $11,430,000 for Research: National Priorities, including 
     $8,500,000 for extramural research grants, independent of the 
     Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grant program, as specified 
     under this heading in Public Law 116-260.
       The agreement provides $2,000,000 in congressionally 
     directed spending to study the feasibility of establishing 
     PFAS treatment facilities for surface water and groundwater 
     across the State of Alaska, including mobile treatment 
     systems. The bill also includes $50,000 in congressionally 
     directed spending to support harmful algal bloom monitoring 
     in the Kodiak region of Alaska for purposes of studying the 
     public health and environmental impacts of harmful algal 
     blooms in the region, and $80,000 in congressionally directed 
     spending for research to assess wastewater infrastructure in 
     Delaware that is vulnerable to PFAS contamination and to 
     research and identify possible sources of PFAS contamination. 
     The bill provides $800,000 in congressionally directed 
     spending to support the establishment of a Center for 
     Wildfire Smoke Research and Practice to study the effects on 
     public health of smoke emissions from wildland fires as well 
     as the means by which communities can better respond to and 
     protect against the impacts of emissions from wildland fires. 
     Further detail on these projects is located in the table 
     titled ``Interior and Environment Incorporation of Community 
     Project Funding Items/Congressionally Directed Spending 
     Items'' accompanying this explanatory statement.
       Research: Safe and Sustainable Water Resources.--The 
     agreement provides $112,574,000 for Research: Safe and 
     Sustainable Water Resources. Of the funds provided, up to 
     $3,000,000 shall be used for grants under section 2007 of 
     America's Water Infrastructure Act (P.L. 115-270). 
     Additionally, consistent with House Report 117-83 direction, 
     the agreement provides up to $1,000,000 for the Agency to use 
     existing tools and capabilities under the Clean Water Act to 
     address alpine lake water quality and resilient uplands 
     management.
       Of funds provided, at least $4,000,000 is to be used for 
     research for Enhanced Aquifer Use and Recharge. The Agency 
     shall distribute funds to appropriate Research Centers to 
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     would directly support groundwater research on Enhanced 
     Aquifer Recharge (EAR), including support of sole source 
     aquifers; to work collaboratively with the U.S. Geological 
     Survey to carry out these activities; and to partner, through 
     cooperative agreements, contracts, or grants, with 
     universities, Tribes, and water related institutions for 
     planning, research, monitoring, outreach, and implementation 
     in furtherance of EAR research.
       Additional Guidance.--The following additional guidance is 
     included:
       Advanced Biofuels from Canola Oil.--In addition to House 
     guidance on ``Pathways for Renewable Fuel,'' the Committees 
     note that the Agency receives petitions for renewable fuel 
     pathways that would enhance feedstock flexibility and support 
     growth in the production and use of advanced biofuels. The 
     Committees are aware that the Agency received a petition to 
     include pathways for renewable diesel produced from canola 
     oil as advanced biofuel. The Committees encourage the Agency 
     to expedite review and report to the Committees on the status 
     of the petition if a determination is not made within two 
     years of the date of submission.
       Framework for Cumulative Risk Assessment.--In lieu of the 
     directive in House Report 117-83, the Agency is directed to 
     brief the Committees on the Framework for Cumulative Risk 
     Assessment and any planned reviews of the Framework.
       Harmful Algal Blooms.--The agreement provides $6,000,000 
     and the Agency is directed to follow the guidance in House 
     Report 117-83 and Senate Report 116-123.
       Health Outcomes and Links to Pollution.--In lieu of 
     direction under the heading ``Coronavirus Health Outcomes and 
     Links to Pollution'' in House Report 117-83, the Committees 
     encourage the Agency to investigate any linkages between 
     exposure to pollution and increased risk for adverse health 
     outcomes from communicable respiratory diseases.
       Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program.--In lieu 
     of the directive in House Report 117-83 under the heading 
     ``Maintaining IRIS Program Integrity,'' the Committees direct 
     the Agency to continue the IRIS program within the Office of 
     Research and Development and to utilize the IRIS program to 
     support the Agency's mission to protect human health and the 
     environment.
       Landfill Emissions Research.--The Committees encourage the 
     Agency to prioritize efforts to refine greenhouse gas and air 
     pollutant measurement. Municipal solid waste landfills 
     continue to be a significant source of greenhouse gas and 
     hazardous air pollutant emissions. The Committees direct that 
     at least $1,000,000 be used by the Office of Research and 
     Development to support research grants to quantify emissions 
     of methane and hazardous air pollutants from landfills using 
     the most effective technologies, including near-infrared 
     imagining from satellites, and, during the times the 
     emissions are measured, any quantity of methane captured by 
     the landfill gas collection system, as well as strategies to 
     reduce such emissions across the municipal waste management 
     lifecycle, with a focus on diversion of organic discards from 
     landfills for composting and digesting.
       Microplastics.--The Committees note the growing concern 
     regarding pervasive microplastic pollution. The Committees 
     support the Agency's research on microplastics in water 
     supplies and encourage the Agency to accelerate efforts to 
     characterize the risks to human and ecosystem health as well 
     as potential solutions. The Committees direct the Agency to 
     brief the Committees on these efforts within 180 days of 
     enactment of this Act.
       Non-vertebrate Testing Methods.--The Committees note that 
     Public Law 114-182 (the Lautenberg Act) directed the Agency 
     to update Congress on efforts to advance non-animal testing 
     and goals for future alternative test methods and strategies 
     implementation. The Agency is directed to brief the 
     Committees on its efforts as well as the Agency's experience 
     with submitters developing information by means of an 
     alternative test method or strategy before conducting new 
     vertebrate animal testing, consistent with Section 4(h)(3)(A) 
     of the Act. The Committees also note that new approach 
     methodologies (NAMs), including in vitro tests, in chemico 
     assays and in silico models, represent key advances in 
     science to support hazard and risk assessments of pesticides 
     and chemicals. The Committees encourage the Agency to 
     continue supporting and performing research on the 
     development and evaluation of NAMs through the Chemical 
     Safety for Sustainability National Research Program.
       Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Grants.--The agreement 
     provides funds to continue the STAR program and directs the 
     Agency to distribute grants consistent with fiscal year 2021. 
     The Committees also direct that funding for Children's 
     Environmental Health and Disease Prevention be continued. The 
     Committees support the efforts of the Agency to focus this 
     funding on research related to early life stage, including 
     prenatal, vulnerabilities to environmental stressors. The 
     Agency is directed to brief the Committees on the program 
     within 60 days of enactment of this Act.
       Water Security Test Bed.--Consistent with House Report 117-
     83 direction, the agreement provides up to $1,000,000 for 
     advancing full scale applied research and testing 
     capabilities to address threats to drinking water and 
     associated infrastructure at Water Security Test Bed 
     facilities.
       Wildfire Smoke Research.--The Committees note with concern 
     the adverse health effects that smoke from wildfires has on 
     impacted communities. The Committees encourage the Agency to 
     expand its efforts to identify methods to reduce smoke 
     exposure during wildfire episodes and improve wildfire smoke 
     monitoring and prediction.


                 environmental programs and management

       For Environmental Programs and Management, the bill 
     provides $2,964,025,000. The agreement provides the following 
     specific funding levels and direction:
       Clean Air.--The agreement provides $290,328,000 for Clean 
     Air. The Committees recognize the value of and continues to 
     support the EnergySTAR program and other programs where EPA 
     works collaboratively with non-governmental entities to 
     identify beneficial methods to reduce emissions, reduce 
     pollution, or increase efficiency.
       Compliance.--The agreement provides $103,500,000 for 
     Compliance.
       Enforcement.--The agreement provides $335,934,000 for 
     Enforcement, of which, $94,159,000 is for environmental 
     justice to make significant progress implementing tasks 
     outlined in the ``EJ 2020 Action Agenda,'' and to continue 
     its EJ grant programs. The budget structure for Environmental 
     Justice remains consistent with prior years. In lieu of the 
     House directives regarding Environmental Justice contained in 
     House Report 117-83, the Agency is directed to provide the 
     Committees with a spend plan 30 days after enactment of this 
     Act and to provide a subsequent comprehensive briefing on how 
     Environmental Justice work will be conducted across the 
     Agency. Concurrently, the Committees expect the Agency to 
     outline a comprehensive Environmental Justice proposal in its 
     fiscal year 2023 budget, including specifics about a proposed 
     national program office and relevant program metrics, so that 
     the proposal can be transparently considered by all 
     stakeholders.
       Environmental Protection: National Priorities.--The 
     agreement provides $25,700,000, an increase of $4,000,000 
     above the enacted level, for a competitive grant program for 
     qualified non-profit organizations to provide technical 
     assistance for improved water quality or safe drinking water, 
     adequate waste-water to small systems, or individual private 
     well owners. The Agency shall provide $22,000,000 for 
     Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance 
     Act (Public Law 114-98), for activities specified under 
     section 1442(e) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
     300j-1(e)(8)). The Agency is also directed to provide 
     $2,700,000 for grants to qualified not-for-profit 
     organizations for technical assistance for individual private 
     well owners, with priority given to organizations that 
     currently provide technical and educational assistance to 
     individual private well owners. The Agency is directed to 
     provide on a national and multi-State regional basis, 
     $1,000,000 for grants to qualified organizations for the sole 
     purpose of providing on-site training and technical 
     assistance for wastewater systems. The Agency shall require 
     each grantee to provide a minimum 10 percent match, including 
     in-kind contributions. The Agency is directed to allocate 
     funds to grantees within 180 days of enactment of this Act.
       Geographic Programs.--The agreement provides $587,192,000 
     as described in the table at the end of this division, and 
     includes the following direction:
       Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.--The agreement provides 
     $348,000,000 for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. The 
     Agency shall continue to follow the direction as provided in 
     House Report 117-83 and Senate Report 115-276 related to the 
     Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
       Chesapeake Bay.--The agreement provides $88,000,000 for the 
     Chesapeake Bay program. From within the amount provided, 
     $9,625,000 is for nutrient and sediment removal grants and 
     $9,625,000 is for small watershed grants to control polluted 
     runoff from urban, suburban, and agricultural lands, and 
     $7,250,000 is for state-based implementation in the most 
     effective basins.
       San Francisco Bay.--The agreement provides $24,000,000 for 
     the San Francisco Bay program. The Committees direct the 
     Agency to undertake priority activities within the San 
     Francisco Bay estuary Comprehensive Conservation and 
     Management Plan approved under section 320 of the Clean Water 
     Act.
       Puget Sound.--The agreement provides $34,250,000 for Puget 
     Sound and the Agency is directed to follow the guidance in 
     House Report 117-83.
       Long Island Sound.--The agreement provides $31,400,000 for 
     the Long Island Sound program and the Agency is directed to 
     follow the guidance in House Report 117-83.
       South Florida.--The agreement provides $7,500,000 for the 
     South Florida program. Within the funds provided, the 
     Committees recommend at least $1,750,000 to monitor coral 
     health in South Florida; $1,025,000 to enhance water quality 
     and seagrass monitoring in the Caloosahatchee Estuary and 
     Indian River Lagoon, especially with respect to assessing the 
     impact of Lake Okeechobee discharges and harmful algal 
     blooms; and $1,025,000 to enhance water quality and seagrass 
     monitoring in Florida Bay and Biscayne Bay, especially with 
     respect to assessing the impact of Everglades Restoration 
     projects and harmful algal blooms.
       Gulf of Mexico.--The agreement provides $22,447,000 for the 
     Gulf of Mexico Geographic Program. The Committees note that 
     hypoxia continues to be a growing cause for concern.

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     The Committees direct the Agency to coordinate with the 
     Department of Agriculture, the Gulf States, and other State, 
     local, and private partners to leverage greater resources 
     toward conservation projects on working-lands within the Gulf 
     Region and Mississippi River Basin. The Agency is directed to 
     distribute funds in the same manner as fiscal year 2021.
       Lake Champlain.--The agreement provides $20,000,000 for the 
     Lake Champlain program. From within the amount provided, 
     $12,000,000 shall be allocated through the Lake Champlain 
     Basin Program and the remaining amount shall be directed to 
     support significant, impactful projects identified in the 
     State implementation plan that will make measurable progress 
     towards meeting the phosphorus reduction targets of the EPA's 
     2016 Phosphorus Total Maximum Daily Load Plan for Lake 
     Champlain.
       Southern New England Estuaries.--The agreement provides 
     $6,000,000 for the Southern New England Estuaries program and 
     the Agency is directed to follow the guidance in House Report 
     117-83.
       Great Lakes and Lake Champlain Invasive Species Program.--
     The Committees appreciate receiving the Agency's recent plan 
     on its previous and planned actions to implement the Great 
     Lakes and Lake Champlain Invasive Species Program as 
     authorized by the Vessel Incident Discharge Act (Public Law 
     115-282). In fiscal year 2022, the Committees expect the 
     Agency to implement its plan expeditiously and direct the 
     Agency to continue to use funds from the appropriate 
     Geographic Programs to address invasive species in the Great 
     Lakes and Lake Champlain.
       Information Exchange/Outreach.--The agreement provides 
     $125,046,000 for Information Exchange/Outreach. Environmental 
     Education is funded at not less than $8,615,000. The 
     Committees are concerned that the smart skin cancer education 
     program has recently received insufficient attention from the 
     Agency; therefore, the Agency is directed to use 
     Environmental Education funds for the smart skin cancer 
     education program, similar to prior years.
       Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).--The 
     agreement provides $120,075,000 for Resource Conservation and 
     Recovery Act. Of the funds provided under this program area, 
     $9,000,000 is for implementation of a Federal permit program 
     for coal combustion residuals in non-participating states, as 
     authorized under section 4005(d)(2)(B) of the Solid Waste 
     Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6945(d)(2)(B)), or to provide 
     technical assistance to states establishing their own 
     permitting program under section 4005(d) of the Solid Waste 
     Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6945(d)).
       The Committees appreciate the work that EPA has done to 
     improve recycling rates across the country, including through 
     the National Recycling Strategy goal to increase the U.S. 
     recycling rate to 50 percent by 2030. The Committees 
     acknowledge the importance of the third goal laid out in the 
     National Recycling Strategy: to improve markets for recycled 
     content. The Committees recognize the need for a robust 
     market for recycled content and provide $1,000,000 to support 
     activities that will improve markets for recycled materials, 
     such as participating in the collaborative development of 
     minimum recycled content standards for certain single-use 
     products, reviewing and updating the products designated by 
     EPA's Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines Program, assessing 
     the extent to which toxic materials in plastics are re-
     incorporated into new products, and updating the recommended 
     recycled-content levels of designated products. Additionally, 
     consistent with House Report 117-83 direction, the agreement 
     provides no less than $1,000,000 for the Agency to work with 
     relevant stakeholders to educate consumers and households 
     about residential and community recycling programs and an 
     additional $1,000,000 for the Agency to assist communities 
     with recycling infrastructure to help recapture valuable 
     materials and divert biodegradable materials from landfilling 
     to reduce the generation of methane gas.
       The Committees provide $1,500,000 for the Agency to enter 
     into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to 
     conduct a study of the costs of recycling programs to State, 
     Tribal, local and municipal governments (including recycling 
     fees paid directly by residents) and to include policy 
     recommendations. The Agency is directed to provide a report 
     to the Committees within 270 days after enactment of this 
     Act.
       The agreement does not include direction in House Report 
     117-83 under the heading ``Reducing Plastic Waste in 
     Commerce.''
       Toxics Risk Review and Prevention.--The agreement provides 
     $98,060,000 for Toxics Risk Review and Prevention activities. 
     The Committees are providing increased resources to help 
     ensure the Agency can carry out EPA's duties under the Toxic 
     Substances Control Act (TSCA) as amended by the 2016 
     Lautenberg Act to bolster the transparency and scientific 
     integrity of the program. The Committees remind the Agency 
     that the Lautenberg Act established a shared responsibility 
     for the taxpayer and industry to contribute their share to 
     support the TSCA program. The Committees recognize that the 
     Agency has reproposed its TSCA Service Fees Rule and 
     encourage the Agency to properly consider full costs in its 
     deliberations, in line with the Lautenberg Act's intent. 
     Additionally, the Committees support the Safer Choice program 
     and direct that the program be funded and operated consistent 
     with prior years.
       Water: Ecosystems.--The agreement provides $55,071,000 for 
     Water: Ecosystems and provides $35,000,000 for National 
     Estuary Program (NEP) grants as authorized by section 320 of 
     the Clean Water Act, and other activities. This amount is 
     sufficient to provide each of the 28 national estuaries in 
     the program with a grant of at least $750,000. Further, in 
     the Administrative Provisions section, the bill directs that 
     $2,000,000 in competitive grants be made available for 
     additional projects. The agreement also provides up to 
     $1,000,000 to support the Hypoxia Task Force's work, as 
     outlined in House Report 117-83, to provide assistance to 
     state and tribal partners as they implement comprehensive 
     water quality solutions designed to reduce nutrient loads in 
     waterways throughout the greater Mississippi River Basin, 
     consistent with the Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan.
       Water: Human Health Protection.--The Committees recommend 
     $109,487,000 for Water: Human Health Protection. The 
     Committees urge the Agency to proceed expeditiously to 
     support monitoring for unregulated contaminants under Section 
     1445(a)(2)(C) of the Safe Drinking Water Act and direct the 
     Agency to brief the Committees on the Agency's implementation 
     plan within 180 days of the enactment of this Act.
       To the extent there are eligible permit and primacy 
     applications for review, the agreement provides $5,000,000 
     for the Agency's continued work within the Underground 
     Injection Control program related to Class VI wells for 
     geologic sequestration to help develop expertise and capacity 
     at the Agency.
       Water Quality Protection.--The agreement provides 
     $216,350,000 for Water Quality Protection. The Agency is 
     encouraged to continue using infrastructure solutions, such 
     as distribution network leak detection, pressure monitoring, 
     and sanitary and combined sewer monitoring technologies 
     during upgrades to water and wastewater systems, to optimize 
     water delivery performance, reduce energy usage, limit water 
     waste in distribution systems, and enhance modeling of sewer 
     collection networks. This will help to improve operations, 
     maintenance, and capital expenditure in planning and 
     budgeting and increase spatial and temporal monitoring data 
     available on U.S. water quality and quantity. The Committees 
     support the WaterSense program and appreciate EPA's work to 
     advance water recycling through the National Water Reuse 
     Action Plan (WRAP).
       The Committees support the Agency's ongoing activities 
     related to integrated planning, which will be increasingly 
     necessary as States and communities work to meet their myriad 
     clean water obligations while keeping rates affordable for 
     water ratepayers. The Committees direct that funding for the 
     Office of Municipal Ombudsman, as authorized by Congress, be 
     funded at not less than the enacted level.
       Additional Guidance.--The following additional guidance is 
     included:
       Biointermediates.--The Committees appreciate the work of 
     the Agency to address the coprocessing of biointermediates 
     and urge the Agency to finalize a rule permitting the 
     production, transfer, and use of biointermediates. The 
     Committees direct the Agency to brief the Committees within 
     60 days of enactment of this Act about its plans for action.
       Community Air Quality Monitoring.--The Committees urge the 
     Agency to prioritize air quality monitoring systems that 
     yield frequently repeated measurements of pollutants and 
     identify hotspots or areas of persistent elevated levels of 
     pollutants localized to and caused by the characteristics of 
     a specific geographic location. The Committees encourage the 
     Agency to utilize this information to provide regularly 
     updated data to overburdened and marginalized communities and 
     for public awareness and other activities.
       Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program.--The 
     Committees note that through the Environmentally Preferable 
     Purchasing Program, the Agency makes efforts to improve the 
     sustainable marketplace and uses purchasing power to help 
     catalyze sustainable products innovation. The Committees 
     direct the Agency to provide a briefing, within 180 days of 
     enactment of this Act, on planned updates to the 
     Recommendations of Specifications, Standards and Ecolabels 
     for Federal Purchasing and conducting lifecycle environmental 
     impact assessments to help reduce plastic waste.
       Food Waste.--The Committees direct that, no later than 
     September 30, 2022, EPA, in coordination with the U.S. 
     Department of Agriculture, shall provide a briefing to the 
     Committees on how the nation is meeting, and how the agencies 
     are measuring progress against the U.S. 2030 Food Loss and 
     Waste Reduction Goal.
       Modeling and Monitoring of Tijuana River Transboundary 
     Pollution Events.--Within existing funds, the Committees 
     encourage EPA to advance predictive models to assess and 
     evaluate potential infrastructure projects to reduce beach 
     closure days and other related impacts from transboundary 
     untreated sewage pollution events.
       Output-Based Regulations.--The Committees encourage EPA to 
     inform States of applicable tools, such as output-based 
     regulations, that will encourage fuel efficiency as an air 
     pollution prevention measure and assist states in meeting 
     environmental and energy goals.
       Pesticide Licensing and Stakeholder Engagement.--The 
     Committees urge EPA to consult with public health, 
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     non-governmental organizations, industry stakeholders, and 
     other interested parties in advance of the deadline for 
     progress reports required by Sec. 10115 of Agriculture 
     Improvement Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-334) and to provide 
     updates to stakeholders as appropriate. The Committees also 
     request that EPA continue to keep the Committees apprised of 
     stakeholder engagement activities, consistent with the timing 
     of progress reports to Congress on Endangered Species Act 
     consultation.
       Pre-Commercial Thinning.--The Committees recognize that 
     precommercial thinning from non-Federal forestland that is 
     not ecologically sensitive forestland can qualify as 
     renewable biomass for purposes of the Renewable Fuel Standard 
     under the provisions detailed in 40 C.F.R. 80.1401. The 
     Committees encourage the Agency to support other Federal 
     agencies leading efforts to enhance markets for low-grade and 
     low-value wood.
       Small Refinery Relief.--The Committees recognize that the 
     Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) under Clean Air Act Section 
     211(o)(9) provides that EPA may exempt small refineries from 
     compliance with the RFS in certain circumstances and that a 
     small refinery ``may at any time petition the Administrator 
     for an extension of the exemption . . . for the reason of 
     disproportionate economic hardship.''
       Transboundary Watersheds.--The Committees direct the Agency 
     to continue and expand its work coordinating with Federal, 
     State, local, and Tribal agencies to monitor and reduce 
     transboundary mining pollution in the Kootenai watershed and 
     other U.S.-British Columbia transboundary watersheds. The 
     Agency is also directed to report to the Committees within 90 
     days of enactment of this Act on its progress to document 
     baseline conditions and mining-related impacts, and any 
     additional staff or resources needed for this project. These 
     efforts are funded at no less than the enacted level.
       Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule.--The Committees 
     recognize stakeholder interest in monitoring additional 
     unregulated contaminants in drinking water beyond what was 
     recently proposed by EPA and encourage the Agency to consider 
     additional contaminants in future Unregulated Contaminant 
     Monitoring Rules.
       Updating Safe Drinking Water Information System.--The 
     Committees recognize that the Safe Drinking Water Information 
     System is in need of updates and expansion to maximize its 
     utility for States, Territories, Tribes, utilities, and the 
     public. The Committees expect the Agency to provide a 
     briefing within 180 days of the enactment of this Act on the 
     Agency's plans and resource needs for on-going and upcoming 
     updates.
       Water Infrastructure Interagency Coordination.--The 
     Committees urge EPA to fund specific interagency coordination 
     groups in support of effective water and wastewater 
     infrastructure and services to colonias and Tribal 
     communities. Interagency coordination groups should promote 
     interagency planning and program coordination to better 
     facilitate the construction, improvement, and maintenance of 
     water and wastewater infrastructure and services in colonias 
     and Tribal communities. The Interagency coordination groups 
     are also encouraged to coordinate research efforts on the 
     nexus between pollutant exposures, access to water, and 
     disparities in coronavirus mortality and morbidity rates.


            HAZARDOUS WASTE ELECTRONIC MANIFEST SYSTEM FUND

       The agreement discontinues new appropriations for the 
     Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Fund account, 
     consistent with the budget request. Because the e-Manifest 
     Program is now fully operational and fee-supported, funding 
     in this account is no longer necessary.

                      Office of Inspector General

       The bill provides $44,030,000 for the Office of Inspector 
     General. The bill transfers $11,800,000 from the Hazardous 
     Substance Superfund account to this account.


                        BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES

       The bill provides $34,752,000 for Buildings and Facilities.


                     HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

       The bill provides $1,232,850,000 for the Hazardous 
     Substance Superfund account and includes bill language to 
     transfer $11,800,000 to the Office of Inspector General 
     account and $30,985,000 to the Science and Technology 
     account. The agreement provides the following additional 
     direction:
       Enforcement.--The agreement provides $181,355,000 for 
     Enforcement, of which, $5,841,000 is for the Environmental 
     Justice program.
       Homeland Security.--The agreement provides $34,050,000 for 
     Homeland Security. The Agency is directed to include 
     $1,468,000 from these funds as part of the transfer to the 
     Science and Technology account.
       Research: Chemical Safety and Sustainability.--The 
     agreement provides $12,824,000 for Research: Chemical Safety 
     and Sustainability. The Agency is directed to include these 
     funds as part of the transfer to the Science and Technology 
     account.
       Research: Sustainable and Healthy Communities.--The 
     agreement provides $16,463,000 for Research: Sustainable and 
     Healthy Communities. The Agency is directed to include these 
     funds as part of the transfer to the Science and Technology 
     account.
       Superfund Cleanup.--The agreement provides $816,773,000 for 
     Superfund Cleanup. Within this amount, the agreement provides 
     $192,000,000 for Emergency Response and Removal activities.
       Additional Guidance.--The following additional guidance is 
     included:
       Adaptive Management.--Adaptive Management continues to show 
     promise as a tool to expedite Superfund cleanup and 
     remediation, effectively balance cost and benefits, and 
     transition contaminated sites back into use while protecting 
     public health and the environment. The Committees continue to 
     be interested in the EPA's development of Adaptive Management 
     Guidance that can be consistently applied across EPA Regions. 
     The Committees encourage the Agency to prioritize the 
     finalization and implementation of the Guidance, and to 
     integrate it with the Agency's 2005 Contaminated Sediment 
     Remediation Guidance for Hazardous Waste Sites to ensure 
     consistent application of adaptive management at sediment 
     sites.
       Bubbly Creek.--The Agency is directed to follow the 
     guidance in Senate Report 116-123.
       Contaminants of Emerging Concern.--The Committees recommend 
     that Emergency Response and Removal activities include 
     collaborative work with State, Tribal, and local governments 
     to help communities address contaminants of emerging concern. 
     Furthermore, the Committees recommend that the Agency 
     expeditiously remediate Superfund sites contaminated by these 
     emerging contaminants, including PFAS, and provide technical 
     assistance and support to States and Tribes during the 
     remedial cleanup process.
       Continued Improvements.--The Agency is directed to follow 
     the guidance in Senate Report 116-123.
       Manganese.--The Committees are concerned about manganese 
     soil contamination in Chicago and encourage EPA to clean up 
     all affected areas to the lowest possible limits for 
     residential screening and monitoring to protect public 
     health.
       Polychlorinated Byphenyls (PCB) Contamination.--The Agency 
     is directed to follow the guidance in Senate Report 116-123.
       Tribal Guidance.--The Agency is directed to follow the 
     guidance in Senate Report 116-123.

          Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program

       The bill provides $92,293,000 for the Leaking Underground 
     Storage Tank Trust Fund Program.
       Additional Guidance.--The following additional guidance is 
     included:
       Tribal Consultation.--The Agency is directed to follow the 
     guidance in Senate Report 116-123.

                       Inland Oil Spill Programs

       The bill provides $20,262,000 for Inland Oil Spill 
     Programs.

                   State and Tribal Assistance Grants

       The bill provides $4,351,573,000 for the State and Tribal 
     Assistance Grants program and includes the following specific 
     funding levels and direction:
       Community Project Funding Items/Congressionally Directed 
     Spending Items.--From within funds provided for 
     capitalization grants for the Clean Water State Revolving 
     Fund and the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, the 
     Committees recommend $443,639,051 from the Clean Water SRF 
     and $397,766,044 from the Drinking Water SRF be for Community 
     Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending grants for 
     the construction of drinking water, waste-water, and storm-
     water infrastructure and for water quality protection. Each 
     project shall provide not less than 20 percent matching funds 
     from non-Federal sources, unless approved for a waiver. 
     Applicable Federal requirements that would apply to a Clean 
     Water State Revolving Fund or Drinking Water State Revolving 
     Fund project grant recipient shall apply to a grantee 
     receiving a CPF grant under this section. The Committees note 
     that the following funding sources are to be treated as non-
     Federal funds and can be used to meet the non-Federal 
     matching fund requirement: U.S. Department of Housing and 
     Urban Development, Community Development Block Grant program; 
     U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development Program; 
     and Appalachian Regional Commission grants. Funding made 
     available to jurisdictions through the American Rescue Plan 
     Act of 2021 (P.L. 117-2) are considered Federal funds and may 
     not be applied towards the non-Federal cost share 
     requirement. A detailed list of projects is in the table 
     titled ``Interior and Environment Incorporation of Community 
     Project Funding Items/Congressionally Directed Spending 
     Items.''
       Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF).--The agreement 
     provides $1,638,826,000 for the Clean Water SRF and directs 
     the Agency to brief the Committees on addressing the impacts 
     of nonpoint source pollution and stormwater runoff through 
     the use of nature-based and other low impact development 
     techniques.
       Infrastructure Assistance.--The agreement provides 
     $3,252,189,000 for infrastructure assistance. The Committees 
     are aware that the Agency requires a certified operator in 
     order to release funds for certain water and sanitation 
     funding; however, some communities do not have a community 
     system for either, or access to a certified operator. 
     Therefore, the Committees direct the Agency to work with the 
     Indian Health Service and those communities that lack water 
     and sanitation systems, as well as a certified operator, to 
     prevent the potential loss of funding and develop a training 
     plan for operator certification.

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       Brownfields Program.--The agreement provides $91,987,000 
     for Brownfields grants and directs that at least 10 percent 
     of such grants be provided to areas in which at least 20 
     percent of the population has lived under the poverty level 
     over the past 30 years as determined by censuses and the most 
     recent Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates. The bill 
     makes U.S. territories and possessions categorically eligible 
     for funding from within this set-aside.
       The Committees note the value of multipurpose Brownfields 
     grant awards, especially in communities that have clusters of 
     Brownfield sites distributed over a larger geographic area. 
     Many communities find that these larger awards allow for more 
     rapid, cost-effective remediation and redevelopment planning, 
     which in turn produce greater leveraging of Brownfields 
     funding and offer more substantial returns on Federal 
     investment. The Committees urge the Agency to tailor the size 
     and frequency of multi-purpose awards to the needs of each 
     region, in order to make grant funding consistently available 
     to communities with Brownfields sites.
       Diesel Emission Reductions Grants (DERA).--The agreement 
     provides $92,000,000 for DERA grants. The Committees note 
     that the DERA program was recently reauthorized through 2024. 
     The Committees support the use of DERA funding in 
     transportation electrification projects.
       Targeted Airshed Grants.--The agreement provides 
     $61,927,000 for Targeted Airshed Grants. These grants shall 
     be distributed on a competitive basis to nonattainment areas 
     that the Agency determines are ranked as the top five most 
     polluted areas relative to annual ozone or particulate matter 
     2.5 standards, as well as the top five areas based on the 24-
     hour particulate matter 2.5 standard where the design values 
     exceed the 35 mg/m3 standard. To determine these areas, the 
     Agency shall use the most recent design values calculated 
     from validated air quality data. The Committees note that 
     these funds are available for emission reduction activities 
     deemed necessary for compliance with national ambient air 
     quality standards and included in a State Implementation Plan 
     submitted to the Agency. Not later than the end of fiscal 
     year 2022, the Agency should provide a report to the 
     Committees that includes a table showing how fiscal year 2020 
     and 2021 funds were allocated. The table should also include 
     grant recipients and metrics for anticipated or actual 
     results.
       Combined Sewer Overflow Grants.--The agreement provides 
     $43,000,000 for Combined Sewer Overflow Grants to control and 
     treat sewer overflows as authorized and in accordance with 
     section 4106 of America's Water Infrastructure Act (P.L. 115-
     270).
       Categorical Grants.--The agreement provides $1,099,384,000 
     for Categorical Grants. Funding levels are specified in the 
     table at the end of this division.
       Categorical Grant: Hazardous Waste Financial Assistance.--
     The agreement provides $102,500,000 for Hazardous Waste 
     Financial Assistance Grants. The bill includes a provision to 
     spend categorical grant funds for the purpose of providing 
     grants to assist States in the development and implementation 
     of state programs for the control of coal combustion 
     residuals under section 2301 of the Water and Waste Act of 
     2016 (Public Law 114-322), and the Agency is directed to 
     allocate $4,000,000 from the Hazardous Waste Financial 
     Assistance categorical grants program project for this 
     purpose. The Committees note that funds awarded under the 
     authority provided by this Act are not subject to section 
     3011 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (Public Law 89-272).
       Categorical Grant: Nonpoint Source (Sec. 319).--The 
     agreement provides $178,000,000 for Nonpoint Source (Sec. 
     319) Grants. Within existing resources, the Committees urge 
     the Agency to work with recipients to prioritize efforts to 
     reduce non-point source pollution to help significantly 
     reduce both the frequency and severity of Harmful Algal 
     Blooms. The Committees also support ongoing efforts through 
     non-point source programs and other mechanisms to reduce the 
     amounts of plastic and other trash from entering waterways.
       Categorical Grant: Public Water System Supervision.--The 
     agreement provides $113,000,000 in Public Water System 
     Supervision Grants, $1,000,000 above the enacted level. Of 
     the funds provided, $10,000,000 is to further support States, 
     Territories, and Tribes in addressing PFAS and other 
     contaminants of emerging concern as they carry out their 
     Public Water System Supervision programs.
       Categorical Grant State and Local Air Quality Management.--
     The agreement provides $231,391,000 for State and Local Air 
     Quality Management Grants. The Agency is directed to allocate 
     funds for this program using the same formula as fiscal year 
     2015. Should the Agency seek to change the formula, it should 
     submit a proposal in its fiscal year 2023 budget 
     justification for consideration by the Committees.
       Wildfire Smoke Preparedness.--The agreement provides 
     $4,000,000 for wildfire smoke preparedness grants. These 
     grants shall be distributed on a competitive basis to States, 
     federally recognized Tribes, public pre-schools, local 
     educational agencies as defined in 20 U.S.C. 7801(30), and 
     non-profit organizations, for assessment, prevention, 
     control, or abatement of wildfire smoke hazards in community 
     buildings including schools as defined in 20 U.S.C. 3610(6), 
     and related activities. The Federal share of the costs of 
     such activities shall not exceed 90 percent except that the 
     Administrator may waive such cost share requirement in the 
     case of facilities located in economically distressed 
     communities. A maximum of 25 percent of grant funding under 
     this paragraph during this fiscal year may go to recipients 
     in any one State.
       Additional Guidance.--The following additional guidance is 
     included:
       National Water System Performance.--In lieu of the 
     directive in House Report 117-83 under the heading ``National 
     Water System Consolidation Assessment,'' the Agency is 
     directed to brief the Committees with 90 days of enactment of 
     this Act on the financial and technical capacity of smaller 
     water systems to meet Federal water quality standards. The 
     briefing should also include a review of the ability of the 
     Drinking Water Needs Survey to assess water systems' 
     capability to meet these standards and the average debt 
     levels of such systems.
       Use of Iron and Steel.--The bill includes language in title 
     IV general provisions that stipulates requirements for the 
     use of iron and steel in State Revolving Fund projects, and 
     the agreement includes only the following guidance: the 
     Committees acknowledge that the Agency may issue a waiver of 
     said requirements for de minimis amounts of iron and steel 
     building materials. The Committees emphasize that any coating 
     processes that are applied to the external surface of iron 
     and steel components that otherwise qualify under the 
     procurement preference shall not render such products 
     ineligible for the procurement preference regardless of where 
     the coating processes occur, provided that final assembly of 
     the products occurs in the United States.

      Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program Account

       The agreement provides a total of $69,526,000 for the Water 
     Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) program. Of 
     the amount provided, $5,000,000 shall be for implementation 
     of the SRF WIN Act, as authorized by section 4201 of Public 
     Law 115-270. Greater investment in the replacement of aging 
     infrastructure will help mitigate nationwide issues the 
     Committees are tracking related to contaminants such as lead 
     and arsenic, Combined Sewer Overflows and Sanitary Sewer 
     Overflows, and the pressing need to improve water delivery.

       Administrative Provisions--Environmental Protection Agency


                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

       The bill continues several administrative provisions from 
     previous years.
       The bill provides for the collection and obligation of 
     certain hazardous waste electronic manifest fees in 
     accordance with the Solid Waste Disposal Act.
       The bill directs the availability of not less than 
     $2,000,000 of funds for the National Estuary Program for 
     competitive grants.
       The bill clarifies the use of aircraft in Superfund site 
     cleanups financed through Special Accounts.
       The bill clarifies the availability of expenditures for 
     information technology from the Working Capital Fund.
       The bill provides for the Office of Chemical Safety and 
     Pollution Prevention and the Office of Water in fiscal year 
     2022 to use up to $2,000,000 to hire students and recent 
     graduates as contractors on a temporary or intermittent 
     basis.
       The bill provides certain hiring authorities related to 
     certain specialized professional positions for fiscal years 
     2022-2025.
       Additional Guidance.--The following additional guidance is 
     included:
       Title 42 Hiring Authority.--The agreement expands the 
     authority for the Agency to hire scientists under 42 U.S.C. 
     209 in the Office of Research and Development (ORD) and the 
     Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP) 
     through 2025. Within the funding provided, the Agency is 
     directed to enter into an agreement with the National Academy 
     of Sciences to conduct a study on the Agency's use of Title 
     42 special hiring authority over the last ten years and how 
     Title 42 hires have uniquely contributed to the Agency's 
     mission. The study should also consider what controls the 
     Agency has in place to ensure hiring practices are 
     consistent, whether the Agency is using the authority to hire 
     scientists that are in the highest priority fields, and what 
     improvements the Agency can make to better manage its special 
     hiring authority.

                      TITLE III--RELATED AGENCIES

                       Department of Agriculture

  Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment

       The bill provides $1,000,000 for the Office of the Under 
     Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment.
       The Under Secretary is directed to brief the Committees 
     within 90 days of enactment of this Act on a plan to promote 
     innovative biomass usage within the Department and across the 
     government, with the aim of creating additional markets for 
     hazardous fuels materials, and to encourage the use of wood 
     products as a green building material, and potentially aid in 
     carbon storage.


                             FOREST SERVICE

       The agreement maintains funding for the activities 
     delineated in House Report 117-83, unless otherwise specified 
     herein, which the Service will fund with the appropriate 
     combination of salaries and expenses and programmatic funds 
     within each appropriations account.
       The agreement provides up to $10,000,000 for remote 
     wildfire detection and an increase

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     of up to $1,500,000 for national scenic and historic trails.
       The agreement provides funding to meet new federal minimum 
     wage standards and the Service is directed to use additional 
     salaries and expenses resources to strengthen the permanent 
     wildland fire workforce through increased hiring and 
     conversion of seasonal to permanent positions.
       The agreement provides $1,700,000 for Sudden Oak Death 
     treatments and partnerships with States and private 
     landowners. The Service is also expected to partner with 
     Tribes to prioritize recovery on lands impacted by wildfire. 
     The Service should consider a separate budget line item for 
     restoring burned areas in future budget submissions. Lake 
     Tahoe Restoration Act activities are funded as directed in 
     House Report 117-83.
       The Service should provide a legislative proposal to 
     establish a non-profit organization that would complement its 
     International Programs and Trade Compliance mission and 
     expand its impacts to benefit American forestry stakeholders 
     through global engagement on climate change, forest products 
     trade, U.S. migratory species habitat conservation, and 
     initiatives to protect American forests from invasive pests.
       The Service is directed to submit a report to the 
     Committees detailing its strategy for pursuing the maximum 
     utilization of domestic labor and long-term workforce 
     development within 90 days of enactment of this Act.


                       FOREST SERVICE OPERATIONS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

       The bill provides $1,069,086,000 for Forest Service 
     Operations. The detailed allocation of funding by activity is 
     included in the table accompanying this explanatory 
     statement.


                     FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH

       The bill provides $296,616,000 for Forest and Rangeland 
     Research. Each of the existing facilities and programs shall 
     be funded at no less than the enacted level. Funding for new 
     research herein and new geographically-based initiatives 
     shall not to be factored into base allocations. The detailed 
     allocation of funding by activity is included in the table 
     accompanying this explanatory statement.
       The Service is directed to work with the National 
     Agricultural Statistical Service to determine the best way to 
     survey and report non-timber forest products [NTFP] harvest 
     volumes on National Forest lands.
       Funding Directives.--The agreement provides for the 
     following research priorities:
       --$4,000,000 to the Joint Fire Science program, which 
     combined with funding in the Department of Interior provides 
     $8,000,000 in total.
       --$2,000,000 for collaborative research to determine the 
     quantity and spatial distribution of forest biomass and 
     carbon at multiple spatial scales and analyze the financial 
     impact of this determination to provide forest carbon program 
     participants with greater opportunities for income 
     generation.
       --$3,000,000 to conduct collaborative research to determine 
     the distribution and movement of needle pathogens, understand 
     the disease cycle and the environmental factors that drive 
     the emergence and distribution of the needle pathogens, and 
     determine if the appearance is due to more aggressive strains 
     of the pathogens and the origins of the pathogens.
       --$5,000,000 to support the Northeastern States Research 
     Cooperative. The Service is directed to continue to utilize 
     existing partnerships with research institutions and States 
     to fund research to establish methods, tools, and standard 
     protocols that help quantify forest ecosystem services, 
     particularly carbon, in natural forested regions as a 
     resource that can be managed by forest landowners for 
     ecological and economic benefit.
       --$2,000,000 for research on forest-based cellulose 
     nanomaterials, including material forms, manufacturing 
     processes, and technology transfer.
       --$2,000,000 to support new and existing academic 
     partnerships to further explore the use of available 
     technologies like remote sensing and methodologies such as 
     small area estimation to further refine county and State 
     biomass estimates as outlined in Sec. 8632 of Public Law 115-
     334.
       --$4,000,000 for cooperative research to develop new 
     understandings and innovative solutions to address wildfire 
     impacts on forested source water, downstream clean water, and 
     water treatability.
       --$3,000,000 for university-led research and partnerships 
     to better understand fires in the wildland-urban interface, 
     improve workforce development for wildfire management 
     professionals, and improve the safety and efficiency of 
     wildland firefighting techniques.
       --$1,500,000 to conduct collaborative research to develop 
     remote sensing capabilities that deploy acoustic technologies 
     for wildfire monitoring.


                       STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY

       The bill provides $315,198,000 for State and Private 
     Forestry. The detailed allocation of funding by activity is 
     included in the table accompanying this explanatory 
     statement. All funding for specific programs, directives, or 
     congressionally directed spending identified herein is in 
     addition to funds otherwise provided to States and regions 
     through the formula and competitive grant process and 
     therefore is not to be factored into those allocations.
       The Service is directed to support local organizations for 
     implementing smaller-scale restoration projects through 
     grants to increase organizations' capacity to collaborate on 
     projects on Federal and non-Federal lands that benefit the 
     National Forest System. The Service should model this 
     initiative on the Community Capacity and Land Stewardship 
     program and engage with the National Forest Foundation. The 
     Service is directed to brief the Committees on how it will 
     carry out this program within 90 days of enactment of this 
     Act.
       Within the funds provided, $1,000,000 is for the Forest 
     Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative to support existing academic 
     partnerships in the Northern Forest Region. A reduced non-
     Federal cost share shall be negotiated with the host agencies 
     to enable full implementation of the program. The Service is 
     directed to continue to utilize existing partnerships with 
     research institutions and States to fund research to 
     establish methods, tools, and standard protocols that help 
     quantify forest ecosystem services, particularly carbon, in 
     natural forested regions as a resource that can be managed by 
     forest landowners for ecological and economic benefit.
       Cooperative Fire Assistance.--The bill provides $75,000,000 
     for State Fire Capacity Grants, formerly State Fire 
     Assistance, and $20,000,000 for Volunteer Fire Capacity 
     Grants, formerly Volunteer Fire Assistance. The Forest 
     Service is directed to use these titles in future budget 
     submissions and agency documents.
       Cooperative Forestry.--The Service is directed to work with 
     States and Tribes to prioritize insect prevention, 
     suppression, and mitigation projects on non-Federal land that 
     support community wildfire protection and State forest action 
     plans.
       Forest Resource Information and Analysis.--The bill 
     provides $29,955,500 for congressionally directed spending in 
     this program. A detailed list of projects is included in the 
     ``Interior and Environment Incorporation of Community Project 
     Funding Items/Congressionally Directed Spending Items'' table 
     accompanying this statement. Recipients are reminded that 
     cost sharing requirements may apply to these projects.


                         NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM

       The bill provides $1,866,545,000 for the National Forest 
     System. The detailed allocation of funding by activity is 
     included in the table accompanying this explanatory 
     statement.
       Land Management Planning, Assessment, and Monitoring.--Land 
     management plan revisions and amendments should be tracked 
     and reported in the annual budget submission. The Service is 
     directed to report to the Committees within 180 days of 
     enactment of this Act on the current list of forest 
     management plans and comprehensive river management plans 
     requiring revision or completion, a proposed course of 
     action, and a timeline for compliance with the underlying 
     statute.
       Recreation, Heritage, and Wilderness.--Within the funds 
     provided, $1,000,000 is included for the Office of 
     Recreation, Heritage and Volunteer Resources--Travel, Tourism 
     and Interpretation Program to continue implementation of the 
     Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience 
     [NATIVE] Act (Public Law 114-221) and to engage with Tribes, 
     Tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations to 
     promote sustainable native tourism activities, and $3,000,000 
     is included to support infrastructure and trails development 
     and to build the capacity of local user groups and 
     partnership organizations, to be divided equally between 
     National Recreation Areas administered by the Forest Service 
     and established after 1997.
       Grazing Management.--The Service is directed, to the 
     greatest extent practicable, to make vacant grazing 
     allotments available to a holder of a grazing permit or lease 
     when lands covered by the holder of the permit or lease are 
     unusable because of drought or wildfire. The Service is 
     directed to brief the Committees within 90 days of enactment 
     of this Act on its progress to relieve the backlog of fully 
     processed permits. The Service is further directed to report 
     to the Committees within 180 days of enactment of this Act on 
     the number of grazing permits by region and unit that are the 
     subject of the general provision related to the extension of 
     grazing permits, a proposed course of action, and a timeline 
     for compliance to the underlying statute.
       Hazardous Fuels.--The bill provides $187,388,000 for 
     Hazardous Fuels. Of the funds made available, $12,000,000 is 
     for the Community Wood Energy Program; $20,000,000 is for 
     Wood Innovation Grants, of which $2,000,000 is for grants to 
     develop timber professional cooperatives that will address 
     deficiencies in wood product infrastructure; and $6,000,000 
     is provided for the Southwest Ecological Restoration 
     Institutes to continue to assist communities and land 
     managers in applying hazardous fuels and wildfire risk 
     reduction treatments, conducting monitoring and evaluation 
     research, providing technical assistance, and for independent 
     analysis of managed fire. The agreement directs the Service 
     to work with States in accordance with their State forest 
     action plan for the removal of hazardous fuels caused by 
     beetle infestation.
       Prescribed Fire.--The Service is directed to report in the 
     annual budget submission on prescribed fire activities by 
     region for the previous fiscal year.
       The Service must expand its efforts on innovative biomass 
     uses, giving precedence to funding Wood Innovation Grant 
     projects that will open the door to new, widespread uses for 
     wood-based nanotechnology, mass timber

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     and cross-laminated timber, high-energy efficient wood for 
     energy production, affordable housing, and other promising 
     products.
       Wildlife and Fish Habitat Management.--The bill provides 
     $22,000,000 for Wildlife and Fish Habitat Management of which 
     no less than the enacted level will be spent on threatened 
     and endangered species activities and contribute to 
     significant recovery actions. The Service should set 
     performance indicators and other accountability measures for 
     these activities in order to track its expenditures to comply 
     with reporting requirements.
       The direction contained in Senate Report 116-123 regarding 
     Tariffs on Timber Exports is continued.
       Salaries and Expenses.--The bill provides $1,459,352,000 
     for Salaries and Expenses, including for employees who carry 
     out functions funded by the Capital Improvement and 
     Maintenance, Range Betterment Fund, and Management of 
     National Forest Lands for Subsistence Uses accounts.
       SQF Complex Fire.--The Service's ongoing fire recovery and 
     rehabilitation efforts in the Sequoia National Forest as a 
     result of the SQF Complex Fire is appreciated and the Service 
     is directed to continue prioritizing projects that mitigate 
     safety hazards in burned areas so they can be reopened to the 
     public, promote ecological restoration, reduce the risk of 
     future catastrophic wildfires, and protect the giant 
     sequoias. Within 180 days of enactment of this Act, the 
     Service is directed to provide a report to the Committees on 
     the status of SQF Complex Fire restoration projects along 
     with estimates of future funding needs.


                  CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The bill provides $159,049,000 for Capital Improvement and 
     Maintenance programs.
       Legacy Restoration Fund.--The Service is directed to ensure 
     that the comprehensive list of deferred maintenance projects 
     are included in the prioritization for funding, with 
     particular emphasis on any projects related to life and 
     safety and that require a substantial financial investment.
       Facilities.--The bill provides $54,037,000 for Facilities. 
     The Service is encouraged to partner with non-Federal 
     entities to meet its statutory responsibilities for 
     preserving and curating its historical collection and the 
     agreement includes sufficient funding for new repository 
     space.
       Roads.--The bill includes $70,645,000 for Roads to provide 
     safe and improved access to national forest lands while 
     protecting water quality and natural resources.
       Trails.--The bill includes $18,500,000 for Trails. The 
     Forest Service is directed to continue to collaborate with 
     regional training centers and to focus on maintaining 
     geographical diversity in its partnerships.
       Legacy Roads and Trails.--The bill provides $5,000,000 for 
     Legacy Roads and Trails in a restored budget line item. The 
     Service is directed to include accomplishment data to 
     accompany the annual budget submission, including miles of 
     roads improved and maintained, miles of trails improved and 
     maintained, miles of roads decommissioned, miles of streams 
     restored, number of bridges fixed, number of bridges and 
     culverts constructed, and number of jobs created.
       Construction Projects.--The bill provides $10,867,000 for 
     the following capital improvement funding requirements, which 
     are also included in the ``Interior and Environment 
     Incorporation of Community Project Funding Items/
     Congressionally Directed Spending Items'' table accompanying 
     this explanatory statement:
       --$5,770,000 for bridge and trailhead improvements on the 
     Iditarod National Historic Trail, Chugach NF
       --$2,500,000 for new and improved mountain biking trails, 
     Green Mountain NF
       --$1,000,000 for a community-based master recreation plan 
     and recreational improvements at Lake Okhissa, Homochitto NF
       --$472,000 for an all-weather surface on Forest Road 512, 
     Tonto NF
       --$1,125,000 for planning and implementation of 
     improvements on the Franconia Ridge Trail, White Mountains NF


         ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL ACTS

       The bill provides $664,000 for the Acquisition of Lands for 
     National Forests Special Acts.


            ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES

       The bill provides $150,000 for the Acquisition of Lands to 
     Complete Land Exchanges.


                         RANGE BETTERMENT FUND

       The bill provides $1,719,000 for the Range Betterment Fund.


    GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH

       The bill provides $45,000 for Gifts, Donations and Bequests 
     for Forest and Rangeland Research.


        MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR SUBSISTENCE USES

       The bill provides $1,099,000 for the Management of National 
     Forest Lands for Subsistence Uses.


                        WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

       The bill provides a total of $2,005,106,000 for Forest 
     Service Wildland Fire Management, including $172,000,000 for 
     preparedness, $1,011,000,000 for suppression operations, and 
     $822,106,000 for salaries and expenses. Combined with 
     $2,120,000,000 provided in the Wildfire Suppression 
     Operations Reserve Fund, the total amount for fire 
     suppression operations at the Forest Service is 
     $3,131,000,000 for fiscal year 2022.
       The Service should work to construct standardized 
     cooperative fire protection agreement language among Federal, 
     State, Tribal, and local partners to address 
     interjurisdictional fire reimbursement challenges, including 
     barriers for small municipalities.


              WILDLAND SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

       The bill includes $2,120,000,000 for the Wildfire 
     Suppression Operations Reserve Fund, which is $80,000,000 
     above the enacted level. S. Con. Res. 14 (117th Congress), 
     the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2022, 
     included a budget cap adjustment for wildfire suppression 
     costs and this additional funding is included for fiscal year 
     2022.

                Department of Health and Human Services


                         INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE

                         INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES

       The bill provides a total of $6,630,986,000 for the Indian 
     Health Service (IHS), of which $4,660,658,000 is for the 
     Services account as detailed below. All programs, projects, 
     and activities are maintained at fiscal year 2021 enacted 
     levels unless otherwise specified below. IHS is expected to 
     comply with the instructions and requirements at the 
     beginning of this division and in House Report 117--83, 
     unless otherwise specified below. Language contained in the 
     explanatory statement accompanying the Consolidated 
     Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260) regarding 
     market-specific pay scales, limitations on incentives, 
     tracking improvements to patient health, use of accreditation 
     emergency funds, joint venture solicitations, and 
     interoperability and compatibility of the new electronic 
     health record system with the Department of Veterans' Affairs 
     system is restated. Language contained in Senate Report 116-
     123 regarding the Alaska Comprehensive Forensic Training 
     Academy, first aid kit enhancements, and dental health 
     therapy is restated. Additional details, instructions, and 
     requirements follow below and in the table at the end of this 
     division.
       Addressing Sexual Abuse.--The Committees remain deeply 
     concerned about reports of sexual abuse at IHS operated 
     facilities. IHS is to take prompt action on any new 
     allegations, and keep the Committees apprised on 
     implementation of recommendations to prevent sexual abuse. 
     Further the Committees remind IHS of direction contained in 
     the House bill and incorporate language included in the 
     fiscal year 2021 explanatory statement related to addressing 
     sexual abuse.
       Current Services.--The agreement includes $109,855,000 for 
     pay costs and inflation, which is based upon updated recent 
     estimates provided to the Committees. The Committees expect 
     IHS to disburse all funding provided for current services 
     upon receipt, and to consult with the Committees before 
     withholding any appropriated funds.
       Staffing for New Facilities.--The agreement includes 
     $90,412,000 for staffing newly opened health facilities, 
     which is the full amount required in fiscal year 2022 based 
     upon updated estimates provided to the Committees. Funds for 
     staffing of new facilities are limited to facilities funded 
     through the Health Care Facilities Construction Priority 
     System or the Joint Venture Construction Program that have 
     opened in fiscal year 2021 or will open in fiscal year 2022. 
     None of these funds may be allocated to a facility until such 
     facility has achieved beneficial occupancy status. As initial 
     estimates included as part of the annual budget request are 
     refined, IHS is expected to communicate updated cost 
     estimates to the Committees.
       Hospitals and Health Clinics.--The agreement provides 
     $2,399,169,000 for hospitals and health clinics, which 
     includes an additional $14,000,000 for Tribal epidemiology 
     centers, an additional $500,000 for the Alzheimer's program, 
     as directed in the House report, and an additional $1,000,000 
     to improve maternal health. Also included is $3,000,000 to 
     establish a Produce Prescription Pilot program as directed in 
     the House report 117-83. The agreement continues funding at 
     the fiscal year 2021 enacted levels for the existing Tribal 
     dental health therapist training program that trains students 
     in Alaska, Washington, Idaho, and Oregon, Community Health 
     Aide Program, the domestic violence prevention program, 
     accreditation emergencies as discussed in the House report, 
     village built clinics, health information technology, healthy 
     lifestyles in youth project, the combatting Hepatitis C and 
     HIV Initiative, and the National Indian Health Board 
     cooperative agreement.
       Diabetic Retinopathy.--The Committees understand the Joslin 
     Vision Network is evaluating ways to enhance diabetic 
     retinopathy detection and encourages IHS to assess current 
     FDA approved autonomous artificial intelligence systems to 
     determine if these systems improve outcomes and lower 
     treatment costs.
       Village Built Clinics (VBC).--The Committees direct IHS to 
     work collaboratively with impacted Tribes and Tribal 
     organizations to produce, within 270 days of enactment of 
     this Act, the data needed to accurately calculate the funding 
     for VBC lease funding, including the number of active VBC 
     facilities, their current funding levels, and if necessary, 
     any additional amounts needed to fully fund the eligible 
     operating and ownership costs for all VBC facilities.
       Electronic Health Records.--The agreement provides 
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     Records (EHR), which includes an additional $110,500,000 for 
     uses as requested.
       Dental Health.--The agreement provides $235,788,000 for 
     dental health and includes increases of $1,000,000 for 
     electronic dental health records and $1,000,000 for Dental 
     Support Centers as discussed in the House report.
       Mental Health.--The bill provides $121,946,000 for mental 
     health, which continues funding at fiscal year 2021 enacted 
     levels for the behavioral health integration initiative, for 
     suicide prevention, and for the Telebehavioral Health Center 
     of Excellence.
       Alcohol and Substance Abuse.--The bill provides 
     $258,343,000 for the alcohol and substance abuse program. The 
     agreement includes an additional $1,000,000 general program 
     increase to address opioid abuse with instructions for IHS to 
     comply with the explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 
     116-94. In addition, the agreement continues the Generation 
     Indigenous, Youth Pilot project, and essential detoxification 
     services, which shall be distributed as directed in Senate 
     Report 116-123.
       Purchased/Referred Care.--The agreement includes 
     $984,887,000 for the Purchased/Referred Care program, which 
     maintains funding for the Indian Catastrophic Health Fund at 
     fiscal year 2021 enacted levels.
       Public Health Nursing.--The agreement includes $102,466,000 
     for the public health nursing program, which includes a 
     $2,000,000 general program increase.
       Urban Indian health.--The agreement includes $73,424,000 
     for the Urban Indian health program, which includes a 
     $10,000,000 general program increase.
       Indian Health Professions.--The agreement provides 
     $73,039,000 for Indian health professions, which includes an 
     additional $5,000,000 for the loan repayment program. Funding 
     is continued at fiscal year 2021 enacted levels for the InMed 
     program, including the fourth site expansion, Quentin N. 
     Burdick Indians into Nursing, and the American Indians into 
     Psychology Programs.
       Direct Operations.--The bill provides $95,046,000 for 
     direct operations, which includes a program increase of 
     $10,000,000 for management and operations. These funds are to 
     be used to address long-standing management issues, including 
     hiring and ensuring adequately trained staff to manage 
     contract support costs and payments for Tribal leases, 
     quality and oversight activities, to implement 
     recommendations to prevent child sexual abuse, and other uses 
     as proposed in the budget request. The Committees expect IHS 
     to prepare the study on urban Indian organization 
     infrastructure needs with the funding and direction provided 
     in fiscal year 2021, and to redirect savings from completion 
     of the study to address management issues noted above.


                         CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS

       The bill continues language from fiscal year 2021 providing 
     an indefinite appropriation to fully fund contract support 
     costs, which are estimated to be $880,000,000 in fiscal year 
     2022.
       The Committees are aware that recent actions taken by the 
     Service are causing confusion and concern among Tribes and 
     national and regional Tribal organizations. The Committees 
     direct the Service to report 30 days after enactment of this 
     Act explaining whether recent actions taken by the Service 
     indicate a major shift in the way contract support costs are 
     being calculated or if the Service interprets the Cook Inlet 
     Tribal Council v. Dotomain decision and recent actions as a 
     restatement of current law. The Committees direct the Service 
     to clearly explain the rationale behind its interpretation of 
     the Cook Inlet decision and articulate whether current 
     practices for calculating contract support costs will change.


                       PAYMENTS FOR TRIBAL LEASES

       The bill continues language from fiscal year 2021 providing 
     an indefinite appropriation to fully fund payments for Tribal 
     leases, which are estimated to be $150,000,000 in fiscal year 
     2022.


                        INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES

       The bill provides $940,328,000 for Indian Health 
     Facilities. All programs, projects, and activities are 
     maintained at fiscal year 2021 enacted levels unless 
     otherwise specified below. IHS is expected to comply with the 
     instructions and requirements at the beginning of this 
     division and in House Report 117-83, unless otherwise 
     specified below. Language contained in explanatory statement 
     accompanying Public Law 116-6 regarding health impacts of 
     inadequate sanitation, Mt. Edgecombe, and Alaska facility 
     assessments is restated.
       Current Services.--The agreement includes $9,955,000 for 
     pay costs and inflation, which is based upon updated 
     estimates provided to the Committees. The stipulation 
     included in ``Indian Health Services'' regarding prompt 
     distribution of funds pertains to this account as well.
       Staffing for New Facilities.--The bill includes $8,485,000 
     for staffing newly opened health facilities, which is the 
     full amount based upon updated estimates provided to the 
     Committees. The stipulations included in the ``Indian Health 
     Services''' account regarding the allocation of funds pertain 
     to this account as well.
       Sanitation Facilities Construction.--The agreement provides 
     $197,783,000 for sanitation facilities construction, which 
     continues funding at fiscal year 2021 enacted levels to 
     provide technical assistance, training, and guidance to 
     sanitation operators, families, and communities regarding the 
     operation and maintenance of water supply and sewage disposal 
     facilities. The bill also includes $40,171,000 for 
     Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) projects as shown on 
     the table titled ``Interior and Environment Incorporation of 
     Community Project Funding Items/Congressionally Directed 
     Spending Items''' at the end of this division. The 
     Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58) 
     provided $3,500,000,000 to address the sanitation backlog. 
     Within 90 days of enactment of this Act, the Committees 
     expect IHS to submit an updated fiscal year 2022 spend plan 
     for the funds provided herein. Further, the Committees expect 
     IHS to include an updated five-year spend plan in fiscal year 
     2023 for any funds requested.
       Health Care Facilities Construction.--The agreement 
     provides $259,293,000 for health care facilities 
     construction, which continues funding at fiscal year 2021 
     enacted levels for quarters, green infrastructure as directed 
     in the explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 116-94, 
     and small ambulatory clinics, including the funds for 
     replacement and expansion projects. The agreement directs the 
     Agency to report to the Committees within 90 days of 
     enactment of this Act on how these funds will be distributed 
     as well as the estimated number of quarters and associated 
     costs for new staff quarters at existing health facilities.
       Facilities and Environmental Health.--The agreement 
     provides $283,124,000 for this program, which includes 
     $3,000,000 for preliminary engineering reports.
       Equipment.--The bill provides $30,464,000 for equipment, 
     which continues $500,000 for TRANSAM and includes a 
     $1,000,000 increase for emergency generators, as directed in 
     House Report 116-448.

                     National Institutes of Health


          NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES

       The agreement provides $82,540,000 for the National 
     Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The Committees 
     continue the $2,000,000 provided in fiscal year 2021 as base 
     funds in fiscal year 2022 to further the Institute's work on 
     PFAS and other contaminants of emerging concern. The 
     Institute both leads and supports significant research on 
     PFAS that will result in better remediation outcomes. 
     Further, of the funds provided, not less than $1,750,000 
     shall be to support risk reduction for Native Americans to 
     hazardous metals mixtures from abandoned uranium mine waste.

            Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry


            TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH

       The agreement provides $80,500,000. The Committees continue 
     the $2,000,000 provided in fiscal year 2021 to further the 
     Agency's work on PFAS and other contaminants of emerging 
     concern.
       Birth Cohort Study.--The bill provides funding for 
     continuation of the birth cohort study on the Navajo Nation. 
     The Committees support the study to better understand the 
     relationship between uranium exposures, birth outcomes, and 
     early developmental delays on the Navajo Nation.
       Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units.--The 
     Committees encourage the Agency to continue support for 
     Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units.

                         OTHER RELATED AGENCIES

                   Executive Office of the President


  COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

       The agreement provides $4,200,000 for the Council on 
     Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality.

             Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The bill provides $13,400,000 for the Chemical Safety and 
     Hazard Investigation Board. The Committees urge the Board to 
     address long-standing management challenges and staff vacancy 
     issues so that it can effectively and fully accomplish its 
     critical mission. The Committees also direct the Board to 
     brief the Committees on proposed funding needs and budget 
     structure for fiscal year 2023.

              Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The bill does not provide new appropriations for fiscal 
     year 2022, however, a total of $3,150,000 is made available 
     from unobligated balances for fiscal year 2022 operations. 
     The bill continues the direction provided in the explanatory 
     statement accompanying Division G of the Consolidated 
     Appropriations Act, 2017 (Public Law 115-31). There is 
     continued commitment to bringing the relocation process to an 
     orderly conclusion and ensuring all eligible relocatees 
     receive the relocation benefits to which they are entitled. 
     Consultation with all affected parties and agencies is the 
     key to a transparent, orderly closeout.

    Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts 
                              Development


                        PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE

       The bill provides $11,741,000 for fixed costs and academic 
     programs of the Institute of American Indian Arts, which 
     includes an additional $228,000 as requested and an 
     additional $741,000 for fixed costs.

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                        Smithsonian Institution


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement provides a total of $1,062,215,000 for all 
     Smithsonian Institution accounts, of which $852,215,000 is 
     provided for salaries and expenses, which includes fixed 
     costs. The detailed allocation of funding is included in the 
     table at the end of this explanatory statement.
       Within amounts provided for the Salaries and Expenses 
     account, the agreement includes $8,324,000 for the National 
     Museum of the American Latino which integrates the funding 
     for the Latino Pool and Latino Center into the museum line, 
     and $7,500,000 for the Smithsonian American Women's History 
     Museum which integrates the funding for the American Women's 
     History Initiatives into the museum line. The agreement also 
     provides $2,520,000 for Asian Pacific American Initiatives 
     and Outreach and $1,000,000 for the Research Pool Initiative 
     to include research on recycling.


                           FACILITIES CAPITAL

       The agreement provides $210,000,000 for Facilities Capital.

                        National Gallery of Art


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The bill provides $156,419,000 for the Salaries and 
     Expenses account of the National Gallery of Art, of which not 
     to exceed $3,775,000 is for the special exhibition program.

            Repair, Restoration and Renovation of Buildings


                     (Including Transfer of Funds)

       The bill provides $24,081,000 for the Repair, Restoration 
     and Renovation of Buildings account and includes funds for 
     the design and construction of an off-site art storage 
     facility in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution.

             John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts


                       OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

       The bill provides $27,000,000 for the Operations and 
     Maintenance account.


                     CAPITAL REPAIR AND RESTORATION

       The bill provides $13,440,000 for the Capital Repair and 
     Restoration account.

            Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The bill provides $15,000,000 for the Woodrow Wilson 
     International Center for Scholars to continue the Federal 
     commitment and support operations.

           National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

                    National Endowment for the Arts


                       GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION

       The bill provides $180,000,000 for the National Endowment 
     for the Arts (NEA) to continue the important work of the 
     Endowment. Changes to the enacted level are included in the 
     table at the end of this explanatory statement. The agreement 
     continues the Senate direction contained in Senate Report 
     116-123 supporting the Creative Forces NEA Military Healing 
     Arts Network.
       The Committees continue the direction regarding the 
     collaborative relationship among NEA and the States, 
     priorities, and allocation to State arts agencies contained 
     in the explanatory statement accompanying the Further 
     Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-94).

                 National Endowment for the Humanities


                       GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION

       The bill provides $180,000,000 for the National Endowment 
     for the Humanities (NEH) to continue the important work of 
     the Endowment. Changes to the enacted level are included in 
     the table at the end of this explanatory statement.
       The Committees continue the direction regarding the ``We 
     the People'' initiative contained in the explanatory 
     statement accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
     2021 (Public Law 116-260).
       Further, the Committees encourage NEH to provide support 
     for projects that illustrate the transformative role of women 
     in American history, such as Katherine Johnson and Amelia 
     Earhart, to educate and inspire the next generation of women 
     leaders and professionals in fields such as aviation, 
     advanced computer technologies and the STEM (Science, 
     Technology, Engineering, and Math) disciplines.

                        Commission of Fine Arts


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The bill provides $3,328,000 for the Commission of Fine 
     Arts.


               NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS

       The bill provides $5,000,000 for the National Capital Arts 
     and Cultural Affairs program. The agreement provides bill 
     language regarding eligibility for grants. Grant funds shall 
     be distributed consistent with the established formula and 
     eligibility requirements used in fiscal year 2021.


               ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The bill provides $8,255,000 for the Advisory Council on 
     Historic Preservation.

                  National Capital Planning Commission


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The bill provides $8,750,000 for the National Capital 
     Planning Commission, including funding for lease costs.

                United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

                       Holocaust Memorial Museum

       The bill provides $62,616,000 for the United States 
     Holocaust Memorial Museum.

                             Presidio Trust

       The bill provides $40,000,000 in loan authority for the 
     Presidio Trust.

                   World War I Centennial Commission


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The bill provides $1,000,000 for the Salaries and Expenses 
     account of the World War I Centennial Commission.

              United States Semiquincentennial Commission


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The bill provides $8,000,000 for the necessary expenses of 
     the United States Semiquincentennial Commission.

  Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children

       The bill provides $200,000 for necessary expenses of the 
     Commission. The Commission is directed to conduct a 
     comprehensive study of Federal, State, local, and Tribal 
     programs that serve Native children. Section 118 of the House 
     bill is not included, as the provision was enacted into law 
     as Public Law 117-41.

                      TITLE IV--GENERAL PROVISIONS


                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

       The bill includes various legislative provisions in Title 
     IV of the bill. The provisions are:
       Section 401 continues a provision providing that 
     appropriations available in the bill shall not be used to 
     produce literature or otherwise promote public support of a 
     legislative proposal on which legislative action is not 
     complete.
       Section 402 continues a provision providing for annual 
     appropriations unless expressly provided otherwise in this 
     Act.
       Section 403 continues a provision providing restrictions on 
     departmental assessments unless approved by the Committees on 
     Appropriations.
       Section 404 continues a limitation on accepting and 
     processing applications for patents and on the patenting of 
     Federal lands.
       Section 405 continues a provision regarding the payment of 
     contract support costs.
       Section 406 addresses the payment of contract support costs 
     for fiscal year 2022.
       Section 407 continues a provision providing that the 
     Secretary of Agriculture shall not be considered in violation 
     of certain provisions of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable 
     Resources Planning Act solely because more than 15 years have 
     passed without revision of a forest plan, provided that the 
     Secretary is working in good faith to complete the plan 
     revision.
       Section 408 continues a provision limiting preleasing, 
     leasing, and related activities within the boundaries of 
     National Monuments.
       Section 409 restricts funding appropriated for acquisition 
     of land or interests in land from being used for declarations 
     of taking or complaints in condemnation.
       Section 410 continues a provision which prohibits no-bid 
     contracts.
       Section 411 continues a provision which requires public 
     disclosure of certain reports.
       Section 412 continues a provision which delineates the 
     grant guidelines for the National Endowment for the Arts.
       Section 413 continues a provision which delineates the 
     program priorities for the programs managed by the National 
     Endowment for the Arts.
       Section 414 requires the Department of the Interior, 
     Environmental Protection Agency, Forest Service and Indian 
     Health Service to provide the Committees on Appropriations 
     quarterly reports on the status of balances of 
     appropriations.
       Section 415 extends certain authorities through fiscal year 
     2022 allowing the Forest Service to renew grazing permits.
       Section 416 prohibits the use of funds to maintain or 
     establish a computer network unless such network is designed 
     to block access to pornography websites.
       Section 417 addresses the humane transfer and treatment of 
     excess wild horses and burros.
       Section 418 extends the authority of the Forest Service 
     Facility Realignment and Enhancement Act.
       Section 419 sets requirements for the use of American iron 
     and steel for certain loans and grants.
       Section 420 provides authority for the Secretary of the 
     Interior to enter into training agreements and to transfer 
     excess equipment and supplies for wildfires.
       Section 421 provides a one-year extension of the Federal 
     Lands Recreation Enhancement Act.
       Section 422 incorporates Reprogramming Guidelines into the 
     Act.
       Section 423 continues a provision through fiscal year 2022 
     authorizing the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary 
     of Agriculture to consider local contractors when awarding 
     contracts for certain activities on public lands.
       Section 424 extends the authority for the Shasta-Trinity 
     Marina fee for one year.
       Section 425 extends the authority for the Interpretive 
     Association for one year.
       Section 426 extends the authority for Puerto Rico Schooling 
     for one year.
       Section 427 extends the authority for Forest Botanical 
     Products fee collection for one year.
       Section 428 includes certain limitations on oil and gas 
     development near Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

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       Section 429 requires 105(l) Tribal lease payments to begin 
     no earlier than the date the lease proposal is submitted and 
     for the Federal agencies to consult with Tribes on lease 
     requirements.
       Section 430 extends the authority for the Forest Ecosystem 
     Health and Recovery Fund by one year.
       Section 431 requires the allocation of funds from the 
     National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund and 
     Land and Water Conservation Fund.
       Section 432 addresses carbon emissions from forest biomass.
       Section 433 addresses the use of small remote incinerators 
     in the State of Alaska.
       Section 434 addresses timber sales involving Alaska western 
     red and yellow cedar.
       Section 435 provides transfer authority to the Federal 
     Highway Administration for the National Parks and Public Land 
     Legacy Restoration Fund.
       Section 436 continues a provision prohibiting the use of 
     funds to promulgate or implement any regulation requiring the 
     issuance of permits under Title V of the Clean Air Act for 
     carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane 
     emissions.
       Section 437 continues a provision prohibiting the use of 
     funds to implement any provision in a rule if that provision 
     requires mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from 
     manure management systems.
       Section 438 continues a provision prohibiting the use of 
     funds to regulate the lead content of ammunition or fishing 
     tackle.
       Section 439 provides for the designation of Lewis Peak.
       Section 440 provides for wildland fire administrative 
     funding.

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          ALLOCATION OF FUNDS: NATIONAL PARKS AND PUBLIC LAND LEGACY RESTORATION FUND FISCAL YEAR 2022
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                State(s)                    Station or Unit Name        Project or Activity      Funding Amount
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                                            BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
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AK.....................................  Fairbanks District........  White Mountains National        $10,400,000
                                                                      Recreation Area Access
                                                                      Repairs.
AZ.....................................  Gila Box Riparian National  Gila Box Recreation Sites        $5,400,000
                                          Conservation Area.          and Access Roadway
                                                                      Reconstruction and
                                                                      Repairs.
AZ.....................................  Colorado River District...  La Posa Wastewater Septic/       $5,140,000
                                                                      Lagoon Replacement
                                                                      (Phase 3 of 3) and Site
                                                                      Road Repairs.
CA.....................................  Central California and      Combined California              $4,210,000
                                          Northern California         Historic Rehabilitation
                                          Districts.                  Project.
CO.....................................  Grand Junction Air Center.  Grand Junction Air Center        $5,630,000
                                                                      Tanker Base Repairs,
                                                                      Phase 1.
FL.....................................  South Eastern District....  Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse         $6,140,000
                                                                      Building and Site Repair.
ID.....................................  National Interagency Fire   100-Administration               $6,400,000
                                          Center.                     Repair, Access, and
                                                                      Abatement.
ID.....................................  Boise District, Coeur       Idaho Statewide                  $4,824,000
                                          d'Alene District, Idaho     Recreation Site Repairs.
                                          Falls District, Twin
                                          Falls District.
MT, SD.................................  Eastern Montana Dakotas     Montana/Dakotas                  $6,140,000
                                          District, North Central     Recreation, Roads, and
                                          District, Western Montana   Dam Repairs.
                                          District.
NM.....................................  Las Cruces District.......  Starvation Draw Detention        $3,033,000
                                                                      Dams Decommissioning
                                                                      (Phase 2 of 2).
NV.....................................  Winnemucca and Southern     Nevada Recreation Safety         $2,476,000
                                          Nevada Districts.           and Access Repairs.
OR.....................................  Medford and NW Districts..  Oregon Bridge                    $7,999,000
                                                                      Rehabilitation.
UT.....................................  Color Country and Paria     Color Country and Paria          $4,500,000
                                          River Districts.            River District
                                                                      Recreation Site Repairs.
WY.....................................  High Desert District/High   Wyoming BLM Dam Safety           $2,795,000
                                          Plains District.            Repairs and Maintenance
                                                                      Projects.
                                                                     Contingency Fund.........       $11,826,000
                                                                     Program Administration           $2,688,000
                                                                      (Indirect Costs).
                                                                     Project Funding Available       $89,601,000
                                                                      to Program (Less
                                                                      Sequester).
                                                                     Sequester................        $5,415,000
                                                                    --------------------------------------------
                                                                       Total Bureau of Land          $95,016,000
                                                                      Management.
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                                          U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
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AK.....................................  Izembek NWR...............  Modernize Facilities and         $6,650,000
                                                                      Repair Seismic Issues,
                                                                      Phase II--Construction.
AK.....................................  Kenai NWR.................  Modernize Outdoor               $13,540,000
                                                                      Recreational Facilities
                                                                      and Address Public
                                                                      Safety Issues.
AR.....................................  Dale Bumpers White River    Modernize Multiple                 $780,000
                                          NWR.                        Outdoor Recreational
                                                                      Access Facilities and
                                                                      Transportation Assets,
                                                                      Phase (I)--Design.
AR.....................................  Dale Bumpers White River    Modernize Multiple               $7,120,000
                                          NWR.                        Outdoor Recreational
                                                                      Access Facilities and
                                                                      Transportation Assets,
                                                                      Phase II--Construction.
CA.....................................  San Luis NWR..............  Modernize Infrastructure         $4,000,000
                                                                      to Improve Waterfowl
                                                                      Hunting Areas and
                                                                      Improve Recreational
                                                                      Access.
DE.....................................  Coastal Delaware NWR        Eliminate DM Backlog at          $5,080,000
                                          Complex.                    Prime Hook NWR and
                                                                      Bombay Hook NWR.
ID.....................................  Camas NWR.................  Modernize Infrastructure         $1,000,000
                                                                      to Improve Waterfowl
                                                                      Hunting Areas and
                                                                      Improve Recreational
                                                                      Access.
MI.....................................  Seney NWR.................  Consolidate and Modernize        $2,095,000
                                                                      Public Use Facilities
                                                                      and Improve Recreational
                                                                      Access.
Multiple...............................  National Wildlife Refuges.  Salary Funding for               $2,000,000
                                                                      Supplemental
                                                                      Conservation Workforce,
                                                                      Year 1.
Multiple...............................  National Wildlife Refuges.  Salary Funding for               $4,000,000
                                                                      National Maintenance
                                                                      Action Team (MAT) Strike
                                                                      Forces, Year 2.
NM.....................................  Bosque del Apache NWR.....  Consolidate and Modernize       $19,376,000
                                                                      Public Use Facilities
                                                                      and Improve Recreational
                                                                      Access.
NY.....................................  Montezuma NWR.............  Consolidate and Modernize        $5,471,000
                                                                      Public Use Facilities
                                                                      and Improve Recreational
                                                                      Access.
OK.....................................  Wichita Mountains WR......  Consolidate and Modernize        $2,535,000
                                                                      Public Use Facilities
                                                                      and Improve Recreational
                                                                      Access.
SD.....................................  Lake Andes NWR............  Improve Resilience and           $9,750,000
                                                                      Modernize Flood Damaged
                                                                      Buildings & Recreational
                                                                      Assets.
TX.....................................  Attwater Prairie Chicken    Consolidate and Modernize        $1,584,000
                                          NWR.                        Habitat and Public Use
                                                                      Facilities.
                                                                     Contingency Fund.........        $1,932,000
                                                                     Program Administration           $2,688,000
                                                                      (Indirect Costs).
                                                                     Project Funding Available       $89,601,000
                                                                      to Program (Less
                                                                      Sequester).
                                                                     Sequester................        $5,415,000
                                                                    --------------------------------------------
                                                                       Total U.S. Fish and           $95,016,000
                                                                      Wildlife Service.
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                                              NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
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AZ.....................................  Organ Pipe Cactus National  Rehabilitate Primary Park        $9,887,000
                                          Historic Site.              Water Systems.
AZ.....................................  Grand Canyon National Park  Replace Wastewater Plant        $40,456,000
                                                                      at South Rim Village.
CA.....................................  Yosemite National Park....  Rehabilitate Ahwahnee           $19,407,000
                                                                      Hotel and Correct
                                                                      Critical Safety Hazards.
CA.....................................  Sequoia and Kings Canyon    Rehabilitate Park                $9,563,000
                                          National Park.              Wastewater Treatment
                                                                      Facilities.
CA.....................................  Golden Gate National        Stabilize Alcatraz Wharf.       $36,577,000
                                          Recreation Area.
CO.....................................  Mesa Verde National Park..  Replace Morefield and           $22,969,000
                                                                      Wetherill Water Lines.
KY.....................................  Mammoth Cave National Park  Rehabilitate Cave Trails:       $10,128,000
                                                                      New Entrance to Frozen
                                                                      Niagara.
MA.....................................  Cape Cod National Seashore  Demolish Excess                 $12,572,000
                                                                      Structures to Improve
                                                                      Safety, Operations, and
                                                                      Promote Financial
                                                                      Sustainability.
MA.....................................  Minute Man National         Rehabilitate and Repair         $27,352,000
                                          Historic Park.              Structures and
                                                                      Landscapes.
MD.....................................  Chesapeake and Ohio Canal   Restore Canal Prism and          $7,125,000
                                          National Historical Park.   Historic Dry Stone Wall.
ME.....................................  Acadia National Park......  Rehabilitate Schoodic            $7,624,000
                                                                      Point Water and
                                                                      Wastewater Systems.
MS.....................................  Natchez Trace Parkway.....  Rehabilitate Sections of        $61,246,000
                                                                      the Natchez Trace
                                                                      Parkway, Phase 1.
MT.....................................  Glacier National Park.....  Replace Headquarters            $10,921,000
                                                                      Wastewater System.
MT.....................................  Glacier National Park.....  Replace Swiftcurrent            $15,726,000
                                                                      Water Distribution
                                                                      System.
NC.....................................  Blue Ridge Parkway........  Rehabilitate sections of        $26,789,000
                                                                      Blue Ridge Parkway in
                                                                      North Carolina.
NC, TN.................................  Great Smoky Mountains       Rehabilitate Park Roads         $25,410,000
                                          National Park.              and Road Structures.
NJ.....................................  Gateway National            Rehabilitate Fort Hancock       $11,621,000
                                          Recreation Area.            Potable Water and
                                                                      Wastewater System.
NM.....................................  Bandelier National          Rehabilitate Underground        $29,089,000
                                          Monument.                   Utilities.
NV.....................................  Lake Mead National          Demolish Outdated               $21,963,000
                                          Recreation Area.            Infrastructure to
                                                                      Enhance Scenic Features
                                                                      and Visitor Experience.
NY.....................................  Gateway National            Rehabilitate Floyd               $7,673,000
                                          Recreation Area.            Bennett Field Wastewater
                                                                      Collection System at
                                                                      Jamaica Bay.
OH.....................................  Perry's Victory and         Rehabilitate Failing            $25,077,000
                                          International Peace         Upper Plaza at Perry's
                                          Memorial.                   Victory & International
                                                                      Peace Memorial.
OH.....................................  Cuyahoga Valley National    Stabilize Riverbank at          $24,897,000
                                          Park.                       High Priority Areas
                                                                      along Towpath Trail and
                                                                      Valley Railway.
OR.....................................  Crater Lake National Park.  Rehabilitate Sections of        $45,200,000
                                                                      the East Rim Drive.
TX.....................................  Big Bend National Park....  Rehabilitate or Replace         $22,630,000
                                                                      the Chisos Mountains
                                                                      Lodge.
TX.....................................  Big Bend National Park....  Rehabilitate Park Water         $54,357,000
                                                                      Systems.
TX.....................................  Lyndon B Johnson National   Rehabilitate Texas White         $9,119,000
                                          Historic Park.              House.
UT.....................................  Zion National Park........  Rehabilitate South              $11,253,000
                                                                      Campground.
VA.....................................  Blue Ridge Parkway........  Rehabilitate Sections of        $32,834,000
                                                                      Blue Ridge Parkway in
                                                                      Virginia.
VA.....................................  Colonial National           Rehabilitate Sections of       $128,674,000
                                          Historical Park.            the Colonial Parkway.
WA.....................................  Olympic National Park.....  Rehabilitate Hurricane           $7,029,000
                                                                      Ridge Day Lodge.
WY.....................................  Yellowstone National Park.  Rehabilitate and Improve        $20,112,000
                                                                      Old Faithful Water
                                                                      Treatment System and
                                                                      Demolish Abandoned
                                                                      Wastewater Treatment
                                                                      Plant.
WY.....................................  Yellowstone National Park.  Rehabilitate /Replace           $52,588,000
                                                                      Canyon & Grant Village
                                                                      Wastewater Collection
                                                                      and Treatment Systems.
WY.....................................  Yellowstone National Park.  Replace Mammoth                  $9,327,000
                                                                      Wastewater Collection
                                                                      System.
WY.....................................  Yellowstone National Park.  Replace the Yellowstone         $71,200,000
                                                                      River Bridge.
                                                                     Contingency Fund.........      $130,000,000
                                                                     Project Planning &             $114,316,038
                                                                      Compliance.
                                                                     Project Management.......       $44,078,000
                                                                     Program Administration          $37,626,000
                                                                      (Indirect Costs).
                                                                     Project Funding Available    $1,254,415,038
                                                                      to Program (Less
                                                                      Sequester).
                                                                     Sequester................       $75,810,000
                                                                    --------------------------------------------
                                                                       Total National Park        $1,330,225,038
                                                                      Service.
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                                           BUREAU OF INDIAN EDUCATION
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AZ.....................................  Shonto Preparatory School.  Shonto Preparatory              $18,875,000
                                                                      School--Replacement.
AZ.....................................  Many Farms High School....  Many Farms High School...        $4,742,000
SD.....................................  Wounded Knee District       Wounded Knee District            $9,660,000
                                          School.                     School--Quarters.
SD.....................................  Wounded Knee District       Wounded Knee District           $43,540,000
                                          School.                     School--Replacement.
                                                                     Contingency Fund.........       $10,096,000
                                                                     Program Administration           $2,688,000
                                                                      (Indirect Costs).
                                                                     Project Funding Available       $89,601,000
                                                                      to Program (Less
                                                                      Sequester).
                                                                     Sequester................        $5,415,000
                                                                    --------------------------------------------
                                                                       Total Bureau of Indian        $95,016,000
                                                                      Education.
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                              BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT--FISCAL YEAR 2021 REVISIONS
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Updated Project Estimates:
OR.....................................  Northwest, Medford, and     Western Oregon District          $9,523,000
                                          Roseburg Districts.         Projects.

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                                                                     Other Projects/Activities       $85,226,000
                                                                      Without Changes.
                                                                     Unallocated..............                $0
                                                                     Contingency..............          $251,000
Deferred or Terminated 2021 Projects:
UT.....................................  Color Country District      St. George Field Office,                 $0
                                                                      Red Reef Shelter
                                                                      maintenance and repairs.
WA.....................................  Spokane District            Umtanum Bridge Repairs                   $0
                                                                      (Phase 3 of 3).
                                                                       Total Bureau of Land          $95,000,000
                                                                      Management.
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                            U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE--FISCAL YEAR 2021 REVISIONS
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                                                                     Other Projects/Activities       $94,998,000
                                                                      Without Changes.
                                                                     Unallocated..............                $0
                                                                     Contingency..............            $2,000
                                                                       Total U.S. Fish and           $95,000,000
                                                                      Wildlife Service.
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                                NATIONAL PARK SERVICE--FISCAL YEAR 2021 REVISIONS
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DC.....................................  National Mall & Memorial    Rehabilitate Historic            $4,327,000
                                          Parks.                      Belmont Paul House.
NC.....................................  Blue Ridge Parkway........  Replace Laurel Fork             $35,314,000
                                                                      Bridge.
WY.....................................  Yellowstone National Park.  Lewis River Bridge.......       $37,225,000
                                                                     Other Projects/Activities    $1,131,695,000
                                                                      Without Changes.
                                                                     Program Administration          $25,975,000
                                                                      (Indirect Costs).
                                                                     Project Planning &              $86,760,000
                                                                      Compliance.
                                                                     Unallocated..............                $0
                                                                     Contingency..............        $8,704,000
Deferred or Terminated 2021 Projects:
TN.....................................  Great Smoky Mountains       Replace Sugarlands                       $0
                                          National Park.              Maintenance Facilities.
WY.....................................  Yellowstone National Park.  Purchase and Install 8                   $0
                                                                      Modular Housing Units to
                                                                      Replace Deteriorated
                                                                      Housing Units Parkwide.
                                                                       Total National Park        $1,330,000,000
                                                                      Service.
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                             BUREAU OF INDIAN EDUCATION--FISCAL YEAR 2021 REVISIONS
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AZ.....................................  Navajo Region.............  Many Farms High School--        $70,858,000
                                                                      Major FI&R.
AZ.....................................  Shonto Preparatory School.  Shonto Preparatory               $2,543,000
                                                                      School--Replacement.
AZ.....................................  Western Region............  Western--Education                 $304,000
                                                                      Demolition Project.
AZ, NM.................................  Navajo Region.............  Navajo--Education                $4,056,000
                                                                      Demolition Project a.
AZ, NM.................................  Navajo Region.............  Navajo--Education                $7,112,000
                                                                      Demolition Project c.
AZ, UT, NM.............................  Navajo Region.............  Navajo--Education                $4,375,000
                                                                      Demolition Project b.
ND, SD.................................  Great Plains Region.......  Great Plains--Education            $301,000
                                                                      Demolition Project.
NM.....................................  Southwest Region..........  Southwest--Education               $201,000
                                                                      Demolition Project.
                                                                     Other Projects/Activities        $5,250,000
                                                                      Without Changes.
                                                                     Unallocated..............                $0
                                                                       Total Bureau of Indian        $95,000,000
                                                                      Education.
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                                    U.S.D.A. FOREST SERVICE--FISCAL YEAR 2022
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                  State                              Unit                 Project or Activity     Funding Amount
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PA......................................  Grey Towers National        Grey Towers National              $675,000
                                           Historic Site.              Historic Site Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
AK, AZ, CA, ID, OR, PR, SC, WI..........  Research and Development    Research and Development        $7,968,860
                                           Stations.                   Deferred Maintenance.
MT......................................  Beaverhead-Deerlodge......  Beaverhead-Deerlodge              $415,000
                                                                       National Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
ID, MT..................................  Bitterroot................  Bitterroot National Forest      $2,756,207
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
MT......................................  Custer Gallatin...........  Custer Gallatin National        $1,450,730
                                                                       Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
ND, SD..................................  Dakota Prairie Grasslands.  Dakota Prairie Grasslands         $471,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
MT......................................  Flathead..................  Flathead National Forest        $1,845,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
MT......................................  Helena-Lewis and Clark....  Helena-Lewis and Clark          $3,380,000
                                                                       National Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
ID......................................  Idaho Panhandle...........  Idaho Panhandle National        $3,679,000
                                                                       Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
MT......................................  Kootenai..................  Kootenai National Forest        $1,515,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
MT......................................  Lolo......................  Lolo National Forest            $4,615,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
ID......................................  Nez Perce-Clearwater......  Nez Perce-Clearwater            $2,566,057
                                                                       National Forests Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
MT......................................  Northern Region...........  Northern Region Deferred          $150,000
                                                                       Maintenance.
CO......................................  Arapaho-Roosevelt.........  Arapaho-Roosevelt National      $3,245,295
                                                                       Forests Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
WY......................................  Bighorn...................  Bighorn National Forest           $610,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
SD, WY..................................  Black Hills...............  Black Hills National            $1,871,300
                                                                       Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
CO......................................  Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre,    Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre,        $8,611,000
                                           and Gunnison.               and Gunnison National
                                                                       Forests Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
CO, WY..................................  Medicine Bow-Routt........  Medicine Bow-Routt              $1,128,360
                                                                       National Forests Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
NE, SD..................................  Nebraska..................  Nebraska National Forest        $1,465,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
CO......................................  Pike-San Isabel...........  Pike-San Isabel National        $2,171,444
                                                                       Forests Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
CO......................................  Rocky Mountain Region.....  Rocky Mountain Region             $680,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
CO......................................  Rio Grande................  Rio Grande National Forest        $564,825
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
CO......................................  San Juan..................  San Juan National Forest        $3,218,257
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
WY......................................  Shoshone..................  Shoshone National Forest        $1,738,931
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
CO......................................  White River...............  White River National            $1,658,183
                                                                       Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
AZ......................................  Apache-Sitgreaves.........  Apache-Sitgreaves National      $1,092,496
                                                                       Forests Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
NM......................................  Carson....................  Carson National Forest            $490,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
NM......................................  Cibola....................  Cibola National Forest          $2,948,781
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
AZ......................................  Coconino..................  Coconino National Forest          $387,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
AZ......................................  Coronado..................  Coronado National Forest        $1,271,750
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
NM......................................  Gila......................  Gila National Forest            $4,863,530
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
NM......................................  Lincoln...................  Lincoln National Forest            $60,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
AZ......................................  Prescott..................  Prescott National Forest          $956,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
NM......................................  Santa Fe..................  Santa Fe National Forest        $2,728,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
AZ......................................  Southwestern Region.......  Southwestern Region               $310,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
AZ......................................  Tonto.....................  Tonto National Forest           $1,650,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
UT......................................  Ashley....................  Ashley National Forest          $1,645,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
ID......................................  Boise.....................  Boise National Forest           $2,811,432
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
WY......................................  Bridger-Teton.............  Bridger-Teton National          $1,755,000
                                                                       Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
ID, UT, WY..............................  Caribou-Targhee...........  Caribou-Targhee National          $450,000
                                                                       Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
UT......................................  Dixie.....................  Dixie National Forest             $447,178
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
UT......................................  Fishlake..................  Fishlake National Forest        $1,972,807
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
CA, NV..................................  Humboldt-Toiyabe..........  Humboldt-Toiyabe National         $983,580
                                                                       Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
UT......................................  Manti-LaSal...............  Manti-La Sal National             $898,520
                                                                       Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
ID......................................  Payette...................  Payette National Forest         $2,085,450
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
ID......................................  Intermountain Region......  Intermountain Region              $422,814
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
ID......................................  Salmon-Challis............  Salmon-Challis National           $253,500
                                                                       Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
ID......................................  Sawtooth..................  Sawtooth National Forest        $3,873,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
UT......................................  Uinta-Wasatch-Cache.......  Uinta-Wasatch-Cache             $7,488,568
                                                                       National Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
CA......................................  Angeles...................  Angeles National Forest           $650,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
CA......................................  Cleveland.................  Cleveland National Forest         $485,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
CA......................................  Eldorado..................  Eldorado National Forest        $1,470,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
CA......................................  Inyo......................  Inyo National Forest            $4,869,700
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
CA......................................  Lake Tahoe Basin Mgt Unit.  Lake Tahoe Basin                  $750,000
                                                                       Management Unit Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
CA......................................  Lassen....................  Lassen National Forest          $1,630,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
CA......................................  Los Padres................  Los Padres National Forest        $712,500
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
CA......................................  Mendocino.................  Mendocino National Forest         $385,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
CA......................................  Modoc.....................  Modoc National Forest             $550,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
CA......................................  Pacific Southwest Region..  Pacific Southwest Region        $7,213,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.

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CA......................................  Plumas....................  Plumas National Forest          $1,236,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
CA......................................  San Bernardino............  San Bernardino National         $1,647,000
                                                                       Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
CA......................................  Sequoia...................  Sequoia National Forest         $3,641,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
CA......................................  Sierra....................  Sierra National Forest          $5,470,370
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
CA......................................  Tahoe.....................  Tahoe National Forest           $2,200,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
OR, WA..................................  Columbia River Gorge        Columbia River Gorge              $565,000
                                           National Scenic Area.       National Scenic Area
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
WA......................................  Colville..................  Colville National Forest        $1,075,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
OR......................................  Deschutes.................  Deschutes National Forest         $181,500
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
OR......................................  Fremont-Winema............  Fremont-Winema National            $25,000
                                                                       Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
WA......................................  Gifford Pinchot...........  Gifford Pinchot National        $2,290,000
                                                                       Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
OR......................................  Malheur...................  Malheur National Forest         $2,969,548
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
WA......................................  Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie......  Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie            $3,123,000
                                                                       National Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
OR......................................  Mt. Hood..................  Mt. Hood National Forest        $4,850,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
OR......................................  Ochoco....................  Ochoco National Forest          $2,720,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
WA......................................  Okanogan-Wenatchee........  Okanogan-Wenatchee                $780,000
                                                                       National Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
OR, WA..................................  Pacific Northwest Region..  Pacific Northwest Region        $8,767,707
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
WA......................................  Olympic...................  Olympic National Forest           $200,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
OR......................................  Rogue River-Siskiyou......  Rogue River-Siskiyou               $75,000
                                                                       National Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
OR......................................  Siuslaw...................  Siuslaw National Forest         $1,850,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
OR......................................  Umatilla..................  Umatilla National Forest          $946,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
OR......................................  Umpqua....................  Umpqua National Forest          $1,135,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
ID, OR..................................  Wallowa Whitman...........  Wallowa Whitman National          $391,985
                                                                       Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
OR......................................  Willamette................  Willamette National Forest        $250,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
GA......................................  Chattahoochee-Oconee......  Chattahoochee-Oconee            $2,075,000
                                                                       National Forests Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
TN......................................  Cherokee..................  Cherokee National Forest        $5,919,330
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
KY......................................  Daniel Boone..............  Daniel Boone National             $539,970
                                                                       Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
PR......................................  El Yunque.................  El Yunque National Forest          $96,266
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
SC......................................  Francis Marion-Sumter.....  Francis Marion-Sumter           $2,050,000
                                                                       National Forests Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
VA......................................  George Washington-          George Washington-                $574,900
                                           Jefferson.                  Jefferson National
                                                                       Forests Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
LA......................................  Kisatchie.................  Kisatchie National Forest          $80,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
KY......................................  Land Between the Lakes      Land Between the Lakes            $520,000
                                           National Recreation Area.   National Recreation Area
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
AL......................................  NFs in Alabama............  National Forests in               $191,700
                                                                       Alabama Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
FL......................................  NFs in Florida............  National Forests in               $195,000
                                                                       Florida Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
MS......................................  NFs in Mississippi........  National Forests in               $240,509
                                                                       Mississippi Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
NC......................................  NFs in North Carolina.....  National Forests in North       $3,060,000
                                                                       Carolina Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
TX......................................  NFs in Texas..............  National Forests in Texas       $1,650,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
AR......................................  Ouachita..................  Ouachita National Forest          $100,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
AR......................................  Ozark-St Francis..........  Ozark-St Francis National      $16,132,700
                                                                       Forests Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
PA......................................  Allegheny.................  Allegheny National Forest       $6,950,074
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
WI......................................  Chequamegon-Nicolet.......  Chequamegon-Nicolet             $1,625,509
                                                                       National Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
MN......................................  Chippewa..................  Chippewa National Forest          $124,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
NY, VT..................................  Green Mountain-Finger       Green Mountain-Finger             $373,375
                                           Lakes.                      Lakes National Forests
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
MI......................................  Hiawatha..................  Hiawatha National Forest        $1,748,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
IN......................................  Hoosier...................  Hoosier National Forest           $320,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
MI......................................  Huron-Manistee............  Huron-Manistee National           $590,000
                                                                       Forests Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
MO......................................  Mark Twain................  Mark Twain National Forest      $3,960,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
IL......................................  Midewin National Tallgrass  Midewin National Tallgrass        $247,000
                                           Prairie.                    Prairie Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
WV......................................  Monongahela...............  Monongahela National            $6,128,370
                                                                       Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
IL......................................  Shawnee...................  Shawnee National Forest         $2,144,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
MN......................................  Superior..................  Superior National Forest          $353,584
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
OH......................................  Wayne.....................  Wayne National Forest             $140,000
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
NH......................................  White Mountain............  White Mountain National           $702,000
                                                                       Forest Deferred
                                                                       Maintenance.
AK......................................  Chugach...................  Chugach National Forest         $2,732,251
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
AK......................................  Tongass...................  Tongass National Forest         $7,107,934
                                                                       Deferred Maintenance.
                                          Total Project Funding.....  ..........................    $234,069,636
                                          Mission Support...........  ..........................     $20,000,000
                                          Sequestration.............  ..........................     $16,247,749
                                          Reserve Fund..............  ..........................     $14,730,838
                                            Total, Forest Service...  ..........................    $285,048,223
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                     ALLOCATION OF FUNDS: LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND FISCAL YEAR 2022
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                    State                             Agency--Account--Activity--Project              Amount
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                                OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY--Departmental Operations
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                                              Appraisal and Valuation Services--Federal Lands...      19,000,000
                                                TOTAL, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY..................      19,000,000
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                                   BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT--Land Acquisition
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                                              Acquisition Management............................       7,500,000
                                              Recreational Access...............................      20,500,000
                                              Inholdings, Emergencies & Hardships...............       7,500,000
AZ..........................................  Arizona National Scenic Trail (Coke Ovens)........         600,000
CO..........................................  Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area....         600,000
ID..........................................  Sands Desert Habitat Management Area..............       3,000,000
ID..........................................  Upper Snake/South Fork River Special Recreation          9,000,000
                                               Management Area and Tex Creek Wildlife Management
                                               Area.
MT..........................................  Big Snowy Mountains Access........................       6,700,000
MT..........................................  High Divide.......................................       5,400,000
NM..........................................  Rio Grande del Norte National Monument............       4,000,000
OR..........................................  John Day National Wild and Scenic River...........         800,000
                                              Unallocated (5.7% sequestration for Acquisitions).       1,819,406
                                                Subtotal, Acquisitions..........................      31,919,406
                                                  TOTAL, BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT..............      67,419,406
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                                U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE--Land Acquisition
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                                              Highlands Conservation Act (Public Law 108-421)...      10,000,000
                                              Land Acquisition Management.......................      17,000,000
                                              Sportsmen and Recreational Access.................      15,500,000
                                              Inholding/Emergencies and Hardships...............      10,000,000
                                              Exchanges.........................................       1,000,000
                                              Land Protection Planning..........................         465,000
AR..........................................  Cache River National Wildlife Refuge..............       1,000,000
AR..........................................  Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge...............       4,500,000
CA..........................................  Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge.........       1,000,000
CA..........................................  San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge........       2,500,000
FL..........................................  St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge................       2,000,000
IN..........................................  Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge.............       1,000,000
MO..........................................  Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge.......       1,000,000
MT..........................................  Montana Conservation Areas and National Wildlife         6,050,000
                                               Refuges.
NH..........................................  Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge--      3,700,000
                                               Mascoma River Unit.
OR..........................................  Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge...................       1,500,000
OR..........................................  William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge........       1,000,000
TX..........................................  Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge.       3,000,000
TX..........................................  Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge..........       4,000,000
TX..........................................  Lower Rio Grande National Wildlife Refuge.........       1,000,000
VT..........................................  Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge.       8,500,000

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VA..........................................  Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge       2,000,000
Mult........................................  Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge        5,000,000
                                               (CT/MA/NH/VT).
Mult........................................  Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge (CT/MA/ME/        2,500,000
                                               NH/NY/RI).
Mult........................................  Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish       1,500,000
                                               Refuge (IA/IL/MN/WI).
Mult........................................  Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife               500,000
                                               Refuge (IA/MN).
Mult........................................  Bear River Watershed Conservation Area (ID/UT/WY).       2,316,000
Mult........................................  Middle Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge (IL/         1,000,000
                                               MO).
Mult........................................  Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge (IL/WI).......       1,250,000
                                              Unallocated (5.7% sequestration for Acquisitions).       3,494,711
                                                Subtotal, Acquisitions..........................      61,310,711
                                                  Total, Land Acquisition.......................     115,275,711
Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation
 Fund:
                                              Species Recovery Land Acquisition.................      11,162,000
                                              Habitat Conservation Plan Acquisition.............      21,638,000
                                                Total, Cooperative Endangered Species                 32,800,000
                                               Conservation Fund.
                                                  TOTAL, U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE.........     148,075,711
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                          NATIONAL PARK SERVICE--Land Acquisition and State Assistance
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                                              State Conservation Grants.........................     208,000,000
                                              LWCF Outdoor Recreation Legacy Grants.............     110,000,000
                                              State Conservation Grants Administration..........      12,000,000
                                                Subtotal, State Assistance......................     330,000,000
                                                Use of unobligated balances, fiscal year 2018       [30,000,000]
                                               and prior (non-add).
                                              American Battlefield Protection Program (Public         20,000,000
                                               Law 113-287).
                                              Acquisition Management............................      14,500,000
                                              Recreational Access...............................      14,500,000
                                              Emergencies, Hardships, Relocations, and                 2,500,000
                                               Deficiencies.
                                              Inholding, Donations, and Exchanges...............       7,000,000
AK..........................................  Denali National Park and Preserve.................         150,000
AK..........................................  Katmai National Park and Preserve.................         275,000
AL..........................................  Little River Canyon National Preserve.............       1,150,000
AZ..........................................  Petrified Forest National Park....................      12,000,000
AZ..........................................  Saguaro National Park--Rincon Creek Valley........       4,124,500
CA..........................................  Death Valley National Park........................         750,000
CA..........................................  Joshua Tree National Park.........................       2,500,000
CO..........................................  Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site........       4,100,000
DC..........................................  Rock Creek Park...................................         100,000
GA..........................................  Cumberland Island National Seashore...............       2,800,000
GA..........................................  Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park..........       1,575,000
GU..........................................  War in the Pacific National Historical Park.......         825,000
HI..........................................  Haleakala National Park...........................       6,125,000
HI..........................................  Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park.....         150,000
ID..........................................  City of Rocks National Reserve....................         850,000
MA..........................................  Cape Cod National Seashore........................         200,000
MA..........................................  Minute Man National Historical Park...............         250,000
MD..........................................  Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park         465,000
MD..........................................  Monocacy National Battlefield.....................         900,000
ME..........................................  Acadia National Park..............................         200,000
MO..........................................  Gateway Arch National Park........................       2,600,000
MO..........................................  Wilson's Creek National Battlefield...............       1,000,000
MS..........................................  Natchez National Historical Park..................         540,000
NC..........................................  Guilford Courthouse National Military Park........         200,000
NM..........................................  Carlsbad Caverns National Park....................         375,000
PA..........................................  Gettysburg National Military Park.................         275,000
PA..........................................  Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreation River........         200,000
SD..........................................  Badlands National Park............................         575,000
TN..........................................  Obed Wild and Scenic River........................         150,000
TN..........................................  Shiloh National Military Park.....................       1,965,000
UT..........................................  Zion National Park................................       1,950,000
VA..........................................  Petersburg National Battlefield...................       1,475,000
VA..........................................  Richmond National Battlefield Park................         775,000
WI..........................................  Ice Age National Scenic Trail.....................       1,900,000
WV..........................................  Gauley River National Recreation Area.............         975,000
Mult........................................  Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area        1,000,000
                                               (KY/TN).
                                              Unallocated (5.7% sequestration for Acquisitions).       3,351,364
                                                Subtotal, Acquisitions..........................      58,795,864
                                                Subtotal, Land Acquisition......................      97,295,864
                                                  Total, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE..................     447,295,864
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                                              Acquisition Management............................      12,000,000
                                              Recreational Access...............................      17,000,000
                                              Critical Inholdings/Wilderness....................       5,500,000
                                              Cash Equalization.................................         250,000
CA..........................................  Plumas National Forest............................       2,000,000
CA..........................................  Shasta-Trinity National Forest....................       7,000,000
CA..........................................  Tahoe National Forest: Lake Tahoe Basin Management       9,000,000
                                               Unit.
FL..........................................  National Forests in Florida--Longleaf Pine              19,000,000
                                               Restoration Initiative.
GA..........................................  Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests.............       2,625,000
MN..........................................  Superior National Forest--School Trust............      25,000,000
MT..........................................  Lolo National Forest..............................      10,300,000
NC..........................................  National Forests in North Carolina................       3,827,000
SC..........................................  Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests........       5,900,000
VT..........................................  Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests..       2,100,000
WA..........................................  Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest................       2,437,000
                                              Unallocated (5.7% sequestration for Acquisitions).       5,391,064
                                                Subtotal, Acquisitions..........................      94,580,064
                                                  Total, Land Acquisition.......................     129,330,064
Forest Legacy Program:
                                              Administrative Funds..............................       7,500,000
MT..........................................  Montana Great Outdoors Conservation Project.......      20,000,000
ME..........................................  Quill Hill to Perham Stream.......................       8,045,000
HI..........................................  East Maui Rainforest..............................       1,900,000
OR..........................................  Spence Mountain Forest............................       2,100,000
WY..........................................  Munger Mountain Corridor Initiative...............      10,000,000
NH..........................................  Androscoggin Valley Corridor......................       1,665,000
ME..........................................  Chadbourne Tree Farm..............................       7,990,000
MI..........................................  Black River Ranch.................................      10,665,000
VT..........................................  Chateauguay Forest Project........................         465,000
CA..........................................  Shackleford Forest................................       3,000,000
GA..........................................  Dugdown Mountain Corridor.........................       1,705,000
AR..........................................  Hot Springs Forest................................       3,190,000
VA..........................................  Roanoke River Forest..............................       2,820,000
SC..........................................  Southern Coastal Biodiversity Project.............       9,457,000
                                              Use of unobligated balances, fiscal year 2018 and       -6,640,133
                                               prior.
                                              Unallocated (5.7% sequestration for Projects).....       5,017,088
                                              Subtotal, Forest Legacy Projects..................      81,378,955
                                                Total, Forest Legacy Program....................      88,878,955
                                                  TOTAL, U.S. FOREST SERVICE....................     218,209,019
                                                  TOTAL, LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND.......     900,000,000
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       Following is a list of congressional earmarks and 
     congressionally directed spending items (as defined in clause 
     9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
     and rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     respectively) included in the bill or this explanatory 
     statement, along with the name of each House Member, Senator, 
     Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who submitted a request to 
     the Committee of jurisdiction for each item so identified. 
     For each item, a Member is required to provide a 
     certification that neither the Member nor the Member's 
     immediate family has a financial interest, and each Senator 
     is required to provide a certification that neither the 
     Senator nor the Senator's immediate family has a pecuniary 
     interest in such congressionally directed spending item. 
     Neither the bill nor the explanatory statement contains any 
     limited tax benefits or limited tariff benefits as defined in 
     the applicable House and Senate rules.

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   DIVISION H--DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND 
        EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2022

       The explanatory statement accompanying this division is 
     approved and indicates Congressional intent. Unless otherwise 
     noted, the language set forth in House Report 117-96 carries 
     the same weight as language included in this explanatory 
     statement and should be complied with unless specifically 
     addressed to the contrary in this explanatory statement. 
     While some language is repeated for emphasis, it is not 
     intended to negate the language referred to above unless 
     expressly provided herein.
       In providing the operating plan required by section 516 of 
     this Act, the departments and agencies funded in this Act are 
     directed to include all programs, projects, and activities, 
     including those in House Report 117--96 and this explanatory 
     statement accompanying this Act. All such programs, projects, 
     and activities are subject to the provisions of this Act.
       In cases where House Report 117-96 or this explanatory 
     statement directs the submission of a report, that report is 
     to be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     House of Representatives and the Senate. Where this 
     explanatory statement refers to the Committees or the 
     Committees on Appropriations, unless otherwise noted, this 
     reference is to the House of Representatives Subcommittee on 
     Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related 
     Agencies and the Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and 
     Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies.
       Each department and agency funded in this Act shall follow 
     the directions set forth in this Act and the accompanying 
     explanatory statement and shall not reallocate resources or 
     reorganize activities except as provided herein. Funds for 
     individual programs and activities are displayed in the 
     detailed table at the end of the explanatory statement 
     accompanying this Act. Funding levels that are not displayed 
     in the detailed table are identified within this explanatory 
     statement. Any action to eliminate or consolidate programs, 
     projects, and activities should be pursued through a proposal 
     in the President's Budget so it can be considered by the 
     Committees on Appropriations.
       Congressional Reports.--Each department and agency is 
     directed to provide the Committees on Appropriations, within 
     30 days from the date of enactment of this Act and quarterly 
     thereafter, a summary describing each requested report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations along with its status.

                                TITLE I

                          DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

              Employment and Training Administration (ETA)


                    TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

     National Programs
       Advanced Robotics Manufacturing.--The agreement encourages 
     the Department to appropriately address the need for 
     workforce training and certificate programs targeting 
     collective robotics and additive manufacturing, with an 
     emphasis on programs that re-skill incumbent manufacturing 
     workers.
       Occupational Licensing.--The agreement directs the 
     Department to provide a report, within 180 days of enactment 
     of this Act, on best practices learned and future resources 
     needed for continued implementation of the Department's 
     occupational licensing initiative.
       Public Libraries.--The agreement urges the Department to 
     develop a plan to build and strengthen partnerships between 
     the one-stop system and public libraries and ensure that 
     public libraries have the resources necessary to provide 
     these workforce development services. The agreement requests 
     a briefing within 120 days of enactment of this Act on the 
     Department's work with the Institute of Museum and Library 
     Services and public libraries.
       Water and Wastewater Operators.--The agreement is concerned 
     by the nationwide shortage of water and wastewater operators, 
     particularly in rural areas, and encourages the Secretary to 
     make funding available through workforce development and 
     apprenticeship activities consistent with National Guideline 
     Standards of Apprenticeship for Water and Wastewater System 
     Operations Specialists and the Workforce Innovation and 
     Opportunity Act system.
       Wireless Infrastructure.--The agreement encourages the 
     Department to continue investments in the development of the 
     wireless infrastructure workforce, including apprenticeships 
     in the wireless sector.
     Dislocated Worker National Reserve
       Career Pathways for Youth Grants.--The agreement includes 
     $15,000,000 for grants to support national out-of-school time 
     organizations that serve youth and teens and place an 
     emphasis on age-appropriate workforce readiness programming 
     to expand job training and workforce pathways for youth and 
     disconnected youth.
       Strengthening Community College Training Grants (SCCTG).--
     The agreement provides $50,000,000 for the SCCTG program.
       Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities.--The agreement 
     provides $45,000,000 for the Workforce Opportunity for Rural 
     Communities program, to provide enhanced worker training in 
     the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border regions. The 
     Department is strongly encouraged to develop funding 
     opportunity announcements and make grant awards in 
     coordination with the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), 
     Delta Regional Authority (DRA), and Northern Border Regional 
     Commission (NBRC), and each award shall not exceed 
     $1,500,000. Within the total, the agreement includes 
     $20,000,000 for grants in areas served by the ARC; 
     $20,000,000 for areas served by the DRA, and $5,000,000 for 
     areas served by the NBRC.
     YouthBuild
       The Department is encouraged to ensure YouthBuild grants 
     serve geographically diverse areas, including rural areas.
     Apprenticeship Grant Program
       The agreement provides $235,000,000 to support registered 
     apprenticeships.
       The agreement notes that funding under this program should 
     be prioritized to support State, regional, and local 
     apprenticeship efforts, as well as efforts by intermediaries, 
     to expand registered apprenticeships into new industries and 
     for underserved or underrepresented populations.
       The agreement strongly encourages the Department to 
     collaborate with the Northern Border Regional Commission to 
     develop a targeted apprenticeship program to meet the needs 
     of the rural communities in the region.
     Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending
       The agreement includes $137,638,000 for the projects, and 
     in the amounts, specified in the table titled ``Community 
     Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending'' included 
     in this explanatory statement accompanying this division.


                               JOB CORPS

       Gainesville Job Corps Center.--The Department is encouraged 
     to increase the capacity for Job Corps services or job 
     training opportunities in North Central Florida.
       Gulfport Job Corps Center.--The agreement requests 
     quarterly updates regarding the Gulfport Job Corps Center 
     project.
       Job Corps Rural Training Sites.--The agreement encourages 
     the Department to enhance opportunities for students in 
     underserved rural or remote communities through partnerships 
     between high quality center operators and existing rural 
     training sites.
       Rhode Island Job Corps Center.--The agreement requests a 
     briefing within 120 days of enactment of this Act detailing 
     the progress of discussions between the City of Pawtucket and 
     the Exeter, Rhode Island Job Corps Center about increasing 
     the offering of training services through a satellite center.


     STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICE OPERATIONS

     Unemployment Insurance Compensation
       The agreement includes $2,850,816,000 for Unemployment 
     Insurance Compensation activities, an increase of 
     $285,000,000, for additional resources for States to increase 
     staffing capacity and to accommodate sustained increases in 
     workload.
     Employment Service
       National Activities.--The agreement includes an increase of 
     $1,000,000 to continue efforts to reduce the processing 
     backlog for the work opportunity tax credit program and for 
     assisting States to modernize information technology for 
     processing of certification requests, which may include 
     training and technical assistance.
     Foreign Labor Certification
       The agreement recognizes the importance of the H-2B program 
     and urges the Department to take all necessary and 
     appropriate steps to ensure prompt processing of H-2B visa 
     applications.

                         Wage and Hour Division

       The Wage and Hour Division shall collect data at the 
     beginning of each fiscal year and submit in an electronic 
     format yearly reports to the Committees on Health, Education, 
     Labor, and Pensions and Appropriations of the Senate and the 
     Committees on Education and Labor and Appropriations of the 
     House of Representatives. The report shall include the 
     following:
       --The name and address of each employer holding a 
     certificate under 29 USC 214(c);
       --The starting date and ending date of each certificate for 
     each employer under 29 USC 214(c);
       --Information about the certificate for each employer under 
     29 USC 214(c) including if the certificate is an initial 
     certificate or renewal and if the certificate is issued or 
     pending; and
       --The current number of workers employed by the employer 
     holding the certificate under 29 USC 214(c) at the time of 
     the data collected.

                    Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

       The agreement is supportive of the BLS work plan and 
     directives included in House Report 117-96. The agreement 
     includes $28,470,000 to complete the relocation of the BLS 
     headquarters, which was initiated in fiscal year 2020.

                        Departmental Management

       Bureau of International Labor Affairs.--The agreement 
     requests the amount spent in the prior fiscal year on 
     technical assistance grants to combat exploitative child 
     labor and for worker rights issues be included in future 
     Congressional Justifications. Not later than 60 days after 
     enactment of this Act, the Bureau is directed to brief the 
     Committees on its planned allocation of fiscal year 2022 
     resources.
       Evaluation Authority.-- The agreement continues authority 
     to use up to 0.75 percent of

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     certain Department appropriations for evaluation activities 
     identified by the Chief Evaluation Officer. The agreement 
     expects to be notified of the planned uses of funds derived 
     from this authority.
       Federal Law Enforcement.--The agreement notes that the 
     explanatory statement accompanying the Commerce, Justice, 
     Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022 
     directs the Attorney General to ensure implementation of 
     evidence-based training programs on de-escalation and the 
     use-of-force, as well as on police community relations, and 
     the protection of civil rights, that are broadly applicable 
     and scalable to all Federal law enforcement agencies. The 
     agreement further notes that several agencies funded by this 
     Act employ Federal law enforcement officers and are Federal 
     Law Enforcement Training Centers partner organizations. The 
     agreement directs such agencies to consult with the Attorney 
     General regarding the implementation of these programs for 
     their law enforcement officers. The agreement further directs 
     such agencies to submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations on their efforts relating to such 
     implementation no later than 180 days after consultation with 
     the Attorney General. In addition, the agreement directs such 
     agencies, to the extent that they are not already 
     participating, to consult with the Attorney General and the 
     Director of the FBI regarding participation in the National 
     Use-of-Force Data Collection. The agreement further directs 
     such agencies to submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations, no later than 180 days after enactment of 
     this Act, on their efforts to so participate.
       Study on the Impacts of Hours Worked.--The Government 
     Accountability Office (GAO) is directed to conduct a study on 
     the short- and long-term trends in the labor market of the 
     number of hours worked by American workers, and the 
     correlation with these trends.
       Worker Access to Retirement plans and other Benefits.-- The 
     agreement recognizes that a growing segment of workers do not 
     have access to employer-based retirement plans, and other 
     benefits typically provided through full-time employment. The 
     portability of benefits is an important feature of retirement 
     savings, workers compensation, health insurance, income 
     security and other work-related benefits. The agreement 
     directs the Chief Evaluation Officer of the Department of 
     Labor, in conjunction with Employee Benefits Security 
     Administration and other relevant DOL offices, to submit a 
     report to Congress within 6 months of enactment that provides 
     a detailed and specific analysis of why some workers do not 
     have access to these benefits and evidence-based 
     recommendations for pilot programs or other initiatives to 
     design, implement, and evaluate new and existing models and 
     approaches to providing high-quality benefits to workers who 
     currently do not have access to them. This proposal should 
     ensure that the various models are evaluated for their 
     ability to accommodate contributions from multiple employers 
     for an individual worker, as well as their scalability at the 
     national level.

                            IT Modernization

       The Department is directed to continue to submit a report 
     to the Committees not later than 90 days after enactment of 
     this Act that provides an update on projects to be funded, 
     planned activities and associated timelines, expected 
     benefits, and planned expenditures. The report should also 
     include completed activities, remaining activities and 
     associated timelines, actual and remaining expenditures, 
     explanation of any cost overruns and delays, and corrective 
     actions, as necessary, to keep the project on track and 
     within budget.
       The agreement includes a new provision which modifies 
     authority for the Department's Working Capital Fund (WCF), by 
     increasing the authority to transfer up to $36,000,000 in 
     future unobligated balances of appropriations provided in 
     this and future Department of Labor Appropriations acts into 
     the WCF. The Department is directed to continue to comply 
     with the plan requirements established by Public Law 115-245.

                           General Provisions

       The agreement modifies a provision related to program 
     integrity activities.
       The agreement includes a new provision related to the 
     Working Capital Fund.
       The agreement modifies a provision related to H-1B fees.

                                TITLE II

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

          Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)


                          PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

       Alcee L. Hastings Program for Advanced Cancer Screening in 
     Underserved Communities.--Within the total for Health 
     Centers, the agreement includes $5,000,000 to fund Health 
     Centers to increase access and address barriers to cancer 
     screening, including patient education, case management, 
     outreach, and other enabling services, as described in House 
     Report 117-96.
       Ending the HIV Epidemic.--The agreement includes 
     $122,250,000 within the Health Centers program for the Ending 
     the HIV Epidemic Initiative.
       HRSA Strategy to Address Intimate Partner Violence and 
     Project Catalyst.--The agreement includes no less than 
     $2,000,000 for the HRSA Strategy to Address Intimate Partner 
     Violence as described in House Report 117-96.
       Native Hawaiian Health Care.--The agreement includes no 
     less than $22,000,000 for the Native Hawaiian Health Care 
     Program.
       Partnerships with Home Visiting Programs.--The agreement 
     directs HRSA to provide written guidance to health centers on 
     partnering with home visiting programs.
       School-Based Health Centers.--The agreement includes 
     $30,000,000 for school-based health centers funded under 
     section 330 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as 
     directed in P.L. 116-260.
       Technical Assistance.--The agreement provides no less than 
     $2,000,000 within the amount provided for Health Centers to 
     enhance technical assistance and training activities, further 
     quality improvement initiatives, and continue the development 
     of and support for health center-controlled networks so that 
     new and existing centers can improve patient access to 
     quality health services.


                            HEALTH WORKFORCE

       Maternity Care Target Areas (MCTAs).--The agreement 
     includes $1,000,000 within the National Health Service Corps 
     (NHSC) to implement requirements contained in the Improving 
     Access to Maternity Care Act, including establishing criteria 
     for and identifying MCTAs and collecting and publishing data 
     on the availability and need for maternity care health 
     services in health professional shortage areas.
       Midwife Training.--Within the total funding for 
     Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students, the agreement 
     includes $3,500,000 to educate midwives to address the 
     national shortage of maternity care providers and the lack of 
     diversity in the maternity care workforce.
       Primary Care Training and Enhancement.--The agreement does 
     not include dedicated funding to support trainings for 
     primary care health professionals to screen, briefly 
     intervene, and refer patients to treatment for the severe 
     mental illness of eating disorders.
       Oral Health Training.--The agreement includes not less than 
     $12,000,000 each for General and Pediatric Dentistry.
       Area Health Education Centers.--The agreement provides 
     $3,000,000, an increase of $1,000,000, to expand competitive 
     grants for experiential learning opportunities through 
     simulation labs as directed in P.L. 116-260.
       Graduate Psychology Education (GPE).--Within the total for 
     Mental and Behavioral Health, the agreement includes 
     $20,000,000 for GPE.
       Peer Support.--Within the total for Behavioral Health 
     Workforce Education and Training (BHWET), the agreement 
     includes no less than $14,000,000 for community-based 
     experiential training for students preparing to become peer 
     support specialists and other types of behavioral health-
     related paraprofessionals, as described in House Report 117-
     96.
       Mental and Substance Use Disorder Workforce Training 
     Demonstration.--Within the total for BHWET, the agreement 
     includes $31,700,000 for this program. The agreement 
     continues support for grants to expand the number of nurse 
     practitioners, physician assistants, health service 
     psychologists, and social workers trained to provide mental 
     and substance use disorder services in underserved community-
     based settings as authorized under section 760 of the PHS 
     Act.
       Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery (STAR) Loan 
     Repayment Program.--Within the total for BHWET, the agreement 
     includes $24,000,000 for this program.
       Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners Program.--The agreement 
     includes $13,000,000, an increase of $4,000,000, within the 
     total for Advanced Education Nursing to expand training and 
     certification of Registered Nurses, Advanced Practice 
     Registered Nurses, and Forensic Nurses to practice as sexual 
     assault nurse examiners.
       Registered Nurse (RN) Shortage.--The agreement includes 
     $4,750,000 within Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and 
     Retention to address the shortage of RNs. The agreement 
     directs HRSA to give priority in new funding announcements to 
     public entities for training of additional RNs, specifically 
     for acute care settings. In addition, the agreement directs 
     HRSA to give priority to applicants in States listed in the 
     HRSA publication ``Supply and Demand Projections of the 
     Nursing Workforce 2014-2030'' as having the greatest 
     shortages.
       Experiential Learning Opportunities.--Within the total for 
     Nurse Education, Practice, Quality, and Retention, the 
     agreement includes $5,750,000, an increase of $2,750,000, to 
     expand competitive grants to enhance nurse education through 
     the expansion of experiential learning opportunities as 
     directed in P.L. 116-260.
       Nurse Practitioner Optional Fellowship Program.--The 
     agreement provides $6,000,000 for this program, as described 
     in House Report 117-96.
       Impact of COVID-19 on the Rural Nursing Workforce.--The 
     agreement directs HRSA to submit a report within one year of 
     enactment of this Act on the impact of the current public 
     health emergency on the nursing workforce, especially in 
     rural areas, and summarize strategies to mitigate and address 
     these impacts.


                       MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH

     Maternal and Child Health Block Grant Special Projects of 
         Regional and National Significance (SPRANS)
       Alliance for Maternal Health Safety Bundles.--The agreement 
     includes $12,000,000 for this activity, as described in House 
     Report 117-96.

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       Children's Health and Development.--The agreement 
     recognizes the work to improve child health through a 
     Statewide system of early childhood developmental screenings 
     and interventions started in fiscal year 2017. The agreement 
     encourages HRSA to build upon this work in States with high 
     levels of or disparities in childhood poverty.
       Early Childhood Education Expert Grants.--The agreement 
     includes $5,000,000 to place early childhood development 
     experts in pediatrician offices that serve a population with 
     a high percentage of Medicaid and CHIP patients.
       Hemophilia.--The agreement includes sufficient funding for 
     the Regional Hemophilia Network Program.
       Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) Centers of 
     Excellence.--The agreement includes $2,000,000 to establish a 
     new competitive grant program for HHT Centers of Excellence, 
     as described in House Report 117-96.
       Infant-Toddler Court Teams.--The agreement includes 
     $13,000,000 for Infant-Toddler Court Teams, as described in 
     House Report 117-96.
       Maternal Mental Health Hotline.--The agreement includes 
     $4,000,000 for this activity.
       National Fetal Infant and Child Death Review (FICDR).--The 
     agreement includes $2,100,000, an increase of $1,000,000 
     above the fiscal year 2021 enacted level, for the national 
     FICDR program to expand support and technical assistance to 
     States and tribal communities and improve the availability of 
     data on sudden unexpected infant deaths.
       Regional Pediatric Pandemic Network.--The agreement 
     provides $18,000,000 for the regional pediatric pandemic 
     network to significantly expand the capacity of the network 
     by increasing the number of grants to award a new meritorious 
     applicant from the original Regional Pediatric Pandemic 
     Network competition to form a coordinated network with the 
     existing grantee. Priority should be given to children's 
     hospitals as defined by section 340E of the PHS Act (42 
     U.S.C. 256e) and their affiliated university pediatric 
     partners. HRSA shall provide national leadership and 
     coordination across the funded entities to ensure national 
     dissemination of best practices to the broader pediatric care 
     community. The agreement continues funding for the current 
     grantee at no less than the fiscal year 2021 level.
       State Maternal Health Innovation Grants.--The agreement 
     includes $29,000,000 for this activity.
       Set-asides within SPRANS.--The agreement includes the 
     following set-asides within SPRANS. Within the set-aside for 
     Oral Health, $250,000 is provided for activities described in 
     House Report 117-96.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Set-aside for Oral Health...............................      $5,250,000
Set-aside for Epilepsy..................................       3,642,000
Set-aside for Sickle Cell Disease.......................       6,000,000
Set-aside for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome....................       1,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

     Maternal and Child Health Programs
       Autism and Other Developmental Disorders.--The agreement 
     includes not less than $37,245,000 for the Leadership 
     Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities 
     program.
       Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID).--Within the total 
     funding level for Heritable Disorders, the agreement includes 
     $4,000,000 to support newborn screening and follow-up for 
     SCID and other newborn screening disorders.


                      RYAN WHITE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM

       Ending the HIV Epidemic.--The agreement includes 
     $125,000,000 within the Ryan White program for the Ending the 
     HIV Epidemic initiative.


                          HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS

       Reimbursement of Travel and Subsistence Expenses Toward 
     Living Organ Donation Program.--Within the total for Organ 
     Transplantation, the agreement includes no less than 
     $7,000,000 for the Living Organ Donation Program, as 
     described in House Report 117-96.
       Organ Allocation Policy.--HRSA and the Organ Procurement 
     and Transplantation Network are encouraged to ensure the 
     process for changing organ allocation policies is 
     transparent, thorough, and accommodates the recommendations 
     of transplantation and organ donation professionals.
       Poison Control Centers (PCCs).--The agreement directs HRSA 
     to provide increased funds directly to the PCCs and requests 
     a spend plan for the funds within 30 days of enactment of 
     this Act.
       Cell Transplantation Program.--The agreement requests a 
     spend plan within 30 days of enactment of this Act for this 
     program.


                              RURAL HEALTH

       Rural Health Outreach.--The agreement provides no less than 
     $2,000,000 for HRSA's collaboration with the Northern Border 
     Regional Commission (NBRC) to provide direct support to 
     member States 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 agreement provides not less than $25,000,000 
     for the Delta States Rural Development Network Grant Program, 
     including $13,000,000 to support HRSA's collaboration with 
     the Delta Regional Authority, as described under this heading 
     in Conference Report 115-952.
       Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies 
     (RMOMS).--The agreement includes $6,000,000 for RMOMS, which 
     supports grants to improve access to and continuity of 
     maternal and obstetrics care in rural communities by 
     increasing the delivery of and access to preconception, 
     pregnancy, labor and delivery, and postpartum services, as 
     well as developing sustainable financing models for the 
     provision of maternal and obstetrics care.
       Rural Emergency Hospital Technical Assistance Program.--The 
     agreement includes $5,000,000 within the total for Rural 
     Hospital Flexibility Grants to establish the Rural Emergency 
     Hospital Technical Assistance Program. This program will 
     provide technical assistance from existing State Flexibility 
     Programs and other stakeholders to assist facilities in the 
     implementation of the new Rural Emergency Hospital model.
       Telehealth Centers of Excellence (COE).--The agreement 
     includes $7,500,000 for the Telehealth COE awarded sites.
       Rural Communities Opioids Response (RCORP).--The agreement 
     includes $135,000,000 to continue RCORP. Within the funding 
     provided, the agreement includes $10,000,000 to continue the 
     three Rural Centers of Excellence (Centers), as established 
     by P.L. 115-245 and continued through P.L. 116-260. In 
     addition to the conditions set forth in Conference Report 
     115-952, the Centers are encouraged to develop 
     interdisciplinary, dual-track fellowships to train 
     psychiatrists in rural addiction psychiatry. Within this 
     total, the agreement also includes $2,500,000 of the funds 
     available for career and workforce training services for NBRC 
     to assist individuals affected by an opioid abuse disorder.


                            FAMILY PLANNING

       The Family Planning program administers Title X of the PHS 
     Act. This program supports preventive and primary healthcare 
     services at clinics nationwide. The agreement does not 
     include language proposed by the House.


                           PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

       Oral Health Literacy.--The agreement includes $300,000 for 
     the activity described under this heading in House Report 
     117-96.
       Targeted Investments in Impoverished Areas.--The agreement 
     directs HRSA to develop and implement measures to increase 
     the share of investments made in persistent poverty counties, 
     high-poverty areas, and any other impoverished communities 
     that HRSA determines to be appropriate areas to target. The 
     agreement directs HRSA to provide an update to the Committees 
     within 180 days of enactment of this Act on how HRSA is 
     carrying out this directive.
       Community Projects/Congressionally Directed Spending.--
     Within the funds included in this account, $1,053,896,000 
     shall be for the Community Project Funding/Congressionally 
     Directed Spending projects, and in the amounts, as specified 
     in the table included in this explanatory statement 
     accompanying this division.


               CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

       The agreement provides $8,457,204,000 in total program 
     level funding for the Centers for Disease Control and 
     Prevention (CDC), which includes $7,498,546,000 in budget 
     authority and $903,300,000 in transfers from the Prevention 
     and Public Health (PPH) Fund.


                 IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES

       The agreement provides a total of $868,155,000 for 
     Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, which includes 
     $448,805,000 in discretionary appropriations and $419,350,000 
     in transfers from the PPH Fund. Within this total, the 
     agreement includes the following amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Section 317 Immunization Program........................    $650,797,000
Acute Flaccid Myelitis..................................       6,000,000
Influenza Planning and Response.........................     211,358,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Enhancing Section 317 Immunization Program.--The agreement 
     includes an increase to enhance adult immunization as 
     directed in House Report 117-96.
       Improving Immunization Information Systems Infrastructure 
     and Data.--The agreement directs CDC to provide an update to 
     the Committees within 180 days of enactment of this Act on 
     compliance with interoperability standards.
       Influenza Planning and Response.--The agreement includes an 
     increase to enhance CDC's influenza activities.


     HIV/AIDS, VIRAL HEPATITIS, SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES AND 
                        TUBERCULOSIS PREVENTION

       The agreement provides $1,345,056,000 for HIV/AIDS, Viral 
     Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Tuberculosis 
     Prevention. Within this total, the agreement includes the 
     following amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Domestic HIV/AIDS Prevention and Research...............    $986,712,000
  HIV Initiative........................................     195,000,000
  School Health-HIV.....................................      36,081,000
Viral Hepatitis.........................................      41,000,000
Sexually Transmitted Infections.........................     164,310,000
Tuberculosis............................................     135,034,000
Infectious Diseases and the Opioid Epidemic.............      18,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Congenital Syphilis.--The agreement urges prioritization as 
     outlined in House Report 117-96.
       Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative.--The agreement includes 
     an increase to reduce new HIV infections.
       Infectious Diseases and the Opioid Epidemic.--The agreement 
     includes an increase to strengthen efforts to address 
     infectious diseases associated with substance use. CDC

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     is directed to prioritize jurisdictions with the highest age-
     adjusted mortality rate related to substance use disorders 
     and acute hepatitis C infection. CDC is also encouraged to 
     prioritize jurisdictions that are experiencing outbreaks or 
     emerging clusters of infectious diseases associated with drug 
     use, including those not eligible for Ending the HIV Epidemic 
     funding.
       School Health.--The agreement includes an increase for the 
     investment in school health activities.
       Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI).--The agreement 
     includes an increase for STI prevention and control 
     activities in public health programs.
       Tuberculosis.--The agreement urges CDC to increase staffing 
     of tuberculosis technicians in tribal areas and increase 
     efforts to provide technical assistance to health 
     professionals who service those populations.
       Viral Hepatitis.--The agreement includes an increase to 
     advance efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis.


               EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

       The agreement provides $693,272,000 for Emerging and 
     Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, which includes $641,272,000 in 
     discretionary appropriations and $52,000,000 in transfers 
     from the PPH Fund. Within this total, the agreement includes 
     the following amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Antibiotic Resistance Initiative........................     182,000,000
Vector-Borne Diseases...................................      54,603,000
Lyme Disease............................................      20,500,000
Prion Disease...........................................       6,500,000
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome................................       5,400,000
Emerging Infectious Diseases............................     194,997,000
Harmful Algal Blooms....................................       2,500,000
Food Safety.............................................      68,000,000
National Healthcare Safety Network......................      21,000,000
Quarantine..............................................      50,772,000
Advanced Molecular Detection............................      35,000,000
Epidemiology and Lab Capacity...........................      40,000,000
Healthcare-Associated Infections........................      12,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Advanced Molecular Detection.--The agreement includes an 
     increase to bolster genomic epidemiology expertise and 
     capacity. The agreement directs CDC to provide an update on 
     the capabilities at public health laboratories in the fiscal 
     year 2023 Congressional Justification.
       Antimicrobial and Antibiotic Resistance (AMR).--The 
     agreement includes an increase and directs CDC to improve 
     data collection and increase support for U.S. health 
     departments to detect, contain, and prevent AMR infections 
     and increase collaborative efforts on the national, regional, 
     State, tribal and local levels to assist with AMR response 
     and prevention efforts. The agreement encourages CDC to 
     competitively award research activities that address aspects 
     of AMR related to a ``One Health'' approach to public 
     academic medical centers including Minority Serving 
     Institutions, veterinary schools, including those with 
     agricultural extension services, and public health 
     departments whose proposals are in line with CDC's strategy 
     for addressing AMR bacteria. Furthermore, the agreement 
     directs CDC to work with other HHS agencies to provide the 
     briefing described under the section of the explanatory 
     statement pertaining to the Office of the Secretary.
       Food Safety.--The agreement includes an increase to help 
     address critical unmet needs.
       Lyme Disease and Related Tick-Borne Illnesses.--The 
     agreement provides an increase in recognition of the 
     importance of the prevention and control of Lyme disease and 
     related tick-borne diseases, and encourages CDC to support 
     surveillance and prevention of Lyme disease and other high 
     consequence tick-borne diseases in endemic areas as well as 
     areas not yet considered endemic. The agreement includes 
     funding for CDC's vector-borne diseases program to expand the 
     programs authorized under the Kay Hagan Tick Act (P.L. 116-
     94) to promote a public health approach to combat rising 
     cases of tick-borne diseases, including activities directed 
     in House Report 117-96. CDC is directed to develop and 
     implement methods to improve surveillance to more accurately 
     report the disease burden, including through the development 
     of real time data for reporting Lyme disease and other tick-
     borne diseases, as well as a process for estimating the 
     prevalence of Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome. CDC is 
     directed to direct funding to improve early diagnosis of Lyme 
     and related tick-borne diseases to prevent the development of 
     late stage disease and more serious and long-term disability. 
     CDC is encouraged to coordinate with the National Institutes 
     of Health (NIH), the National Institute of Mental Health, and 
     the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke 
     on publishing reports that assess diagnostic advancements, 
     methods for prevention, the state of treatment, and links 
     between tick-borne disease and psychiatric illnesses. CDC is 
     urged, in coordination with NIH, to include in their 
     surveillance the long-term effects on patients suffering from 
     post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, or ``chronic Lyme 
     disease.'' Additionally, given the impact of Lyme disease and 
     the status of ongoing clinical trials, the agreement requests 
     a report within 180 days of enactment of this Act on CDC's 
     research to date and recommendations on actions needed to 
     facilitate a successful Lyme disease vaccine rollout that 
     will build confidence and encourage uptake should a vaccine 
     be approved by the FDA.
       Mycotic Diseases.--The agreement provides an increase of 
     $2,000,000 in Emerging Infectious Diseases for mycotic 
     diseases and directs CDC to fully utilize its clinical trial 
     partners and the Mycoses Study Group to address the growing 
     threat from mycological infection in the United States and 
     around the world.
       Surveillance Data on the Chronic Effects of COVID-19.--The 
     agreement recognizes that successfully addressing the health 
     care needs of individuals who develop chronic cardiovascular, 
     renal, and neurological effects of COVID-19 will require 
     long-term, population level, public health surveillance that 
     includes granular data related to COVID-19 and any comorbid 
     medical conditions. The agreement directs CDC to provide, 
     within 90 days of enactment of this Act, an accounting of the 
     data on the chronic effects of COVID-19 currently being 
     collected, the sources of these data, any existing or 
     anticipated gaps that exist, and to provide a plan for 
     addressing these surveillance data gaps as they relate to the 
     chronic effects of COVID-19 infection in both the immediate 
     and long-term.
       Wastewater Surveillance.--The agreement directs CDC to 
     report on existing National Wastewater Surveillance System 
     grants and contracts within 90 days of enactment of this Act.


            CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION

       The agreement provides $1,338,664,000 for Chronic Disease 
     Prevention and Health Promotion, which includes 
     $1,083,714,000 in discretionary appropriations and 
     $254,950,000 in transfers from the PPH Fund. Within this 
     total, the agreement includes the following amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tobacco.................................................    $241,500,000
Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity...............      58,420,000
  High Obesity Rate Counties............................      16,500,000
School Health...........................................      17,400,000
Glaucoma................................................       4,000,000
Vision and Eye Health...................................       1,500,000
Alzheimer's Disease.....................................      30,500,000
Inflammatory Bowel Disease..............................       1,000,000
Interstitial Cystitis...................................       1,100,000
Excessive Alcohol Use...................................       5,000,000
Chronic Kidney Disease..................................       3,500,000
Chronic Disease Education and Awareness.................       3,000,000
Prevention Research Centers.............................      26,961,000
Heart Disease and Stroke................................     145,105,000
Diabetes................................................     151,129,000
National Diabetes Prevention Program....................      33,300,000
Breast and Cervical Cancer..............................     227,000,000
  WISEWOMAN.............................................      30,120,000
Breast Cancer Awareness for Young Women.................       5,960,000
Cancer Registries.......................................      51,440,000
Colorectal Cancer.......................................      43,294,000
Comprehensive Cancer....................................      20,425,000
Johanna's Law...........................................      10,500,000
Ovarian Cancer..........................................      12,500,000
Prostate Cancer.........................................      14,205,000
Skin Cancer.............................................       4,000,000
Cancer Survivorship Resource Center.....................         475,000
Oral Health.............................................      19,750,000
Safe Motherhood/Infant Health...........................      83,000,000
Arthritis...............................................      11,000,000
Epilepsy................................................      10,500,000
National Lupus Registry.................................       9,500,000
Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH)      65,950,000
  Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country............      22,500,000
Social Determinants of Health...........................       8,000,000
Million Hearts..........................................       4,000,000
National Early Child Care Collaboratives................       4,000,000
Hospitals Promoting Breastfeeding.......................       9,750,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Alzheimer's Disease.--The agreement provides an increase to 
     support provisions authorized by the BOLD Infrastructure for 
     Alzheimer's Act (P.L. 115-406).
       Breast Cancer Awareness for Young Women.--The agreement 
     includes an increase to expand awareness and prevention 
     efforts.
       Chronic Disease Education and Awareness.--The agreement 
     includes an increase to expand this competitive grant 
     program.
       Diabetes.--The agreement includes an increase to enhance 
     efforts to prevent diabetes and reduce its complications, and 
     to expand the Diabetes Prevention Program.
       Farm-to-School.--The agreement continues $2,000,000 within 
     Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity for research and 
     education activities promoting healthy eating habits for 
     students. The agreement intends that these grants support 
     multi-agency and multi-organizational State farm to early 
     childhood programs with priority given to entities with 
     experience running farm to early childhood programs. The 
     agreement directs CDC to coordinate farm to early childhood 
     program efforts with the Office of Community Food Systems at 
     the Department of Agriculture.
       Food Allergies.--The agreement includes $2,000,000 for a 
     school-based effort to address food allergies and reduce 
     potentially fatal anaphylactic reactions.
       Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention.--The agreement 
     includes an increase to strengthen and expand evidence-based 
     heart disease and stroke prevention activities focused on 
     high risk populations.
       High Obesity Rate Counties.--CDC grantees are expected to 
     work with State and local public health departments and other 
     partners to support measurable outcomes through community and 
     population-level evidenced-based obesity intervention and 
     prevention programs. Funded projects should integrate 
     evidence-based policy, systems, and environmental approaches 
     to better understand and address the environmental and 
     societal implications of obesity. The agreement encourages 
     CDC to consider including high childhood obesity rates in its 
     eligibility criteria for the High Obesity Program.
       Hospitals Promoting Breastfeeding.--The agreement includes 
     an increase for evidence-based practice improvements in 
     hospitals, with an emphasis on physician and care provider 
     education, with the aim of supporting breastfeeding and 
     increasing breastfeeding rates.

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       Johanna's Law.--The agreement includes an increase to raise 
     awareness about the five main types of gynecological cancer.
       Mississippi Delta Health Collaborative (MDHC).--Within the 
     funds provided for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health 
     Promotion, the agreement encourages CDC to build on its 
     longstanding investment in MDHC by working to replicate the 
     work in additional sites while maintaining the current 
     strategy. The agreement directs CDC to provide an update on 
     these activities in the fiscal year 2023 Congressional 
     Justification.
       Oral Health.--The agreement includes an increase for 
     efforts to reduce oral disease and provide effective 
     interventions.
       Ovarian Cancer.--The agreement provides an increase for 
     prevention activities.
       Safe Motherhood and Infant Health.--The agreement includes 
     an increase to expand and increase support for Maternal 
     Mortality Review Committees (MMRCs), Perinatal Quality 
     Collaboratives (PQCs), and other programs including Sudden 
     Unexplained Infant Death (SUID) and the Sudden Death in the 
     Young (SDY) Case Registry. CDC is directed to expand support 
     for MMRCs and improve data collection at the State level to 
     create consistency in data collection, analysis and reporting 
     across State MMRCs. This investment is necessary to provide 
     accurate national statistics on U.S. maternal mortality rates 
     and inform data-driven actions to prevent these deaths. The 
     agreement directs CDC to submit the reports requested under 
     this heading in House Report 117-96. Furthermore, the 
     agreement includes funding for the SUID and SDY Registry to 
     expand the number of States and jurisdictions participating 
     in monitoring and surveillance and urges CDC to facilitate 
     data collection and analysis to improve SUID prevention 
     strategies.
       Skin Cancer Education and Prevention.--The agreement notes 
     concern with the growing number of people diagnosed with 
     preventable forms of skin cancer. The agreement continues to 
     provide funding for skin cancer education and prevention and 
     encourages CDC to increase its collaboration and partnership 
     with local governments, business, health, education, 
     community, non-profit, and faith-based sectors.
       Social Determinants of Health.--The agreement provides an 
     increase for the program of planning grants started in fiscal 
     year 2021 (P.L. 116-260).
       Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH).--
     The agreement provides an increase to address racial and 
     ethnic health disparities, including the Good Health and 
     Wellness in Indian Country program.
       Tobacco.--The agreement provides an increase to reduce 
     deaths and prevent chronic diseases, including addressing the 
     youth use of e-cigarettes.
       Vision and Eye Health.--The agreement includes an increase 
     and directs CDC to improve surveillance efforts, which may 
     include updating national prevalence estimates on vision 
     impairment and eye disease through the use of the National 
     Health Nutrition Examination Survey and improving existing 
     surveillance of social, economic, and environmental contexts 
     as related to eye healthcare disparities.
       WISEWOMAN.--The agreement includes an increase to provide 
     uninsured and under-insured, low-income women with lifesaving 
     preventive services.


              BIRTH DEFECTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

       The agreement provides $177,060,000 for Birth Defects and 
     Developmental Disabilities. Within this total, the agreement 
     includes the following amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Child Health and Development............................     $65,800,000
  Birth Defects.........................................      19,000,000
  Fetal Death...........................................         900,000
  Fetal Alcohol Syndrome................................      11,000,000
  Folic Acid............................................       3,150,000
  Infant Health.........................................       8,650,000
  Autism................................................      23,100,000
Health and Development for People with Disabilities.....      76,910,000
  Disability & Health...................................      39,000,000
  Tourette Syndrome.....................................       2,000,000
  Early Hearing Detection and Intervention..............      10,760,000
  Muscular Dystrophy....................................       6,500,000
  Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder..............       1,900,000
  Fragile X.............................................       2,000,000
  Spina Bifida..........................................       7,500,000
  Congenital Heart......................................       7,250,000
Public Health Approach to Blood Disorders...............       7,400,000
Hemophilia CDC Activities...............................       3,500,000
Hemophilia Treatment Centers............................       5,100,000
Thalassemia.............................................       2,100,000
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome............................       3,250,000
Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Mothers and Babies.      13,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Congenital Cytomegalovirus (CMV).--The agreement encourages 
     CDC to continue its activities to prevent CMV infection, and 
     directs CDC to provide an update on efforts to develop, 
     implement, and evaluate CMV prevention strategies in the 
     fiscal year 2023 Congressional Justification.
       Congenital Heart Disease.--The agreement includes an 
     increase to further implement the screening, surveillance, 
     research, and awareness activities authorized by the 
     Congenital Heart Futures Reauthorization Act (P.L. 115-342).
       Disability and Health.--The agreement directs CDC to 
     allocate the increase in the same manner as directed in P.L. 
     115-245.
       Hemophilia Treatment Centers.--The agreement continues to 
     support CDC's hemophilia programs and encourages CDC to 
     increase outreach to underserved populations and inclusion in 
     the Community Counts Hemophilia Data Collection program.
       Muscular Dystrophy.--The agreement includes an increase and 
     directs CDC to submit the report requested under this heading 
     in House Report 117-96.
       Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS).--The agreement includes 
     an increase to support efforts to address the rise in NAS 
     resulting from the overuse of opioids and other related 
     substances during pregnancy, including research on opioid use 
     during pregnancy and related adverse outcomes from infancy 
     through childhood, and to identify best practices for care, 
     evaluation, and management to help children.
       Public Health Approach to Blood Disorders.--The agreement 
     includes an increase to expand sickle cell data collection 
     efforts.
       Spina Bifida.--The agreement includes an increase to 
     support efforts to improve the health status of people living 
     with spina bifida.
       Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Mothers and Babies 
     Network (SET NET).--The agreement includes an increase to 
     expand CDC's SET NET to additional jurisdictions.
       Zika Surveillance.--The agreement supports CDC's continued 
     collaboration with State, tribal, territorial, and local 
     health departments to monitor mothers and babies impacted by 
     the Zika virus during pregnancy in the highest risk 
     jurisdictions. CDC was provided additional funding in fiscal 
     year 2019 to expand its Zika surveillance to determine the 
     long-term health impacts of infants born to mothers infected 
     with the Zika virus.


                   PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENTIFIC SERVICES

       The agreement provides a total of $651,997,000 for Public 
     Health Scientific Services. Within this total, the agreement 
     includes the following amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Health Statistics.......................................    $180,397,000
Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Informatics.............     410,600,000
  Public Health Data Modernization......................     100,000,000
Public Health Workforce.................................      61,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Bereavement.--The agreement urges CDC to include a new 
     module focused on bereavement to the Behavioral Risk Factor 
     Surveillance Survey to better understand the scope of 
     bereavement exposure in the U.S. CDC is also encouraged to 
     include a special highlight section on its Health, United 
     States publication.
       Improving Accuracy of Diagnosis of Rare Diseases.--The 
     agreement encourages the National Center for Health 
     Statistics to work with Federal agency partners, including 
     FDA and NIH, to establish a pathway for pursuing a specific 
     diagnostic code for rare diseases that currently lack one. 
     The agreement requests a report on the feasibility of such a 
     pathway within 180 days of enactment of this Act.
       National Center for Health Statistics.--The agreement 
     includes an increase to begin to make much-needed investments 
     in the next generation of surveys and products.
       National Neurological Conditions Surveillance System.--The 
     agreement provides a total of $5,000,000 within Surveillance, 
     Epidemiology, and Informatics to continue efforts on the two 
     initial conditions.
       Public Health Data Modernization.--The agreement commends 
     CDC for the progress made to date and includes an increase to 
     advance efforts toward creating a modern, high-speed, 
     networked public health infrastructure that will work for all 
     diseases and conditions. The agreement recognizes that this 
     effort is not solely about technological upgrades or about 
     short-term solutions.


                          ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

       The agreement provides $228,350,000 for Environmental 
     Health programs, which includes $211,350,000 in discretionary 
     appropriations and $17,000,000 in transfers from the PPH 
     Fund. Within this total, the agreement includes the following 
     amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Environmental Health Laboratory.........................     $68,750,000
  Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program...........      19,000,000
  Newborn Screening/Severe Combined Immunodeficiency           1,250,000
   Diseases.............................................
Environmental Health Activities.........................      47,600,000
  Safe Water............................................       8,600,000
  Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Registry................      10,000,000
  Trevor's Law..........................................       2,000,000
  Climate and Health....................................      10,000,000
Environmental and Health Outcome Tracking Network.......      34,000,000
Asthma..................................................      30,500,000
Childhood Lead Poisoning................................      41,000,000
Lead Exposure Registry..................................       5,000,000
Vessel Sanitation.......................................       1,500,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Asthma.--The agreement includes an increase for the 
     National Asthma Control Program to expand surveillance.
       Childhood Lead Poisoning.--The agreement includes an 
     increase for this program.
       Lead Exposure Registry.--The agreement includes an increase 
     for the Flint, Michigan Lead Exposure Registry.
       Newborn Screening.--The agreement includes an increase to 
     expand newborn screening efforts.
       Vessel Sanitation.--The agreement reflects a one-time 
     appropriation as provided in section 138 of P.L. 117-43.


                     INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL

       The agreement provides $714,879,000 for Injury Prevention 
     and Control activities. Within this total, the agreement 
     includes the following amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence...................      34,700,000
  Child Maltreatment....................................       7,250,000

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  Child Sexual Abuse Prevention.........................       2,000,000
Youth Violence Prevention...............................      15,100,000
Domestic Violence Community Projects....................       5,500,000
Rape Prevention.........................................      56,750,000
Suicide Prevention......................................      20,000,000
Adverse Childhood Experiences...........................       7,000,000
National Violent Death Reporting System.................      24,500,000
Traumatic Brain Injury..................................       7,250,000
Elderly Falls...........................................       2,050,000
Drowning................................................       1,000,000
Other Injury Prevention Activities......................      28,950,000
Opioid Overdose Prevention and Surveillance.............     490,579,000
Injury Control Research Centers.........................       9,000,000
Firearm Injury and Mortality Prevention Research........      12,500,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Adolescent Mental Health.--The agreement urges CDC to 
     establish a program that leverages existing CDC activities 
     dedicated to adolescent mental health to develop and 
     implement national goals and a national strategy to improve 
     adolescent mental wellbeing and advance equity, with a focus 
     on culturally responsive prevention and early intervention. 
     CDC is urged to coordinate with other Federal agencies and 
     departments, as appropriate.
       Adverse Childhood Experiences.--The agreement includes an 
     increase and directs CDC to submit the report requested under 
     this heading in House Report 117-96.
       Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence.--The agreement notes 
     recent bipartisan actions to reauthorize the Violence Against 
     Women Act, and supports efforts to establish an interagency 
     working group to coordinate domestic violence prevention 
     across all levels of government and with all relevant 
     stakeholders.
       Firearm Injury and Mortality Prevention Research.--The 
     agreement includes $12,500,000 to conduct research on firearm 
     injury and mortality prevention. Given violence and suicide 
     have a number of causes, the agreement recommends the CDC 
     take a comprehensive approach to studying these underlying 
     causes and evidence-based methods of prevention of injury, 
     including crime prevention. All grantees under this section 
     will be required to fulfill requirements around open data, 
     open code, pre-registration of research projects, and open 
     access to research articles consistent with the National 
     Science Foundation's open science principles. The Director of 
     CDC is to report to the Committees within 30 days of 
     enactment on implementation schedules and procedures for 
     grant awards, which strive to ensure that such awards support 
     ideologically and politically unbiased research projects.
       Opioid Abuse and Overdose Prevention.--The agreement 
     includes an increase to enhance efforts, including 
     improvements in data quality and monitoring, including on 
     substances driving overdoses. In addition to the directives 
     included in House Report 117-96, CDC is directed to continue 
     expansion of case-level syndromic surveillance data, 
     improving interventions that monitor prescribing and 
     dispensing practices as well as the timeliness and quality of 
     morbidity and mortality data, and enhancing efforts with 
     medical examiners and coroner offices. CDC is urged to 
     improve utilization of state-based Prescription Drug 
     Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) to assist in clinical decision-
     making and surveillance. CDC is further directed to continue 
     to expand an innovative model to coordinate care for high-
     risk patients receiving opioid treatment and encouraged to 
     work with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health 
     Information Technology to enhance the integration of PDMPs 
     and electronic health records.
       Opioid Prescribing Guidelines.--The agreement applauds 
     CDC's February 2022 Updated Clinical Practice Guideline for 
     Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, for use by primary care 
     clinicians for chronic pain in outpatient settings outside of 
     active cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life 
     care. The agreement directs CDC to continue its work 
     educating patients and providers, and to encourage uptake and 
     use of the Guidelines. The agreement urges CDC to continue 
     coordination with other Federal agencies in implementation 
     and related updates in safe prescribing practices to ensure 
     consistent, high-quality care standards across the Federal 
     government.
       Public Safety Officer Suicide Reporting System.--The 
     agreement continues funding for the activities described in 
     the Helping Emergency Responders Overcome Act of 2020, as 
     directed in P.L. 116-260.
       Suicide Prevention.--The agreement includes an increase and 
     directs CDC to expand its comprehensive suicide prevention 
     program to implement and evaluate an evidence-based public 
     health approach to suicide prevention with attention to high-
     risk, vulnerable populations and increase research to 
     understand how certain factors, including access to mental 
     health services, contribute to the risk of or protect against 
     suicidal behaviors in different populations. CDC is also 
     directed to expand and enhance its emergency department 
     syndromic surveillance on suicidal behavior and nonfatal 
     suicide-related outcomes to provide near real-time data on 
     suicidal ideation and attempts, disaggregated by race and 
     ethnicity, age, disability status, and sex, in order to 
     inform community-based suicide prevention efforts. CDC is 
     encouraged to use this funding to expand research, increase 
     data collection to inform local responses, and support State 
     health departments and other stakeholders as they develop and 
     implement comprehensive suicide prevention plans.


     NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (NIOSH)

       The agreement provides a total of $351,800,000 for NIOSH in 
     discretionary appropriations. Within this total, the 
     agreement includes the following amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
National Occupational Research Agenda...................    $118,000,000
  Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing....................      27,500,000
Education and Research Centers..........................      31,000,000
Personal Protective Technology..........................      22,000,000
Mining Research.........................................      62,500,000
National Mesothelioma Registry and Tissue Bank..........       1,200,000
Firefighter Cancer Registry.............................       3,000,000
Other Occupational Safety and Health Research...........     114,100,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing.--The agreement includes 
     an increase to expand efforts to protect workers in this 
     sector.
       Analysis of the Impact of COVID-19 in the Workplace.--The 
     agreement directs CDC to conduct an assessment and provide a 
     briefing to the Committees within one year of enactment of 
     this Act on the adequacy of reporting and data collection of 
     COVID-19 infections, outbreaks, and deaths among workers, and 
     recommendations and a professional budget justification for 
     improvements in data collection and reporting by employers, 
     localities, States and the Federal government for COVID-19 
     and future epidemics.
       Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program Mobile Medical 
     Unit.--The agreement directs CDC to prioritize the 
     maintenance of mobile medical units and urges CDC to consider 
     the purchase of an additional mobile medical unit to improve 
     access to screening for miners, as early screening and 
     detection of black lung can improve health outcomes and 
     reduce mortality.
       Education and Research Centers.--The agreement includes an 
     increase to support efforts to reduce work-related injuries 
     and illness.
       Firefighter Cancer Registry.--The agreement includes an 
     increase for this voluntary, anonymous registry system.
       Personal Protective Technologies.--The agreement includes 
     an increase and directs CDC to submit the report requested 
     under this heading in House Report 117-96.
       Total Worker Health.--The agreement provides an increase to 
     expand the program.
       Underground Mine Evacuation Technologies and Human Factors 
     Research.--The agreement provides an increase for grant 
     activities as directed in P.L. 116-94.


                             GLOBAL HEALTH

       The agreement provides $646,843,000 for Global Health 
     activities. Within this total, the agreement includes the 
     following amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Global AIDS Program.....................................    $128,921,000
Global Tuberculosis.....................................       9,722,000
Global Immunization Program.............................     228,000,000
  Polio Eradication.....................................     178,000,000
  Measles and Other Vaccine Preventable Diseases........      50,000,000
Parasitic Diseases and Malaria..........................      27,000,000
Global Public Health Protection.........................     253,200,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Global AIDS.--The agreement includes an increase to advance 
     the global fight against HIV/AIDS.
       Global Public Health Protection.--The agreement includes an 
     increase for CDC to lead global health security activities to 
     prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats 
     and outbreaks around the globe.
       Parasitic Diseases and Malaria.--The agreement includes an 
     increase to enhance parasitic diseases and malaria 
     activities.
       Polio Eradication.--The agreement includes an increase to 
     support CDC activities related to wild poliovirus and 
     vaccine-derived polio surveillance, vaccine procurement, and 
     outbreak response. CDC is urged to continue to provide 
     technical assistance to countries for polio immunization 
     campaigns, conduct environmental surveillance of polio 
     viruses to ensure prompt detection and to prevent potential 
     outbreaks of paralytic polio disease. CDC is directed to 
     provide a briefing on its polio eradication activities within 
     90 days of enactment of this Act.
       Population-based Surveillance Platforms.--The agreement 
     directs at least $4,000,000 to be used to support existing 
     longitudinal population-based infectious disease surveillance 
     platforms that enable comparative analysis between urban and 
     rural populations in the developing world.
       Soil Transmitted Helminth and Related Diseases of 
     Poverty.--The agreement continues $1,500,000 for 
     surveillance, source remediation, and clinical care aimed at 
     reducing soil transmitted helminth to extend the currently 
     funded projects for another year.
       Tuberculosis.--The agreement includes an increase to 
     advance tuberculosis prevention, diagnosis, and treatment 
     efforts.


                PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE

       The agreement provides $862,200,000 for public health 
     preparedness and response activities. Within this total, the 
     agreement includes the following amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative            $715,000,000
 Agreement..............................................
Academic Centers for Public Health Preparedness.........       8,200,000
All Other CDC Preparedness..............................     139,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative 
     Agreement.--The agreement includes an increase for 
     cooperative agreement awards.


                        BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES

       The agreement provides $30,000,000 in discretionary budget 
     authority.
       Atlanta-based Buildings and Facilities.--The agreement 
     includes funding to make

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     progress on CDC's backlog of maintenance and repairs at its 
     Atlanta campuses. In order to protect Americans from health 
     threats and to rapidly respond to public health emergencies, 
     CDC needs a safe, secure, and fully operational 
     infrastructure in the form of its own laboratories, 
     buildings, and facilities. The agreement supports the 
     completion of the Atlanta Masterplan Build Out and recognizes 
     that CDC has over 9,700 employees in Georgia with over 4,000 
     staff in Atlanta currently working in leased office space. 
     Completion of the Atlanta Masterplan Build Out will enable 
     CDC to vacate leased spaces to owned facilities achieving 
     cost savings through lease avoidance and gain operational 
     efficiencies; improve scientific and laboratory 
     collaboration; and enhance teamwork. Additionally, having CDC 
     staff work in CDC owned facilities will provide enhanced 
     security and resiliency for staff, scientific data and other 
     critical public health resources.
       Mine Safety Research Facility.--The agreement notes bill 
     language and funding to support the design and construction 
     for a mine safety research facility to replace the Lake Lynn 
     Experimental Mine and Laboratory were provided in fiscal year 
     2021. The agreement requests the continuation of quarterly 
     updates on progress in the construction of the facility, 
     costs incurred, and unanticipated challenges which may affect 
     timeline or total costs until completion of the facility.


                          CDC WIDE ACTIVITIES

       The agreement provides $493,570,000 for CDC-wide 
     activities, which includes $333,570,000 in discretionary 
     appropriations and $160,000,000 in transfers from the PPH 
     Fund. Within this total, the agreement includes the following 
     amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                             FY 2022
                    Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant......     $160,000,000
Public Health Leadership and Support...................      113,570,000
Infectious Disease Rapid Response Reserve Fund.........       20,000,000
Public Health Infrastructure and Capacity..............      200,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       COVID-19 Testing Failure.--The agreement notes that GAO 
     examined CDC laboratory quality control deficiencies in its 
     July 2021 report COVID-19: Continued Attention Needed to 
     Enhance Federal Preparedness, Response, Service Delivery, and 
     Program Integrity (GAO-21-551) and made recommendations that 
     CDC has agreed to pursue. The lack of clearly defined 
     approval criteria and poor communication of test performance 
     problems within CDC illustrate there is still a need for an 
     assessment of what led to the failure. The agreement includes 
     direction in the Office of the Secretary to establish a Task 
     Force, including participation from outside stakeholders and 
     subject matter experts, to evaluate what contributed to the 
     shortcomings of the first COVID-19 tests, including 
     laboratory irregularities, and what policies, practices and 
     systems should be established to address these issues in the 
     future. The Task Force shall also examine CDC's processes for 
     the development and deployment of diagnostics and its ongoing 
     operations, including communications and electronic lab 
     reporting with clinical, commercial, and State and local 
     public health laboratories. Based on the conclusions of this 
     effort, CDC shall develop an agency-wide coordination plan 
     for developing and deploying assays during a public health 
     emergency that engages a nationwide system, as appropriate, 
     and leverages the expertise offered by the public and private 
     sectors. In addition, the agreement directs CDC to provide an 
     update to the Committees on the status of the implementation 
     of the recommendations made by GAO-21-551 within 180 days of 
     enactment of this Act.
       Infectious Disease Rapid Response Reserve Fund.--The 
     agreement includes an increase toward the replenishment of 
     this fund to ensure that CDC is positioned to respond quickly 
     to an imminent public health emergency.
       Local Health Departments.--The agreement reiterates the 
     language in House Report 117-96 and urges CDC to publicly 
     track and report to the Committees how funds provided to 
     State health departments are passed through to local health 
     departments, including amount, per grant award, by local 
     jurisdiction.
       Public Health Infrastructure and Capacity.--The agreement 
     establishes a new funding line to provide a stable source of 
     resources that is not segmented by disease, condition, or 
     activity. The agreement recognizes that the nation's public 
     health partners need to be better equipped and more flexible 
     to coordinate together to save lives. The agreement directs 
     that no less than 70 percent of this funding be awarded to 
     health departments.
       Public Health Scholars Program.--The agreement commends CDC 
     for its commitment to health equity and workforce development 
     to ensure a future where an increasingly diverse American 
     public benefits from a more diverse and better trained public 
     health workforce. The agreement applauds CDC on the 10th 
     anniversary of the CDC Undergraduate Public Health Scholars 
     (CUPS) Program. The CUPS Program is hereby renamed the John 
     R. Lewis CDC Undergraduate Public Health Scholars Program.
       Rural Health.--The agreement requests CDC assess and submit 
     a report within 180 days of enactment of this Act on the 
     agency's rural-focused efforts and how to strengthen such 
     efforts. The report shall include a review of CDC's recent 
     work to address public health needs in rural America, a 
     catalogue of CDC staff who have been specifically devoted to 
     these activities, and a professional budget justification of 
     what additional activities CDC would undertake in this area, 
     given additional resources.

                  National Institutes of Health (NIH)

       The agreement provides $44,959,000,000 for NIH, including 
     $496,000,000 from the 21st Century Cures Act (P.L. 114-255), 
     an increase of $2,250,000,000, or 5.3 percent, above fiscal 
     year 2021. The agreement provides a funding increase of no 
     less than 3.4 percent above fiscal year 2021 to every 
     Institute and Center (IC).
       The agreement appropriates funds authorized in the 21st 
     Century Cures Act. Per the authorization, $194,000,000 is 
     transferred to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for cancer 
     research; $76,000,000 to the National Institute of 
     Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and $76,000,000 to 
     the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) for the BRAIN 
     Initiative; and $150,000,000 will be allocated from the NIH 
     Innovation Fund for the All of Us precision medicine 
     initiative.
       The Common Fund is supported as a set-aside within the 
     Office of the Director at $657,401,000. In addition, 
     $12,600,000 is provided to support pediatric research as 
     authorized by the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act 
     (P.L. 113-94).
       The agreement directs NIH to include updates on the 
     following research, projects, and programs in the fiscal year 
     2023 Congressional Justification: closing congenital heart 
     disease research gaps; efforts to enhance childhood cancer 
     research efforts, including coordination efforts already 
     underway through the Trans-NIH Pediatric Research Consortium; 
     Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO), 
     including progress made by ECHO-funded research and efforts 
     to include a larger representation of indigenous children 
     into the national cohort; hearing health screening for older 
     adults; maternal infections; efforts to modernize and improve 
     the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Registry; and 
     multiple sulfatase deficiency.


                    NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE (NCI)

       Cancer Survivorship.--The agreement urges NCI to address 
     the unique needs of cancer survivors by continuing to 
     allocate robust funding for Cancer Survivor Support Programs.
       Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI).--The agreement 
     includes $50,000,000 for the third year of the CCDI.
       Childhood Cancer STAR Act.--The agreement includes no less 
     than $30,000,000 for continued implementation of sections of 
     the Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and 
     Research (STAR) Act.
       Deadliest Cancers.--The agreement directs NIH to provide a 
     status update and timeline for the scientific framework (for 
     gastric, esophageal, and gastroesophageal junction cancers) 
     within 60 days of enactment of this Act.
       Cancer Success Rates.--The agreement supports NCI's leading 
     role in advancing cancer research and is encouraged by the 
     scientific breakthroughs in genomics, computational science, 
     immunotherapy, and bioengineering made possible through 
     appropriations over the last decade. The agreement further 
     understands that these scientific advancements have led to a 
     substantial increase in NCI grant applications. To address 
     this ongoing issue, the agreement provides an additional 
     $150,000,000 to NCI.
       Reducing Native American Cancer Disparities.--The agreement 
     urges NCI to continue to support and expand research efforts 
     focused on reducing cancer disparities among Native American 
     populations, which experience overall cancer incidence and 
     mortality rates which are much higher than non-Native 
     populations. The agreement encourages NCI to continue to 
     support efforts to develop durable capacity for Tribally-
     engaged cancer disparities research through an integration of 
     research, education, outreach, and clinical access.


           NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE (NHLBI)

       Cardiovascular Disease Research.--The agreement remains 
     concerned about the prevalence of cardiovascular disease 
     among Americans and supports research into cutting-edge 
     cardiovascular research and drug discovery. This research 
     should focus across disciplines of medicine, immunology, 
     imaging, chemistry, biomedical engineering, physics, 
     statistics, mathematics, and entrepreneurship to design new 
     therapies and therapy delivery systems and strategies that 
     are safer, more effective, and improve patient compliance.
       Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19 Disparities 
     (CEAL) Initiative.--The agreement includes $20,000,000 for 
     the CEAL initiative. This initiative will connect researchers 
     with community organizations and leaders to conduct outreach 
     and increase participation of people from underrepresented 
     communities in clinical trials for COVID-19 treatments and 
     vaccines.
       Congenital Heart Disease (CHD).--The agreement encourages 
     NHLBI to prioritize CHD activities outlined in its strategic 
     plan, including improving understanding of outcomes and co-
     morbidities, modifying treatment options across the lifespan, 
     and accelerating discovery, analysis, and translation by 
     leveraging CHD registries and networks.
       Hemophilia.--The agreement encourages NHLBI to pursue the 
     recommended research agenda from the 2018 State of the 
     Science Workshop, such as longitudinal studies to determine 
     the factors that influence inhibitor development.

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       Hypertension Prevention Research.--The agreement recommends 
     that NIH prioritize research funding on the impacts of 
     exercise and aspirin on hypertension.
       Lymphedema (LE).--The agreement directs NHLBI to increase 
     support for research on LE and to establish a Research 
     Condition Disease Categorization category for research 
     related to lymphedema.
       National Commission on Lymphatic Diseases.--The agreement 
     directs NIH to establish a National Commission on Lymphatic 
     Diseases and to engage with relevant Institutes, Centers, and 
     external stakeholders in establishing this Commission. The 
     agreement directs NIH to provide an update on progress to 
     establish the Commission within 60 days of the enactment of 
     this Act.
       Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF).--The agreement recognizes that 
     pulmonary fibrosis encompasses more than 200 different lung 
     diseases that have many similarities despite having a variety 
     of causes. This heterogeneity presents significant challenges 
     for diagnosis and treatment. Accordingly, the agreement is 
     pleased that the Institute-funded PRECISIONS study, which is 
     testing a potential new treatment and aims to identify 
     genetic variants for certain forms of PF, has moved ahead 
     notwithstanding the challenges posed by the COVID-19 
     pandemic. Given the grim prognosis for most PF patients, the 
     agreement also recognizes the critical need for other areas 
     of research, particularly on common fibrosis pathways, as 
     well as patient-centered clinical research. With additional 
     resources and focus, additional disease mechanisms can be 
     identified, which would allow for enhanced patient-centered 
     care for all of those affected by PF. The agreement requests 
     an update in the fiscal year 2023 Congressional 
     Justification.
       Pulmonary Hypertension.--The agreement encourages NHLBI to 
     continue supporting research into this devastating condition 
     and work with stakeholders to advance priorities such as 
     better understanding disease progression and the relationship 
     to COVID-19, and improving patient care management and 
     clinical outcomes.


     NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH (NIDCR)

       National Dental Practice-Based Research Network (NDPBRN).--
     The agreement recommends that the NIDCR continues funding 
     support of NDPBRN.


   NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES 
                                (NIDDK)

       Type 1 Diabetes.--Given the growing prevalence of diabetes, 
     the agreement is concerned that additional research is needed 
     to determine how to improve the treatment of diabetic foot 
     ulcers to reduce amputations, and urges NIDDK to support such 
     efforts. Further, given the aging population, the agreement 
     urges NIDDK to work with NIA to explore the relationship 
     between diabetes and neurocognitive conditions, such as 
     dementia and Alzheimer's disease.


    NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE (NINDS)

       Frontotemporal Degeneration Research (FTD).--The agreement 
     encourages NIH to continue to support a multi-site network of 
     clinical centers to study genetic and sporadic cases of FTD 
     and maintain progress toward biomarker discovery and drug 
     development in clinical trials. To maximize the value of 
     public investment in these projects and other research, the 
     agreement encourages NIH to improve the secure sharing of 
     data and biological samples from clinical and research 
     settings in a uniform manner, making sure to include all 
     forms of dementia, as different dementias can have similar 
     root causes and pathologies. Development of a data biosphere 
     that supports broad sharing of datasets will enable the 
     broader community of researchers to bring their expertise to 
     bear on the challenges currently confronting Alzheimer's 
     disease and related dementia disorders. The agreement also 
     urges NIH to support efforts to ensure that federally funded 
     dementia research will benefit all families impacted by FTD 
     and other neurodegenerative diseases, regardless of age, 
     racial, ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic, and geographic 
     background.
       Opioids, Stimulants, and Pain Management.--The agreement 
     includes no less than the fiscal year 2021 level for the HEAL 
     Initiative.
       Pain and Addiction Collaborative Research.--The agreement 
     recommends that NIH encourage collaborative research awards 
     through NINDS and the NIDA for pain and addiction treatment 
     and research.


     NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES (NIAID)

       Cellular Immunity.--The agreement supports NIAID advancing 
     efforts to incorporate cell-mediated immunity assessment into 
     the wide range of intramural and extramural COVID-19 studies 
     conducted and supported by NIH, including but not limited to 
     vaccine schedule studies and understanding post-acute 
     sequalae of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
       Centers for AIDS Research.--The agreement includes 
     $71,000,000, an increase of $10,000,000, for this activity as 
     part of the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative.
       Consortium of Food Allergy Research (CoFAR).--The agreement 
     includes $9,100,000, an increase of $3,000,000, for CoFAR to 
     expand its clinical research network to add new centers of 
     excellence in food allergy clinical care and to select such 
     centers from those with proven expertise in food allergy 
     research.
       Herpes Simplex Virus.--The agreement is concerned with the 
     correlation between Herpes Simplex Virus and cognitive 
     decline, including a growing body of research indicating HSV 
     as a contributing factor to Alzheimer's disease, 
     Encephalitis, and Bell's Palsy, among other neurodegenerative 
     diseases. The agreement encourages NIAID to prioritize 
     research and development of curative approaches to Herpes 
     Simplex Virus.
       Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Diseases.--The agreement 
     includes a $18,000,000 increase for Lyme Disease and other 
     tick-borne illnesses research. The agreement encourages NIAID 
     to use these funds to prioritize the support of meritorious 
     research that informs a better understanding of Lyme disease 
     pathogenesis and encourages the development of improved 
     diagnostics and vaccines. The agreement directs NIH to 
     leverage this understanding to develop new tools that can 
     more effectively prevent, diagnose, and treat Lyme disease, 
     including long-term effects, and other tick-borne diseases. 
     The agreement encourages the promotion and development of 
     potential vaccine candidates for Lyme disease and other tick-
     borne diseases. The agreement directs NIH to conduct research 
     to better understand modes of transmission for Lyme and other 
     tick-borne diseases, including vertical transmission. The 
     agreement urges NIH to incentivize new investigators to enter 
     the field of Lyme disease and other tick-borne disease 
     research. The agreement directs NIH to coordinate with CDC on 
     publishing reports that assess diagnostic advancements, 
     methods for prevention, the state of treatment, and links 
     between tick-borne disease and psychiatric illnesses.
       Regional Biocontainment Laboratories (RBL).--The agreement 
     directs $52,000,000 to be evenly divided among the 12 RBLs to 
     support efforts to prevent, prepare for, and respond to 
     infectious disease outbreaks, including, but not limited to: 
     (1) conducting research on developing testing for antiviral 
     compounds, new vaccines, and point of care tests; (2) 
     conducting research on validating methods for identifying 
     suitable convalescent plasma for screening donors and other 
     prophylactic methods to prevent infections; (3) supporting 
     operations costs and facilities upgrades for purchase of 
     equipment to speed drug discovery and testing; and (4) 
     training new researchers in biosafety level 3 practices.
       Responding to Infectious Diseases.--The agreement provides 
     no less than $540,000,000, an increase of $15,000,000, to 
     support NIAID research to combat antimicrobial resistance 
     (AMR) and the training of new investigators to improve AMR 
     research capacity as outlined in the 2020-2025 National 
     Action Plan to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria. The 
     agreement directs NIAID to work with other HHS agencies to 
     provide the briefing described under the section of the 
     explanatory statement dealing with the Office of the 
     Secretary. In addition, NIAID should describe the focus of 
     its initiatives to strengthen and diversify the ID/HIV 
     research workforce for fiscal years 2022-2023.
       SARS-CoV-2-Immunity: Understanding Diversity and Addressing 
     Disparity.--The agreement includes $5,000,000 to engage with 
     not-for-profit research institutes and/or academic 
     institutions to undertake a series of deep immune profiling 
     studies of individuals who acquired the SARS-CoV-2 virus in 
     these underserved and understudied population communities 
     with the intent of demonstrating a proven pipeline to 
     ascertain immune dysfunction and outcomes applicable to any 
     human condition or population.
       Universal Flu Vaccine.--The agreement provides not less 
     than $245,000,000, an increase of $25,000,000, for research 
     to develop a universal influenza vaccine.


         NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES (NIGMS)

       Increasing Diversity in Biomedical Research.--The agreement 
     provides an increase of $6,359,000 for NIGMS for programs, 
     including but not limited to the Maximizing Opportunities for 
     Scientific and Academic Independent Careers, Minority Access 
     to Research Careers, Bridges to the Baccalaureate, 
     Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student 
     Enhancement, and the new programs under development, 
     including the Advancing Research Careers diversity program 
     for PhD to postdoctoral transitions and the Diversity Medical 
     Science Training Program, that train the next generation of 
     scientists while enhancing the diversity of the biomedical 
     research workforce and enabling promising scientists to 
     pursue high-risk, high-reward research.
       Institutional Development Awards (IDeA).--The agreement 
     provides $410,453,000, an increase of $13,384,000, for the 
     IDeA program.


  EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                          DEVELOPMENT (NICHD)

       Impact of COVID-19 on Children.--The agreement includes an 
     increase of $7,500,000 for NICHD to support additional 
     research into multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children 
     (MIS-C) and other ways in which COVID-19 affects children.
       Implementing a Maternal Health and Pregnancy Outcomes 
     Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) Initiative.--The agreement 
     includes $43,400,000, an increase of $30,000,000, for the 
     IMPROVE Initiative.
       Physical Activity Promotion and Obesity Prevention for 
     Preschool Children.--The agreement encourages NIH to support 
     research to identify sustainable physical activity 
     interventions for preschool children.
       Research in Pregnant and Lactating Women.--The agreement 
     includes $1,500,000

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     within NICHD to contract with the National Academies of 
     Science, Education, and Medicine (NASEM) to convene a panel 
     with specific legal, ethical, regulatory, and policy 
     expertise to develop a framework for addressing medicolegal 
     and liability issues when planning or conducting research 
     specific to pregnant people and lactating people. 
     Specifically, this panel should include individuals with 
     ethical and legal expertise in clinical trials and research; 
     regulatory expertise; plaintiffs' attorneys; pharmaceutical 
     representatives with tort liability and research expertise; 
     insurance industry representatives; Federally funded 
     researchers who work with pregnant and lactating women; 
     representatives of institutional review boards; and health 
     policy experts.


                   NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING (NIA)

       Addressing Participant Diversity in Clinical Trials.--The 
     agreement encourages NIH to establish an operating efficiency 
     working group to conduct an assessment of NIA's internal 
     infrastructure needs related to research operations, 
     recruitment and engagement--with an emphasis on 
     underrepresented communities--and report back to the 
     Committees within 180 days of enactment of this Act. This 
     review should assess gaps related to the infrastructure 
     needed to ensure its Federally-funded clinical trials are 
     well-designed and accessible to underrepresented communities 
     at greatest risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias 
     and outline the resources needed to address identified gaps, 
     including the appropriate staffing levels needed to support 
     research optimization, grant oversight, and compliance.
       Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias.--The agreement 
     provides an increase of $289,000,000. Within 30 days of 
     release of the fiscal year 2023 budget, NIA is directed to 
     provide the Committees a summary of specific accomplishments 
     it has achieved in ADRD research and its priorities for the 
     coming year. These will focus on specific scientific 
     questions NIA has answered in the past year, expects to 
     answer in the next two years, and would use the funding 
     requested in fiscal year 2023 to answer in its pursuit of 
     treatments and a cure. NIA is directed to provide similar 
     specific details to the Committees within 60 days of 
     enactment of this Act for its fiscal year 2023 Professional 
     Judgement Budget that it released in August 2021, and in 
     future Professional Judgement Budgets. The agreement requests 
     the NASEM to brief the Committees within 60 days of enactment 
     of this Act on the resources it could bring to support 
     efforts to identify and pursue the most promising areas of 
     research into preventing and treating ADRD.
       Center on Exposome Studies in Alzheimer's Disease and 
     Related Dementias (ADRD).-- The agreement directs NIA to 
     establish research infrastructure in the form of a Center(s) 
     on Exposome Studies in ADRD, as described in House Report 
     117-96, and includes $15,000,000 to facilitate these efforts.


                NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE (NIDA)

       E-cigarettes.--The agreement encourages NIDA to conduct 
     interdisciplinary research on the relationship between the 
     vaping of tobacco and marijuana, with an emphasis on risk 
     perceptions, decision-making and neuroscience. NIDA is also 
     encouraged to support targeted research on the use and 
     consequences of e-cigarettes in pediatric populations.
       Opioids, Stimulants, and Pain Management.--The agreement 
     includes no less than $345,295,000 for the HEAL Initiative.
       Medication-assisted Treatment for Methamphetamines.--While 
     there are currently approved medications for alcohol and 
     opioid addiction, there remains no FDA-approved medication 
     for methamphetamine addiction. The agreement urges NIDA to 
     continue their ongoing trials to expeditiously find and 
     approve a treatment for methamphetamine.
       Methamphetamine and Other Stimulants.--The agreement 
     encourages NIDA to examine the cardiovascular effects of 
     methamphetamine misuse and implications for treatment, and to 
     partner with institutions in areas with higher numbers of 
     methamphetamine-related deaths compared to opioid-related 
     deaths and that have demonstrated research expertise in 
     methamphetamine and cardiovascular diseases.
       Overdose Prevention Centers.--The agreement acknowledges 
     the controversial nature of Overdose Prevention Centers and 
     encourages NIDA to support research on the potential public 
     health impacts of these centers.
       Pain and Addiction Collaborative Research.--The agreement 
     recommends that the NIH encourage collaborative research 
     awards through NINDS and the NIDA for pain and addiction 
     treatment and research.


               NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH (NIMH)

       Impact of COVID on Mental Health.--The agreement includes 
     an increase of $20,000,000 for NIMH to expand research on the 
     impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on mental health.
       Veteran Suicide Prevention.--The agreement is aware of NIMH 
     collaborations with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 
     and the Department of Defense (DoD) to strategically plan and 
     coordinate research particularly around the area of suicide. 
     The agreement encourages NIMH to continue to support research 
     related to veteran suicide in the context of the NIMH suicide 
     prevention portfolio, and to work with VA and DoD to identify 
     gaps or opportunities where NIMH research may enhance suicide 
     mitigation efforts for this at-risk population.


            NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NHGRI)

       Data-sharing and Privacy.--The agreement encourages NIH to 
     convene a working group to determine whether there are 
     national security risks associated with potential 
     collaborations where individually identifiable health 
     information of the people of the U.S. is exchanged. This 
     working group should evaluate what types of data sharing 
     could pose a national security risk among private, public, 
     and academic institutions that partake in science and 
     technology research and their research partners, with a focus 
     on international partners. This should include a review of 
     what circumstances would constitute a sharing of data and 
     make recommendations regarding areas where Federal agencies 
     can coordinate to increase education to such private and 
     academic research institutions that partake in science and 
     technology research to ensure the institutions can better 
     protect themselves from national security threats with a 
     strengthened understanding of intellectual property rights, 
     research ethics, data misuse, as well as education on how to 
     recognize and report such threats.
       Emerging Centers of Excellence in Genomic Sciences.--The 
     agreement includes no less than $15,000,000 for this activity 
     as described in House Report 117-96.
       Germline RUNX1 Mutations.--The agreement commends NHGRI for 
     collaborating with NCI to launch and maintain the RUNX1--FPD 
     Clinical Research Study, the only longitudinal natural 
     history study of patients with germline RUNX1 mutations and 
     their families. This study has broad implications for the 
     fields of hematology and oncology because it offers 
     researchers the rare opportunity to monitor the genomic 
     evolution of cancer within a precancerous population in real 
     time. The agreement urges NHGRI to provide additional 
     resources for the study to allow more patients to 
     participate. In addition, the agreement encourages NHGRI to 
     continue to work towards implementation of an open-source 
     database to share data in real-time for the benefit of the 
     entire research community and the patients and their families 
     searching for answers.


    NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND INTEGRATIVE HEALTH (NCCIH)

       Creative Arts Therapy.--The agreement recognizes the 
     potential of creative art therapies as tools to address 
     disorders of aging. However, clinical studies on these 
     applications either have been limited in scale, not designed 
     within a scientific and statistically significant framework, 
     or produced only anecdotal results. The Trans-NIH Music and 
     Health Work Group is currently developing a toolkit to 
     improve future clinical trials for music-based interventions 
     to treat and prevent disorders of aging. NCCIH is directed to 
     provide the Committees with a report within 180 days of 
     enactment of this Act on the progress of the toolkit's 
     development and any plans for pilot projects to test and 
     refine the toolkit, including future funding needs.
       Pain and Pain Management Research.--The agreement urges 
     NIH, along with DoD and VA, to continue to support research 
     on non-pharmacological treatments for pain management and 
     comorbidities including opioid abuse and disorders in 
     military personnel, veterans, and their families. The 
     agreement urges the NIH, VA, and DOD to expand research on 
     non-pharmacological treatments to ensure the best quality of 
     care for veterans and service members. The Comprehensive 
     Addiction and Recovery Act (P.L. 114-198) calls for an 
     expansion of research and education on and delivery of 
     complimentary and integrative health to veterans, and the 
     NCCIH can play an important role in coordinating efforts with 
     the VA, DOD, and other relevant agencies.


  NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES (NIMHD)

       Cardiovascular Disease (CVD).--CVD, including heart disease 
     and stroke, is the leading cause of death in the U.S. and 
     worldwide, disproportionally affecting minority populations, 
     and accounting for approximately 1 in 3 CVD events in U.S. 
     adults. The agreement encourages NIMHD to focus funding on 
     reducing disparities in CVD in African Americans from the 
     rural South and among poor people, where the burden is 
     significant.
       Chronic Diseases and Health Disparities.--In fiscal year 
     2021, NIMHD undertook an initiative to support regional 
     comprehensive research and coordinating centers on the 
     prevention, treatment, and management of multiple chronic 
     diseases associated with health disparities. The agreement 
     remains strongly supportive of this effort and includes 
     sufficient funding for NIMHD to continue this effort in 
     fiscal year 2022.
       Health Disparities Research.--The agreement includes an 
     increase of $50,000,000 for NIMHD to support research related 
     to identifying and reducing health disparities.
       Research Centers in Minority Institutions.--The agreement 
     recognizes the importance of the RCMI Research Coordination 
     Network in ensuring that collectively, institutions can 
     engage in multi-site collaborative research, and provides 
     $5,000,000 for this activity.


      NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES (NCATS)

       Advanced Genomic Technologies.--The agreement strongly 
     supports NCATS, in collaboration with the NIH All of Us 
     Research Program, continuing to apply and evaluate advanced 
     genomic technologies, specifically long-read genome 
     sequencing. Collaboration with multiple entities including 
     research institutes with expertise in the application of

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     short-read sequencing in rare genetic disorders and depth of 
     experience with long-read sequencing; academic and clinical 
     institutions with the capability to identify and include 
     family units to participate in this effort; and clinical 
     geneticists with extensive experience in variant 
     identification and analysis is strongly encouraged. Special 
     emphasis should be placed on the inclusion of minority 
     populations.
       Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs).--The 
     agreement includes $606,646,000 for the CTSA program, an 
     increase of $19,805,000 above the fiscal year 2021 enacted 
     level. The agreement maintains its strong support for the 
     CTSA program and commends the national network for their 
     efforts to modernize the translation of research into health 
     benefits across the full spectrum of medical research, for 
     their contributions to the COVID-19 response, and for 
     addressing health disparities, health equity, and enhancing 
     rural care. The agreement is concerned the recent CTSA 
     Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) could alter the CTSA's 
     strategic direction and divert appropriated resources 
     intended for CTSA hubs. Resources provided by the agreement 
     are intended to enhance funding for hubs, thus bolstering the 
     national network. Therefore, NCATS is directed to ensure that 
     any CTSA hub that has successfully recompeted through the new 
     FOA does not receive more than a 5 percent reduction in total 
     annual support for its core hub responsibilities. In 
     addition, the agreement directs that all CTSA hub partner 
     organizations that contribute key resources and expertise to 
     a CTSA hub's translational work should continue to be treated 
     as full partners, including treatment of their entire NIH 
     research enterprises in the calculation of hub budgets. This 
     will support local CTSA hubs and maintain collaborations with 
     community organizations and research and academic partners 
     that expand the full spectrum of research and translation, 
     and foster innovation. Further, the agreement strongly 
     encourages NCATS to fund expanded programs that address the 
     significant disparities and burden of disease 
     disproportionally affecting minority and special populations 
     and to substantively respond. Finally, the agreement 
     reiterates previous direction that NCATS inform the 
     Committees prior to any planned changes to the size of hub 
     awards, scope of the program, or strategic changes to the 
     program, specifically noting that the Committees shall be 
     consulted prior to any new CTSA initiatives being 
     implemented.
       Cures Acceleration Network (CAN).--The agreement continues 
     its support for CAN to further reduce barriers between 
     research discovery and clinical trials at $60,000,000, the 
     same as the fiscal year 2021 enacted level. The agreement 
     urges NCATS to consider supporting activities within CAN and 
     other NCATS' offices or divisions that focus on precision 
     medicine--from precision prevention, to precision diagnosis, 
     to precision therapeutics. Activities should also include the 
     ability to generate the data to demonstrate the efficacy and 
     cost effectiveness of precision medicine.
       Full Spectrum of Medical Research.--The agreement supports 
     NIH's efforts to advance the full spectrum of medical 
     research, which ensures breakthroughs in basic science are 
     translated into therapies and diagnostic tools that benefit 
     patient care while disseminating cutting-edge information to 
     the professional community. The agreement notes the 
     importance of flagship initiatives, including CTSAs, to these 
     important efforts.


                      OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR (OD)

       All of Us Research Program/Precision Medicine Initiative.--
     The agreement provides a total of $541,000,000 for the All of 
     US precision medicine initiative, $41,000,000 above the 
     fiscal year 2021 enacted level. The agreement directs NIH to 
     continue its efforts to recruit and retain participants from 
     historically underrepresented populations in biomedical 
     research, and to expand its efforts to enroll participants 
     from geographically diverse communities. To achieve this 
     diversity, NIH is encouraged to support additional avenues 
     for enrollment from the Midwest and Great Plains regions that 
     facilitate participation from both rural and urban 
     communities. These efforts will help ensure that All of Us 
     scientific resources reflect the rich diversity of our 
     country and that advances made from this program will benefit 
     the health of all Americans.
       Alternatives to Animals in Research and Testing.--The 
     agreement directs NIH to submit a report not later than 180 
     days after enactment of this Act on the programs to support 
     the use of alternatives to animals in research, including: 
     (1) what programs currently exist at NIH for developing, 
     promoting, and funding alternatives to animal research and 
     testing; and (2) a plan for including the reduction, where 
     possible and appropriate, the number of animals used in 
     Federally-funded research and testing.
       Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Screening Tools.--The 
     agreement urges NIH to update its analysis of validated 
     screening tools, including digital screening tools that can 
     reliably detect mild cognitive impairment. This review should 
     focus on identifying tools that have been developed in the 
     time since the last assessment was conducted and on providing 
     information to assist healthcare providers in regularly using 
     such tools to assess the cognitive health of their patients.
       Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).--The agreement is 
     aware of the significant need to expand scientific 
     understanding of ALS and to translate the science more 
     rapidly into effective treatments that can make ALS a livable 
     disease. To achieve these outcomes as soon as possible, the 
     agreement includes $25,000,000 to implement the Accelerating 
     Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act (P.L. 117-79). The 
     agreement directs NIH to organize a trans-agency initiative 
     to develop an ALS research strategic plan, as described in 
     House Report 117-96. The agreement strongly supports the 
     Transformative Research Award program for ALS and directs the 
     Director to continue to fund this critical initiative in 
     fiscal year 2022. Finally, the agreement includes $1,000,000 
     to commission a study by NASEM to identify and recommend 
     actions for the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to 
     undertake to make ALS a livable disease within a decade.
       Animal Model Validation.--The agreement encourages NIH to 
     provide a report to the Committees no later than one year 
     after enactment outlining the progress of its efforts to 
     improve animal model validation, support the development of 
     models to improve translation, and what additional funding 
     may be required.
       Analyzing Sex and Race/Ethnicity Differences and Long-Term 
     Health Effects of COVID-19.--To better understand how sex 
     differences and race/ethnicity variables are implicated in 
     the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, the agreement 
     encourages the ICs in coordination with the OD and Office of 
     Research on Women's Health to support research that studies 
     how sex as a biological variable and social element, and 
     race/ethnicity variables impact short and long-term outcomes 
     due to infection with SARS-CoV-2.
       Artificial Intelligence/Big Data.--The agreement directs 
     NIH to develop best practices to standardize controlled data 
     access processes. Such an effort will streamline access, 
     support the emerging NIH data science infrastructure, and 
     meet the needs of the research community while preserving the 
     original protections agreed to when the data were collected, 
     taking into account potential cost and burden. It should 
     consider lessons learned from past efforts, review emerging 
     processes and technologies being piloted by ICO repositories, 
     and develop new potential solutions that leverage 
     technological advancements. The agreement directs NIH, within 
     one year after enactment of this Act, to develop and present 
     recommendations for: potential common solutions for 
     streamlining and centralizing controlled access mechanisms 
     through implementation improvements and use of emerging 
     technological advancements; make controlled access data 
     stored in NIH-operated and supported repositories more 
     findable and accessible; and assess the extent to which 
     increased interoperability of controlled access repositories 
     leads inadvertently to gaps in oversight and control, 
     including explicit consideration of increased re-
     identification risk. The agreement directs ODSS and NLS to 
     continue to provide quarterly updates to the Committees on 
     its efforts.
       Biomedical Research Facilities.--The agreement provides 
     $60,000,000 for grants to public and/or not-for-profit 
     entities to expand, remodel, renovate, or alter existing 
     research facilities or construct new research facilities as 
     authorized under 42 U.S.C. section 283k.
       BRAIN Initiative.--Overall, the agreement provides 
     $620,000,000 for the BRAIN Initiative, including $152,000,000 
     authorized in the Cures Act. The overall funding level 
     includes $70,000,000 for the Human Brain Cell Atlas; 
     $30,000,000 for the Armamentarium for Brain Cell Access; and 
     $10,000,000 for the Brain Connectivity Map.
       Building Diversity in Cell Models of Human Disease.--The 
     agreement encourages NIH to consider funding the development 
     of a specialized suite of ethnically diverse and tissue-
     specific cell lines with structures labeled for studying 
     disease mechanism and detection. If funded, the originating 
     cells should be collected from volunteers in a culturally 
     sensitive manner who have consented to allow for derivation 
     of cell line(s), distribution, and use. NIH should consider 
     collaborating with experienced research community leaders in 
     building cell line collections that are publicly accessible.
       Cerebral Palsy.--The agreement strongly encourages NIH to 
     strengthen, accelerate, and coordinate cerebral palsy 
     research across the lifespan, including in areas identified 
     as priorities in the 2017 NINDS/NICHD Strategic Plan for CP 
     Research, such as basic and translational discoveries, 
     including neuroprotective, regenerative medicine and 
     mechanisms of neuroplasticity, as well as studies aimed at 
     early detection and intervention, comparative effectiveness 
     and functional outcomes. The agreement encourages that a 
     follow-up workshop be held in 2022 in conjunction with key 
     stakeholders to provide updates on promising research to 
     refine the specific opportunities that were identified in the 
     5 to 10 year NIH strategic plan, including early detection 
     and intervention.
       Chimera Research.--The agreement supports NIH's funding 
     limitation regarding the introduction of human pluripotent 
     cells into non-human vertebrate animal pre-gastrulation stage 
     embryos. The agreement takes seriously the bio-ethical 
     considerations regarding the creation of human-animal 
     chimeras and the continuation of research using these cells.
       Collection and Reporting of Animal Research Numbers and 
     Agency Funding.--The agreement recognizes that Congress has 
     expressed an interest in reducing the use of nonhuman

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     animals in NIH-funded research and replacing animals with 
     valid and reliable non-animal alternatives when appropriate 
     for the science. In the National Institutes of Health 
     Revitalization Act of 1993, Congress first requested that the 
     agency create a plan for doing so. The agreement also 
     recognizes the scientific community's stated commitment to 
     the ``three Rs'' of replacement, reduction, and refinement. 
     Integral to that commitment are the accurate counting of 
     animals used in research and testing and the accurate 
     reporting of NIH funding dedicated to projects involving 
     animals. The agreement recognizes that it has been NIH's 
     policy since 1985 to collect an ``average daily inventory'' 
     of vertebrate animals housed in research facilities that wish 
     to receive agency funding. The agreement understands that 
     domestic facilities are required to file such documentation 
     every four years as part of an Animal Welfare Assurance and 
     that copies of the documents are available to the public only 
     through Freedom of Information Act requests. The agreement 
     requests a report from NIH within one year of enactment of 
     this Act outlining a plan for collaborating with USDA to 
     increase the accuracy and transparency of the data collected. 
     The plan should also include details on how NIH will address 
     any incomplete reporting of NIH funded research with animals 
     and encourage prospective documentation of study design and 
     analysis plans.
       Communications with the Committees.--NIH shall consult with 
     the Committees prior to additional changes with the 
     Congressional liaison staff. NIH shall notify the Committees 
     of any limitations to full compliance with directives 
     included in a report or explanatory statement, and such 
     notification shall be provided within 15 days of the public 
     release of any such report or statement. In addition, NIH is 
     directed to provide an Excel spreadsheet with the fiscal year 
     2022 enacted level and the fiscal year 2023 request level by 
     Institute and Center, including all ongoing or proposed 
     initiatives by Institute or Center, as well as any programs 
     identified with a funding level in the fiscal year 2022 
     explanatory statement, when the fiscal year 2023 
     Congressional Justification is published.
       Cybersecurity.--The agreement includes an increase of 
     $40,000,000 to strengthen cybersecurity at NIH.
       Diversity of the Biomedical Research Workforce.--The 
     agreement directs NIH to study, to the extent possible, the 
     race, ethnicity, age, disability status, and career stage 
     breakdown of the impact of COVID-19 on participation in the 
     workforce by monitoring the types of awards received from and 
     awarded to institutions for 2 years beginning 90 days after 
     enactment of this Act. If pre-pandemic data on these 
     demographics are not available, the agreement directs the NIH 
     to collect them going forward. If the data demonstrate that 
     fewer women are applying for grants, then it is imperative 
     that NIH take steps to address this disparity. The agreement 
     requests a status update to the Committees from NIH on this 
     research in the fiscal year 2023 Congressional Justification, 
     as well as the steps being taken to maintain the diversity of 
     the research workforce.
       Dual Purpose/Dual Benefit Research.--The agreement strongly 
     urges a continued partnership between NIH, National Institute 
     of Food and Agriculture, and the other relevant 115 Federal 
     research and development agencies to develop a next 
     generation interagency program using agriculturally important 
     large animal species. The agreement expects NIH to continue 
     this important cooperative partnership program to further 
     strengthen ties between human medicine, veterinary medicine, 
     and animal sciences, with the goal to improve animal and 
     human health and provide enhanced applicability and return on 
     investment in research.
       Federal Law Enforcement.--The agreement notes that the 
     explanatory statement accompanying the Commerce, Justice, 
     Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022 
     directs the Attorney General to ensure implementation of 
     evidence-based training programs on de-escalation and the 
     use-of-force, as well as on police community relations, and 
     the protection of civil rights, that are broadly applicable 
     and scalable to all Federal law enforcement agencies. The 
     agreement further notes that several agencies funded by this 
     Act employ Federal law enforcement officers and are Federal 
     Law Enforcement Training Centers partner organizations. The 
     agreement directs such agencies to consult with the Attorney 
     General regarding the implementation of these programs for 
     their law enforcement officers. The agreement further directs 
     such agencies to submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations on their efforts relating to such 
     implementation no later than 180 days after consultation with 
     the Attorney General. In addition, the agreement directs such 
     agencies, to the extent that they are not already 
     participating, to consult with the Attorney General and the 
     Director of the FBI regarding participation in the National 
     Use-of-Force Data Collection. The agreement further directs 
     such agencies to submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations, no later than 180 days after enactment of 
     this Act, on their efforts to so participate.
       Firearm Injury and Mortality Prevention Research.--The 
     agreement includes $12,500,000, the same level as fiscal year 
     2021, to conduct research on firearm injury and mortality 
     prevention. Given violence and suicide have a number of 
     causes, the agreement recommends NIH take a comprehensive 
     approach to studying these underlying causes and evidence-
     based methods of prevention of injury, including crime 
     prevention. All grantees under this section will be required 
     to fulfill requirements around open data, open code, pre-
     registration of research projects, and open access to 
     research articles consistent with the National Science 
     Foundation's open science principles. The Director is to 
     report to the Committees within 30 days of enactment of this 
     Act on implementation schedules and procedures for grant 
     awards, which strive to ensure that such awards support 
     ideologically and politically unbiased research projects.
       Foreign Influence.--To support NIH's efforts to 
     expeditiously complete foreign influence investigations, the 
     agreement includes $2,500,000 for this activity within the 
     Office of Extramural Research. The agreement directs NIH to 
     provide biannual briefings on the progress of these 
     investigations.
       Humane Research Alternatives.--Recognizing that humane, 
     cost-effective, and scientifically suitable non-animal 
     methods are available for certain research models, the 
     agreement directs NIH to appoint a working group to make 
     recommendations for encouraging the use of non-animal models 
     where appropriate in NIH intramural and extramural research, 
     including epidemiological and clinical studies, cell-based 
     methods, computer modeling and simulation, and human tissue 
     studies, with consideration for complexity of the biomedical 
     research area, and the current applicability and 
     translatability of the non-animal model. The panel should 
     also report on effectively moving research away from methods 
     that rely on poorly-defined animal models to methods that 
     rely on validated non-animal alternatives. The working group 
     should review and recommend means of encouraging greater 
     reliance on validated human-relevant non-animal methods/
     approaches that are appropriate for identified research 
     areas. Membership should include individuals with proven 
     knowledge of/experience with non-animal research methods; 
     with proven knowledge of/expertise with animal research 
     models; with expertise in evaluating the adequacy of 
     justifications described in research applications and 
     proposals for why the research goals cannot be accomplished 
     using an alternative model; and with knowledge of research 
     animal welfare, and relevant scientific limitations. The 
     Committee asks that NIH provide a report of the working 
     group's findings within 180 days of enactment of this Act.
       IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network.--The 
     agreement includes no less than the fiscal year 2021 funding 
     level to continue this program.
       INCLUDE Initiative.--The agreement includes no less than 
     $75,000,000, an increase of $10,000,000 above the fiscal year 
     2021 enacted level, within OD for the INCLUDE Initiative. The 
     agreement is pleased that this multi-year, trans-NIH research 
     initiative has enabled significant advances in understanding 
     immune system dysregulation, new research into the connection 
     with Alzheimer's disease, and the creation of national Data 
     Coordinating Center, all of which may dramatically improve 
     the health and quality of life of individuals with Down 
     syndrome as well as millions of typical individuals. The 
     agreement encourages NIH to pursue some of the most neglected 
     areas of research and care such as health disparities for 
     African Americans with Down syndrome, mosaic Down syndrome, 
     those with the dual diagnosis of Down syndrome and autism, 
     and new studies on metabolic dysregulation. The agreement 
     requests the Director provide an updated plan within 60 days 
     of enactment of this Act that includes a timeline, 
     description of potential grant opportunities and deadlines 
     for all expected funding opportunities so that young 
     investigators and new research institutions may be further 
     encouraged to explore research in this space. This plan 
     should also incorporate and increase pipeline research 
     initiatives specific to Down syndrome.
       Long Haul COVID-19.--The agreement directs NIH to post on 
     its website a summary of the status of the RECOVER Initiative 
     at least every 6 months and, as appropriate, any findings 
     from the study.
       Chimpanzee Maintenance, Care, and Transportation.--The 
     agreement directs NIH to provide a report to the Committees 
     quarterly, beginning no later than June 1, 2022, that shall 
     include: (1) the number of chimpanzees transported to the 
     national sanctuary over the last quarter; (2) a census of all 
     government-owned and supported chimpanzees, remaining, if 
     any, at the Alamogordo Primate Facility (APF), the Keeling 
     Center for Comparative Medicine and Research (KCCMR), or the 
     Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC); and (3) a 
     list of any chimpanzee deaths, including details on the cause 
     of death and the specific rationale behind any euthanasia 
     decisions, that have occurred at any time after January 1, 
     2020, at APF, KCCMR, SNPRC, and the national sanctuary 
     system.
       Mucopolysaccharide (MPS) Diseases.--The agreement 
     encourages expanded research of treatments for neurological, 
     inflammatory, cardiovascular, and skeletal manifestations of 
     MPS, with an emphasis on gene therapy. The agreement 
     encourages the NIH, NCATS, and NINDS to increase funding to 
     grantees to incentivize MPS research, particularly given the 
     aging and small population of current researchers.
       Office of AIDS Research.--The agreement includes no less 
     than $3,194,000,000 across NIH for HIV/AIDS research.
       Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research 
     (OBSSR).--The agreement includes $38,932,000 for OBSSR.

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       Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH).--The agreement 
     includes $59,480,000 for ORWH. Within this amount, the 
     agreement includes $4,000,000 for the Building 
     Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) 
     program to fund additional BIRCWH fellows at existing sites 
     with a goal of increasing the diversity of the scholars, 
     sites, and research areas supported by the program, and to 
     expand the number of sites to increase the number and skills 
     of investigators who conduct research on sex influences on 
     health and disease.
       Office of the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce 
     Diversity (COSWD).--The agreement includes $16,190,000 to the 
     Office of the COSWD.
       Osteopathic Medical Schools.--The agreement recognizes that 
     increased access to research funding for the osteopathic 
     profession will significantly bolster NIH's capacity to 
     support robust recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, address 
     health disparities in rural and medically-underserved 
     populations, and advance research in primary care, 
     prevention, and treatment. The agreement requests an update 
     on the current status of NIH funding to colleges of 
     osteopathic medicine and representation of doctors of 
     osteopathic medicine on NIH National Advisory Councils and 
     standing study sections in the fiscal year 2023 Congressional 
     Justification.
       Pediatric Clinical Trials Authorized under Best 
     Pharmaceuticals for Children Act.--The agreement directs that 
     funding authorized by the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children 
     Act (P.L. 107-109) include research to prepare for and 
     conduct clinical trials.
       Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS).--
     Approximately one-third of individuals infected with SARS-
     CoV-2 are developing long-lasting symptoms referred to as 
     post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC). A significant 
     portion of individuals with PASC experience moderate to 
     severe autonomic nervous system dysfunction 6 months after 
     the onset of infection. Reports suggest that the most common 
     type of autonomic nervous system dysfunction in PASC patients 
     is POTS. There are no FDA approved treatments for POTS or 
     PASC associated autonomic nervous system dysfunction at this 
     time, and patients suffer with significant disability and a 
     poor quality-of-life. The agreement encourages NIH to ensure 
     that the $1,150,000,000 investment Congress has provided to 
     NIH for PASC research is used, in part, to identify how 
     viruses like SARS-CoV-2 result in autonomic nervous system 
     dysfunction, such as POTS, and how we can most effectively 
     treat PASC associated autonomic nervous system dysfunction, 
     including PASC associated POTS. The agreement encourages NIH 
     to leverage the expertise of research centers that have 
     previously studied post-viral POTS in pursuing these 
     important research questions.
       Prenatal Opioid Use Disorders and Neonatal Abstinence 
     Syndrome (NAS).--The agreement encourages NIH to coordinate 
     with other agencies at HHS to support additional research on 
     prevention, identification, and treatment of prenatal opioid 
     exposure and NAS, including the best methods for screening 
     and treating pregnant women for opioid use disorder and the 
     best methods for screening for NAS. Additionally, the 
     agreement encourages NIH to build on the ACT NOW study to 
     enhance understanding of the impact of pharmacological and 
     non-pharmacological treatment techniques on costs and 
     outcomes in the short-term and longitudinally. The agreement 
     further encourages NIH to coordinate with other agencies at 
     HHS to support research on innovative care models to optimize 
     care and long-term outcomes for families.
       Preventing Chronic Disease in Rural Areas.--The agreement 
     urges NIH support research to improve outcomes for rural 
     patients with chronic illnesses and improve abilities of 
     families of these patients to support their treatments.
       Radiopharmaceuticals.--The agreement encourages NIH to 
     explore the use of new isotopes and novel applications for 
     radiopharmaceuticals and leverage next-generation advanced 
     manufacturing techniques for isotope production being made by 
     DOE-funded research universities and National Laboratories.
       Rare Disease Research.--The agreement urges NIH to expand 
     research on rare genetic and chromosomal abnormalities, such 
     as 7q11.23 Duplication Syndrome and Hereditary Spastic 
     Paraparesis 49. The agreement requests an update on these 
     activities in the fiscal year 2023 Congressional 
     Justification.
       Research Involving Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogens.--
     The agreement supports a robust evaluation of whether the HHS 
     Framework for Guiding Funding Decisions about Proposed 
     Research Involving Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care 
     and Oversight has achieved its intended purpose and whether 
     the scope of research it covers is sufficient. The agreement 
     directs HHS and NIH to convene the National Science Advisory 
     Board for Biosecurity and conduct such a review.
       State of Bereavement Care.--The agreement is aware of 
     research indicating that individuals and families suffer 
     severe health, social, and economic declines following the 
     death of a loved one-be it a child, sibling, spouse, or 
     parent. The agreement encourages OMH, ACF, CDC, CMS, HRSA, 
     IHS, NIH, and SAMHSA to examine their activities to advance 
     bereavement care for families, including prevalence of 
     bereavement events and the details of those events (what 
     relationships are impacted, how the loved one died and at 
     what age), risk factors and associated health events or 
     outcomes, biological or physiological changes in wellbeing, 
     and what interventions, or programs could help functional 
     coping or adaptive processing.
       Strategic Plan.--The agreement recognizes that NIH should 
     carefully consider national security considerations when 
     developing and executing their NIH-wide Strategic Plan.
       Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD).--The agreement strongly 
     encourages OD to establish a National Collaborative Research 
     Consortium for TMDs to coordinate, fund, and translate basic 
     and clinical research. Research priorities may include 
     improvements to clinical outcomes; facial pain and sex 
     factors; population-based research to further understand the 
     burden and costs of TMDs; comparative effectiveness research 
     on TMD treatments; and artificial intelligence and novel data 
     approaches.
       Trans-NIH Pediatric Research Consortium (N-PeRC).--The 
     agreement requests a report within 180 days after enactment 
     of this act on how N-PeRC plans to support studies of the 
     physical, mental and behavioral health impacts of COVID-19 on 
     children, including multisystem inflammatory syndrome in 
     children, as well as plans for N-PeRC's focus over the coming 
     3 years.
       Tribal Health Research Office.--The agreement recognizes 
     the important work of the Tribal Health Research Office, but 
     is concerned that no such analogous office exists to support 
     Native Hawaiians (NH). The agreement encourages OD, in 
     coordination with NIMHD and other ICs, to prioritize 
     addressing the research needs of NH and to partner with 
     entities with a proven track record of working closely with 
     NH communities and organizations, which will allow for the 
     development of NH researchers.
       Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC).--The agreement 
     acknowledges NIH's updated 2016 TSC Research Plan and 
     progress advancing the plan. NIH should encourage research 
     opportunities in the five key areas prioritized by workshop 
     participants. Because TSC impacts multiple organ systems, the 
     agreement encourages the Director to coordinate the 
     participation of ICs on a research strategy aimed at 
     addressing the medical and neuropsychological burdens 
     associated with TSC while deciphering the biology underlying 
     phenotypic heterogeneity. The agreement encourages NICHD to 
     facilitate development of a viable newborn screening assay 
     for TSC. The agreement encourages the Director to apply 
     recommendations from the 2017 Neurodevelopmental Disorders 
     Biomarkers Workshop to take advantage of biomarker expertise 
     and lessons learned across disease groups, the 2018 
     Accelerating the Development of Therapies for Anti-
     Epileptogenesis and Disease Modification workshop for which 
     TSC is a model disorder given the ability to diagnose TSC 
     prior to onset of epilepsy, and the 2020 Curing the 
     Epilepsies workshop which highlighted TSC as one of the best 
     opportunities to prevent epilepsy.


                        BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES

       The recommendation includes $250,000,000 for buildings and 
     facilities. The agreement directs NIH to continue to provide 
     quarterly updates of its efforts to develop best practices 
     and its maintenance and construction plans for projects whose 
     cost exceeds $3,500,000, including any changes to those plans 
     and the original baseline estimates for individual projects. 
     It also directs NIH to describe in its fiscal year 2023 and 
     future Congressional Justifications how the projects 
     requested in its budgets tie to its capital planning process, 
     including the RFAC's role in determining which projects are 
     selected for including in the budget.
       The agreement increases the amount of funding appropriated 
     to Institutes and Centers that may be used for repairs and 
     improvements from $45,000,000 to $100,000,000 and raises the 
     per project cap from $3,500,000 to $5,000,000.

   Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)


                             MENTAL HEALTH

       Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics.--The 
     agreement includes increased funding.
       Mental Health Block Grant.--The agreement again includes a 
     five percent set-aside of the total for evidence-based crisis 
     care programs as described in House Report 117-96.
       National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative.--The agreement 
     includes an increase and directs SAMHSA to follow the 
     directives in House Report 117-96.
       Within the total provided for Mental Health Programs of 
     Regional and National Significance (PRNS), the agreement 
     includes the following amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Capacity:
  Seclusion and Restraint...............................      $1,147,000
  Project AWARE.........................................     120,001,000
  Mental Health Awareness Training......................      24,963,000
  Behavioral Health Crisis and 988 Coordinating Office..       5,000,000
  Mental Health Crisis Response Grants..................      10,000,000
  Healthy Transitions...................................      29,451,000
  Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health..............      10,000,000
  Interagency Task Force on Trauma Informed Care........       1,000,000
  Children and Family Programs..........................       7,229,000
  Consumer and Family Network Grants....................       4,954,000
  Project LAUNCH........................................      23,605,000
  Mental Health System Transformation...................       3,779,000
  Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration........      52,877,000
  National Strategy for Suicide Prevention..............      23,200,000
    Zero Suicide........................................      21,200,000
        American Indian and Alaska Native...............       2,400,000
  Suicide Lifeline......................................     101,621,000
  Garrett Lee Smith--Youth Suicide Prevention--States...      38,806,000
  Garrett Lee Smith--Youth Suicide Prevention--Campus...       6,488,000
  American Indian and Alaskan Native Suicide Prevention        2,931,000
   Initiative...........................................
  Tribal Behavioral Grants..............................      20,750,000
  Homelessness Prevention Programs......................      30,696,000

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  Minority AIDS.........................................       9,224,000
    Criminal and Juvenile Justice Programs..............       6,269,000
  Assisted Outpatient Treatment.........................      21,000,000
  Assertive Community Treatment for Individuals with           9,000,000
   Serious Mental Illness...............................
Science and Service:
  Garrett Lee Smith--Suicide Prevention Resource Center.       9,000,000
  Practice Improvement and Training.....................       7,828,000
  Primary and Behavioral Health Integration Technical          1,991,000
   Assistance...........................................
  Consumer & Consumer Support Technical Assistance             1,918,000
   Centers..............................................
    Minority Fellowship Program.........................      10,059,000
  Disaster Response.....................................       1,953,000
  Homelessness..........................................       2,296,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Behavioral Health Crisis and 988 Coordinating Office.--The 
     agreement includes $5,000,000 for the Office of the Assistant 
     Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use to establish an 
     office dedicated to the implementation of the 988 National 
     Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline) and coordination of 
     behavioral health crisis care across HHS operating divisions, 
     including CMS and HRSA. The office will support technical 
     assistance and coordination of the nation's crisis care 
     network, the implementation of the 988 Lifeline, and the 
     development of a crisis care system with the objective of 
     expanding crisis care services and follow-up care, including 
     through services provided by Federally Qualified Health 
     Centers, Community Mental Health Centers, Certified Community 
     Behavioral Health Clinics, and other community providers. 
     Additionally, the office will coordinate with first 
     responders including the 911 system so that behavioral health 
     crisis services are well integrated into emergency care. The 
     agreement requests that SAMHSA provide a report to the 
     Committees within 180 days of enactment of this Act outlining 
     a nationwide crisis care system plan of action.
       Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health.--The agreement 
     directs SAMHSA to continue to allow a portion of additional 
     funds provided for technical assistance to existing grantees, 
     to better integrate infant and early childhood mental health 
     into State systems.
       Mental Health Awareness Training.--The agreement includes 
     an increase and directs SAMHSA to continue to include as 
     eligible grantees local law enforcement agencies, fire 
     departments, and emergency medical units with a special 
     emphasis on training for crisis de-escalation techniques. 
     SAMHSA is also encouraged to allow training for veterans and 
     armed services personnel and their family members.
       Mental Health Crisis Response Grants.--The agreement 
     includes new crisis response grants as directed in House 
     Report 117-96.
       National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.--The agreement 
     includes an increase to prepare for the launch of a new 988 
     number in July 2022, including for specialized services as 
     detailed in House Report 117-96. The agreement directs SAMHSA 
     to keep the Committees fully apprised of progress toward this 
     launch. SAMHSA is directed to provide a briefing with a 
     status update within 60 days of enactment of this Act, to 
     provide a briefing within 60 days of the launch of 988, and 
     as necessary throughout the year.
       Project AWARE.--The agreement includes an increase for 
     school-and campus-based mental health services and support. 
     Of the amount provided, the agreement directs $12,500,000 for 
     grants to support efforts in high-crime, high-poverty areas 
     and, in particular, communities that are seeking to address 
     relevant impacts and root causes of civil unrest, community 
     violence, and collective trauma. The agreement requests 
     SAMHSA submit a report to the Committees within 180 days 
     after enactment of this Act outlining grantee efforts. The 
     agreement recognizes that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased 
     the need for school and community-based trauma services for 
     children and their families. Accordingly, within this 
     increase, the agreement provides $7,000,000 to increase 
     student access to evidence-based, culturally relevant, trauma 
     support services and mental health care through established 
     partnerships with community organizations as authorized by 
     section 7134 of the SUPPORT Act (P.L. 115-271).
       Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness 
     (PATH).--The agreement recognizes that inadequate housing and 
     support opportunities exist for people with serious mental 
     illness. The agreement directs SAMHSA to encourage PATH 
     grantees to partner with public housing agencies in their 
     communities, and to use existing outreach and engagement 
     mechanisms to identify, qualify, and select individuals and 
     initiate housing support services to meet the individual's 
     needs.


                       SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT

       Data Collection Review.--The agreement notes that as drug 
     overdose death rates continue to rise, federal data 
     collection requirements can present barriers to recipients of 
     Federal grant funds that provide services to individuals in 
     need of treatment and other services. Data collection is 
     critically important in determining the effectiveness of 
     Federal investments but should not create new barriers to 
     services. The agreement directs SAMHSA to review and update 
     the data collection requirements in the Government 
     Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 or otherwise 
     required by SAMHSA through rules or regulations for programs 
     administered through the Center for Substance Abuse 
     Treatment. The agreement directs SAMHSA to provide a briefing 
     on the updated GPRA requirements to the Committees 90 days 
     after enactment of this Act.
       Rural Opioid Technical Assistance (ROTA) Grants.--The 
     agreement is disappointed SAMHSA did not fund an additional 
     cohort of ROTA grants in fiscal year 2021 and strongly 
     encourages SAMHSA to fund additional grants in fiscal year 
     2022.
       State Opioid Response (SOR) Grants.--The agreement provides 
     an increase, including for tribes and tribal organizations, 
     and directs SAMHSA to provide the Committees with a briefing 
     on whether additional flexibility is needed to ensure States 
     are able to spend these urgently needed funds. The agreement 
     again notes serious concern that longstanding guidance to the 
     Department to avoid a significant cliff between States with 
     similar mortality rates was overlooked in the award of fiscal 
     year 2020 funds. When making awards in fiscal year 2022, the 
     agreement directs the Assistant Secretary to award funds in a 
     manner that avoids funding cliffs between States with similar 
     mortality rates. The agreement notes that large swings in 
     funding between grant cycles can pose a significant challenge 
     for States seeking to maintain programs that were 
     instrumental in reducing drug overdose fatalities. The 
     agreement continues bill language that directs SAMHSA to 
     submit the formula methodology used in calculating SOR grants 
     to the Committees not less than 21 days prior to releasing 
     the Funding Opportunity Announcement. The agreement continues 
     to direct SAMHSA to conduct a yearly evaluation of the 
     program to be transmitted to the Committees no later than 180 
     days after enactment and make such an evaluation publicly 
     available on SAMHSA's website.
       SOR Overdose Data Report.--The agreement recognizes that 
     drug overdose mortality data collection and reporting is 
     complex, often with multi-substance use contributing to 
     mortality. The agreement encourages SAMHSA to evaluate the 
     data used to calculate SOR allocations, including whether 
     accurate, State-level data exists for mortality rates for 
     opioid use disorders and whether such data should be used to 
     calculate the 15 percent set aside within SOR.
       Within the total provided for Substance Abuse Treatment 
     Programs of Regional and National Significance, the agreement 
     includes the following amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Capacity:
  Opioid Treatment Programs/Regulatory Activities.......      $8,724,000
  Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to              31,840,000
   Treatment............................................
        PHS Evaluation Funds............................       2,000,000
  Targeted Capacity Expansion--General..................     112,192,000
        Medication-Assisted Treatment for Prescription       101,000,000
         Drug and Opioid Addiction......................
  Grants to Prevent Prescription Drug/Opioid Overdose...      14,000,000
  First Responder Training..............................      46,000,000
        Rural Focus.....................................      26,000,000
  Pregnant and Postpartum Women.........................      34,931,000
  Recovery Community Services Program...................       2,434,000
  Children and Families.................................      29,605,000
  Treatment Systems for Homeless........................      36,386,000
  Minority AIDS.........................................      65,570,000
  Criminal Justice Activities...........................      89,000,000
        Drug Courts.....................................      70,000,000
  Improving Access to Overdose Treatment................       1,000,000
  Building Communities of Recovery......................      13,000,000
  Peer Support Technical Assistance Center..............       1,000,000
  Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Centers.................       5,000,000
  Emergency Department Alternatives to Opioids..........       6,000,000
  Treatment, Recovery, and Workforce Support............      10,000,000
Science and Service:
  Addiction Technology Transfer Centers.................       9,046,000
  Minority Fellowship Program...........................       5,789,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Building Communities of Recovery.--The agreement provides 
     an increase for enhanced long-term recovery support 
     principally governed by people in recovery from substance use 
     disorders.
       Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Centers.--The agreement 
     includes an increase and directs SAMHSA to make the funding 
     opportunity available to all eligible entities, as defined in 
     section 7121 of the SUPPORT Act (P.L. 115-271).
       First Responder Training.--Of the funding provided, the 
     agreement provides $7,500,000 to make awards to rural public 
     and non-profit fire and EMS agencies as authorized in the 
     Supporting and Improving Rural Emergency Medical Service's 
     Needs (SIREN) Act (P.L. 115-334). The agreement notes that 
     the fiscal year 2021 grants included award amounts less than 
     the maximum amount allowable in order to fund more projects 
     and encourages SAMHSA to follow this approach in fiscal year 
     2022 to the extent practicable.
       Medication-Assisted Treatment for Prescription Drug and 
     Opioid Addiction.--The agreement directs SAMHSA to ensure 
     that these grants include as an allowable use the support of 
     medication-assisted treatment and other clinically 
     appropriate services to achieve and maintain abstinence from 
     all opioids, including programs that offer low-barrier or 
     same day treatment options. Within the amount provided, the 
     agreement includes $12,000,000 for grants to Indian Tribes, 
     Tribal Organizations, or consortia.
       Opioid Abuse in Rural Communities.--The agreement 
     encourages SAMHSA to support initiatives to advance opioid 
     abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery objectives, 
     including by improving access through telehealth. SAMHSA is 
     encouraged to focus on addressing the needs of individuals 
     with substance use disorders in rural and medically 
     underserved areas. In addition, the agreement encourages 
     SAMHSA to consider early interventions, such as co-
     prescription of overdose medications with opioids, as a way 
     to reduce overdose deaths in rural areas.
       Opioid Use Disorder Relapse.--The agreement recognizes 
     SAMHSA's efforts to address opioid use disorder relapse 
     within Federal grant programs by emphasizing that opioid 
     detoxification should be followed by medication to prevent 
     relapse to opioid dependence. The agreement encourages SAMHSA 
     to continue these efforts.

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       Pregnant and Postpartum Women.--The agreement provides an 
     increase and again encourages SAMHSA to fund an additional 
     cohort of States under the pilot program authorized by the 
     Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (P.L. 114-198).
       Treatment, Recovery, and Workforce Support.--The agreement 
     includes an increase to implement section 7183 of the SUPPORT 
     Act (P.L. 115-271). SAMHSA is directed to, in consultation, 
     with the Secretary of Labor, award competitive grants to 
     entities to carry out evidence-based programs to support 
     individuals in substance use disorder treatment and recovery 
     to live independently and participate in the workforce.


                       SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION

       Within the total provided for Substance Abuse Prevention 
     Programs of Regional and National Significance, the agreement 
     includes the following amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Capacity:
  Strategic Prevention Framework/Partnerships for           $127,484,000
   Success..............................................
        Strategic Prevention Framework Rx...............      10,000,000
  Federal Drug-Free Workplace...........................       4,894,000
  Minority AIDS.........................................      41,205,000
  Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking (STOP Act)      12,000,000
        National Adult-Oriented Media Public Service           2,000,000
         Campaign.......................................
        Community-based Coalition Enhancement Grants....       9,000,000
        Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee on the        1,000,000
         Prevention of Underage Drinking................
  Tribal Behavioral Health Grants.......................      20,750,000
Science and Service:
  Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies.       7,493,000
  Science and Service Program Coordination..............       4,072,000
  Minority Fellowship Program...........................         321,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       At-Home Prescription Drug Disposal.--The agreement supports 
     efforts to encourage at-home prescription drug deactivation 
     and disposal and urges SAMHSA to support these types of 
     programs.
       Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act (STOP 
     Act).--The agreement provides an increase for community-based 
     coalition enhancement grants.
       Strategic Prevention Framework-Partnerships for Success 
     Program.--The agreement encourages the program to support 
     comprehensive, multi-sector substance use prevention 
     strategies to stop or delay the age of initiation of each 
     State's top three substance use issues for 12 to 18 year old 
     youth as determined by the State's epidemiological data. The 
     agreement directs SAMHSA to ensure that State alcohol and 
     drug agencies remain eligible to apply along with community-
     based organizations and coalitions. SAMHSA is also directed 
     to issue a report within 120 days of enactment of this Act 
     assessing the extent to which the work of local grantees 
     complements and aligns with the primary prevention efforts 
     led by the corresponding State alcohol and drug agency.
       Substance Misuse Prevention.--The agreement supports 
     efforts to reduce the risks associated with drug use, 
     including efforts to avoid drug overdose deaths and the 
     spread of diseases such as HIV and hepatitis. However, the 
     agreement strongly encourages that funds appropriated for 
     substance misuse prevention purposes in the Center for 
     Substance Abuse Prevention, as well as the 20 percent 
     prevention set-aside in the Substance Abuse Prevention and 
     Treatment Block Grant, be used only for bona fide substance 
     misuse prevention activities and not for any other purpose.


                HEALTH SURVEILLANCE AND PROGRAM SUPPORT

       Within the total provided for health surveillance and 
     program support, the agreement includes the following 
     amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Health Surveillance.....................................     $48,623,000
  PHS Evaluation Funds..................................      30,428,000
Program Management......................................      81,500,000
Performance and Quality Information Systems.............      10,000,000
Drug Abuse Warning Network..............................      10,000,000
Public Awareness and Support............................      13,000,000
Behavioral Health Workforce Data........................       1,000,000
  PHS Evaluation Funds..................................       1,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Community Project Funding/Congressional Directed 
     Spending.--The agreement includes $127,535,000 for the 
     projects, and in the amounts, specified in the table titled 
     ``Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 
     Spending'' included in this explanatory statement 
     accompanying this division.

           Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

       The agreement includes $350,400,000 for AHRQ. Within the 
     total, the agreement includes the following amounts:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Health Costs, Quality, and Outcomes:
  Prevention/Care Management............................     $11,542,000
  Health Information Technology (IT)....................      16,349,000
  Patient Safety Research...............................      79,615,000
  Health Services Research, Data, and Dissemination.....      98,003,000
  Medical Expenditure Panel Survey......................      71,791,000
  Program Management....................................      73,100,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       While the agreement does not include dedicated funding to 
     expand these activities, the agreement encourages AHRQ to 
     continue supporting research on health equity, health system 
     innovations responding to COVID-19, improving maternal 
     morbidity and mortality State and local data, opioids 
     research, research on the use of natural products such as 
     kratom to treat pain, and prenatal care for pregnant 
     individuals.
       Antimicrobial Resistance.--The agreement directs AHRQ to 
     work with other HHS agencies to provide the briefing 
     described under the section of the explanatory statement 
     pertaining to the Office of the Secretary.
       Center for Primary Care Research.--The agreement includes 
     $2,000,000 to establish the Center for Primary Care Research 
     authorized at 42 USC 299b-4(b) and as described under this 
     heading in House Report 117-96.
       Diagnostic Errors.--The agreement includes $10,000,000, an 
     increase of $8,000,000, for researching diagnostic error and 
     associated risks to patient safety.
       Heart Disease Research.--Heart disease is the leading cause 
     of death for Americans. Understanding how to reduce the rate 
     of cardiac events and to control the metabolic processes that 
     lead to such events is needed. The agreement supports AHRQ 
     studying and assessing the current evidence for lipid control 
     and cardiovascular event reduction, quality measures for the 
     improvement of clinical outcomes, and development and 
     dissemination of educational resources and materials about 
     improving cardiovascular clinical outcomes for coronary heart 
     disease death, myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, and 
     urgent coronary revascularization procedure.
       Organ Availability.--The agreement urges AHRQ to evaluate 
     innovative approaches to enhance the availability of organs, 
     otherwise encourage donation, and further improve the organ 
     transplantation process, including through consultation with 
     other Federal agencies.
       Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care.--The 
     agreement does not include additional funding for this 
     activity.

             Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)


                           PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

       Audio-Only Evaluation and Management Services.--The 
     agreement requests CMS, in coordination with the Assistant 
     Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, conduct a review of 
     audio-only services delivered during the COVID-19 public 
     health emergency, and provide an update on the provision of 
     such services in the fiscal year 2023 Congressional 
     Justification.
       Autism Treatment and Services.--The agreement encourages 
     CMS to identify the supportive services that are most 
     beneficial to improved outcomes for autism patients, and to 
     begin reviewing existing coverage policies for these 
     services.
       Computed Tomography (CT) Colonography.--The agreement 
     encourages CMS to consider existing evidence to determine 
     whether CMS should cover CT Colonography as a Medicare-
     covered colorectal cancer screening test under section 
     1861(pp)(1) of the Social Security Act.
       Diabetes Technology.--The agreement requests a report 
     within 120 days of enactment of this Act outlining coverage 
     and payment policies for new technologies for individuals 
     with diabetes, including hybrid-closed loop technologies.
       Home Visiting.--The agreement directs CMS to build upon its 
     2016 Joint Informational Bulletin to clearly articulate how 
     Medicaid dollars can be blended and braided appropriately in 
     home visiting programs to reach eligible families, provide 
     streamlined coverage options for home visiting services, and 
     cover specific components of home visiting programs.
       Lowering the Cost of Care.--The agreement encourages the 
     Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation to consider 
     creative pilot projects that lower the cost of care among 
     older Americans and enable individuals who retire overseas to 
     retain and utilize their Medicare primary healthcare 
     benefits. The pilot should consider potential cost savings 
     involving international collaborations where the quality of 
     care is comparable and less expensive. CMS shall provide an 
     update on this effort in the fiscal year 2024 Congressional 
     Justification.
       Measuring Cognitive Impairment.--The agreement directs CMS 
     to continue to include questions in the Medicare Current 
     Beneficiary Survey pertaining to mild cognitive impairment, 
     Alzheimer's, and other related dementias, and to add 
     questions on whether beneficiaries have been advised about 
     Alzheimer's and dementia care planning services that are 
     covered under Medicare. The agreement also encourages CMS to 
     identify actions the agency can take within existing 
     authorities to reduce the prevalence of dementia and improve 
     early detection.
       Obesity.--The agreement encourages CMS to work to ensure 
     beneficiary access to care for obesity if determined as 
     clinically appropriate by the patient's physician and 
     consistent with statutory and regulatory authority. The 
     agreement also encourages CMS to reexamine its Medicare Part 
     B national coverage determination for intensive behavioral 
     therapy for obesity considering current United States 
     Preventive Services Task Force recommendations.
       Reimbursement Coding for Reducing Opioid Consumption.--The 
     agreement encourages CMS to undertake efforts to ensure 
     reimbursement of FDA-approved devices and therapies for 
     unique post-surgery patient populations that use alternative 
     means for effective pain management. CMS is encouraged to 
     support provider efforts to track patient pain scores and 
     reductions in opioid consumption using such alternative means 
     for effective pain management.
       Respite Care.--The agreement requests CMS, in consultation 
     with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and 
     Evaluation, to provide a report to the Committees within 180 
     days of the enactment of this Act on the current capacity and 
     best practices for the provision of hospice respite care, 
     including in the home.

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       Rural Hospitals.--The agreement notes that the Consolidated 
     Appropriations Act, 2021 (P.L. 116-260) directed CMS to 
     produce a report on rural hospital closures within 180 days 
     of enactment, which the Committees have not received. The 
     agreement directs CMS to provide an update on the report 
     requested in fiscal year 2021 and a briefing on rural 
     hospital payment policy within 30 days of enactment of this 
     Act.
       Telehealth and the Homeless Population.--The agreement 
     directs CMS to identify and share with States best practices 
     regarding ways in which telehealth and remote patient 
     monitoring can be leveraged through the Medicaid and Medicare 
     programs for the homeless. This should include identification 
     of barriers to mental health services via telehealth 
     coverage, as well as ways to address those barriers.
       Transitional Add-on Payment Adjustment for New and 
     Innovative Equipment and Supplies.--The agreement requests an 
     update in the fiscal year 2023 Congressional Justification on 
     this program.
       Transportation for Dialysis.--The agreement urges CMS to 
     delay further implementation of the Prior Authorization of 
     Repetitive, Scheduled Non-Emergent Ambulance Transport model 
     until it ensures appropriate alternative transportation to 
     dialysis services and diabetes-related wound care for low-
     income beneficiaries who have no other means of 
     transportation.


                  HEALTH CARE FRAUD AND ABUSE CONTROL

       Department of Justice.--The agreement provides an increase 
     of $20,207,000 for the Department of Justice to expand fraud 
     and abuse detection efforts.
       Senior Medicare Patrol.--Within the amount provided for 
     CMS, the agreement includes $30,000,000 for this program.

             Administration for Children and Families (ACF)


                   LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE

       The agreement includes $1,100,000 in additional technical 
     assistance funding for HHS to establish a system to simplify 
     the formulation process to enable ACF staff to provide 
     estimates more readily when requested by the Committees. Once 
     such a system is in place, the agreement instructs HHS to 
     work collaboratively with the Committees to promptly respond 
     to requests for estimates and to ensure no request shall be 
     outstanding for longer than 10 calendar days.


                     REFUGEE AND ENTRANT ASSISTANCE

       The agreement notes that the front matter of this 
     explanatory statement establishes that language included in 
     House Report 117-96 should be complied with unless 
     specifically addressed to the contrary in this explanatory 
     statement. In cases where the House Report addresses an issue 
     not addressed in this joint explanatory statement, the House 
     Report language is deemed to carry the same emphasis as 
     language included in this explanatory statement.
       Confidentiality of Behavioral and Mental Health.--The 
     agreement recognizes that unaccompanied children often share 
     extensive personal information to case managers, clinicians, 
     or other adults while in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) 
     care, and expects ORR and its grantees and contractors to 
     protect sensitive personal information, behavioral health 
     records, and mental health records consistent with all 
     applicable child welfare laws, regulations, and licensing 
     requirements.
       Office of the Ombudsperson.--The agreement strongly 
     supports efforts to increase and improve independent 
     oversight of the Unaccompanied Children program. Accordingly, 
     the agreement strongly encourages the Secretary to establish 
     an Office of the Ombudsperson to provide independent child-
     welfare focused recommendations to ORR and the Secretary 
     regarding the care of unaccompanied children. The agreement 
     requests a briefing within 120 days of enactment of this Act 
     on a strategy for establishing such an office in accordance 
     with the direction in House Report 117-96 and the resources 
     necessary to do so.
       Services for Children.--The agreement includes no less than 
     $558,000,000 for post-release services, legal services, and 
     child advocates. This will allow HHS to expand such services, 
     to serve children in ORR's care and children recently 
     released from HHS custody, as well as to additional high-
     release communities that are not currently being served.
       The agreement understands the supply of service providers 
     may be constrained in some areas, and encourages ORR to allow 
     grantees to use flexibilities in contracting expenses, to the 
     extent practicable, to build the capacity to ensure the 
     necessary legal requirements are met to provide expanded 
     services to children.
       Sibling Placement.--The agreement continues to direct ORR 
     to place siblings in the same facility, or with the same 
     sponsor, to the extent practicable, and so long as it is 
     appropriate and in the best interest of the child.
       Spend Plan.--The agreement directs ORR to submit a 
     comprehensive spend plan to the Committees every 60 days, 
     incorporating all funding provided in this Act, and previous 
     Acts. The agreement expects the plan to contain a report on 
     facilities per House Report 117-96.
       State-Licensed Shelters.--The agreement includes an 
     increase in funding for State-licensed shelters for ORR to 
     increase its network of beds, safely bring back online beds 
     that were impacted by COVID-19 restrictions, partner with 
     current providers to provide additional bed capacity, and 
     engage non-governmental organizations and governmental 
     jurisdictions to identify ways to expand bed capacity through 
     new grants or contracts. The agreement continues to direct 
     HHS to prioritize awarding grant or contract funding to 
     licensed, community-based placements (including foster care 
     and small group homes) over large-scale institutions, and to 
     notify the Committees prior to all new funding opportunity 
     announcements, grants or contract awards, or plans to lease, 
     rent, or acquire real property.
       Further, the agreement strongly encourages ORR to more 
     consistently and predictably post funding opportunity 
     announcements, and to provide training and technical 
     assistance to potential new providers.
       Unlicensed Facilities.--The agreement recognizes the impact 
     the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to have on State-
     licensed facilities, and expects any unlicensed facilities to 
     meet the statutory requirements included in this Act. The 
     agreement directs ORR to rigorously limit how long children 
     are in unlicensed facilities, and to submit, within 60 days 
     of enactment of this Act, an updated report to the Committees 
     on HHS' Plans to Phase Out the Use of Emergency Intake Sites 
     as required by the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2022 (P.L. 
     117-43).
       In addition, the agreement expects ORR to adopt systemic 
     changes to reduce its reliance on unlicensed facilities, and 
     to restore access to, and expeditiously activate, as 
     necessary, sufficient licensed bed capacity to serve 
     unaccompanied children during periods of higher referrals or 
     emergencies.


                CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES PROGRAMS

       Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) Eligibility 
     Requirements.--The agreement reiterates the need for the 
     report on the Impact of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, as 
     requested in House Report 116-450, including the section 
     examining how such requirements may be affecting MSHS, and 
     requests a briefing on the findings and recommendations of 
     that report as soon as practicable.
       In addition, the agreement directs the Office of Head Start 
     to issue, and post online within 30 days of enactment of this 
     Act, guidance on the flexibilities MSHS programs can offer 
     farmworker families concerned with demonstrating income 
     eligibility or residency as referenced in House Report 117-
     96.
       Quality Improvement Funding for Staff Recruitment and 
     Retention and Trauma-Informed Care.--The agreement provides 
     $52,000,000 in quality improvement funding, including a 
     prioritization on activities to improve staff compensation in 
     order to recruit and retain qualified staff and support the 
     provision of high-quality program services. Funds may also be 
     used to address the rise of adverse childhood experiences 
     attributable to the pandemic and the increased prevalence of 
     substance use, economic hardship, home and community 
     violence, and other traumatic experiences that can negatively 
     impact child development and lead to disruptions in classroom 
     environments. The agreement directs the Administration to 
     allow flexibility to meet local needs while focusing these 
     funds on improving the compensation of staff with an emphasis 
     on positions with high rates of turnover.
       Runaway and Homeless Youth.--The agreement urges ACF to be 
     flexible with current grantees to avoid reducing the 
     availability of safe shelter and housing for young people.
       National Communications System, National Runaway 
     Safeline.--The agreement encourages ACF to coordinate with 
     the Department of Education to increase outreach efforts at 
     schools and community based organizations to raise awareness 
     of the resources provided by the National Runaway Safeline to 
     connect homeless children and youth and those at risk of 
     homelessness with services.
       Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act Infant Plans of 
     Safe Care.--The agreement continues $60,000,000 to help 
     States continue to develop and implement plans of safe care 
     as required by section 106 of the Child Abuse Prevention and 
     Treatment Act.
       Child Abuse Discretionary Activities.--The agreement 
     includes $2,000,000 to support and expand a national child 
     abuse hotline.
       The agreement encourages the program to consider 
     demonstration projects for serving children in foster care 
     who have experienced severe trauma through trauma-informed 
     interventions. The agreement encourages ACF to work with 
     nonprofit organizations, with Institutional Review Board-
     approved research, to study and report on the findings and 
     outcomes of such programs, including evidence-based clinical 
     services, foster parent training and curriculum, volunteer 
     support services for foster parents, positive biological and 
     birth family engagement to enhance family reunification, 
     enrichment activities for the children, and trauma-informed 
     systems work.
       Child Welfare Research.--The agreement is concerned by the 
     high rates of homelessness among children who age-out of the 
     foster care system and encourages HHS to support the 
     development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative 
     programs that serve vulnerable populations of youth 
     transitioning out of the foster care system.
       The agreement encourages the program to consider funding 
     partnerships with child protection simulation laboratories 
     that provide in-person, online, and trauma-informed, 
     evidenced-based training.
       Adoption Opportunities.--The agreement includes $1,000,000 
     to continue the National

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     Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative and 
     encourages the program to institutionalize its curriculums as 
     the standard for consistent training in all State child 
     welfare agencies.
       Social Services Research and Demonstration.--The agreement 
     includes $10,000,000 for carrying out a diaper distribution 
     pilot program to provide grants to social service agencies or 
     other non-profit organizations specifically for diaper and 
     diapering supply needs.
       Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 
     Spending.--The agreement includes $26,992,000 for the 
     projects, and in the amounts, specified in the table titled 
     ``Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 
     Spending'' included in this explanatory statement 
     accompanying this division.
       Native American Programs.--The agreement includes 
     $14,000,000 for Native American language preservation 
     activities, and not less than $5,500,000 for language 
     immersion programs authorized by section 803C(b)(7)(A)-(C) of 
     the Native American Programs Act, as amended by the Esther 
     Martinez Native American Language Preservation Act of 2006.
       National Domestic Violence Hotline.--The agreement 
     encourages the Hotline to explore evidence-based best 
     practices for anti-violence intervention and prevention 
     programs.
       Family Violence Prevention and Services.--The agreement 
     recognizes that women and girls of color are often 
     disproportionally impacted by domestic violence and includes 
     up to $5,000,000 for development or enhancement of culturally 
     specific services for survivors of domestic violence and 
     sexual assault.
       In addition, the agreement includes $1,000,000 for a Native 
     Hawaiian Resource Center on Domestic Violence.

               Administration for Community Living (ACL)


                 AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES PROGRAMS

       Protection of Vulnerable Older Americans.--Within the 
     total, the agreement includes a $1,000,000 increase for the 
     long-term care ombudsman program.
       National Family Caregiver Strategy.--The agreement 
     continues to provide $400,000 for the Family Caregiving 
     Advisory Council.
       Aging Network Support Activities.--Within the total, the 
     agreement provides $6,000,000 to the Holocaust Survivor's 
     Assistance program.
       The agreement includes $4,000,000 for the Care Corps grant 
     program.
       The agreement encourages ACL to coordinate with the 
     Department of Labor to identify and reduce barriers to entry 
     for a diverse and high-quality direct care workforce, and to 
     explore new strategies for the recruitment, retention, and 
     advancement opportunities needed to attract or retain direct 
     care workers.
       Alzheimer's Disease Program.--Within the total, the 
     agreement provides $2,000,000 for the National Alzheimer's 
     Call Center.
       Paralysis Resource Center (PRC).--Within the total, the 
     agreement directs not less than $9,200,000 to the National 
     PRC.
       Developmental Disabilities Programs.--Within the total, the 
     agreement includes not less than $700,000 for technical 
     assistance and training for the State Councils on 
     Developmental Disabilities.
       National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and 
     Rehabilitation Research.--The agreement includes funds to 
     increase annual grant funding to competitively funded model 
     systems centers, and a $100,000 increase for the Traumatic 
     Brain Injury Model Systems National Data and Statistical 
     Center.
       In addition, the agreement includes $2,000,000 to increase 
     the number of Federally-funded Spinal Cord Injury Model 
     System Centers.
       Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 
     Spending.--The agreement includes $13,871,000 for the 
     projects, and in the amounts, specified in the table titled 
     ``Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 
     Spending'' included in this explanatory statement 
     accompanying this division.

                        Office of the Secretary


                    GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT

       Alzheimer's and Related Dementias.--The agreement is 
     encouraged by work underway on the National Alzheimer's 
     Project Act Plan to develop national dementia prevention 
     goals and supports further efforts to incorporate evidence-
     based dementia risk reduction strategies in clinical practice 
     and public health.
       Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).--The agreement directs the 
     Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), NIH, 
     ASPR/BARDA, CDC, and AHRQ to jointly brief the Committees no 
     later than 30 days after the enactment of this Act detailing 
     how HHS and its agencies are coordinating their AMR-related 
     efforts. The briefing should include a comparison of actual 
     performance against the national targets for 2020 established 
     in the March 2015 National Action Plan for Combatting 
     Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria and whether those goals were 
     sustained in 2021. Agencies are directed to outline the focus 
     of their plans for fiscal years 2022-2023 and how these are 
     connected to longer-term objectives included in the follow-on 
     National Action Plan released in October 2020.
       Blood Donor Awareness.--The agreement encourages the 
     Secretary to implement Section 3226 of P.L.116-136. In 
     executing this campaign, the Secretary should prioritize 
     efforts that help improve the diversity of blood donors, 
     especially among populations that are disproportionately 
     impacted by blood disorders such as sickle cell disease.
       Cell-mediated Immunity Measures.--The Office of the 
     Secretary shall provide to the Committees a report within 60 
     days of enactment of this Act on the efforts of the 
     Department to incorporate cell-mediated immunity measures 
     into the Department's COVID-19 surveillance and research 
     strategy.
       Coordinated Treatment for Mesothelioma Patients.--
     Mesothelioma is an aggressive asbestos-related malignancy of 
     the pleura that is often associated with a poor prognosis. 
     While a rare disease, mesothelioma is highly concentrated in 
     regions predominated by industries with high exposure to 
     asbestos such as shipyards, aluminum plants, and power 
     generation. The agreement is concerned with the quality-of-
     care patients with mesothelioma receive from providers with 
     less experience treating rare malignancies. Without 
     sufficient expertise there can be delays in diagnoses and use 
     of outdated therapies. The agreement urges the Department to 
     support comprehensive mesothelioma therapy programs in 
     regional hospitals in areas of the country with exceptionally 
     high rates of mesothelioma. High quality programs deliver 
     focused, individualized treatment, by using a comprehensive 
     approach that brings together appropriate experts in treating 
     and caring for mesothelioma patients, including experts in 
     pulmonary medicine, thoracic surgery, medical oncology, 
     radiation oncology, rehabilitation medicine, pathology, 
     physical therapy, palliative care, and end-of-life care.
       Disparity Populations.--To ensure underserved and 
     disadvantaged populations continue to be best served by 
     programs and offices within the Department, the agreement 
     directs the Secretary to continue the collection of data on 
     disparity populations, as defined by Healthy People 2030, in 
     surveys administered with funding in this Act.
       Ending the HIV Epidemic.--The agreement directs HHS to 
     provide a spend plan to the Committees no later than 60 days 
     after enactment of this Act, to include resource allocation 
     by State. The agreement further directs HHS to brief the 
     Committees on fiscal year 2022 plans no later than 90 days 
     after enactment of this Act.
       Federal Funds.--The agreement includes an increase of 
     $8,600,000 for administrative resources necessary for the 
     operation of the Department.
       Lung Cancer in Women.--The agreement requests an update on 
     the status of research on women and lung cancer and the 
     disparate impact of lung cancer in women who have never 
     smoked in the fiscal year 2023 Congressional Justification.
       Nonrecurring Expenses Fund.--HHS continues several 
     construction projects that have not been completed after more 
     than 5 years, while it continues to submit notifications for 
     new projects. HHS shall prioritize current construction 
     projects for completion, specifically the CDC NIOSH facility 
     and those facilities for the Indian Health Service and FDA. 
     The agreement directs HHS to provide quarterly reports for 
     all ongoing projects. The report shall include the following 
     for each project: agency project is funded under; a 
     description for each project; the date the project was 
     notified to the Committees; total obligations to date; 
     obligations for the prior fiscal year; anticipated 
     obligations for current fiscal year; and any expected future 
     obligations. For any project ongoing more than 3 years, the 
     report should include a narrative describing the cause for 
     delay and steps being taken by the agency to ensure prompt 
     completion.
       Obligation Reports.--The agreement directs the Secretary to 
     submit electronically to the Committees an excel table 
     detailing the obligations made in the most recent quarter for 
     each office and activity funded under this appropriation not 
     later than 30 days after the end of each quarter.
       Office of the General Counsel (OGC).--The agreement notes 
     strong concerns that OGC does not consistently respond to 
     Congressional requests for technical assistance in a timely 
     manner. The agreement directs the General Counsel to 
     prioritize the Committees' requests for legal and 
     administrative information.
       Pandemic Guidelines.--Individuals with certain chronic 
     conditions, disabilities, and older adults are more likely to 
     become severely ill, be hospitalized, and die from COVID-19. 
     The agreement commends the CDC ACIP recommendations and the 
     HHS Office of Civil Rights for its continued vigilance 
     regarding potential discrimination in high-risk populations 
     during COVID-19 and for working collaboratively with States 
     to ensure State guidelines reflect best practices for serving 
     individuals with disabilities and older adults.
       Rapid HIV Self-Test.--Rapid HIV self-testing can play an 
     important role towards meeting the public health objectives 
     outlined by the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative, 
     particularly in regards to rural and otherwise hard to reach 
     populations. HHS is encouraged to incorporate rapid HIV self-
     testing into emerging efforts.
       Stillbirth Task Force.--The agreement provides $750,000 for 
     this activity as described under this heading in House Report 
     117-96.
       Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs).--The agreement is 
     pleased that HHS is updating a National STI Action Plan. The 
     Department is directed to provide a progress report to the 
     Committees within 90 days of enactment of this Act. In 
     addition, the agreement includes $250,000 for OASH to develop 
     a national strategic plan or amend the STIs National 
     Strategic Plan for the treatment and prevention of HSV types 
     1 and 2.
       Study on Animal Abuse.--The agreement is concerned about 
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     abuse and future violence and encourages further study into 
     the underlying factors that contribute to acts of violence 
     against animals and animal violence as a predictor of future 
     violence against humans.
       Task Force on CDC COVID-19 Testing Failure.--The agreement 
     directs the Secretary to establish a Task Force, including 
     participation from outside stakeholders and subject matter 
     experts, to evaluate what contributed to the shortcomings of 
     the first COVID-19 tests developed by CDC, including 
     laboratory irregularities, and what policies, practices and 
     systems should be established to address these issues in the 
     future. The Task Force shall also examine CDC's processes for 
     the development and deployment of diagnostics and its ongoing 
     operations, including communications and electronic lab 
     reporting with clinical, commercial, and State and local 
     public health laboratories.
       Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Evidence Review.--The 
     agreement includes $900,000 for the Assistant Secretary for 
     Planning and Evaluation to conduct an independent, 
     systematic, rigorous review of evaluation studies on such 
     programs.
       Telehealth Report.--The agreement directs HHS to submit a 
     report no later than 180 days after enactment of this Act 
     detailing the impact of the actions taken by the Secretary 
     during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) to increase 
     telehealth services under the Medicare, Medicaid, and 
     Children's Health Insurance Programs, as well as other HHS 
     entities engaged in policy or programmatic telehealth changes 
     during the PHE.
       Tribal Set-Aside.--The agreement includes an increase of 
     $1,500,000 for a Tribal set-aside within the Minority HIV/
     AIDS Prevention and Treatment program.
       U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission.--The agreement 
     includes an increase of $900,000.
       White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, Hunger, and 
     Health.--The agreement recognizes that levels of hunger, 
     nutrition insecurity, and chronic disease in the United 
     States are rising, and disproportionately afflict racial and 
     ethnic minorities as well as low-income and rural 
     populations. The agreement directs HHS to convene a White 
     House Conference on Food, Nutrition, Hunger, and Health in 
     2022, for the purpose of developing a roadmap to end hunger 
     and improve nutrition by 2030. The agreement includes 
     $2,500,000 to support this conference. The conference should 
     be developed using a whole-of-government approach--in 
     partnership with the Executive Office of the President, the 
     Department of Agriculture, and other Federal agencies--and in 
     consultation with State, territories, local, and Tribal 
     officials, and a diverse group of interested parties from 
     across the country, including anti-hunger, nutrition, and 
     health experts; the private sector; and people with lived 
     experience of hunger and nutrition insecurity. The conference 
     should examine why hunger and nutrition insecurity persist 
     and how they affect health, including their role in the high 
     prevalence of chronic disease. It should also review existing 
     and cross-departmental strategies and consider new approaches 
     to improve health by eliminating hunger, reducing the 
     prevalence of chronic disease, and improving access to and 
     consumption of nutritious foods in accordance with Dietary 
     Guidelines for Americans. The conference shall produce a 
     final report detailing its findings and proposed solutions to 
     end hunger and improve nutrition security in the United 
     States by 2030.
       In preparation for the White House Conference on Food, 
     Nutrition, Hunger, and Health, HHS shall consult with other 
     Federal agencies and report initial findings to the 
     Committees no later than 120 days after enactment of this 
     Act. The findings shall identify current programming that 
     directly or indirectly impacts food and nutrition insecurity 
     and diet related diseases; specific statutory, regulatory, 
     and budgetary barriers to ending hunger and improving 
     nutrition and health in the United States and the 
     Territories; existing examples of coordination mechanisms 
     between Federal agencies; Federal agencies and State, local, 
     and Tribal governments; and all levels of government and 
     program implementers; and additional authorities or resources 
     needed to eliminate hunger and improve nutrition and health.
     Office of Minority Health (OMH)
       Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity.--The 
     agreement includes an increase of $1,000,000 to support the 
     work of the Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health 
     Equity.
       Language Access Services.--The agreement includes 
     $1,000,000 to research, develop, and test methods of 
     informing limited English proficient individuals about their 
     right to and the availability of language access services, in 
     accordance with directives in H. Rpt. 117-96.
       Lupus Initiative.--The agreement supports the OMH National 
     Lupus Outreach and Clinical Trial Education program, its goal 
     of increasing minority participation in lupus clinical 
     trials, and the program developing resources used by the 
     broader lupus community to enhance trial enrollment. The 
     agreement encourages OMH to continue to develop public-
     private partnerships with organizations representing lupus 
     patients, implement action plans, and engage the lupus 
     community to increase participation in clinical trials for 
     all minority populations at highest risk of lupus.
       Public Health Pilot Program.--The agreement does not 
     include the pilot program proposed by House Report 117-96.
     Office on Women's Health (OWH)
       Combatting Violence Against Women.--The agreement includes 
     an increase of $2,000,000 for the State partnership 
     initiative to combat violence against women.
       Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Promotion of 
     Optimal Birth Outcomes.--The agreement includes $1,000,000 
     for the OWH to convene an Interagency Coordinating Committee 
     on the Promotion of Optimal Birth Outcomes to oversee and 
     coordinate the HHS Action Plan to Improve Maternal Health in 
     America.


 OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL COORDINATOR FOR HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 
                                 (ONC)

       The agreement includes a $1,800,000 increase to support 
     interoperability and information sharing efforts related to 
     the implementation of Fast Healthcare Interoperability 
     Resources standards or associated implementation standards.
       The agreement notes the general provision limiting funds 
     for actions related to promulgation or adoption of a standard 
     providing for the assignment of a unique health identifier 
     does not prohibit the Department from examining the issues 
     around patient matching, and reiterates the need for the 
     report requested in the explanatory statement accompanying 
     the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (P.L. 116-
     94).


            PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES EMERGENCY FUND

     Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and 
         Response (ASPR)
       National Emergency Tele-critical Care Network (NETCCN).--
     The agreement includes funding for the NETCCN, which has 
     enabled skilled telehealth providers to support health 
     systems undergoing a COVID-19 surge or experiencing staff 
     shortages to operate remotely during the COVID-19 public 
     health emergency. This funding could be used to expand the 
     NETCCN to meet additional COVID-19 needs or used in future 
     public health emergencies and disaster response efforts.
       Pediatric Disaster Care.--The agreement includes $6,000,000 
     for the Pediatric Disaster Care Centers of Excellence.
       Reporting.--The agreement directs ASPR to brief the 
     Committees monthly regarding activities funded by this Act 
     and other available appropriations. The agency shall notify 
     the Committees 24 hours in advance of any obligation greater 
     than $25,000,000 from any appropriation. Such notification 
     shall include the source of funding, including section number 
     where applicable or program name from this explanatory 
     statement, and a description of the obligation. In addition, 
     ASPR shall submit a monthly obligation report in electronic 
     format. Such report shall include information for each 
     obligation greater than $25,000,000, and each obligation 
     shall include the source of the appropriation and the program 
     under which the obligation occurred. Such report is due not 
     later than 30 days after the end of the month and shall be 
     cumulative for the fiscal year with the most recent 
     obligations listed at the top. Furthermore, the Secretary 
     shall report to the Committees on the current inventory of 
     COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, as well as the deployment 
     of these vaccines and therapeutics during the previous month, 
     reported by State and other jurisdiction not later than 30 
     days after the enactment of this Act, and monthly thereafter 
     until the inventory is expended.
     National Disaster Medical System
       Mission Zero.--The agreement includes $2,000,000 for 
     civilian trauma centers to train and incorporate military 
     trauma care providers and teams into care centers.
       Public Health Preparedness Equipment.--The agreement 
     includes $10,000,000 for ASPR to invest in next generation 
     air mobility solutions that will ensure more cost-effective 
     health delivery systems.
     Hospital Preparedness Program
       National Special Pathogen System (NSPS).--The agreement 
     includes $6,500,000, an increase of $1,500,000, for the 
     National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education 
     Center (NETEC) and directs NETEC to serve as the NSPS 
     coordinating body. The agreement also includes $21,000,000, 
     an increase of $15,000,000, for the Regional Emerging Special 
     Pathogen Treatment Centers (RESPTCs) Program and to increase 
     the overall number of RESPTCs by at least three Centers. The 
     RESPTC expansion shall be a competitive process as directed 
     in House Report 117-96. The agreement requests both a written 
     report and a briefing, within 90 days of enactment of this 
     Act, on progress in establishing a robust NSPS and 
     integrating NSPS with other health care delivery systems of 
     care for emergencies, such as the trauma system.
     Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority 
         (BARDA)
       Antimicrobial Resistance.--The agreement includes an 
     increase of at least $25,000,000 to support the Combating 
     Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator 
     and the advanced research and development of broad-spectrum 
     antimicrobials and next-generation therapeutics that address 
     the growing incidence of antimicrobial resistance. In 
     addition, the agreement directs BARDA to work with other HHS 
     agencies to provide the briefing described under the section 
     of the joint explanatory statement pertaining to the Office 
     of the Secretary.
       Infectious Diseases.--The agreement supports robust funding 
     for enhanced work by

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     BARDA to proactively prepare for emerging infectious disease 
     outbreaks and other naturally occurring threats. The 
     agreement encourages ASPR to delineate information on 
     emerging infectious diseases, pandemic influenza, and 
     antimicrobial resistance investments in its annual five-year 
     budget plan for medical countermeasure (MCM) development to 
     clarify how ASPR is considering such naturally occurring 
     threats in relation to other priority areas of MCM 
     development, particularly given their inclusion in the 
     Strategic Initiatives section of the Pandemic and All-Hazards 
     Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act (P.L. 116-22).
       Screening Framework for Providers of Synthetic Double-
     stranded DNA.--The fiscal year 2021 Explanatory Statement 
     requested a report on efforts to update the 2010 Screening 
     Framework Guidance for Providers of Synthetic Double-stranded 
     DNA within 180 days of enactment, which has not yet been 
     provided. The agreement directs ASPR to provide a report to 
     the Committees no later than 30 days after enactment of this 
     Act.
       Trusted Domestic Vaccine Supplier Capability.--The 
     agreement recognizes the need for domestic manufacturing of 
     key biological starting materials (KSM), including plasmid 
     DNA and mRNA, antibodies, and other MCMs, to ensure timely 
     response to unanticipated health emergencies. Therefore, the 
     agreement encourages the Department to expand domestic 
     manufacturing of KSMs and collaborate with U.S. companies 
     that have pharmaceutical capabilities to ensure the 
     development and stockpiling of synthesized medicines for 
     future pandemics and biothreats.
     Strategic National Stockpile (SNS)
       Adequate Elastomeric Components.--The agreement expects the 
     Secretary, in conjunction with ASPR, to ensure that it has 
     the necessary elastomeric components to support the COVID-19 
     vaccination campaign. The agreement requests a briefing to 
     the Committees no later than 90 days after enactment of this 
     Act, on its assessment of the estimated supply of elastomeric 
     components, domestically and internationally, related to 
     vaccine administration; an assessment of current and future 
     domestic capacity for elastomeric components related to the 
     administration of such vaccines; the identification of any 
     gaps in capacity for manufacturing; and recommendations to 
     ensure adequate supplies of elastomeric components.
       Re-envisioning the SNS.--The agreement directs the 
     Secretary to develop plans for re-envisioning the SNS to 
     ensure a transparent and deliberative decision-making process 
     for procurement that meets healthcare and national security 
     needs and engages interagency partners. This process will 
     include a wide variety of topics, including real-time 
     inventory transparency; data and analytics to enhance 
     evidence-based policy decisions and risk mitigation 
     strategies; elasticity to readily scale responses; modeling 
     and simulation to plan and exercise; supply chain risk 
     management, including the identification and mitigation of 
     over-reliance on foreign sources of critical supplies; and 
     revolving inventory management. The agreement directs the 
     submission of a report and a briefing on these efforts, 
     including a timeline of key activities and an update on 
     activities required by Executive Order 14001, within 60 days 
     of enactment of this Act.
       Replenishing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).--The 
     agreement notes with concern the emergence of counterfeit PPE 
     products in the U.S. healthcare system and the critical need 
     to boost domestic PPE manufacturing. The agreement urges the 
     Secretary to develop a long-term sustainable procurement plan 
     that gives preference to and results in purchases from 
     domestic manufacturers of PPE and PPE raw materials.

              ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY FOR HEALTH

       The agreement includes $1,000,000,000 and bill language to 
     establish the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health 
     within the Office of the Secretary.

                           General Provisions

       Prevention and Public Health Fund.--The agreement includes 
     the following allocation of amounts from the Prevention and 
     Public Health Fund.

                    PREVENTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH FUND
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
              Agency                   Budget Activity       Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
ACL...............................  Alzheimer's Disease      $14,700,000
                                     Program.
ACL...............................  Chronic Disease Self-      8,000,000
                                     Management.
ACL...............................  Falls Prevention....       5,000,000
CDC...............................  Hospitals Promoting        9,750,000
                                     Breastfeeding.
CDC...............................  Diabetes............      52,275,000
CDC...............................  Epidemiology and          40,000,000
                                     Laboratory Capacity
                                     Grants.
CDC...............................  Healthcare                12,000,000
                                     Associated
                                     Infections.
CDC...............................  Heart Disease &           57,075,000
                                     Stroke Prevention
                                     Program.
CDC...............................  Million Hearts             4,000,000
                                     Program.
CDC...............................  Office of Smoking        127,850,000
                                     and Health.
CDC...............................  Preventative Health      160,000,000
                                     and Health Services
                                     Block Grants.
CDC...............................  Section 317              419,350,000
                                     Immunization Grants.
CDC...............................  Lead Poisoning            17,000,000
                                     Prevention.
CDC...............................  Early Care                 4,000,000
                                     Collaboratives.
SAMHSA............................  Garrett Lee Smith-        12,000,000
                                     Youth Suicide
                                     Prevention.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       The agreement modifies a provision related to NIH 
     facilities.
       The agreement modifies a provision to rescind unobligated 
     balances.
       The agreement includes a new provision related to 
     facilities at CDC.
       The agreement includes a new provision related to the Ryan 
     White HIV/AIDS program.
       The agreement includes a new provision related to grantee 
     notifications to the NIH Director.
       The agreement includes a new provision related to the CDC 
     Undergraduate Public Health Scholars Program.
       The agreement includes a new provision related to Building 
     T-44 at the National Institutes of Health.

                               TITLE III

                        DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

                      School Improvement Programs

       Alaska Native Education Equity.--The Department is directed 
     to make every effort to ensure that grants are awarded well 
     in advance of the school year, to maximize grantees' ability 
     to hire the necessary staff and have their programs in place 
     by the start of Alaska's school year in mid-August. The 
     Department is directed to ensure that Alaska Native Tribes, 
     Alaska Native regional non-profits, and Alaska Native 
     corporations have the maximum opportunity to compete 
     successfully for grants under this program by providing these 
     entities multiple opportunities for technical assistance in 
     developing successful applications for these funds, both in 
     Alaska and through various forms of telecommunications. 
     Finally, the Department is encouraged to include as many peer 
     reviewers as possible who have experience with Alaska Native 
     education and Alaska generally on each peer review panel.
       Rural Education.--The agreement directs the Department, in 
     collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau, to provide a 
     briefing and related material for the authorizing and 
     appropriations Committees of Congress within 180 days of 
     enactment of this Act that includes: analysis of the accuracy 
     and effectiveness of U.S. Census Bureau's Small Area Income 
     and Poverty Estimates as a measurement of student enrollment 
     from families with incomes below the poverty line for the 
     Rural and Low-Income School (RLIS) and Small Rural Schools 
     Achievement programs; analysis of the accuracy and 
     effectiveness of other poverty measurements, including State-
     provided poverty data for measuring student enrollment from 
     families with incomes below the poverty line for the RLIS and 
     Small Rural Schools Achievement programs; and any 
     recommendations for improving measurements of poverty in 
     rural local educational agencies (LEAs).
       Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants Technical 
     Assistance and Capacity Building.--The reservation for 
     technical assistance (TA) and capacity building should be 
     used to support state educational agencies (SEAs) and LEAs in 
     carrying out authorized activities under this program 
     identified by SEAs and LEAs, which may include support for 
     fostering school diversity efforts across and within school 
     districts. The Department is directed to prioritize its TA 
     and capacity building support for SEAs and LEAs seeking to 
     address such school diversity needs. In future Congressional 
     Justifications, the Department shall continue to provide 
     current and planned expenditures for this reservation and 
     include a plan for how resources will be spent to provide TA 
     and to build the capacity of SEAs and LEAs.

                            Indian Education

       National Activities.--The increase for National Activities 
     will support additional awards under a new Native American 
     Language Immersion competition and a new award under the 
     State-Tribal Education Partnership program for up to five 
     years.
       Funds for the Native American Language Immersion program 
     should continue be allocated to all types of eligible 
     entities, including both new and existing language immersion 
     programs and schools, to support the most extensive possible 
     geographical distribution and language diversity. Further, 
     the Department should continue to give the same consideration 
     to applicants that propose to provide partial immersion 
     schools and programs as to full immersion, as the local 
     Tribes, schools, and other applicants know best what type of 
     program will most effectively assist their youth to succeed.

                       Innovation and Improvement

       Education Innovation and Research (EIR).--Within the total 
     for EIR, and including continuation awards, the agreement 
     includes $82,000,000 to provide grants for social and 
     emotional learning (SEL) and $82,000,000 for Science, 
     Technology, Education, and Math (STEM) and computer science 
     education activities. Within the STEM and computer science 
     set-aside, awards should expand opportunities for 
     underrepresented students such as minorities, girls, and 
     youth from families living at or below the poverty line to 
     help reduce the enrollment and achievement gap. To fulfill 
     both set-asides, the agreement supports the prioritization of 
     high-quality SEL and STEM proposals for both the early- and 
     mid-phase evidence tiers. The agreement encourages the 
     Department to take steps necessary to ensure the statutory 
     set-aside for rural areas is met and that EIR funds are 
     awarded to diverse geographic areas. The agreement expects 
     the remainder of EIR funds to continue to support diverse and 
     field-initiated interventions, rather than a single 
     nationwide program or award focused solely on one area of 
     educational innovation.
       Not less than two weeks before the publication of a notice 
     of proposed priorities or a notice inviting applications, the 
     Department is directed to brief the Committees on plans for 
     carrying out an EIR competition. In addition, the Department 
     shall provide a briefing and notice of grant awards to the 
     Committees at least seven days before grantees are announced.

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       Statewide Family Engagement Centers.--The agreement 
     provides increased funding for the Department to make new 
     awards to States under this program that prioritize the use 
     of funds for evidence-based activities and focus on 
     underserved students.
       Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED).--Within 
     SEED, the Department is directed to support professional 
     development that helps educators incorporate SEL practices 
     into teaching, and to support pathways into teaching that 
     provide a strong foundation in child development and 
     learning, including skills for implementing SEL strategies in 
     the classroom through a competitive preference priority 
     (CPP). The share of maximum points for the SEL CPP, out of 
     the total maximum CPP points in the fiscal year 2022 
     competition, should be no less than the share of CPP points 
     the SEL priority represented in the fiscal year 2020 
     competition.
       In addition, the SEED program is an ideal vehicle for 
     helping ensure that more highly trained school leaders are 
     available to serve in traditionally underserved LEAs. 
     Therefore, the Secretary shall continue to include an 
     absolute priority to support the preparation of principals 
     and other school leaders in the fiscal year 2022 competition.
       Not less than two weeks before the publication of a notice 
     of proposed priorities or a notice inviting applications, the 
     Department is directed to brief the Committees on plans for 
     carrying out a SEED competition. In addition, the Department 
     shall provide a briefing and notice of grant awards to the 
     Committees at least seven days before grantees are announced.
       Arts in Education National Program.--The Department is 
     directed to adhere to the applicable requirements of ESEA, 
     including the statutory priority for eligible national 
     nonprofit organizations ``of national scope'', in 
     administering this competition. The Secretary is directed to 
     award prior experience points to applicants that have 
     conducted an Arts in Education National Program project 
     during budget periods 2018-19, 2019-20, and 2020-21.
       Community Project Funding/Congressional Directed 
     Spending.--The agreement includes $140,480,000 for the 
     projects, and in the amounts, specified in the table 
     ``Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 
     Spending'' included in this explanatory statement 
     accompanying this division.

                 Safe Schools and Citizenship Education

     School Safety National Activities
       The agreement includes $201,000,000 for national 
     activities, an increase of $95,000,000 which shall be used by 
     the Department as described in this statement. If non-
     competitive continuation awards are lower than anticipated, 
     or resources become available for another reason, the 
     Department is directed to use funds only for activities 
     described in this statement or for Project SERV.
       Not less than two weeks before the publication of a notice 
     of proposed priorities or a notice inviting applications, the 
     Department is directed to brief the Committees on plans for 
     carrying out any new competition funded within School Safety 
     National Activities. In addition, the Department shall 
     provide a briefing and notice of grant awards to the 
     Committees at least seven days before grantees are announced.
       Project Prevent.--The agreement includes $5,000,000 for new 
     awards for Project Prevent grants to increase the capacity of 
     LEAs to serve students exposed to violence in their 
     communities.
       School-based Mental Health Professionals.--The agreement 
     includes $55,000,000, an increase of $45,000,000 over the 
     fiscal year 2021 enacted level, for the Mental Health 
     Services Professional Demonstration Grants program 
     established in the Department of Education Appropriations 
     Act, 2019 and $56,000,000, an increase of $45,000,000 over 
     the fiscal year 2021 enacted level for the School-Based 
     Mental Health Services Grants program established in the 
     Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2020.
       The agreement does not expand the scope of these grants to 
     include school nurses; however, the agreement helps address 
     these urgent needs through increased support for School-based 
     Health Centers administered by the Health Resources & 
     Services Administration.
     Promise Neighborhoods
       The agreement provides a portion of funds for the first 
     year of two-year extension grants to high quality Promise 
     Neighborhood programs that have demonstrated positive and 
     promising results through their initial implementation grant 
     to strengthen grantee community's abilities to scale city and 
     regional reinvestment strategies and allow for direct 
     pipeline services. The Department shall provide a briefing on 
     implementation plans for the Promise Neighborhoods program 
     not later than 14 days prior to issuing a notice inviting 
     applications for new awards or extension grants.

                           Special Education

       Education Materials in Accessible Formats for Students with 
     Visual Impairments.--The agreement provides no less than 
     $9,000,000 for a new Educational Materials in Accessible 
     Formats for Children and Students with Visual Impairments and 
     Print Disabilities competition. The Department is encouraged 
     to continue to expand this program's reach to K-12 students 
     in underserved areas, further support eligible students 
     enrolled in postsecondary schools, and expand or enhance 
     models for postsecondary schools to produce and disseminate 
     accessible educational materials and textbooks that align 
     with the key recommendations from the Advisory Commission on 
     Accessible Instructional Materials in Postsecondary Education 
     for Students with Disabilities.

                        Rehabilitation Services

       Disability Innovation Fund (DIF).--The agreement provides 
     that up to 15 percent of the amounts available for the DIF 
     may be used for evaluation and technical assistance. The 
     agreement requests the Department submit a plan to the 
     Committees for proposed evaluation and technical assistance 
     activities within 90 days of enactment of this Act. In 
     addition, the Departments of Education and Labor shall brief 
     the Committees on Appropriations; the Committee on Health, 
     Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate; the Committee 
     on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives; the 
     Committee on Finance of the Senate; and the Committee on Ways 
     and Means of the House of Representatives, within 120 days of 
     enactment of this Act, on its plans for implementation and 
     uses of DIF funds and provide updates annually thereafter on 
     implementation.
       Community Project Funding/Congressional Directed 
     Spending.--The agreement includes $2,325,000 for the 
     projects, and in the amounts, specified in the table 
     ``Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 
     Spending'' included in this explanatory statement 
     accompanying this division.

           Special Institutions for Persons with Disabilities

       American Printing House for the Blind.--The agreement 
     includes $6,000,000, an increase of $3,000,000, to continue 
     and expand the Center for Assistive Technology Training 
     regional partnership established in fiscal year 2019.
       National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID).--The 
     agreement includes $9,500,000, an increase of $3,000,000, to 
     continue and expand NTID's current Regional STEM Center.
       Gallaudet University.--The agreement includes $6,500,000, 
     an increase of $3,000,000, to continue and expand the current 
     regional partnership through the Early Learning Acquisition 
     Project.

                 Career, Technical, and Adult Education

       Adult Education National Leadership Activities.--The 
     agreement encourages the Department to support technical 
     assistance that will help build the evidence-base of adult 
     education programs, including supporting States in 
     prioritizing rigorously evaluated programs.

                      Student Financial Assistance

       Pell Grants.--The agreement increases the maximum award by 
     $400, to a total, including discretionary and mandatory 
     funding, of $6,895 in academic year 2022-2023.
       Federal Work Study.--Within the total for Federal Work 
     Study, the agreement includes $10,829,000, for the Work 
     Colleges program authorized under section 448 of the Higher 
     Education Act (HEA).

                       Student Aid Administration

       Student Loan Servicing.--The agreement includes 
     $2,033,943,000 for Student Aid Administration. Over the last 
     several years, Congress has provided significant funding to 
     support the implementation of the Next Gen initiative and the 
     move towards a long-term servicing solution. While some 
     progress has been made to improve loan servicing for 
     borrowers, there is still no long-term servicing solution in 
     place. Therefore the agreement continues to include bill 
     language requiring the Office of Federal Student Aid to 
     submit a detailed spend plan of anticipated uses of funds and 
     to provide quarterly updates on its progress towards 
     fulfilling the spend plan. The agreement also continues a 
     provision to provide, at a minimum, quarterly briefings to 
     the authorizing and appropriations committees on progress 
     related to solicitations for Federal student loan servicing 
     contracts.

                            Higher Education

     International Education and Foreign Language Studies
       Domestic Programs.--The agreement includes no less than 
     $500,000 to establish a Native American Language Resource 
     Center under the Language Resource sections 601 and 603 of 
     the HEA to be administered by the Office of Indian Education.
     Minority Science and Engineering Improvement
       The agreement is supportive of efforts by the Department to 
     prioritize awards to HBCUs for the establishment of Aviation 
     and Aerotechnology programs.
     Federal TRIO Programs
       The agreement directs the Department to allocate increases 
     to each TRIO program, which may include funding down the 
     slate of unfunded high-quality applications from the Student 
     Support Services competition held in fiscal years 2020 and 
     Talent Search and Educational Opportunity Centers 
     competitions in fiscal year 2021. Further, such grantees 
     shall be eligible for prior experience points for 
     demonstrated performance outcomes in subsequent competitions. 
     The agreement directs the Department to include estimated 
     funding for each TRIO program in the operating plan required 
     under section 516 of this Act.
     GEAR UP
       In addition to the directives included under this heading 
     in House Report 117-96, in making new awards, the Department 
     shall ensure that not less than 33 percent of the new award 
     funds are allocated to State awards, and that not less than 
     33 percent of the new award funds are allocated to 
     Partnerships awards, as described in section 404(b) of the 
     HEA.

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     Child Care Access Means Parents in Schools (CCAMPIS)
       The agreement lifts the statutory cap on grant awards to 
     institutions of higher education, to more accurately reflect 
     the costs of providing high-quality, convenient child care 
     options for students. The agreement encourages the Department 
     to consider using a portion of these funds to provide 
     supplemental grants to current grantees, consistent with a 
     higher grant award cap.
     Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)
       The agreement includes $76,000,000 for FIPSE which shall be 
     used by the Department as described in this statement. If 
     non-competitive continuation awards are lower than 
     anticipated, or resources become available for another 
     reason, the Department is directed to use funds only for 
     activities described in this statement.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Augustus F. Hawkins Center of Educational Excellence....      $8,000,000
Basic Needs Grants......................................       8,000,000
Centers of Excellence for Veterans Student Success             8,500,000
 Program................................................
Center of Excellence in Spatial Computing...............       2,000,000
Digital Learning Infrastructure and IT Modernization           4,000,000
 Pilot..................................................
Modeling and Simulation Programs........................       8,000,000
Open Textbook Pilot.....................................      11,000,000
Postsecondary Student Success Grants....................       5,000,000
Rural Postsecondary and Economic Development Grant            20,000,000
 Program................................................
Transitioning Gang-Involved Youth to Higher Education...       1,500,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence.--The agreement 
     includes $8,000,000 to support grantees for the Hawkins 
     Centers of Excellence program, as authorized by section 242 
     of the HEA, with up to $3,000,000 to support teaching 
     assistant initiatives at HBCUs and MSIs that have 
     partnerships with high-need LEAs.
       Basic Needs Grants.--The agreement includes $8,000,000 for 
     this activity described under this heading in House Report 
     117-96; however, at least 25 percent of grants must go to 
     community colleges and at least 25 percent must go to four-
     year Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), 
     Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), and other Minority 
     Serving Institutions (MSIs). Grant priority will go to 
     institutions with 25 percent or higher Pell enrollment.
       Centers of Excellence for Veterans Student Success 
     Program.--The agreement includes $8,500,000 for this activity 
     described under this heading in House Report 117-96.
       Center of Excellence in Spatial Computing.--The agreement 
     includes $2,000,000 for this activity described under this 
     heading in House Report 117-96.
       Digital Learning Infrastructure and IT Modernization 
     Pilot.--The agreement includes $4,000,000 to support IT 
     modernization at HBCUs and MSIs, including technical 
     assistance and partnerships with HBCUs and MSI to improve 
     their digital learning infrastructure.
       Modeling and Simulation Programs.--The agreement includes 
     $8,000,000 for this activity described under this heading in 
     House Report 117-96.
       Open Textbook Pilot.--The agreement includes $11,000,000 to 
     continue the Open Textbook Pilot. This includes funding to 
     fully fund all continuation grants and support a new grant 
     competition in fiscal year 2022. The Department is directed 
     to issue a notice inviting applications and allow for a 60-
     day application period. This funding should support a 
     significant number of grant awards with the same terms and 
     conditions as specified for this activity in the fiscal year 
     2021 notice and House Report 117-96.
       Postsecondary Student Success Grants.--The agreement 
     includes $5,000,000 for a new Postsecondary Student Success 
     Grants program, to support evidence-based activities to 
     improve postsecondary retention and completion rates.
       Rural Postsecondary and Economic Development Grant 
     Program.--The agreement includes $20,000,000 for the Rural 
     Postsecondary Economic Development Grant program. The 
     Department is directed to make additional awards to quality 
     applicants from the competition in fiscal year 2021. Such 
     awards should be completed within 90 days of enactment of 
     this Act.
       Transitioning Gang-Involved Youth to Higher Education.--The 
     agreement includes $1,500,000 for this activity described 
     under this heading in House Report 117-96.
       National Center for College Students with Disabilities.--
     The National Center for College Students with Disabilities 
     should continue to provide technical assistance and best 
     practice information about disability as students transition 
     to institutions of higher education, collect information and 
     research on disability services on college campuses, and 
     report to the Department about the status of college students 
     with disabilities in the United States.
     Community Project Funding/Congressional Directed Spending
       The agreement includes $249,400,000 for the projects, and 
     in the amounts, specified in the table ``Community Project 
     Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending'' included in this 
     explanatory statement accompanying this division.

                           Howard University

       The agreement includes $344,018,000 for Howard University. 
     Within the total, the agreement includes $100,000,000 to 
     support construction of a new hospital.

                 Institute of Education Sciences (IES)

       Administrative Expenses.--The agreement provides an 
     appropriation for administrative expenses directly to IES 
     which had previously received such support through an 
     appropriation controlled by the Secretary.
       Assessment.--The agreement provides $180,000,000 to support 
     the current assessment schedule for the National Assessment 
     of Educational Progress, including administration in 2022 of 
     the Civics and U.S. History assessment in 8th grade at the 
     national level; necessary research and development needed to 
     maintain assessment quality, integrity and continuity, and 
     achieve efficiencies; and maintain plans for the 
     administration of a State-level Civics assessment in future 
     years. The National Assessment Governing Board and IES should 
     continue to consult with the authorizing and appropriations 
     committees of Congress as it considers strategies in 
     achieving cost efficiencies in and upgrades of its assessment 
     program. Further, the agreement directs the Department to 
     describe implemented and planned strategies for cost 
     efficiencies and necessary research and development projects 
     in future Congressional Justifications.
       National Board for Education Sciences (NBES).--The 
     agreement notes that NBES has been without members for an 
     extended timeframe; as a consequence, NBES has been unable to 
     fulfill key statutory duties such as providing 
     recommendations to the Director of IES on strengthening 
     education research, relevance and use, and regularly 
     evaluating the work of the Institute. The agreement requests 
     the Department provide information in future Congressional 
     Justifications regarding its plans for NBES.
       Operating Plan.--The agreement directs the Director to 
     submit an operating plan within 90 days of enactment of this 
     Act to the Committees detailing how IES plans to allocate 
     funding available to the Institute for research, evaluation, 
     statistics, administration and other activities.

                        Departmental Management

       Centers for Interconnected Behavioral and Mental Health 
     Systems.--The agreement urges the Department to work with the 
     Department of Health and Human Services to support expanded 
     access to mental health services for children and 
     adolescents, including through school-based health centers. 
     The Department should consider how regional research centers 
     on positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) and 
     school-based mental health services could work with the 
     existing National Technical Assistance Center on PBIS and 
     existing school-based health centers across the country to 
     support such expanded access, including through the study and 
     greater of implementation of the Interconnected Systems 
     Framework. The Department should be prepared to discuss its 
     plans during hearings on the fiscal year 2023 budget held by 
     the Committees.
       ESEA Per Pupil Spending Reporting.--The Department is 
     directed to continue efforts to support the ESEA requirement 
     for per-pupil expenditure reporting for all States and school 
     districts in the Nation. The agreement requests an update on 
     these efforts in the next Congressional Justification, which 
     should include actions taken and planned to support the full 
     implementation of this requirement and efforts to improve the 
     accessibility, quality, and utility of this information.
       Menstrual Hygiene Products.--The agreement encourages the 
     Department of Education, in consultation with the Department 
     of Health and Human Services, to provide technical assistance 
     and share best practices with institutions of higher 
     education seeking to expand access to menstrual products for 
     postsecondary students.
       Office of English Language Acquisition.--The Department is 
     directed to provide a briefing to the Committees and 
     authorizing committees not later than 180 days after 
     enactment of this Act on the Department's plans to support 
     the organizational responsibilities among its Office of 
     Elementary and Secondary Education and Office of English 
     Language Acquisition to improve support for English learners 
     and their educators, including through federal technical 
     assistance. The Department is expected to be prepared to 
     identify plans for supporting effective instructional 
     educational programs, including bilingual and dual language 
     approaches, implemented at the discretion of SEAs and LEAs 
     and addressing the needs of English learners (ELs) who are 
     also older students, classified as ELs for an extended amount 
     of years, and ELs who are also students with disabilities.
       School Improvement.--The Department is directed to provide 
     a briefing to the Committees and authorizing committees not 
     later than 90 days after enactment of this Act on the 
     Department's actions and plans for addressing the challenges 
     identified in GAO's report on school improvement and 
     assisting SEAs and LEAs with implementing the school 
     improvement requirements of ESEA.

                           General Provisions

       The agreement continues authority for pooled evaluation 
     authority.
       The agreement continues a provision regarding endowment 
     income.
       The agreement continues authority for the National Advisory 
     Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity.
       The agreement continues authority for account maintenance 
     fees.
       The agreement modifies a provision rescinding unobligated 
     discretionary balances previously appropriated for the Pell 
     grant program.
       The agreement modifies a provision rescinding fiscal year 
     2021 mandatory funding

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     to offset the mandatory costs of increasing the discretionary 
     Pell award.
       The agreement includes a new provision allowing up to 0.5 
     percent of funds appropriated in this Act for programs 
     authorized under the HEA, except for the Pell Grant program, 
     to be used for evaluation of any HEA program.
       The agreement includes a new provision providing an 
     additional amount for the projects, and in the amounts, as 
     specified in the table titled Community Project Funding/
     Congressionally Directed Spending in the explanatory 
     statement accompanying this division.
       The agreement modifies a provision regarding cohort default 
     rates.
       The agreement includes a new provision rescinding fiscal 
     year 2021 unobligated balances.

                                TITLE IV

                            RELATED AGENCIES

 Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

       The agreement supports The Committee for Purchase From 
     People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled's (the Commission) 
     intent to discontinue requiring Central Nonprofit Agencies 
     (CNA) to report to the Commission prior to any significant 
     meetings and directs the Commission to ensure that the 
     requirement is removed from all CNA agreements.
       Requested Reports.--The Commission shall submit, upon 
     request by any of the Committees of jurisdiction, the reports 
     described under this heading in House Report 115-244. Any 
     such report shall be due no later than 60 days after the 
     request. The agreement requests ``Report 1'' as described 
     under this heading in House Report 115-244 within 60 days of 
     the close of the fiscal quarter. Such report shall include a 
     summary of total fees and price (contract total) by nonprofit 
     agency. The agreement requests ``Report 2'' as described 
     under this heading in House Report 115-244 for the fiscal 
     year due within 60 days of the close of the fiscal year.

         Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)


                           OPERATING EXPENSES

       Innovation, Demonstration, and Assistance Activities.--The 
     agreement includes $9,888,000 for innovation, assistance, and 
     other activities. The agreement includes $6,558,000 for the 
     Volunteer Generation Fund, $2,165,000 for the September 11th 
     National Day of Service and Remembrance, and $1,165,000 for 
     the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Day of Service.
       Service Learning.--The agreement encourages CNCS to 
     continue to be a convener of the important work surrounding 
     service learning. The agreement requests a report not later 
     than 120 days after enactment of this Act detailing the steps 
     necessary to restart service learning programs such as Summer 
     of Service and Semester of Service on a broader scale.
       Commission Investment Fund (CIF).--The agreement includes 
     no less than the fiscal year 2021 level for the CIF.
       AmeriCorps Competitive Grants.--When establishing priority 
     areas for national service resources in future fiscal years, 
     the agreement encourages CNCS to prioritize awards to 
     organizations that provide services to support individuals 
     seeking recovery from substance use disorders, including 
     programs employing recovery coaching.
       Public Awareness Campaign.--The National Commission on 
     Military, National, and Public Service recently submitted its 
     final report and recommendations, which included proposals 
     for a national awareness campaign that informs the public 
     about the various military, national, and public service 
     opportunities available to them and ways to increase 
     participation. The agreement directs CNCS to collaborate with 
     the Department of Defense, the Office of Personnel 
     Management, the Peace Corps, and the US Public Health Service 
     Commissioned Corps on developing a strategy for a public 
     awareness campaign on service opportunities.

                           General Provisions

       The agreement includes a new provision related to VISTA 
     education awards.

                Institute of Museum and Library Services

       The agreement includes funds for the following activities:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              FY 2022
                     Budget Activity                         Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Library Services Technology Act:
  Grants to States......................................    $168,803,000
  Native American Library Services......................       5,263,000
  National Leadership: Libraries........................      13,406,000
  Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian.....................      10,000,000
Museum Services Act:
  Museums for America...................................      27,899,000
  Native American/Hawaiian Museum Services..............       2,272,000
  National Leadership: Museums..........................       8,113,000
African American History and Culture Act:
  Museum Grants for African American History & Culture..       5,231,000
National Museum of the American Latino Act:
  Museum Grants for American Latino History & Culture...       4,000,000
  Research, Analysis, and Data Collection...............       4,513,000
  Program Administration................................      18,500,000
                                                         ---------------
  Total.................................................     268,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

                         PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION

       The agreement includes $2,000,000 for the creation of an 
     information literacy taskforce tasked with developing 
     guidance, instructional materials, and national strategies on 
     information literacy, including, at minimum, the creation of 
     a website to disseminate best practices on information 
     literacy and toolkits specially designed to help people of 
     all ages understand, evaluate, and discern the reliability 
     and accuracy of information. The website shall serve as a 
     clearinghouse for information on literacy programs, offer 
     strategies and tools tailored to both native and non-native 
     English speakers and communities, coordinate information on 
     Federal initiatives, programs, grants, publications, and 
     materials promoting enhanced information literacy, and offer 
     such other information as the Taskforce finds appropriate in 
     the fulfilment of its purpose. The Taskforce shall take steps 
     necessary to coordinate and promote information literacy 
     efforts across departments and agencies throughout the 
     Federal government and with libraries and museums at the 
     State and local level, including promoting partnerships among 
     Federal, State, and local governments, nonprofit 
     organizations, and private enterprises.

                       Railroad Retirement Board


                      LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATION

       The agreement continues to direct the Railroad Retirement 
     Board to provide a comprehensive update on the implementation 
     of the agency's information technology systems modernization 
     effort, including timeline to completion, anticipated and 
     actual project costs, obligations to date, and related 
     contracts. Such annual update is requested not later than 180 
     days after enactment of this Act and should provide 
     information for each fiscal quarter.

                  Social Security Administration (SSA)


                 LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

       The agreement includes an increase of $411,000,000 for 
     SSA's administrative expenses.
       Disability Backlogs.--The agreement recognizes that the 
     pandemic disrupted progress SSA made with its disability 
     hearings backlog. The agreement notes the adverse impacts 
     disability hearings backlogs have on an individual's ability 
     to access their Social Security benefits. Accordingly, the 
     agreement urges the Commissioner to prioritize the hiring of 
     administrative law judges and requisite staff to adjudicate 
     backlogged claims. In addition, the agreement directs the 
     Commissioner to continue to prioritize efforts to reduce wait 
     time disparities across the country by directing resources 
     and workload assistance, as necessary, to areas with greatest 
     need. Further, the agreement requests quarterly reports on 
     efforts to reduce the hearings backlog for Hearing Offices in 
     the bottom twenty of national ranking by average processing 
     time.
       The pandemic has also contributed to a backlog of initial 
     disability claims that also has significant negative impacts 
     on individuals waiting on their Social Security benefits, and 
     that will only put more pressure on the disability hearings 
     process in future years. The agreement requests a briefing 
     within 90 days of enactment of this Act, and quarterly 
     thereafter, on SSA's plan for reducing the initial disability 
     claims and hearings backlogs, including estimates of the 
     resources needed to do so.
       Evaluation and Statistics Retirement and Disability 
     Research Consortium (RDRC).--The agreement directs SSA to 
     increase funding at all four centers to allow for an increase 
     in the number of projects across the RDRCs.
       Improving Ticket to Work Administration and Reducing 
     Overpayments.--The agreement supports agency efforts to 
     improve administrative processes that reduce overpayments, 
     including in the Ticket to Work program, which can create 
     significant challenges as beneficiaries attempt to return to 
     work. SSA is directed to brief the Committees within 90 days 
     of enactment of this Act on planned efforts in this area.
       Mailing Paper Statements.--The agreement urges SSA to mail 
     paper statements to all contributors aged 25 and older in 
     accordance with Section 1143 of the Social Security Act.
       Occupational Information System (OIS).--The agreement 
     continues to direct SSA to include it its annual report on 
     OIS sufficient details, including a timeline, on plans to 
     fully implement OIS in coming years.
       Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) and 
     Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security 
     (PABSS).--The agreement includes $23,000,000 for WIPA grants 
     and $10,000,000 for PABSS.

                  Social Security Administration (SSA)


                   OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL (OIG)

       Combating Social Security Impersonation Scams.--According 
     to the SSA OIG, there has been a significant increase in 
     Social Security impersonation scams in recent years. While 
     the OIG has made progress in combating these scams, the 
     agreement encourages the OIG to continue to prioritize 
     working with SSA to increase awareness of this scam and to 
     pursue the criminals perpetrating this fraud.

                                TITLE V

                           General Provisions

       The agreement modifies a provision related to Performance 
     Partnerships.
       The agreement modifies a provision to rescind unobligated 
     balances.
       The agreement includes a new provision related to 
     evaluation funding flexibility.
       The agreement includes a new provision related to the 
     Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund.


   DISCLOSURE OF EARMARKS AND CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING ITEMS

       Following is a list of congressional earmarks and 
     congressionally directed spending items (as defined in clause 
     9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
     and rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     respectively) included in the bill or

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     Member, Senator, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who 
     submitted a request to the Committee of jurisdiction for each 
     item so identified. For each item, a Member is required to 
     provide a certification that neither the Member nor the 
     Member's immediate family has a financial interest, and each 
     Senator is required to provide a certification that neither 
     the Senator nor the Senator's immediate family has a 
     pecuniary interest in such congressionally directed spending 
     item. Neither the bill nor the explanatory statement contains 
     any limited tax benefits or limited tariff benefits as 
     defined in the applicable House and Senate rules.

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        DIVISION I--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2022

       The following is an explanation of the effects of Division 
     I, which makes appropriations for the legislative branch for 
     fiscal year 2022. The joint explanatory statement 
     accompanying this division is approved and indicates 
     congressional intent. Unless otherwise noted, the language 
     set forth in House Report 117-80 carries the same weight as 
     language included in this joint explanatory statement and 
     shall be complied with unless specifically addressed to the 
     contrary in this joint explanatory statement. While some 
     language is repeated for emphasis, this explanatory statement 
     does not intend to negate the language referred to above 
     unless expressly provided herein.
       Reprogramming Guidelines.--House Report 117-80 language 
     regarding reprogramming guidelines is modified to clarify 
     that all legislative branch agencies are expected to notify 
     the Committees on Appropriations of the House and the Senate 
     (hereinafter ``the Committees'') of any significant 
     departures from budget plans presented to the Committees in 
     any agency's budget justifications. Agencies funded through 
     this act are required to notify the Committees prior to any 
     reprogramming of funds in excess of the lesser of 10 percent 
     or $750,000 between programs, projects or activities, or in 
     excess of $750,000 between object classifications (except for 
     shifts within the pay categories, object class 11, 12, and 
     13, or as further specified in each agency's respective 
     section). This includes cumulative reprogrammings that 
     together total at least $750,000 from or to a particular 
     program, activity, or object classification as well as 
     reprogramming full-time equivalents (FTE) or funds to create 
     new organizational entities within the agency or to 
     restructure entities that already exist. In addition, the 
     Committees must be notified of reprogramming actions that 
     involve less than the above-mentioned amounts if such actions 
     would have the effect of changing an agency's funding 
     requirements in future years or if programs or projects 
     specifically cited in the Committees' reports are affected.
       Prior to initial obligation or reallocation of funds, all 
     congressional reprograming notifications shall, to the 
     maximum extent practicable, contain detailed information 
     about the sources of the funds and why such funds are no 
     longer intended to be used as previously justified.
       All reports are required to be completed in the timeframe 
     noted in each respective directive. Moreover, the Committees 
     expect that the conditions associated with funding 
     appropriated by this act shall be accomplished in the manner 
     as directed in the report, consistent with congressional 
     intent.
       Cyber and Physical Data Security.--The agreement modifies 
     House Report 117-80 language in regards to Cyber and Physical 
     Data Security. Legislative branch agencies should consider 
     proactive steps to protect critical Information Technology 
     (IT) infrastructure, including prevention of cyberattacks, 
     secure data storage, and ensuring continuity of government 
     operations. The Committees recommend that, as part of their 
     production, redundant, and backup network architecture 
     solutions, legislative branch agencies utilize computing and 
     cloud facilities designed for concurrent maintainability 
     (equivalent to ANSI/TIA-942-A, or Uptime Institute Tier III 
     standards and industry best practices), and also consider 
     geographic diversity. Additionally, each legislative branch 
     agency is directed to submit an action plan within 90 days of 
     enactment of this act detailing a schedule, cost, and 
     implementation plan ensuring robust, secure, and resilient 
     data center infrastructure for agency IT systems and data.
       Cybersecurity for the Legislative Branch.--The agreement 
     includes funding requested by legislative branch agencies in 
     fiscal year 2022 to strengthen cyber defenses.
       Full-Time Equivalents.--The agreement directs that budget 
     justifications sent by legislative branch agencies to the 
     Committees shall include a comparison of FTE based on the 
     number of FTE supported by the funding provided in the 
     currently enacted appropriations act and the number of FTE 
     that would be supported by the funding requested for the 
     following fiscal year.
       Good Accounting Obligation in Government Act.--The Good 
     Accounting Obligation in Government Act, or GAO--IG Act 
     (Public Law 115-414) requires that each Federal agency, 
     including the agencies of the legislative branch, include an 
     accounting of any public recommendations by the Government 
     Accountability Office or the agency's Office of Inspector 
     General that have not yet been implemented, and the timeframe 
     for implementation. It is expected that each agency in this 
     bill include such a report in its fiscal year 2023 
     congressional budget justification.
       Federal Law Enforcement.--The agreement notes that the 
     explanatory statement accompanying the Commerce, Justice, 
     Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022 
     directs the Attorney General to ensure implementation of 
     evidence-based training programs on de-escalation and the 
     use-of-force, as well as on police community relations, and 
     the protection of civil rights, that are broadly applicable 
     and scalable to all Federal law enforcement agencies. The 
     agreement further notes that several agencies funded by this 
     act employ Federal law enforcement officers and are Federal 
     Law Enforcement Training Centers partner organizations. The 
     agreement directs such agencies to consult with the Attorney 
     General regarding the implementation of these programs for 
     their law enforcement officers. The agreement further directs 
     such agencies to submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations on their efforts relating to such 
     implementation no later than 180 days after consultation with 
     the Attorney General. In addition, the agreement directs such 
     agencies, to the extent that they are not already 
     participating, to consult with the Attorney General and the 
     Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding 
     participation in the National Use-of-Force Data Collection. 
     The agreement further directs such agencies to submit a 
     report to the Committees on Appropriations, no later than 180 
     days after enactment of this Act, on their efforts to so 
     participate.
       Motorized Micromobility Devices on Capitol Grounds.--Unless 
     the Capitol Police Board elects to amend the Code of Traffic 
     Regulations for the United States Capitol Grounds, the U.S. 
     Capitol Police (USCP) and the Sergeants at Arms (SAAs) are 
     expected to continue to follow the directives included in the 
     joint explanatory statement to accompany Division D of Public 
     Law 116-94 regarding the Capitol Grounds and dockless 
     commercial scooters, or e-scooters, and other motorized 
     devices for rent. Recognizing that such devices serve as 
     popular commuting options for congressional staff, tourists, 
     and other visitors to the District of Columbia and Capitol 
     Grounds, the USCP, SAAs, and the Architect of the Capitol 
     (AOC) are encouraged to engage with the District's Department 
     of Transportation and shared micromobility companies to 
     explore the feasibility of installing shared e-scooter 
     docking points, including hubs for parking and charging, at 
     designated locations adjacent to campus as determined by 
     USCP, SAAs, and the AOC to ensure rider convenience while not 
     creating a public safety risk on Capitol Grounds. Such 
     engagement should also explore ways to ensure that riders are 
     informed of Capitol Grounds' rules and regulations for proper 
     usage, including digital signage at each hub and within 
     companies' apps.
       Offices of Inspectors General (OIG) Budgets.--Ensuring 
     independence between legislative branch OIGs and their 
     respective reporting agencies is important. Agencies are 
     expected to include a separate section reflecting a detailed 
     budget request for their OIGs within their fiscal year 2023 
     budget justifications. Each OIG is directed to keep the 
     Committees fully apprised of its funding needs. In addition, 
     each agency is directed to avoid interference with or require 
     approval for such communications between the OIG and the 
     Committees.
       Preparing for Emergencies.--The impacts of the COVID-19 
     pandemic and the events of January 6 have placed financial 
     strain on legislative branch agencies. Each legislative 
     branch agency is encouraged to consider operational changes 
     to better position the agency financially, logistically, and 
     otherwise to prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies 
     and to update the Committees on any findings within 90 days 
     of enactment of this act.
       Science and Technology Assistance for Congress.--Recent 
     investments have been made to strengthen the capacities of 
     the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Congressional 
     Research Service (CRS) to provide Members and congressional 
     staff with timely, expert research, and policy analysis on 
     current and emerging legislative issues related to science 
     and technology (S&T) and Federal uses and oversight of S&T. 
     The agreement provides funding for both GAO and CRS to hire 
     additional staff for their specialized teams working on S&T 
     issues. GAO and CRS are encouraged to continue increasing 
     outreach efforts to make Members and congressional staff more 
     aware of the S&T resources they provide.
       Zero-Based Budgeting.--The agreement reiterates House 
     Report 117-80 language regarding zero-based budgeting and 
     directs all agencies of the legislative branch to develop 
     budget requests from a zero-base.

                                TITLE I

                                 SENATE

       The agreement includes $1,094,893,574 for Senate 
     operations. This relates solely to the Senate and is in 
     accordance with long practice under which each body 
     determines its own housekeeping requirements and the other 
     concurs without intervention.
       Office of the Secretary.--The recommendation provides these 
     funds for salaries to the Secretary of the Senate without 
     apportionment in the interest of facilitating financial 
     management duties and restructuring that occurs from time to 
     time. The Senate Committee expects to be notified, in writing 
     and in a timely manner, of any changes to the staffing 
     levels, distribution of staff, or related funding.
       Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper.--The 
     recommendation includes funding to enhance the IT help desk 
     experience in the Senate; continue implementation of a 
     Unified Communications system; and fully support the 
     continued initiative to expand the Senate's cybersecurity 
     capabilities. The Senate Committee expects to be updated 
     regularly as the Cybersecurity Department develops its 
     strategic plan to modernize and harden the Senate's cyber 
     defense.
       The recommendation provides these funds to the Senate SAA 
     without apportionment in the interest of facilitating 
     financial management duties and restructuring that occurs 
     from time to time. The Senate Committee expects to be 
     notified, in writing and in a timely manner, of any changes 
     to the staffing levels, distribution of staff, or related 
     funding.

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       Employee Assistance Program.--The recommendation fully 
     funds the requested increase for the Senate SAA to expand 
     resources, including adding counselors and developing website 
     services, to meet increased demand and support the mental and 
     emotional health needs and well-being of the Senate 
     community.
       Office Cybersecurity.--The Senate SAA is expected to 
     utilize funds provided for fiscal year 2022 to conduct third-
     party cybersecurity auditing services and resiliency 
     assessments for all Senate offices and committees to protect 
     the privacy and integrity of office networks; provide 
     enhanced cybersecurity training for each Senate office; 
     institute protections against insider threats; and institute 
     and operationalize enhanced privacy protections within the 
     Senate network.
       Cyber Care Awareness.--The Senate Committee remains aware 
     of the threat of hacking and cyberattacks on Senators and 
     staff, including on their personal devices and accounts. SAA 
     is working to improve personal cybersecurity, cyber 
     advisories, and cybersecurity best practice documents 
     tailored to personal devices and accounts. The SAA shall, in 
     coordination with the Senate Committee on Appropriations, the 
     Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, and Senate 
     majority and minority leadership, continue to explore ways--
     including the options presented in the bipartisan Senators' 
     Personal Cybersecurity Working Group's report--in which it 
     may better provide voluntary cybersecurity support to any 
     Senator seeking assistance with their personal devices or 
     accounts under existing ethics, rules, appropriations, 
     statutory, and civil law, including whether investments in 
     additional IT hardware and software, additional personnel, 
     and additional guidelines are needed. SAA is also directed to 
     work with Members and staff to increase training 
     opportunities surrounding Member and staff travel abroad.
       Office of the Legislative Counsel of the Senate.--The 
     recommendation provides $7,353,000 for the Office of the 
     Legislative Counsel of the Senate, which will allow the 
     office to hire three attorneys and one staff assistant in 
     fiscal year 2022 to meet the increasing demand by personal 
     offices and committees for help in drafting complex and 
     lengthy legislative proposals of the quality and at the pace 
     that the Senate requires.
       Secretary of the Senate Contingent Expenses.--The 
     recommendation provides funds for expenses to the Secretary 
     of the Senate without apportionment in the interest of 
     facilitating financial management duties and restructuring 
     that occurs from time to time. The Secretary of the Senate is 
     expected to notify the Senate Committee in writing and in a 
     timely manner of any cumulative changes in excess of 10 
     percent to the funding levels between programs, projects, or 
     activities.
       Senators' Records.--As with the past two fiscal years, the 
     Senate Committee notes the continuing importance of 
     preserving the records of currently serving Senators to 
     ensure a full historical record of a Senator's service. The 
     Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (Public Law 116-95) 
     directed the Secretary of the Senate to provide a report 
     detailing, among other things, ways in which the Secretary 
     can further support the archiving needs of Senators, 
     particularly with regard to preserving digital records, 
     including partnering with public institutions designated as 
     repositories of Senators' records. The Committee agrees with 
     the Secretary that more can be done to ensure the 
     preservation of Senators' records and the donation of such 
     records to research institutions to make them available at an 
     appropriate time. To that end, the Senate Committee 
     encourages Senators' offices to utilize all available Senate 
     resources to ensure that such records are ready for 
     preservation upon retirement. The Senate Committee recognizes 
     the significant burdens and challenges that archiving efforts 
     place on Senators' offices and provides $10,000,000 to assist 
     with the proper archiving of official records. The funding 
     made available by this provision may be used by the Secretary 
     of the Senate, consistent with the recommendations in the 
     Secretary's report pursuant to Public Law 116-95, to assist 
     Deputy Archivists in providing additional records management 
     support to offices, further develop training programs to 
     guide staff on record-keeping procedures, and award 
     preservation partnership grants to educational institutions 
     chosen to serve as repositories of Senators' records. 
     Preservation partnership grants should not exceed $2,500,000, 
     and the availability of grants should be determined six 
     months after the date of enactment of this act, from 
     applications submitted to the Senate Historical Office by 
     repositories designated by currently serving Senators, in 
     order of the number of years of Senate records being 
     accessioned. Each request, upon entering an approved 
     agreement, shall be funded at the amount requested up to the 
     maximum award, until the grant fund has been fully 
     designated, and after considering funding for the processing 
     capabilities and other archiving assistance programs of the 
     Senate Historical Office as described above. The Senate 
     Committee directs the Secretary, after consultation with and 
     approval by the Senate Committee on Appropriations and the 
     Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, to enter into 
     agreements with each such grantee that requires the grantee 
     to assist the Senate Historical Office and the Senate 
     Archivist with the continued implementation of best practices 
     and guidance for the archiving of Senator's records in the 
     digital age, as directed by the Secretary.
       Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate Contingent 
     Expenses.--The recommendation provides funds for expenses to 
     the SAA without apportionment in the interest of facilitating 
     financial management duties and restructuring that occurs 
     from time to time. The Senate Committee expects to be 
     notified, in writing, in a timely manner, of any cumulative 
     changes in excess of 10 percent to the funding levels between 
     programs, projects or activities.
       Hearing Room Audiovisual Equipment.--The recommendation 
     provides $4,000,000 in no-year funding to partially or fully 
     renovate two to four hearing rooms per year. The SAA is 
     expected to continue working with the AOC and the Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations and Senate Committee on Rules 
     and Administration to develop a replacement plan to avoid 
     equipment failure.
       Unified Communications.--The recommendation provides 
     funding for the Senate SAA to continue implementation of the 
     Unified Communication and Collaboration (UCC) system. The SAA 
     is directed to provide semi-annual updates to the Senate 
     Committee on the development of the UCC system.
       Anomalous Health Incidents.--Since 2016, at least 200 
     American personnel stationed overseas have experienced 
     mysterious, sudden, and troubling sensory Anomalous Health 
     Incidents (AHI), popularly known as ``Havana syndrome.'' An 
     urgent national security issue, the U.S. intelligence 
     community has launched two separate task forces to address 
     the issue, one investigating the cause and another focused on 
     finding specific technology that could detect or block 
     attacks. Given the SAA's role in Member security, the 
     Committee directs the SAA to engage fully with the task 
     forces and executive branch agencies, such as the Departments 
     of Defense and State, to monitor progress in this area and to 
     keep the Senate Committee informed about any new findings 
     related to causes and any new technologies developed to 
     protect individuals from attacks.
       Sergeant at Arms Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery 
     (BCDR) Fund.--The recommendation provides $25,000,000 for a 
     new SAA BCDR fund, which was requested in fiscal year 2022 as 
     part of the expenses of the Office of the Sergeant at Arms 
     and Doorkeeper. Section 103 of this act provides for the 
     authorization of the BCDR fund. Funds for the BCDR shall 
     remain available until expended. The BCDR fund will allow the 
     Senate to develop and maintain continuity capabilities and 
     quickly meet unanticipated needs, including covering the cost 
     of IT disaster recovery planning and operations, business 
     continuity planning and operations, emergency communications, 
     and general contingency planning. This will allow the SAA to 
     better position the Senate to respond quickly to emergencies 
     and unanticipated and unfunded requirements. The ability to 
     allocate expiring funds, by way of transfer, will help 
     maintain the fund balance, and lessen the need to request 
     appropriations. The SAA shall provide an update to the Senate 
     Committee within 60 days of enactment of this act on any 
     identified uses for the funds in fiscal year 2022 and shall 
     provide a spending plan to the Senate Committee prior to 
     obligation of any funds.
       Miscellaneous Items.--The agreement provides $23,021,500 
     for miscellaneous items. Any deviation of more than 10 
     percent cumulatively from the stated levels for each item 
     will require the customary prior approval of the Senate 
     Committee. The following table sets forth the apportionment 
     of funds under this appropriation:

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       Senate Intern Compensation.--In addition to funding 
     allocated in the table above for Senators' office allowances 
     and for agency contribution costs, the recommendation 
     provides $7,000,000 for the sole purpose of providing 
     financial compensation to interns. Any intern compensation 
     funding that remains unspent by any office will be returned 
     to the Treasury in accordance with section 101 of this act. 
     Such funding is directed to be allocated among Senators' 
     offices in relative proportion to funds allocated for each 
     office's administrative and clerical assistance allowance for 
     fiscal year 2022 shown in the table above, which reflect 
     natural variables including State populations, with a small 
     additional amount for non-contiguous states. On average, each 
     office will be allocated an estimated $70,000 for intern 
     compensation.

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                       ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

       The agreement provides for unspent amounts remaining in the 
     Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense Account 
     (SOPOEA) to be used for deficit or debt reduction, makes 
     necessary adjustments to the SOPOEA allowance, and 
     establishes and authorizes the Senate Sergeant at Arms 
     Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Fund.

                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

       The agreement includes $1,714,996,045 for House operations. 
     This item relates solely to the House and is in accordance 
     with long practice under which each body determines its own 
     housekeeping requirements and the other concurs without 
     intervention. The language included in House Report 117-80 
     should be complied with and carry the same emphasis as the 
     language included in the explanatory statement, unless 
     specifically addressed to the contrary in this explanatory 
     statement.
       House Paid Internship Programs (for Committees).--The 
     recommendation expands the paid intern programs to provide 
     for paid internships with Committees in the House of 
     Representatives. The agreement includes $1,943,910 for the 
     Allowance for Compensation of Interns in House Standing, 
     Special and Select Committee Offices, including $971,955 for 
     the compensation of interns who serve in offices of the 
     majority and $971,955 for the compensation of interns who 
     serve in offices of the minority. In addition, the agreement 
     includes $345,584 for the Allowance for Compensation of 
     Interns in House Appropriations Committee Offices, including 
     $172,792 for the compensation of interns who serve in offices 
     of the majority and $172,792 for the compensation of interns 
     who serve in offices of the minority.
       Green and Gold Congressional Aide Program (formerly the 
     Wounded Warrior Program and the Congressional Gold Star 
     Family Fellowship Program).--The agreement includes 
     $9,294,000 for the Green and Gold Congressional Aide Program. 
     The agreement establishes a new name for the former programs 
     at the request of the Chief Administrative Officer for 
     marketing, recruiting, and administrative actions and to 
     eliminate potential confusion with unrelated programs around 
     the country.
       House Compensation Study.--In lieu of language included in 
     House Report 117-80 to explore options to mandate 
     participation in the re-implemented survey, the Committee 
     directs the CAO to explore ways in which to increase the 
     number of survey participants when re-implementing the 
     survey.
       Death Gratuity.--The agreement provides $174,000 to the 
     widow of Representative Jim Hagedorn of Minnesota. This death 
     gratuity is consistent with the traditional congressional 
     practice of providing a payment to the families of Members 
     who pass away while in office.


                       ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

       The agreement provides for unspent amounts remaining in the 
     Members' Representational Allowances (MRA) account to be used 
     for deficit or debt reduction; places a limitation on the 
     amount available to lease vehicles; limits the sharing of 
     House information by Federal entities; establishes allowances 
     for compensation for interns in Committee offices; changes 
     the name of the ``Wounded Warrior and the Congressional Gold 
     Star Family Fellowship Program'' to the ``Green and Gold 
     Congressional Aide Program''; and renames a Committee on 
     Appropriations hearing room.

                              JOINT ITEMS

                        Joint Economic Committee

       The agreement includes $4,283,000 for salaries and 
     expenses.

                      Joint Committee on Taxation

       The agreement includes $12,385,000 for salaries and 
     expenses.
       The Committees support the mission of the Joint Committee 
     on Taxation and make no directive on re-evaluating its 
     currently used methodologies.

                   Office of the Attending Physician

       The agreement includes $4,063,000.

             Office of Congressional Accessibility Services


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $1,606,000 for salaries and 
     expenses.
       Accessibility Services Request.--The agreement modifies 
     House Report 117-80 language regarding accessibility services 
     to encourage the Office of Congressional Accessibility 
     Services to work with the AOC and other appropriate entities 
     in the House and Senate to prioritize the incorporation of 
     accessibility systems as the rooms in the Capitol and House 
     and Senate Office Buildings are upgraded and renovated.

                             CAPITOL POLICE


                                SALARIES

       The agreement includes $468,861,000 for salaries of the 
     United States Capitol Police. No more than $71,289,224 is 
     provided for overtime in fiscal year 2022.
       Salaries and Benefits.--The Department is directed to 
     report to the Committees within 45 days of enactment of this 
     act on all options available for expanding sworn retirement 
     benefits, to include potential changes to the Department's 
     current pay schedule that would enhance earning potential and 
     impact annuity calculations as well as potential utilization 
     of other benefits affecting annuity calculations used within 
     the Federal sector. The report should also include a 
     feasibility assessment of providing Law Enforcement 
     Availability Pay (LEAP) to officers in future fiscal years.
       Resources for Recruitment and Retention.-- The agreement 
     includes resources to support the Department's recruitment 
     and retention of sworn officers and civilian personnel. 
     Within 60 days of the enactment of this act, the Department 
     shall provide a report to the Committees on the effectiveness 
     of the retention bonuses provided in the fiscal year 2021 
     security supplemental (Public Law 117-31) in retaining 
     officers on the force. Such a report shall be submitted along 
     with the Department's budget request for any retention 
     bonuses provided in subsequent fiscal years. Prior to 
     distribution of any future retention bonuses, the Department 
     shall provide a plan for distribution to the Committees that 
     includes amounts, recipients, and justification.
       Impacts to Staffing.--The Committees are aware that the 
     USCP Office of Inspector General has included in its annual 
     plan a review of the Department's past major events and 
     protests. The Committees expect this report to examine how 
     the Department's handling of these major events impacted 
     officers, to include morale and attrition.
       Policies on Additional Duty.--The Committees recognize the 
     importance of having a policy for assigning officers 
     additional duty and direct USCP to report to the Committees 
     on the policies applied regarding the assignment of 
     additional duty, to include overtime and compensatory time, 
     during times of limited officers on the force.
       Responses to USCP OIG Recommendations.--When responding to 
     recommendations detailed in USCP OIG reports, the Department 
     is expected to develop cost proposals for each recommendation 
     to better inform the Committees on what resources would be 
     required to implement the recommendations, such as 
     organizational realignment, changes in position descriptions, 
     increased personnel, reassignment of existing personnel, and 
     additional training and equipment.
       Risk-Based Protections for Members of Congress.--The 
     agreement provides $2,000,000 for the Department to provide 
     Member security outside of the Capitol campus in the National 
     Capital Region (NCR), as warranted by risk-based analyses. 
     The USCP is expected to continue working closely with the 
     House and Senate SAAs and law enforcement partners in the 
     NCR, as well as educating Member offices, on USCP's strategy 
     for Members' protection within the NCR while off the Capitol 
     Grounds, per the December 2018 report detailing the 
     Department's plans to enhance off-campus Member security in 
     the NCR.
       USCP Office of Inspector General.--The agreement includes 
     funds to support not less than 11 FTE within the USCP OIG.
       Wellness Programs for Law Enforcement.--Efforts undertaken 
     by the USCP to develop and implement a holistic wellness and 
     resiliency program for its workforce, to include its 
     partnership with the House Wellness Center, are noted and 
     appreciated. The Committees recognize the importance that 
     mindfulness plays in having a first responder workforce that 
     is holistically balanced and resilient. The Committees are 
     pleased that the new USCP structure includes a dedicated FTE 
     to this program. Therefore, the USCP is directed to continue 
     this effort and to continue to collaborate with the 
     Department of Homeland Security's Federal Law Enforcement 
     Training Centers. Additionally, the Committees appreciate 
     that for many years, the USCP has partnered with the Senate 
     and House Chaplains to provide support to the Department's 
     employees and as part of establishing the Howard C. 
     Liebengood Office of Wellness, is now exploring how to stand 
     up its own chaplain service to meet the varying spiritual 
     needs of its workforce.


                            GENERAL EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $133,648,000 for general expenses of 
     the Capitol Police.
       Diversity Training.--Capitol Police sworn officers interact 
     with thousands of domestic and international visitors every 
     day. Visitors have varying cultural and social needs, 
     including but not limited to individuals with limited English 
     proficiency, diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and 
     disabilities. The Committees recognize that USCP includes 
     diversity training as part of Capitol Police training 
     sessions and, in lieu of the diversity training directive 
     carried in House Report 117-80, the Department shall brief 
     the Committees on any efforts to strengthen its curriculum as 
     encouraged in House Report 116-447.
       Enhanced Leadership Development for Newly Promoted Sworn 
     Supervisors.--As indicated in House Report 117-80, the 
     Committees believe that enhanced training should be developed 
     to ensure that newly appointed officials have the requisite 
     experiences and knowledge to lead the officers assigned to 
     them for supervision. The Department is directed to provide a 
     report to the Committees within 90 days of enactment of this 
     act that includes a plan for developing and implementing such 
     an enhanced new supervisor training program, to include the 
     information laid out in House Report 117-80.
       Physical Wellness.--The Committees appreciate the efforts 
     undertaken by the USCP to develop and implement a holistic 
     wellness and resiliency program for its workforce, including 
     facilities, resources, and programming dedicated to physical 
     wellness. Recognizing the physically demanding nature of the 
     law enforcement profession, the Committees encourage USCP to 
     continue providing resources for officers to benefit from all

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     wellness offerings and to cultivate an environment supporting 
     overall physical fitness. Furthermore, the Department is 
     directed to provide a report to the Committees within 90 days 
     of enactment of this act on the current and planned 
     activities to support the overall physical wellness of the 
     force, including a comparison of the Department's annual 
     physical fitness testing requirements with those of other law 
     enforcement agencies and an assessment on the feasibility of 
     aligning the Department's guidelines with those of other 
     agencies.
       USCP Information Sharing.--The Department is encouraged to 
     continue increasing its efforts to communicate with Members 
     of Congress, congressional employees, and the public about 
     events occurring around the Capitol complex in a manner that 
     is consistent with and does not interfere with its primary 
     mission of protecting the Congress and the legislative 
     process.
       USCP OIG Reports.--This agreement modifies the second 
     paragraph in House Report 117-80 language regarding USCP OIG 
     Reports to direct the OIG to assess current practices to 
     prevent bias within the Capitol Police workforce that would 
     cause harm to or distract from the USCP mission. The OIG is 
     encouraged to provide this report to the Committees no later 
     than 180 days after the enactment of this act.
       Periodic Reinvestigation and Continuous Vetting.--The 
     agreement notes that since publishing House Report 117-80, 
     the Department provided a response to the OIG's 
     recommendation to require sworn and operational civilian 
     employees to obtain a Top Secret clearance and to require 
     that administrative and civilian employees obtain a minimum 
     of a Secret clearance. The Committees appreciate the 
     Department's timely response to this recommendation and 
     recognize the staffing limitations that make this 
     recommendation not feasible for the Department at this time. 
     Should the Department's position change, USCP is directed to 
     inform and brief the Committees on its evaluation.
       Security Services Bureau.--The agreement provides 
     $38,488,764 for the Security Services Bureau.
       Training to ``Stop the Bleed''.--The Capitol Police has 
     trained nearly its entire sworn workforce in Tactical Combat 
     Casualty Care, also known as ``Stop the Bleed'' training, 
     which increases survivability from mass shootings and other 
     casualty events causing life-threatening external bleeding. 
     The USCP is directed to continue such efforts, utilizing the 
     ``Stop the Bleed'' methodology, to ensure that all officers 
     can respond to and administer basic bleeding control 
     techniques to individuals with trauma.


                        ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION

       The agreement requires USCP to notify the Committees prior 
     to the obligation of funds under 2 U.S.C. 1905(a)(2) above a 
     certain threshold.

                OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL WORKPLACE RIGHTS


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $7,500,000 for salaries and 
     expenses, of which $2,000,000 shall remain available until 
     September 30, 2023.

                      CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $60,953,000 for salaries and 
     expenses.
       Promoting Transparency.--The Congressional Budget Office 
     (CBO) provides Congress with budgetary and economic analysis 
     that is important to the legislative process and can have 
     significant policy implications. The Committees support CBO's 
     current and planned efforts to improve and promote 
     transparency of the agency's modeling and cost estimate 
     process. CBO should continue with efforts on transparency 
     that respect the interests of Congress and maintain the 
     agency's professional independence. CBO is expected to 
     include in its fiscal year 2023 budget request details about 
     the agency's ongoing and future efforts to implement the 
     multi-year plan to increase its capacity to make CBO's work 
     as transparent and responsive as possible.
       Responsiveness.--The Committees continue to expect CBO to 
     ensure a high level of responsiveness to committees, 
     leadership, and Members of Congress, to the greatest extent 
     practicable under the priorities for CBO set by law, 
     especially when working on current pending legislation. As an 
     agency that prides itself as being nonpartisan, CBO should be 
     providing the same information to all stakeholders at the 
     appropriate time when addressing legislation that has been 
     made public.

                        ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

       The agreement includes $773,896,233 for the activities of 
     the Architect of the Capitol (AOC).
       American-Made Masks.--The Committees appreciate the efforts 
     made by the AOC to identify sources for American-made masks 
     during the COVID-19 pandemic for bulk purchases on behalf of 
     Congress and expect the AOC to purchase masks made in America 
     to the maximum extent possible, should additional purchases 
     be required in the future.
       AOC Office of Inspector General.--The agreement includes no 
     less than $5,300,000 to support no fewer than 20 FTE within 
     the AOC OIG during fiscal year 2022. The Committees reiterate 
     their strong support of the AOC OIG and its independence from 
     the AOC leadership, but encourage the Office to rigorously 
     track its monthly expenditures to ensure it does not exceed 
     the funding identified for it. The AOC is also directed to 
     ensure that sufficient funding is available for contracts and 
     other expenses identified by the AOC OIG to fulfill its 
     mission.
       AOC Vehicle Usage.--The AOC is required to comply with 31 
     U.S.C. 1343 and, as such, limited by the statutory controls 
     over motor vehicle acquisition and use, including price 
     limitation, equipment, and replacement of motor vehicles, and 
     per regulations set forth by the General Services 
     Administration (GSA). The AOC is also expected to adhere to 
     GSA regulations on official use of agency vehicles to perform 
     AOC's mission, including proper identification of the vehicle 
     as Federal government-issued and -owned, as well as home-to-
     work policies.
       Campus-Wide Lighting.--The AOC is directed to provide a 
     briefing to the Committees within 90 days of enactment of 
     this act on the status of initiatives to improve lighting 
     around the Capitol campus.
       Timely Responses to Committee Inquiries.--While the 
     Committees primarily communicate with the AOC through the 
     Office of Legislative Affairs, they reserve the right to call 
     upon any individual or organization within its jurisdiction 
     for requests for information. The Committees have both 
     budgetary and oversight capabilities, and requests for 
     additional information from the Chairs, Vice Chair, or 
     Ranking Members, or their committee staff to any jurisdiction 
     should be treated as a priority for the agency and responded 
     to expeditiously.

                  Capital Construction and Operations

       The agreement includes $139,116,500 for Capital 
     Construction and Operations, of which $5,000,000 shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2026.

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Operating Budget:....................................       $134,116,500
Project Budget:
  Federally Recognized Indian Tribes Study...........          1,027,000
  Planning and Programming...........................          3,973,000
    .................................................          5,000,000
                                                      ------------------
    Total, Capital Construction and Operations.......       $139,116,500
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       AOC Response to Sexual Harassment Complaints.--AOC 
     employees should feel their work environment is safe and that 
     complaints of harassment and discrimination are taken 
     seriously. The AOC is expected to continue to brief the 
     Committees on the status of implementation for each inquiry 
     result listed in the AOC OIG's March 2020 review, pursuant to 
     the parameters included in Senate Report 116-124.
       Combatting Communicable Diseases within the Capitol 
     Complex.--Within the funding provided, the AOC is directed to 
     conduct a feasibility study as described in House Report 117-
     80 with the goal of reducing the spread of infectious 
     diseases while also further securing the Capitol structure to 
     be more resilient and improve both health and safety 
     infrastructure.
       Planning and Programming Briefing.--The AOC is to provide a 
     briefing within 90 days of enactment of this act to the 
     Committees on the obligation of and plans for spending funds 
     provided to the Architect for Planning and Programming.
       USCP Headquarters and New Senate Office Building.--The AOC 
     shall identify and evaluate options for a renovation or 
     replacement of the USCP Headquarters and a new Senate Office 
     Building. Such an evaluation should incorporate external 
     screening portals and access points for visitors and staff 
     for the Senate Office Buildings, secure indoor and 
     underground parking, and additional office, committee, and 
     sensitive compartmented information facility space. The AOC 
     is directed to provide a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations, the Senate Committee on Rules and 
     Administration, and the Committee on House Administration 
     detailing such options within 180 days of enactment of this 
     act.

                            Capitol Building

       The agreement includes $42,579,000, for maintenance, care, 
     and operation of the Capitol Building, of which $12,899,000 
     shall remain available until September 30, 2026.

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Operating Budget:....................................        $29,680,000
Project Budget:
  Sprinkler System Installation, USC.................          6,800,000
  Minor Construction.................................          5,500,000
  Conservation of Fine and Architectural Art.........            599,000
                                                      ------------------
    .................................................         12,899,000
    Total, Capitol Building..........................        $42,579,000
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       Miscellaneous Improvements Notifications.--The Committees 
     appreciate the AOC's efforts to document and notify the 
     Committees of ``Miscellaneous Improvements projects,'' which 
     are completed projects that cost less than $5,000 for labor 
     and materials. The Committees direct the AOC to provide 
     quarterly reports on Miscellaneous Improvements projects, 
     including a description and cost of each project and the 
     status of total funding set aside for this purpose.

                            Capitol Grounds

       The agreement includes $15,237,000 for the care and 
     improvements of the grounds surrounding the Capitol, House 
     and Senate Office Buildings, and the Capitol Power Plant, of 
     which $2,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
     2026.

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Operating Budget:....................................        $13,237,000
Project Budget:
  Minor Construction.................................          2,000,000
                                                      ------------------
    .................................................          2,000,000
    Total, Capitol Grounds...........................        $15,237,000
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       Accessibility.--The Committees direct the AOC to prioritize 
     removal of accessibility barriers on the Capitol Complex.

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                        Senate Office Buildings

       The agreement includes $81,977,000 for the maintenance, 
     care, and operation of the Senate Office Buildings, of which 
     $9,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2026, 
     and $2,000,000 shall remain available until expended for 
     Committee Room Modernization.

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Operating Budget:....................................        $70,977,000
Project Budget:
  Exterior Door Conservation, Phase I, Dirksen.......          2,000,000
  Committee Room Modernization.......................          2,000,000
  Minor Construction.................................          7,000,000
    (SCIF Study and Design)..........................        (2,000,000)
                                                      ------------------
      ...............................................         11,000,000
        Total Senate Office Buildings................        $81,977,000
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       Calder Mountain and Clouds Sculpture.--The Senate Committee 
     directs the AOC to continue working with outside partners on 
     the restoration of the Calder Mountain and Clouds sculpture. 
     The AOC is expected to continue providing the Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations and on Rules and Administration 
     with regular updates on the status of these efforts.
       Composting Program.--The Committee has received requests 
     from Senators to restart the AOC's post-consumer composting 
     program, which was terminated in 2016. Within 90 days of 
     enactment of this act, the AOC shall brief the Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations and Rules and Administration on 
     the resources and authorities necessary to explore this 
     proposal, including prospective benefits to the Senate of 
     such a program.
       Senate Employees' Child Care Center (SECCC) Facility 
     Assessment.--The Senate Committee notes the importance of the 
     SECCC facility expansion and encourages all stakeholders to 
     continue working towards selecting a preferred site option 
     for site expansion.
       Senate Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) 
     Assessment.--Given the limited physical capacity and 
     significant and increasing demand for use by Senators and 
     Senate staff of SCIF space, the recommendation provides an 
     additional $1,000,000 for Senate Office Buildings Minor 
     Construction above the request, for a total of up to 
     $2,000,000 to be used for preliminary planning, study, and 
     design of additional sensitive compartmented information 
     facility space for the Senate, in coordination with the 
     Office of Senate Security. The AOC is directed to provide a 
     report to the Senate Committees on Appropriations and on 
     Rules and Administration detailing such options within 180 
     days of enactment of this act.

                         House Office Buildings

       The agreement includes $212,422,500 for the care and 
     maintenance of the House Office Buildings, of which 
     $12,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2026, 
     and $128,000,000 shall remain available until expended for 
     the restoration and renovation of the Cannon House Office 
     Building. Of the amount made available, $9,000,000 shall be 
     derived by transfer from the House Office Building Fund.

 
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Operating Budget:....................................        $72,422,500
Project Budget:
  CAO Project Support................................          5,000,000
  Minor Construction.................................          7,000,000
  Cannon Building Restoration........................        128,000,000
                                                      ------------------
                                                             140,000,000
    Total House Office Buildings.....................       $212,422,500
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Cannon Building Costs.--The Committees recognize the urgent 
     need to complete the Cannon Building renewal, which will 
     replace outdated building systems, conserve historic aspects 
     of the building, and optimize the functionality of Member 
     suites, among other improvements. The Committees remain 
     concerned that the cost of the Cannon renovation continues to 
     increase from an initial project estimate of $752,700,000 to 
     the current project estimate of $934,866,000.

                          Capitol Power Plant

       The agreement includes $114,598,000 for maintenance, care 
     and operation of the Capitol Power Plant, of which 
     $24,575,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2026.

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Operating Budget:....................................        $90,023,000
Project Budget:
  Piping Replacement and Egress Improvements.........         20,100,000
  Minor Construction.................................          4,475,000
                                                      ------------------
                                                              24,575,000
    Total, Capitol Power Plant.......................       $114,598,000
        Offsetting Collections.......................       (10,000,000)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging in the U.S. Senate.--As the 
     onsite presence of electric vehicles has increased on the 
     Capitol campus, additional charging stations are needed. In 
     order to increase the availability of charging stations, the 
     electrical infrastructure of the Senate must also be 
     expanded. The agreement provides an additional $475,000 for 
     Capitol Power Plant Minor Construction above the request, to 
     upgrade the existing Level 1 (L1) charging stations to Level 
     2 (L2) fast-charging stations, and to install additional L2 
     fast-charging stations across the Senate, subject to approval 
     of the locations by the Senate Committee on Rules and 
     Administration. While recognizing that this account is five-
     year money, the Committees believe the bulk of this work 
     should be completed no later than September 30, 2023.

                     Library Buildings and Grounds

       The agreement includes $64,544,000 for Library of Congress 
     Buildings and Grounds, of which $31,000,000 shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2026.

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Operating Budget:....................................        $33,544,000
Project Budget:
  Fire Alarm and Audibility Upgrade, Phase I, JMMB...         22,500,000
  Electrical Power and Grounding Systems Analysis,             4,500,000
   LOC...............................................
  Minor Construction.................................          4,000,000
                                                      ------------------
                                                              31,000,000
    Total, Library Buildings and Grounds.............        $64,544,000
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             Capitol Police Buildings, Grounds and Security

       The agreement includes $62,389,733 for Capitol Police 
     Buildings, Grounds and Security, of which $637,639 shall 
     remain available until September 30, 2024, and $30,000,000 
     shall remain available until September 30, 2026.

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Operating Budget:....................................        $31,752,094
Project Budget:
  Barrier Lifecycle and Security Kiosk Repairs and             9,100,000
   Rplcmt, Phase VI, OSP.............................
  Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Emergency                  637,639
   Stockpile.........................................
  East Plaza Lighting Upgrade........................         10,900,000
  Conduit Installation...............................          4,000,000
  Minor Construction.................................          6,000,000
                                                      ------------------
                                                              30,637,639
    Total, Capitol Police Buildings, Grounds and             $62,389,733
     Security........................................
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       Forced Entry/Ballistic Resistant Doors.--House Report 117-
     80 language is negated regarding the forced entry/ballistic 
     resistant doors.
       Screening Vestibules.--Within 60 days of the enactment of 
     this act, the USCP and AOC shall brief the Committees on 
     Appropriations, Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, 
     and the Committee on House Administration on the status of 
     the screening vestibules project, to include an update on 
     vestibules both outside the Capitol and outside the House and 
     Senate Office Buildings.

                             Botanic Garden

       The agreement includes $24,463,500 for the U.S. Botanic 
     Garden, of which $10,100,000 shall remain available until 
     September 30, 2026.

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Operating Budget:....................................        $14,363,500
Project Budget:
  National Garden Improvements, BGNG.................          5,600,000
  Urban Agriculture Initiatives......................            500,000
  Minor Construction.................................          4,000,000
                                                      ------------------
                                                              10,100,000
    Total, Botanic Garden............................        $24,463,500
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                         Capitol Visitor Center

       The agreement includes $25,569,000 for the Capitol Visitor 
     Center.


                       ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

       The agreement includes provisions that prohibit payments of 
     bonuses to contractors behind schedule or over budget and 
     make available coins collected from fountains for maintenance 
     operations.

                          LIBRARY OF CONGRESS


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $550,620,874 in direct 
     appropriations for the Library of Congress (the Library or 
     LOC) salaries and expenses. In addition, collections that may 
     be credited to this appropriation shall remain available 
     until expended. The recommendation includes the following to 
     remain available until expended: $9,661,000 for the Teaching 
     with Primary Sources program, $1,419,000 for the upgrade of 
     the Legislative Branch Financial Management System, $250,000 
     for the Surplus Books Program, $3,831,000 for the Veterans 
     History Project, and $10,000,000 for the final installment in 
     the Visitor Experience Initiative. In addition, the agreement 
     includes the fiscal year 2022 request of $4,400,000 for 5G 
     cellular technology upgrades, $4,394,000 for the Integrated 
     Electronic Security System (IESS), $6,500,000 for the Library 
     Collections Access Platform (L-CAP), and $2,663,000 for 
     Microsoft 365 migration.
       IT Modernization.--The Library has made significant 
     progress in recent years modernizing essential Library 
     technology and standardizing and optimizing Library 
     operations. The recommendation will allow the Library's 
     flagship websites, loc.gov, congress.gov and crs.gov, to be 
     sustained in continuous development and will allow IT 
     infrastructure to continue to be refined and enhanced, with 
     increased integration of IT development, IT security, and IT 
     operations. The agency-wide modernization efforts also 
     address major IT efforts for the Copyright Office, 
     Congressional Research Service (CRS), and the National 
     Library Service for Blind and Print Disabled (NLS). The LOC 
     is expected to continue to refine the IT Modernization and 
     Integrated Master Schedule and encouraged to consider it as 
     an evolving document. The plan should be used to integrate 
     schedules and cost baselines for responsible project 
     management. In addition, the leadership of the Office of the 
     Librarian should help shape and use it as an important 
     management tool.
       National Film and Sound Recording Preservation Programs.--
     The Committees recognize the important work of the National 
     Film Preservation Program and the National Sound Recording 
     Preservation Program, including the federally chartered 
     National Film and National Recording Preservation 
     Foundations. Given that these programs were reauthorized 
     under the Library of Congress Sound Recording and Film 
     Preservation Programs Reauthorization Act of 2016 (Public Law 
     114-217), the Committees expect that the Library will 
     continue to support them.

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       LOC Office of Inspector General.--The agreement includes 
     not less than $4,336,000 for the Library's OIG, to support no 
     fewer than 14 FTE.
       Preservation of the Collection.--The Committees recognize 
     the Library currently has over $2,000,000 available through 
     September 30, 2022, for the purposes of the de-acidification 
     preservation program. Upon the exhaustion or expiration of 
     those funds, whichever comes first, the Committees will 
     evaluate the need for the continuation of the program.
       Reading Room Access.--The Committees recognize that public 
     access to the Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress is 
     limited. Currently, researchers must apply to receive 
     registration cards to gain full access to the room, and 
     visitors to the LOC often do not have time to go through the 
     registration process. Therefore, the LOC is directed to 
     provide a report to the Committees within 120 days of 
     enactment of this act on the feasibility of opening the 
     Reading Room to the general public while still preserving the 
     research environment and the collections. The report should 
     include a proposal of times and days to allow public access, 
     any costs associated with opening the room to the public, and 
     any other factors affecting a plan for greater public access.
       Visitor Experience Initiative.--The recommendation provides 
     $10,000,000 for the fourth and final installment in the 
     Library's Visitor Experience, which brings the total federal 
     investment in the project to $40,000,000. This funding is 
     available until expended and is available only upon approval 
     of the Committees. The Committees continue to direct the 
     Library to provide quarterly updates to the Committees on the 
     project's design, latest cost estimates, obligations incurred 
     by fiscal year source, and anticipated construction and 
     implementation timelines. Cost estimates should be validated 
     by both the Librarian and the Architect of the Capitol. These 
     updates should also include reports on the Library's progress 
     on fundraising initiatives for private funding, including 
     both donations in-hand and verbal commitments.

                            COPYRIGHT OFFICE


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $53,065,000 in direct appropriations 
     to the Copyright Office. An additional $41,973,000 is made 
     available from receipts for salaries and expenses and 
     $3,000,000 is available from prior year unobligated balances, 
     for a total of $98,038,000.
       CASE Act and MMA Implementation.--The agreement includes 
     the funding requested to implement the Copyright Alternative 
     in Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act and continues funding 
     for the Orrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act 
     (MMA) staffing.
       Copyright IT Modernization.--The agreement continues 
     funding for Copyright Office IT modernization efforts. The 
     collaboration between the Copyright Office and the Library's 
     Office of Chief Information Officer is commended, and the 
     Committees direct the two to continue to work together to 
     achieve efficiencies in shared services, while allowing for 
     mission-specific modernization to be the responsibility of 
     the Copyright Office. Per House Report 117-80, the Library is 
     encouraged to remain sensitive to the specialized 
     requirements of the Copyright Office as the Office implements 
     its IT modernization plan in conjunction with the overall 
     Library IT modernization effort. The Copyright Office is 
     directed to provide a detailed spending plan for the IT 
     modernization efforts funded in fiscal year 2022.

                     Congressional Research Service


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $129,106,000 for salaries and 
     expenses for CRS.
       Continuing Education for Congressional Staff.--The 
     agreement includes funds for the development of a legal 
     education program as described in response to House Report 
     116-447.

       National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $61,227,000 for salaries and 
     expenses for the National Library Service for the Blind and 
     Print Disabled.


                       ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

       The agreement includes provisions related to reimbursable 
     and revolving funds, authorities of the Librarian of Congress 
     to accept gifts, and Library of Congress orders under task 
     and delivery order contracts.

                      GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE

                        Congressional Publishing


                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The agreement includes $78,872,161 for authorized 
     publishing, printing and binding for the Congress.

     Public Information Programs of the Superintendent of Documents


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The agreement includes $34,020,000.

                      Government Publishing Office

                   Business Operations Revolving Fund

       The agreement includes $11,345,000, to remain available 
     until expended.
       Office of Inspector General.--The agreement includes 
     $6,324,000 for the Government Publishing Office's (GPO) OIG 
     during fiscal year 2022. The Committees direct that the OIG 
     adhere to its fiscal year 2022 budget submission and 
     priorities, and any departure from the budget plan shall be 
     subject to the procedures set forth under the agreement's 
     reprogramming, notification, consultation, and reporting 
     requirements.

                    GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $719,230,113 in direct 
     appropriations for salaries and expenses of the Government 
     Accountability Office. In addition, $38,900,000 is available 
     from offsetting collections, for a total of $758,130,113.
       Within the total, no less than $2,451,000 is provided for 
     the GAO Office of Inspector General to support no less than 
     11 FTE.
       Appropriations and Budget Law.--The Committees acknowledge 
     that GAO legal decisions, including those related to the 
     Congressional Review Act, are often fact specific and time 
     consuming. The Committees commend the improvements made by 
     the GAO Appropriations Law Group to increase resources 
     dedicated to supporting Congress' oversight role. GAO is 
     encouraged to continue to find ways to speed up its 
     adjudication process and to prioritize responding to 
     congressional inquiries and publishing formal legal decisions 
     stemming from congressional requests.
       Congressionally Directed Spending and Community Project 
     Funding Transparency and Accountability.--The Committees 
     include, as part of the fiscal year 2022 appropriations 
     process, Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) pursuant to 
     Rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate and Community 
     Project Funding (CPF) pursuant to House Rules XXI and XXIII, 
     which identify the specific recipients of certain Federal 
     funds in most of this year's annual appropriations acts. Rule 
     XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate and House Rules XXI 
     and XXIII require public transparency and accountability that 
     underpin the process for vetting these proposals. Consistent 
     with those goals, the Committees direct the GAO to undertake 
     an audit of CDS and CPF contained in fiscal year 2022 
     appropriations acts, with the goal of informing the 
     Committees' consideration of such funding in subsequent 
     fiscal years.
       The audit shall include the following characteristics, 
     after consultation with the Committees on Appropriations of 
     the House and Senate:
       1. The review shall be based upon a sample drawn from CDS 
     and CPF items across agencies and subcommittees.
       2. The review shall determine whether the entities or 
     projects identified to receive CDS or CPF received the 
     funding in question, whether such recipients spent or had an 
     identifiable plan to spend the funding in question, and 
     whether the amounts provided were spent on the purposes 
     identified by the Congress.
       3. The review shall evaluate whether the relevant agency or 
     office distributed each item identified for examination in a 
     timely fashion, and whether such agency or office installed 
     sufficient processes for monitoring the recipients' 
     expenditure of such funding.
       The GAO shall conduct the audit and provide periodic 
     briefings and reports based on available data to the 
     Committees, including a report to inform the fiscal year 2023 
     budget process.
       DATA Act Briefing.--The Digital Accountability and 
     Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) (Public Law 113-101) 
     mandated a centrally reported and standardized government-
     wide, financial agency account and award activity information 
     system for the executive branch. The Committees are 
     interested in how this information could be used to support 
     congressional oversight, constituent relations, and policy 
     formation. As GAO has worked on oversight of DATA Act online 
     spending information in the past, the Committees direct GAO 
     to brief the Committees on how existing data could be 
     formatted to support the work of Congress.
       GAO Study.--In lieu of House report language regarding a 
     GAO study on personal documents, the agreement addresses this 
     matter in the Financial Services and General Government 
     division.

           CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE FOR INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP

       The agreement includes $6,000,000 for the Congressional 
     Office for International Leadership (COIL), formerly the Open 
     World Leadership Center.
       Expansion of Program to Other Countries.--COIL is requested 
     to keep the Committees apprised of any new developments on 
     expanding programming to include other regions and countries 
     that may be of strategic necessity to the United States.


                        ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION

       The agreement includes a provision for COIL's statutory 
     name change and clarifies reference to the name change in 
     prior appropriations acts.

   JOHN C. STENNIS CENTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

       The agreement includes $430,000 for the Stennis Center for 
     Public Service Training and Development.

                      TITLE II--GENERAL PROVISIONS

       The agreement continues provisions related to maintenance 
     and care of private vehicles; fiscal year limitations; rates 
     of compensation and designation; consulting services; costs 
     of the Legislative Branch Financial Managers Council; 
     limitation on transfers; guided tours of the Capitol; 
     limitation on telecommunications equipment procurement; 
     prohibition on certain operational expenses; plastic waste 
     reduction; Capitol

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     legislative branch agencies; annual rates of pay for 
     congressional staff; and display of honorific plaque to honor 
     law enforcement officers and agencies that responded to the 
     violence that occurred at the United States Capitol on 
     January 6, 2021.

   DISCLOSURE OF EARMARKS AND CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING ITEMS

       Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House 
     of Representatives and rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the 
     Senate, neither the bill nor the explanatory statement 
     contains any congressional earmarks or congressionally 
     directed spending items, limited tax benefits or limited 
     tariff benefits as defined in the applicable House and Senate 
     rules.

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   DIVISION J--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND RELATED 
                   AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2022

       The joint explanatory statement accompanying this division 
     is approved and indicates congressional intent. Unless 
     otherwise noted, the language set forth in House Report 117-
     81 and Senate Report 117-35 carries the same weight as 
     language included in the joint explanatory statement and 
     should be complied with unless specifically addressed to the 
     contrary in this joint explanatory statement. While some 
     language is repeated for emphasis, it is not intended to 
     negate the language referred to above unless expressly 
     provided herein.
       In cases where House Report 117-81, Senate Report 117-35, 
     or this explanatory statement directs the submission of a 
     report, that report is to be submitted to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
     Senate. Where this explanatory statement refers to the 
     Committees or the Committees on Appropriations, unless 
     otherwise noted, this reference is to the House of 
     Representatives Subcommittee on Military Construction, 
     Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies and the Senate 
     Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and 
     Related Agencies.

                                TITLE I

                         DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

                     Military Construction Overview

       Reprogramming Guidelines.--The following reprogramming 
     guidelines apply for all military construction and family 
     housing projects. A project or account (including the sub-
     elements of an account) which has been specifically reduced 
     by the Congress in acting on the budget request is considered 
     to be a congressional interest item and as such, prior 
     approval is required. Accordingly, no reprogramming to an 
     item specifically reduced below the threshold by the Congress 
     is permitted, except that the Department of Defense (DOD) may 
     seek reprogramming for appropriated increments.
       The reprogramming criteria that apply to military 
     construction projects, which is 25 percent of the funded 
     amount or $2,000,000, whichever is less, also apply to new 
     housing construction projects and improvements. To provide 
     the Services the flexibility to proceed with construction 
     contracts without disruption or delay, the costs associated 
     with environmental hazard remediation such as asbestos 
     removal, radon abatement, lead-based paint removal or 
     abatement, and any other legislated environmental hazard 
     remediation may be excluded, if such remediation requirements 
     could not be reasonably anticipated at the time of the budget 
     submission. This exclusion applies to projects authorized in 
     this budget year, as well as projects authorized in prior 
     years for which construction has not been completed.
       In addition to these guidelines, the Services are directed 
     to adhere to the guidance for military construction 
     reprogramming actions and notifications, including the 
     pertinent statutory authorities contained in DOD Financial 
     Management Regulation 7000.14-R and relevant updates and 
     policy memoranda. Further, the agreement encourages the 
     Office of the Director of National Intelligence to use a 
     format similar to that used by the Office of the Secretary of 
     Defense to submit reprogramming requests.
       Facilities Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization 
     (FSRM).--The Department of Defense is directed to continue 
     describing on form 1390 the backlog of FSRM requirements at 
     installations with future construction projects. For troop 
     housing requests, form 1391 should describe any FSRM 
     conducted in the past two years. Likewise, future 
     requirements for unaccompanied housing at the corresponding 
     installation should be included. Additionally, the forms 
     should include English equivalent measurements for projects 
     presented in metric measurement. Rules for funding repairs of 
     facilities under the Operation and Maintenance accounts are 
     described below:
       (1) components of the facility may be repaired by 
     replacement. Such replacement can be up to current standards 
     or codes;
       (2) interior arrangements and restorations may be included 
     as repair;
       (3) additions and new facilities may be done concurrently 
     with repair projects, as long as the final conjunctively 
     funded project is a complete and usable facility; and
       (4) the appropriate Service Secretary shall notify the 
     appropriate committees 21 days prior to carrying out any 
     repair project with an estimated cost in excess of 
     $7,500,000.
       Incremental Funding.--The Committees recognize that 
     providing full funding for military construction projects if 
     they are executable is ideal. However, it continues to be the 
     practice to provide incremental funding for certain large 
     projects to enable the Services to more efficiently allocate 
     military construction dollars among projects that can be 
     executed in the year of appropriation. Therefore, the 
     agreement includes six projects that have been incrementally 
     funded; however, the full authorization of the projects was 
     provided in the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal 
     Year 2022.
       Military Construction Funding.--The agreement includes 
     $14,900,000,000, which is $5,052,969,000 above the budget 
     request, in a continued effort to support current and future 
     force readiness through critical infrastructure investments. 
     Building off the fiscal year 2022 budget request, this level 
     also funds all authorized and unfunded requirements and 
     addresses other priorities that have been historically 
     neglected in budget requests, such as quality of life and 
     research and development facilities. While Congress continues 
     to provide funding above the budget request for military 
     construction, the Committees encourage the Department to 
     adequately resource these accounts.
       Military Installation Resilience.--The agreement includes 
     planning and design and unspecified minor construction 
     funding for the Department to address critical resilience 
     requirements, particularly related to current and future 
     risks from extreme weather and anticipated or unanticipated 
     changes in environmental conditions. Recognizing that such 
     investments are key to installation readiness, the agreement 
     provides $25,000,000 for the Army; $40,000,000 for the Navy 
     and Marine Corps; $40,000,000 for the Air Force; and 
     $15,000,000 for Defense-wide agencies and accounts to 
     continue to develop projects, conduct studies and analyses, 
     and update Unified Facilities Criteria to directly enhance 
     military installation resilience. No later than 60 days after 
     enactment of this Act, the Services and the DOD Comptroller 
     are directed to provide a spend plan for the funds 
     appropriated in fiscal year 2022.
       Laboratory Infrastructure.--The Committees recognize the 
     importance of DOD science and technology laboratories and 
     test and evaluation facilities and support investment in this 
     critical infrastructure. The agreement provides $85,000,000 
     for the Army; $15,000,000 for the Navy and Marine Corps; and 
     $25,000,000 for the Air Force for planning and design, 
     unspecified minor construction, and authorized major 
     construction projects to address priority laboratory 
     requirements. The Services are directed to submit a spend 
     plan for these funds no later than 30 days after enactment of 
     this Act.
       Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility (RHBFSF).--The 
     Committees express disappointment in the Department's 
     operation and management of the facility and related 
     infrastructure, which has negatively affected and disrupted 
     the lives of servicemembers, their families, and the people 
     of Hawai`i. The Secretary of Defense is directed to provide 
     the Committees a report, within 90 days of enactment of this 
     Act, that identifies the military construction requirements, 
     including remediation efforts, and details its near, mid-, 
     and long term plans related to RHBFSF. The report also should 
     identify the military construction options being considered 
     for alternative fueling capacity throughout the Indo-Pacific. 
     In addition, the report should include cost estimates, to the 
     extent possible, and an analysis of the risk and estimated 
     time frames associated with the options. Lastly, the 
     Committees expect the Department to continue to brief the 
     Committees regularly on the progress of remediation.
       Navy Water Purification Infrastructure.--The agreement 
     includes an additional $50,000,000 for the Navy for planning 
     and design in order to advance future water treatment and 
     distribution infrastructure projects. The Department is 
     directed to submit a spend plan for these additional funds to 
     the Committees no later than 30 days after enactment of this 
     Act.
       European Deterrence Initiative (EDI).--The agreement 
     includes $415,064,000 within the Army, Navy, and Air Force 
     military construction accounts to fund seven EDI projects 
     across Europe as well as minor construction and planning and 
     design. Further, the agreement includes an additional 
     $10,000,000 above the budget request for the North Atlantic 
     Treaty Organization (NATO) Security Investment Program to 
     support U.S. allies and partners, deter aggression by the 
     Russian Federation, and promote democratic governance, peace, 
     and stability in Europe.
       Child Development Centers (CDCs).--The bill includes 
     $224,700,000 for seven child development center projects, of 
     which $33,000,000 is for planning and design for future 
     projects. This investment of resources is necessary to 
     address both insufficient accessibility to childcare 
     facilities, as well as the poor conditions of existing 
     facilities. Such shortfalls in capacity are an unacceptable 
     burden to military families. The Department is directed to 
     assign greater priority to CDC construction projects in 
     future budget requests.
       United States Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM).--The 
     INDOPACOM area of responsibility is the largest combatant 
     command and requires a modern, resilient military presence to 
     ensure the continued strength of U.S. national security. 
     However, the Committees are concerned that the Services have 
     not properly prioritized projects within INDOPACOM in recent 
     fiscal years. The agreement provides an additional 
     $58,600,000 for INDOPACOM planning and design to advance 
     future projects. Additionally, the agreement directs the 
     Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment to report no 
     later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act on: (1) 
     the overall strategy for joint use facilities in the Indo-
     Pacific; (2) the challenges and benefits of adding ports to 
     the DOD's joint-use planning; and (3) limitations imposed by 
     current authorities that may hinder cost-sharing efforts.
       Unfunded Priority Lists (UPL) and Future Years Defense 
     Program (FYDP).--The Committees direct the Department of 
     Defense and all Services, active and reserve components, as 
     well as combatant commanders, as required by law, to submit 
     updated UPL and FYDP lists to the congressional defense 
     committees for military construction projects no later than 
     10 days after the transmission of the annual President's 
     Budget.

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       U.S. Space Command Headquarters.--The agreement notes the 
     Government Accountability Office and the Department of 
     Defense Inspector General's inquiries into the basing 
     decision for U.S. Space Command headquarters. The Committees 
     look forward to receiving the reports.

                      Military Construction, Army

       The agreement provides $1,051,772,000 for ``Military 
     Construction, Army'', which is $217,080,000 above the budget 
     request. Within this amount, the agreement includes 
     $190,619,000 for study, planning, design, architecture, and 
     engineering services, and host nation support. Within the 
     total for Military Construction, Army, $182,080,000 is for 
     the following projects in the following amounts:

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                  State                            Location                     Project               Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AL......................................  Anniston Army Depot.......  Welding Facility..........     $25,010,000
AK......................................  Fort Wainwright...........  ERDC-CRREL Permafrost            5,400,000
                                                                       Tunnel Research Facility:
                                                                       Unspecified Minor
                                                                       Construction.
GA......................................  Fort Gordon...............  Cyber Center of Excellence       3,670,000
                                                                       School Headquarters and
                                                                       Classrooms: Planning and
                                                                       Design.
GA......................................  Fort Stewart..............  Barracks: Planning and           5,000,000
                                                                       Design.
HI......................................  Fort Shafter..............  Command and Control             55,500,000
                                                                       Facility: Cost to
                                                                       Complete.
KS......................................  Fort Leavenworth..........  Child Development Center..      34,000,000
MO......................................  Fort Leonard Wood.........  Advanced Individual              4,000,000
                                                                       Training Battalion
                                                                       Complex: Planning and
                                                                       Design.
NM......................................  White Sands Missile Range.  Missile Assembly Support         1,300,000
                                                                       Facility: Planning and
                                                                       Design.
NY......................................  U.S. Military Academy.....  Engineering Center: Cost        17,200,000
                                                                       to Complete.
SC......................................  Fort Jackson..............  Reception Barracks              21,000,000
                                                                       Complex, Ph I: Cost to
                                                                       Complete.
TX......................................  Joint Base San Antonio,     Vehicle Maintenance Shop..      10,000,000
                                           Camp Bullis.
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       Arsenals.--The agreement directs the Secretary of the Army 
     to submit a report within 180 days of enactment of this Act 
     on the condition and capacity of access control points at 
     Army arsenals, specifically identifying arsenals that may 
     experience an increase in traffic and personnel because of 
     new production requirements within the arsenal. The report 
     should identify risk assessments based off current security 
     postures, cost assessments to reduce the security risk at 
     access control points, and all existing military construction 
     projects that enhance the security posture of arsenals.

              Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps

       The agreement provides $2,644,277,000 for ``Military 
     Construction, Navy and Marine Corps'', which is $275,925,000 
     above the budget request. Within this amount, the agreement 
     includes $453,652,000 for study, planning, design, 
     architecture, and engineering services. Within the total for 
     Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps, $476,145,000 is 
     for the following projects in the following amounts:

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                  State                            Location                     Project               Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AZ......................................  MCAS Yuma.................  Combat Training Tank           $29,300,000
                                                                       Complex.
CA......................................  NB Ventura County.........  Combat Vehicle Maintenance      48,700,000
                                                                       Facility.
CA......................................  NB Coronado...............  CMV-22B Aircraft                63,600,000
                                                                       Maintenance Hangar.
FL......................................  Marine Corps Support        Lighterage and Small Craft       7,000,000
                                           Facility Blount Island.     Facility: Planning and
                                                                       Design.
HI......................................  Marine Corps Training Area  Perimeter Security Fence:        6,220,000
                                           Bellows.                    Unspecified Minor
                                                                       Construction.
HI......................................  MCB Hawaii................  Electrical Distribution         64,500,000
                                                                       Modernization.
ME......................................  NSA Cutler................  Firehouse: Planning and          2,500,000
                                                                       Design.
NC......................................  MCAS Cherry Point.........  F-35 Joint Strike Fighter         9,300,00
                                                                       Sustainment Center:
                                                                       Planning and Design.
NC......................................  MCAS New River............  Maintenance Hangar:             13,300,000
                                                                       Planning and Design.
NC......................................  MCAS Cherry Point.........  ATC Tower and Airfield          18,700.000
                                                                       Operations.
NC......................................  Camp Lejeune..............  Water Treatment Plant           64,200,000
                                                                       Replacement Hadnot Point:
                                                                       Cost to Complete.
RI......................................  NAVSTA Newport............  Next Generation Torpedo          1,200,000
                                                                       Integration Lab: Planning
                                                                       and Design.
RI......................................  NAVSTA Newport............  Submarine Payloads               1,400,000
                                                                       Integration Laboratory:
                                                                       Planning and Design.
RI......................................  NAVSTA Newport............  Consolidated RDT&E Systems       1,700,000
                                                                       Facility: Planning and
                                                                       Design.
RI......................................  NAVSTA Newport............  Next Generation Secure           4,000,000
                                                                       Submarine Platform
                                                                       Facility: Planning and
                                                                       Design.
SC......................................  MCAS Beaufort.............  Instrument Landing System:       3,000,000
                                                                       Unspecified Minor
                                                                       Construction.
SC......................................  MCAS Beaufort.............  F-35 Operational Support         4,700,000
                                                                       Facility: Unspecified
                                                                       Minor Construction.
SC......................................  MCAS Beaufort.............  Recycling/Hazardous Waste        5,000,000
                                                                       Facility: Cost to
                                                                       Complete.
SC......................................  MCRD Parris Island........  Entry Control Facility           6,000,000
                                                                       Improvements: Unspecified
                                                                       Minor Construction.
SC......................................  MCAS Beaufort.............  Aircraft Maintenance           121,825,000
                                                                       Hangar.
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       Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan (SIOP).--The 
     Committees are very concerned that the Navy's Shipyard 
     Infrastructure Optimization Plan is falling behind schedule 
     and consistently runs over cost estimates. In order to ensure 
     the continued progress of SIOP, the bill provides 
     $350,000,000 for ongoing SIOP projects requested in the 
     President's Budget. The agreement also provides an additional 
     $275,000,000 for SIOP cost increases and planning and design 
     for future construction projects. This marks the second 
     consecutive year that Congress has provided significant 
     funding beyond the request for SIOP requirements. The 
     Committees expect the Department to prioritize SIOP funding 
     and improve the cost estimates submitted to Congress. 
     Additionally, the agreement directs the Department to provide 
     regular updates on the progress of SIOP and requires timely 
     notification of any cost variations.

                    Military Construction, Air Force

       The agreement provides $2,204,750,000 for ``Military 
     Construction, Air Force'', which is $102,060,000 above the 
     budget request. Within this amount, the agreement includes 
     $287,175,000 for study, planning, design, architecture, and 
     engineering services. Within the total for Military 
     Construction, Air Force, $291,060,000 is for the following 
     projects in the following amounts:

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                  State                            Location                     Project               Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CO......................................  U.S. Air Force Academy....  High-Bay Vehicle                $4,360,000
                                                                       Maintenance: Unspecified
                                                                       Minor Construction.
CO......................................  U.S. Air Force Academy....  New Cadet Prep School           24,726,000
                                                                       Dormitory.
CO......................................  Schriever AFB.............  Fitness Center............      30,000,000
GA......................................  Moody AFB.................  41 RQS HH-60W Apron.......      12,500,000
HI......................................  Kirtland AFB Remote Maui    Secure Integration Support       8,800,000
                                           Experimental Site.          Lab: Planning and Design.
LA......................................  Barksdale AFB.............  Entrance Road and Gate          36,000,000
                                                                       Complex: Cost to Complete.
NV......................................  Creech AFB................  Mission Support Facility:        1,900,000
                                                                       Planning and Design.
NV......................................  Creech AFB................  Warrior Fitness Training         2,200,000
                                                                       Center: Planning and
                                                                       Design.
NM......................................  Kirtland AFB..............  PJ/CRO Urban Training              810,000
                                                                       Complex: Planning and
                                                                       Design.
NM......................................  Holloman AFB..............  Indoor Target Flip               2,340,000
                                                                       Facility: Planning and
                                                                       Design.
NM......................................  Kirtland AFB..............  Dedicated Facility for the       5,280,000
                                                                       Space Rapid Capabilities
                                                                       Office: Planning and
                                                                       Design.
NM......................................  Cannon AFB................  192-Bed Dormitory:               5,568,000
                                                                       Planning and Design.
NM......................................  Kirtland AFB..............  Wyoming Gate Project: Cost       5,600,000
                                                                       to Complete.
NM......................................  Cannon AFB................  Deployment Processing            5,976,000
                                                                       Center: Planning and
                                                                       Design.
NM......................................  Holloman AFB..............  MQ-9 Formal Training Unit       40,000,000
                                                                       Operations Facility.
OH......................................  Wright-Patterson AFB......  Child Development Center..      24,000,000
SC......................................  Joint Base Charleston.....  Flight Line Support             29,000,000
                                                                       Facility.
SC......................................  Joint Base Charleston.....  Fire and Rescue Station...      30,000,000
TX......................................  Joint Base San Antonio,     Child Development Center..      22,000,000
                                           Lackland AFB.
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                  Military Construction, Defense-Wide


                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The agreement provides $2,206,051,000 for ``Military 
     Construction, Defense-Wide'', which is $248,762,000 above the 
     budget request. Within this amount, the agreement includes 
     $347,727,000 for study, planning, design, architecture, and 
     engineering services. Within the total for Military 
     Construction, Defense-Wide, $91,655,000 is for the following 
     projects in the following amounts:

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                  State                            Location                     Project               Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HI......................................  HDR-H.....................  Homeland Defense Radar-        $19,000,000
                                                                       Hawaii: Planning and
                                                                       Design.
MS......................................  Camp Shelby...............  Electrical Distribution         11,155,000
                                                                       Infrastructure
                                                                       Undergrounding Hardening
                                                                       Project.
MS......................................  Camp Shelby...............  1O MW Generation Plant and      34,500,000
                                                                       feeder level Microgrid
                                                                       system.

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NY......................................  Fort Drum.................  Wellfield Expansion             27,000,000
                                                                       Resilience Project.
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       Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program 
     (ERCIP).--The agreement provides a total of $469,322,000 for 
     ERCIP, which is an increase of $182,572,000 above the budget 
     request. The Secretary of Defense is directed to submit a 
     spend plan for the additional ERCIP funds no later than 30 
     days after enactment of this Act.
       Special Operations Command East Coast Training 
     Facilities.--The agreement directs the Secretary of Defense 
     to provide a report within 180 days of enactment of this Act 
     that outlines any training capability shortfalls of East 
     Coast based sites and the feasibility of developing an East 
     Coast joint training center that focuses on enabling all-
     domain warfare. This report should also analyze the value 
     provided to the U.S. Special Operations Command by National 
     Guard training facilities.

               Military Construction, Army National Guard

       The agreement provides $337,893,000 for ``Military 
     Construction, Army National Guard'', which is $80,790,000 
     above the budget request. Within this amount, the agreement 
     includes $57,725,000 for study, planning, design, 
     architecture, and engineering services. Within the total for 
     Military Construction, Army National Guard, $49,790,000 is 
     for the following projects in the following amounts:

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                  State                            Location                     Project               Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
KS......................................  Topeka....................  National Guard/Reserve            $420,000
                                                                       Center Building SCIF:
                                                                       Planning and Design.
MS......................................  Camp Shelby...............  Maneuver Area Training          15,500,000
                                                                       Equipment Site (MATES).
MO......................................  Aviation Classification     AVCRAD Aircraft                  3,800,000
                                           Repair Activity Depot.      Maintenance Hangar
                                                                       Addition: Planning and
                                                                       Design.
NC......................................  Salisbury.................  Aircraft Maintenance             2,700,000
                                                                       Hangar Addition/
                                                                       Alteration: Planning and
                                                                       Design.
VT......................................  Ethan Allen AFB...........  Family Readiness Center:         4,665,000
                                                                       Unspecified Minor
                                                                       Construction.
VT......................................  Bennington................  Readiness Center..........      16,900,000
VA......................................  Sandston..................  Aircraft Maintenance             5,805,000
                                                                       Hangar: Planning and
                                                                       Design.
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       Army National Guard (ARNG) Readiness Center Transformation 
     Master Plan (RCTMP).--The agreement provides $20,000,000 for 
     Army National Guard planning and design. The Committees 
     expect increased investments in ARNG Readiness Centers in 
     future fiscal years. Furthermore, the agreement directs the 
     ARNG to brief the Committees on how its military construction 
     funding priorities align with current and future readiness 
     center requirements based on the RCTMP no later than 90 days 
     after enactment of this Act.
       National Guard Biathlon Programs.--The agreement includes 
     $8,000,000 above the President's budget request in minor 
     military construction to update biathlon facilities to 
     continue engagement and training. The Director of the Army 
     National Guard is directed to provide a spend plan for the 
     use of these funds within 30 days of enactment of this Act.
       Vehicle Maintenance Facilities.--The agreement includes 
     $2,000,000 in planning and design for vehicle maintenance 
     facilities, and the Committees encourage the Army National 
     Guard to ensure maintenance infrastructure is adequately 
     addressed in future budget requests.

               Military Construction, Air National Guard

       The agreement provides $305,050,000 for ``Military 
     Construction, Air National Guard'', which is $107,280,000 
     above the budget request. Within this amount, the agreement 
     includes $23,682,000 for study, planning, design, 
     architecture, and engineering services. Within the total for 
     Military Construction, Air National Guard, $104,280,000 is 
     for the following projects in the following amounts:

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                  State                            Location                     Project               Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CT......................................  Bradley ANGB..............  Composite ASE Vehicle          $17,000,000
                                                                       Maintenance Facility.
DE......................................  New Castle County Airport.  Fuel Cell and Corrosion         17,500,000
                                                                       Control Hangar.
ID......................................  Boise Air Terminal (Gowen   Medical Training Facility.       6,500,000
                                           Field).
IL......................................  Abraham Lincoln Capital     Base Civil Engineer             10,200,000
                                           Airport.                    Complex.
NY......................................  Gabreski ANGB.............  Base Civil Engineer             14,800,000
                                                                       Complex.
SC......................................  McEntire JNGB.............  Hazardous Cargo Pad.......       9,000,000
WA......................................  Camp Murray ANGS..........  Air Support Operations          27,000,000
                                                                       Group Complex.
WI......................................  Volk Combat Readiness       Replace Aircraft                 2,280,000
                                           Training Center.            Maintenance Hangar/Shops:
                                                                       Planning and Design.
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                  Military Construction, Army Reserve

       The agreement provides $94,111,000 for ``Military 
     Construction, Army Reserve'', which is $29,200,000 above the 
     budget request. Within this amount, the agreement includes 
     $7,167,000 for study, planning, design, architecture, and 
     engineering services. Within the total for Military 
     Construction, Army Reserve, $29,200,000 is for the following 
     project in the following amount:

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                  State                            Location                     Project               Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WI......................................  Fort McCoy................  Transient Training             $29,200,000
                                                                       Enlisted Barracks.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                  Military Construction, Navy Reserve

       The agreement provides $71,804,000 for ``Military 
     Construction, Navy Reserve'', which is the same as the budget 
     request. Within this amount, the agreement includes 
     $6,005,000 for study, planning, design, architecture, and 
     engineering services.

                Military Construction, Air Force Reserve

       The agreement provides $120,074,000 for ``Military 
     Construction, Air Force Reserve'', which is $41,700,000 above 
     the budget request. Within this amount, the agreement 
     includes $5,830,000 for study, planning, design, 
     architecture, and engineering services. Within the total for 
     Military Construction, Air Force Reserve, $41,700,000 is for 
     the following projects in the following amounts:

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                  State                            Location                     Project               Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CA......................................  Beale AFB.................  940 ARW SQ OPS & AMU           $33,000,000
                                                                       Complex.
OH......................................  Youngstown Air Reserve      Assault Strip Widening....       8,700,000
                                           Station.
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     North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program

       The agreement provides $215,853,000 for the ``North 
     Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program,'' 
     which is $10,000,000 above the budget request.

               Department of Defense Base Closure Account

       The agreement provides $529,639,000 for the ``Department of 
     Defense Base Closure Account'', which is $245,000,000 above 
     the budget request.
       Navy Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) Remediation.--The 
     agreement includes an additional $85,000,000 above the budget 
     request for the Navy to accelerate environmental remediation 
     at installations closed under previous BRAC rounds. 
     Furthermore, the Navy is directed to provide to the 
     Committees a spend plan for these additional funds no later 
     than 60 days after enactment of this Act.
       Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and Perfluorooctanoic Acid 
     (PFOA).--The Committees continue to be concerned about the 
     extent of PFOS/PFOA contamination at closed U.S. military 
     installations and how that contamination is measured. 
     Therefore, the agreement includes an additional $150,000,000 
     above the budget request within the Base Closure Account to 
     increase the pace of cleanup at the military installations 
     affected by PFOS/PFOA. The Department is directed to submit a 
     spend plan for these additional funds to the Committees no 
     later than 60 days after enactment of this Act. Additionally, 
     the Committees direct the Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
     Defense for Environment to provide a report to the 
     congressional defense committees no later than 60 days after 
     enactment of this Act that establishes a baseline of 
     information regarding PFOS/PFOA at closed military 
     installations.

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                             Family Housing

                            Item of Interest

       Military Housing Privatization Initiative (MHPI).--The 
     agreement provides the requested funding for the Services to 
     ensure appropriate oversight of MHPI providers. Despite 
     significant changes in the program and implementation of the 
     Tenant Bill of Rights, Congress continues to hear complaints 
     about the state of homes within the MHPI, the timeliness and 
     thoroughness of repair and remediation of reported problems, 
     and the MHPI partners' communication with their tenants. The 
     Department is directed to report on its oversight plans and 
     use of the funds provided as well as the MHPI providers' 
     compliance with the Tenant Bill of Rights within 45 days of 
     enactment of this Act.

                   Family Housing Construction, Army

       The agreement provides $99,849,000 for ``Family Housing 
     Construction, Army'', which is the same as the budget 
     request.

             Family Housing Operation and Maintenance, Army

       The agreement provides $391,227,000 for ``Family Housing 
     Operation and Maintenance, Army'', which is the same as the 
     budget request.

           Family Housing Construction, Navy and Marine Corps

       The agreement provides $77,616,000 for ``Family Housing 
     Construction, Navy and Marine Corps'', which is the same as 
     the budget request.

    Family Housing Operation and Maintenance, Navy and Marine Corps

       The agreement provides $357,341,000 for ``Family Housing 
     Operation and Maintenance, Navy and Marine Corps'', which is 
     the same as the budget request.

                 Family Housing Construction, Air Force

       The agreement provides $115,716,000 for ``Family Housing 
     Construction, Air Force'', which is the same as the budget 
     request.

          Family Housing Operation and Maintenance, Air Force

       The agreement provides $325,445,000 for ``Family Housing 
     Operation and Maintenance, Air Force'', which is the same as 
     the budget request.

         Family Housing Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide

       The agreement provides $49,785,000 for ``Family Housing 
     Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'', which is the same 
     as the budget request.

         Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund

       The agreement provides $6,081,000 for the ``Department of 
     Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund'', which is the same 
     as the budget request.

 Department of Defense Military Unaccompanied Housing Improvement Fund

       The agreement provides $494,000 for the ``Department of 
     Defense Military Unaccompanied Housing Improvement Fund'', 
     which is the same as the budget request.

                       Administrative Provisions


             (INCLUDING TRANSFERS AND RESCISSION OF FUNDS)

       The agreement includes section 101 limiting the use of 
     funds under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract.
       The agreement includes section 102 allowing the use of 
     construction funds in this title for hire of passenger motor 
     vehicles.
       The agreement includes section 103 allowing the use of 
     construction funds in this title for advances to the Federal 
     Highway Administration for the construction of access roads.
       The agreement includes section 104 prohibiting construction 
     of new bases in the United States without a specific 
     appropriation.
       The agreement includes section 105 limiting the use of 
     funds for the purchase of land or land easements that exceed 
     100 percent of the value.
       The agreement includes section 106 prohibiting the use of 
     funds, except funds appropriated in this title for that 
     purpose, for family housing.
       The agreement includes section 107 limiting the use of 
     minor construction funds to transfer or relocate activities.
       The agreement includes section 108 prohibiting the 
     procurement of steel unless American producers, fabricators, 
     and manufacturers have been allowed to compete.
       The agreement includes section 109 prohibiting the use of 
     construction or family housing funds to pay real property 
     taxes in any foreign nation.
       The agreement includes section 110 prohibiting the use of 
     funds to initiate a new installation overseas without prior 
     notification.
       The agreement includes section 111 establishing a 
     preference for American architectural and engineering 
     services for overseas projects.
       The agreement includes section 112 establishing a 
     preference for American contractors in United States 
     territories and possessions in the Pacific and on Kwajalein 
     Atoll and in countries bordering the Arabian Gulf.
       The agreement includes section 113 requiring congressional 
     notification of military exercises when construction costs 
     exceed $100,000.
       The agreement includes section 114 allowing funds 
     appropriated in prior years for new projects authorized 
     during the current session of Congress.
       The agreement includes section 115 allowing the use of 
     expired or lapsed funds to pay the cost of supervision for 
     any project being completed with lapsed funds.
       The agreement includes section 116 allowing military 
     construction funds to be available for five years.
       The agreement includes section 117 allowing the transfer of 
     funds from Family Housing Construction accounts to the Family 
     Housing Improvement Program.
       The agreement includes section 118 allowing transfers to 
     the Homeowners Assistance Fund.
       The agreement includes section 119 limiting the amount of 
     repair and maintenance funds for flag and general officer 
     quarters and allowing for notification by electronic medium. 
     The provision also requires an annual report on the 
     expenditures of each quarter.
       The agreement includes section 120 extending the 
     availability of funds in the Ford Island Improvement Account.
       The agreement includes section 121 allowing the transfer of 
     expired funds to the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, 
     Construction, Defense account.
       The agreement includes section 122 allowing for the 
     reprogramming of construction funds among projects and 
     activities subject to certain criteria.
       The agreement includes section 123 prohibiting the 
     obligation or expenditure of funds provided to the Department 
     of Defense for military construction for projects at 
     Arlington National Cemetery.
       The agreement includes section 124 providing additional 
     construction funds for unfunded requirements.
       The agreement includes section 125 directing all amounts 
     appropriated to ``Military Construction, Army'', ``Military 
     Construction, Navy and Marine Corps'', ``Military 
     Construction, Air Force'', and ``Military Construction, 
     Defense-Wide'' accounts be immediately available and allotted 
     for the full scope of authorized projects.
       The agreement includes section 126 extending the 
     eligibility of unobligated funding for fiscal year 2017 
     projects that have not lapsed.
       The agreement includes section 127 rescinding unobligated 
     balances.
       The agreement includes section 128 defining the 
     congressional defense committees.
       The agreement includes section 129 providing funds for 
     various military construction accounts for DOD labs.
       The agreement includes section 130 providing funds for the 
     Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan.
       The agreement includes section 131 providing funding for 
     military construction in support of missile and space 
     intelligence missions.
       The agreement includes section 132 providing additional 
     funds for planning and design and unspecified minor 
     construction in order to improve military installation 
     resilience.
       The agreement includes section 133 providing additional 
     funds for planning and design for child development center 
     construction projects.
       The agreement includes section 134 providing funds for 
     various military construction accounts for natural disasters.
       The agreement includes section 135 providing funds for cost 
     to complete projects for the Army National Guard and Air 
     National Guard.
       The agreement includes section 136 allowing projects with a 
     total authorized cost of less than a certain amount to 
     increase the project cost by more than 50 percent of the 
     total authorized cost of the project under certain 
     circumstances.
       The agreement includes section 137 providing the Navy with 
     planning and design funds for water treatment and 
     distribution infrastructure.
       The agreement includes section 138 providing funds 
     specified to address cost increases identified subsequent to 
     the fiscal year 2022 budget request for authorized major 
     construction projects across various accounts.
       The agreement includes section 139 providing funds 
     specified to address cost increases for authorized major 
     construction projects funded by this Act.
       The agreement includes section 140 prohibiting the use of 
     funds in this Act to close or realign Naval Station 
     Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

                                TITLE II

                     DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

                       Items of Special Interest

       Toxic Exposures.--The Committees remain concerned by the 
     long history of servicemembers being exposed to toxic 
     substances, including Agent Orange, radiation, per- and 
     polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and open burn pits, and 
     believe that the recent rulemaking activity expanding 
     presumptive benefits for veterans with toxic exposures is a 
     step in the right direction. More must be done, both in 
     expanding access to healthcare for veterans exposed to 
     toxins, as well as ensuring they are receiving the disability 
     and compensation benefits that they have earned.
       The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is urged to work 
     with the Department of Defense (DOD) to ensure that VA has 
     information about every location in which servicemembers may 
     have been exposed to toxins in order to appropriately 
     adjudicate claims and make determinations about presumptive 
     eligibility. Further, to improve data on veteran exposure to 
     burn pits and potential health effects, the Committees 
     reiterate the direction provided in House Report 117-81, 
     requiring a report within 180

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     days on burn pit data tracking and reporting.
       Additionally, the Committees support the Department's plans 
     to increase research on the effects of and treatments for 
     veterans exposed to toxins during their time in military 
     service, as well as the launch of the Military Exposure 
     Research Program. The Department is encouraged to partner 
     with DOD and other research institutions to leverage its 
     funding and to include gender-specific research in its 
     research efforts. The Committees reiterate the directions 
     provided in House Report 117-81 and Senate Report 117-35 to 
     address concerns from PFAS exposure.
       To assist in better understanding the effects of exposure 
     to open burn pits and airborne hazards on the health of 
     veterans, the agreement provides $10,000,000 for the Airborne 
     Hazards and Burn Pits Center of Excellence.
       The Department is directed to provide a spend plan to the 
     Committees on Appropriations detailing the planned use of 
     funds provided in this Act for programs focused on toxic 
     substances within 30 days of enactment of this Act. In 
     addition, the Department is directed, within 60 days of 
     enactment of this Act, to provide a retrospective report 
     detailing spending on programs and activities focused on 
     toxic substance exposure, including registries, research, 
     reviewing and adjudicating claims, and benefits and health 
     care for fiscal year 2021.
       Supply Chain Modernization.--VA has well-documented medical 
     supply chain challenges, and on June 22, 2021, the United 
     States Court of Federal Claims issued an order that required 
     VA to adjust its planned efforts in this area. The Department 
     was provided significant funding intended to expedite their 
     ongoing modernization, but as this effort has continued to 
     demonstrate significant challenges, this bill includes a 
     provision that reallocates funding that VA has not yet used. 
     The Department has not provided a Supply Chain Management 
     Strategy to outline how its various supply chain initiatives 
     relate to each other, and what has been determined to be the 
     best path forward for this initiative, having considered all 
     options. The Secretary is directed, within 30 days of 
     enactment of this Act, to provide the Committees with an 
     update or the final version of its Supply Chain Management 
     Strategy, to include any changes necessary to the fiscal year 
     2022 Supply Chain Modernization spend plan based on the 
     challenges VA has experienced, including court rulings.
       Unobligated Balances of Expired Discretionary Funds.--The 
     Department is directed to submit to the Committees on 
     Appropriations quarterly reports detailing all unobligated 
     balances of expired discretionary funds by fiscal year.
       Federal Law Enforcement.--The agreement notes that the 
     explanatory statement accompanying the Commerce, Justice, 
     Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022 
     directs the Attorney General to ensure implementation of 
     evidence-based training programs on de-escalation and the 
     use-of-force, as well as on police community relations, and 
     the protection of civil rights, that are broadly applicable 
     and scalable to all Federal law enforcement agencies. The 
     agreement further notes that several agencies funded by this 
     Act employ Federal law enforcement officers and are Federal 
     Law Enforcement Training Centers partner organizations. The 
     agreement directs such agencies to consult with the Attorney 
     General regarding the implementation of these programs for 
     their law enforcement officers. The agreement further directs 
     such agencies to submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations on their efforts relating to such 
     implementation no later than 180 days after consultation with 
     the Attorney General. In addition, the agreement directs such 
     agencies, to the extent that they are not already 
     participating, to consult with the Attorney General and the 
     Director of the FBI regarding participation in the National 
     Use-of-Force Data Collection. The agreement further directs 
     such agencies to submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations, no later than 180 days after enactment of 
     this Act, on their efforts to so participate.

                    Veterans Benefits Administration


                       COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The agreement provides $152,016,542,000 for Compensation 
     and Pensions in advance for fiscal year 2023. Of the amount 
     provided, not more than $20,115,000 is to be transferred to 
     General Operating Expenses, Veterans Benefits Administration 
     (VBA) and Information Technology Systems for reimbursement of 
     necessary expenses in implementing provisions of title 38. 
     The agreement also provides an additional $8,955,364,000 
     above the fiscal year 2022 advance appropriation for this 
     account.
       Disability Claims Backlogs during COVID-19.--As described 
     in House Report 117-81, the agreement continues to require 
     quarterly reporting on the status of the disability claims 
     backlog and requires VA to provide the first report within 90 
     days of the enactment of this Act.


                         READJUSTMENT BENEFITS

       The agreement provides $8,906,851,000 for Readjustment 
     Benefits in advance for fiscal year 2023.


                   VETERANS INSURANCE AND INDEMNITIES

       The agreement provides $109,865,000 for Veterans Insurance 
     and Indemnities in advance for fiscal year 2023.


                 VETERANS HOUSING BENEFIT PROGRAM FUND

       The agreement provides such sums as may be necessary for 
     costs associated with direct and guaranteed loans for the 
     Veterans Housing Benefit Program Fund. The agreement limits 
     obligations for direct loans to not more than $500,000 and 
     provides $229,500,000 to be available for administrative 
     expenses.


            VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The agreement provides $2,838 for the cost of direct loans 
     from the Vocational Rehabilitation Loans Program Account, 
     plus $429,467 to be paid to the appropriation for General 
     Operating Expenses, Veterans Benefits Administration. The 
     agreement provides for a direct loan limitation of 
     $1,662,758.


          NATIVE AMERICAN VETERAN HOUSING LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The agreement provides $1,400,000 for administrative 
     expenses of the Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program 
     Account.


      GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES, VETERANS BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION

       The agreement provides $3,453,813,000 for General Operating 
     Expenses, Veterans Benefits Administration and, of the amount 
     provided, up to 10 percent is available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2023. This amount is $30,813,000 above the 
     request, which is intended to help VA process new benefits 
     claims and lower the claims backlog, particularly as VA 
     identifies new presumptive service-connected conditions.
       Equitable Relief.--As described in House Report 117-81, the 
     Secretary is directed to continue to grant or extend 
     equitable relief to eligible veterans initially deemed 
     eligible in instances of administrative error, and the 
     agreement requires the report to be submitted to the 
     Committees on Appropriations no later than 90 days after 
     enactment of this Act.

                     Veterans Health Administration

       Negligence of Veterans Affairs Employees and Patient 
     Safety.--The agreement notes the direction in Senate Report 
     117-35 related to negligence of Veterans Affairs employees 
     and patient safety concerns. VA must do more to encourage its 
     employees to identify and report issues that could result in 
     harm to patients. The Department should expeditiously 
     complete the required report and schedule a briefing with the 
     Committees on Appropriations.


                            MEDICAL SERVICES

       The agreement provides $70,323,116,000 in advance for 
     fiscal year 2023 for Medical Services, with $1,500,000,000 
     available through fiscal year 2024. The agreement maintains 
     bill language requiring the Secretary to ensure that 
     sufficient amounts are available for the acquisition of 
     prosthetics designed specifically for female veterans.
       Caregivers Support.--The agreement includes $1,373,133,000 
     for VA's Caregivers Program, which is $20,000,000 above the 
     budget request.
       Office of Rural Health.--The agreement provides 
     $327,455,000 for the Office of Rural Health and the Rural 
     Health Initiative, which is $20,000,000 above the budget 
     request.

                  Mental Health and Suicide Prevention

       Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.--The agreement 
     provides $13,176,661,000 in discretionary funds for mental 
     health programs, of which $597,997,000 is for suicide 
     prevention outreach. In addition to the directives in House 
     Report 117-81 and Senate Report 117-35, the agreement urges 
     the Department to focus on preventing suicides on VA 
     properties.
       The agreement provides $255,968,000 for the Veterans Crisis 
     Line (VCL) and directs the Department to ensure the VCL has 
     geolocation capabilities to ensure accurate emergency 
     dispatch to persons at risk of imminent harm to self or 
     others.
       The agreement provides $40,000,000 for the National Center 
     for PTSD and encourages the Center to consider academic and 
     interagency collaborations to investigate novel combinatorial 
     forms of intervention for PTSD, including multifactor 
     approaches.

                    Preventing Veteran Homelessness

       The agreement includes $2,154,450,000 in support of 
     programs to prevent veteran homelessness, including 
     $395,352,000 for Supportive Services for Veterans Families 
     (SSVF), $483,900,000 for the Department of Housing and Urban 
     Development-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH), 
     $270,442,000 for Grant and Per Diem programs, and $70,103,000 
     for Veterans Justice Outreach program.
       SSVF.--The agreement provides $420,000,000 for grant awards 
     in fiscal year 2023 and expects the Department to expand to 
     other locations to address gaps in services, as appropriate.
       HUD-VASH.--As part of efforts to ensure adequate caseworker 
     staffing to assist homeless veterans and veterans at risk of 
     homelessness, the Department is directed to report to the 
     Committees on the contracting of case manager positions and 
     the effectiveness of contracted caseworkers, as described in 
     House Report 117-81 and Senate Report 117-35.

               VHA Staffing and Clinical Workforce Issues

       Annual Staffing Report.--The Committees appreciate the 
     Department's efforts to provide useful information regarding 
     its staffing challenges. Building off of the directive 
     included in the Joint Explanatory Statement accompanying 
     Public Law 116-260, the Committees direct the Veterans Health 
     Administration to provide no later than January 31

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     of each calendar year, beginning in January 2023, a 
     comprehensive report on: (1) staffing shortages generally; 
     (2) staffing needs in rural and remote areas; (3) staffing 
     needs for women's health providers; (4) the development, use, 
     and refinement of credentialing and staffing models; and (5) 
     its plans to address these workforce issues. The Committees 
     encourage the Department to focus on annually identified 
     occupational shortages, but note that it may from time-to-
     time request information regarding specific types of 
     shortages, such as mental health providers. As such, the 
     Department is requested to track professions and specialties 
     of interest.

                     Telehealth and Connected Care

       The agreement provides $2,435,182,000 to sustain and 
     increase telehealth capacity, including in rural, highly 
     rural, and underserved communities.
       Telehealth Briefing.--VHA is directed to continue to expand 
     telehealth availability to include other mental health, 
     primary care, and rehabilitation services and to provide a 
     briefing as described in Senate Report 117-35 no later than 
     120 days after enactment of this Act on efforts to increase 
     telemedicine services to veterans and families and the 
     resources needed to make such services more readily 
     available.

                     Gender-Specific Care for Women

       Gender-Specific Care for Women.--The agreement includes 
     $840,446,000, which is $30,000,000 above the budget request, 
     to support gender-specific care for women, as well as funding 
     for the program office and initiatives. The funding will 
     expand programmatic support for women's healthcare, including 
     operational efforts through the Office of Women's Health, 
     implementation of the Deborah Sampson Act, and investments in 
     women's health provider training, such as the Women Veterans 
     Health Care Mini Residency Program. The funding includes 
     $1,000,000 for peer support programs for women veterans, as 
     described in House Report 117-81.
       The Department is directed to provide a spend plan 
     detailing how this funding will be allocated and describing 
     all planned activities related to care for women veterans to 
     the Committees no later than 90 days after enactment of this 
     Act. In addition, the Department is directed to provide 
     quarterly briefings to the Committees on the expenditure of 
     the funds. The Department is further directed to continue 
     improving medical facilities to meet the needs of women 
     veterans and is reminded of the annual reporting requirement 
     included in the Joint Explanatory Statement accompanying 
     Public Law 116-94 related to women's healthcare facilities.

       Opioid Safety Initiatives and Substance Use Disorder Care

       To continue to build upon opioid reduction efforts and 
     safety initiatives, the agreement includes $621,334,000 for 
     opioid prevention and treatment programs at VA, including 
     $245,666,000 for activities authorized by the Comprehensive 
     Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-198). The 
     agreement supports robust funding to continue implementation 
     of the Jason Simcakoski Memorial and Promise Act. The 
     agreement also includes $155,970,000 for Substance Use 
     Disorder (SUD) efforts to ensure a greater number of veterans 
     can receive SUD specialty services.
       Substance Use Disorders.--The Committees recognize the 
     ongoing work of VA to reduce substance use disorder among 
     veterans, and the importance of programs that utilize harm 
     reduction techniques and offer confidential education 
     information that can reduce substance use, relapse, hospital 
     visits and suicide. The agreement does not include the 
     funding and reporting requirement included in House Report 
     117-81 to establish an internet-based substance abuse 
     education program, but instead VA is urged to expand its 
     efforts related to SUD education and outreach and required to 
     submit a report to the Committees within 90 days of enactment 
     of this Act on how substance use education programs are being 
     implemented across the Department.

                              Whole Health

       The agreement provides $83,600,000 for Whole Health, which 
     is $10,000,000 above the request, to continue to implement 
     and expand the Whole Health initiative to all VA facilities. 
     Within the total, the agreement includes $5,000,000 for 
     creative arts therapies, as described in House Report 117-81 
     and consistent with the budget request.

                             Long-Term Care

       Long-Term Care.--The agreement provides $11,772,077,000 as 
     requested by the Department for long-term care. This includes 
     $8,095,395,000 for institutional care and $3,676,682,000 for 
     non-institutional care. VA is encouraged to continue 
     cooperating with community, State, and Federal partners to 
     expand these programs.

                          Other Health Issues

       Neurology Centers of Excellence.--The Department is 
     encouraged to increase its investment to maintain and expand 
     existing centers of excellence within VA dedicated to 
     neurological conditions. The report requested in House Report 
     117-81 and Senate Report 117-35 is requested within 120 days 
     of enactment of this Act and should include details on 
     potential collaborations among the neurology centers of 
     excellence.
       Epilepsy Center of Excellence.--The agreement provides 
     $10,000,000 for the Epilepsy Center of Excellence, as 
     requested.
       Headache Disorders Centers of Excellence.--The Committees 
     encourage the Department to expand the Headache Disorders 
     Centers of Excellence system to include at least 28 sites 
     nationally. In lieu of the funding provided in House Report 
     117-81, the agreement reiterates the direction in Senate 
     Report 117-35 to provide a report that includes a plan to 
     expand the Headache Disorders Centers of Excellence. VA is 
     expected to provide sustained support for the Centers of 
     Excellence to ensure the successful recruitment and retention 
     of healthcare providers with specialty training in headache 
     medicine.
       Pressure Injuries.--The report required in House Report 
     117-81 and Senate Report 117-35 on the Standardized Pressure 
     Injury Prevention Protocol Checklist is requested within 120 
     days of enactment of this Act.
       Molecular Diagnostics for All Cancers.--The Committees 
     believe that every veteran with cancer deserves the highest 
     quality and most medically advanced diagnosis and treatment 
     available, and the Committees commend the Department's 
     Precision Oncology Program. In lieu of the funding in House 
     Report 117-81, the agreement includes up to $10,000,000 to 
     accelerate the adoption of molecular diagnostics for numerous 
     cancers, including rare cancers.
       Adaptive Sports.--The agreement includes $27,048,000 for 
     National Veterans Sports Programs, including $16,000,000 for 
     adaptive sports programs, and no less than $1,500,000 for 
     equine therapy.
       Medication Optimization for Veterans.--In lieu of the 
     funding provided in House Report 117-81, the Committees 
     direct VA to continue to increase investment in the expansion 
     of the use of clinically validated, evidence-based 
     pharmacogenomic analysis, testing and clinical decision 
     support tools to assess veterans, especially polypharmacy 
     patients, and those at higher risk for adverse drug events. 
     The agreement reiterates the report required in Senate Report 
     117-35 on the Department's use of these tools.
       Remote Patient Diabetes Foot Ulcer Monitoring.--As noted in 
     House Report 117-81 and Senate Report 117-35, the Committees 
     encourage the Department to continue and expand efforts to 
     monitor diabetes patients remotely. The Department is 
     directed to provide a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations within 180 days of enactment of this Act on 
     the effectiveness of current efforts to prevent foot 
     amputation, including findings from The Initiative to End 
     Diabetic Limb Loss in Veterans, and the feasibility, 
     including cost estimates, of expanding these programs to 
     reach an additional 20,000 veterans, as well as expanding to 
     additional VISNs.
       Intimate Partner Violence Program.--The Committees support 
     the VA Intimate Partner Violence Program (IPV), which has 
     made important progress in implementing programs to combat 
     domestic violence, and direct the Department to fully 
     resource the IPV Program and to continue to include it as a 
     program of interest with budget detail in the justifications 
     accompanying the fiscal year 2023 budget submissions.
       Safe Syringes for VA Health Workers.--The report required 
     in House Report 117-81 and Senate Report 117-35 on syringe 
     procurement standards is requested within 180 days of 
     enactment of this Act.
       Pilot Programs for Agritherapy.--The agreement provides 
     $5,000,000 to continue a pilot program to train veterans in 
     agricultural vocations, while also tending to behavioral and 
     mental health needs with behavioral healthcare services and 
     treatments by licensed providers at no fewer than three 
     locations.
       Oral Contraceptives.--In lieu of the direction in House 
     Report 117-81, the Committees note the potential advantages 
     for patients in receiving a full year's supply at once of 
     oral contraceptive pills that are for regular use and urge 
     the Department to improve awareness of the option to receive 
     a full year's supply of such pills, when medically 
     appropriate. The Committees request a report within 90 days 
     of enactment of this Act on how VA is improving awareness of 
     this option.
       Assisted Reproductive Services.--The agreement does not 
     include the House directive.
       Fertility Treatment Data.--In lieu of the reporting 
     requirements and directives under the heading ``Fertility 
     Treatment Data'' in House Report 117-81, the agreement 
     directs the Department to provide a report within 180 days of 
     enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, regarding the 
     fertility treatment and counseling furnished by VA over the 
     past five fiscal years. The report should include the 
     following: (1) the number of veterans who received fertility 
     treatment or counseling furnished by the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs, disaggregated by era of military service of 
     such veterans; (2) the number of spouses of veterans who 
     received fertility treatment or counseling furnished by the 
     Department; (3) the cost to the Department of furnishing 
     fertility treatment and counseling, disaggregated by cost of 
     services and administration; (4) the average cost to the 
     Department per recipient of fertility treatment and 
     counseling; (5) in cases in which the Department furnished 
     fertility treatment through the use of assisted reproductive 
     technology, the average number of cycles per person 
     furnished, disaggregated by type of treatment; (6) a 
     description of how fertility treatment and counseling 
     services of the Department are coordinated with similar 
     services of the Department of Defense; and (7) the number of 
     women veterans who are ineligible for in vitro fertilization 
     treatment or other forms of assisted reproductive services 
     currently provided by the Department for certain veterans,

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     disaggregated by state of residence, race, age, and marital 
     status.


                         MEDICAL COMMUNITY CARE

       The agreement provides $24,156,659,000 in advance funding 
     for fiscal year 2023 for Medical Community Care, with 
     $2,000,000,000 available until September 30, 2024. The 
     agreement provides an additional $3,269,000,000 above the 
     fiscal year 2022 advance appropriation for the Medical 
     Community Care account.
       Medical Community Care Budget Estimates.--The agreement 
     fully funds the Department's requests for advance 
     appropriations in fiscal year 2023 and provides additional 
     funds for fiscal year 2022. The Committees are aware that 
     VA's actuarial models predict continued growth in the 
     account.
       The Committees remain dedicated to supporting the needs of 
     the nation's veterans and understand veterans' healthcare 
     needs and choices are difficult to predict, particularly 
     during a global pandemic. However, the Department must ensure 
     that its budget requests are informed by historical trends, 
     utilization data, and actuarial models.
       Rural Health Continuity of Care.--The agreement continues 
     to encourage VA to sustain continuity of care for rural 
     veterans in line with the direction included in Senate Report 
     117-35.
       Dialysis Services.--The agreement encourages VA to ensure 
     care is not disrupted or diminished for dialysis patients and 
     reiterates the reporting requirement set forth in Senate 
     Report 117-35.


                     MEDICAL SUPPORT AND COMPLIANCE

       The agreement provides $9,673,409,000 in advance for fiscal 
     year 2023 for Medical Support and Compliance, with 
     $200,000,000 available through fiscal year 2024.


                           MEDICAL FACILITIES

       The agreement provides $7,133,816,000 in advance for fiscal 
     year 2023 for Medical Facilities, of which $350,000,000 is 
     made available through fiscal year 2024.
       The Committees expect VA to provide, no later than 30 days 
     after enactment of this Act, an expenditure plan detailing 
     the planned use of the funds provided, and further, the 
     Committees request a quarterly update of the plan if the 
     funding for any single project changes by more than 
     $3,000,000 during that time period.
       Community-Based Outpatient Clinic in Bakersfield, 
     California.--The Committees remain concerned that a new 
     Bakersfield CBOC remains unbuilt more than a decade after 
     Congress authorized this facility in Public Law 111-82. The 
     Committees direct the Secretary to expeditiously execute 
     Lease No. 36C10F20L0008 and activate the CBOC by the third 
     quarter of fiscal year 2023, as provided in the lease. The 
     Committees direct the Secretary to provide monthly reports on 
     the CBOC's progress until completion and activation.
       Recurring Expenses Transformational Fund.--The agreement 
     supports the Department's plan to allocate $150,000,000 of 
     the Recurring Expenses Transformational Fund balances to 
     support non-recurring maintenance projects.


                    MEDICAL AND PROSTHETIC RESEARCH

       The agreement provides $882,000,000 for Medical and 
     Prosthetic Research, available until September 30, 2023. Bill 
     language is included to ensure that the Secretary allocates 
     adequate funding for prosthetic research specifically for 
     female veterans and for toxic exposures.
       Access to Clinical Oncology Trials.--The Committees 
     continue to applaud the ongoing collaborative efforts between 
     VA medical centers and NCI-designated comprehensive cancer 
     centers. In lieu of the funding in House Report 117-81, the 
     Committees direct VA to allocate up to $10,000,000 to support 
     partnerships between VA medical centers and NCI-designated 
     comprehensive cancer centers. The Committees further direct 
     VA to provide a report within 90 days of enactment of this 
     Act on how the Department will use these funds and how prior 
     year funds have been used to improve veterans' access to 
     cancer clinical trials, as previously directed.
       Neural-Enabled Prosthetics.--The Committees understand the 
     uniqueness of limb trauma injuries sustained by 
     servicemembers in combat and support additional research in 
     this area. In lieu of the funding in House Report 117-81, the 
     agreement directs VA to continue its efforts to fund and 
     conduct research that will design and develop technology to 
     offset the effects of limb amputation, orthopedic injury and 
     disease, neuropathic pain, and other neurodegenerative 
     diseases by partnering with colleges and universities that 
     specialize in these fields. As the Department continues to 
     expand an innovative program of neuroprosthetics research, 
     the agreement directs the Department to provide an updated 
     report within 120 days of enactment of this Act to the 
     Committees on Appropriations on its efforts and how it will 
     continue to expand this research.
       Spinal Cord Research.--The Committees recognize the 
     severity of spinal cord injuries and support additional 
     research in this area. The Department is encouraged to work 
     with outside organizations on spinal cord injury 
     translational research to improve the quality of life of 
     impaired and disabled veterans. In lieu of the funding in 
     House Report 117-81, the agreement directs the Department to 
     provide an updated report within 180 days of enactment of 
     this Act to the Committees on Appropriations on its efforts 
     to expand spinal cord research and opportunities to work with 
     outside organizations.
       Research Facilities and Academic Affiliates.--As directed 
     in House Report 117-81 and Senate Report 117-35, the 
     Committees direct the Secretary to provide a report no later 
     than 90 days after enactment of this Act, on locations where 
     it would be feasible and appropriate to employ arrangements 
     that would allow for sharing agreements between local VA 
     Medical Centers to utilize existing research space at an 
     academic affiliate. The report should also outline the extent 
     barriers to these agreements exist, including legislative and 
     regulatory prohibitions.

                    National Cemetery Administration

       The agreement provides $394,000,000 for the National 
     Cemetery Administration (NCA). Of the amount provided, up to 
     10 percent is available until September 30, 2023.
       Prisoners of War Headstones.--The Committees appreciate 
     that the Department initiated a consultation process under 
     the National Historic Preservation Act to replace the 
     remaining headstone of a prisoner of war at Fort Douglas 
     National Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah, that features a 
     swastika and emphasize that this process should not 
     unnecessarily delay the replacement of this headstone. As 
     directed in House Report 117-81, VA is required to provide 
     monthly reports on the status of the consultation process and 
     the timeline for removal of this headstone to the Committees 
     on Appropriations.
       Western New York Cemetery.--The Department is reminded of 
     the requirement to provide a plan and timeline for completing 
     the Western New York National Cemetery project, as described 
     in the fiscal year 2017 budget proposal, to the Committees on 
     Appropriations no later than 60 days after enactment of this 
     Act.

                      Departmental Administration


                         GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The agreement provides $401,200,000 for General 
     Administration. Of the amount provided, up to 10 percent is 
     available for obligation until September 30, 2023. The 
     agreement continues to include bill language permitting the 
     transfer of funds from this account to General Operating 
     Expenses, Veterans Benefits Administration.
       In lieu of the funding provided in House Report 117-81 on 
     21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA) (Public 
     Law 115-336) compliance for the Center for Women Veterans, 
     the Committees reiterate support for VA to fully implement 
     the requirements of the 21st Century IDEA Act and increase 
     investment to stand up fully compliant websites across the 
     enterprise, including the website for the Center for Women 
     Veterans. The Department is directed to report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations on plans to modernize the Center 
     for Women Veterans website and digital service delivery 
     programs, and how it will comply with all 21st Century IDEA 
     Act requirements no later than 180 days following enactment 
     of this Act.
       Financial Management Business Transformation (FMBT).--The 
     agreement provides $19,590,000 for FMBT.
       The agreement provides funding for General Administration 
     in the amounts specified below:

                            ($ in thousands)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                       Office \1\                             Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Office of the Secretary.................................         $16,265
Office of General Counsel...............................         125,510
Office of Management....................................          73,726
Office of Human Resources & Administration/Operations,           103,646
 Security & Preparedness................................
Office of Enterprise Integration........................          33,636
Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs..........          14,435
Office of Congressional & Legislative Affairs...........           7,480
Office of Accountability & Whistleblower Protection.....          26,502
                                                         ---------------
  Total.................................................        $401,200
------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ The Office of Acquisition, Logistics & Construction and the Veterans
  Experience Office are funded solely with reimbursable authority.

       The Secretary may alter these allocations if the Committees 
     have been notified and written approval is provided.


                       BOARD OF VETERANS APPEALS

       The agreement provides $228,000,000 for the Board of 
     Veterans Appeals, of which up to 10 percent shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2023.


                     INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The agreement provides $4,842,800,000 for the Information 
     Technology (IT) Systems account. The agreement includes 
     $1,414,215,000 for staff salaries and expenses, 
     $3,131,585,000 for operation and maintenance of existing 
     programs, and $297,000,000 for program development.
       The agreement makes no more than 3 percent of pay and 
     associated costs funding available until the end of fiscal 
     year 2023, no more than 5 percent of operations and 
     maintenance funding available until the end of fiscal year 
     2023, and all IT systems development funding available until 
     the end of fiscal year 2023.
       The agreement continues to include language permitting 
     funding to be transferred among the three IT subaccounts, 
     subject to approval from the Committees, and allowing funding 
     to be transferred among development projects or to new 
     projects subject to the Committees' approval. Further, the 
     agreement prohibits increasing or decreasing a development 
     project by more than $3,000,000 prior to receiving approval 
     of the Committees or after a period of 30 days has elapsed.

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       This table is intended to serve as the approved list of 
     development projects; as noted above, any requested changes 
     exceeding $3,000,000 to a project are subject to 
     reprogramming requirements.

               INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
                            ($ in thousands)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         Project                             Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Clinical Applications...................................        $103,624
  Supply Chain Management...............................          76,105
  Healthcare Administration Systems.....................          20,710
  Health Data Interoperability..........................           2,125
  My HealtheVet.........................................           4,684
Health Management Platform..............................          69,096
  Community Care........................................          34,853
  Digital Health Platform...............................          11,807
  Patient Record System.................................           9,000
  Purchased Care........................................           6,836
  Telehealth Services...................................           6,600
Health Research and Development.........................           8,660
Benefits Systems........................................          87,390
  Education Benefits....................................          50,000
  Veterans Customer Experience..........................           9,880
  Veterans Benefits Management..........................          14,285
  Benefits Systems......................................           9,825
  Benefits Appeals......................................           3,400
Memorial Affairs........................................           9,030
  Memorials Automation..................................           9,030
Cyber Security..........................................          11,200
Information/Infrastructure Management...................           8,000
  Data Integration and Management.......................           8,000
                                                         ---------------
    Total, all development..............................        $297,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Recurring Expenses Transformational Fund.--The agreement 
     supports the Department's plan to allocate $670,000,000 of 
     the Recurring Expenses Transformational Fund balances to 
     support information technology.


                   VETERANS ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD

       The agreement provides $2,500,000,000 for Veterans 
     Electronic Health Record for activities related to the 
     development and rollout of VA's Electronic Health Record 
     Modernization (EHRM) initiative, the associated contractual 
     costs, and the salaries and expenses of employees hired under 
     titles 5 and 38, United States Code.
       Furthermore, the agreement makes 25 percent of the funds 
     contingent upon the Secretary providing a plan with 
     benchmarks and measurable metrics for deployment and a plan 
     for addressing all required infrastructure upgrades to the 
     Committees on Appropriations no later than 30 days prior to 
     July 1, 2022. The Secretary is not provided transfer 
     authority and is directed to continue using this account as 
     the sole source of funding within the Department for EHRM.
       While the Committees remain supportive of the EHRM 
     initiative and the Secretary's comprehensive strategic 
     review, as with any acquisition of this size and magnitude, 
     there continue to be implementation concerns. The funding 
     level and contingency requirement recognize the 
     implementation delays and challenges to date, as well as the 
     need to communicate a clear plan to address infrastructure 
     needs, deploy the new system, monitor progress, and 
     demonstrate success.
       The Committees expect the Department to follow the 
     direction in bill language, as well as in House Report 117-81 
     and Senate Report 117-35. This includes, but is not limited 
     to, the continuation of quarterly reporting and briefings. 
     The agreement continues to direct the Government 
     Accountability Office to conduct quarterly performance 
     reviews of EHRM deployment and to report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations each quarter.


                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

       The agreement provides $239,000,000 for the Office of 
     Inspector General. Of the amount provided, up to 10 percent 
     is available for obligation until September 30, 2023.


                      CONSTRUCTION, MAJOR PROJECTS

       The agreement provides $1,611,000,000 for Construction, 
     Major Projects. The agreement makes this funding available 
     for five years, except that $700,000,000 is made available 
     until expended, of which $100,000,000 shall be available for 
     seismic improvement projects.
       The agreement funds the following items requested in the 
     budget submission:

                      CONSTRUCTION, MAJOR PROJECTS
                            ($ in thousands)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Location                    Description          Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Veterans Health Administration
 (VHA):
Biloxi, MS........................  Restoration of               $22,500
                                     Hospital/
                                     Consolidation of
                                     Gulfport.
Portland, OR......................  Upgrade Portland              20,000
                                     Bldg 100/101 for
                                     Seismic Retrofit
                                     and Renovation.
Louisville, KY....................  New Medical Center..          93,000
San Francisco, CA.................  New Research                  74,400
                                     Facility.
West Los Angeles, CA..............  Build New Critical            40,000
                                     Care Center.
Long Beach, CA....................  Mental Health &               20,000
                                     Community Living
                                     Center.
Canandaigua, NY...................  Construction and              60,159
                                     Renovation.
San Diego, CA.....................  SCI & Seismic                 10,000
                                     Building 11.
Dallas, TX........................  Spinal Cord Injury..          43,239
Oklahoma City, OK.................  Construct Surgical            18,103
                                     Intensive Care Unit
                                     and Renovate
                                     Operating Rooms.
St. Louis (JC), MO................  Replace Bed Tower,            92,000
                                     Clinical Bldg
                                     Expansion & Parking
                                     Garage.
El Paso, TX.......................  Construct New Health         150,000
                                     Care Center.
Various Stations..................  Advance Planning and         417,699
                                     Design Fund.
Various Stations..................  Asbestos............          12,000
Various Stations..................  Construction and             124,600
                                     Facilities
                                     Management Staff.
Various Stations..................  Hazardous Waste.....           4,000
Various Stations..................  Judgment Fund.......          35,000
Various Stations..................  Non-Departmental             132,000
                                     Federal Entity
                                     Project Management
                                     Support.
Various Stations..................  Seismic Corrections.         100,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Subtotal, VHA.................  ....................      $1,468,700
National Cemetery Administration
 (NCA):
Fort Logan, CO....................  Phase 1 Gravesite             50,000
                                     Expansion.
Indiantown Gap, PA................  Phase 5 Gravesite             44,500
                                     Expansion.
Various Stations..................  Advance Planning and          35,000
                                     Design Fund.
Various Stations..................  NCA Land Acquisition           1,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Subtotal, NCA.................  ....................        $130,500
General Administration/Staff        Department Advance            11,800
 Offices                             Planning and Design
                                     Fund for Major
                                     Construction.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Major Construction, Total.....  ....................      $1,611,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

                      CONSTRUCTION, MINOR PROJECTS

       The agreement provides $553,000,000 for Construction, Minor 
     Projects. The agreement makes this funding available for five 
     years, except that $55,300,000 is made available until 
     expended. The agreement includes $359,210,000 for the 
     Veterans Health Administration, $106,990,000 for the National 
     Cemetery Administration, $22,100,000 for the Veterans 
     Benefits Administration, and $64,700,000 for staff offices 
     and the Office of Information Technology.


       GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF STATE EXTENDED CARE FACILITIES

       The agreement provides $50,000,000 for Grants for 
     Construction of State Extended Care Facilities, to remain 
     available until expended, which is $50,000,000 above the 
     request.


             GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF VETERANS CEMETERIES

       The agreement provides $48,500,000 for Grants for 
     Construction of Veterans Cemeteries, to remain available 
     until expended, which is $3,500,000 above the request.


                    ASSET AND INFRASTRUCTURE REVIEW

       The agreement provides $5,000,000 for the Asset and 
     Infrastructure Review account. This is a new account for 
     fiscal year 2022 to support the work of the Asset and 
     Infrastructure Review Commission.

                       Administrative Provisions


             (INCLUDING TRANSFERS AND RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS)

       The agreement includes section 201 allowing for the 
     transfer of funds among the three mandatory accounts.
       The agreement includes section 202 allowing for the 
     transfer of funds among the four medical accounts.
       The agreement includes section 203 allowing salaries and 
     expenses funds to be used for the hire of passenger vehicles, 
     lease of facilities or land, and purchase of uniforms.
       The agreement includes section 204 restricting the accounts 
     that may be used for the acquisition of land or the 
     construction of any new hospital or home.
       The agreement includes section 205 limiting the use of 
     funds in the Medical Services account only for entitled 
     beneficiaries unless reimbursement is made to the Department.
       The agreement includes section 206 allowing for the use of 
     certain mandatory appropriations accounts for payment of 
     prior year accrued obligations for those accounts.
       The agreement includes section 207 allowing the use of 
     appropriations available in this title to pay prior year 
     obligations.
       The agreement includes section 208 allowing the Department 
     to use surplus earnings from the National Service Life 
     Insurance Fund, the Veterans' Special Life Insurance Fund, 
     and the United States Government Life Insurance Fund to 
     administer these programs.
       The agreement includes section 209 allowing the Department 
     to cover the administrative expenses of enhanced-use leases 
     and provides authority to obligate these reimbursements in 
     the year in which the proceeds are received.
       The agreement includes section 210 limiting the amount of 
     reimbursement the Office of Resolution Management, the Office 
     of Employment Discrimination Complaint Adjudication, and the 
     Office of Diversity and Inclusion can charge other offices of 
     the Department for services provided.
       The agreement includes section 211 requiring the Department 
     to collect third-party payer information for persons treated 
     for a non-service-connected disability.
       The agreement includes section 212 allowing for the use of 
     enhanced-use leasing revenues for Construction, Major 
     Projects and Construction, Minor Projects.
       The agreement includes section 213 outlining authorized 
     uses for Medical Services funds.
       The agreement includes section 214 allowing for funds 
     deposited into the Medical Care Collections Fund to be 
     transferred to the Medical Services and Medical Community 
     Care accounts.
       The agreement includes section 215 which allows Alaskan 
     veterans to use medical facilities of the Indian Health 
     Service or tribal organizations.
       The agreement includes section 216 permitting the transfer 
     of funds from the Department of Veterans Affairs Capital 
     Asset Fund to the Construction, Major Projects and 
     Construction, Minor Projects accounts and makes those funds 
     available until expended.
       The agreement includes section 217 requiring the Secretary 
     to submit financial status quarterly reports for each of the 
     Administrations in the Department. The specific data 
     requested is similar to that requested in the fiscal year 
     2017 conference report.
       The agreement includes section 218 requiring the Department 
     to notify and receive approval from the Committees of any 
     proposed transfer of funding to or from the Information 
     Technology Systems account and limits the aggregate annual 
     increase in the account to no more than 10 percent of the 
     funding appropriated to the account in this Act.

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       The agreement includes section 219 providing up to 
     $379,009,000 of specified fiscal year 2022 funds for transfer 
     to the Joint DOD-VA Medical Facility Demonstration Fund.
       The agreement includes section 220 which permits up to 
     $323,242,000 of specified fiscal year 2023 medical care 
     funding provided in advance to be transferred to the Joint 
     DOD-VA Medical Facility Demonstration Fund.
       The agreement includes section 221 which authorizes 
     transfers from the Medical Care Collections Fund to the Joint 
     DOD-VA Medical Facility Demonstration Fund.
       The agreement includes section 222 which transfers at least 
     $15,000,000 from VA medical accounts to the DOD-VA Health 
     Care Sharing Incentive Fund.
       The agreement includes section 223 prohibiting funds from 
     being used to replace the current system by which VISNs 
     select and contract for diabetes monitoring supplies and 
     equipment.
       The agreement includes section 224 requiring that the 
     Department notify the Committees of bid savings in a major 
     construction project of at least $5,000,000, or 5 percent, 
     whichever is less, 14 days prior to the obligation of the bid 
     savings and describe their anticipated use.
       The agreement includes section 225 which prohibits VA from 
     increasing the scope of work for a major construction project 
     above the scope specified in the original budget request 
     unless the Secretary receives approval from the Committees.
       The agreement includes section 226 requiring a quarterly 
     report from each VBA regional office on pending disability 
     claims, both initial and supplemental; error rates; the 
     number of claims processing personnel; corrective actions 
     taken; training programs; and review team audit results. It 
     also requires a quarterly report on the number of appeals 
     pending at the Veterans Benefits Administration and the Board 
     of Veterans Appeals.
       The agreement includes section 227 requiring VA to notify 
     the Committees 15 days prior to any staff office relocations 
     within VA of 25 or more full-time-equivalent staff.
       The agreement includes section 228 requiring the Secretary 
     to report to the Committees each quarter about any single 
     national outreach and awareness marketing campaign exceeding 
     $1,000,000.
       The agreement includes section 229 permitting the transfer 
     to the Medical Services account of fiscal year discretionary 
     2022 funds appropriated in this Act or available from advance 
     fiscal year 2022 funds already appropriated, except for funds 
     appropriated to General Operating Expenses, VBA, to address 
     possible unmet, high priority needs in Medical Services, upon 
     approval of the Committees.
       The agreement includes section 230 permitting the transfer 
     of funding between the General Operating Expenses, Veterans 
     Benefits Administration account and the Board of Veterans 
     Appeals account upon approval of the Committees.
       The agreement includes section 231 prohibiting the 
     Secretary from reprogramming funds in excess of $7,000,000 
     among the major construction projects or programs unless the 
     reprogramming is approved by the Committees.
       The agreement includes section 232 maintaining certain 
     professional standards for the veterans crisis hotline and 
     requiring a study to assess its effectiveness.
       The agreement includes section 233 prohibiting the use of 
     funds, from the period October 1, 2018, through January 1, 
     2024, in contravention of VHA's guidelines on breast cancer 
     screening published on May 10, 2017.
       The agreement includes section 234 addressing the use of 
     funding for assisted reproductive technology treatment and 
     adoption reimbursement.
       The agreement includes section 235 prohibiting any funds 
     being used in a manner that is inconsistent with statutory 
     limitations on outsourcing.
       The agreement includes section 236 pertaining to exceptions 
     for Indian- or Native Hawaiian-owned businesses contracting 
     with VA.
       The agreement includes section 237 directing the 
     elimination over a series of years of the use of social 
     security numbers in VA programs.
       The agreement includes section 238 referencing the 
     provision in the 2017 Appropriations Act pertaining to 
     certification of marriage and family therapists.
       The agreement includes section 239, which prohibits funds 
     from being used to transfer funding from the Filipino 
     Veterans Equity Compensation Fund to any other VA account.
       The agreement includes section 240 permitting funding to be 
     used in fiscal years 2022 and 2023 to carry out and expand 
     the child care pilot program authorized by section 205 of 
     Public Law 111-163.
       The agreement includes section 241 prohibiting VA from 
     using funds to enter into an agreement to resolve a dispute 
     or claim with an individual that would restrict the 
     individual from speaking to members of Congress or their 
     staff on any topic, except those required to be kept secret 
     in the interest of national defense or the conduct of foreign 
     affairs.
       The agreement includes section 242 referencing language in 
     the 2017 Appropriations Act requiring certain data to be 
     included in budget justifications for major construction 
     projects.
       The agreement includes section 243 prohibiting the use of 
     funds to deny the Inspector General timely access to 
     information unless a provision of law expressly refers to the 
     Inspector General and expressly limits such access.
       The agreement includes section 244 prohibiting funding from 
     being used in a manner that would increase wait times for 
     veterans at medical facilities.
       The agreement includes section 245 prohibiting the use of 
     funds in fiscal year 2022 to convert any program which 
     received specific purpose funds in fiscal year 2021 to a 
     general purpose-funded program without the approval of the 
     Committees on Appropriations at least 30 days prior to any 
     such action.
       The agreement includes section 246 referencing language in 
     the 2017 Appropriations Act regarding the verification of 
     service for coastwise merchant seamen.
       The agreement includes section 247 addressing animal 
     research at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
       The agreement includes section 248 requiring the ratio of 
     veterans to full-time employment equivalents in any 
     rehabilitation program not to exceed 125 veterans to one 
     full-time employment equivalent.
       The agreement includes section 249 allowing fiscal year 
     2022 and 2023 ``Medical Community Care'' funds to be used to 
     cover obligations that otherwise would be paid by the 
     Veterans Choice Fund, if necessary.
       The agreement includes section 250 allowing obligations and 
     expenditures applicable to the ``Medical Services'' account 
     in fiscal years 2017 through 2019 for aid to state homes to 
     remain in the ``Medical Community Care'' account.
       The agreement includes section 251 specifying an amount 
     from the four medical care accounts for gender-specific care 
     for women.
       The agreement includes section 252 allowing transfers from 
     ``Medical Facilities'' and ``General Administration'' to the 
     ``Asset and Infrastructure Review'' account upon approval by 
     the Committees.
       The agreement includes section 253 rescinding and 
     reappropriating funds from the ``Recurring Expenses 
     Transformational Fund'' established in section 243 of 
     division J of Public Law 114-113.
       The agreement includes section 254 requiring quarterly 
     reports on the status of the ``Veterans Medical Care and 
     Health Fund,'' established to execute section 8002 of the 
     American Rescue Plan.
       The agreement includes section 255 rescinding unobligated 
     balances.
       The agreement includes section 256 rescinding unobligated 
     balances.
       The agreement includes section 257 providing contributions 
     from other Federal agencies to VA Non-Profit Corporations for 
     research with an extended distribution authority on valid 
     obligations.

                               TITLE III

                            RELATED AGENCIES

                  American Battle Monuments Commission


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement provides $87,500,000 for Salaries and 
     Expenses of the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), 
     an increase of $2,700,000 above the budget request. The 
     additional funds will allow ABMC to not only maintain the 
     cemeteries and monuments honoring America's war dead, but 
     also to preserve and communicate these veterans' stories of 
     courage and sacrifice.


                 FOREIGN CURRENCY FLUCTUATIONS ACCOUNT

       The agreement provides such sums as necessary for the 
     Foreign Currency Fluctuations Account.

           United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement provides $41,700,000 for Salaries and 
     Expenses for the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans 
     Claims.

                      Department of Defense--Civil

                       Cemeterial Expenses, Army


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement provides $87,000,000 for Cemeterial Expenses, 
     Army--Salaries and Expenses. Within that amount, up to 
     $15,000,000 in funding is available until September 30, 2024.


                              CONSTRUCTION

       The agreement provides $141,000,000 for Construction, to 
     support Arlington National Cemetery's Southern Expansion 
     project that would provide approximately 80,000 burial 
     opportunities and extend the life of the cemetery.

                      Armed Forces Retirement Home


                               TRUST FUND

       The agreement provides a total of $77,000,000 for the Armed 
     Forces Retirement Home (AFRH), an increase of $1,700,000 
     above the budget request. The increase is intended to support 
     high-priority capital projects, particularly those currently 
     under design, as well as operations and maintenance 
     requirements. The agreement requires AFRH to provide an 
     expenditure plan detailing the planned use of the funds 
     provided for capital projects, as directed in House Report 
     117-81. The agreement also includes two-year availability of 
     funds for operations and maintenance.

                        Administrative Provision

       The agreement includes section 301 allowing Arlington 
     National Cemetery to deposit and use funds derived from 
     concessions.

                                TITLE IV

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

       The agreement includes section 401 prohibiting the 
     obligation of funds in this Act beyond the current fiscal 
     year unless expressly so provided.

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       The agreement includes section 402 prohibiting the use of 
     the funds in this Act for programs, projects, or activities 
     not in compliance with Federal law relating to risk 
     assessment, the protection of private property rights, or 
     unfunded mandates.
       The agreement includes section 403 encouraging all 
     departments and agencies funded in this Act to expand the use 
     of ``E-Commerce'' technologies and procedures.
       The agreement includes section 404 specifying the 
     congressional committees that are to receive all reports and 
     notifications.
       The agreement includes section 405 prohibiting the transfer 
     of funds to any department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
     United States Government without authority from an 
     appropriations Act.
       The agreement includes section 406 prohibiting the use of 
     funds for a project or program named for a serving Member, 
     Delegate, or Resident Commissioner of the United States House 
     of Representatives.
       The agreement includes section 407 requiring all reports 
     submitted to Congress to be posted on official web sites of 
     the submitting agency.
       The agreement includes section 408 prohibiting the use of 
     funds to establish or maintain a computer network unless such 
     network blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of 
     pornography, except for law enforcement investigation, 
     prosecution, or adjudication activities.
       The agreement includes section 409 prohibiting the use of 
     funds for the payment of first-class air travel by an 
     employee of the executive branch.
       The agreement includes section 410 prohibiting the use of 
     funds in this Act for any contract where the contractor has 
     not complied with E-Verify requirements.
       The agreement includes section 411 prohibiting the use of 
     funds in this Act to construct facilities on military 
     installations that do not meet resiliency standards.
       The agreement includes section 412 prohibiting the use of 
     funds in this Act for the renovation, expansion, or 
     construction of any facility in the continental United States 
     for the purpose of housing any individual who has been 
     detained at the United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, 
     Cuba.

   DISCLOSURE OF EARMARKS AND CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING ITEMS

       Following is a list of congressional earmarks and 
     congressionally directed spending items (as defined in clause 
     9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
     and rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     respectively) included in the bill or this explanatory 
     statement, along with the name of each House Member, Senator, 
     Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who submitted a request to 
     the Committee of jurisdiction for each item so identified. 
     For each item, a Member is required to provide a 
     certification that neither the Member nor the Member's 
     immediate family has a financial interest, and each Senator 
     is required to provide a certification that neither the 
     Senator nor the Senator's immediate family has a pecuniary 
     interest in such congressionally directed spending item. 
     Neither the bill nor the explanatory statement contains any 
     limited tax benefits or limited tariff benefits as defined in 
     the applicable House and Senate rules.

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   DIVISION K--DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED 
                   PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2022

       The explanatory statement accompanying this division is 
     approved and indicates congressional intent. In implementing 
     this agreement, Federal departments, agencies, commissions, 
     and other entities are directed to comply with the 
     directives, reporting requirements, and instructions 
     contained in the H.Rept. 117-84 (House report) accompanying 
     H.R. 4373 (House bill) as though stated in this explanatory 
     statement, unless specifically directed to the contrary.
       This explanatory statement, while repeating some House 
     report language for emphasis or clarification, does not 
     negate language in such report unless expressly provided 
     herein. Language expressing an opinion or making an 
     observation in the House report represents the view of the 
     House committee unless specifically endorsed in this 
     explanatory statement.
       Reports required to be submitted pursuant to the Act, 
     including reports required by this explanatory statement and 
     the House report, may not be consolidated to include 
     responses to multiple requirements in a single report, except 
     following consultation with the Committees on Appropriations.
       For purposes of this explanatory statement, the term ``the 
     Act'' means the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and 
     Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2022, and the term 
     ``prior Acts'' means prior Acts making appropriations for the 
     Department of State, foreign operations, and related 
     programs. In addition, ``division K of Public Law 116-260'' 
     means the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and 
     Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2021; ``division G of 
     Public Law 116-94'' means the Department of State, Foreign 
     Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2020; 
     ``division F of Public Law 116-6'' means the Department of 
     State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 
     Appropriations Act, 2019; ``division J of Public Law 115-31'' 
     means the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and 
     Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2017; and ``division K 
     of Public Law 113-76'' means the Department of State, Foreign 
     Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2014.
       For the purposes of this Act, the term ``regular 
     notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations'' 
     shall mean such Committees must be notified not less than 15 
     days in advance of the initial obligation of funds, and the 
     term ``reporting procedures of the Committees on 
     Appropriations'' shall mean a report must be provided to such 
     Committees not more than 90 days after the conclusion of 
     fiscal year 2022.
       Federal agencies funded by the Act shall notify the 
     Committees on Appropriations of any reprogramming, as 
     required by section 7015 of the Act, at the most detailed 
     level of the Congressional Budget Justification (CBJ), the 
     Act, or this explanatory statement.
       Congressional notifications submitted by the heads of the 
     Federal agencies funded in the Act for funds that are being 
     reallocated prior to initial obligation, reprogrammed, or 
     reobligated after deobligation, shall, to the maximum extent 
     practicable, contain detailed information about the sources 
     of the funds and why such funds are no longer needed or 
     intended to be used as previously justified.
       The agencies and entities funded by the Act are directed to 
     obligate the funds appropriated for fiscal year 2022 in a 
     prudent but timely manner.
       Section 7019 of the Act requires that amounts designated in 
     the respective tables included in this explanatory statement 
     for funds appropriated in titles III through V, including 
     tables in title VII, shall be made available in the amounts 
     designated, unless otherwise provided for in the Act, and 
     shall be the basis of the report required by section 653(a) 
     of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA) (653(a) report), 
     where applicable. In lieu of the tables and allocations of 
     funding contained in the House report, the tables and 
     allocations contained in this explanatory statement shall 
     guide departments, agencies, commissions, and other entities 
     when allocating funds. The Act provides that the amounts 
     designated in the tables shall be made available 
     notwithstanding the date of the transmission of the 653(a) 
     report. The authority of section 7019(b) to deviate by more 
     than 10 percent shall not be used to deviate to zero unless 
     such funds cannot be legally obligated or conditions are such 
     that such deviation is directly related to the national 
     security interest of the United States.
       Proposed deviations from tables in titles I and II in this 
     explanatory statement are subject to the regular notification 
     procedures of the Committees on Appropriations, unless an 
     exception or deviation authority is specifically provided in 
     the Act or this explanatory statement.
       The Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United 
     States Agency for International Development (USAID) shall 
     continue to provide the Committees on Appropriations 
     electronic copies of all reports, notifications, spend plans, 
     and any other documents required by the Act, prior Acts, this 
     and prior explanatory statements and statements of managers, 
     the House report, and prior reports.
       For purposes of the Act and this explanatory statement, the 
     term ``prior consultation'' means a pre-decisional engagement 
     between a relevant Federal agency and the Committees on 
     Appropriations during which such Committees are given a 
     meaningful opportunity to provide facts and opinions, in 
     advance of any public announcement, to inform: (1) the use of 
     funds; (2) the development, content, or conduct of a program 
     or activity; or (3) a decision to be taken. Additionally, 
     section 7020 of the Act includes specific requirements 
     regarding multi-year pledges.
       Notwithstanding authority included in any provision of the 
     Act shall not be construed to exclude the requirements of 
     such provision.
       Pursuant to section 7016(b) any Federal agency receiving 
     funds made available by the Act shall post on its publicly 
     available website any report required by the Act not later 
     than 45 days following the receipt of such report by 
     Congress. This requirement does not apply if: (1) the public 
     posting of the report would compromise national security, 
     including the conduct of diplomacy; (2) the report contains 
     proprietary, privileged, or sensitive information; or (3) the 
     public posting of the report is specifically exempted in the 
     House report or this explanatory statement.
       For purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-177), with respect to 
     appropriations contained in the Act, the term ``program, 
     project, and activity'' (PPA) means any item for which a 
     dollar amount is specified in the Act or this explanatory 
     statement. In addition, the definition of PPA in section 7023 
     of the Act shall apply to the accounts listed in that 
     section. In carrying out any Presidential sequestration, 
     Federal agencies funded by the Act shall conform to the 
     definition of PPA described in this paragraph.
       In submitting annual CBJs, each Federal agency funded by 
     the Act shall include detailed information on all available 
     resources, including estimated prior year unobligated 
     balances and recoveries, reimbursable agreements, funds 
     transferred pursuant to section 632(a) and (b) of the FAA and 
     significant uses of the Economy Act (31 U.S.C. 1535). 
     Agencies that use a Working Capital Fund (WCF) shall include 
     in CBJs the total budgetary resources for each office that 
     receives funds from a WCF, and include a table on WCF 
     resources that will serve as a baseline for reprogramming and 
     transfer purposes. CBJs shall also include estimated savings 
     from any proposed office or mission closure or 
     reorganization, elimination of special envoys and other 
     senior level special representatives, and actual prior year 
     representation expenses for each department and agency where 
     such expenses are authorized.
       Spend plans submitted pursuant to section 7062(b) of the 
     Act shall: (1) include all intended sources of funds made 
     available by the Act and any other resources, as applicable, 
     for such program; and (2) conform to the definition of such 
     plan under section 7034(t)(4) of the Act.
       Consistent with prior fiscal years, none of the funds made 
     available by the Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for 
     the attendance of more than 50 employees of Federal agencies 
     who are stationed in the United States at any single 
     international conference occurring outside the United States, 
     unless the Secretary of State reports to the appropriate 
     congressional committees at least 5 days in advance that such 
     attendance is important to the national interest. For 
     purposes of this restriction, the term ``international 
     conference'' means a conference attended by representatives 
     of the United States Government and of foreign governments, 
     international organizations, or nongovernmental organizations 
     (NGOs).
       Federal agencies funded by the Act shall not provide 
     bonuses to government contractors who fail to complete their 
     contract in a satisfactory manner, including as a result of 
     avoidable scheduling delays or cost overruns.
       In lieu of language in the House report under the heading 
     COVID-19 Response and Recovery, the agreement provides for 
     the safety of United States citizens by combating infectious 
     diseases and strengthening health systems abroad.
       In lieu of the directive in the House report regarding the 
     response to the global pandemic, the USAID Administrator 
     should ensure such programming is inclusive of all affected 
     communities, including marginalized groups, that may 
     experience barriers in access to government services.
       The agreement does not endorse directives under certain 
     House report headings: Discrimination of LGBTQI+ persons; 
     Non-Discrimination Policies (under Operating Expenses); and 
     Mexico, regarding funding for violence prevention programs at 
     Mexico's northern border.
       The language in the House report under the heading Bill 
     Organization regarding women's health and family planning is 
     modified by the agreement.
       For the purposes of this explanatory statement, the term 
     ``designated as an emergency requirement'' means that such 
     amount is designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
     a concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
       In addition to amounts in this division, the agreement 
     includes $6,800,000,000 in division N for assistance to 
     respond to the situation in Ukraine and in countries impacted 
     by the situation in Ukraine and for additional support for 
     other vulnerable populations and communities. Each of the 
     additional amounts are designated as an emergency 
     requirement.

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                                TITLE I

                 DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND RELATED AGENCY

                          DEPARTMENT OF STATE

                   Administration of Foreign Affairs

       The agreement includes $12,586,112,000 for Administration 
     of Foreign Affairs. The agreement includes a total of 
     $5,771,348,000 for embassy security, as contained in the 
     table below:

                            EMBASSY SECURITY
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                Budget
                      Account/Program                         Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Worldwide Security Protection..............................    3,788,199
Embassy Security, Construction, and Maintenance............    1,983,149
                                                            ------------
    Total..................................................    5,771,348
------------------------------------------------------------------------

                          DIPLOMATIC PROGRAMS

       The agreement includes $9,178,789,000 for Diplomatic 
     Programs in this division. An additional $125,000,000 is 
     included under the heading in division N and designated as an 
     emergency requirement. Funds appropriated by the Act for 
     activities, bureaus, and offices under this heading are 
     allocated according to the following table:

                           DIPLOMATIC PROGRAMS
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                       Category                         Budget Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Human Resources......................................          3,216,871
  Worldwide Security Protection......................          [661,240]
Overseas Programs....................................          1,791,425
Diplomatic Policy and Support........................            994,768
Security Programs....................................          3,175,725
  Worldwide Security Protection......................        [3,126,959]
                                                      ------------------
    Total............................................          9,178,789
------------------------------------------------------------------------


                              BUREAU/OFFICE
               (Includes salary and bureau-managed funds)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bureau of Administration
  Freedom of Information Act...............................     [41,300]
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
  Human Rights Vetting.....................................     [15,000]
  Atrocities Prevention Training...........................        [500]
  Special Advisor for International Disability Rights......        [750]
  Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons......        [500]
Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs
  Office of Terrorism Financing and Economic Sanctions           [9,785]
   Policy..................................................
Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
  Office of the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues.........      [1,000]
Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
  Special Envoy for Yemen..................................        [500]
Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and
 Scientific Affairs
  Arctic Indigenous Exchange Program.......................        [750]
Institute for Transatlantic Engagement                             2,000
Office of International Religious Freedom                          8,750
  Religious freedom curriculum development.................        [600]
Office of the Secretary
  Office of Diversity and Inclusion........................      [4,000]
  Office of Global Women's Issues..........................     [10,000]
  Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage           [1,250]
   Affairs.................................................
  Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues...................      [1,000]
  Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism...............      [1,000]
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons........       17,000
Race, Ethnicity, and Social Inclusion Unit.................        2,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       The agreement includes funding for additional Foreign 
     Service Officers and Civil Service positions for the 
     Department of State in fiscal year 2022. Prior to submitting 
     the operating plan required by section 7062(a) of the Act, 
     the Secretary of State shall consult with the Committees on 
     Appropriations on current staffing levels, including 
     projected staffing levels for mid-level Foreign Service 
     Officers and major changes from the prior fiscal year.
       Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic Region.--The agreement 
     provides $2,000,000 to support the activities of an 
     Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic Region or until the 
     establishment of such an Ambassador-at-Large, the U.S. 
     Coordinator for the Arctic Region. The Secretary of State 
     shall consider elevating the current U.S. Coordinator for the 
     Arctic Region to this position given the increasing strategic 
     importance of this region, and not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, consult with the appropriate 
     congressional committees on the feasibility of doing so. The 
     Secretary shall also consult on the need to clarify the roles 
     and responsibilities between the Coordinator and Bureau of 
     Oceans and International Environmental and Science Affairs' 
     Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs, as highlighted by the 
     Office of Inspector General in its report Inspection of the 
     Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and 
     Scientific Affairs (ISP-I-21-23).
       Annual Country Human Rights Report.--In lieu of the 
     directives on the annual country human rights reports in the 
     House report, the Secretary of State shall consult with the 
     Committees on Appropriations on such report.
       Arctic Council Secretariat.--The agreement provides $50,000 
     for the Indigenous Peoples Secretariat to support the work of 
     the U.S. based Permanent Party Participants to the Arctic 
     Council.
       Arctic Indigenous Exchange Program.--The agreement provides 
     $750,000 for an Arctic Indigenous Exchange Program between 
     Indigenous business communities in North America and 
     Greenland. Not later than 90 days after enactment of the Act, 
     the Secretary of State shall consult with the Committees on 
     Appropriations on the design and implementation of such 
     program, including participant criteria and the bureau 
     responsible for managing the program.
       Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.--The agreement 
     includes sufficient funding for the Department of State to 
     increase personnel within the Office of the Special 
     Representative of North Korea, and ensure sufficient staffing 
     in the Office of Regional Security Policy.
       Central America Sanctions Policy and Implementation.--The 
     agreement includes up to $500,000 above the prior year for 
     additional staff in the Office of Economic Sanctions Policy 
     dedicated to Central America. The operating plan required by 
     section 7062(a) of the Act shall include the projected budget 
     and staffing level for the Office.
       Consular Operations.--The agreement endorses House report 
     language under the heading Timely Processing of Passports and 
     Visas. Not later than 90 days after enactment of the Act, the 
     Secretary of State shall submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations regarding lessons learned from the pandemic, 
     including the adoption of remote services, the feasibility of 
     increased interview waivers and remote visa interviews, and 
     any other process improvements that would enhance consular 
     services domestically and overseas.
       Consultations.--The Secretary of State shall consult with 
     the Committees on Appropriations in a timely manner on the 
     number of Department of State secure facilities abroad, and 
     operations related to Syria and Turkey.
       Cybersecurity and Report.--The Secretary of State shall 
     consult with the Committees on Appropriations on a semi-
     annual basis on cybersecurity protocols and procedures. Not 
     later than 45 days after enactment of the Act, the Secretary 
     of State shall update the report required under this heading 
     in Senate Report 116-126 in the manner described.
       Department of State Diversity and Inclusion.--The agreement 
     supports recent steps taken by the Department of State to 
     hire a Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer and to establish 
     the Office of Diversity and Inclusion to address the chronic 
     lack of diversity in the Department's workforce, recruitment 
     and retention, and the underrepresentation of diverse groups 
     in management and senior leadership positions. Not later than 
     90 days after enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State 
     shall report to the Committees on Appropriations on the 
     implementation of the Department's Diversity and Inclusion 
     Strategic Plan, funding and staff allocated to these efforts, 
     benchmarks to measure progress and ensure accountability in 
     achieving these goals, and efforts to assess and respond to 
     bias in hiring, promotion, employee performance evaluations, 
     and reassignment policies.
       In lieu of the directive in the House report under Lateral 
     entry, not later than 120 days after enactment of the Act, 
     the Secretary of State shall report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations on the status of the implementation of section 
     404 of Public Law 114-323. Such report should include an 
     assessment of the viability of using future lateral entry 
     programs as an avenue for increasing the number of 
     individuals from under-represented groups in mid- and senior- 
     level Foreign Service ranks.
       The agreement includes funding above the fiscal year 2021 
     level for workforce diversity initiatives, including not less 
     than $6,000,000 each for the Pickering and Rangel Fellowships 
     and additional funds for the International Career Advancement 
     Program. The Department should also evaluate diversity across 
     Foreign Service Specialist tracks and Generalist cones and 
     determine whether the Foreign Affairs IT Fellowship model 
     could be expanded to increase diversity in other fields. 
     Finally, the Act provides authority for the Department of 
     State to provide up to $8,000,000 for paid internships in 
     order to expand the pool of participants in the program.
       Department of State Staffing Reports.--Not later than 60 
     days after enactment of the Act and every quarter thereafter 
     until September 30, 2023, the Secretary of State shall report 
     to the Committees on Appropriations on the on-board personnel 
     levels, hiring, and attrition of the Civil Service, Foreign 
     Service, eligible family members, and the Locally Employed 
     Staff (LES) workforce of the Department of State.
       Freedom of Expression Curriculum.--Not later than 60 days 
     after enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall 
     update the report to the Committees on Appropriations on the 
     status of implementing the curriculum directed to be 
     established under this heading in Senate Report 116-126.
       Global Criminal Justice.--Not later than 45 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Ambassador-at-Large for Global 
     Criminal Justice shall consult with the Committees on 
     Appropriations on the staffing levels and capacity of the 
     Office of Global Criminal Justice to manage programs 
     implemented pursuant to section 7066(a)(2) of the Act.
       Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.--The 
     agreement endorses the House report language under this 
     heading.
       Historical Programs.--The agreement provides funds for the 
     Department of State to continue to record the written and 
     oral histories of its personnel and use for training and 
     other purposes, in coordination with the Association for 
     Diplomatic Studies and Training.
       Intercountry Adoption.--The Secretary of State should 
     ensure that the fee schedule approved for the Intercountry 
     Adoption Accreditation and Maintenance Entity, Inc. (IAAME) 
     does not impose undue financial burdens on families seeking 
     to adopt internationally and confirm that fees collected for 
     monitoring and oversight by IAAME are not used for other 
     unpermitted purposes. The next annual report on intercountry 
     adoptions, as required by Public Law 106-279,

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     shall detail the efforts of the Department of State to 
     increase intercountry adoptions in fiscal year 2022 and 
     include steps that the Bureau of Consular Affairs takes to 
     address impediments to intercountry adoption, especially in 
     countries where American families are in the process of 
     adoption, but those adoptions have been slowed or blocked.
       Office of Canadian Affairs.--The agreement provides 
     $500,000 for the Office of Canadian Affairs to continue 
     leading the U.S. interagency working group to identify gaps 
     and limitations within the Memoranda of Understanding between 
     British Columbia and Alaska, Washington, Idaho, and Montana.
       Outstanding Judgments.--The Secretary of State shall 
     assist, as appropriate, in obtaining payment of outstanding 
     judgments against foreign governments and diplomats, 
     including in the human trafficking civil case Lipenga v. 
     Kambalame, and submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations not later than 30 days after enactment of the 
     Act on progress in resolving that case.
       Preventing Diplomats from Aiding and Abetting Flights from 
     Justice.--The Secretary of State shall update the report 
     required under this heading in Senate Report 116-126 in the 
     manner described, except such report shall detail the steps 
     taken by the Department of State since the submission of the 
     previous report.
       Private Security Companies.--Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall update the 
     report required under this heading in Senate Report 115-152 
     regarding actions taken to ensure consistency in meeting 
     standards and codes of conduct used by certain private 
     security companies.
       Real Property.--The Secretary of State shall assist in 
     facilitating resolutions of commercial disputes involving 
     United States entities seeking return of real property seized 
     or expropriated by foreign governments, as appropriate.
       Regional China Officers.--The agreement endorses House 
     report language under this heading and requires a 
     consultation with the Committees on Appropriations.
       Reports.--The Secretary of State shall update the reports 
     required under Migration and Refugee Assistance in Senate 
     Report 115-282 in the manner described, except the relevant 
     data shall be updated for fiscal year 2022.
       Unexplained Health Incidents.--The Secretary of State shall 
     consult with the Committees on Appropriations, in classified 
     form as appropriate, on implementation of the Helping 
     American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks Act of 
     2021 (Public Law 117-46), including funding requirements and 
     timeline for finalizing regulations as specified in Public 
     Law 117-46. Section 7034(e)(8) of the Act provides authority 
     for the Secretary of State to utilize funds appropriated 
     under this heading for payments to such victims.


                        CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND

       The agreement includes $300,000,000 for Capital Investment 
     Fund. Prior to submitting the operating plan for CIF as 
     required in section 7062(a) of the Act, the Secretary of 
     State shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations on 
     the status and progress of IT modernization efforts, 
     particularly the Department of State's efforts to implement 
     cybersecurity measures consistent with the May 12, 2021, 
     Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity. Not 
     later than 90 days after enactment of the Act, the Secretary 
     of State shall report to the Committees on Appropriations on 
     funding made available for cybersecurity, including any 
     amounts made available from the government-wide Cybersecurity 
     Reserve.


                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

       The agreement includes $91,458,000 for Office of Inspector 
     General in this division, of which $13,718,000 may remain 
     available until September 30, 2023. An additional $4,000,000 
     is included under the heading in division N and designated as 
     an emergency requirement. An additional $40,000,000 is 
     included in this division for the Special Inspector General 
     for Afghanistan Reconstruction for remaining oversight work 
     in Afghanistan.


               EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS

       The agreement includes $753,000,000 for Educational and 
     Cultural Exchange Programs, of which not less than 
     $275,000,000 is for the Fulbright Program and $113,860,000 is 
     for the Citizen Exchange Program. Funds under this heading 
     are allocated according to the following table:

                   EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGES
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                Budget
                      Program/Activity                        Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Academic Programs
  Fulbright Program........................................      275,000
  Global Academic Exchanges................................       63,313
    English Language Programs..............................     [45,200]
  Special Academic Exchanges...............................       17,875
    Benjamin Gilman International Scholarship Program......     [16,000]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Subtotal.................................................      356,188
Professional and Cultural Exchanges
  International Visitor Program............................      105,000
  Citizen Exchange Program.................................      113,860
    Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange......................      [4,125]
  Special Professional and Cultural Exchanges..............        6,250
    J. Christopher Stevens Virtual Exchange................      [5,500]
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  Subtotal.................................................      225,110
Special Initiatives
  Young Leaders Initiatives................................       35,000
    Young African Leaders Initiative.......................     [20,600]
    Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative...............      [7,800]
    Young Leaders in the Americas Initiative...............      [6,600]
  Countering State Disinformation and Pressure.............       12,000
  Community Engagement Exchange Program....................        6,000
    Pawel Adamowicz Exchange Program.......................      [1,000]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Subtotal.................................................       53,000
American Spaces............................................       15,000
U.S. Speaker Program.......................................        4,000
Program and Performance....................................       11,600
Exchanges Support..........................................       88,102
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Total....................................................      753,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Disability Inclusion in Exchange Programs.--The agreement 
     includes funding above prior year levels to support 
     international exchange opportunities for persons with 
     disabilities in the United States and abroad.
       Historically Black Colleges and Universities.--The 
     agreement endorses the House report language under this 
     heading. Not later than 60 days after enactment of the Act, 
     the Secretary of State shall report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations on the progress of such efforts.
       McCain Scholars and Fellowship Programs.--The agreement 
     provides $1,600,000 for three McCain Scholars and Fellowship 
     programs, including $700,000 under the Benjamin Gilman 
     International Scholarships Program and $900,000 under the 
     Fulbright Program.
       Operating Plan.--In submitting the operating plan required 
     by section 7062(a) of the Act and as described in the House 
     report, the Secretary of State shall include fees estimated 
     to be collected and available for obligation in fiscal year 
     2022 and the uses of such fees, including the number of 
     employees and contractors to be funded by such fees.
       Scholar Rescue.--The Department of State shall increase 
     support for the Scholar Rescue program, which protects 
     foreign professors and researchers facing threats to their 
     lives or careers. The need for protection of threatened and 
     displaced scholars has increased over the past several years, 
     particularly most recently with those from Afghanistan.
       Taiwan Fellowship Program.--Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a 
     report to the Committees on Appropriations assessing the 
     costs, benefits, and feasibility of establishing a new 
     exchange program for U.S. Government employees with Taiwan.
       U.S.-Ireland Scholarship Programs.--The agreement supports 
     funding for U.S.-Ireland scholarship programs to be matched 
     dollar-for-dollar by the Government of Ireland and awarded on 
     a competitive basis.
       Virtual Exchange Programs.--Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall consult 
     with the Committees on Appropriations on plans to provide in-
     person exchange program opportunities for participants who 
     were required to participate virtually during the COVID-19 
     pandemic.


                        REPRESENTATION EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $7,415,000 for Representation 
     Expenses, subject to section 7010 of the Act.


              PROTECTION OF FOREIGN MISSIONS AND OFFICIALS

       The agreement includes $30,890,000 for Protection of 
     Foreign Missions and Officials.


            EMBASSY SECURITY, CONSTRUCTION, AND MAINTENANCE

       The agreement includes $1,983,149,000 for Embassy Security, 
     Construction, and Maintenance.
       American Center, Laos.--The agreement supports funds from 
     the Act and prior Acts for the renovation of the American 
     Center in Vientiane, Laos to help counter the influence of 
     Confucius Institutes in that country.
       Art in Embassies Program.--Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall update the 
     report required under this heading in Senate Report 114-79, 
     as necessary. Such information should be included as part of 
     the report required in section 5112 of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (Public Law 117-81).
       Capital Security Cost Sharing and Maintenance Cost Sharing 
     Programs.--The agreement includes $1,017,427,000 under this 
     heading for a Department of State contribution to the Capital 
     Security Cost Sharing and Maintenance Cost Sharing Programs, 
     which includes $124,000,000 for the non-fee portion of the 
     Consular and Border Security Program's share of the program. 
     An additional $1,144,999,000 is available from other agency 
     reimbursements.
       Operating Plan.--The operating plan required by section 
     7062(a) of the Act shall include the proposed allocation of 
     funds made available under this heading and the actual and 
     anticipated proceeds of sales or gifts for all projects in 
     fiscal years 2021 and 2022.
       United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba.--The Secretary of 
     State shall update the report under this heading in Senate 
     Report 116-126 in the manner described.
       Funds under this heading are allocated according to the 
     following table:

             EMBASSY SECURITY, CONSTRUCTION, AND MAINTENANCE
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Budget
                     Account/Program                         Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Repair, Construction, and Operations....................         850,722
  Repair and Construction...............................       [148,967]
  Operations............................................       [701,755]
  of which, Domestic Renovations........................        [18,000]
Worldwide Security Upgrades.............................       1,132,427
  Capital Security Cost Sharing and Maintenance Cost         [1,017,427]
   Sharing Programs.....................................
  Compound Security Program.............................       [115,000]
                                                         ---------------
  Total, Embassy Security, Construction, and Maintenance       1,983,149
------------------------------------------------------------------------

           EMERGENCIES IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE

       The agreement includes $7,885,000 for Emergencies in the 
     Diplomatic and Consular Service.

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       Quarterly Reports.--The quarterly reports required by 
     section 124 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
     Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (Public Law 100-204) shall 
     include, by category, actual expenditures for the prior two 
     fiscal years and cumulative totals for the current fiscal 
     year of the funds available under this heading.


                   REPATRIATION LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The agreement includes $1,300,000 for Repatriation Loans 
     Program Account and $1,000,000 transfer authority in the 
     Emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Service account to 
     support the subsidy cost and a total loan level of 
     $4,937,742.


              PAYMENT TO THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE IN TAIWAN

       The agreement includes $32,583,000 for Payment to the 
     American Institute in Taiwan.
       The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Director 
     of the American Institute in Taiwan, shall continue to report 
     in the CBJ the amount of fees estimated to be received from 
     the Department of State for consular services.


         INTERNATIONAL CENTER, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

       The agreement includes $743,000 for International Center, 
     Washington, District of Columbia.


     PAYMENT TO THE FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND

       The agreement includes $158,900,000 for Payment to the 
     Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund.

                      International Organizations


              CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

       The agreement includes $1,662,928,000, of which $96,240,000 
     may remain available until September 30, 2023.
       Universal Postal Union.--The agreement endorses the House 
     report language under the heading Universal Postal Union, 
     except that the Department of State shall consult with the 
     Committees on Appropriations not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act.
       World Health Organization.--Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a 
     report to the Committees on Appropriations on efforts by the 
     Department of State to promote reforms at the World Health 
     Organization (WHO), including a list of specific reforms 
     proposed, and on reforms implemented by WHO since the 
     outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.


        CONTRIBUTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING ACTIVITIES

       The agreement includes $1,498,614,000 for Contributions for 
     International Peacekeeping Activities, of which $749,307,000 
     may remain available until September 30, 2023.

                       International Commissions


 INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND MEXICO

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $51,970,000 for Salaries and 
     Expenses.


                              CONSTRUCTION

       The agreement includes $51,030,000 for Construction.
       Sediment and Carrizo Cane Reduction.--The agreement 
     includes funding for efforts to eradicate and control carrizo 
     cane, reduce sediment, and maintain the health of rivers, as 
     appropriate. Not later than 90 days after enactment of the 
     Act, USIBWC shall submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations on these efforts including how to improve 
     effectiveness, halt erosion stemming from sediment deposits, 
     and coordinate with federal, state, and local entities and 
     stakeholders.


              AMERICAN SECTIONS, INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONS

       The agreement includes $15,008,000 for American Sections, 
     International Commissions, including $10,802,000 for the 
     International Joint Commission (IJC) and $2,304,000 for the 
     International Boundary Commission.
       The agreement includes the amount requested for the IJC to 
     complete the multi-year, United States-Canadian study on the 
     causes and impacts of, and mitigation options for, flooding 
     in the Lake Champlain-Richelieu River watershed.
       The agreement includes sufficient funds for IJC's Great 
     Lakes Adaptive Management Committee consistent with the 
     revised request level.
       Boundary Waters Treaty.--The agreement does not endorse 
     language in the House report under this heading regarding the 
     Rainy River Drainage Basin.
       Souris River Dam Management.--The Secretary of State shall 
     brief the Committees on Appropriations not later than 90 days 
     after enactment of the Act on: (1) any proposals from Canada 
     related to dam management on the Souris River that could have 
     the effect of increasing flood risks to inhabitants in the 
     United States; and (2) steps the Department is taking to 
     address such risks.
       Transboundary Watershed Management.--The agreement 
     recommends funding over the prior year for the IJC, in 
     collaboration with the U.S. interagency working group led by 
     the Office of Canadian Affairs, to address gaps and 
     limitations in transboundary governance between British 
     Columbia and bordering U.S. states, including Alaska, 
     Washington, Idaho, and Montana.


                  INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES COMMISSIONS

       The agreement includes $62,846,000 for International 
     Fisheries Commissions. Such funds are allocated according to 
     the following table:

                   INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES COMMISSIONS
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Budget
                   Commission/Activity                       Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Great Lakes Fishery Commission..........................          47,060
  Lake Champlain and Lake Memphremagog Basins...........         [9,000]
  Grass Carp............................................         [1,000]
  Lake Memphremagog Fishery.............................           [500]
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission.................           1,750
Pacific Salmon Commission...............................           5,935
International Pacific Halibut Commission................           4,582
Other Marine Conservation Organizations.................           3,519
                                                         ---------------
    Total...............................................          62,846
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       The agreement includes $47,060,000 for the Great Lakes 
     Fishery Commission (GLFC) for operations and programs, 
     including sea lamprey control, cross border fishery 
     management and research, and grass carp control in the Great 
     Lakes. Within the total, $9,000,000 is included for the Lake 
     Champlainand Lake Memphremagogbasins, $500,000 for the Lake 
     Memphremagog fishery, and $1,000,000 to address grass carp in 
     the Great Lakes. The agreement also supports the efforts of 
     the GLFC to combat other invasive carp species in the Great 
     Lakes Basin.

                             RELATED AGENCY

                 United States Agency for Global Media


                 INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING OPERATIONS

       The agreement includes $850,300,000 for International 
     Broadcasting Operations, including for unanticipated expenses 
     in this division, and an additional $25,000,000 is included 
     under the heading in division N and designated as an 
     emergency requirement.
       Of the funds made available under this heading, up to 
     $47,708,000 may remain available until expended for satellite 
     transmissions and Internet freedom programs, of which not 
     less than $27,000,000 is for Internet freedom programs.
       Africa Broadcasting.--Not later than 180 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the United States Agency for Global 
     Media (USAGM) CEO shall submit to the Committees on 
     Appropriations a report assessing the press environment in 
     Africa and opportunities to expand coverage, particularly in 
     countries where independent media is banned by the government 
     or not fully established.
       USAGM Mission.--The agreement provides additional funding 
     for Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 
     (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia (RFA), and the Open Technology Fund 
     (OTF) to strengthen USAGM's mission to inform, engage, and 
     connect with audiences around the world in support of freedom 
     and democracy. Funds are also provided above the budget 
     request to modernize the Agency's IT infrastructure, 
     research, and analytics capabilities.
       Open Technology Fund.--The agreement provides $27,000,000 
     for OTF to scale existing and new tools to counter censorship 
     and surveillance technologies around the world.
       Funds under this heading are allocated according to the 
     following table and are subject to the requirements of 
     sections 7015 and 7062 of the Act:

                  INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING OPERATIONS
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Budget
                    Entities/Grantees                        Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Federal Entities
  International Broadcasting Bureau Operations..........          56,116
  Office of Cuba Broadcasting...........................          12,973
  Office of Technology, Services, and Innovation........         177,515
  Voice of America......................................         259,000
                                                         ---------------
    Subtotal............................................         505,604
Independent Grantee Organizations
  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.......................         145,000
  Radio Free Asia.......................................          62,384
  Middle East Broadcasting Networks.....................         110,312
  Open Technology Fund..................................          27,000
                                                         ---------------
    Subtotal............................................         344,696
                                                         ---------------
    Total...............................................         850,300
------------------------------------------------------------------------

                   BROADCASTING CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS

       The agreement includes $9,700,000 for Broadcasting Capital 
     Improvements.

                            RELATED PROGRAMS

                          The Asia Foundation

       The agreement includes $21,500,000 for The Asia Foundation, 
     including for unanticipated expenses. Funds should be 
     apportioned and obligated to the Foundation not later than 60 
     days after enactment of the Act.

                    United States Institute of Peace

       The agreement includes $54,000,000 for the United States 
     Institute of Peace, including for unanticipated expenses.
       Additional Resources.--The agreement provides an additional 
     $9,000,000 above the budget request for USIP to expand 
     violence prevention programs in Central America, assess the 
     impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on democratic governance in 
     fragile states, support programs related to war legacy issues 
     in Vietnam, adapt its programs in Afghanistan to protect 
     gains made in recent decades for women's rights, and maintain 
     operations in Iraq, Burma, Colombia, Sudan, Nigeria, and the 
     Sahel.

         Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue Trust Fund

       The agreement provides $180,000 from interest and earnings 
     from the Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue Trust 
     Fund. The Center shall continue efforts to leverage existing 
     funds to secure contributions from private and other public 
     sources to the maximum extent practicable. The agreement 
     supports Department of State oversight of

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     the annual grant to the Center; however, the Secretary of 
     State shall not require prior approval of program 
     participants.

                 Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program

       The agreement includes $170,000 from interest and earnings 
     from the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program Trust Fund.

                    Israeli Arab Scholarship Program

       The agreement includes $119,000 from interest and earnings 
     from the Israeli Arab Scholarship Endowment Fund.

                            East-West Center

       The agreement includes $19,700,000 for East-West Center. 
     Funds should be apportioned and obligated to the Center not 
     later than 60 days after enactment of the Act.

                    National Endowment for Democracy

       The agreement includes $315,000,000 for National Endowment 
     for Democracy, including for unanticipated expenses, of which 
     $195,840,000 shall be allocated in the traditional and 
     customary manner, including for the core institutes, and 
     $104,160,000 for democracy programs. Funds should be 
     apportioned and obligated to the NED not later than 60 days 
     after enactment of the Act.

                           OTHER COMMISSIONS

      Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $642,000 for the Commission for the 
     Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.

      United States Commission on International Religious Freedom


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $4,500,000 for United States 
     Commission on International Religious Freedom. The agreement 
     includes funds above the authorized level, including to 
     further the Commission's work to regularly monitor, report 
     on, and advocate against laws and policies of foreign 
     countries that permit or condone violations of human rights 
     of minority groups and other vulnerable communities on the 
     basis of religion.

            Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $2,908,000 for Commission on 
     Security and Cooperation in Europe.

  Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $2,250,000 for Congressional-
     Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China.

      United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $4,000,000 for United States-China 
     Economic and Security Review Commission.

                                TITLE II

           UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

                  Funds Appropriated to the President


                           OPERATING EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $1,635,947,000 for Operating 
     Expenses in this division, of which $245,392,000 may remain 
     available until September 30, 2023. An additional $25,000,000 
     is included under the heading in division N and designated as 
     an emergency requirement. Funds in the Act under this heading 
     are allocated according to the following table and subject to 
     sections 7015 and 7062 of the Act:

                           OPERATING EXPENSES
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Budget
                    Program/Activity                         Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Overseas Operations...................................         850,563
  Washington Support....................................         565,176
  Central Support.......................................         382,178
    Total, Operating Expenses...........................       1,797,917
  of which, fiscal year 2022 appropriations.............       1,635,947
  of which, from carryover and other sources............         161,970
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Advisor for Indigenous Peoples Issues.--The agreement 
     provides $500,000 under this heading for administrative and 
     other related expenses for the USAID Advisor for Indigenous 
     Peoples Issues and additional funds under Development 
     Assistance for program costs, personnel, and other 
     administrative expenses.
       Diversity and Inclusion.--The agreement includes not less 
     than $9,500,000 to support the Office of the Chief Diversity, 
     Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Officer and diversity, 
     equity, and inclusion initiatives, including to strengthen 
     recruitment, retention, and professional development of 
     diverse communities.
       Mission Presence.--The USAID Administrator shall consult 
     with the Committees on Appropriations when a proposal to 
     alter the footprint of USAID missions abroad, including to 
     open, close, or modify a mission, has been discussed within 
     the agency, with other Federal agencies, or with a foreign 
     government.
       Personnel.--The agreement recognizes that USAID lacks 
     sufficient personnel to adequately respond to many urgent and 
     compelling needs around the world. Funds are included above 
     prior year levels to support an increase for new Foreign 
     Service and Civil Service positions.
       Not later than 90 days after enactment of the Act, the 
     USAID Administrator shall brief the Committees on 
     Appropriations on efforts to encourage agency personnel to 
     build lasting partnerships with local government officials 
     and community leaders to implement programs, including Local 
     Works.
       Staff Care and Resilience.--The agreement endorses language 
     in the House report under Diplomatic Programs under this 
     heading and directs the USAID Administrator to also submit 
     such report.
       Strategic Workforce Plan.--The agreement endorses House 
     report language under this heading and directs the USAID 
     Administrator to submit the plan not later than 60 days after 
     enactment of the Act. The plan should also include workforce 
     diversity initiatives and a staffing report on the on-board 
     personnel levels, hiring, and attrition of the Civil Service, 
     Foreign Service, and Foreign Service National workforce of 
     USAID for each operating unit, and the USAID Administrator 
     shall provide an update to the Committees on Appropriations 
     on such staffing report every quarter thereafter until 
     September 30, 2023.


                        CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND

       The agreement includes $258,200,000 for Capital Investment 
     Fund.


                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

       The agreement includes $80,000,000 for Office of Inspector 
     General in this division, of which $12,000,000 may remain 
     available until September 30, 2023, and an additional 
     $4,000,000 is included under the heading in division N and 
     designated as an emergency requirement.
       American Rescue Plan Act Oversight.--The agreement includes 
     funding above the budget request for oversight of American 
     Rescue Plan Act (Public Law 117-2) funds provided to USAID.

                               TITLE III

                     BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE

                  Funds Appropriated to the President


                         GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAMS

       The agreement includes $9,830,000,000 for Global Health 
     Programs in this division. Funds under this heading are 
     allocated according to the following table and subject to 
     section 7019 of the Act:

                         GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAMS
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                   Program/Activity                     Budget Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Maternal and Child Health............................            890,000
  Polio..............................................           [75,000]
  Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus......................            [2,000]
  The GAVI Alliance..................................          [290,000]
Nutrition (USAID)....................................            155,000
  Micronutrients.....................................           [33,000]
  of which, Vitamin A................................           [22,500]
  Iodine Deficiency Disorder.........................            [2,500]
Vulnerable Children (USAID)..........................             27,500
  Blind Children.....................................            [4,500]
HIV/AIDS (USAID).....................................            330,000
  Microbicides.......................................           [45,000]
HIV/AIDS (Department of State).......................          5,950,000
  The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and           [1,560,000]
   Malaria...........................................
  UNAIDS.............................................           [50,000]
Family Planning/Reproductive Health (USAID)..........            523,950
Other Infectious Diseases (USAID)....................          1,953,550
  Global Health Security.............................          [700,000]
  Malaria............................................          [775,000]
  Tuberculosis.......................................          [371,050]
  of which, Global TB Drug Facility..................           [15,000]
  Neglected Tropical Diseases........................          [107,500]
                                                      ------------------
  Total..............................................          9,830,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Childhood Cancer.--Not later than 90 days after enactment 
     of the Act, the USAID Administrator shall submit a report to 
     the appropriate congressional committees on public-private 
     partnerships to address childhood cancer. The report should 
     provide meaningful analysis of opportunities for such 
     partnerships to strengthen health systems, including in 
     countries that are unable to provide life-saving treatment 
     for childhood cancer. The Administrator is directed to ensure 
     the report is more substantive and responsive than the report 
     that was submitted by the Department of State pursuant to 
     section 7058(c) of division K of Public Law 116-260.
       Global Health Security Report.--Not later than 90 days 
     after enactment of the Act and prior to the initial 
     obligation of funds, the USAID Administrator and Secretary of 
     State, as appropriate, shall submit to the Committees on 
     Appropriations a report on the proposed uses of funds made 
     available for global health security programs on a country 
     and project basis, including possible contributions to 
     multilateral mechanisms. Such report shall be updated and 
     submitted to the Committees every 90 days until such funds 
     are fully obligated.
       Health Systems Report.--The USAID Administrator and U.S. 
     Global AIDS Coordinator shall submit a report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations, not later than 120 days after 
     enactment of the Act, detailing progress on the integration 
     and joint funding of health systems strengthening activities. 
     In addition to the requirements enumerated under the heading 
     Health systems in the House report, the report should 
     include: (1) a baseline accounting of ongoing systems 
     strengthening contributions from each program line in the 
     table under Global Health Programs; (2) detail on reporting 
     and performance indicators used to track and coordinate such 
     efforts; and (3) a description of steps taken, or planned to 
     be taken, to ensure systems strengthening investments are 
     sustained by host countries.
       Leprosy.--USAID is encouraged to support research and 
     development of a vaccine to protect against nerve damage 
     among those diagnosed with leprosy, the most serious 
     complication of the disease.

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       Maternal and Child Health Report.--Not later than 90 days 
     after enactment of the Act, the USAID Administrator shall 
     submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations on the 
     following outcomes achieved during the previous fiscal year, 
     disaggregated by country: (1) the approximate number of 
     treatments provided to children for pneumonia and diarrhea, 
     reported separately, as a result of U.S. Government 
     assistance; and (2) the approximate number of mothers and 
     infants who received postnatal care within two days of 
     childbirth as a result of such assistance. Such report shall 
     include detail on funds expended to achieve such outcomes.
       Multilateral Vaccine Development.--The agreement includes 
     $100,000,000 for a U.S. contribution to support a 
     multilateral vaccine development partnership for epidemic 
     preparedness innovations, pursuant to section 6501 of Public 
     Law 117-81. Not later than 90 days after enactment of the 
     Act, the USAID Administrator shall consult with the 
     Committees on Appropriations on such contribution.
       Neglected Surgical Conditions.--The USAID Administrator 
     shall support efforts to strengthen surgical health capacity 
     to address such health issues as cleft lip and cleft palate, 
     club foot, cataracts, hernias, fistulas, and untreated 
     traumatic injuries in underserved areas in developing 
     countries, including in contexts without water or 
     electricity. Strengthening surgical health systems includes 
     the training of local surgical teams and assisting ministries 
     of health to develop and implement national surgical, 
     obstetric, trauma, and anesthesia plans. Not later than 90 
     days after enactment of the Act, the USAID Administrator 
     shall brief the Committees on Appropriations on the planned 
     uses of funds for these purposes in fiscal year 2022.
       Nutrition Report.--The agreement requires the nutrition 
     report under this heading in the House report, which shall 
     also include: (1) the outcomes, disaggregated by USAID 
     bureau, including nutrition-specific treatment and prevention 
     interventions on a country-by-country basis; (2) the 
     approximate number of additional children treated for severe 
     acute malnutrition as a result of United States Government 
     assistance; and (3) the approximate number of additional 
     children receiving vitamin A as a result of such assistance.
       Research and Development.--Not later than 60 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the USAID Administrator shall update 
     the report required under this heading in Senate Report 116-
     126.
       The USAID Administrator shall also develop a new multi-year 
     strategy on global health research and development, which 
     shall be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations and 
     posted on the USAID website not later than 180 days after 
     enactment of the Act. Such strategy should include: (1) how 
     USAID will work across programs to implement a comprehensive 
     research and development approach; (2) plans to collect and 
     use input from the Global Health Bureau, consultations with 
     nonprofit and other private sector partners, and the heads of 
     other relevant Federal agencies, including CDC, the National 
     Institutes of Health, and the Biomedical Advanced Research 
     and Development Authority; (3) plans to coordinate with such 
     stakeholders in support of innovative global health product 
     development; and (4) specific investment and target goals for 
     research and product development across disease areas.
       Strategy Update.--USAID's efforts to help end preventable 
     child and maternal deaths have been driven by the Acting on 
     the Call framework since 2014, which is now outdated. The 
     USAID Administrator shall conduct a strategic review of its 
     framework for ending preventable child and maternal deaths, 
     which should include meaningful consultations with the 
     Committees on Appropriations, civil society, USAID Missions, 
     and local organizations and stakeholders. A revised framework 
     should be released not later than December 31, 2022.
       Vaccines.--The agreement supports continued efforts at not 
     less than the prior fiscal year level to create effective 
     vaccines for malaria and HIV/AIDS and to undertake vaccine 
     development efforts to prevent and respond to infectious 
     disease outbreaks.
       Vulnerable Children.--The agreement supports funding to 
     implement the United States Government Strategy on Advancing 
     Protection and Care for Children in Adversity (APCCA), 
     including to coordinate assistance for orphans and vulnerable 
     children, putting family care first, and to provide 
     protection and psycho-social support to youth at risk of 
     violence, abuse, exploitation, or neglect, particularly in 
     conflict zones and humanitarian settings. USAID interventions 
     should assist children recovering from trauma caused by 
     conflict and forced displacement, including through 
     partnerships with local organizations with expertise in 
     incorporating children in permanent family-based care and 
     foster care programs, preventing unnecessary family 
     separation, and decreasing the percentage of children living 
     in institutions. The annual report required by Public Law 
     109-95 shall include the amounts invested for each objective 
     of the APCCA in the prior fiscal year.
       The USAID Administrator is directed to better track and 
     coordinate outcomes related to child protection and 
     protection of children outside of family care, including: (1) 
     investment in technology that identifies and protects 
     vulnerable children, facilitates case management, and reports 
     outcomes; and (2) programs that prevent unnecessary parent-
     child separation and increase the percentage of children 
     living within family care instead of institutions.


                         DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE

       The agreement includes $4,140,494,000 for Development 
     Assistance. Funds for certain countries and programs under 
     this heading are allocated according to the following table 
     and subject to section 7019 of the Act:

                         DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Budget
                     Country/Program                         Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                 Africa
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Counter-Lord's Resistance Army/Illicit Armed Groups               10,000
 Program................................................
Democratic Republic of the Congo........................          95,000
Liberia.................................................          70,500
Malawi..................................................          60,000
Higher education programs...............................          10,000
Mozambique..............................................          63,000
Somalia.................................................          55,000
South Sudan.............................................          55,000
The Gambia democracy programs...........................           2,000
Power Africa............................................          70,000
Prosper Africa..........................................          50,000
Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI).................          11,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        East Asia and the Pacific
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Burma...................................................          45,000
Higher education programs...............................          10,000
Cambodia................................................          58,000
    Youth empowerment and countering PRC influence......           5,000
    Democracy programs..................................          23,000
Laos....................................................          29,000
Mongolia................................................           7,000
    Anti-corruption program.............................           3,000
Greater Mekong rule of law and environment..............           5,000
Thailand................................................           7,000
Timor-Leste.............................................          16,000
Vietnam.................................................          75,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                      Middle East and North Africa
------------------------------------------------------------------------
USAID Middle East Regional
    Refugee Scholarships Program in Lebanon.............           9,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         South and Central Asia
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bangladesh
    Labor programs......................................           3,000
---------------------------------------------------------
                           Western Hemisphere
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Barbados and Eastern Caribbean..........................           5,000
Haiti...................................................          56,000
    Reforestation.......................................           8,500
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                             Global Programs
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bureau for Resilience and Food Security
    Feed the Future Innovation Labs.....................          58,000
    Global Crop Diversity Trust.........................           5,500
Combating child marriage................................          17,000
Development Innovation Ventures.........................          30,000
Leahy War Victims Fund..................................          14,000
Low Cost Eyeglasses.....................................           3,500
Mobility Program........................................           2,500
Ocean Freight Reimbursement Program.....................           2,000
Office of Education.....................................          35,000
Trade Capacity Building.................................          18,000
USAID Advisor for Indigenous Peoples Issues.............           5,700
Victims of Torture......................................          12,000
Wheelchairs.............................................           5,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Advisor for Indigenous Peoples Issues.--The USAID Advisor 
     for Indigenous Peoples Issues should report directly to the 
     USAID Administrator, and have sufficient staff to: (1) 
     integrate USAID's Indigenous Peoples Policy into all USAID 
     programs and across bureaus and missions; (2) provide 
     technical support and training to such bureaus and missions; 
     (3) conduct affirmative investigations of USAID and 
     international financial institution (IFI) projects that 
     impact Indigenous people; and (4) defend and promote the 
     territories, human rights, and well-being of Indigenous 
     people internationally through small grants, partnerships, 
     training, research, and economic and social empowerment 
     initiatives.
       Children with Disabilities.--The Secretary of State and 
     USAID Administrator shall increase funding for programs 
     implemented by UNICEF and its partners to protect the rights 
     of, and increase access to services and opportunities for, 
     children with severe cognitive and physical disabilities in 
     poor countries.
       Clean Cookstoves.--The Department of State and USAID, in 
     partnership with other Federal agencies, shall continue to 
     help address the health and safety issues associated with 
     traditional cookstoves, including by distributing clean 
     cookstoves that sustainably reduce fuel consumption and 
     exposure to harmful smoke.
       Faith-Based Organizations.--The Secretary of State and 
     USAID Administrator shall continue to use the faith sector, 
     in conjunction with the public and private sectors, for the 
     delivery of assistance in developing countries.
       Low Cost Eyeglasses.--Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the USAID Administrator shall consult 
     with the Committees on Appropriations on the planned uses of 
     funds made available for USAID's program to support 
     sustainable, locally owned initiatives that provide needy 
     children and adults with poor vision access to low cost 
     eyeglasses.
       The USAID Administrator shall submit a multi-year strategy 
     to support the following priorities: (1) government led and 
     implemented expansion of access to eyeglasses within public 
     health and education systems; and (2) growing the number of 
     for-profit optical businesses serving low-income customers. 
     Activities could include: (1) working with ministries of 
     health to build the eye health workforce and delegate tasks 
     to less specialized health workers; (2) strengthening 
     government supply chain and procurement processes; (3) 
     strengthening government data

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     and information management systems including reliable data on 
     the number of people in country without access to low cost 
     eyeglasses; and (4) providing technical assistance to help 
     grow the number of for-profit optical businesses serving low 
     income customers.
       Mobility Program.--The agreement continues support for 
     partnerships with existing entities overseas that have 
     successful models of providing access to affordable bicycles 
     to achieve development objectives, as well as addressing 
     challenges of spare parts, maintenance, and reducing social 
     stigma.
       Mongolia Anti-Corruption Program.--The agreement includes 
     funds for an anti-corruption program in Mongolia focused on 
     mineral trafficking along border areas, to be awarded on an 
     open and competitive basis, which should include 
     investigation simulations to strengthen the ability of 
     criminal justice officials to combat trafficking.
       Volunteers.--The USAID Administrator shall implement an 
     agency-wide policy that attributes additional merit to 
     proposals and applications that include the use of skilled 
     U.S. and local volunteers (including, as appropriate, the use 
     of the Peace Corps Response and U.S. Government retirees) to 
     implement a broad range of locally-driven development 
     activities, which shall be posted on the USAID website.


                   INTERNATIONAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE

       The agreement includes $3,905,460,000 for International 
     Disaster Assistance in this division. An additional 
     $2,650,000,000 is included under the heading in division N 
     and designated as an emergency requirement. Such funds shall 
     be apportioned to USAID not later than 60 days after 
     enactment of the Act.


                         TRANSITION INITIATIVES

       The agreement includes $80,000,000 for Transition 
     Initiatives in this division, and an additional $120,000,000 
     is included under the heading in division N and designated as 
     an emergency requirement.


                          COMPLEX CRISES FUND

       The agreement includes $60,000,000 for Complex Crises Fund.


                         ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND

       The agreement includes $4,099,000,000 for Economic Support 
     Fund in this division, and an additional $647,000,000 is 
     included under the heading in division N and designated as an 
     emergency requirement. Funds for certain countries and 
     programs under this heading are allocated according to the 
     following table and subject to section 7019 of the Act:

                          ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Budget
                     Country/Program                         Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                 Africa
------------------------------------------------------------------------
West Africa anti-slavery programs.......................           2,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        East Asia and the Pacific
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Burma...................................................          50,000
Greater Mekong democracy, rule of law, and environment..          11,000
Thailand................................................           7,000
Vietnam.................................................          25,000
Global Cooperation and Training Framework...............           3,000
Southeast Asia Legal Education Program..................           3,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                      Middle East and North Africa
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Iraq....................................................         150,000
    Scholarships........................................          10,000
    Democracy...........................................          25,000
    Justice sector assistance...........................           2,500
Lebanon.................................................
    Lebanon scholarships................................          12,000
Middle East Partnership Initiative......................          25,500
    Scholarship program.................................          20,000
Middle East Regional Cooperation........................           6,000
Near East Regional Democracy............................          55,000
Nita M. Lowey Middle East Partnership for Peace Act.....          50,000
West Bank and Gaza......................................         219,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         South and Central Asia
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Maldives................................................           2,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                           Western Hemisphere
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Organization of American States.........................           5,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                             Global Programs
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atrocities Prevention...................................           2,500
Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues...........          10,000
Bureau for Oceans and International Environment and
 Scientific Affairs.....................................
    Arctic Council......................................           1,000
Conflict and Stabilization Operations...................           3,500
Family Planning/Reproductive Health (USAID).............          51,050
House Democracy Partnership.............................           2,300
Implementation of Public Law 99-415.....................           3,000
Information Communications Technology Training..........           1,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Anti-Blasphemy Laws.--The agreement includes funds to 
     support in-country training programs for countries that 
     repeal or begin a formal process to remove blasphemy-related 
     offenses from their criminal codes, and to train relevant 
     civil society leaders, religious leaders, the media, the 
     judiciary, and law enforcement on conflict de-escalation 
     tools, community engagement, peace building, and 
     international human rights standards.
       Countering Violent Extremism Programs.--Given the limited 
     return on investment and the scarcity of reliable data on the 
     effectiveness of countering violent extremism programs, 
     particularly those conducted across the Sahel, USAID and the 
     Department of State should reassess and reconfigure such 
     programs, as appropriate, following consultation with the 
     Committees on Appropriations. Such programs should include 
     more meaningful engagement with affected populations in order 
     to determine new approaches to addressing this problem.
       Information Communications Technology Training.--Funds are 
     made available for Information Communications Technology 
     Training to support public-private partnerships that provide 
     capacity building technology training for professionals from 
     developing countries to advance a consistent global 
     regulatory framework on critical information communication 
     technology issues.
       Institutions of Higher Education.--The agreement includes 
     sufficient funding to continue support for institutions of 
     higher education in the Middle East and South Asia, including 
     reimbursement and support for students from Afghanistan. Not 
     later than 90 days after enactment of the Act, the Secretary 
     of State shall submit a plan to the Committees on 
     Appropriations to support Afghan students at such 
     institutions.
       Middle East Partnership Initiative Availability and 
     Consultation Requirement.--The agreement includes funds 
     appropriated under title III of the Act, which shall be made 
     available for assistance for the Western Sahara. Not later 
     than 90 days after enactment of the Act, and prior to the 
     obligation of such funds, the Secretary of State, in 
     consultation with the USAID Administrator, shall consult with 
     the Committees on Appropriations on the proposed uses of such 
     funds.
       USAID Israel International Development Cooperation.--The 
     agreement supports efforts to advance shared development 
     goals in third countries between USAID and Israel's Agency 
     for International Development Cooperation as described under 
     this heading in the House report.


                             DEMOCRACY FUND

       The agreement includes $340,700,000 for Democracy Fund, of 
     which $215,450,000 is for Department of State's Bureau of 
     Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), and $125,250,000 is 
     for USAID's Bureau for Development, Democracy, and 
     Innovation. The agreement includes funds to counter the rise 
     of authoritarianism abroad and for the directives included in 
     the table under this heading in the House report.
       Human Rights.--In lieu of the directive in the House report 
     under this heading, the Secretary of State, in consultation 
     with the USAID Administrator, should submit a report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations, not later than 60 days after 
     enactment of the Act, on the activities of special envoys 
     with responsibilities for issues of concern to marginalized 
     populations.


            ASSISTANCE FOR EUROPE, EURASIA AND CENTRAL ASIA

       The agreement includes $500,000,000 for Assistance for 
     Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia in this division, and an 
     additional $1,120,000,000 is included under the heading in 
     division N and designated as an emergency requirement.
       Albania.--The agreement provides $1,000,000 for assistance 
     for Albania to be managed by USAID. The USAID Administrator 
     shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations on plans 
     to expand its presence and programs in that country.
       Balkans.--Not later than 90 days after enactment of the 
     Act, the Secretary of State and USAID Administrator shall 
     jointly brief the Committees on Appropriations on programs 
     and initiatives to increase bilateral trade between the 
     United States and the Balkans, to reduce youth unemployment 
     in the region, and to grow small and medium enterprises to 
     spur economic growth.

                          Department of State


                    MIGRATION AND REFUGEE ASSISTANCE

       The agreement includes $2,912,188,000 for Migration and 
     Refugee Assistance in this division. An additional 
     $1,400,000,000 is included under the heading in division N 
     and designated as an emergency requirement.
       The Secretary of State shall continue to include amounts 
     designated for the Emergency Response Fund in annual program 
     plans.
       North Korea.--The agreement includes assistance for 
     refugees from North Korea, including protection activities in 
     the People's Republic of China (PRC) and other countries in 
     Asia.
       Primary Health Care.--The agreement supports funding for 
     primary healthcare for refugees, internally displaced 
     persons, and other vulnerable communities in humanitarian 
     settings and conflict zones.
       Protection Against Violence and Discrimination.--The 
     Secretary of State and USAID Administrator are directed to 
     continue to work with governments and partners to investigate 
     reports of discrimination and violence against third-country 
     nationals fleeing conflict. The Secretary and Administrator 
     shall continue to work to ensure that all individuals fleeing 
     conflict, whether nationals of a country or third-country 
     nationals living in such country, are treated humanely and 
     have equal access to humanitarian assistance, especially 
     during a time of war. Not later than 45 days after enactment 
     of the Act, the Secretary and Administrator shall brief the 
     appropriate congressional committees on how principles of 
     equal access to humanitarian assistance and protection 
     against violence are being carried out with partners 
     implementing United States assistance and in diplomatic and 
     humanitarian dialogues with other governments.
       Refugee Employment.--The Secretary of State shall expand 
     efforts, utilizing existing organizations and mechanisms, to 
     assist refugees and other displaced persons in becoming self-
     reliant through labor mobility, as a complementary solution 
     for refugees in addition to resettlement. Not later than 90 
     days

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     after enactment of the Act, the Secretary shall report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations on steps being taken in response 
     to this directive.
       United Nations Relief and Works Agency.--The agreement 
     endorses the report directive concerning the United Nations 
     Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) included under this heading 
     in the House report. Such report shall also include reforms 
     implemented by UNRWA over the past three years.


     UNITED STATES EMERGENCY REFUGEE AND MIGRATION ASSISTANCE FUND

       The agreement includes $100,000 for United States Emergency 
     Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund.

                          Independent Agencies


                              PEACE CORPS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The agreement includes $410,500,000 for Peace Corps.
       Peace Corps Volunteers.--The Peace Corps evacuated all 
     volunteers in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and, 
     to date, no volunteers have returned to the field. The 
     agreement includes funds to support ongoing efforts to 
     process and support the safe redeployment of Peace Corps 
     Volunteers abroad.


                    MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION

       The agreement includes $912,000,000 for Millennium 
     Challenge Corporation, including up to $115,000,000 for 
     administrative expenses.
       Anti-Corruption and Governance.--MCC should continue to 
     emphasize the importance of the ruling justly indicators, 
     including control of corruption, for compact eligibility and 
     to ensure that recipients of MCC funds are making consistent 
     progress in these areas.
       Supporting Economic Growth.--MCC should continue trade-
     based capacity building efforts in support of the AGOA and 
     MCA Modernization Act (Public Law 115-167) and collaborate 
     with other agencies to address the existing barriers that 
     Sub-Saharan African nations face in the development of free 
     trade agreements.


                       INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION

       The agreement includes $42,000,000 for Inter-American 
     Foundation. The agreement includes sufficient funds to 
     support the exchange program described under this heading in 
     the House report.


              UNITED STATES AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

       The agreement includes $40,000,000 for United States 
     African Development Foundation. The agreement includes 
     sufficient funds to support partnerships between the United 
     States African Development Foundation and African diaspora 
     communities in the United States that further African-led 
     development projects, as described under this heading in the 
     House report.

                       Department of the Treasury


               INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

       The agreement includes $38,000,000 for International 
     Affairs Technical Assistance, of which not more than 
     $9,500,000 is for administrative expenses.


                           DEBT RESTRUCTURING

       The agreement includes $52,000,000 for Debt Restructuring 
     to support the Debt Service Suspension Initiative and the 
     Common Framework on Debt Treatments to provide economic 
     relief stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.


              TROPICAL FOREST AND CORAL REEF CONSERVATION

       The agreement includes $15,000,000 for Tropical Forest and 
     Coral Reef Conservation. In implementing the Tropical Forest 
     and Coral Reef Conservation Act, the Department of the 
     Treasury should seek to negotiate agreements with eligible 
     partners in the most expeditious manner possible.

                                TITLE IV

                   INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ASSISTANCE

                          Department of State


          INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT

       The agreement includes $1,391,004,000 for International 
     Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement in this division, and 
     an additional $30,000,000 is included under the heading in 
     division N and designated as an emergency requirement. Funds 
     for certain countries and programs under this heading are 
     allocated according to the following table and subject to 
     section 7019 of the Act:

           INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Budget
                Country/Program/Activity                     Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atrocities prevention (sec. 7034(c))....................           2,500
Combating wildlife trafficking..........................          50,000
Cybercrime and intellectual property rights.............          20,000
Demand reduction........................................          20,000
Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Virunga National Park security........................         [2,000]
Global Crime and Drugs Policy...........................           7,000
International Law Enforcement Academy...................          37,925
International Organized Crime...........................          68,150
Inter-Regional Aviation Support.........................          38,400
  Sensor Upgrades.......................................        [10,000]
Lebanon.................................................           8,200
Pakistan border security................................          15,000
Peru....................................................          47,800
Tajikistan..............................................           6,000
  Border security.......................................         [3,000]
Trafficking in persons..................................          77,000
  Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons...        [66,000]
  of which, Child Protection Compacts...................        [10,000]
West Bank and Gaza......................................          40,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       3D Printed Gun Blueprint Database.--The agreement does not 
     endorse language in the House report under this heading 
     regarding a 3D Printed Gun Blueprint Database.
       Narcotics Control.--The agreement endorses the reporting 
     requirements on narcotics control in the House report and 
     supports funds to address the transit of fentanyl and other 
     synthetic opioids from Mexico and the PRC into the United 
     States, which has resulted in unprecedented overdose deaths 
     in 2021.
       Tajikistan.--Not later than 90 days after enactment of the 
     Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations on the uses of funds made 
     available under this heading for border security for 
     Tajikistan during the prior two fiscal years, and planned to 
     be made available in fiscal year 2022.


    NONPROLIFERATION, ANTI TERRORISM, DEMINING AND RELATED PROGRAMS

       The agreement includes $900,000,000 for Nonproliferation, 
     Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related Programs. Funds for 
     certain countries and programs under this heading are 
     allocated according to the following table and subject to 
     section 7019 of the Act:

     NONPROLIFERATION, ANTI TERRORISM, DEMINING AND RELATED PROGRAMS
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Budget
                    Program/Activity                         Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nonproliferation programs...............................         290,000
  International Atomic Energy Agency....................        [95,000]
Anti-terrorism programs.................................         320,397
Conventional weapons destruction........................         254,603
  Humanitarian demining.................................       [213,350]
  of which, Angola......................................         [8,500]
  of which, Cambodia....................................         [9,000]
  of which, Laos........................................        [45,000]
  of which, Sri Lanka...................................         [8,500]
  of which, Vietnam.....................................        [19,000]
  of which, Zimbabwe....................................         [3,000]
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Explosive Detection Canine Program.--Not later than 90 days 
     after enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall 
     submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations detailing 
     the policies and procedures for implementing the 
     recommendations included in the Office of Inspector General's 
     2019 report Evaluation of the Antiterrorism Assistance 
     Explosive Detection Canine Program (ESP 19-06). The report 
     shall include an update on the status of dogs currently in, 
     and retired from, the program since June 2019.
       Nagorno-Karabakh.--The agreement provides $2,000,000 for 
     humanitarian demining and UXO clearance activities in areas 
     affected by the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, subject to prior 
     consultation with the Committees on Appropriations.


                        PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

       The agreement includes $455,000,000 for Peacekeeping 
     Operations. Funds for certain countries and programs under 
     this heading are allocated according to the following table 
     and subject to section 7019 of the Act:

                         PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Budget
                 County/Program/Activity                     Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Africa
  Somalia...............................................       [208,108]
  Africa Regional.......................................        [54,151]
Political-Military Affairs
  Global Peace Operations Initiative....................        [71,000]
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Multinational Force and Observers.--The agreement provides 
     $24,000,000 for the United States share of the fiscal year 
     2022 operating budget for the Multinational Force and 
     Observers (MFO) mission in the Sinai. U.S. leadership and 
     participation in the MFO is important to the national 
     security interests of the United States, Israel, Egypt, and 
     other regional allies, and to counter the influence of the 
     PRC, Russia, and other adversaries in the Middle East and 
     North Africa.

                  Funds Appropriated to the President


             INTERNATIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION AND TRAINING

       The agreement includes $112,925,000 for International 
     Military Education and Training.
       IMET Database.--For purposes of implementing section 548(a) 
     of the FAA, funds in the Act shall be made available to 
     foreign governments, consistent with applicable provisions of 
     law, to assist in the development and maintenance of a record 
     of each IMET recipient's ``subsequent military or defense 
     ministry career and current position and location,'' 
     including for programs to develop the human resources 
     capabilities necessary to comply with such requirement. The 
     Secretary of State shall require IMET recipient governments 
     to provide such information in a timely manner and shall 
     consult with the Committees on Appropriations on the 
     implementation of such directive not later than 45 days after 
     enactment of the Act.
       Participation of Civilians.--Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a 
     report to the Committees on Appropriations detailing the 
     participation of civilians in IMET courses during the 
     preceding three years, disaggregated by nationality, 
     including: (1) the number of participants; (2) whether they 
     were government officials, and if so from what ministry or 
     agency, or representatives of civil society; and (3) the IMET 
     courses in which they participated.
       Participation of Women.--Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a 
     report to the Committees on Appropriations describing the 
     short- and long-term steps taken to increase female 
     participation in IMET courses, including the results achieved 
     in fiscal year

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     2021 and activities planned in fiscal years 2022 and 2023.


                   FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING PROGRAM

       The agreement includes $6,040,424,000 for Foreign Military 
     Financing Program in this division, and an additional 
     $650,000,000 is included under the heading in division N and 
     designated as an emergency requirement. Funds under this 
     heading for certain countries are allocated according to the 
     following table and subject to section 7019 of the Act:

                   FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING PROGRAM
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                Budget
                          Country                             Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ecuador....................................................        5,000
Georgia....................................................       35,000
Iraq.......................................................      250,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                TITLE V

                        MULTILATERAL ASSISTANCE

                  Funds Appropriated to the President


                INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS

       The agreement includes $423,000,000 for International 
     Organizations and Programs. Funds under this heading are 
     allocated according to the following table and subject to 
     section 7019 of the Act:

                INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                Budget
                   Organizations/Programs                     Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
International Chemicals and Toxins Programs................        3,175
International Civil Aviation Organization..................        1,200
International Conservation Programs........................        9,000
International Development Law Organization.................          400
International Maritime Organization........................          325
Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund........................       51,900
OAS Fund for Strengthening Democracy.......................        4,500
Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and                50
 Armed Robbery Against Ships in Asia.......................
UN Capital Development Fund................................        1,000
UN Children's Fund.........................................      139,000
  of which, Joint Program on Eliminating Female Genital          [5,000]
   Mutilation..............................................
UN Democracy Fund..........................................        3,500
UN Development Program.....................................       81,550
UN Environmental Programs..................................       10,200
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change/UN Framework         15,000
 Convention on Climate Change..............................
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights......................       15,500
  of which, Honduras.......................................      [1,000]
  of which, Colombia.......................................      [2,500]
  of which, Guatemala......................................      [1,000]
UN Human Settlements Program...............................          700
UN Junior Professional Officer Program.....................        1,500
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.....        3,500
UN Office of the Special Coordinator on Improving the UN           1,500
 Response to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.................
UN Resident Coordinator System.............................       23,000
UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for             1,750
 Sexual Violence in Conflict...............................
UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women................        1,500
UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of        1,150
 Human Rights..............................................
UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture...................        8,000
UN Women...................................................       10,000
World Meteorological Organization..........................        1,000
World Trade Organization Technical Assistance..............          600
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Multilateral Review.--Not later than 180 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall brief the 
     Committees on Appropriations on the degree to which 
     participation in multilateral organizations aligns with U.S. 
     national security and foreign policy interests.
       Organization of American States.--The agreement includes 
     $5,000,000 under Economic Support Fund for the Organization 
     of American States (OAS) for the autonomous promotion and 
     protection of human rights.

                  International Financial Institutions

       Inter-American Development Bank.--The agreement encourages 
     the Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Governor of the 
     Inter-American Development Bank to utilize the Bank's tools 
     and capabilities to strengthen disaster preparedness, address 
     root causes of migration, and support sustainability 
     initiatives.


                      GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY

       The agreement includes $149,288,000 for Global Environment 
     Facility, which includes $12,725,000 for unmet commitments.


               CONTRIBUTION TO THE CLEAN TECHNOLOGY FUND

       The agreement includes $125,000,000 for a contribution to 
     the Clean Technology Fund.


     CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND 
                              DEVELOPMENT

       The agreement includes $206,500,000 for Contribution to the 
     International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the 
     third of six installments under the current general and 
     selective capital increases.


              LIMITATION ON CALLABLE CAPITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS

       The agreement includes $1,421,275,728.70 for Limitation on 
     Callable Capital Subscriptions.


       CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

       The agreement includes $1,001,400,000 for Contribution to 
     the International Development Association.


               CONTRIBUTION TO THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT FUND

       The agreement includes $53,323,000 for Contribution to the 
     Asian Development Fund.


              CONTRIBUTION TO THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

       The agreement includes $54,648,752 for Contribution to the 
     African Development Bank.


              LIMITATION ON CALLABLE CAPITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS

       The agreement includes $856,174,624 for Limitation on 
     Callable Capital Subscriptions.


              CONTRIBUTION TO THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FUND

       The agreement includes $211,300,000 for Contribution to the 
     African Development Fund, which includes $40,000,000 for 
     unmet commitments.


  CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT

       The agreement includes $43,000,000 for Contribution to the 
     International Fund for Agricultural Development.


              GLOBAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY PROGRAM

       The agreement includes $5,000,000 for Global Agriculture 
     and Food Security Program.
       Pledge.--The agreement includes funds for the Global 
     Agriculture and Food Security Program to further the UN 
     Sustainable Development Goal on food security and urges the 
     Secretary of the Treasury to submit a pledge on behalf of the 
     United States Government in support of the 2020-2025 
     replenishment period.


 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND FACILITIES AND TRUST 
                                 FUNDS

       The agreement includes $102,000,000 for Contributions to 
     the International Monetary Fund Facilities and Trust Funds.

                                TITLE VI

                    EXPORT AND INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE

                Export-Import Bank of the United States


                           Inspector General

       The agreement includes $6,500,000 for Inspector General for 
     the Export-Import Bank of the United States, of which 
     $975,000 may remain available until September 30, 2023.


                        ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

       The agreement includes $114,000,000 for Administrative 
     Expenses for the Export-Import Bank of the United States, of 
     which up to $17,100,000 may remain available until September 
     30, 2023.


                     PROGRAM BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS

       The agreement includes $5,000,000 for Program Budget 
     Appropriations.

      United States International Development Finance Corporation


                           INSPECTOR GENERAL

       The agreement includes $2,800,000 for Inspector General for 
     United States International Development Finance Corporation.


                       CORPORATE CAPITAL ACCOUNT

       The agreement includes $698,000,000 for Corporate Capital 
     Account, including $198,000,000 for administrative expenses 
     and project-specific transaction costs as described in 
     section 1434(k) of the BUILD Act of 2018 (division F of 
     Public Law 115-254) and $500,000,000 for programs, which may 
     be paid to the United States International Development 
     Finance Corporation Program Account.
       Environmental and Social Policies and Procedures.--The U.S. 
     International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) CEO shall 
     establish strict guidelines for the use of waivers of its 
     Environmental and Social Policies and Procedures, which 
     should be limited to compelling circumstances and in 
     furtherance of an important U.S. national interest. The use 
     of such waivers is subject to the regular notification 
     procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. Such 
     notification shall include the justification for the waiver 
     and describe the environmental and social policies and 
     procedures to be applied in lieu of DFC's policies and 
     procedures.
       Impact Assessments.--Funds made available by the Act for 
     the DFC shall be used to increase quality impact assessments 
     to vet proposed projects for potential environmental and 
     social risks, and to ensure compliance with human rights, 
     labor, environmental, and transparency standards.
       Investment in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific 
     Islands.--The agreement endorses the reporting directive 
     under the heading Investment in the Pacific Islands and the 
     Caribbean in the House report. Such report shall also include 
     investments in Latin America and describe how DFC investments 
     address needs including renewable energy and distributed 
     energy generation systems, climate change adaptation, and 
     support for minority and women-owned businesses.
       Mission.--The agreement endorses the directive under the 
     heading Private Sector Development in the House report. The 
     DFC is an important tool to counter debt trap diplomacy by 
     the PRC in Southeast Asia and around the world, and the DFC 
     shall prioritize projects that advance significant U.S. 
     development goals and utilize its tools to be complementary 
     to, but not a substitute for, U.S. foreign assistance and 
     security programs.
       Operating Plan.--The operating plan required by section 
     7062(a) of the Act shall contain detailed information 
     regarding all funds available to the DFC in the current 
     fiscal year, including: (1) carryover; (2) funds transferred 
     from other Federal agencies; and (3) funds that are not 
     allocated for particular programs, projects, or activities. 
     The DFC shall also specify in the operating plan funds 
     intended to be made available for any overseas presence.
       Reallocation of Funds.--Notifications submitted for funds 
     made available by the Act for the DFC shall, if applicable, 
     include detailed information regarding any such funds that 
     were previously justified for a different purpose.


                            PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The agreement includes up to $500,000,000 for Program 
     Account transferred from Corporate Capital Account.


                      TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

       The agreement includes $79,500,000 for Trade and 
     Development Agency, including

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     not more than $19,000,000 for administrative expenses.
       Digital Connectivity and Cybersecurity Partnership 
     (DCCP).--The agreement includes funding at not less than the 
     prior year level for the DCCP, which shall support training 
     of technology professionals and officials, including from 
     developing countries.

                               TITLE VII

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

       The tables included under this title are subject to section 
     7019 of the Act.
       The following general provisions are contained in the Act. 
     Each is designated as unchanged, modified, or new as compared 
     to division K of Public Law 116-260:
     Section 7001. Allowances and Differentials (unchanged)
     Section 7002. Unobligated Balances Report (unchanged)
       Report on Unallocated Funds.--Not later than 45 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a 
     report to the Committees on Appropriations detailing all 
     funds appropriated in prior Acts under Foreign Military 
     Financing Program, or a predecessor account, that have been 
     obligated into the Foreign Military Sales Trust Fund and are 
     unallocated to a case as of the date of enactment of the Act.
     Section 7003. Consulting Services (unchanged)
     Section 7004. Diplomatic Facilities (modified)
       Interim and Temporary Facilities.--Subsection (d)(1) does 
     not continue language from the prior fiscal year establishing 
     a minimum funding level to address security at interim and 
     temporary U.S. diplomatic facilities abroad as there are 
     fewer such facilities in existence.
       New Embassy and Consulate Compound Construction.--Not later 
     than 60 days after enactment of the Act, the Director for the 
     Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations shall brief the 
     Committees on Appropriations on efforts made to expand 
     opportunities for additional U.S. companies, including 
     minority owned companies, to participate in Department of 
     State construction projects abroad, and the results of those 
     efforts.
     Section 7005. Personnel Actions (unchanged)
     Section 7006. Prohibition on Publicity or Propaganda 
         (unchanged)
     Section 7007. Prohibition Against Direct Funding for Certain 
         Countries (unchanged)
     Section 7008. Coups d'Etat (unchanged)
       Restrictions applied pursuant to this section should allow 
     programs to continue that are delivered through NGOs and 
     provide essential services for the local population.
     Section 7009. Transfer of Funds Authority (modified)
     Section 7010. Prohibition and Limitation on Certain Expenses 
         (unchanged)
     Section 7011. Availability of Funds (unchanged)
     Section 7012. Limitation on Assistance to Countries in 
         Default (unchanged)
     Section 7013. Prohibition on Taxation of United States 
         Assistance (modified)
       Notification and Reimbursement of Foreign Taxes.--The 
     Secretary of State shall report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations not later than December 31, 2022, and 
     quarterly thereafter until December 31, 2023, on the foreign 
     governments and entities that have assessed and not 
     reimbursed taxes pursuant to subsection (b), including any 
     amount of funds withheld pursuant to such subsection. Reports 
     required by such subsection in prior years have not been 
     submitted, and the Secretary is directed to submit the fiscal 
     year 2022 reports in a timely and comprehensive manner.
     Section 7014. Reservations of Funds (unchanged)
     Section 7015. Notification Requirements (modified)
       Funds Received from Foreign Governments.--The Secretary of 
     State and USAID Administrator, as appropriate, shall report 
     to the Committees on Appropriations within 15 days of the 
     receipt of funds received from foreign governments pursuant 
     to sections 607 and 635(d) of the FAA, other than from 
     countries that are North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 
     or major non-NATO allies designated pursuant to section 
     517(b) of such Act. The report shall include the source and 
     the amount of funds received.
     Section 7016. Document Requests, Records Management, and 
         Related Cybersecurity Protections (modified)
       Records Management and Related Cybersecurity Protections.--
     Not later than September 30, 2022, the Secretary of State and 
     USAID Administrator shall submit a report to the Committees 
     on Appropriations describing actions taken pursuant to 
     subparagraphs (c)(4) and (c)(5).
     Section 7017. Use of Funds in Contravention of this Act 
         (unchanged)
     Section 7018. Prohibition on Funding for Abortions and 
         Involuntary Sterilization (unchanged)
     Section 7019. Allocations and Reports (modified)
     Section 7020. Multi-Year Pledges (modified)
     Section 7021. Prohibition on Assistance to Governments 
         Supporting International Terrorism (unchanged)
     Section 7022. Authorization Requirements (unchanged)
     Section 7023. Definition of Program, Project, and Activity 
         (unchanged)
     Section 7024. Authorities for the Peace Corps, Inter-American 
         Foundation, and United States African Development 
         Foundation (unchanged)
     Section 7025. Commerce, Trade and Surplus Commodities 
         (unchanged)
     Section 7026. Separate Accounts (unchanged)
     Section 7027. Eligibility for Assistance (unchanged)
     Section 7028. Disability Programs (modified)
       Disability Programs.--Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the USAID Administrator shall consult 
     with the Committees on Appropriations on the development of a 
     multi-year strategy for assistance for persons with 
     disabilities.
     Section 7029. International Financial Institutions (modified)
       Beneficial Ownership Information.--Not later than 90 days 
     after enactment of the Act, the Secretary of the Treasury 
     shall submit the report required under this heading in the 
     House report.
       Evaluations.--Not later than 90 days after enactment of the 
     Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit the report 
     required under this heading in the House report.
       Grievance Mechanisms and Procedures.--Not later than 90 
     days after enactment of the Act, the Secretary of the 
     Treasury shall submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations detailing steps taken by the U.S. executive 
     directors and the IFIs to support independent investigative 
     and adjudicative mechanisms and procedures pursuant to 
     subsection (h).
       Whistleblowers.--Not later than 90 days after enactment of 
     the Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit a report 
     to the Committees on Appropriations detailing steps taken by 
     the U.S. executive directors and the IFIs to support the 
     protection of whistleblowers pursuant to subsection (g).
     Section 7030. Insecure Communications Networks (unchanged)
       Strategy Requirement.--Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a 
     report to the Committees on Appropriations describing the 
     steps taken to implement the strategy required under this 
     section in the explanatory statement accompanying division K 
     of Public Law 116-260.
     Section 7031. Financial Management and Budget Transparency 
         (modified)
       Anti-Kleptocracy and Human Rights.--For purposes of 
     subsection (c), violations of human rights include the unjust 
     or wrongful detention of members of political parties, 
     journalists, civil society leaders, LES of a United States 
     diplomatic mission, or a United States citizen or national.
       Specific Cases.--The Secretary of State shall apply 
     subsection (c) to foreign government officials involved in 
     threatening, unjustly or wrongfully imprisoning, or otherwise 
     depriving of liberty independent journalists who speak out or 
     publish about official corruption or other abuses.
       Waiver.--The Secretary of State shall submit a written 
     notification to the appropriate congressional committees and 
     the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and House of 
     Representatives not less than 5 days prior to exercising the 
     waiver authority in subsection (c)(3), including the 
     justification for each waiver.
     Section 7032. Democracy Programs (modified)
       The agreement includes a total of not less than 
     $2,600,000,000 for democracy programs under several accounts 
     in a manner similar to the prior fiscal year to strengthen 
     democracy abroad against rising authoritarianism and erosion 
     of the rule of law. Subsection (a)(2) designates not less 
     than $102,040,000 for DRL for certain countries and regional 
     programs. Such funds are allocated according to the following 
     table:

    BUREAU OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND LABOR, DEPARTMENT OF STATE
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                Budget
                      Account/Program                         Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Economic Support Fund
    Burma..................................................        4,000
    Maldives...............................................          500
    Near East Regional Democracy...........................       15,000
    North Korea............................................        4,000
    People's Republic of China.............................       12,000
    South Sudan............................................        1,000
    Sri Lanka..............................................        2,000
    Sudan..................................................        1,000
    Syria..................................................       11,000
    Venezuela..............................................       10,000
    Yemen..................................................        3,000
    HRDF...................................................       11,500
Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia
    Europe and Eurasia.....................................       22,000
    of which, Internet Freedom.............................      [4,500]
    Uzbekistan.............................................        3,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Countering Corruption Programs.--The agreement includes 
     funds for Department of State and USAID programs to counter 
     corruption abroad. The Secretary of State and USAID 
     Administrator shall jointly report to the appropriate 
     congressional committees on the respective roles and 
     responsibilities of each agency in the conduct of such 
     programs to ensure coordination and avoid duplication. A 
     component of such programs should target developing 
     democracies, including programs to strengthen actors in the 
     government and nongovernmental sectors to address this issue. 
     The agreement includes $3,000,000 for a rule of law program 
     in developing democracies to be administered by USAID that 
     focuses on the use of best practices to counter corruption, 
     to be awarded on an open and competitive basis and following 
     consultation with the Committees on Appropriations.
       Democracy Assistance for Africa.--Not later than 90 days 
     after enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State and USAID 
     Administrator shall jointly submit a report to the Committees 
     on Appropriations detailing democracy assistance provided to 
     each country in Africa over the past five fiscal years and 
     plans to ensure adequate funding is provided for such 
     programs in subsequent fiscal years.

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       Democracy Strategy.--Not later than 180 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State, in consultation 
     with the USAID Administrator, shall submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a strategy for democracy programs 
     globally. As part of developing that strategy, the 
     Administrator shall consult with the Committees on 
     Appropriations on efforts to modernize USAID's democracy 
     assistance tools and approaches to counter new and emerging 
     threats to democracy, and plans to expand such efforts in 
     future fiscal years.
       International Freedom of Expression and Independent 
     Media.--The agreement provides funds for programs to promote 
     and support international freedom of expression and 
     independent media. Funds should be used to support efforts 
     to: (1) strengthen civil society organizations working to 
     defend freedom of expression and association; (2) support the 
     enactment of laws and policies to protect freedom of 
     expression, association, and assembly; and (3) educate the 
     public about the legitimate role of journalists and civil 
     society activists in society.
       Labor Programs.--Pursuant to subsection (k)(1), labor 
     programs include programs that support labor rights, 
     strengthen independent worker organizing, and build capacity 
     in collective bargaining through partnership with relevant 
     stakeholders that demonstrate an expertise on labor rights 
     promotion.
       Program Changes.--The Secretary of State or USAID 
     Administrator, as appropriate, shall follow the directive 
     under this heading in Senate Report 116-126 in the manner 
     described.
       Promotion of Human Rights in the People's Republic of 
     China.--The agreement supports funding for NGOs within the 
     Indo-Pacific region that are focused on the protection and 
     advancement of freedom of expression, association, assembly, 
     and religion for women, human rights activists, and ethnic 
     and religious minorities in the PRC.
       The Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and 
     Labor shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations and 
     representatives of civil society regarding: (1) strengthening 
     the capacity of such entities; (2) protecting members of 
     organizations, including those residing outside the PRC, who 
     have been targeted for arrest, harassment, intimidation, and 
     other human rights violations, forced sterilizations, 
     coercive abortions, or forced labor; and (3) messaging to 
     reach the broadest possible audiences within the PRC about 
     U.S. Government efforts to protect freedom of expression, 
     association, assembly, and religion.
       Protection of Civil Society Activists and Journalists.--The 
     agreement provides funds for programs to protect civil 
     society activists and journalists who are harassed, 
     threatened, and attacked for their legitimate advocacy 
     activities. Not later than 90 days after enactment of the 
     Act, the Secretary of State shall post on the Department's 
     website the specific processes by which such individuals can 
     request protection and other assistance from U.S. embassies, 
     including in areas where the United States does not maintain 
     a diplomatic facility. In addition, the Secretary shall 
     develop internal protocols and training on engagement with 
     and protection of, such individuals, to include strengthening 
     interagency sharing of data on reprisals against such 
     individuals on a regular and timely basis.
       Spend Plan.--The spend plan required under section 
     7062(b)(1)(E) of the Act for democracy programs should 
     include accounts, regions, and global programs.
     Section 7033. International Religious Freedom (modified)
       Assistance.--The agreement includes not less than 
     $10,000,000 under Economic Support Fund for programs to 
     protect and investigate the persecution of religious 
     minorities, and not less than $10,000,000 for international 
     religious freedom programs under Democracy Fund.
       Countries of Particular Concern.--If the USCIRF recommends 
     the designation of a country as a country of particular 
     concern in its annual report, and such country is not 
     designated as a CPC by the State Department, the Secretary of 
     State shall provide the rationale for such decision to the 
     appropriate congressional committees within 30 days.
       Curriculum Report.--Not later than 45 days after enactment 
     of the Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to 
     the Committees on Appropriations detailing the status of 
     implementation of training for all Foreign Service Officers 
     in international humanitarian law and policy, and the 
     development of the curriculum required under section 103 of 
     the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act (Public 
     Law 114-281).
       Expansion of Activities Report.--Not later than 90 days 
     after enactment of the Act, and following consultation with 
     the Committees on Appropriations, the Secretary of State 
     shall brief such Committees on efforts and opportunities to 
     expand international religious freedom programs, including 
     through roundtables that bring together individuals from 
     diverse religions and beliefs.
     Section 7034. Special Provisions (modified)
       Beneficiary Feedback.--Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, and annually thereafter until September 
     30, 2027, the Secretary of State and USAID Administrator 
     shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations on 
     beneficiary feedback. The report shall include a description 
     of how: (1) the Department of State and USAID ensure that 
     implementing partners establish effective procedures for 
     collecting and responding to feedback from beneficiaries; and 
     (2) oversight is regularly conducted to ensure such feedback 
     is collected and used to maximize the impact of U.S. foreign 
     assistance, consistent with the requirements of subsection 
     (m)(1).
       Exchange Visitor Program Clarification.--For purposes of 
     subsection (e)(7), the term ``modify'' means any executive 
     action that changes the number, origin, or eligibility of 
     program participants during any 60 day period, or that 
     otherwise changes the manner in which the program is 
     implemented, including the suspension of visas.
       Ex-Post Evaluations.--In addition to funds otherwise made 
     available for monitoring and evaluation, the agreement 
     includes additional funds to be used for ex-post evaluations 
     of the sustainability of United States assistance programs. 
     Not later than 60 days after enactment of the Act, the 
     Secretary of State and USAID Administrator shall jointly 
     consult with the Committees on Appropriations on the proposed 
     uses of such funds. Not later than 120 days after enactment 
     of the Act, the Secretary and Administrator shall report to 
     the Committees on Appropriations on the uses of funds made 
     available for ex-post evaluations in fiscal year 2021.
       Forensic Anthropology Assistance.--Funding for forensic 
     anthropology assistance shall be used to support activities, 
     including DNA analysis and the exhumation and identification 
     of remains, in countries where large numbers of people were 
     killed or forcibly disappeared and presumed dead as a result 
     of armed conflict, crimes against humanity, or other gross 
     violations of human rights, including to support activities 
     in Central America to exhume remains of victims of 
     atrocities.
       Loan Guarantees.--Not later than 60 days after enactment of 
     the Act, the Secretary of State, USAID Administrator, 
     Secretary of the Treasury, and DFC CEO shall jointly submit 
     an updated report to the appropriate congressional committees 
     detailing: (1) the current management of the Sovereign Loan 
     Guarantee portfolio and financial exposure, including any 
     duplication or financial management challenges; (2) the 
     impact on each agency of a decision to transfer the portfolio 
     in full to such agency, including any additional resources or 
     legislative fixes required; and (3) the status of an 
     interagency decision on permanent transfer and management of 
     the portfolio.
       Local Competition.--When making available funds 
     appropriated by the Act or prior Acts for a limited 
     competition through local entities, the USAID Administrator 
     shall ensure that effective financial and performance 
     oversight occurs and that pre-award and post-award 
     requirements continue to be met. The USAID Administrator 
     shall submit a report not later than 45 days after the end of 
     fiscal year 2022 to the appropriate congressional committees 
     on all awards in excess of $3,000,000 and sole source awards 
     in excess of $2,000,000 subject to limited or no competition 
     for local entities.
       Local Works.--In furtherance of subsection (p), not later 
     than 90 days after enactment of the Act, the USAID 
     Administrator shall submit to the Committees on 
     Appropriations a report including: (1) an assessment of the 
     progress in achieving the central goal of Local Works to move 
     USAID toward a development model based on the recognition 
     that local governments, organizations, and communities are 
     often best-suited to lead a process of sustainable 
     progressive change; (2) a description of the key factors that 
     prevent such goal from being achieved and steps being taken 
     to address those factors and to expand Local Works; and (3) 
     recommendations for any administrative or legislative action 
     that would further enable such goal to be achieved.
       Protections and Remedies for Employees of Diplomatic 
     Missions and International Organizations.--For purposes of 
     implementing section 203(a)(2) of the William Wilberforce 
     Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 
     (Public Law 110-457), the Secretary of State shall consider 
     the following as sufficient to determine that a diplomatic 
     mission ``tolerated such actions'': (1) the failure to 
     provide a replacement passport within a reasonable period of 
     time to a T-visa recipient; (2) the existence of multiple 
     concurrent civil suits against members of the diplomatic 
     mission; or (3) the failure to satisfy a civil judgment 
     against an employee of the diplomatic mission.
       Section 889 Report.--Not later than 45 days after enactment 
     of the Act, the Secretary of State and USAID Administrator 
     shall each submit an update to the report required under 
     section 7030 in the explanatory statement accompanying 
     division K of Public Law 116-260 on the impact of section 889 
     on programs and operations. Such report shall also include 
     detail on the implementation of subsection (r).
     Section 7035. Law Enforcement and Security (modified)
       Combat Casualty Care Report.--The Secretary of State shall 
     update the report required under this heading in section 7039 
     of Senate Report 116-126, except that the reporting period 
     shall cover the prior fiscal year.
       Foreign Military Training Report.--The report required by 
     section 656 of the FAA should include units of operation of 
     military personnel who receive training, which shall be 
     specified at the battalion or equivalent level.
       International Prison Conditions.--Funds made available for 
     assistance to eliminate

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     inhumane conditions in foreign prisons should include 
     interventions to improve access to adequate nutrition, 
     medical care, and hygiene and to end the use of solitary 
     confinement that violates due process and harms human health.
       Oversight and Accountability.--Prior to signing a new 
     Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) involving funds 
     appropriated under Foreign Military Financing Program, the 
     Secretary of State shall consult with each recipient 
     government to ensure the LOA complies with purposes of 
     section 4 of the Arms Export Control Act and that the defense 
     articles, services, and training procured with funds under 
     such heading are consistent with U.S. national security 
     policy. The Secretary shall inform the appropriate 
     congressional committees of any instance in which the 
     Secretary has credible information that such assistance was 
     used in a manner contrary to such agreement.
       Reports Continued.--The Secretary of State shall submit the 
     report on security assistance required by section 7035(d)(l) 
     of division G of Public Law 116-94 in the manner described, 
     except such report shall include funds obligated and expended 
     during fiscal year 2021.
       The Secretary of State shall submit the report on vetting 
     required by section 7049(d)(3) of division F of Public Law 
     116-6 in the manner described.
       Security Assistance Coordination.--The agreement supports 
     increased measures to ensure that security cooperation 
     programs supported by the Act are strategic, address clearly 
     defined goals and objectives, and are integrated with other 
     programs. Not later than 90 days after enactment of the Act, 
     the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of 
     Defense, shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations an 
     integrated security cooperation strategy for assistance for 
     Colombia, Jordan, Mexico, the Philippines, and Tunisia.
       Each strategy shall include: (1) an overview of the 
     security relationship between the United States and the 
     country; (2) a description of the goals, objectives, and 
     milestones of security cooperation programs and initiatives 
     supported by the Department of State and the Department of 
     Defense; (3) a description of how programs complement rather 
     than duplicate each other; (4) funding by account and program 
     for fiscal year 2022 and the prior two fiscal years; and (5) 
     a description of host country capabilities and financial 
     contributions towards shared security goals. The strategy 
     shall also identify all relevant United States title 10 and 
     title 22 authorities, identify areas of overlap in United 
     States security assistance, and provide recommendations for 
     eliminating redundancies and improving management and 
     oversight of U.S. assistance to foreign security forces and 
     defense institutions.
       Section 502B.--Not later than 90 days after enactment of 
     the Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the 
     appropriate congressional committees detailing each instance 
     when section 502B of the FAA was applied in the past ten 
     years to prevent the provision of security assistance or the 
     issuance of an export license under the Export Administration 
     Act of 1979, and each instance when the President certified 
     in writing that extraordinary circumstances existed to 
     warrant the provision of assistance or issuance of such an 
     export license. The report shall also specify the criteria 
     used to determine if the government of a country has engaged 
     in a consistent pattern of gross violations of human rights 
     and include a current list of such governments.
       Security Force Professionalization.--Prior year funds 
     appropriated for security force professionalization programs 
     under Peacekeeping Operations and International Narcotics 
     Control and Law Enforcement remain available to increase 
     partner capacity to collect, track, and analyze data on 
     arbitrary arrest, abuse of detainees, and harm to civilians 
     from law enforcement operations of the respective government. 
     Not later than 90 days after enactment of the Act, the 
     Secretary of State shall consult with the Committees on 
     Appropriations on the planned uses and program management of 
     such funds in fiscal years 2022 and 2023.
       Training Related to International Humanitarian Law.--Not 
     later than 90 days after enactment of the Act, and following 
     consultation with the Committees on Appropriations, the 
     Secretary of State shall submit a report to the Committees on 
     the implementation of section 7035(a)(4) of division G of 
     Public Law 116-94. Such report shall include the amount of 
     funds made available by country under Peacekeeping Operations 
     and Foreign Military Financing Program for such purpose in 
     the prior fiscal year.
     Section 7036. Arab League Boycott of Israel (unchanged)
     Section 7037. Palestinian Statehood (unchanged)
     Section 7038. Prohibition on Assistance to the Palestinian 
         Broadcasting Corporation (unchanged)
     Section 7039. Assistance for the West Bank and Gaza 
         (modified)
     Section 7040. Limitation on Assistance for the Palestinian 
         Authority (unchanged)
     Section 7041. Middle East and North Africa (modified)
       Bahrain Report.--Not later than 60 days after enactment of 
     the Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations, which may be in classified form 
     if necessary, detailing efforts made on behalf of political 
     prisoners in Bahrain and the Government of Bahrain's 
     response.
       Egypt.--The agreement includes assistance for Egypt at 
     levels consistent with the prior fiscal year. The Secretary 
     of State shall inform the Committees on Appropriations, in 
     writing, in advance of any modification to amounts included 
     for assistance for Egypt in the report required by section 
     653(a) of the FAA. No funds were requested for cash transfer 
     assistance or budget support for Egypt and the agreement does 
     not include funds for such purposes.
       Counterterrorism Campaign in the Sinai.--Not later than 90 
     days after enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall update the 
     report required under this heading in Senate Report 116-126 
     on Egypt's compliance with end-user monitoring agreements for 
     the use of U.S. military equipment in the Sinai, in the 
     manner described.
       Pre-Obligation Determination.--In making the determination 
     pursuant to paragraph (4), the Secretary of State shall 
     consider the case of American citizen, April Corley, who 
     suffered severe injuries and losses as a result of an attack 
     on her tour group by Egyptian armed forces on September 13, 
     2015.
       Report.--Not later than 90 days after enactment of the Act, 
     the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations on incidents of harassment, 
     threats, and arbitrary detention against American citizens, 
     and their family members in Egypt and the United States.
       Iran Counterinfluence Programs.--The Secretary of State, in 
     consultation with the heads of other relevant Federal 
     agencies, shall coordinate Iran counterinfluence programs 
     funded by the Act. Such programs should: (1) counter the 
     false assertions made by the Government of Iran against the 
     United States and other democratic countries; (2) describe 
     the support Iran provides to terrorist or extremist proxies; 
     and (3) assess and describe the adverse impacts such support 
     causes to the people of Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, and other 
     areas where Iran operates through proxies.
       Iran Reports.--Not later than 180 days after enactment of 
     the Act, the Secretary of State shall update the report 
     required under this heading in Senate Report 116-126 in the 
     manner described.
       Iraq.--In addition to the amounts designated in the Act for 
     Iraq under Economic Support Fund and Foreign Military 
     Financing Program, the agreement includes not less than the 
     following amounts for assistance for Iraq: $47,500,000 under 
     Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related 
     Programs; and $1,000,000 under International Military 
     Education and Training.
       Higher Education.--The agreement includes $10,000,000 under 
     Economic Support Fund to support American-style higher 
     education institutions in Iraq, including in the Kurdistan 
     region, on an open and competitive basis.
       Justice Sector Assistance.--The agreement provides not less 
     than $5,000,000 under International Narcotics Control and Law 
     Enforcement and Economic Support Fund to support the Iraqi 
     justice sector, including to combat corruption, strengthen 
     adherence to international standards of due process, improve 
     juvenile justice, provide for the humane treatment of 
     prisoners, and support civil society engagement with the 
     judiciary. Such funds shall be made available following 
     consultation with the Committees on Appropriations.
       Security Assistance.--The Secretary of State shall ensure 
     that funds appropriated under title IV of the Act that are 
     made available for assistance for Iraqi security forces are 
     monitored in accordance with sections 502B and 620M of the 
     FAA.
       Jordan.--Within the total amount designated in the Act for 
     assistance for Jordan, the agreement includes not less than 
     the following: $1,207,400,000 under Economic Support Fund; 
     $13,600,000 under Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining 
     and Related Programs; and $4,000,000 under International 
     Military Education and Training.
       The agreement supports critical economic assistance needed 
     this fiscal year to help ensure Jordan's ongoing stability, 
     including to strengthen Jordan's borders and to help mitigate 
     the impact of hosting millions of refugees. The Secretary of 
     State shall continue to support the Government of Jordan's 
     efforts to implement economic and democratic reforms and 
     shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations on 
     prospective policy proposals aimed at assisting Jordan 
     achieve additional and long-lasting reforms, including in its 
     water and public sectors.
       Disability Programs.--The agreement provides up to 
     $2,000,000 under this heading to support disability advocacy 
     programs in Jordan, following consultation with the 
     Committees on Appropriations and the Higher Council for the 
     Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Jordan.
       High Quality Crafts.--The agreement includes funding for 
     programs that use the high quality craft sector as a catalyst 
     for sustainable economic growth in Jordan, especially at Umm 
     Qais in Northern Jordan.
       Lebanon.--The agreement includes assistance for Lebanon at 
     levels above the prior fiscal year.
       Border Dispute Resolution.--The agreement supports efforts 
     to facilitate the resolution of border disputes between 
     Lebanon and Israel. Not later than 90 days after enactment of 
     the Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations on steps taken during the prior 
     year to resolve such disputes.

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       Institutes of Higher Education.--Not later than 90 days 
     after enactment of the Act, the USAID Administrator shall 
     submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations detailing 
     plans to support institutions of higher education in Lebanon 
     that have been severely impacted by the country's economic 
     and political crises and the COVID-19 pandemic. The report 
     should include plans to continue supporting such institutions 
     over a three-year period.
       Lebanese Armed Forces.--The agreement continues to support 
     the efforts of the Lebanese Armed Forces to combat Hezbollah 
     and other terrorist groups in Lebanon, and to continue to 
     serve as a stabilizing force in that country and for the 
     region.
       Refugee Scholarships.--The agreement includes $9,000,000 to 
     continue the undergraduate and graduate scholarship program 
     for refugees in Lebanon, including Palestinians and Syrians. 
     Such funds are in addition to funds made available for 
     assistance for Lebanon under Economic Support Fund and are to 
     be administered consistent with the Lebanon scholarship 
     program at not-for-profit educational institutions in Lebanon 
     that meet the standards required for American accreditation.
       Libya.--Prior to the initial obligation of funds made 
     available by the Act for assistance for Libya, the Secretary 
     of State shall certify and report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations that all practicable steps have been taken to 
     ensure that mechanisms are in place for monitoring, 
     oversight, and control of such funds.
       Morocco.--The agreement includes not less than $10,000,000 
     under Economic Support Fund, not less than $10,000,000 under 
     Development Assistance, and $10,000,000 under Foreign 
     Military Financing Program for assistance for Morocco.
       Syria.--Prior to the initial obligation of any funds 
     appropriated by the Act for assistance for Syria, the 
     Secretary of State shall take all practicable steps to ensure 
     that mechanisms are in place for monitoring, oversight, and 
     control of such assistance inside Syria.
       Tunisia.--The agreement includes assistance for Tunisia at 
     levels consistent with prior fiscal years following 
     consultation with, and the regular notification procedures 
     of, the Committees on Appropriations. Such assistance shall 
     support the Tunisian people in holding free and fair 
     elections and strengthening democratic governance, fighting 
     corruption, promoting economic growth, empowering the private 
     sector, and maintaining regional security.
       The Secretary of State and USAID Administrator shall 
     continue to prioritize economic development and reform 
     programs in Tunisia, including through anticorruption 
     programs and the designation of corrupt officials under 
     section 7031(c) of the Act. The Secretary of State shall 
     continue to raise concerns both publicly and privately with 
     the Government of Tunisia on democratic backsliding and 
     coordinate with the international community on an appropriate 
     response to such action. The agreement includes sufficient 
     funds to increase democracy programs in support of the 
     aspirations of the people of Tunisia for freedom and justice, 
     and, through the Countering PRC Influence Fund, to counter 
     the strategic influence of the PRC.
       UN Political Process on Western Sahara.--The Secretary of 
     State shall continue to support a United Nations-led 
     political process that achieves a just, lasting, and mutually 
     acceptable political solution in accordance with relevant 
     United Nations Security Council resolutions.
       West Bank and Gaza.--The agreement includes $40,000,000 
     under International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement for 
     security assistance programs for the West Bank and 
     $219,000,000 under Economic Support Fund for the West Bank 
     and Gaza.
       Assessment.--The Secretary of State, in consultation with 
     the USAID Administrator, shall conduct a comprehensive 
     assessment of water infrastructure requirements in the West 
     Bank and Gaza, which should include: (1) relevant information 
     from the World Bank, UN, and other international donors; and 
     (2) the feasibility and options for establishing a U.S.-led 
     financing mechanism, in accordance with the Taylor Force Act 
     and in coordination with other donors, to address the 
     requirements identified by such assessment. The Secretary of 
     State shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations 
     prior to initiating such an assessment.
       Report on Incitement.--Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, and in addition to the reporting 
     requirement under subsection (l)(6), the Secretary of State 
     shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional 
     committees detailing steps taken by the Palestinian Authority 
     and by the other governments in the region to counter 
     incitement of violence and to promote tolerance, peace, and 
     coexistence.
       U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem.--In lieu of the language in 
     the House report under the heading, United States Consulate 
     in Jerusalem, the Secretary of State shall brief the 
     Committees on Appropriations on the feasibility of reopening 
     the Consulate.
       Yemen.--The agreement includes funds under title III of the 
     Act and under Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and 
     Related Programs for health, humanitarian, and stabilization 
     assistance for Yemen, including demining operations.
       Economic and Governance Reforms.--Not later than 180 days 
     after enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall 
     submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations detailing 
     economic and governance reforms that the governments of 
     Tunisia and Egypt could take to: (1) significantly enhance 
     their capability to raise revenue to support public utilities 
     and services and reduce subsidies; (2) improve transparency 
     and accountability to reduce inefficiencies, and help avoid 
     conflicts of interest and other detrimental practices related 
     to public services and expenditures; and (3) protect freedom 
     of expression and association, due process, and the 
     independence of the media and the judiciary.
     Section 7042. Africa (modified)
       Cameroon.--The Secretary of State shall use all available 
     diplomatic tools to ensure the transparent investigation, and 
     appropriate punishment, of security force personnel who are 
     credibly alleged to have committed, ordered, or covered up 
     gross violations of human rights, including those committed 
     against Cameroonian citizens and refugees in the Far North 
     and Anglophone regions.
       Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).--Not later than 90 
     days after enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall 
     brief the Committees on Appropriations on efforts to protect 
     minority communities in the DRC, including the Banyamulenge. 
     The briefing shall describe assistance provided in response 
     to recent atrocities and any sanctions levied against 
     responsible individuals.
       Virunga National Park.--The agreement provides $2,000,000 
     under International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement for 
     equipment and technical training to bolster security in 
     Virunga National Park, including against illegal armed 
     groups.
       Guinea-Bissau.--The agreement provides up to $1,000,000 for 
     programs under International Narcotics Control and Law 
     Enforcement to strengthen bilateral law enforcement and 
     security cooperation with Guinea-Bissau, including on 
     wildlife trafficking and other natural resource issues. The 
     Secretary of State shall secure U.S. diplomatic facilities in 
     Bissau, which is a non-presence post, and ensure LES at the 
     U.S. Liaison Office are adequately compensated.
       Liberia.--The agreement provides funds above the fiscal 
     year 2021 level for assistance for Liberia to strengthen 
     health systems, including to expedite the distribution and 
     administration of COVID-19 vaccines in Liberia.
       Mali.--Not later than 90 days after enactment of the Act, 
     the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the 
     appropriate congressional committees assessing the impact of 
     the termination of Operation Barkhane and the Takuba Task 
     Force on counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel and on the 
     security operations and stability of governments in the 
     region. In addition, the report should describe the interest 
     and efforts of malign actors to play a larger role in this 
     region.
       Nigeria.--Not later than 90 days after enactment of the 
     Act, the Secretary of State shall brief the Committees on 
     Appropriations on implementation of the U.S. Strategy for 
     Countering Boko Haram/ISIS-WA, which was submitted to 
     Congress pursuant to Public Law 114-266.
       Rwanda.--In determining whether to provide assistance to 
     the Government of Rwanda, the Secretary of State shall 
     prioritize whether such government is respecting freedom of 
     expression and association, the right of due process, 
     transparency and fairness in judicial and electoral 
     processes, and the humane treatment of prisoners.
       Sahel Report.--Not later than 90 days after enactment of 
     the Act, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 
     heads of other relevant Federal agencies, shall update the 
     report required under the Report on Sub-Saharan Security 
     Programs heading in Senate Report 116-126.
       Sahel Violations of Human Rights.--The Secretary of State 
     should work with the Governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and 
     Niger to ensure the transparent investigation, and 
     appropriate punishment, of security force personnel and those 
     associated with such personnel who are implicated in gross 
     violations of human rights. Not later than 60 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary shall brief the 
     Committees on Appropriations on the status of such 
     investigations and the intended uses of funds made available 
     under title IV of the Act and prior Acts for assistance for 
     such governments.
       South Sudan.--Additional funds made available to support 
     civil society organizations in South Sudan should prioritize 
     organizations that advocate for an end to ethnic violence, 
     displacement, and government corruption, and in support of 
     conditions conducive to holding free and fair elections, 
     strengthening democratic institutions, and economic 
     development that is equitable and reaches all, including the 
     most marginalized.
       South Sudan Basic Education.--Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the USAID Administrator shall consult 
     with the Committees on Appropriations on basic education 
     programs for South Sudan, including opportunities to support 
     teacher training and other needs for government, private, and 
     non-profit primary and secondary education institutions.
       Terrain Hotel Attack.--Not later than 45 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall submit an 
     updated report to the appropriate congressional committees on 
     steps taken, and planned to be taken, by the Governments of 
     the United States and South Sudan to obtain justice and fair 
     compensation for the victims of the attack on the Terrain 
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       Sudan Reports.--In lieu of the reporting requirement under 
     Reports, Sudan in the House report, the Secretary of State 
     shall submit a report, not later than 45 days after enactment 
     of the Act, on actions being taken, bilaterally and 
     multilaterally, to foster a civilian transition in Sudan.
       Tanzania.--The Secretary of State and USAID Administrator 
     shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations on ways 
     to assist Tanzania to address extremist spill-over, including 
     ISIS M, from Mozambique and the feasibility of cross border 
     programs to address this issue.
     Section 7043. East Asia and the Pacific (modified)
       Burma.--The agreement provides not less than $136,127,000 
     for assistance for Burma, except no assistance may be made 
     available to the State Administration Council or the Burmese 
     military. Funds may also be made available for programs 
     supporting: (1) conflict mitigation and stabilization; (2) 
     democracy, human rights, civil society, independent media, 
     and rule of law; (3) health; (4) education; (5) rural 
     economic development and agriculture; and (6) humanitarian 
     assistance. Not later than 90 days after enactment of the 
     Act, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the USAID 
     Administrator, shall consult with the Committees on 
     Appropriations on the uses of funds.
       The entities referenced in subsection (a)(1)(B) include: 
     the National Unity Government of the Republic of the Union of 
     Myanmar; the National Unity Consultative Council; the 
     Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw; the Civil 
     Disobedience Movement; and the political, administrative, and 
     governance institutions of Ethnic Armed Organizations that 
     are providing non-violent support to the democratic movement 
     and processes.
       Cross Border Humanitarian Assistance.--The agreement 
     includes funds for cross border humanitarian assistance for 
     ethnic groups in Burma, particularly those displaced by the 
     civil war, and the Secretary of State shall prioritize the 
     establishment of cross border delivery mechanisms with the 
     Government of Thailand through ethnic health organizations 
     and other experienced entities, and to Thai communities along 
     the border. Not later than 60 days after enactment of the 
     Act, the Secretary of State shall report to the appropriate 
     congressional committees on steps taken to accelerate cross 
     border assistance.
       Diplomatic Engagement.--The Secretary of State shall 
     continue emphasizing diplomatic engagement with the 
     international community, including the UN, to end violence 
     and restore democratic processes in Burma.
       Cambodia.--The agreement provides funds under title III for 
     assistance for survivors of the Khmer Rouge. Prior to the 
     obligation of such funds, the USAID Administrator shall 
     submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations detailing 
     programs to be supported during fiscal year 2022 and plans 
     for this program over the next three fiscal years.
       Democracy Programs.--The agreement provides funds for 
     democracy programs for Cambodia that shall be made available 
     to strengthen civil society and democratic political parties, 
     particularly those with members in exile, which shall include 
     programs conducted outside of Cambodia.
       Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia.--The 
     Secretary of State shall continue to seek reimbursement from 
     the Principal Donors Group for the Documentation Center of 
     Cambodia for costs incurred in support of the Extraordinary 
     Chambers in the Court of Cambodia. Not later than 45 days 
     after enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall 
     report to the Committees on Appropriations on actions taken 
     during the previous fiscal year to secure such reimbursement.
       PRC Activities Report.--Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a 
     report to the Committees on Appropriations on the total 
     estimated amount of the PRC's activities in Cambodia in 
     fiscal year 2021.
       Research and Education Programs.--The agreement provides 
     funds for research and education programs associated with the 
     Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, including the support of 
     the PRC for the Khmer Rouge regime.
       Indo-Pacific Strategy and the Asia Reassurance Initiative 
     Act of 2018.--The agreement includes not less than 
     $300,000,000 for the Countering PRC Influence Fund.
       Guidance.--Consistent with subsection (c)(2), use of funds 
     made available for the Countering PRC Influence Fund shall be 
     the joint responsibility of the Secretary of State and the 
     USAID Administrator. Not later than 90 days after enactment 
     of the Act, the Secretary and Administrator shall submit a 
     report to the Committees on Appropriations detailing the 
     framework and processes for administering the Fund, including 
     the designation of a coordinator and deputy coordinator at 
     the Department of State and USAID, respectively, who shall 
     provide policy guidance, coordination, and approval for uses 
     of the Fund.
       Funds are allocated according to the following table:

                      COUNTERING PRC INFLUENCE FUND
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                Budget
                      Account/Program                         Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Development Assistance.....................................       75,000
Economic Support Fund......................................       80,000
  Tibetan Institutes promoting democracy and religious           [3,000]
   freedom.................................................
International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement........       70,000
Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related            25,000
 Programs..................................................
Foreign Military Financing Program.........................       50,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Chinese Communist Party Influence Report.--The Secretary of 
     State shall update the report regarding the PRC and Chinese 
     Communist Party disinformation and other malign campaigns 
     with respect to the United States under the heading People's 
     Republic of China in the explanatory statement accompanying 
     division K of Public Law 116-260.
       Debt Trap Diplomacy.--Not later than 45 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall direct a 
     sampling of U.S. embassies in Asia, Africa, Eurasia, Latin 
     America, and the Middle East to prepare a report on PRC 
     equity and assets within their country of operation. These 
     reports shall include the following: (1) an assessment of the 
     country's overall debt obligations to the PRC; (2) a listing 
     of known significant infrastructure projects that are 
     financed from capital provided by the PRC banking system, 
     state-owned commercial banks, and PRC sovereign wealth funds; 
     and (3) an assessment of which known infrastructure projects 
     listed in such report are projects under the Belt and Road 
     Initiative.
       Oceania.--Not later than 90 days after enactment of the 
     Act, the Secretary of State and USAID Administrator shall 
     submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations 
     describing the Department and USAID's strategy and specific 
     programs, including anti-corruption activities, to counter 
     debt trap and corrupt practices in countries of the Oceania 
     region and identifying areas to strengthen such programming 
     to promote democracy and counter malign influence, 
     particularly from the PRC.
       Rare Earth Minerals.--The agreement endorses language under 
     the heading Energy Resource Governance Initiative in the 
     House report and directs the Secretary of State to submit a 
     report to the Committees on Appropriations, not later than 
     180 days after enactment of the Act, on steps taken to 
     address the national security threat posed by the PRC's 
     control of an estimated two-thirds of the global supply of 
     rare earth minerals. The report shall include: (1) a 
     description of the extent to which the United States has 
     engaged with the other countries of the Quadrilateral 
     Security Dialogue to promote shared investment and 
     development of rare earth minerals; and (2) a description of 
     steps planned to be taken to produce a more reliable and 
     secure global supply chain of such minerals.
       Research and Development Cooperation.--The Department of 
     State and USAID are directed to take all practicable steps to 
     ensure that research and development activities funded by the 
     Act are protected against interference and misappropriation 
     by the PRC.
       Spend Plan.--In submitting the spend plan required by 
     section 7062(b)(1)(D) of the Act for the Indo-Pacific 
     Strategy, the Secretary of State shall include amounts to be 
     obligated by account for the activities authorized in Public 
     Law 115-409.
       Xinjiang.--None of the funds made available by the Act 
     shall be used to implement, administer, carry out, modify, 
     revise, or enforce any action that directly supports or 
     facilitates forced labor and other violations of human 
     rights, crimes against humanity, and genocide in the PRC.
       Laos.--The agreement includes not less than $7,500,000 for 
     maternal and child health and nutrition programs for Laos 
     under Global Health Programs.
       Laos Dioxin Assessments.--For purposes of subsection (d), 
     dioxin assessments should include environmental testing in 
     villages close to multiple spraying runs and locations where 
     Agent Orange may have been stored and loaded onto aircraft.
       People's Republic of China Access and Reciprocity Report.--
     Not later than 90 days after enactment of the Act, the 
     Secretary of State shall submit the report under the heading 
     Reciprocity in the House report. Such report shall also 
     include an update to the report required under the heading 
     People's Republic of China Access Report in Senate Report 
     115-282 and an analysis of any disparities in access on 
     United States interests and priorities and policy 
     recommendations to promote reciprocity in the United States-
     PRC relationship.
       Philippines.--Funds under title III of the Act should be 
     made available for USAID to continue support for the national 
     and community-based drug treatment and demand reduction 
     program implemented by the Philippine Department of Health 
     and local entities. Such funds shall be made available on a 
     cost-matching basis to the maximum extent practicable.
       Southeast Asia Legal Education.--The agreement provides 
     funds for a program, to be awarded on an open and competitive 
     basis, to help modernize undergraduate law school programs in 
     Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos through legal skills courses on 
     the rule of law, anti-corruption, rights protection, 
     advocacy, mock trial, lawyering, and ethics, as well as to 
     sponsor skills-based competitions and international 
     collaboration initiatives, including regional rule of law 
     journals and regional professor exchange.
       Taiwan.--Funds made available under Economic Support Fund 
     for the Global Cooperation and Training Framework shall be 
     administered by the American Institute in Taiwan.
       Thailand.--The agreement provides $4,000,000 for democracy, 
     conflict resolution, and reconciliation programs in Southern 
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       Tibet.--Funds appropriated by the Act should not be used to 
     produce or disseminate documents, maps, or other materials 
     that recognize or identify Tibet, including the Tibet 
     Autonomous Region and other Tibetan autonomous counties and 
     prefectures, as part of the PRC until the Secretary of State 
     reports to the appropriate congressional committees that the 
     Government of the PRC has reached a final negotiated 
     agreement on Tibet with the Dalai Lama or his representatives 
     or with democratically-elected leaders of the Tibetan people.
       Differentiation of Assistance.--For purposes of the report 
     required by section 653(a) of the FAA, spend plans, and 
     notifications, the Department of State and USAID shall 
     differentiate assistance made available by the Act for Tibet 
     from any such assistance made available for the PRC and 
     India.
       Lhasa Consulate.--The Department of State shall continue to 
     pursue the establishment of a consulate in Lhasa to provide 
     services to U.S. citizens traveling in Tibet and to monitor 
     political, economic, and cultural developments in the Tibet 
     Autonomous Region. Until such consulate is established, the 
     Department of State should not permit the establishment of 
     any additional PRC consulate in the United States.
       Tibetan Institutes Promoting Democracy and Religious 
     Freedom.--Not later than 90 days after enactment of the Act, 
     the Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and 
     Labor and the United States Special Coordinator for Tibetan 
     Issues shall jointly consult with the Committees on 
     Appropriations on the proposed operations and programs of 
     Tibetan Institutes promoting democracy and religious freedom 
     referenced in subsection (h)(3).
       Vietnam.--The recommendation includes $15,000,000 for 
     higher education programs in Vietnam, of which $7,500,000 is 
     for the Vietnam Education Foundation Act of 2010, and such 
     funds may not be used for the construction of facilities.
       Health/Disability Programs.--The agreement provides funding 
     to continue and expand health/disability programs related to 
     the use of Agent Orange and exposure to dioxin. To better 
     achieve U.S. humanitarian goals, assistance should directly 
     reach the homes of more Vietnamese who are severely affected.
       Reconciliation/Vietnamese Wartime Accounting Initiative.--
     The agreement includes $2,000,000 for a Reconciliation/
     Vietnamese Wartime Accounting Initiative to strengthen 
     Vietnam's capacity to conduct DNA analysis and to otherwise 
     assist in locating and identifying Vietnamese MIAs, to 
     collect oral histories, and to support communications and 
     outreach that furthers reconciliation including museum and 
     other exhibits on war legacy cooperation. Not later than 90 
     days after enactment of the Act, the USAID Administrator 
     shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations on the 
     proposed uses of such funds.
     Section 7044. South and Central Asia (modified)
       Afghanistan.--The Secretary of State should consider ways 
     to recognize the assistance of certain countries for their 
     support of at-risk persons from Afghanistan, including 
     Albania, Bahrain, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, 
     Ecuador, Guyana, India, Kuwait, Mexico, Netherlands, North 
     Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Rwanda, Singapore, 
     Uganda, and the United Arab Emirates.
       The agreement supports the reprogramming of prior year 
     appropriated funds for assistance for Afghanistan to support 
     U.S.-funded program implementers, participants, and their 
     families in third countries who are at a heightened risk of 
     retaliation by the Taliban. Such targeted assistance should 
     include implementers and participants associated with women's 
     empowerment, democracy, justice and human rights, and media 
     programs.
       The agreement supports continued funding for the American 
     University of Afghanistan (AUAF), which is providing online 
     education for Afghan students and educational opportunities 
     in third countries for such students in Qatar, Iraq, and 
     Central Asia, and directs the Secretary of State and USAID 
     Administrator to consult with the Committees on 
     Appropriations not later than 15 days after enactment of the 
     Act on plans to support AUAF.
       The agreement does not incorporate the reporting directives 
     related to Afghanistan under this heading in the House 
     report.
       India.--The Secretary of State and USAID Administrator 
     should work with the Government of India and Indian civil 
     society organizations to increase economic opportunities, 
     encourage tolerance, protect human rights, and strengthen the 
     administration of justice in the North Eastern Region of 
     India.
       Nepal.--The Secretary of State should continue to urge the 
     Government of Nepal to honor the agreement with the United 
     Nations High Commissioner for Refugees that commits the 
     Government of Nepal to respect the principle of non-
     refoulement that prohibits countries from expelling or 
     returning people to a country where they would be at risk of 
     irreparable harm or serious human rights violations.
       Pakistan.--The agreement includes funding for Pakistan for 
     democracy and gender programs consistent with the prior year 
     level.
       Sri Lanka.--Not later than 90 days after enactment of the 
     Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations, with a classified annex if 
     necessary, on: (1) the Government of Sri Lanka's compliance 
     with United Nations Human Rights Council resolutions 
     including Resolution 46/1, adopted on March 23, 2021; (2) the 
     status of security reforms in Sri Lanka including an update 
     on the report required under this heading in Senate Report 
     116-126 in the manner described; (3) the involvement of Sri 
     Lankan police and military officers, of whatever rank, who 
     have been involved in ordering, condoning, carrying out, or 
     covering up crimes of arbitrary and incommunicado detention, 
     torture, and extortion of Tamils; and (4) the involvement of 
     Sri Lankan officials, of whatever rank, in significant acts 
     of corruption.
     Section 7045. Latin America and the Caribbean (modified)
       Bolivia.--The agreement endorses language in the House 
     report under this heading regarding the elections process in 
     Bolivia. Not later than 120 days after enactment of the Act, 
     the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations evaluating: (1) the transparency 
     and legitimacy of the 2019 Bolivia general elections by 
     soliciting information from independent, internationally 
     recognized experts; and (2) progress in investigations of 
     responsibility for violations of human rights that occurred 
     during that period.
       Central America.--Subsection (a)(1) directs that funds 
     appropriated under titles III and IV of the Act be made 
     available for assistance for Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, 
     Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama, including through 
     the Central America Regional Security Initiative. Such 
     assistance shall be prioritized for programs that address 
     factors that contribute to irregular migration, including 
     countering violence, poverty, and corruption, and promoting 
     economic growth that is equitable and reaches all, including 
     the most marginalized.
       Funds for certain assistance for Central America are 
     allocated according to the following table:

                 SELECTED ASSISTANCE FOR CENTRAL AMERICA
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Budget
                     Account/Program                         Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Development Assistance
  Central America Youth Empowerment Program.............          50,000
  Honduras..............................................          95,000
  El Salvador...........................................
  National Commission for the Search of Persons                    1,000
   Disappeared in the Context of the Armed Conflict.....
International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement.....
  Central America Criminal Justice Pilot Project........           2,500
  Central America Regional Security Initiative..........
  Costa Rica............................................          32,500
International Military Education and Training...........
  Costa Rica............................................             725
Foreign Military Financing Program
  Costa Rica............................................           7,500
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Anti-Corruption and Rule of Law Programs.--Subsection 
     (a)(1)(A)(i) provides not less than $61,500,000 for support 
     of entities and activities dedicated to combating corruption 
     and impunity and strengthening the rule of law, including 
     offices of Attorneys General, as described under the Central 
     America heading in the House report. Funds are included to 
     support technical assistance to strengthen the investigative 
     capacity of offices of Attorneys General and specialized 
     anti-corruption units in El Salvador, Guatemala, and 
     Honduras, provided that such entities demonstrate political 
     independence and willingness to prosecute high level cases, 
     including against senior government officials, legislators, 
     and private individuals. The Secretary of State and USAID 
     Administrator shall consult with the Committees on 
     Appropriations on the use of such funds prior to submission 
     of the spend plans required by section 7062(b)(1)(A) of the 
     Act, which should include planned amounts for the above 
     referenced activities and entities.
       Central America Criminal Justice Pilot Project.--The 
     agreement provides funds for a pilot project, to be awarded 
     on an open and competitive basis, to address criminal justice 
     reform in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras by 
     strengthening the criminal justice chain as an interrelated 
     system and developing layered accountability mechanisms for 
     identifying points of corruption. The Secretary of State 
     shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations on the 
     design of this project.
       Central America Youth Empowerment Program.--Pursuant to 
     subsection (a)(1)(C), the agreement includes funding to 
     establish a Central America Youth Empowerment Program (CAYEP) 
     in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala with the goal of 
     improving economic and social stability to measurably reduce 
     migration. Not later than 90 days after enactment of the Act, 
     and prior to the initial obligation of funds for the CAYEP, 
     with the exception of the rapid diagnostic assessment 
     discussed below, the USAID Administrator shall submit to the 
     Committees on Appropriations a plan detailing the proposed 
     uses of funds, which shall be updated every 90 days until 
     such funds are expended. The plan shall include: (1) a 
     timeline for implementation of the program; (2) the target 
     participant populations, identified by age and community, 
     taking into consideration available migration information, 
     local NGO capacity, and other relevant factors; (3) types of 
     community service projects for the communities identified; 
     (4) program components that will foster a sense of community 
     and rootedness, including a shared skills development 
     curriculum, financial inclusion interventions and partnership 
     with local NGOs that have a presence in selected communities; 
     and (5) the operational design of the program, to include the 
     process of selecting, engaging, and sustaining partners and 
     participants, as well as a strategy to obtain matching funds 
     by private sector donors and local governments.

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     Funds for this program may be used to conduct a rapid 
     assessment in likely target communities to provide baseline 
     data regarding migratory trends among young people, local NGO 
     capacity, and community needs.
       Costa Rica.--The agreement includes not less than prior 
     year enacted levels for assistance for Costa Rica.
       Chixoy Reparations Plan.--The Government of Guatemala 
     should fulfill its commitment under the financing agreement 
     for the Chixoy Reparations Plan in a timely manner, and the 
     USAID Administrator shall brief the Committees on 
     Appropriations on progress not later than 60 days after 
     enactment of the Act.
       Economic Growth and Foreign Investment.--Funds made 
     available by the Act for assistance for El Salvador, 
     Guatemala, and Honduras shall, as appropriate and in 
     accordance with the conditions of subsection (a)(2), be made 
     available for programs that: (1) increase productivity in 
     targeted economic sectors in which each country could be 
     regionally or globally competitive, consistent with U.S. law; 
     (2) reduce trade barriers regionally and with the United 
     States; (3) enhance infrastructure at key border crossings in 
     order to facilitate trade regionally and with the United 
     States; (4) provide technical assistance to promote economic 
     growth that is equitable and reaches all, including the most 
     marginalized, and attract foreign investment, including by 
     implementing legal, regulatory, and economic reforms; and (5) 
     provide technical assistance to increase the collection of 
     taxes.
       Gender-Based Violence Prevention Programs.--The agreement 
     includes funds for programs to protect women and girls 
     against gender-based violence in Central America, including 
     in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Prior to the 
     obligation of funds for such programs, the Secretary of State 
     shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations.
       Honduras.--The agreement provides $95,000,000 under 
     Development Assistance for Honduras and, as part of the 
     Central America Regional Security Initiative, not less than 
     $30,000,000 under International Narcotics Control and Law 
     Enforcement (INCLE), in recognition of the positive initial 
     steps taken by the newly elected Government of Honduras to 
     confront the poverty, corruption, violence, abuse of 
     authority, and impunity that have plagued the Honduran people 
     for generations. INCLE funds should prioritize support for 
     community policing, anti-gang programs, judicial reform, and 
     investigations and prosecutions of violent criminals and 
     corrupt officials. Regional neighbors should urgently take 
     similar steps to address such deeply rooted problems.
       Locally-led Development.--Funds made available to carry out 
     subsection (a)(1)(B) may be allocated regardless of the 
     directives in the report required by section 653(a) of the 
     FAA. Such funds may be attributed to any such specifically 
     designated funding level after the award of funds under 
     subsection (a)(1), if applicable. The USAID Administrator 
     shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations on the 
     planned uses of funds to carry out subsection (a)(1)(B) prior 
     to the initial obligation of funds, and such funds shall be 
     subject to the regular notification procedures of the 
     Committees on Appropriations.
       Nicaragua.--Subsection (d) provides not less than 
     $15,000,000 under Development Assistance for democracy 
     programs in Nicaragua, which includes funding above prior 
     year levels to support civil society, journalists, and other 
     activists promoting the transparency and accountability of 
     government institutions.
       Administration of Funds.--The Secretary of the Treasury 
     shall ensure compliance with section 4 of the Reinforcing 
     Nicaragua's Adherence to Conditions for Electoral Reform Act 
     of 2021 (RENACER Act) when administering funds appropriated 
     for payments to applicable international financial 
     institutions under title V of the Act.
       Reports.--The report required by section 4 of the RENACER 
     Act on the implementation of such section and the report 
     required by section 11 of such Act on human rights abuses in 
     Nicaragua shall also be submitted to the Committees on 
     Appropriations.
       Spend Plans and Obligations.--Section 7062(b)(1)(A) of the 
     Act requires the Secretary of State or USAID Administrator, 
     as appropriate, to submit a spend plan for funds made 
     available by the Act for assistance for Central America. 
     Section 7045(a)(1)(D) of the Act limits obligations for 
     assistance for the countries of Central America to not more 
     than the amount specified in section 7045(a)(1) of division K 
     of Public Law 116-260 until the Secretary of State or the 
     USAID Administrator submits the spend plan for countries in 
     Central America.
       Colombia.--Pursuant to subsection (b)(1), funds for 
     assistance for Colombia are allocated according to the 
     following table:

                                COLOMBIA
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Budget
                     Account/Program                         Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Development Assistance..................................          80,000
Economic Support Fund...................................         141,000
  Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Communities.............          23,000
  Human Rights..........................................          12,500
International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement.....         189,000
  Rule of Law and Human Rights..........................          37,500
  of which, Justice Sector Institutional Strengthening          [19,500]
   and Reform...........................................
Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related            21,000
 Programs...............................................
International Military Education and Training...........           1,850
Foreign Military Financing Program......................          38,525
  Biodiversity..........................................        [15,000]
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Biodiversity Programs.--The agreement provides funding to 
     continue programs and activities to protect Colombia's 
     biodiversity in national parks, protected areas, and 
     Indigenous reserves.
       Demobilized Combatants.--The agreement supports programs, 
     including humanitarian demining, to reintegrate demobilized 
     combatants into civilian pursuits, consistent with United 
     States and Colombian law. Funds for such programs may only be 
     made available following consultation with the Government of 
     Colombia.
       Indigenous Coffee Producers.--The agreement provides not 
     less than $2,000,000 to support efforts to improve education, 
     digital connectivity, tertiary roads, and other community 
     improvements in Indigenous coffee producing municipalities, 
     to increase incomes and expand economic opportunities, which 
     should be matched with donations from non-U.S. Government 
     sources.
       Cuba.--The Secretary of State shall update the Consular 
     Services Report and U.S. Government Personnel Report 
     contained under the Cuba  heading in section 7035 of Senate 
     Report 116-126 in the manner described. The Secretary of 
     State shall also update the Internet Access Report required 
     under the Cuba heading in section 7045 in Senate Report 115-
     282 in the manner described.
       Haiti.--The Secretary of State and USAID Administrator 
     shall update the Committees on Appropriations on efforts to 
     improve the rule of law in Haiti, including border security, 
     and to support local civil society.
       Haiti Prisons.--The agreement includes not less than 
     $5,000,000 to help meet the urgent sanitary, medical, and 
     nutritional needs of Haitian prisoners, the vast majority of 
     whom are in pre-trial detention. The Secretary of State shall 
     consult with the Committees on Appropriations on the planned 
     uses of funds.
       Mexico.--The agreement includes funds sufficient to support 
     levels for assistance for Mexico commensurate with those 
     detailed under this section in the House report. The 
     agreement endorses the reporting directive under this section 
     in the House report concerning human rights. The agreement 
     endorses language in the House report under this section on 
     activities to address the flow of illegal opioids into the 
     United States.
       Disappeared Persons and Forensic Assistance.--The 
     Government of Mexico should provide answers to the families 
     of an estimated 100,000 cases of disappeared persons and 
     identify the thousands of human remains that have been 
     recovered. The Department of State is encouraged to provide 
     forensic assistance to Mexico to help address the significant 
     backlog of cases.
       The Caribbean.--Funds for certain assistance for the 
     Caribbean are allocated according to the following table:

                              THE CARIBBEAN
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Budget
                   Account/Initiative                        Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Development Assistance..................................
  Inclusive Economic Growth.............................          10,000
  Strengthening Disaster Resilience.....................          12,000
Economic Support Fund...................................
  Caribbean Energy Initiative...........................           6,500
Caribbean Basin Security Initiative.....................          80,000
  Economic Support Fund.................................          35,000
  International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement...          35,000
  Foreign Military Financing Program....................          10,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       The agreement includes $10,000,000 under Development 
     Assistance to support initiatives aimed at promoting 
     inclusive economic growth in the Caribbean region, with a 
     primary focus on small grants that promote economic 
     opportunity for women, youth, and other disadvantaged 
     populations, as appropriate. The USAID Administrator shall 
     consult with the Committees on Appropriations on the design 
     of such programs and the proposed use of such funds not later 
     than 90 days after enactment of the Act.
       Venezuela.--Subsection (f) provides not less than 
     $40,000,000 under Economic Support Fund for democracy 
     programs for Venezuela, and provides that funds under title 
     III of the Act and prior Acts shall be made available to 
     assist with the needs of Venezuelan migrants, subject to 
     prior consultation with, and the regular notification 
     procedures of, the Committees on Appropriations.
       Western Hemisphere Private Sector Investment.--The 
     Department of State should continue to encourage governments 
     in Latin America and the Caribbean to adopt policies and laws 
     that are conducive to increasing private sector investment in 
     those regions.
     Section 7046. Europe and Eurasia (modified)
       Armenia.--The agreement includes not less than $45,000,000 
     for assistance for Armenia, including from funds made 
     available by the Act for the Countering Russian Influence 
     Fund.
       Belarus.--The agreement includes not less than $30,000,000 
     for assistance for Belarus, which shall be made available to 
     promote human rights and to support civil society activists, 
     independent media, and political opposition forces to further 
     democratic transition in Belarus. Not less than $2,000,000 is 
     for democracy programs.
       Civil Society and Independent Journalists.--The Department 
     of State, USAID, and NED shall continue supporting civil 
     society organizations and independent journalists in European 
     and Eurasian countries where media freedom is threatened, 
     including Poland, and where malign influence and aggression 
     poses a threat, including Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.

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       Conflict in the Caucasus.--Prior to the initial obligation 
     of funds appropriated under title IV of the Act for 
     assistance for Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Secretary of State 
     shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations on the 
     proposed uses of such funds.
       Georgia.--In addition to the amounts designated in the 
     table under Foreign Military Financing Program in this 
     explanatory statement, the agreement includes not less than 
     the following amounts for assistance for Georgia: $88,025,000 
     under Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia; 
     $5,700,000 under International Narcotics Control and Law 
     Enforcement; $1,100,000 under Nonproliferation, Anti-
     terrorism, Demining and Related Programs; and $2,000,000 
     under International Military Education and Training.
       Greenland.--Not later than 45 days after enactment of the 
     Act, the USAID Administrator, following consultation with the 
     Secretary of State, shall provide the Committees on 
     Appropriations with a description of proposed operations, 
     programs, and activities in Greenland in fiscal year 2022.
       Hungary.--The agreement includes funding above the fiscal 
     year 2021 level for democracy programs for Hungary, 
     particularly to support independent media and civil society.
     Section 7047. Countering Russian Influence and Aggression 
         (modified)
       Countering Russian Influence Fund.--The agreement includes 
     not less than $295,000,000 for the Countering Russian 
     Influence Fund (CRIF), which is in addition to amounts made 
     available for bilateral assistance for countries in Europe, 
     Eurasia and Central Asia. Funds made available for the CRIF 
     from Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia shall be 
     made available from supplemental funds appropriated for such 
     account. Funds are allocated according to the following 
     table:

                    COUNTERING RUSSIAN INFLUENCE FUND
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Budget
                         Account                             Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia.........          90,000
International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement.....          50,000
International Military Education and Training...........           5,000
Foreign Military Financing Program......................         150,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Obligation and Expenditure Report.--Not later than 90 days 
     after the initial obligation of funds and every 90 days 
     thereafter until September 30, 2023, the Secretary of State 
     and USAID Administrator shall submit a consolidated report to 
     the Committees on Appropriations containing updated 
     information on obligations and expenditures of the CRIF on a 
     country and project basis.
       Report on the Occupation of Georgia.--Not later than 90 
     days after enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall 
     update the report required by section 7070(c)(4) of division 
     J of Public Law 115-31.
       Reports on the Russian Federation.--Not later than 45 days 
     after enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall 
     update the reports required by section 7071(b)(2), (c), and 
     (e) of division K of Public Law 113-76.
     Section 7048. United Nations (modified)
       Annual Report on Anti-Israel Bias at the United Nations.--
     The Secretary of State, in consultation with the U.S. 
     Permanent Representative to the UN, shall report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations in the manner described under 
     Contributions to International Organizations in the House 
     report for the previous calendar year.
       Annual Report on Arrears.--The Secretary of State shall 
     continue to submit the report on arrears required by section 
     7048(j) of division J of Public Law 115-31 for fiscal year 
     2022 except such report shall be on an annual basis.
       Burden Sharing Report.--Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State, in consultation 
     with the U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN, shall 
     submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations detailing 
     efforts made during the prior calendar year to encourage 
     other governments to increase their contributions for 
     international peacekeeping activities, international 
     organizations, and other multilateral and bilateral 
     assistance programs, and the results of such efforts.
       Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan.--The Secretary of State 
     shall brief the Committees on Appropriations not later than 
     90 days after enactment of the Act, on efforts to work with 
     the Government of the DRC and the UN to thoroughly 
     investigate and bring to justice those responsible for the 
     deaths of Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan.
       United Nations Human Rights Council.--The Secretary of 
     State and the U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN shall 
     continue to publicly denounce, and work to reverse, the 
     continued and disproportionate focus of the UNHRC on Israel, 
     including the 2021 establishment of the unprecedented 
     Commission of Inquiry to investigate Israel, which 
     perpetuates the unfair singling out of Israel in the UN and 
     represents an unnecessary obstacle to the cause of peace. The 
     Secretary of State shall report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations not later than September 30, 2022, on the 
     resolutions considered in the UN Human Rights Council during 
     the previous 12 months, and on steps taken to remove Israel 
     as a permanent agenda item and to ensure integrity in the 
     election of members to such Council.
     Section 7049. War Crimes Tribunals (unchanged)
     Section 7050. Global Internet Freedom (modified)
       The agreement includes not less than $77,500,000 for 
     programs to promote Internet freedom globally, of which 
     $27,000,000 is from funds appropriated under International 
     Broadcasting Operations for the OTF. Funds for such 
     activities are allocated according to the following table:

                         GLOBAL INTERNET FREEDOM
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Budget
                     Account/Program                         Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Economic Support Fund...................................          27,000
  Near East Regional Democracy..........................        [16,750]
Democracy Fund (Department of State)....................          14,000
Democracy Fund (USAID)..................................           3,500
Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia.........           6,000
International Broadcasting Operations, Open Technology            27,000
 Fund...................................................
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Internet Freedom Cost Matching.--Funds in the agreement 
     that are made available for Internet freedom programs should 
     be matched, to the maximum extent practicable, by sources 
     other than the U.S. Government, including from the private 
     sector.
       Internet Freedom Spend Plan.--The OTF President, in 
     consultation with the USAGM CEO, shall submit a spend plan 
     for Internet freedom programs made available under 
     International Broadcasting Operations. Such plan shall 
     include all USAGM resources, including funds and employees 
     used to support digital programs on the Internet.
     Section 7051. Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading 
         Treatment or Punishment (unchanged)
     Section 7052. Aircraft Transfer, Coordination, and Use 
         (modified)
     Section 7053. Parking Fines and Real Property Taxes Owed by 
         Foreign Governments (modified)
     Section 7054. International Monetary Fund (unchanged)
     Section 7055. Extradition (unchanged)
     Section 7056. Assistance for Innocent Victims of Conflict 
         (new)
       The agreement includes a new general provision to establish 
     the Marla Ruzicka Fund for Innocent Victims of Conflict, to 
     replace the Afghan Civilian Assistance Program and the Marla 
     Ruzicka Iraqi War Victims Fund, to provide assistance to 
     families and communities in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and 
     Yemen who have suffered harm as a result of military 
     operations in which the United States has been directly or 
     indirectly involved. Such support should include 
     rehabilitation and mobility assistance, vocational training, 
     equipment to start a business, and funds to repair damaged 
     property.
     Section 7057. United Nations Population Fund (unchanged)
     Section 7058. Global Health Activities (modified)
       Consultation and Report.--Funds made available by the Act 
     to support the collection and analysis of data on unknown 
     viruses and other pathogens, or to support a coordinating 
     mechanism for the sharing of data with other countries, may 
     only be made available following consultation with the 
     Committees on Appropriations.
       Not later than 120 days after enactment of the Act, the 
     Secretary of State, following consultation with the USAID 
     Administrator and the heads of other relevant Federal 
     agencies and international institutions, including the WHO, 
     shall report to the Committees on Appropriations on efforts 
     to reassess and establish updated international norms, model 
     standards, and model review mechanisms, as appropriate, for 
     the oversight of the discovery and research of unknown 
     viruses and other pathogens of pandemic potential.
       Family Planning/Reproductive Health.--The agreement 
     maintains prior year funding levels and policy related to 
     family planning/reproductive health. The agreement does not 
     endorse directives under certain House report headings: 
     Reproductive health and voluntary family planning; Research, 
     regarding contraception; and Women's reproductive healthcare 
     in El Salvador.
       Global Health Security.--Global health security programming 
     should address the risks of zoonotic spillover posed by 
     greater human contact with wildlife driven, in large part, by 
     deforestation and wildlife degradation. Not later than 120 
     days after enactment of the Act, the USAID Administrator 
     shall submit a comprehensive, integrated plan to the 
     Committees on Appropriations for a minimum of eight countries 
     where cross sectoral programming in health, agriculture, 
     governance, and the environment is planned and how such 
     programs will be evaluated. Programs should involve 
     preventionat high-risk interfaces such asthe commercial trade 
     in live wild life and other animals and raw or unprocessed 
     wildlife parts and promote a risk management approach to 
     sustainable intensification of agriculture and protein 
     production.
       Vaccines.--The agreement supports the use of funds made 
     available for global health security to accelerate 
     development, production, and equitable access to COVID-19 
     tests, treatments, and vaccines. Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the USAID Administrator shall submit a 
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     Committees on Appropriations detailing such efforts using 
     funds provided in the Act, in prior Acts, and from other 
     sources. The report shall include a description of: (1) the 
     amount of funding allocated for global vaccine distribution 
     and delivery; (2) specific activities undertaken by USAID to 
     accelerate such development, production, and access; and (3) 
     performance metrics used to measure progress of such efforts. 
     The Administrator shall consult with the heads of other 
     relevant Federal agencies to maximize coordination on COVID-
     19 vaccine distribution efforts.
     Section 7059. Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment 
         (modified)
     Section 7060. Sector Allocations (modified)
       Basic Education.--The agreement includes $125,000,000 for 
     the Global Partnership for Education and $25,000,000 for 
     Education Cannot Wait. The USAID Administrator shall consult 
     with the Committees on Appropriations on such contributions 
     to ensure adequate monitoring, evaluation, effectiveness, and 
     sustainability of programs.
       Basic Education Annual Report.--The annual report to 
     Congress on the United States strategy to promote basic 
     education, submitted pursuant to the Reinforcing Education 
     Accountability in Development Act (division A of Public Law 
     115-56), should include funding data disaggregated by 
     country, education level, and populations affected by crisis 
     and conflict.
       International Food Security and Agriculture Report.--Not 
     later than 120 days after enactment of the Act, the USAID 
     Administrator, in consultation with the heads of other 
     relevant Federal agencies, shall submit a report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations on programs and initiatives 
     currently supported by the U.S. Government to address food 
     insecurity and advance agricultural reforms abroad, including 
     those conducted with multilateral organizations, and the 
     extent to which such programs and initiatives are capable of 
     responding to the growing levels of global food insecurity.
       International Food Security Balances Report.--The agreement 
     directs the USAID Administrator to submit a report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations not later than 30 days after 
     enactment of the Act and every 90 days thereafter until 
     September 30, 2023, detailing the amount of funds obligated 
     and the unobligated balances for food security-related 
     activities administered by the Bureau for Humanitarian 
     Assistance. The USAID Administrator shall consult with the 
     Committees on Appropriations prior to the initial submission 
     of such report.
       Land Grant Institutions.--USAID should continue supporting 
     the work of land grant institutions of higher learning and 
     continue partnering with such institutions with specialized 
     capability in agriculture research to assist developing 
     countries to improve food production.
       Reconciliation Programs.--The agreement includes sufficient 
     funds to increase global people-to-people reconciliation 
     programs and provides funds under Economic Support Fund for 
     such activities involving Israelis and Palestinians under the 
     Middle East Partnership for Peace Act.
     Section 7061. Environment Programs (modified)
       Funds for certain bilateral environment programs are 
     allocated according to the following table:

                          ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMS
               [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Budget
                     Account/Program                         Authority
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Andean Amazon...........................................          25,000
Brazilian Amazon........................................          25,000
Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment.....          45,000
Endangered sea turtles..................................             150
Great Apes..............................................          45,000
Guatemala/Belize/Mexico.................................           7,500
Lacey Act...............................................           4,000
Plastic Impacted Marine Species.........................           1,000
Toxic Chemicals.........................................           9,000
United States Fish and Wildlife Service.................           6,500
  Migratory bird conservation...........................         [1,500]
United States Forest Service............................           8,500
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Civil Society.--For the purposes of section 7061, 
     assistance should be provided to civil society organizations 
     working to protect the environment whose members have been 
     the target of government-sanctioned harassment, threats, 
     assassinations, and abuse of the judicial process.
       Climate-Sensitive Health Risks.--USAID is encouraged to 
     support policies and programs to address the disproportionate 
     impact of pollution and environmental degradation on low-
     income and minority communities, including Indigenous 
     communities.
       Community-Based Resource Management.--Programs should 
     promote local buy-in for conservation efforts recognizing the 
     rights of local people to manage, or benefit directly or 
     indirectly, from wildlife and other natural resources in a 
     long-term, biologically sustainable manner.
       Great Apes.--Of the funds provided to protect the habitat 
     of great apes in Central Africa and Indonesia, $8,500,000 is 
     included to be directly transferred to the U.S. Fish and 
     Wildlife Service and the agreement includes $5,500,000 for 
     USAID's orangutan conservation program.
       Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing.--
     USAID's Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation and 
     Bureau for Resilience and Food Security are directed to work 
     together to address the fundamental system failures that 
     allow for IUU fishing to persist, jeopardizing economic, 
     environmental, and food security objectives, including 
     through new or expanded initiatives undertaken by the Bureau 
     for Resilience and Food Security.
       Large Dams.--The agreement continues a provision carried in 
     prior Acts relating to IFI financing for large dams. The 
     agreement intends the criteria set forth in Senate Report 
     114-79 to also apply to any financing regarding the 
     construction of any large dam by the DFC.
       Marine Partnerships.--The agreement supports efforts by 
     U.S. research institutions to partner with marine science 
     researchers in developing countries, to improve scientific 
     knowledge and management practices that support sustainably 
     managed marine fish and other resources.
       Maya Biosphere Reserve.--The agreement includes funding for 
     tropical forest conservation in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, 
     of which not less than $2,500,000 shall be provided by direct 
     transfer to the Department of the Interior's (DOI) 
     International Technical Assistance Program to: (1) strengthen 
     environmental governance; (2) expand community-based 
     conservation initiatives; (3) protect archeological sites; 
     and (4) encourage sustainable economic opportunities 
     including in Belize and Mexico. The agreement does not 
     provide funding for logging or the construction of roads, 
     except for community forest concessions and temporary roads 
     in support of such concessions.
       Migratory Birds.--The agreement provides funds to protect 
     the habitat of migratory birds along the Atlantic and Pacific 
     flyways by direct transfer to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
     Service, and funds to protect sea turtles by direct transfer 
     to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
       National Parks and Protected Areas.--The Department of 
     State and USAID shall follow the directives under this 
     heading in the House report regarding national parks and 
     protected areas and shall consult with the Committees on 
     Appropriations on the implementation of such directives.
       Funds made available for the United States Forest Service 
     should support programs related to the restoration of forests 
     and landscapes of degraded ecosystems, the promotion of urban 
     forestry, youth engagement on natural resource management, 
     and watershed management in forests, grasslands, and arid 
     landscapes.
       Ocean Plastic Pollution.--The agreement includes funds to 
     address ocean plastic pollution. Not later than 60 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State and USAID 
     Administrator shall consult with the Committees on 
     Appropriations on the planned uses of such funds, including 
     for bilateral programs, and the establishment of a 
     multilateral mechanism to address ocean plastic pollution.
       Okavango Delta.--The Secretary of State and USAID 
     Administrator should engage with the Governments of Namibia 
     and Botswana to implement the Delta Act (Public Law 115-353), 
     including to ensure that any petroleum exploration does not 
     endanger the water, agricultural land, and other natural 
     resources that local inhabitants depend on, or elephants and 
     other endangered species, and shall consult with the 
     Committees on Appropriations on this issue not later than 45 
     days after enactment of the Act.
       Funds made available by the Act to implement the Delta Act 
     should also focus on the headwaters of the Okavango Delta, 
     and should integrate humanitarian demining efforts, public-
     private partnerships for conservation, prevention of wildlife 
     trafficking, and development of eco-tourism.
       Partnership for Conservation.--Not later than 90 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State and USAID 
     Administrator shall jointly consult with the Committees on 
     Appropriations on the feasibility of a public-private, grant-
     making entity to support the establishment and long-term 
     management of protected areas in developing countries, 
     including terrestrial, coastal and marine protected areas, 
     parks, community conservancies, Indigenous reserves, 
     conservation easements, and biological reserves, and to carry 
     out other effective area-based conservation measures.
       Plastic Impacted Marine Species.--The agreement includes 
     funds to be administered pursuant to 16 U.S.C. 3701 for cost-
     matching projects that protect marine species severely 
     impacted by marine plastic debris, and the USAID 
     Administrator shall consult with the Committees on 
     Appropriations prior to the obligation of such funds.
       Toxic Chemicals.--The agreement includes funding to address 
     toxic chemical pollution in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 
     of which not less than $3,000,000 is for programs to 
     measurably reduce public exposure to lead associated with the 
     unsafe disposal or recycling of batteries, contaminated 
     cookware, or other sources of lead exposure. Prior to the 
     initial obligation of funds, the USAID Administrator shall 
     consult with the Committees on Appropriations on a multi-year 
     strategy targeting such exposure and materials in severely 
     affected countries.
       U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, 
     National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the 
     Department of the Interior.--Funds provided by direct 
     transfer to USFWS, USFS, NOAA, and the DOI shall be 
     transferred expeditiously and in a manner that is consistent 
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     the obligation and expenditure of funds USFWS, USFS, NOAA, 
     and DOI shall submit spend plans to the Committees on 
     Appropriations and USAID detailing the intended uses of such 
     funds. Prior to the submission of spend plans, such agencies 
     shall consult on the intended uses of funds with USAID, as 
     appropriate.
       Wildlife Poaching and Trafficking.--Efforts are needed to 
     strengthen wildlife laws and law enforcement related to the 
     commercial trade in live wildlife for human consumption, 
     which fuels epidemics and pandemics of zoonotic origin, and 
     to address the increase in wildlife trafficking in Central 
     and South America. The agreement supports the directive in 
     the House report for a comprehensive security, governance, 
     and conservation strategy for Central America. The agreement 
     also supports funding for anti-poaching programs, including 
     cross-border cooperation for anti-poaching in the Honduras-
     Guatemala-Mexico border forest region and the use of aircraft 
     for anti-poaching and protected area management activities, 
     pursuant to the authority provided in section 484(a)(2) of 
     the FAA.
     Section 7062. Budget Documents (modified)
       Multi-Year Availability.--The Secretary of State and the 
     USAID Administrator shall include in the annual CBJ a 
     detailed justification for multi-year availability for any 
     funds requested under Diplomatic Programs and Operating 
     Expenses.
     Section 7063. Reorganization (modified)
     Section 7064. Department of State Management (modified)
       Federal Law Enforcement.--The agreement notes that the 
     explanatory statement accompanying the Commerce, Justice, 
     Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022 
     directs the Attorney General to ensure implementation of 
     evidence-based training programs on de-escalation and the 
     use-of-force, as well as on police community relations, and 
     the protection of civil rights, that are broadly applicable 
     and scalable to all Federal law enforcement agencies. The 
     agreement further notes that several agencies funded by this 
     Act employ Federal law enforcement officers and are Federal 
     Law Enforcement Training Centers partner organizations. The 
     agreement directs such agencies to consult with the Attorney 
     General regarding the implementation of these programs for 
     their law enforcement officers. The agreement further directs 
     such agencies to submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations on their efforts relating to such 
     implementation no later than 180 days after consultation with 
     the Attorney General. In addition, the agreement directs such 
     agencies, to the extent that they are not already 
     participating, to consult with the Attorney General and the 
     Director of the FBI regarding participation in the National 
     Use-of-Force Data Collection. The agreement further directs 
     such agencies to submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations, no later than 180 days after enactment of 
     this Act, on their efforts to so participate.
       Report on Compliance.--The report accompanying the 
     certification required in subsection (b)(1) shall include a 
     description of the criteria used by the Secretary of State to 
     certify that an office or bureau is capable of managing and 
     overseeing foreign assistance.
       Report on Sole Source Awards.--Not later than 45 days after 
     enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a 
     report to the Committees on Appropriations detailing all sole 
     source awards made by the Department of State during the 
     prior fiscal year in excess of $2,000,000, which shall be 
     posted on the Department website.
     Section 7065. United States Agency for International 
         Development Management (modified)
       USAID Accountability Mechanism.--Not later than 90 days 
     after enactment of the Act, the USAID Administrator shall 
     submit an update to the report required under this heading in 
     the explanatory statement accompanying division K of Public 
     Law 116-260. Such report shall also include whether USAID's 
     accountability mechanism is operating consistent with 
     international best practices, including features such as: (1) 
     a compliance review function to ensure project adherence to 
     environmental, social, and other policies and standards; (2) 
     a dispute resolution function; (3) an advisory function to 
     report lessons learned; and (4) adequate staffing for the 
     mechanism.
     Section 7066. Stabilization and Development in Regions 
         Impacted by Extremism and Conflict (modified)
       Consolidated Report.--Not later than 45 days after 
     enactment of the Act, and every 90 days thereafter until 
     September 30, 2023, the Secretary of State and USAID 
     Administrator shall submit a consolidated report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations containing updated information 
     on obligations and expenditures of the Prevention and 
     Stabilization Fund on a country and program basis.
       Consultation.--The Secretary of State shall consult with 
     the Committees on Appropriations prior to exercising the 
     transfer authority contained in subsection (a)(l).
     Section 7067. Debt-for-Development (unchanged)
     Section 7068. Enterprise Funds (unchanged)
     Section 7069. Extension of Consular Fees and Related 
         Authorities (modified)
       Consular Authorities.--The agreement includes a new 
     authority to shift passport application and execution fees 
     currently deposited in the General Fund of the Treasury to 
     the Department of State to support consular operations. This 
     authority is estimated to provide a minimum of $340,000,000 
     in additional resources for consular operations in fiscal 
     year 2022.
     Section 7070. Organization of American States (new)
       Inter-Parliamentary Engagement.--The agreement supports 
     programs, including establishment of a Parliamentary 
     Assembly, that enhance inter-parliamentary cooperation and 
     participation of elected legislators from OAS member states 
     in OAS activities.
     Section 7071. Protective Services (modified)
     Section 7072. Rescissions (modified)
       The agreement rescinds $2,243,779,000, of which 
     $1,630,644,000 is from Afghanistan operations and assistance 
     programs that can no longer be used for such purposes. Of the 
     total, $855,644,000 is from unobligated Economic Support Fund 
     balances, $515,000,000 is from unobligated Millennium 
     Challenge Corporation balances, $105,000,000 is from 
     unobligated International Narcotics Control and Law 
     Enforcement balances, $70,000,000 is from unobligated Peace 
     Corps balances, $670,000,000 is from unobligated Embassy 
     Security, Construction, and Maintenance balances, and 
     $28,135,000 is from unobligated Global Security Contingency 
     Fund balances.

   DISCLOSURE OF EARMARKS AND CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING ITEMS

       Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House 
     of Representatives and rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the 
     Senate, neither the bill nor the explanatory statement 
     contains any congressional earmarks or congressionally 
     directed spending items, limited tax benefits or limited 
     tariff benefits as defined in the applicable House and Senate 
     rules.

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DIVISION L--TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED 
                   AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2022

                        Congressional Directives

       The joint explanatory statement accompanying this division 
     is approved and indicates congressional intent. Unless 
     otherwise noted, the language set forth in House Report 117-
     99 carries the same weight as language included in this joint 
     explanatory statement and should be complied with unless 
     specifically addressed to the contrary in this joint 
     explanatory statement. While some language is repeated for 
     emphasis, it is not intended to negate the language referred 
     to above unless expressly provided herein. In cases where the 
     House has directed the submission of a report, such report is 
     to be submitted to both the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations. The Department of Transportation [DOT] and 
     the Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] are 
     directed to notify the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations seven days prior to the announcement of a new 
     program, initiative, or authority. Any reprogramming requests 
     must be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations no 
     later than June 30, 2022.
       For fiscal year 2022, the terms ``program, project, and 
     activity'' [PPA] shall mean any item for which a dollar 
     amount is contained in this act, House Report 117-99, or this 
     joint explanatory statement. The table in the operating plan 
     required by House Report 117-99 shall delineate the 
     appropriation and prior year enacted level both by object 
     class and by PPA, as detailed in this act, House Report 117-
     99, and this joint explanatory statement, or in the budget 
     appendix for the respective appropriations, whichever is more 
     detailed, and shall apply to all items for which a dollar 
     amount is specified and to all programs for which new budget 
     (obligational) authority is provided, as well as to 
     discretionary grants and discretionary grant allocations. The 
     operating plan must also identify items of special 
     congressional interest.


                  CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET JUSTIFICATIONS

       The agreement directs each agency to include within its 
     budget justification a report on all efforts made to address 
     the programmatic duplication identified by the annual 
     Government Accountability Office [GAO] reports along with 
     legal barriers preventing the agency's ability to further 
     reduce duplication and legislative recommendations, if 
     applicable.


                        TRANSPARENCY REQUIREMENT

       Transparency in advertising.--The agreement directs the 
     Departments and agencies funded by this act to state within 
     the text, audio, or video used for new advertising purposes, 
     including advertising/posting on the Internet, that the 
     advertisements are printed, published, or produced and 
     disseminated at U.S. taxpayer expense, with exemptions for 
     safety or conflicts with the agency's ability to carry out 
     their statutory authority.
       Stevens amendment.--The agreement reminds the Department 
     that has not submitted the report requested in fiscal year 
     2020 to submit the information on the feasibility of 
     complying with the Stevens amendment.


                            AUDIT STANDARDS

       Agency audits.--For all contract actions (including awards, 
     renewals, and amendments) Departments and agencies provided 
     funding in this act shall require any accounting firm 
     providing financial auditing or audit remediation services to 
     provide a statement setting forth the details of any 
     disciplinary proceedings occurring within 1 year of the 
     projected performance period related to noncompliance with 
     rules or laws applying to audit services.


                          DATA ACT COMPLIANCE

       Digital Accountability and Transparency Act [DATA Act] 
     compliance.--The agreement expects agencies to prioritize the 
     submission of timely, accurate, quality, and complete 
     financial and award information in accordance with 
     established management guidance, reporting processes, and 
     data standards established under the DATA Act (P.L. 113-101).


                             CYBERSECURITY

       The agreement continues to support the ban in section 889 
     of Public Law 115-232 which prohibits government agencies 
     from buying certain telecommunications and video surveillance 
     services or equipment.

                       Federally Funded Research

       The agreement urges DOT and HUD to affirmatively determine, 
     justified in writing, and made available on a publicly 
     accessible website, that research grants or agreements 
     promote the progress of science in the United States or will 
     advance a national security or economic interest.

                                TITLE I

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                        Office of the Secretary


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The bill provides $141,500,000 for the salaries and 
     expenses of the Office of the Secretary [OST].
       The agreement directs the Department to abide by both the 
     will and intent of Congress in all funding and policy 
     decisions, and to consult with the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations prior to issuing all notices of 
     funding opportunities [NOFOs].
       Regulations.--The agreement recommends that the Department 
     identify opportunities to eliminate unnecessary regulations 
     and streamline burdensome regulations to ensure the 
     Department is a good steward of limited taxpayer resources 
     and produces physical infrastructure that supports long-term 
     economic growth. Further, the Department should identify 
     areas where more autonomy can be given to local jurisdictions 
     with a better understanding of needs and challenges in 
     building and maintaining infrastructure.
       In-flight sexual misconduct task force.--The agreement 
     directs the Secretary to implement the recommendations of the 
     aviation consumer protection advisory committee that were 
     adopted at the committee's September 24, 2020, meeting and 
     outlined in a letter to the Secretary dated December 31, 
     2020. The Department should provide any briefings upon 
     request on implementation of the recommendations and timing 
     of subsequent rulemaking(s).
       Transportation accessibility.--Section 13010 of the 
     Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act [IIJA] requires the 
     Secretary to establish a transportation access pilot program; 
     therefore, the agreement does not include the direction in 
     House Report 117-99. The agreement instead directs the 
     Department to brief the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations on its implementation plans for section 13010 
     no later than 90 days after the enactment of this act.
       Infrastructure coordinator.--The agreement directs the 
     Office of International Transportation and Trade within OST 
     to work with the General Services Administration, the 
     Department of Homeland Security, and other relevant agencies 
     to facilitate more efficient development of infrastructure 
     projects on the southern border with Mexico and the northern 
     border with Canada.
       Nationally significant freight and highway [INFRA] 
     projects.--The agreement notes the concerns raised in the GAO 
     report [GAO-18-38] relating to the Department's selection 
     process for INFRA grants, including recommendations on 
     notifying unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, the agreement 
     directs DOT, within 60 days of announcing fiscal year 2022 
     INFRA awards, to offer briefings to all applicants that did 
     not receive an award in order to explain the factors that 
     negatively impacted the application and make recommendations 
     for improving the application for future grant rounds. 
     Further, within 60 days of announcing grant awards, the 
     Department is directed to publish on its website a list of 
     all fiscal year 2022 applications received along with the 
     names of the applicant organizations and funding amounts 
     requested.
       Freight.--The agreement continues to recognize the need to 
     improve freight mobility through all modes of transportation. 
     Marine highways are an important tool to improve the 
     efficiency of transportation in many states, and the 
     Department should support projects that improve marine 
     highways as well as our nation's inland waterways. The 
     agreement reminds the Department to provide the report 
     required in fiscal year 2021 regarding potential options for 
     modifying existing transportation programs to allow 
     improvements to inland waterways, which the Department should 
     submit to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, 
     the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and 
     the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 
     within 30 days of enactment of this act.


                        RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

       The bill provides $51,363,000 for research and technology, 
     of which $42,718,000 shall remain available until expended. 
     The agreement supports the research initiatives proposed in 
     the budget request unless expressly addressed to the contrary 
     under this heading.
       Highly automated systems safety center of excellence [HASS 
     COE]--The agreement provides $5,000,000 for the HASS COE 
     established by section 105 of title I of division H of Public 
     Law 116-94.
       Bridge clearinghouse.--The agreement provides $5,000,000 
     for an accelerated bridge technologies clearinghouse as 
     directed and enumerated in House Report 117-99.
       Position navigation and timing [PNT] technologies and 
     global positioning system [GPS] backup.--The agreement does 
     not include the direction on PNT technologies in House Report 
     117-99. The agreement supports the findings in the 
     Department's January 2021 ``Complementary PNT and GPS Backup 
     Technologies Demonstration Report [DOT-VNTSC-20-07]'', which 
     found that ``the best strategy for achieving resilient PNT 
     service is to pursue multiple technologies to promote 
     diversity in the PNT functions that support transportation 
     and other critical infrastructure sectors.'' The agreement 
     provides $15,000,000 to establish a program that leads to 
     wide adoption of multiple technologies that provides the 
     necessary GPS backup and complementary PNT as identified by 
     the Department's report. Funding will enable, among other 
     things, the development of safety-critical PNT requirements 
     and standards, vulnerability and performance testing, 
     certification protocols for safety-critical functions, the 
     procurement of services as deemed appropriate by the 
     Department, and user adoption models in order to facilitate 
     the responsible use of resilient PNT services to meet Federal 
     requirements for widespread adoption. The agreement expects 
     the Department to report its findings and recommendations 
     enabling GPS backup to the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations within one year of enactment of this act.

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       In addition, the agreement provides $7,000,000 for DOT to 
     engage in global navigation satellite systems performance 
     monitoring and interference detection capability and to 
     implement executive order 13905 and GPS signal 
     authentication.
       Transportation research board [TRB] reports.--The agreement 
     does not include direction relating to the TRB under this 
     heading in House Report 117-99. Instead, the agreement 
     provides $1,500,000 for the Secretary to enter into an 
     agreement with the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, 
     and Medicine to conduct a study through the TRB to identify, 
     assess, and develop metrics for measuring the effectiveness 
     of surface transportation projects in addressing the 
     transportation challenges and barriers faced by historically 
     disadvantaged communities, areas of persistent poverty, and 
     public transportation-dependent populations. The study shall: 
     (1) identify and analyze existing data and metrics to 
     establish a baseline of currently available means for 
     assessing and measuring outcomes for surface transportation 
     projects; (2) identify opportunities to improve data, the use 
     of such data to improve metrics, and how such metrics could 
     be applied to make more informed decisions in the planning 
     process for surface transportation projects; and (3) consider 
     new and innovative sources of data, analytic methods, and 
     modeling for using such data and metrics in the 
     transportation planning and decision-making process. The 
     study shall include data and metrics related to improving 
     access to housing, employment, health care, education, and 
     essential services, and increasing safety.
       University transportation centers [UTCs].--The agreement 
     does not include the specific set-asides for funding as 
     provided in House Report 117-99. The agreement continues to 
     support UTCs, and notes that the Infrastructure Investment 
     and Jobs Act provides a total of $99,000,000 for fiscal year 
     2022 for the UTC program and that the Department is required 
     to complete a competition for UTCs no later than November 15, 
     2022. The agreement directs the Department to initiate and 
     complete this competition as soon as practicable to continue 
     the important and valuable work of these university research 
     partnerships in order to help foster the next generation of 
     transportation professionals. Further, the Department should 
     ensure that historically black colleges and universities have 
     an opportunity to apply for this funding.
       Coordination of DOT research.--The agreement encourages the 
     Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology 
     to work collaboratively and in coordination with the impacted 
     modes across the Department to prevent duplication and ensure 
     Federal research investments are optimized.
       Other transaction agreement [OTA].--The Department shall 
     develop clear and comprehensive policies to improve the 
     management of OTA authority, including a justification for 
     the use of the authority, the designation of officials with 
     the authority to execute such agreements, clear conflict of 
     interest certifications, an assessment of price 
     reasonableness, and limitations on the amount of funds that 
     can be utilized for such purposes within one year of the date 
     of enactment of this act.
       Small business innovation research [SBIR].--The agreement 
     directs the Department to place an increased focus on making 
     SBIR awards to firms with fewer than 50 people.
       Resilient infrastructure.--The agreement directs the 
     Department to expand its technical assistance and trainings 
     to help state DOTs, local governments, and Tribal governments 
     develop reliable indicators of vulnerability and actionable 
     mitigation measures in all phases of transportation planning, 
     asset management, project-specific planning and development, 
     and operations toward improving resiliency and reducing 
     lifecycle costs. The Department is directed to prioritize 
     research and demonstrations of new and proven technologies 
     that could make our infrastructure systems more resilient and 
     to share such technologies with other state and Federal 
     partners as appropriate.
       Connected vehicle pilot deployment program.--The agreement 
     notes that the connected vehicle pilot deployment program is 
     expected to be fully completed in July 2022, and directs the 
     Department to provide results and findings from the pilot 
     program no later than December 1, 2022, to the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations. Further, the Department 
     should notify the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations of additional funding needs for this program.


                  NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The bill provides $775,000,000 for local and regional 
     project assistance grants as authorized under 49 U.S.C. 6702, 
     to remain available until expended. Of this amount, not less 
     than $20,000,000 is for projects in historically 
     disadvantaged communities or areas of persistent poverty and 
     not less than five percent is for planning grants. Consistent 
     with 49 U.S.C. 6702, not more than 50 percent of the funding 
     shall be allocated to projects in rural and urbanized areas, 
     respectively, and the Secretary may increase the Federal 
     cost-share above 80 percent for projects in rural areas, 
     historically disadvantaged communities, or areas of 
     persistent poverty. The agreement does not include the 
     direction under this heading in House Report 117-99. Instead, 
     the bill directs the Secretary to take such measures to 
     ensure an equitable geographic distribution of funds, an 
     appropriate balance in addressing the needs of rural and 
     urban communities, including Tribal areas, and the investment 
     in a variety of transportation modes. Further, the bill 
     requires the Secretary to consider and award projects solely 
     based upon the selection criteria in 49 U.S.C. 6702(d)(3) and 
     (d)(4). The agreement reiterates to the Department and 
     potential applicants that this competitive grant program 
     supports a broad variety of transportation projects, 
     including highway, bridge, or road projects; public 
     transportation projects; passenger and freight rail projects, 
     including high speed passenger rail; port infrastructure 
     improvement projects; intermodal projects, including 
     commercial, transit, and intermodal parking garages; bicycle 
     and pedestrian projects; multimodal infrastructure projects; 
     and infrastructure reuse projects. The agreement also reminds 
     the Department that projects that alleviate blocked highway-
     rail grade crossings are eligible for funding under this 
     heading.


                    THRIVING COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The bill provides $25,000,000 for a thriving communities 
     program, to remain available until September 30, 2024.
       The agreement directs the Department of Transportation to 
     assist communities in a variety of geographic areas, 
     including urban and rural communities. In addition, the 
     agreement provides the Department of Housing and Urban 
     Development up to $5,000,000 under the heading ``Policy 
     Development and Research'' for an interagency collaborative 
     initiative to ensure housing and infrastructure development 
     are taken into consideration in the administration of the 
     thriving communities program.


     NATIONAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION AND INNOVATIVE FINANCE BUREAU

       The bill provides $3,800,000 for the National Surface 
     Transportation and Innovative Finance Bureau, to remain 
     available until expended.
       Financing for transportation oriented development [TOD].--
     The agreement recognizes the potential of TOD to facilitate 
     economic development, the construction of affordable housing, 
     and more livable and healthier communities within walking 
     distance of, or accessible to, public transit.


       RAILROAD REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT FINANCING PROGRAM

       The bill authorizes the Secretary to issue direct loans and 
     loan guarantees pursuant to chapter 224 of title 49, United 
     States Code.


                      FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT CAPITAL

       The bill provides $5,000,000 for the financial management 
     capital program, to remain available until September 30, 
     2023.
       The agreement provides funding to continue DATA Act 
     compliance, full implementation of G-invoicing data 
     standardization initiatives, as well as analytical tools to 
     support the monitoring of risks, funds status, and flow of 
     funds to program recipients.


                       CYBER SECURITY INITIATIVES

       The bill provides $39,400,000 for departmental cyber 
     security initiatives, to remain available until September 30, 
     2023.


                         OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS

       The bill provides $11,564,000 for the Office of Civil 
     Rights.
       The agreement specifies that amounts provided above fiscal 
     year 2021 be used to fill approved positions and contracts in 
     order to: (1) collect, maintain, and perform trend analysis 
     to tabulate disadvantaged business analysis, participation 
     requirements, and certifications; (2) enhance educational and 
     training materials for individuals with limited English 
     proficiency; and (3) maximize awareness of accessible and 
     equitable transportation services.


           TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The bill provides $29,863,000 for planning, research, and 
     development activities, to remain available until expended. 
     Of this amount, $2,000,000 is for the interagency 
     infrastructure permitting improvement center and $7,066,000 
     is for the purposes and amounts specified in the table 
     entitled ``Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 
     Spending'' included in this joint explanatory statement.
       The agreement directs the OST to provide funding for 
     projects listed in the table entitled ``Community Project 
     Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending'' included in this 
     joint explanatory statement in the corresponding amounts. 
     Further, the agreement directs that the specific funding 
     allocated in the table entitled ``Community Project Funding/
     Congressionally Directed Spending'' included in this joint 
     explanatory statement shall not diminish or prejudice any 
     application or geographic region to receive other 
     discretionary grants or loans.
       Non-traditional and emerging transportation technology 
     [NETT] council.--The agreement directs DOT to conduct 
     research to better understand the safety, interoperability, 
     cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory needs of non-
     traditional and emerging transportation technologies and 
     projects. The agreement does not include funding provided in 
     House Report 117-99, and instead, directs the Department to 
     use available prior year funding provided to assist the NETT 
     council for such activities.
       Autonomous vehicle research in rural communities.--The 
     agreement provides $10,000,000 for an accredited university 
     of higher education, or consortia thereof, to conduct 
     research and to work with rural communities

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     to address the additional challenges, including weather 
     variables and differing types of roadways, of bringing the 
     benefits of autonomous vehicles, including freight and 
     delivery vehicles, to rural Americans.


                          WORKING CAPITAL FUND

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The bill limits expenditures for working capital fund 
     activities to $419,173,000.
       The limitation allows the Department to complete the 
     migration of commodity information technology [IT] to the 
     working capital fund, and, if needed, the migration of 
     personnel associated with commodity IT. Permission to expand 
     activities to human capital and non-commodity IT activities 
     is denied. The bill specifies that this limitation shall not 
     apply to funds provided in Public Law 117-58; however, such 
     exception shall only be exercised in support of traditional 
     working capital fund activities and commodity IT activities 
     unless otherwise explicitly approved by the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations.


       SMALL AND DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS UTILIZATION AND OUTREACH

       The bill provides $4,977,000 for small and disadvantaged 
     business utilization and outreach, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2023.
       Disadvantaged business enterprise [DBE] definition.--
     Section 11101(e) of the IIJA increases the revenue cap 
     applied to DBEs in the definitions used for DOT programs; 
     therefore, the agreement does not include the direction in 
     House Report 117-99.


                        PAYMENTS TO AIR CARRIERS

                    (AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND)

       The act provides $350,000,000 for payments to air carriers, 
     to remain available until expended, and waives certain 
     eligibility requirements. The Department is directed to 
     provide the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
     quarterly briefings on overflight fee collections and program 
     costs to ensure continued success of the Essential Air 
     Service program.


  ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION

       Section 101 prohibits funds available to the Department of 
     Transportation from being obligated for the Office of the 
     Secretary of Transportation to approve assessments or 
     reimbursable agreements pertaining to funds appropriated to 
     the operating administrations, except for activities underway 
     on the date of enactment of this act, unless such assessments 
     or agreements have completed the normal reprogramming process 
     for congressional notification.
       Section 102 requires the Secretary of Transportation to 
     post on the Internet a schedule of all council on credit and 
     finance meetings, agendas, and meeting minutes.
       Section 103 allows the Department of Transportation's 
     working capital fund to provide payments in advance to 
     vendors for the Federal transit pass fringe benefit program, 
     and to provide full or partial payments to, and to accept 
     reimbursements from, Federal agencies for transit benefit 
     distribution services.
       Section 104 allows the Department of Transportation's 
     working capital fund to use certain recoveries from the 
     transit benefit program to improve the administration of that 
     program.
       Section 105 extends the liquidation of valid obligations 
     for one fiscal year for amounts made available for the 
     national infrastructure investments program in Public Law 
     113-235.
       Section 106 requires approval from the Assistant Secretary 
     for Administration for retention or senior executive bonuses 
     for all DOT employees.
       Section 107 requires the Department of Transportation's 
     working capital fund to transfer equipment into the working 
     capital fund and collect replacement reserve for the 
     equipment equal to the useful life and estimated replacement 
     cost of such equipment.
       Section 108 requires congressional notification before the 
     Department of Transportation provides credit assistance under 
     the transportation infrastructure finance and innovation act 
     [TIFIA] program.
       Section 109 allows for the repayment of credit risk 
     premiums of the railroad rehabilitation and improvement 
     financing [RRIF] program to eligible loans in cohort 3.
       Section 109A makes modifications to 49 U.S.C. 312(a).

                    Federal Aviation Administration


                               OPERATIONS

                    (AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND)

       The agreement provides $11,414,100,000 for the operations 
     of the Federal Aviation Administration [FAA], to remain 
     available until September 30, 2023. Of the total amount 
     provided, $6,414,100,000 is to be derived from the airport 
     and airway trust fund. The act distributes funds by budget 
     activity, but the FAA is directed to update the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations immediately if resources 
     are insufficient to operate a safe and effective air traffic 
     control system. The FAA is further directed to include in its 
     fiscal year 2022 operating plan and fiscal year 2023 budget 
     request any carryover and how it plans to use these 
     unobligated balances.
       Advanced air mobility [AAM].--The agreement recognizes and 
     supports the FAA's ongoing work on AAM, including the 
     agency's work on aircraft certification, air traffic 
     operations, landing site approval, infrastructure, and flight 
     standards requirements.
       Air traffic control privatization.--The agreement does not 
     support any efforts to transfer the FAA's air traffic 
     functions to a not-for-profit, independent, private 
     corporation.
       Aircraft certification.--The agreement includes not less 
     than $292,722,000 for aircraft certification service.
       Authorization acts.--The agreement directs the FAA to brief 
     the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on the 
     status of implementation of the mandates in the FAA 
     Reauthorization Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-254) on a semi-annual 
     basis and in the Aircraft Certification, Safety, and 
     Accountability Act [ACSAA] (P.L. 116-260) on a quarterly 
     basis. The FAA is also directed to provide all reports and 
     briefings that are mandated by ACSAA to be provided to the 
     House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
       Commercial space operational staffing and support.--The 
     agreement expects the FAA to continue to increase staffing 
     levels in the Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
       Community engagement and noise.--The agreement provides not 
     less than $8,000,000 under this heading to support regular 
     engagement with communities affected by aviation noise, 
     including technical and analytical support for communities 
     that may not have such expertise. Not less than 90 days after 
     the date of enactment of this act, the FAA shall also provide 
     the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations with a 
     timeline for implementation of the new tools and systems 
     related to noise in the budget request. The FAA's 
     comprehensive review of its noise policy is also expected to 
     focus on day-night level [DNL] standards and to be inclusive 
     of all relevant stakeholders, including, but not limited to, 
     communities near airports, other Federal departments and 
     agencies, and airports.
       Contract towers.--The agreement provides not less than 
     $178,000,000 for the contract tower program, and directs the 
     FAA to continue to operate all contract towers currently in 
     the program and expeditiously add qualified eligible 
     airports. The FAA should address all open recommendations in 
     the Office of Inspector General report (AV202135) on contract 
     tower staffing and notify the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations of any challenges receiving relevant staffing 
     data from the contractors. The agreement also directs the FAA 
     to provide flexibility to contract towers at small-hub 
     airports with unique terrain and winter weather challenges to 
     include a minimum of two controllers during all regularly 
     scheduled commercial flights, where permissible under current 
     law.
       Contracting.--The agreement urges the FAA to close all open 
     recommendations from the Office of Inspector General report 
     on the FAA's competitive award practices for its major 
     program contracts (ZA2020020) by June 30, 2022. The agreement 
     also directs the FAA to brief the House and Senate Committees 
     on Appropriations on any open recommendations from the Office 
     of Inspector General report on Other Transaction Agreements 
     (ZA2017098).
       Cybersecurity.--The agreement includes no less than 
     $38,000,000 for cybersecurity and directs the FAA to 
     regularly update the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations on the prevalence and trends of any major 
     cybersecurity compromises or incidents.
       Dynamic regulatory system [DRS].--The agreement supports 
     DRS and directs the FAA to include the appropriate resources 
     to improve the system in the budget.
       FAA organization charts.--The agreement directs the FAA to 
     submit to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
     accurate and comprehensive organizational charts of each 
     service, division, and office not later than June 1, 2022.
       FAA public hearing.--The agreement notes that the recent 
     proposal to modify the Condor 1 and Condor 2 military 
     operating areas has been withdrawn. However, the agreement 
     remains concerned with any potential proposals to modify 
     these military operating areas and encourages the FAA to work 
     with its partner agencies by holding a public hearing with 
     representatives from the relevant Federal agencies in western 
     Maine if any such proposal is issued. Should any similar 
     proposal be issued, the agreement directs the FAA to report 
     to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations prior to 
     the issuance of a record of decision regarding any 
     modification of the Condor 1 and Condor 2 military operations 
     areas that includes a summary of any public meeting and 
     hearing and a list of the comments, questions, and responses 
     presented at these meetings and hearings.
       Global environmental standards for supersonic aircraft.--
     The agreement urges the FAA to continue its efforts to 
     develop global environmental standards for supersonic 
     aircraft by working through the International Civil Aviation 
     Organization's Committee on Aviation Environmental 
     Protection. The FAA should develop these standards while also 
     addressing challenges with noise, environmental and climate 
     impacts, and data limitations.
       Helicopter safety National Transportation Safety Board 
     [NTSB] recommendations.--The agreement directs the FAA to 
     submit the reports on terrain awareness and warning systems, 
     as well as the status update on NTSB recommendations A-06-
     017, A-06-18, and A-06-019, as required by the Consolidated 
     Appropriations Act, 2021.
       Infill radar.--The agreement supports the FAA's efforts to 
     certify infill radar and other strategies to mitigate wind 
     turbine interference for the FAA and the Department of 
     Defense [DoD], and directs the FAA to provide a briefing to 
     the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on these 
     efforts

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     once the wind turbine-radar interference mitigation working 
     group has completed an appropriate level of review and 
     assessment.
       International presence.--The agreement recognizes the 
     importance of the FAA's aviation safety global leadership and 
     collaboration with foreign civil aviation authorities, 
     particularly for certification, validation, and safety 
     oversight activities.
       Landing strips.--The agreement directs the FAA to assist 
     Federal land managers, including but not limited to the 
     Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Service, and 
     National Park Service, in charting airstrips located on 
     Federal lands that are and may be useful for administrative, 
     recreational, and emergency purposes.
       NextGen Advisory Committee [NAC].--The FAA is expected to 
     continue working with the NAC's joint analysis team to 
     develop and quantify the efficiency, emissions, safety, and 
     passenger travel time benefits resulting from NextGen 
     programs. The agreement also encourages the FAA to implement 
     NAC recommendations and directs the FAA to provide an annual 
     update on the status of NAC recommendations to the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations.
       Performance based navigation [PBN].--The FAA should seek 
     input from carriers to better understand the projected 
     evolution of airline fleets, as well as the projected changes 
     to hub operations, focus cities, and any other operational 
     changes that could impact and inform how the FAA will further 
     deploy PBN and other investments. The FAA is directed to 
     provide an update to the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations on these issues no later than 180 days after 
     enactment of this act.
       Safety management system [SMS].--The agreement continues to 
     direct the FAA to prioritize issuing a rulemaking requiring 
     design and production approval holders for aviation products 
     to establish a SMS, as required by section 102 of the 
     Aircraft Certification, Safety, and Accountability Act.
       Small unmanned aircraft system [UAS] procurement.--For any 
     acquisition of small UAS using funds provided by the FAA, 
     including those to Federal grant recipients, the FAA should 
     require certification of review of the Department of Homeland 
     Security [DHS] industry alert, and any subsequent and 
     relevant UAS guidance, and completion of a risk assessment 
     that considers the proposed use of the foreign-made UAS. The 
     agreement directs the FAA to regularly brief the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations, on an as needed basis, 
     on any security risks or challenges identified by either 
     agency from any small UAS or UAS components.
       Special use airspace.--The agreement directs the FAA to 
     evaluate the benefits of airspace sharing by continuing to 
     work with DOD through a federally-funded research and 
     development center with expertise in national security, 
     aviation operations, and systems development. This work 
     should be conducted in parallel with all ongoing and future 
     initiatives regarding airspace sharing. The Committee directs 
     the FAA to brief the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations on the agency's progress on this effort within 
     90 days of enactment of this act.
       Training.--The agreement supports the FAA's efforts to 
     improve the training provided to the air traffic controller 
     workforce, NAS technicians, and safety specialists. The FAA 
     should procure training development and curriculum storage 
     tools that can be deployed enterprise-wide and also provide 
     personalized Web-based instruction to trainees. The FAA 
     should also increase the use of innovative technologies, such 
     as virtual reality, augmented reality, advanced simulation, 
     artificial intelligence, and remote technical training 
     opportunities, as appropriate.
       Unmanned aircraft systems.--The FAA should use up to 
     $173,000,000 for UAS activities from all FAA appropriations 
     accounts in this bill.
       The agreement directs FAA to finalize the UAS beyond visual 
     line of sight [BVLOS] rulemaking by September 2023.
       The agreement directs the FAA to report to the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations within 180 days of 
     enactment of this act on potential solutions to expand the 
     use of part 135 operations of UAS deliveries, and whether 
     these operations could be conducted through the low altitude 
     authorization and notification capability program or the 
     unmanned aircraft systems traffic management as the best way 
     to ensure safe operations.
       The agreement directs the FAA to provide a report to the 
     House and Senate Committees on Appropriations within 90 days 
     of enactment of this act on the agency's efforts to engage 
     with public safety stakeholders on part 107 waivers.
       The agreement directs the FAA to address concerns with 
     approvals of UAS BVLOS operations under 400 feet above ground 
     level and implement an appropriate target level of safety for 
     UAS operations through consideration of the recommendations 
     of the aviation rulemaking committee [ARC].
       The agreement directs the FAA to brief the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations on any impediments to issuing 
     the UAS type certificates and how the FAA intends to resolve 
     such impediments, without impeding safety.
       The agreement urges the FAA to work through the ARC to look 
     at public tolerance for risk in relation to UAS operations in 
     sparsely populated areas, and to propose safety objectives 
     related to ground and air risk. The FAA should also continue 
     to integrate routine BVLOS operations into the national 
     airspace in a safe manner.
       The agreement directs the FAA to complete the requirements 
     of section 376 of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018. The 
     FAA should work through the BVLOS ARC to help define how the 
     UAS traffic management network can support future operations, 
     and should consider solutions for UAS integration programs 
     that are compliant with industry consensus standards.
       The agreement continues to include up to $1,000,000 for the 
     existing ``Know Before You Fly'' initiative.
       To ensure the protection of wildlife and conservation 
     areas, the FAA shall assist state, local, Tribal, and 
     territorial governments that are interested in applying land 
     use restrictions to recreational drones with the request 
     process for adding such restrictions to the B4UFLY mobile 
     app.
       The agreement includes $6,000,000 for matching funds to 
     commercial entities that contract with an FAA designated UAS 
     test site and directs the FAA to brief the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations within 270 days of enactment of 
     this act on: (1) the number of waivers issued pursuant to 49 
     U.S.C. 44803(c); (2) the formalized process developed for 
     waiver approval; and (3) efforts to communicate the 
     availability of this waiver to use at the UAS test sites to 
     support the FAA and UAS industry.
       Unfinished rulemakings.--The agreement directs the FAA to 
     report on unfinished rulemakings related to secondary cockpit 
     barriers, the safety of foreign repair stations, and flight 
     attendant rest requirements 30 days after enactment of this 
     act.
       Veterans' pilot training program.--The agreement supports 
     FAA's use of cooperative agreements for the veterans' pilot 
     training program. The FAA should use $1,000,000 from the 
     Office of NextGen for this purpose, in addition to any 
     remaining funds from previous fiscal years from the Office of 
     NextGen. The FAA should work with schools that are accredited 
     by the Department of Education and which hold a restricted 
     airline transport pilot letter of authorization. The FAA is 
     directed to provide the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations an assessment of this program, and any 
     recommendations on how to provide effective pilot training to 
     veterans.
       Workforce diversity.--Of the amount provided for staff 
     offices, the agreement includes not less than $4,000,000, but 
     not more than $7,500,000, for the minority serving 
     institutions internship program, which the FAA should 
     continue to grow and manage in a cost-effective manner. The 
     agreement urges FAA to incorporate virtual or in-person tours 
     of FAA facilities, develop targeted training focused on 
     careers in aviation, and develop a pipeline of entry-level, 
     diverse, and highly qualified talent.


                        FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT

                    (AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND)

       The agreement provides $2,892,887,500 for facilities and 
     equipment. Of the total amount available, $550,000,000 is for 
     personnel and related expenses and available until September 
     30, 2023; $1,980,722,500 is available until September 30, 
     2024; and $362,165,000 is for terminal facilities and 
     available until September 30, 2026. The FAA is expected to 
     make sound investment decisions and report to the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations on any major cost 
     overruns or delays.
       The table below provides allocations of funds for FAA 
     facilities and equipment from the IIJA for fiscal year 2022, 
     which are subject to section 405 of this act:

      ALLOCATION OF FUNDS FOR FAA FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT FROM THE
        INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND JOBS ACT--FISCAL YEAR 2022
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Activity 2--Air Traffic Control Facilities and
 Equipment
Air Route Traffic Control Center [ARTCC] & Combined         $233,600,000
 Control Facility [CCF] Building Improvements........
Air Traffic Control En Route Radar Facilities                 78,900,000
 Improvements........................................
Activity 3--Non-Air Traffic Control Facilities and
 Equipment...........................................
Terminal Air Traffic Control Facilities--Replace.....         10,000,000
Air Traffic Control Tower [ATCT]/Terminal Radar               81,500,000
 Approach Control [TRACON] Facilities--Improve.......
Unstaffed Infrastructure Sustainment.................        199,900,000
Electrical Power Systems--Sustain/Support............        295,000,000
Activity 4--Facilities and Equipment Mission Support.
Hazardous Materials Management.......................         58,800,000
Facility Security Risk Management....................         18,300,000
Activity 5--Personnel and Related Expenses...........         24,000,000
                                                      ------------------
    Total, IIJA......................................      1,000,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       The table below provides details by activity for FAA 
     facilities and equipment from funds made available under this 
     heading in this act:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
               Facilities and Equipment                    Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Activity 1--Engineering, Development, Test and
 Evaluation
  Advanced Technology Development and Prototyping....        $24,000,000
  William J. Hughes Technical Center Laboratory               16,900,000
   Sustainment.......................................
William J. Hughes Technical Center Infrastructure             10,701,000
 Sustainment.........................................
  NextGen--Separation Management Portfolio...........         20,500,000
  NextGen--Traffic Flow Management Portfolio.........         13,000,000
  NextGen--On Demand NAS Portfolio...................          9,000,000
  NextGen--NAS Infrastructure Portfolio..............         10,500,000
  NextGen Support Portfolio..........................          5,000,000
  NextGen--Unmanned Aircraft Systems [UAS]...........         15,500,000
  NextGen--Enterprise, Concept Development, Human             10,600,000
   Factors, & Demonstrations Portfolio...............
                                                      ------------------
        Total Activity 1.............................        135,701,000
Activity 2--Air Traffic Control Facilities and
 Equipment
a. En Route Programs
  En Route Automation Modernization [ERAM]--System           104,450,000
   Enhancements and Technology Refresh...............
  Next Generation Weather Radar [NEXRAD].............          3,900,000
  Air Route Traffic Control Center [ARTCC] & Combined         38,000,000
   Control Facility [CCF] Building Improvements......

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  Air/Ground Communications Infrastructure...........          7,815,000
  Air Traffic Control En Route Radar Facilities                3,000,000
   Improvements......................................
  Oceanic Automation System..........................         10,400,000
  Next Generation Very High Frequency Air/Ground              46,000,000
   Communications [NEXCOM]...........................
  System-Wide Information Management.................         33,973,000
  ADS-B NAS Wide Implementation......................        155,133,000
  Windshear Detection Service........................          3,000,000
  Air Traffic Management Implementation Portfolio....         10,000,000
  Time Based Flow Management Portfolio...............         20,000,000
  NextGen Weather Processor..........................         48,200,000
  Airborne Collision Avoidance System X [ACAS-X].....            500,000
  Data Communications in Support of NextGen Air              110,300,000
   Transportation System.............................
  Offshore Automation................................         10,000,000
  Reduced Oceanic Separation.........................         12,000,000
  En Route Service Improvements......................          2,000,000
  Commercial Space Integration.......................          6,500,000
                                                      ------------------
    Subtotal En Route Programs.......................        625,171,000
b. Terminal Programs
  Terminal Doppler Weather Radar [TDWR]--Provide.....          1,000,000
  Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System             63,697,000
   [STARS] [TAMR Phase 1]............................
  Terminal Automation Program........................          3,000,000
  Terminal Air Traffic Control Facilities--Replace...        331,165,000
  Air Traffic Control Tower [ATCT]/Terminal Radar             31,000,000
   Approach Control [TRACON] Facilities--Improve.....
  NAS Facilities OSHA and Environmental Standards             10,000,000
   Compliance........................................
  Integrated Display System [IDS]....................         30,000,000
  Terminal Flight Data Manager [TFDM]................         85,400,000
  Performance Based Navigation Support Portfolio.....          8,000,000
  Unmanned Aircraft Systems [UAS] Implementation.....         26,600,000
  Airport Ground Surveillance Portfolio..............         28,400,000
  Terminal and EnRoute Surveillance Portfolio........         43,373,000
  Terminal and EnRoute Voice Switch and Recorder              49,496,000
   Portfolio.........................................
  Enterprise Information Platform....................         17,600,000
  Remote Towers......................................          4,900,000
                                                      ------------------
    Subtotal Terminal Programs.......................        733,631,000
c. Flight Service Programs
  Aviation Surface Observation System [ASOS].........         11,200,000
  Future Flight Services Program [FFSP]..............          3,000,000
  Alaska Flight Service Facility Modernization                 2,700,000
   [AFSFM]...........................................
  Juneau Airport Wind System [JAWS]--Technology                4,000,000
   Refresh...........................................
  Weather Camera Program.............................          2,000,000
                                                      ------------------
    Subtotal Flight Service Programs.................         22,900,000
d. Landing and Navigational Aids Program
  Very High Frequency [VHF] Omnidirectional Radio              5,900,000
   Range [VOR] Minimum Operating Network [MON].......
  Wide Area Augmentation System [WAAS] for GPS.......         92,143,000
  Instrument Flight Procedures Automation [IFPA].....          1,000,000
  Runway Safety Areas--Navigational Mitigation.......            800,000
  Landing and Lighting Portfolio.....................         67,887,500
  Distance Measuring Equipment [DME], Very High               10,000,000
   Frequency [VHF] Omni-Directional Range [VOR],
   Tactical Air Navigation [TACAN] [DVT] Sustainment
   Portfolio.........................................
                                                      ------------------
    Subtotal Landing and Navigational Aids Programs..        177,730,500
e. Other ATC Facilities Programs
  Fuel Storage Tank Replacement and Management.......         12,000,000
  Unstaffed Infrastructure Sustainment...............         21,800,000
  Aircraft Replacement and Related Equipment Program.         35,000,000
  Airport Cable Loop Systems--Sustained Support......         10,000,000
  Real Property Disposition..........................          3,000,000
  Energy Management and Compliance [EMC].............          1,100,000
  Electrical Power Systems--Sustain/Support..........         55,000,000
  Child Care Center Sustainment......................          1,000,000
  FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure..............         64,200,000
  Operational Analysis and Reporting Systems.........         15,500,000
                                                      ------------------
    Subtotal Other ATC Facilities Programs...........        218,600,000
                                                      ==================
        Total Activity 2.............................      1,778,032,500
Activity 3--Non-Air Traffic Control Facilities and
 Equipment
a. Support Equipment
  Hazardous Materials Management.....................          9,500,000
  Aviation Safety Analysis System [ASAS].............         30,502,000
  National Air Space [NAS] Recovery Communications            12,338,000
   [RCOM]............................................
  Facility Security Risk Management..................          7,800,000
  Information Security...............................         21,320,000
  System Approach for Safety Oversight [SASO]........         35,400,000
  Aviation Safety Knowledge Management Environment             9,800,000
   [ASKME]...........................................
  Aerospace Medical Equipment Needs [AMEN]...........          6,900,000
  NextGen--System Safety Management Portfolio........         18,294,000
  National Test Equipment Program [NTEP].............          3,000,000
  Mobile Assets Management Program...................          1,000,000
  Aerospace Medicine Safety Information Systems               25,000,000
   [AMSIS]...........................................
  Configuration, Logistics, and Maintenance Resource          23,500,000
   Solutions [CLMRS].................................
                                                      ------------------
    Subtotal Support Equipment.......................        204,354,000
b. Training, Equipment and Facilities
  Aeronautical Center Infrastructure Sustainment.....         14,400,000
  Distance Learning..................................          1,000,000
                                                      ------------------
    Subtotal Training, Equipment and Facilities......         15,400,000
                                                      ==================
        Total Activity 3.............................        219,754,000
Activity 4--Facilities and Equipment Mission Support
  System Engineering and Development Support.........         37,000,000
  Program Support Leases.............................         15,000,000
  Logistics and Acquisition Support Services.........         12,000,000
  Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center Leases...........         14,600,000
  Transition Engineering Support.....................         17,000,000
  Technical Support Services Contract [TSSC].........         28,000,000
  Resource Tracking Program [RTP]....................          8,000,000
  Center for Advanced Aviation System Development             57,000,000
   [CAASD]...........................................
  Aeronautical Information Management Program........         20,800,000
                                                      ------------------
        Total Activity 4.............................        209,400,000
Activity 5--Personnel and Related Expenses
  Personnel and Related Expenses.....................        550,000,000
                                                      ==================
        Total all Activities.........................      2,892,887,500
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Enterprise, concept development, human factors, and 
     demonstration portfolio.--The FAA should work with interested 
     State aviation departments, universities, UAS centers, test 
     complexes, and relevant industry stakeholders that have the 
     potential to serve as test beds for demonstrating the 
     operational requirements for these emerging flight operations 
     between multiple airports, to measure community acceptance 
     and to identify training requirements for the controller, 
     technician, and pilot workforces to safely operate and 
     integrate these vehicles and systems into the NAS.
       Reduced oceanic separation.--The FAA should continue use of 
     global space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast 
     [ADS-B] data to support critical safety uses, and continue 
     efforts with the acquisition management system process in 
     making a final investment decision for this technology. The 
     agreement also directs the FAA to brief the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations on the results of the 
     operational evaluation in the Caribbean airspace that was 
     completed in April 2021 within 60 days of enactment of this 
     act.
       Commercial space integration.--The agreement includes 
     $6,500,000 to demonstrate and validate the transmission of 
     hazard areas into the ERAM system, including the space data 
     integrator, as recommended by the air space access rulemaking 
     committee.
       Terminal air traffic control facilities--replace.--The 
     agreement directs the FAA to continue working to address 
     aging and antiquated air traffic control facilities that it 
     leases from airport authorities to ensure they are fully 
     compliant with current building codes consistent with being 
     occupied by air traffic controllers. The agreement directs 
     the FAA to consider creative financing options and to include 
     consideration of long-term cost recovery leases when 
     conditions warrant the construction of new air traffic 
     control towers.
       Remote towers.--The agreement includes $4,900,000 for 
     remote towers, which will be used to fund contract 
     controllers for type certification at Leesburg, to complete 
     the active testing phase of the operational evaluation at 
     Fort Collins, and to begin the validation and verification at 
     Fort Collins. The agreement directs the FAA to submit a plan 
     and schedule for type certification of remote towers systems 
     no later than 90 days after the enactment of this act. The 
     plan and schedule should focus on accelerating type 
     certification for the safe operation of remote towers and 
     identify any challenges the agency faces in doing so.
       Aviation surface observation system [ASOS].--The agreement 
     includes $11,200,000 and directs the FAA to use funding above 
     the budget request for modification and/or replacement of the 
     eight non-Federal automated weather observing systems 
     currently in the process of the FAA takeover pilot program, 
     as authorized under 49 U.S.C. 44502(e).
       Landing and lighting portfolio.--The agreement includes 
     $67,887,500 and supports the FAA's work to modernize and 
     enhance navigation aids [NavAids] monitoring and control 
     capabilities in air traffic control towers. The agreement 
     includes $10,000,000 for instrument landing systems and 
     $10,000,000 for precision path approach indicators. The FAA 
     shall train existing technical staff and hire additional 
     staff if necessary to install these critical systems. The FAA 
     may use established contractors to augment FAA resources if 
     necessary. The FAA should also refresh the software and 
     technology of NavAids control and monitoring systems, which 
     provide real time, mission critical capabilities, and enhance 
     situational awareness, safety, and efficiency in managing air 
     traffic.
       FAA telecommunications infrastructure.--The agreement 
     includes $64,200,000 for the FAA telecommunications 
     infrastructure, which includes funding for the FAA enterprise 
     network service [FENS] and time division multiplexing to 
     internet protocol migration efforts. The agreement includes 
     funding in the operations account for remote 
     telecommunications infrastructure replacement as an 
     immediate-term solution to ensure the availability of the 
     network. The agreement directs the FAA to provide a briefing 
     on FENS to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
     within 90 days of enactment of this act, including the 
     agency's detailed plans and schedule to deploy a long-term 
     solution.
       Military operations areas.--Radar and future NextGen 
     systems capable of controlling airspace down to 500 feet 
     above ground level enhance aviation safety in military 
     operations areas that overlay public use airports. The 
     agreement recommends that the FAA utilize existing resources 
     to promptly provide radar or NextGen capability in areas with 
     more than 5,000 operations per year.
       Peoria airport tower.--The agreement encourages the FAA to 
     continue working with the Peoria Airport Authority to help 
     the airport remedy ongoing issues with its air traffic 
     control tower.


                 RESEARCH, ENGINEERING, AND DEVELOPMENT

                    (AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND)

       The agreement provides $248,500,000 for the FAA's research, 
     engineering, and development activities, to remain available 
     until September 30, 2024.
       The following table provides details by program:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Research, Engineering, and Development             Agreement
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fire Research and Safety.............................          7,136,000
Propulsion and Fuel Systems..........................          3,000,000
Advanced Materials/Structural Safety.................         14,720,000
Aircraft Icing.......................................          2,472,000
Digital Systems Safety...............................          3,689,000
Continued Airworthiness..............................          8,829,000
Flightdeck/Maintenance/System Integration Human               14,301,000
 Factors.............................................
Safety System Management/Terminal Area Safety........          7,000,000
Air Traffic Control Technical Operations Human                 5,911,000
 Factors.............................................
Aeromedical Research.................................         11,000,000
Weather Program......................................         13,786,000
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research...................         22,077,000
Alternative Fuels for General Aviation...............          5,434,000
Commercial Space Transportation Safety...............          5,708,000
NextGen--Wake Turbulence.............................          3,728,000
NextGen--Air Ground Integration Human Factors........          3,000,000
NextGen--Weather Technology in the Cockpit...........          2,659,000
NextGen--Flight Deck Data Exchange Requirements......          1,000,000
Information/Cyber Security...........................          4,769,000
Environment and Energy...............................         22,000,000
NextGen--Environmental Research--Aircraft                     67,500,000
 Technologies and Fuels..............................
System Planning and Resource Management..............          3,300,000
Aviation Workforce Development--Section 625..........         10,000,000
William J. Hughes Technical Center Laboratory                  5,481,000
 Facility............................................
                                                      ------------------
    Total............................................        248,500,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Advanced materials/structural safety.--The agreement 
     includes $14,720,000 for advanced materials/structural 
     safety, of which: (1) $6,000,000 is to advance the use of 
     these new additive materials (both metallic and non-metallic 
     based additive processes) in the commercial aviation 
     industry; (2) $4,000,000 is to advance the use of fiber 
     reinforced composite materials in the commercial aviation 
     industry through the FAA joint advanced

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     materials and structures center of excellence; and (3) 
     $2,000,000 is for the FAA to continue its work with existing 
     public-private partnerships that provide leading-edge 
     research, development, and testing of composite materials and 
     structures.
       Aviation emissions and noise.--The agreement provides an 
     increase of $37,732,000 above fiscal year 2021 for research 
     on reducing aviation emissions and noise.
       The agreement includes $22,000,000 for Environment and 
     Energy, of which $8,500,000 is to conduct research within the 
     aviation sustainability center [ASCENT] COE. The increase in 
     funding shall be used to better understand the impact of non-
     carbon dioxide emissions from aviation on climate change and 
     to identify means to cost-effectively reduce these impacts.
       The agreement includes $67,500,000 for NextGen-
     Environmental Research-Aircraft Technologies and Fuels, of 
     which $26,565,000 is for ASCENT (of which not less than 
     $2,000,000 is to study the impact of aviation noise), and of 
     which $37,500,000 is for the continuous lower energy, 
     emissions, and noise [CLEEN] program in order to accelerate 
     the development of aircraft and engine technologies.
       The increased funding should be used by ASCENT to go beyond 
     the current 50 percent sustainable aviation fuel [SAF] 
     blending limit and identify means to cost effectively reduce 
     the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from SAF production 
     and use, and continue its supply chain analysis work to help 
     establish robust domestic supply chains for SAFs. ASCENT is 
     also directed to continue working with the National Renewable 
     Energy Laboratory on quantifying emissions reduction impacts 
     of policies that could drive demand for SAFs. The FAA should 
     also quantify the non-carbon climate benefits of these fuels.
       In addition to the work on SAFs, ASCENT is also directed to 
     work on quantifying the ultrafine particulate and other 
     public health impacts of aviation on airsheds, particularly 
     for communities near airports.
       The agreement directs the FAA, in collaboration with the 
     Departments of Energy and Agriculture and other Federal 
     agencies, to conduct an interagency review and update of the 
     2016 Federal Alternative Jet Fuels Research and Development 
     Strategy to address key scientific and technical challenges 
     that inhibit the development, wide scale production, and use 
     of economically viable SAF. The revised strategy should 
     identify and prioritize specific research and development 
     activities in order to accelerate SAF utilization.
       Aviation workforce development programs.--The FAA should 
     prioritize grants under the aviation workforce development 
     program to academic institutions for flight operations, 
     aviation maintenance, commercial aviation, unmanned aircraft 
     systems, aviation technology, and training at the community 
     college level or through an accredited aviation professional 
     program. The FAA should also prioritize maintaining and 
     growing workforce levels at maintenance, repair, and overhaul 
     facilities.
       Community and technical college centers of excellence [COE] 
     in small UAS technology training program.--The agreement 
     supports efforts by the FAA to collaborate with UAS 
     Collegiate Training Initiative [CTI] schools to deliver up-
     to-date UAS training tools, resources, and guidelines that 
     will prepare students for careers in UAS and continue to 
     maintain the safety of the NAS.
       UAS research.--The agreement includes $22,077,000 for UAS 
     research. Of this amount: (1) $10,000,000 is directed to 
     support the expanded role of the UAS COE in areas of UAS 
     research, including cybersecurity, agricultural applications, 
     BVLOS, studies of advanced composites and other non-metallic 
     engineering materials not common to manned aircraft but 
     utilized in UAS, the STEM program, and to continue efforts 
     with the UAS safety standards for UAS and to develop and 
     validate certification standards for such systems; (2) 
     $2,000,000 for the Center's role in transportation disaster 
     preparedness and response, partnering with institutions that 
     have demonstrated experience in damage assessment, 
     collaboration with state transportation agencies, and applied 
     UAS field testing; and (3) $8,000,000 is to support UAS 
     research activities at the FAA technical center and other FAA 
     facilities.
       The agreement expects the Department to expedite its 
     approval process for research projects at the COE. The FAA 
     should also ensure that the research at the COE aligns with 
     the agency's needs as it continues to address the challenges 
     with integration of UAS into the NAS.


                       GRANTS-IN-AID FOR AIRPORTS

                (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)

                      (LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS)

                    (AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND)

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The agreement provides an obligation limitation of 
     $3,350,000,000 and a liquidating cash appropriation of 
     $3,350,000,000, to remain available until expended. Within 
     the obligation limitation, the agreement provides not more 
     than $127,165,000 for administrative expenses, not less than 
     $15,000,000 for the airport cooperative research program, not 
     less than $40,961,000 for airport technology research, and 
     $10,000,000 for the small community air service development 
     program.
       Airport technology.--Of the amount for airport technology 
     research, $6,000,000 is for the airfield pavement technology 
     program authorized under section 744 of Public Law 115-254, 
     of which $3,000,000 is for concrete pavement research and 
     $3,000,000 is for asphalt pavement research.
       Airport improvement program [AIP] formula.--The agreement 
     directs the FAA to consider the full range of flight 
     activities (such as flight training, air cargo, emergency 
     response, pilot training, etc.) and associated metrics when 
     considering AIP discretionary grants.
       Automated weather-observing system [AWOS] equipment.--The 
     FAA should waive the requirement for a positive cost-benefit 
     ratio for AWOS equipment for airports located in a county 
     with a population of 50 or fewer persons per square mile 
     based on the most recent decennial census. Furthermore, for 
     such projects at public use airports that would have a 
     material impact on the safety of operations at that airport, 
     the FAA should not require the completion of a cost-benefit 
     analysis as long as that project is funded using non-primary 
     entitlement funding and no additional discretionary funding 
     from the FAA.
       Boarding bridges.--The agreement continues to direct the 
     FAA to consult with the U.S. Trade Representative [USTR] and 
     the U.S. Attorney General to develop, to the extent 
     practicable, a list of entities that: (1) are a foreign 
     State-owned enterprise that is identified by the USTR in the 
     report required by subsection (a)(1) of section 182 of the 
     Trade Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-618) and subject to 
     monitoring by the USTR under section 306 of the Trade Act of 
     1974; and (2) have been determined by a Federal court, after 
     exhausting all appeals, to have misappropriated intellectual 
     property or trade secrets from an entity organized under the 
     laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the 
     United States. The FAA shall make such list available to the 
     public and work with the USTR, to the extent practicable, to 
     utilize the system for award management database to exclude 
     such entities from being eligible for Federal non-procurement 
     awards. The FAA is expected to notify the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations of any significant challenges 
     the agency faces in completing these actions.
       Burdensome regulations.--The FAA should continue to 
     identify opportunities to eliminate unnecessary regulations 
     and streamline burdensome regulations and identify areas 
     where more autonomy can be given to local jurisdictions with 
     a better understanding of needs and challenges in building 
     and maintaining infrastructure.
       National plan of integrated airport systems [NPIAS].--The 
     agreement directs the FAA to expeditiously review requests 
     for entry into the NPIAS. Public-use airports that meet all 
     applicable criteria and which have had significant and 
     material investment from their local communities should be 
     included in the NPIAS.


                       GRANTS-IN-AID FOR AIRPORTS

       The agreement provides $554,180,000 in new budget authority 
     for additional discretionary grants for airport construction 
     projects, of which $279,180,135 is for Community Project 
     Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending. Funding allocated 
     for Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 
     Spending shall not diminish or prejudice the application of a 
     specific airport or geographic region to receive other AIP 
     discretionary grants or multi-year letters of intent.
       Noise.--The agreement directs the FAA to ensure that AIP 
     funds are made available to reduce the impact of noise on 
     local communities.
       Prioritization for additional grants for airport 
     infrastructure.--Section 47115(j)(3)(B) of title 49, United 
     States Code, requires that not less than 50 percent of the 
     funds made available under this heading shall be for grants 
     at nonhub, small hub, reliever, and nonprimary airports. The 
     agreement directs the FAA to prioritize the remaining funds 
     for grants at medium hub and large hub airports.
       Temporary flight restrictions.--Section 119E of this act 
     makes up to $3,500,000 available to the FAA to reimburse 
     certain airport sponsors that are closed during temporary 
     flight restrictions. The agreement directs the FAA to notify 
     the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations if 
     additional funding is necessary.
       Zero-emission vehicle [ZEV] and voluntary airport low 
     emissions [VALE] programs.--The agreement supports the use of 
     AIP funds for the ZEV and VALE programs and expects the FAA 
     to provide not less than $25,000,000 of the funds made 
     available for supplemental discretionary AIP funding from the 
     general fund for ZEV and VALE.


       ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION

       Section 110 allows no more than 600 technical staff-years 
     at the center for advanced aviation systems development.
       Section 111 prohibits funds for adopting guidelines or 
     regulations requiring airport sponsors to provide FAA 
     ``without cost'' building construction or space.
       Section 112 allows reimbursement for fees collected and 
     credited under 49 U.S.C. 45303.
       Section 113 allows reimbursement of funds for providing 
     technical assistance to foreign aviation authorities to be 
     credited to the operations account.
       Section 114 prohibits funds for Sunday premium pay unless 
     work was actually performed on a Sunday.
       Section 115 prohibits funds from being used to buy store 
     gift cards with Government issued credit cards.

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       Section 116 requires the Administrator to block the 
     identifying information of an owner or operator's aircraft in 
     any flight tracking display to the public upon the request of 
     an owner or operator.
       Section 117 prohibits funds for salaries and expenses of 
     more than nine political and Presidential appointees in the 
     FAA.
       Section 118 prohibits funds to increase fees under 49 
     U.S.C. 44721 until the FAA provides a report to the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations that justifies all fees 
     related to aeronautical navigation products and explains how 
     such fees are consistent with Executive Order No. 13642.
       Section 119 requires the FAA to notify the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations at least 90 days before closing 
     a regional operations center or reducing the services 
     provided.
       Section 119A prohibits funds from being used to change 
     weight restrictions or prior permission rules at Teterboro 
     Airport in New Jersey.
       Section 119B prohibits funds from being used to withhold 
     from consideration and approval certain application for 
     participation in the contract tower program, or for certain 
     reevaluations of cost-share program participation.
       Section 119C prohibits funds from being used to open, 
     close, re-designate, or reorganize a regional office, the 
     aeronautical center, or the technical center subject to the 
     normal reprogramming requirements outlined under section 405 
     of this act.
       Section 119D improves the efficiency of the FAA franchise 
     fund.
       Section 119E allows the transfer of funds from the 
     ``Grants-in-Aid for Airports'' account to reimburse airports 
     affected by temporary flight restrictions for residences of 
     the President.
       Section 119F provides restrictions on the use of the 
     authorities under 49 U.S.C. 44502(e) to transfer certain air 
     traffic system or equipment to the FAA.

                     Federal Highway Administration


                 LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

                          (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The agreement limits obligations for the administrative 
     expenses of the Federal Highway Administration [FHWA] to 
     $463,716,697. In addition, the bill provides $3,248,000 for 
     the administrative expenses of the Appalachian Regional 
     Commission [ARC].


                          FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS

                      (LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS)

                          (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

       The agreement limits obligations for the federal-aid 
     highways program to $57,473,430,072 in fiscal year 2022.
       Bridges with impacts to protected species under the 
     Endangered Species Act.--The agreement encourages the FHWA to 
     give consideration to projects that make improvements to 
     bridges with significant impacts to species listed under the 
     Endangered Species Act to mitigate those impacts. The 
     agreement directs the Department to provide a report to the 
     House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not later than 
     270 days after enactment of this act on how FHWA is making 
     its selection of bridge improvements to address endangered 
     species.
       Implementation Plan.--In fiscal year 2020, the Department 
     was directed to develop an implementation plan for conducting 
     the research outlined in the Transportation Research Board's 
     truck size and weight research plan, which has not been 
     transmitted to Congress. The results of this research should 
     be considered by the Department and Congress before any 
     national changes in truck length or weight policy are 
     considered. The agreement directs the FHWA to brief the House 
     and Senate Committees on Appropriations on the implementation 
     plan within 30 days of enactment of this act.
       Research and technology.--The agreement directs the FHWA to 
     continue to prioritize research and demonstrations of new and 
     proven technologies that could make infrastructure systems 
     more resilient. The agreement directs the FHWA to promote 
     resiliency in its every day counts initiative in order to 
     leverage research and technology funds in support of states' 
     efforts to deploy new and proven technologies. The agreement 
     further directs the FHWA to report to the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations on the extent to which states 
     and territories are currently, or plan to in the near future, 
     use innovative technologies to build resiliency into their 
     highway and bridge infrastructure, as well as identify any 
     barriers to the use of innovative technologies that would 
     otherwise allow for resiliency to be incorporated into such 
     infrastructure.
       Advanced digital construction management.--Section 503 of 
     title 23, U.S.C. provides $20,000,000 to accelerate the 
     deployment and implementation of advanced digital 
     construction management systems. The minimum grant amount for 
     this program shall be $500,000.
       Nature-based solutions for infrastructure.--The agreement 
     directs the FHWA to continue to build its competency and 
     capacity in nature-based solutions [NBS] and continue its 
     outreach to all states, Tribes, and localities on natural 
     infrastructure options and best management practices and 
     should build on its implementation guide by including it in 
     the overall guidance and materials on conducting 
     vulnerability assessments, including technical assistance and 
     trainings provided to state DOTs, metropolitan planning 
     organizations [MPOs], and local and Tribal governments. The 
     agreement further directs the FHWA to submit a report to the 
     House and Senate Committees on Appropriations within 1 year 
     of enactment of this act that: (1) includes a summary of the 
     extent of FHWA's NBS outreach; (2) identifies any deterrents 
     or hindrances to the use of NBS; (3) identifies opportunities 
     for increasing use of NBS; and (4) identifies any available 
     assessment of the amount of Federal funding being put to NBS 
     projects.
       Timely response.--The agreement directs the FHWA to review 
     and respond to Buy America waiver requests within 60 days of 
     submission.
       Categorical exclusions.--The agreement directs the FHWA to 
     continue working with stakeholders, including state DOTs, to 
     determine how to best minimize the bureaucratic burdens of 
     the qualification process for categorical exclusions.
       Appalachian development highway system [ADHS].--The 
     agreement directs the FHWA to submit a report to the House 
     and Senate Committees on Appropriations on its efforts to 
     continue working with the ARC and relevant state DOTs to 
     identify segments of existing, unfinished, and potential 
     corridors and to discuss the justification for expanding the 
     current ADHS mileage cap within 180 days of enactment of this 
     act.
       Low-carbon materials.--The agreement encourages the FHWA to 
     continue efforts to develop low-carbon materials that reduce 
     green-house gas [GHG] emissions while maintaining the 
     structural integrity of infrastructure.
       Surface transportation block grants [STBG].--The agreement 
     directs the Secretary to ensure that state transportation 
     agencies are fairly suballocating STBG funds to localities in 
     accordance with current law.
       Transparency in the deployment of automated vehicles 
     [AVs].--The agreement directs the FHWA, in coordination with 
     other relevant modal administrations, to establish clear 
     goals and priorities for the safe testing and deployment of 
     AVs on public highway infrastructure by developing an action 
     plan that should foster further discussion and information 
     sharing with relevant stakeholders and officials to help 
     inform future policies, research, and programs. The agreement 
     also directs the FHWA to report to the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations on changes relevant in the 
     forthcoming updates to the manual on uniform traffic control 
     devices [MUTCD] related to AV testing and deployment. The 
     FHWA should also continue to collate AV information and make 
     publicly available its autonomous vehicle initiatives. 
     Finally, the agreement directs the FHWA to update current 
     resources available online related to the testing and 
     deployment of AVs, including its fact sheet on environmental 
     justice considerations for connected and automated vehicles.
       Electric vehicles [EVs].--The agreement notes that section 
     2J in the current MUTCD states that if state or local 
     agencies elect to provide specific service signing, there 
     should be a statewide policy for such signing and criteria 
     for the availability of the various types of services. The 
     criteria should consider ``vehicle services including gas 
     and/or alternative fuels, oil, charging stations, and 
     water.''
       Alternative fuel corridors.--The agreement supports the 
     FHWA's efforts to designate alternative fuel corridors to 
     support the expansion of zero-emission vehicles and directs 
     the FHWA to designate future alternative fuel corridors that 
     support travel and tourism traffic patterns and align with 
     the national travel and tourism infrastructure strategic 
     plan, to the extent permissible under current law.
       Vision zero.--The agreement directs the FHWA to develop 
     resources and provide technical assistance to help local 
     agencies prioritize the safe system approach and its 
     implementation of vision zero plans and strategies to reduce 
     pedestrian fatalities and injuries. The agreement further 
     directs the FHWA to submit a report to the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations on the extent to which states or 
     territories receiving FHWA funds include elements of vision 
     zero plans and strategies in their strategic highway safety 
     plans, including an assessment of any barriers to use of 
     vision zero plans and strategies identified by the states and 
     territories.
       Moveable barriers.--The agreement urges the FHWA to work 
     with state DOTs to consider the feasibility of utilizing or 
     deploying innovative technologies, including moveable 
     barriers, that provide traffic congestion relief, offer quick 
     alternatives to costly road construction, result in safer 
     roadways, help eliminate crossover fatalities, offer 
     flexibility, improve air quality, and decrease fuel 
     consumption.
       National highway geospatial data standards development 
     feasibility study.--The agreement directs the FHWA to study, 
     evaluate, and provide a comprehensive report on the 
     geospatial data standards for all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto 
     Rico no later than 180 days after enactment of this act.
       Sonoran corridor.--The agreement encourages the FHWA to 
     work with the State of Arizona to identify funds to 
     facilitate the completion of tier II environmental impact 
     statements on high priority corridors of less than 25 miles 
     in distance and within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border.
       Interstate projects in the intermountain west.--The 
     agreement supports the FHWA's continued collaboration with 
     state DOTs on the initial planning process for improvements 
     to I-10 between Phoenix and Tucson

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     and the new I-11 from U.S.-Mexico International Border to 
     Reno, Nevada. FHWA should continue to provide technical 
     assistance and assist the State DOTs in identifying financial 
     resources to help complete the planning process for these 
     critical projects.
       Bridge safety.--The agreement continues to direct the FHWA 
     to implement all open recommendations from the Office of 
     Inspector General report [ST2020035] related to the 
     pedestrian bridge collapse in 2018 at Florida International 
     University [FIU].
       Concrete research.--The agreement directs the Secretary to 
     evaluate research initiatives eligible under the FHWA's 
     highway research and development program focusing on the use 
     of stainless slag materials as a substitute for cement in 
     concrete, as structural fill, controlled low strength 
     material and related transportation infrastructure and 
     provide a report to the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations within 180 days of enactment of this act 
     outlining FHWA's action plan to evaluate such research.
       Wildlife-vehicle collision safety.--The agreement 
     encourages the FHWA to work with states to reduce wildlife-
     vehicle collisions through the wildlife crossings pilot 
     program in 23 U.S.C. 171 and through highway safety 
     improvement program funds and eligibilities under 23 U.S.C. 
     148(a)(4)(B)(xvii).
       Harmonization of tools.--The agreement encourages the FHWA 
     to fund activities that harmonize environmental product 
     declarations, data sets, and other tools to improve life 
     cycle GHG emission comparisons of different materials and 
     processes. The Secretary is directed to submit a report to 
     the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations no later 
     than 180 days after enactment of this act on a research and 
     development strategy that will allow for robust and 
     consistent environmental life cycle analyses for highway 
     infrastructure projects to inform future internal research 
     priorities.
       Pollinator-friendly practices.--The agreement directs the 
     FHWA to continue to support state DOT efforts to expand 
     pollinator-friendly practices.
       Electric vehicle [EV] charging infrastructure.--The 
     agreement directs the GAO to assess the DOT's coordination 
     with the Department of Energy, other relevant Federal 
     agencies, states and local planning agencies, and automotive 
     industries in the planning for EV infrastructure investments. 
     The GAO shall assess: (1) the work of the Joint Office of 
     Energy and Transportation established by the IIJA; (2) FHWA's 
     efforts to designate national corridors for EV charging and 
     alternative fueling stations; and (3) any opportunities to 
     improve coordination among Federal agencies in the 
     implementation of such act.
       GHG emissions.--The agreement directs the GAO to assess and 
     provide a report no later than 270 days after enactment of 
     this act on: (1) the extent to which Federal agencies, 
     states, and MPOs are currently collecting performance 
     information on transportation-related GHG emissions; (2) how 
     the information on GHG emissions is used to inform 
     transportation investment decisions; and (3) opportunities 
     for the FHWA to better leverage this information.
       Tribal transportation program [TTP].--The agreement 
     encourages the FHWA to expand on its fatality research and 
     partnerships with state government, academic institutions, 
     and non-profits that have existing relationships with Tribal 
     governments and expertise in safety and transportation 
     research as part of this work.
       Interstate-35 innovative corridor project.--The agreement 
     directs the FHWA to conduct comprehensive evaluations and 
     analysis of highway corridors from ports of entry to inland 
     ports. The FHWA may use funds from the research and 
     development programs for this work.


                (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)

                          (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

       The agreement provides a liquidating cash appropriation of 
     $58,212,430,072, which is available until expended, to pay 
     the outstanding obligations of the various highway programs 
     at the levels provided in this act and prior appropriations 
     acts.


                    HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The bill provides $2,444,927,823 from the general fund. Of 
     the total amount, the bill provides $846,927,823 for 
     Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending, 
     $100,000,000 for the ADHS, $75,000,000 for the nationally 
     significant Federal lands and Tribal projects program (of 
     which 50 percent shall be set-aside for projects in Tribal 
     areas), $12,000,000 for the regional infrastructure 
     accelerator demonstration program, $1,145,000,000 for a 
     bridge replacement and rehabilitation program, $6,000,000 for 
     the scenic byways program, $10,000,000 to be transferred to 
     the Northern Border Regional Commission, and $250,000,000 for 
     PROTECT grants, as authorized under 23 U.S.C. 176.


       ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS--FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION

       Section 120 distributes the Federal-aid highways program 
     obligation limitation.
       Section 121 allows funds received by the Bureau of 
     Transportation Statistics from the sale of data products to 
     be credited to the Federal-aid highways account.
       Section 122 provides requirements for any waiver of Buy 
     America Act requirements.
       Section 123 requires 60-day notification to the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations for any INFRA grants 
     awarded under 23 U.S.C. 117, provided that such notification 
     shall be made no later than 180 days from the date of 
     enactment of this act.
       Section 124 allows State DOTs to repurpose certain highway 
     project funding within 25 miles of its original designation.
       Section 125 requires the FHWA to adjudicate Buy America 
     requests based on the criteria used prior to April 17, 2018.

              Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration


              MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY OPERATIONS AND PROGRAMS

                (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)

                      (LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS)

                          (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

       The bill includes a liquidation of contract authorization 
     and a limitation on obligations of $360,000,000 for the 
     operations and programs of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
     Administration [FMCSA]. Of this limitation, $14,073,000 is 
     for the research and technology program, and $41,277,000 is 
     for information technology and information management, to 
     remain available for obligation until September 30, 2024.
       Information technology [IT] and information management [IM] 
     capital improvement program [CIP].--The agreement provides 
     $41,277,000 to fund IT and IM modernization activities. The 
     agreement directs the FMCSA to report no less than annually 
     on the spending plans for the amounts provided for IT and IM 
     and to update the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations about progress on modernizing its legacy 
     systems.
       Border crossing CIP.--The agreement directs the FMCSA to 
     provide an annual report to the House and Senate Committees 
     on Appropriations no later than 180 days after enactment of 
     this act, on the current status of the border crossing CIP. 
     The report shall include: a list of all funded and unfunded 
     projects in past fiscal years; cost overruns, cost savings, 
     and cost projections for each active project; target dates 
     for project completion; delays and schedule changes; current 
     challenges; and relevant safety inspection data.


                      MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY GRANTS

                (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)

                      (LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS)

                          (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

       The bill includes a liquidation of contract authorization 
     and a limitation on obligations of $496,000,000 for motor 
     carrier safety grants, to remain available for obligation 
     until September 30, 2023.
       The bill provides the following funding levels for specific 
     activities within this account:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Motor carrier safety assistance program.................    $390,500,000
Commercial driver's license program implementation            41,800,000
 program................................................
High priority activities program........................      57,600,000
Commercial motor vehicle operators grant program........       1,100,000
Commercial motor vehicle enforcement training and              5,000,000
 support grant program..................................
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       The agreement includes funding for the high priority 
     activities program grants to states that establish programs 
     to impound or otherwise immobilize a passenger-carrying 
     commercial motor vehicle found to have safety violations that 
     are serious enough to warrant immediate removal from the 
     roadway, as authorized.


 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS--FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY ADMINISTRATION

       Section 130 requires the FMCSA to send notice of 49 CFR 
     385.308 violations by certified mail, registered mail, or 
     some other manner of delivery which records receipt of the 
     notice by the persons responsible for the violations.
       Section 131 requires the FMCSA to update inspection 
     regulations for rear underride guards as specified in GAO-19-
     264.
       Section 132 prohibits funds from being used to enforce the 
     electronic logging device rule with respect to carriers 
     transporting livestock or insects.

             National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


                        OPERATIONS AND RESEARCH

       The agreement provides $200,000,000 from the general fund 
     for operations and research. The agreement directs the NHTSA 
     to include the same level of details as was included in the 
     fiscal year 2020 budget estimate in future budget estimates.
       Truck underride safety.--The agreement directs the NHTSA to 
     implement recommendations included in the GAO report [GAO-19-
     264] on truck underride safety, complete a rulemaking to 
     improve rear guards to meet the Insurance Institute for 
     Highway Safety standards, and brief the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations quarterly on the agency's 
     progress in meeting these directives. The agreement also 
     directs the NHTSA to share information with police 
     departments on related activities in order to improve the 
     quality and completeness of underride crash data.
       AV testing.--The agreement directs the NHTSA to move 
     forward on a research program on the kinetics and injury 
     outcomes of occupants traveling in automated vehicles, 
     including those with alternative seating postures and 
     configurations, and to brief the House and Senate Committees 
     on Appropriations on the results of this study.
       GAO assessment.--The agreement directs the GAO to assess: 
     (1) what is known about consumers' understanding and use of 
     lower level automated vehicle technologies; (2)

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     how vehicle manufacturers and governments are educating 
     consumers about these technologies; and (3) what role the 
     Federal government has in helping consumers understand the 
     safety benefits of and appropriate use of these technologies. 
     The agreement directs the GAO to submit this report to the 
     House and Senate Committees on Appropriations within 1 year 
     of enactment of this act.
       AV testing.--The agreement encourages the NHTSA to continue 
     to support research and test facilities that replicate a wide 
     variety of challenging weather conditions, like rain, fog, 
     and low sun angles. The NHTSA is encouraged to partner with 
     an existing non-profit automotive vehicle test and research 
     facility to facilitate the development and deployment of AV 
     technology that can operate in all weather conditions, 
     including development of methodologies to measure the 
     performance of AV technology.


                        OPERATIONS AND RESEARCH

                (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)

                      (LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS)

                          (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

       The agreement provides a liquidating cash appropriation and 
     an obligation limitation of $192,800,000, to remain available 
     until expended, which reflects the authorized level of 
     contract authority, and of which $20,000,000 shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2023, and $7,000,000, for 
     mobility research on older drivers, shall remain available 
     until expended. Of the total amount, the agreement provides 
     $186,000,000 for programs authorized under section 403 of 
     title 23, U.S.C., including behavioral research on automated 
     driving systems and advanced driver assistance systems and 
     improving consumer responses to safety recalls, and section 
     25024 of Public Law 117-58. The total also provides 
     $6,800,000 for the national driver register authorized under 
     chapter 303 of title 49, U.S.C.
       Highway fatalities.--The agreement directs the NHTSA to 
     develop and implement a national campaign to reduce highway 
     fatalities. The agreement also expects that the report 
     directed in fiscal year 2021 will be delivered by May 1, 
     2022. Increased funding should be used to address the 
     disproportionate increases in highway fatalities for non-
     Hispanic Black people, in occupant ejection, and in 
     unrestrained occupants of passenger vehicles.
       Road to zero coalition.--The agreement directs the NHTSA to 
     develop and implement an agreement to provide safe system 
     innovation grant funding at a level commensurate with current 
     law within 120 days of enactment of this act.
       Traffic safety culture.--The agreement includes $600,000 
     for the NHTSA to work with a university with expertise in 
     traffic safety culture to develop training courses for states 
     to learn how to implement a traffic safety culture, as a 
     means to promote vision zero. The training should include 
     tools to guide states on data, metrics, and strategies to 
     change driver behavior, how to examine current safety 
     culture, and ways to engage a broad group of stakeholders.
       Drunk and impaired driving detection.--The agreement 
     directs the NHTSA to update the House and Senate Committees 
     on Appropriations on the status of the Volpe report on 
     advanced drunk driving prevention systems. The NHTSA should 
     notify the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on 
     any factors that may delay progress on efforts to advance the 
     implementation and integration of impaired driving 
     technologies, and be fully attentive to the development of 
     all such technologies that are under development or already 
     being offered. The NHTSA is also directed to emphasize 
     research on driver monitoring and to identify promising 
     technologies that will reduce or eliminate impaired and 
     distracted driving.
       Drug-impaired driving.--The agreement expects the NHTSA to 
     address long-standing NTSB recommendations to: (1) develop 
     and disseminate to appropriate state officials a common 
     standard of practice or guidance for drug toxicology testing 
     which should consider recommendations issued by the National 
     Safety Council in the publication entitled, ``Recommendations 
     for Toxicological Investigation of Drug-Impaired Driving and 
     Motor Vehicle Fatalities-2021 Update'' in consultation with 
     relevant accredited universities and Federal agencies; (2) 
     develop and disseminate best practices, identify model 
     specifications, and create a conforming products list for 
     oral fluid drug screening devices; (3) evaluate best 
     practices and countermeasures found to be the most effective 
     in reducing fatalities, injuries, and crashes involving drug-
     impaired drivers; and (4) provide additional guidance on each 
     of these issues to the states.
       The agreement continues to support the NHTSA's drug-
     impaired driving initiative, research initiatives such as the 
     collection of toxicology data in fatal accidents, and 
     continued education and training efforts with law enforcement 
     and prosecutors, such as drug recognition experts and 
     advanced roadside impaired driving enforcement training. The 
     NHTSA should issue clarifying guidance on the eligible uses 
     of highway safety program grants for gathering data on 
     individuals in fatal car crashes for substance impairments, 
     where permissible under current law. With the opioid epidemic 
     affecting the rates of drug-impaired driving, the NHTSA 
     should also collaborate with the Centers for Disease Control 
     and Prevention [CDC] to develop guidance to states on how 
     funding provided by each agency can be used to reduce drug-
     impaired driving.
       The agreement also encourages the NHTSA to use the results 
     of laboratory tests (related to marijuana impairment 
     standards) to move forward to field testing and to work 
     towards the development of a standardized field sobriety test 
     to detect levels of marijuana impairment. NHTSA's work should 
     focus on all commonly available cannabis products. NHTSA 
     should also consider issuing toxicology testing guidance to 
     State officials in accordance with recommendations issued by 
     the National Safety Council in the aforementioned publication 
     and consult with relevant accredited universities.
       Child-car seat testing.--The agreement modifies the 
     rulemaking directive in House Report 117-99 in this section 
     to September 30, 2022.
       Child hyperthermia.--The agreement provides not less than 
     $2,000,000 for NHTSA to continue and expand upon policies and 
     programs implemented in 2019 regarding public education and 
     outreach efforts on child hyperthermia prevention.
       Stroke victim transportation protocol.--The agreement 
     encourages the NHTSA and its Office of Emergency Medical 
     Services [EMS] to continue working with stakeholders in the 
     EMS community to develop and disseminate information on 
     assessment, treatment, and transport-destination protocols to 
     ensure that stroke patients are transported to the most 
     appropriate hospital for treatment. In developing such 
     protocols, stakeholders should consider the capability of an 
     emergency receiving facility to improve outcomes for 
     patients.
       EMS/911.--The agreement encourages the NHTSA, through the 
     EMS, to disseminate training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation 
     to state and local emergency dispatchers. Such training 
     should include evidence-based protocols, continuing 
     education, and performance measures.
       Digital alert technology.--The agreement specifies that the 
     NHTSA should use funds provided in fiscal year 2020 for 
     deployment of digital alert technology with local law 
     enforcement in the field.
       Causal factors of auto crashes.--The agreement encourages 
     the NHTSA to focus on research on causal factors of auto 
     crashes, such as distracted driving, road conditions, and 
     congestion.


                     HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY GRANTS

                (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)

                      (LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS)

                          (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

       The bill provides a liquidating cash appropriation and an 
     obligation limitation of $774,300,000 for highway traffic 
     safety grants, to remain available until expended.
       State traffic safety information systems improvements.--The 
     agreement directs the NHTSA to continue to provide technical 
     assistance to states on improving the interoperability of 
     state and national traffic safety information systems. In 
     addition, within one-year after enactment of this act, the 
     agreement directs the NHTSA to produce a publicly available 
     report on what challenges states are facing with improving 
     their traffic safety coordination and to brief the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations on the findings and 
     analysis.


      ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS--NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY 
                             ADMINISTRATION

       Section 140 provides funding for travel and related 
     expenses for state management reviews and highway safety core 
     competency development training.
       Section 141 exempts obligation authority made available in 
     previous public laws from the obligation limitations set for 
     the current year.
       Section 142 prohibits funds from being used to enforce 
     certain state maintenance of effort requirements under 23 
     U.S.C. 405.

                    Federal Railroad Administration


                         SAFETY AND OPERATIONS

       The bill provides $240,757,000 for safety and operations of 
     the Federal Railroad Administration [FRA], of which 
     $25,000,000 shall remain available until expended. The 
     funding provided combined with available prior year funding 
     will be sufficient to support safety activities and other FRA 
     programs. The agreement provides the following funding levels 
     for specific activities within this account:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Safe transportation of energy products...............   up to $2,000,000
Automated track inspection program and data analysis.        $16,500,000
Positive train control support program...............   up to $1,000,000
Trespasser prevention................................     up to $400,000
Highway-rail grade crossing safety...................   up to $2,175,000
Grant and project development technical assistance,     up to $1,500,000
 oversight...........................................
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Competitive grants.--The agreement directs the FRA to 
     provide bi-annual reports to the House and Senate Committees 
     on Appropriations on the status of grant agreements and 
     obligations for all awards for fiscal years 2017 through 2022 
     for the Federal-state partnership for intercity passenger 
     rail, consolidated rail infrastructure and safety 
     improvements [CRISI], restoration and enhancement, and 
     railroad crossing elimination grant programs.
       Blocked railroad crossings.--The agreement directs the FRA 
     to follow the direction included in House Report 117-99 
     relating to the FRA's website for the public and law 
     enforcement to report blocked railroad crossings. The 
     agreement urges the FRA to require states receiving funding 
     through the railroad safety state participation program to 
     include on their website a link with instructions for 
     reporting incidents to the FRA's website on blocked railroad 
     crossings.

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       Amfleet replacement.--The agreement does not include 
     direction in House Report 117-99 as funding appropriated in 
     the IIJA will support state and Amtrak acquisition costs for 
     this new fleet.


                   RAILROAD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

       The bill provides $43,000,000 for railroad research and 
     development, to remain available until expended. Of this 
     amount, up to $2,100,000 is available to make improvements at 
     the transportation technology center as authorized under 49 
     U.S.C. 20108(d).
       Safe transportation of energy products.--The agreement 
     provides up to $2,000,000 to research and mitigate risks 
     associated with the transportation of crude oil, ethanol, 
     liquefied natural gas [LNG], and other hazardous materials, 
     including tank car research in partnership with other Federal 
     agencies. The FRA is directed to continue to undertake 
     comprehensive efforts in collaboration with the Pipeline and 
     Hazardous Materials Safety Administration [PHMSA] to identify 
     and address gaps in research relating to the transportation 
     of LNG in rail tank cars, which should inform rulemaking.
       Emissions reduction and alternative fuel locomotives.--The 
     agreement provides $2,500,000 for the FRA to continue ongoing 
     research, development, and testing on innovative technologies 
     and solutions for low- or no-emission alternative fuels for 
     locomotives, engine improvements, and motive power 
     technologies. The FRA is directed to work in collaboration 
     with the Department of Energy and the private sector in order 
     to hasten the transition from traditional diesel fuel 
     locomotives, spur the development and deployment of low- or 
     no-emission technologies, and achieve widespread commercial 
     use. Further, the agreement directs the FRA to conduct 
     research, development, testing, and analysis to determine the 
     safety of such technologies, any additional emergency 
     response planning and training requirements relating to such 
     technologies, related infrastructure requirements to support 
     such technologies, and any other activities the FRA deems 
     necessary to ensure the safe operations of such technologies.
       Workforce development.--The agreement provides up to 
     $1,000,000 to support the workforce development and research 
     activities outlined in House Report 117-99.
       Short-line safety.--The agreement provides $2,500,000 to 
     continue to improve safety practices and training for class 
     II and class III freight railroads, including efforts to 
     improve the safe transportation of crude oil, other hazardous 
     materials, freight, and passenger rail.
       Research partnerships with universities.--The agreement 
     provides up to $5,000,000 for partnerships with qualified 
     universities on research related to improving the safety, 
     capacity, and efficiency of the nation's rail infrastructure, 
     including $1,000,000 for research on intelligent railroad 
     systems.


         FEDERAL-STATE PARTNERSHIP FOR INTERCITY PASSENGER RAIL

       The bill provides $100,000,000 for Federal-state 
     partnership for intercity passenger rail grants as authorized 
     under 49 U.S.C. 24911, to remain available until expended.


        CONSOLIDATED RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The bill provides $625,000,000 for CRISI grants as 
     authorized under 49 U.S.C. 22907, to remain available until 
     expended. Of this amount, not less than $150,000,000 is for 
     projects eligible under 49 U.S.C. 22907(c)(2) that support 
     the development of new intercity passenger rail service 
     routes including alignments for existing routes; not less 
     than $25,000,000 is for projects eligible under 49 U.S.C. 
     22907(c)(11); $120,860,000 is for the purposes and amounts 
     specified in the table entitled ``Community Project Funding/
     Congressionally Directed Spending'' included in this joint 
     explanatory statement; and not more than $5,000,000 is for 
     preconstruction planning activities and capital costs related 
     to the deployment of magnetic levitation transportation 
     projects.
       The agreement directs the FRA to provide funding for 
     projects listed in the table entitled ``Community Project 
     Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending'' included in this 
     joint explanatory statement in the corresponding amounts. 
     Further, the agreement directs that the specific funding 
     allocated in the table entitled ``Community Project Funding/
     Congressionally Directed Spending'' included in this joint 
     explanatory statement shall not diminish or prejudice any 
     application or geographic region to receive other 
     discretionary grants or loans.


          THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION [AMTRAK]

       The agreement provides a total of $2,331,371,000 for 
     Amtrak. The agreement notes that this funding level 
     represents extenuating circumstances regarding residual 
     effects from the pandemic on Amtrak's reduced ridership and 
     revenue. The agreement directs Amtrak to provide regular 
     updates to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
     on any new revenue projections, estimates, or needs as they 
     become available.
       Amtrak station agents.--The agreement directs Amtrak to 
     either provide a station agent in each Amtrak station that 
     had a ticket agent position eliminated in fiscal year 2018 
     or, with respect to any given station on that list, to 
     instead reach an agreement with the labor organization 
     representing employees at such station to provide a station 
     agent in a different station.
       Budget and business plan.--The agreement directs Amtrak to 
     submit a business plan in accordance with 49 U.S.C. 24320, as 
     amended by Public Law 117-58.
       FRA grant administration and report streamlining.--The 
     agreement encourages the FRA to work with Amtrak to reduce 
     duplication and streamline the reporting requirements for the 
     FRA's grant agreements with Amtrak.
       Food and beverage.--The agreement directs Amtrak to 
     periodically update the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations on the food and beverage offerings, new 
     initiatives, operating loss, and workforce impacts, as 
     appropriate.
       U.S. services.--The agreement directs Amtrak to take the 
     necessary affirmative steps to ensure that contracts for 
     customer service, professional, and IT services, including 
     subsidiary services, shall be performed within the United 
     States.


     NORTHEAST CORRIDOR GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER 
                              CORPORATION

       The bill provides $874,501,000, to remain available until 
     expended, for the Secretary to make grants to Amtrak for 
     activities associated with the northeast corridor [NEC], 
     defined as the main line between Boston, Massachusetts, and 
     the District of Columbia, and the facilities and services 
     used to operate and maintain the NEC line. The bill provides 
     up to $1,000,000 for the northeast corridor commission 
     [NECC], which, combined with the up to $5,000,000 
     appropriated in fiscal year 2022 in the Infrastructure 
     Investment and Jobs Act, fully funds the NECC as authorized 
     in section 22101(e) of division B of such act. The agreement 
     takes into account that funding appropriated in the IIJA will 
     be used to bring Amtrak-served stations into compliance with 
     the Americans with Disabilities Act and acquire new passenger 
     rolling stock to replace the single-level passenger cars used 
     in Amtrak's NEC, state-supported, and long-distance services.


 NATIONAL NETWORK GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION

       The bill provides $1,456,870,000, to remain available until 
     expended, for the Secretary to make grants to Amtrak for 
     activities associated with the national network. National 
     network grants provide operating and capital funding for 
     Amtrak's long-distance and state-supported routes, long-
     distance routes that operate on the NEC, and other non-NEC 
     activities. Of this amount, at least $50,000,000 is for the 
     development, installation, and operation of railroad safety 
     improvements, including the implementation of a positive 
     train control system. The agreement does not provide 
     additional funding for the state-supported route committee, 
     as the up to $3,000,000 appropriated in fiscal year 2022 in 
     the IIJA fully funds the state-supported route committee as 
     authorized in section 22101(d) of division B of such act. 
     Further, the agreement does not provide additional funding 
     for the interstate rail compacts grant program, as the up to 
     $3,000,000 appropriated in fiscal year 2022 in the IIJA fully 
     funds such grants as authorized in section 22101(f) of 
     division B of such act.
       National network services.--The agreement does not support 
     proposals that will inevitably lead to long-term or permanent 
     service cuts or segmentation of Amtrak's long-distance 
     routes, which will lead to less service for rural 
     communities.


       ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS--FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION

                        (INCLUDING RESCISSIONS)

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       Section 150 limits overtime to $35,000 per Amtrak employee 
     and allows Amtrak's president to waive this restriction for 
     specific employees for safety or operational efficiency 
     reasons. Amtrak's president is required to submit a report to 
     the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations no later 
     than 60 days after enactment of this act summarizing all 
     overtime payments incurred by Amtrak for calendar year 2021 
     and the three prior calendar years.
       Section 151 prohibits the use of funds made available by 
     this act by Amtrak in contravention of the Worker Adjustment 
     and Retraining Notification Act.
       Section 152 allows the FRA to transfer certain amounts made 
     available in this and prior acts to the financial assistance 
     oversight and technical assistance account to support the 
     award, administration, project management oversight, and 
     technical assistance of grants administered by the FRA, with 
     an exception.
       Section 153 rescinds certain unobligated balances.
       Section 154 prohibits the use of funds made available to 
     Amtrak to reduce the total number of Amtrak police department 
     uniformed officers patrolling on board passenger trains or at 
     stations, facilities or rights-of-way below the staffing 
     level on May 1, 2019.
       Section 155 expresses the sense of Congress that long-
     distance passenger rail routes and services should be 
     sustained to ensure connectivity throughout the national 
     network.
       Section 156 specifies that amounts made available in any 
     prior fiscal years for the restoration and enhancement 
     program are subject to 49 U.S.C. 22908, as in effect on the 
     effective date of Public Law 117-58.

                     Federal Transit Administration

       The bill provides the administrative expenses for the 
     Federal Transit Administration [FTA] from the mass transit 
     account under the heading ``Transit Formula Grants'', as 
     authorized by the IIJA. The

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     agreement includes the direction under the heading 
     ``Administrative Expenses'' in House Report 117-99.


                         TRANSIT FORMULA GRANTS

                (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)

                      (LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS)

                          (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

       The bill includes a liquidation of contract authorization 
     and a limitation on obligations from the mass transit account 
     for transit formula grants of $13,355,000,000, as authorized 
     by the IIJA.
       New transportation projects in low-growth areas.--The 
     agreement encourages the FTA to prioritize projects that 
     connect communities unserved or underserved by transit to 
     employment centers and projects that support economic growth 
     in disadvantaged areas.
       Innovative procurement.--The FTA should provide technical 
     assistance to states regarding the development of state 
     purchasing schedules that are consistent with Federal law, 
     take steps to ensure that purchases by transit agencies off 
     of state schedules from other states comply with Federal 
     requirements, and use webinars and stakeholder events to make 
     transit agencies more aware that purchases off of state 
     schedules are an eligible use of funds regardless of 
     location.
       Low or no emission vehicle program.--The agreement directs 
     the FTA to implement 49 U.S.C. 5339(c) in a manner that 
     encourages a variety of different fuel types, and to consider 
     procurements that reduce an agency's overall greenhouse gas 
     emissions.


                     TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS

       The bill provides an additional $504,263,267 in transit 
     infrastructure grants, to remain available until expended. Of 
     the funds provided, $175,000,000 is available for buses and 
     bus facilities competitive grants as authorized under 49 
     U.S.C. 5339(b); $75,000,000 is available for low or no 
     emission vehicle grants as authorized under 49 U.S.C. 
     5339(c); $6,500,000 is available for ferry boats grants as 
     authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5307(h), of which $3,250,000 is 
     available only for low or zero-emission ferries or ferries 
     using electric battery or fuel cell components or the 
     infrastructure to support such ferries; $2,000,000 is 
     available for bus testing facilities as authorized under 49 
     U.S.C. 5318; $1,000,000 is available for an innovative 
     mobility demonstration pilot program; $1,000,000 is available 
     for the accelerating innovative mobility program; $20,000,000 
     is available for areas of persistent poverty or historically 
     disadvantaged communities; $10,000,000 is available for 
     technical assistance, research, demonstration, or deployment 
     activities or projects to accelerate the adoption of zero 
     emission buses in public transit as authorized under 49 
     U.S.C. 5312; $200,798,267 is available for the purposes and 
     amounts specified in the table entitled ``Community Project 
     Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending'' included in this 
     joint explanatory statement; and $12,965,000 is available for 
     ferry service for rural communities as authorized under 
     section 71103 of division G of Public Law 117-58. The bill 
     provides funding from the general fund, and the funding is 
     not subject to any limitation on obligations.
       The specific funding allocated in the table entitled 
     ``Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 
     Spending'' included in this joint explanatory statement shall 
     not diminish or prejudice the application of a specific 
     project or geographic region to receive other discretionary 
     grants or loans. The FTA is directed to include activities 
     that increase green space surrounding a bus transportation 
     hub structure as eligible for amounts provided under this 
     heading in this act for buses and bus facilities competitive 
     grants.
       Transit vehicle innovation deployment centers [TVIDC].--The 
     agreement directs the FTA to collaborate with TVIDC in order 
     to accelerate the production and deployment of zero emission 
     transit technologies and infrastructure that reduce the 
     impacts of the transportation sector on greenhouse gas 
     emissions through research and technical assistance.


                   TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING

       The bill provides $7,500,000 for technical assistance and 
     training activities under 49 U.S.C. 5314, to remain available 
     until September 30, 2023. The funding provided under this 
     heading is supplemental to the funding provided under the 
     heading ``Transit Formula Grants,'' as authorized by the 
     Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
       Cooperative agreements.--The agreement directs that not 
     less than $2,500,000 shall be for a cooperative agreement 
     consistent with the direction in House Report 117-99 and not 
     less than $1,500,000 shall be for a cooperative agreement for 
     a technical assistance center to assist small urban, rural, 
     and Tribal public transit recipients and planning 
     organizations with applied innovation and capacity building.
       Transportation Research Board [TRB].--The agreement does 
     not include funding under this paragraph provided in House 
     Report 117-99.


                       CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANTS

       The bill provides $2,248,000,000 for fixed-guideway 
     projects, to remain available until expended. Of the funds 
     provided, $1,459,020,000 is available for new starts 
     projects, $345,000,000 is available for core capacity 
     projects, $321,500,000 is available for small starts 
     projects, $100,000,000 is available for the expedited project 
     delivery pilot program, and $22,480,000 is available for 
     oversight activities consistent with 49 U.S.C. 5338(c). The 
     bill directs the Secretary to administer the capital 
     investment grants [CIG] program and move projects through the 
     program to construction in accordance with the requirements 
     of 49 U.S.C. 5309 and section 3005(b) of the FAST Act. The 
     bill also clarifies that project sponsors may be concurrently 
     eligible for both the new starts and expedited project 
     delivery pilot programs.
       As a result of changed conditions since the release of the 
     budget request, the agreement does not include the CIG table 
     contained under this heading in House Report 117-99. Amounts 
     provided are sufficient to support projects that currently 
     have executed grant agreements with the FTA, projects that 
     meet the requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5309 and are anticipating 
     grant agreements in fiscal year 2022, and activities 
     authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5309(b)(1).
       Project management oversight [PMO] activities.--The 
     agreement directs the FTA to continue to submit to the House 
     and Senate Committees on Appropriations the quarterly PMO 
     reports for each project with a full funding grant agreement.
       Pilot program for expedited project delivery program.--The 
     agreement directs the FTA to continue to work with current 
     and potential project sponsors to provide transparent 
     information about the selection process and the method by 
     which future interested project sponsors are able to 
     participate in the pilot program for expedited project 
     delivery.
       Core capacity vehicle calculation.--The agreement directs 
     the FTA to reevaluate the calculation contained in the 
     ``Final Capital Investment Grant Program Interim Policy 
     Guidance'' issued in June 2016, that it utilizes to determine 
     interior size of railcar capacity for making core capacity 
     eligibility determinations. In re-evaluating this 
     calculation, the FTA should ensure that the method recognizes 
     variation in vehicle configurations and provides flexibility 
     for agencies in demonstrating usable space per passenger in 
     the corridor for determining eligibility for core capacity 
     funding.


      GRANTS TO THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY

       The bill provides $150,000,000 to carry out section 601 of 
     division B of Public Law 110-432, as amended by the 
     Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, to remain available 
     until expended.


       ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS--FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION

                        (INCLUDING RESCISSIONS)

       Section 160 exempts previously made transit obligations 
     from limitations on obligations.
       Section 161 allows funds provided in this act that remain 
     unobligated by September 30, 2025, for fixed guideway capital 
     investment projects to be available for projects to use the 
     funds for the purposes for which they were originally 
     provided.
       Section 162 allows for the transfer of appropriations made 
     prior to October 1, 2021, from older accounts to be merged 
     into new accounts with similar current activities.
       Section 163 prohibits the use of funds to adjust 
     apportionments pursuant to 26 U.S.C. 9503(e)(4).
       Section 164 prohibits the use of funds to impede or hinder 
     project advancement or approval for any project seeking a 
     Federal contribution from the CIG program of greater than 40 
     percent of project costs.
       Section 165 rescinds unobligated amounts made available in 
     prior fiscal years from the formula grants account.
       Section 166 permits the use of unexpended balances 
     appropriated for low or no emission component assessment 
     under 49 U.S.C. 5312(h) to be used for specified capital 
     activities.

        Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation


                       OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

                    (HARBOR MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND)

       The bill provides $38,000,000 for the operations, 
     maintenance, and capital infrastructure activities of the 
     Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation 
     [GLS]. Of that amount, not less than $14,500,000 is provided 
     for the seaway infrastructure program. The agreement provides 
     $1,000,000 for trade and economic development activities at 
     the GLS, to be carried out in conjunction with system 
     stakeholders.
       Seaway infrastructure program.--The agreement directs the 
     GLS to continue to submit an annual report to the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations, no later than 90 days 
     after enactment of this act, summarizing the activities of 
     the seaway infrastructure program during the immediate 
     preceding fiscal year.

                        Maritime Administration


                       MARITIME SECURITY PROGRAM

       The bill provides $318,000,000 for the maritime security 
     program, to remain available until expended.


                          CABLE SECURITY FLEET

       The bill provides $10,000,000 for the cable security fleet 
     program, to remain available until expended.


                        TANKER SECURITY PROGRAM

       The bill provides $60,000,000 for the tanker security fleet 
     program, to remain available until expended. The agreement 
     directs the Maritime Administration [MARAD] to brief the 
     House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on its efforts 
     to establish the tanker security fleet program no later than 
     90 days after enactment of this act.

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                        OPERATIONS AND TRAINING

       The bill provides $172,204,000 for MARAD's operations and 
     training account. The agreement provides the following 
     funding levels for specific activities within this account:

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USMMA operations...........................................  $85,032,000
USMMA facilities maintenance and repair, and equipment.....    5,500,000
Maritime environmental and technical assistance program....    6,000,000
America's marine highway program...........................   14,819,000
MARAD headquarters operations..............................   60,853,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Funding.--For amounts provided for the maritime 
     environmental and technical assistance program, MARAD is 
     directed to prioritize authorized activities that reduce 
     vessel and port air emissions. The agreement directs MARAD to 
     give preference to projects that reduce air emissions and 
     vehicle miles travel when awarding grants through the 
     America's marine highway program, other than for grant 
     applications related to noncontiguous trade as defined in 46 
     U.S.C. 53501(4).
       MARAD staffing.--Instead of the vacancy report required in 
     House Report 117-99, the agreement directs MARAD to provide 
     the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations with 
     quarterly staffing data, including hiring and separations, by 
     program office for all positions funded by this act in the 
     MARAD headquarters operations and United States Merchant 
     Marine Academy [USMMA] operations PPA.
       MARAD's USMMA oversight.--The agreement notes with strong 
     disappointment the ongoing, persistent, and systematic 
     failures by the Department and MARAD to conduct proper 
     oversight and management of the USMMA, which has impacted 
     efforts to address sexual assault and sexual harassment 
     prevention and response, created health and safety risks due 
     to severe maintenance backlogs, and delayed critical long-
     term capital improvements projects. While the Department and 
     MARAD have begun to address these matters, more must be done 
     to rectify these urgent challenges at the USMMA. The 
     agreement directs MARAD to prioritize funding increases 
     provided for MARAD headquarters operations in this act, and 
     in the reprogramming request approved by the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations on February 14, 2022, to improve 
     and strengthen its oversight and management of the USMMA.
       Sexual assault and sexual harassment [SASH] at USMMA.--The 
     agreement notes that challenges with SASH persist at-sea 
     during sea year training and on the USMMA campus. On February 
     14, 2022, the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
     approved a reprogramming request to assist MARAD with 
     implementing SASH prevention and response policies and 
     procedures, addressing urgent at-sea training equipment 
     needs, improving governance and oversight of the USMMA, and 
     conducting further analysis to improve student and faculty 
     safety and welfare. The agreement directs MARAD to fully 
     staff the Sexual Assault/Sexual Harassment Prevention and 
     Response Office at the USMMA and the new Every Mariner Builds 
     a Respectful Culture [EMBARC] Office at MARAD. MARAD is 
     directed to continue to engage with U.S. commercial vessel 
     operators on the EMBARC SASH prevention standards in order to 
     enroll additional vessel operators in the sea year program. 
     Further, the agreement directs MARAD to continue to work 
     toward establishing concurrent criminal jurisdiction over the 
     USMMA campus as required by P.L. 115-232 and P.L. 116-94.
       USMMA facility maintenance.--The agreement provides 
     $5,500,000 for facilities maintenance and repair, and 
     equipment, which is equal to the budget request. An 
     additional $3,000,000 was provided through a reprogramming 
     approved by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
     on February 14, 2022, thereby providing a total funding level 
     of $8,500,000 for fiscal year 2022. The Department's failure 
     to appropriately plan for and manage routine maintenance of 
     USMMA facilities is unacceptable. While MARAD plans to 
     execute a comprehensive facilities and systems maintenance 
     contract this fiscal year, the USMMA, MARAD, and Department 
     are directed to identify and mitigate all fire safety, 
     heating, cooling, and boiler system failures within 30 days 
     of enactment of this act and to brief the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations on the completion of such tasks 
     within such timeframe.
       USMMA capital improvements projects.--The agreement notes 
     with concern that despite having over $57,000,000 in 
     available prior year funding to make capital improvements to 
     USMMA facilities, the Department, MARAD, and the USMMA have 
     failed to effectively execute a single renovation and 
     rehabilitation project of a major facility in over six years, 
     which has direct consequences on the quality of the education 
     provided to students and the ability to attract new entrants 
     to serve as future leaders in the United States Merchant 
     Marine. The agreement continues to direct MARAD to expand and 
     improve the capacity of USMMA staff in order to facilitate 
     the proper management and oversight of capital improvements 
     projects. However, recognizing that recruitment and retention 
     of such positions remains a challenge for the USMMA, the 
     agreement directs the Department to consider using design 
     build contracts in order to expedite the renovation of 
     academic facilities and related pier infrastructure this 
     fiscal year. Further, the USMMA, MARAD, and the Department 
     shall provide quarterly briefings to the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations on the status of all short- and 
     long-term capital improvements projects and continue to 
     provide an annual report on all capital improvements projects 
     in the same manner and context as in previous fiscal years.
       Secure composite shipping containers.--The agreement 
     encourages MARAD to collaborate with the Federal Maritime 
     Commission [FMC], Department of Defense, and Department of 
     Homeland Security to support the transition of secure 
     composite shipping containers into wider use to provide 
     increased security, shipment visibility, and cargo 
     facilitation. The agreement directs MARAD to use the existing 
     America's marine highway program and the port infrastructure 
     development program to promote and provide funding for secure 
     composite shipping containers, if available and if eligible.


                   STATE MARITIME ACADEMY OPERATIONS

       The bill provides $423,300,000 for state maritime academy 
     [SMA] operations. The bill provides the following funding 
     levels for specific activities within this account:

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Training ships.................................              $30,500,000
  [Training vessel sharing]....................           [not more than
                                                             $8,000,000]
National security multi-mission vessel program.              380,600,000
Student incentive program......................                2,400,000
Fuel assistance payments.......................                3,800,000
Direct payments for SMAs.......................                6,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       National security multi-mission vessel [NSMV].--The 
     agreement includes resources to fully fund the fifth and 
     final NSMV; address steel cost increases; and assist SMAs in 
     making shore-side infrastructure improvements to support the 
     delivery and operation of the NSMVs. Shore-side 
     infrastructure shall only include NSMV-specific improvements 
     required by MARAD to safely moor the vessels and other 
     improvements that are necessary for SMAs to receive the 
     NSMVs. MARAD shall notify the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations prior to obligating any funds for shore-side 
     infrastructure improvements, and such notification shall 
     include the amount of funding provided by non-Federal sources 
     for such infrastructure.
       The agreement directs MARAD to conduct vigorous oversight 
     of the vessel construction manager, as well as the shipyard, 
     to ensure the NSMVs are delivered on budget and on time. 
     MARAD is directed to continue to provide briefings to the 
     House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on the status 
     of the NSMV program on a quarterly basis, including detailed 
     reporting on the SMAs shore-side infrastructure improvements 
     needed to ensure successful delivery and operation of the 
     NSMVs, and to provide immediate notification of any 
     substantial risks to the construction schedule or cost.


                     ASSISTANCE TO SMALL SHIPYARDS

       The bill provides $20,000,000 for the small shipyard grant 
     program, to remain available until expended.


                             SHIP DISPOSAL

       The bill provides $10,000,000 for the ship disposal 
     program, to remain available until expended.
       National maritime heritage grants program.--With the 
     increasing cost of scrap steel, MARAD is expected to ensure 
     it is able to secure the highest price possible from vessels 
     recycled through the ship disposal program. The funds 
     received from these sales are deposited into the vessel 
     operations revolving fund [VORF], and MARAD distributes 
     funding from the VORF according to the authorized purposes 
     and allocations under 54 U.S.C. 308704, including to the 
     national maritime heritage grants program. The agreement 
     supports the use of funding from the VORF for the national 
     maritime heritage grants program and directs MARAD to 
     continue to work with the National Park Service to ensure 
     that the portion of the VORF allocated for the national 
     maritime heritage grants program under 54 U.S.C. 
     308704(b)(1)(A) is distributed in a timely fashion.


          MARITIME GUARANTEED LOAN (TITLE XI) PROGRAM ACCOUNT

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The bill provides $3,000,000 for administrative expenses of 
     the Title XI program and directs these funds to be 
     transferred to MARAD's operations and training account.


                PORT INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

       The bill provides $234,310,000 for the port infrastructure 
     development program, to remain available until expended.
       The agreement does not include direction included in House 
     Report 117-99 on eligibility requirements.
       Prioritization.--The agreement directs MARAD to set aside 
     25 percent of the funds for small inland river and coastal 
     ports and terminals, as required by 46 U.S.C. 54301. The 
     agreement directs MARAD to allow Federal cost shares above 80 
     percent for projects in rural areas, as permitted by 46 
     U.S.C. 54301. The agreement encourages MARAD to consider 
     eligible port infrastructure development grants for small and 
     rural coastal seaports that had a disproportionate loss of 
     revenue in 2020 or 2021.


           ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION--MARITIME ADMINISTRATION

       Section 170 authorizes MARAD to furnish utilities and 
     services and to make necessary repairs in connection with any 
     lease, contract, or occupancy involving government property 
     under control of MARAD and allows payments received to be 
     credited to the Treasury and to remain available until 
     expended.

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         Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration


                          OPERATIONAL EXPENSES

       The bill provides $29,100,000 for the necessary operational 
     expenses of the PHMSA, of which $4,500,000 shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2024. The agreement specifies 
     that $2,000,000 shall be for pipeline safety information 
     grants to communities as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 60130 and 
     $2,500,000 shall be for emergency response grants as 
     authorized by 49 U.S.C. 60125(b).
       Protecting Our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing 
     Safety Act of 2020 [PIPES Act].--The agreement provides 
     sufficient resources to support the implementation of the 
     PIPES Act (division R of P.L. 116-260) for this fiscal year. 
     The agreement encourages the Department to complete the 
     report required under section 111(c) of such act in a timely 
     manner, and recognizes the importance of coordinating with 
     existing training and qualification centers in the execution 
     of this requirement.
       Emergency response grants.--The agreement directs PHMSA to 
     consider expanding emergency response grants to rural 
     communities, to the extent permissible under law, and to work 
     with relevant authorizing committees to expand grant 
     eligibility to non-profit organizations providing emergency 
     response training and to communities outside of high 
     consequence areas.


                       HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY

       The bill provides $66,829,000 for PHMSA's hazardous 
     materials safety functions, of which $12,070,000 shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2024. Funds made available 
     until September 30, 2024, are for long-term research and 
     development contracts, grants, and, in a more limited scope, 
     contract safety programs.
       The agreement specifies that $1,000,000 shall be for 
     community safety grants authorized by 49 U.S.C. 5107(i), 
     $2,500,000 shall be for the state hazardous materials safety 
     inspection program, and $1,000,000 shall be for the 
     Assistance for Local Emergency Response Training [ALERT] 
     grants. The agreement directs PHMSA to prioritize ALERT 
     grants for training in rural areas.


                            PIPELINE SAFETY

                         (PIPELINE SAFETY FUND)

                    (OIL SPILL LIABILITY TRUST FUND)

       The bill provides $182,650,000 for PHMSA's pipeline safety 
     program, to remain available until September 30, 2024. Of 
     that amount, $27,650,000 is derived from the oil spill 
     liability trust fund, $146,600,000 is derived from the 
     pipeline safety fund, $400,000 is derived from fees collected 
     under 49 U.S.C. 60303 and deposited in the liquefied natural 
     gas siting account, and $8,000,000 is derived from fees 
     collected under 49 U.S.C. 60302 and deposited in the 
     underground natural gas storage facility safety account.
       The agreement provides the following levels for specific 
     activities within this account:

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Research and development................................     $13,000,000
State pipeline safety grants............................      60,000,000
Underground natural gas storage facility safety grants..       6,000,000
One-call state grants...................................       1,058,000
State damage prevention grants..........................       1,500,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       The agreement directs that some of the funds provided for 
     research and development shall be used for the pipeline 
     safety research competitive academic agreement program to 
     focus on near-term solutions in order to improve the safety 
     and reliability of the nation's pipeline transportation 
     system.
       Enhanced positive response [EPR].--The agreement encourages 
     PHMSA to allow one-call state grants to be used for EPR to 
     advance broader adoption of this innovative technology.


                     EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS GRANTS

                      (LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS)

                     (EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUND)

       The bill provides an obligation limitation of $28,318,000 
     for emergency preparedness grants, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2024.
       The agreement encourages PHMSA to train public sector 
     emergency response personnel in communities on or near rail 
     lines, which transport a significant volume of high-risk 
     energy commodities or toxic inhalation hazards.

                      Office of Inspector General


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The bill provides $103,150,000 for the salaries and 
     expenses of the Office of Inspector General.
       NextGen.--The agreement directs the Office of Inspector 
     General to report on the extent to which the costs and 
     benefits of NextGen programs can change due to external 
     factors (such as weather), and actions taken by airlines 
     (such as equipage and number of flights), airports, and other 
     external stakeholders.

            General Provisions--Department of Transportation

       Section 180 provides authorization for the DOT to maintain 
     and operate aircraft, hire passenger motor vehicles and 
     aircraft, purchase liability insurance, pay for uniforms, and 
     purchase and operate unmanned aircraft systems.
       Section 181 limits appropriations for services authorized 
     by 5 U.S.C. 3109 up to the rate permitted for an executive 
     level IV.
       Section 182 prohibits recipients of funds in this act from 
     disseminating personal information obtained by state DMVs in 
     connection to motor vehicle records with an exception.
       Section 183 prohibits funds in this act for salaries and 
     expenses of more than 125 political and presidential 
     appointees in the Department of Transportation.
       Section 184 stipulates that revenue collected by the FHWA 
     and the FRA from states, counties, municipalities, other 
     public authorities, and private sources for training may be 
     credited to specific accounts within the agencies with an 
     exception for state rail safety inspectors participating in 
     training.
       Section 185 prohibits the DOT from using funds to make a 
     loan, loan guarantee, line of credit, letter of intent, 
     Federally funded cooperative agreement, full funding grant 
     agreement, or discretionary grant unless the DOT gives a 3-
     day advance notice to the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations. The provision requires the DOT to provide a 
     comprehensive list of all such loans, loan guarantees, lines 
     of credit, letters of intent, Federally funded cooperative 
     agreements, full funding grant agreements, and discretionary 
     grants that will be announced with a 3-day advance notice to 
     the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. The 
     provision also requires concurrent notice of any ``quick 
     release'' of funds from FHWA's emergency relief program, and 
     prohibits notifications from involving funds not available 
     for obligation.
       Section 186 allows funds received from rebates, refunds, 
     and similar sources to be credited to appropriations of the 
     DOT.
       Section 187 requires reprogramming actions to be approved 
     or denied by the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations, and reprogramming notifications shall be 
     transmitted solely to the Appropriations Committees.
       Section 188 allows funds appropriated to operating 
     administrations to be obligated for the Office of the 
     Secretary for costs related to assessments only when such 
     funds provide a direct benefit to the operating 
     administrations.
       Section 189 authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program 
     that establishes uniform standards for developing and 
     supporting agency transit pass and transit benefits, 
     including distribution of transit benefits.
       Section 190 allows the use of funds to assist a contract 
     utilizing geographic, economic, or other hiring preference 
     not otherwise authorized by law, only if certain requirements 
     are met related to availability of local labor, displacement 
     of existing employees, and delays in transportation plans.
       Section 191 directs the Secretary of Transportation to work 
     with the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that best 
     practices for industrial control systems procurement are up 
     to date and that systems procured with funds provided under 
     this title were procured using such practices.
       Section 192 allows amounts from improper payments to a 
     third-party contractor that are lawfully recovered by the DOT 
     to be made available until expended to cover expenses 
     incurred in the recovery of such payments.

                                TITLE II

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                     Management and Administration

       Broadband.--The agreement encourages the Department to help 
     address the gap in broadband access among HUD-assisted 
     households by: (1) continuing the connecthome initiative; (2) 
     working in partnership with the U.S. Department of 
     Agriculture [USDA] and the Federal Communications Commission 
     [FCC] to improve broadband connectivity and promote the 
     lifeline universal service program; and (3) providing 
     relevant data, guidance, and technical assistance to HUD 
     grantees to target resources efficiently to increase 
     broadband connectivity. The agreement encourages the 
     Department to consider needs of specific populations, such as 
     elderly residents and residents with disabilities, in 
     implementing these actions.
       Energy codes.--The agreement encourages HUD to work in 
     partnership with USDA to expeditiously update minimum energy 
     efficiency standards, as required by law, for HUD-owned and 
     subsidized properties.
       GAO priority recommendations.--The agreement directs HUD, 
     within 30 days of enactment of this act, to report to the 
     House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on the steps it 
     has taken in fiscal year 2021 to implement the 13 outstanding 
     priority recommendations made by GAO and additional actions 
     the Department will undertake in fiscal year 2022 to 
     implement these recommendations.
       Organizational charts and staffing realignments.--The 
     agreement directs HUD to submit, in consultation with the 
     House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, current and 
     accurate organizational charts for each office within the 
     Department as part of the fiscal year 2023 congressional 
     justifications. HUD is further directed to submit any staff 
     realignments or restructuring to the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations, consistent with section 405 of 
     this act.
       Appropriations attorneys.--The agreement funds 
     appropriations attorneys in the Office of the Chief Financial 
     Officer [OCFO] and directs the Department to refer all 
     appropriations law issues to such attorneys within the OCFO. 
     The agreement also encourages HUD to ensure the office has 
     adequate personnel and non-personnel resources to fulfill 
     their responsibilities, including the training of

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     HUD staff in funds control procedures and directives, as 
     required by section 215 of this act.
       Review of COVID-19 flexibilities and participation.--The 
     agreement directs HUD to submit a report to the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations within 180 days of 
     enactment of this act on: the impact of the statutory and 
     regulatory flexibilities for COVID-19; implementation 
     similarities and differences between programs; and 
     recommendations for enhancing the effectiveness of service 
     provision. Additionally, the agreement directs HUD, in 
     consultation with the Department of the Treasury and the 
     Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to report to the House 
     and Senate Committees on Appropriations within 120 days of 
     enactment of this act on the estimated number of renters and 
     homeowners who were behind on payments, but did not 
     participate in emergency COVID-19 relief. The agreement also 
     directs HUD to coordinate with the Department of the Treasury 
     to evaluate the effectiveness of Emergency Rental Assistance 
     programs in helping households avoid eviction and 
     homelessness and maintain housing stability.
       Rural areas.--The agreement urges the Department to enhance 
     its efforts to provide decent, affordable housing and to 
     promote economic development for Americans living in rural 
     areas. When designing programs and making funding decisions, 
     the Department shall take into consideration the unique 
     conditions, challenges, and scale of rural areas.


                           EXECUTIVE OFFICES

       The agreement includes $15,200,000 for the salaries and 
     expenses for executive offices, available until September 30, 
     2023. The agreement directs HUD to outline how budgetary 
     resources will be allocated among the seven offices funded 
     under this heading as part of the Department's operating plan 
     for fiscal year 2022.
       Affordable housing and construction costs.--The agreement 
     limits the scope of the GAO report on cost trends directed in 
     House Report 117-99 to the self-help and assisted 
     homeownership opportunity program.
       Collaboration with the Department of Health and Human 
     Services [HHS].--The agreement does not include the direction 
     in House Report 117-99 regarding collaboration with HHS on a 
     decision-support tool for health prevention efforts. Instead, 
     the agreement encourages HUD and HHS to collaborate on best 
     practices to improve health outcomes for households served by 
     HUD's programs.
       HUD staffing assessment.--Instead of a GAO study as 
     directed in House Report 117-99, the agreement directs HUD to 
     provide a briefing on field office vacancies not later than 
     100 days after enactment of this act.
       Top management challenges.--Instead of a report as directed 
     in House Report 117-99, the agreement directs the Department 
     to provide a briefing on the progress of the executive task 
     force to address the Office of Inspector General's 2020 and 
     2021 top management challenges within 30 days of enactment of 
     this act.


                     ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT OFFICES

       The agreement provides $607,000,000 for the salaries and 
     expenses for administrative support offices, available until 
     September 30, 2023. Funds are provided as follows:

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Office of the Chief Financial Officer..........              $82,000,000
Office of the General Counsel..................              114,000,000
Office of Administration.......................              212,000,000
Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer......               46,200,000
Office of the Chief Procurement Officer........               25,000,000
Office of Field Policy and Management..........               60,500,000
Office of Departmental Equal Employment                        4,300,000
 Opportunity...................................
Office of the Chief Information Officer........               63,000,000
                                                ------------------------
    Total......................................              607,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Expired balances report.--The agreement directs HUD to 
     submit a report on expired balances within 90 days of the end 
     of each fiscal year, and to identify amounts by account and 
     line item, including carryover and recaptures.
       Hiring and separation report.--The hiring and separation 
     report directed in House Report 117-99 shall be submitted 
     semiannually.
       Office of Administration [OA].--The agreement does not 
     approve the proposed consolidation of the OA, the Office of 
     the Chief Human Capital Officer, and the Office of the Chief 
     Procurement Officer into a single funding line or the 
     proposed reorganization to create the Office of Government 
     Information Management, and does not approve the creation of 
     any new offices within the OA.
       Office of Disaster Management.--The agreement approves the 
     proposed reorganization of Disaster Emergency Management and 
     Security Functions, as transmitted to the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations on February 7, 2022. This 
     reorganization creates an Office of Disaster Management that 
     reports directly to the Deputy Secretary to improve 
     coordination and delivery of disaster assistance to 
     communities and families.
       Office of the Chief Financial Officer [OCFO].--The 
     agreement encourages the OCFO to identify ongoing contract 
     costs that are necessary and appropriate to sustain HUD's 
     unqualified audit opinion and compliance with financial 
     management requirements, and directs HUD to detail such 
     contract expenses in its operating plans and congressional 
     justifications. The agreement approves the proposed 
     reorganizations to consolidate the Reports and Control 
     Division with the Payments and Collections Division, as well 
     as associated renaming of multiple branches; and to create 
     the Financial Data Reporting and Analysis Division within the 
     Assistant CFO [ACFO] for Systems. The agreement does not 
     approve the proposed reorganizations to create a Customer 
     Experience Division within the ACFO for Budget or the 
     creation of an Office of Chief Risk Officer. The agreement 
     does not include any funding for the creation of a customer 
     experience advisory board or other customer experience 
     activities within the OCFO.
       Office of the Chief Procurement Officer [OCPO].--The 
     agreement directs the Department to prioritize hiring 
     additional staff for OCPO with an emphasis on the caliber and 
     experience of new hires and to support the professional 
     development of current staff.
       Office of Field Policy and Management [OFPM].--The 
     agreement directs HUD to support the existing promise zone 
     designations for the length of their agreements, and directs 
     the OFPM to work with designees to provide any OMB-requested 
     data to effectively evaluate the initiative.


                            PROGRAM OFFICES

       The agreement provides $965,500,000 for the salaries and 
     expenses for program offices, available until September 30, 
     2023. Funds are provided as follows:

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Office of Public and Indian Housing..................       $253,500,000
Office of Community Planning and Development.........        147,000,000
Office of Housing....................................        431,000,000
Office of Policy Development and Research............         35,000,000
Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.........         88,000,000
Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes......         11,000,000
                                                      ------------------
    Total............................................        965,500,000
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       Empowerment zones [EZs].--The agreement modifies the 
     direction included in House Report 117-99 by instead 
     directing the GAO to summarize and submit a report to the 
     House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not later than 
     180 days after the enactment of this act on its long-standing 
     recommendations regarding the fragmented administration and 
     limited data collection on EZs, which impairs evaluating 
     their cost-effectiveness.
       New housing in high-cost metropolitan areas.--The agreement 
     directs HUD to report to the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations within 90 days after the enactment of this act 
     on identified metropolitan areas where income concentration 
     and housing supply constraints are most prevalent and 
     recommend best practices for localities and states to help 
     encourage the production of new housing in high-cost 
     metropolitan areas.
       Office of Community Planning and Development [CPD].--With 
     new funding and available carryover, the agreement supports 
     nearly 100 additional FTE, of which not less than 15 FTE are 
     provided to support the workload increase associated with 
     community investments for economic development initiatives. 
     The agreement directs HUD to inform the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations within 15 days of enactment of 
     this act regarding how it is implementing this hiring 
     direction. The agreement also approves the proposed 
     reorganization to establish an Office of Disaster Recovery, 
     realign existing functions of the Disaster Recovery and 
     Special Issues Division, and realign the Office of Grant 
     Programs' Coordinating Officer for Disaster Recovery and 
     associated staff to this new office.
       Office of Housing.--The agreement approves the Department's 
     proposed reorganization to relocate the Office of 
     Manufactured Housing Programs to the Office of the Assistant 
     Secretary for Housing--FHA Commissioner. The agreement 
     directs the Department to report within 90 days of enactment 
     of this act on actions taken by the Department in response to 
     recent increased volume in FHA multifamily housing, the 
     efficacy of workload sharing, consistency of processes 
     between regions, and lessons learned to inform future risk 
     management plans and better prepare for future volume surges.
       Office of Public and Indian Housing [PIH].--With new 
     funding and available carryover, the agreement supports an 
     estimated 100 additional FTE, of which no less than 15 FTE 
     are for the Office of Native American Programs, and no less 
     than 35 FTE are for the Office of Public Housing and Voucher 
     Programs. The agreement directs HUD to inform the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations within 15 days of 
     enactment of this act regarding how it is implementing the 
     agreement's hiring direction.


                          WORKING CAPITAL FUND

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       For the working capital fund [WCF], the agreement permits 
     only centralized activities and funds from this account to 
     include Federal shared services for financial management, 
     procurement, travel, relocation, human resources (including 
     the Treasury Executive Institute contract), printing, records 
     management, space renovation, furniture, and supply services. 
     Financial management, procurement, travel, and relocation 
     costs for services provided to the Office of Inspector 
     General are to be covered by the OCFO. The agreement does not 
     expand the authority, as proposed in the budget request, to 
     include information technology customer devices, financial 
     management services full cost recovery, or any other activity 
     not expressly permitted in this act. The agreement also 
     requires HUD to include in its annual operating plan a 
     detailed outline of its plans for transferring budgetary 
     resources to the WCF in fiscal year 2022.

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                       Public and Indian Housing


                     TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE

       The bill provides $27,369,641,000 to be available until 
     expended for all tenant-based section 8 activities under the 
     tenant-based rental assistance account.
       The bill includes $24,095,029,000 for the renewal of 
     tenant-based vouchers. This amount includes funding to renew 
     veteran affairs supportive housing [VASH] vouchers funded in 
     prior years and also includes up to $5,000,000 for Tribal 
     HUD-VASH renewals.
       The bill provides $200,000,000 in new incremental vouchers 
     to expand affordable housing opportunities to low-income 
     people (including families and individuals experiencing 
     homelessness and survivors of domestic violence), $50,000,000 
     for new incremental VASH vouchers, $30,000,000 for new 
     incremental family unification vouchers; $25,000,000 for 
     mobility-related services; and $100,000,000 for tenant 
     protection vouchers [TPVs].
       Administrative fees.--The agreement directs HUD to consult 
     with public housing agencies [PHAs], advocates, and 
     researchers, and provide a report to the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations on ways to make the 
     administrative fee formula more relevant to what it costs to 
     administer a high-performing and efficient voucher program 
     today, and report on the findings and recommendations within 
     180 days of enactment of this act.
       HUD-VASH.--The agreement directs HUD and the VA to work 
     collaboratively to develop performance metrics to track and 
     assess the impact of program flexibilities on utilization, 
     the reasons for unused funds, the effectiveness of the 
     program, and the distribution of resources. The agreement 
     continues to encourage HUD to use existing authority to 
     recapture HUD-VASH voucher assistance from PHAs that 
     voluntarily declare they no longer have a need for that 
     assistance, and to reallocate such HUD-VASH voucher 
     assistance to PHAs with an identified need. The agreement 
     directs HUD to expeditiously provide the report directed by 
     the fiscal year 2021 joint explanatory statement on methods 
     to reallocate unused HUD-VASH vouchers, which shall include a 
     determination of the feasibility of issuing a new 
     solicitation of participation for unallocated HUD-VASH 
     vouchers.
       Limited English proficiency [LEP].-- The agreement directs 
     the Office of Public and Indian Housing to work in 
     collaboration with the Office of Fair Housing and Equal 
     Opportunity to issue guidance to PHAs to clarify the 
     eligibility of PIH program funds for LEP-related activities 
     and identify best practices for language access plans and 
     cost-effective strategies for accessing robust language 
     assistance within 180 days of enactment of this act.


                        HOUSING CERTIFICATE FUND

                        (INCLUDING RESCISSIONS)

       The bill includes language allowing unobligated balances in 
     the housing certificate fund to be used for the renewal of or 
     amendments to section 8 project-based contracts and for 
     performance-based contract administrators.


                          PUBLIC HOUSING FUND

       The agreement provides $8,451,500,000 for the public 
     housing fund to remain available until September 30, 2025.
       Within the total, the agreement provides $5,038,500,000 for 
     the public housing operating formula for 2022 payments; 
     $25,000,000 for need-based allocations to PHAs that 
     experience or are at risk of financial shortfalls; 
     $3,200,000,000 for allocations to PHAs through the capital 
     fund formula; $75,000,000 for emergency capital needs, of 
     which $45,000,000 shall be for PHAs under receivership or 
     under the control of a federal monitor, and of which not less 
     than $10,000,000 is for safety and security measures; 
     $65,000,000 for competitive grants to public housing agencies 
     to evaluate and reduce residential health hazards, including 
     lead-based paint, carbon monoxide, mold, radon, and fire 
     safety, of which not less than $25,000,000 is specifically 
     for lead-based paint hazards; $15,000,000 for administrative 
     and judicial receiverships; and $33,000,000 for public 
     housing financial and physical assessment activities.
       Operating formula grants.--The funding provided for 
     operating formula grants includes funding for resident 
     participation activities, including tenant organizing 
     activities, capacity building and technical assistance, and 
     access to community services.
       Energy and water performance.--The agreement does not 
     include directions in House Report 117-99 on the energy 
     performance contracting initiative pilot and instead 
     encourages HUD to work with PHAs participating in energy 
     performance contracting to address energy deficiencies in 
     public housing.
       Physical needs and energy conservation.--The agreement 
     encourages the Department to consult with stakeholders to 
     identify the most critical data gaps on physical needs and 
     energy efficiency and ways to limit PHA burden in collection 
     in addressing those gaps.
       Shortfall funding.--The agreement directs that the 
     allocation of financial shortfall funds shall first be 
     prioritized to PHAs with 249 or fewer public housing units 
     that are determined to be experiencing shortfalls and have 
     less than one month of reserves before allocating funds to 
     larger PHAs.
       Administrative and judicial receiverships.--The agreement 
     directs HUD to report quarterly to the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations on the status of PHAs under 
     receivership, including factors that informed the 
     receivership such as physical and financial scores, 
     deficiencies with internal controls, and other information 
     demonstrating each PHA's inability to effectively oversee 
     their business operations. This report shall also include an 
     identification of funding resources and technical assistance 
     provided to each PHA for the purpose of transitioning out of 
     receivership and how HUD will address deficiencies in an 
     effort to return the respective PHAs to local control.
       Quality assurance of physical inspections.--The agreement 
     directs the Department to identify how funds provided for the 
     Real Estate Assessment Center [REAC], including any carryover 
     balances, will be utilized during fiscal year 2022 as part of 
     the operating plan required by section 405 in this act. The 
     agreement also directs the Department to submit to the House 
     and Senate Committees on Appropriations within 90 days of 
     enactment of this act a report on REAC inspections of all HUD 
     assisted and/or insured properties. This report shall 
     include: the percentage of all inspected properties that 
     received a REAC-inspected score of less than 65 since 
     calendar year 2013; the number of properties in which the 
     most recent REAC-inspected score represented a decline 
     relative to the previous REAC-inspected score; a list of the 
     ten metropolitan statistical areas with the lowest average 
     REAC-inspected scores for all inspected properties; and a 
     list of the ten states with the lowest average REAC-inspected 
     scores for all inspected properties.
       The agreement also directs HUD to brief the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations during fiscal year 2022 
     at key milestones in implementation and rulemaking related to 
     the national standards for the physical inspection of real 
     estate [NSPIRE] inspection model, and include in such 
     briefings details on how open GAO recommendations are being 
     addressed, and HUD's progress in addressing its inspection 
     backlog.
       Recycling and zero waste.--The agreement does not include 
     funding for the recycling and zero waste pilot program 
     included in House Report 117-99. Instead, the agreement 
     directs HUD to submit the overdue report on HUD's evaluation 
     of methods of supporting and expanding recycling and zero 
     waste programs in public housing required in the fiscal year 
     2021 joint explanatory statement within 60 days of enactment 
     of this act.
       Emergency and safety and security grants.--Within the 
     amounts provided for emergency capital needs, the agreement 
     directs the Department to fund eligible safety and security 
     projects as quickly as possible, and directs HUD to award the 
     funds for PHAs under receivership or under the control of a 
     Federal monitor based on need and not be subject to a cap on 
     individual grant award amounts.
       Residential health hazards.--The agreement prohibits the 
     Department from deeming any PHA, including those that are 
     troubled, substandard, or are under the direction of a 
     monitor or a court-appointed receiver, to be ineligible to 
     apply for or receive funding, provided that the PHA is in 
     compliance with any current memorandum of agreement or 
     recovery agreements. The agreement also prohibits HUD from 
     deeming any PHA as ineligible to apply for or receive funding 
     that has a violation or violations of the lead safe housing 
     or lead disclosure rules and that present documentation 
     establishing it is working in good faith to resolve such 
     findings by meeting any deadlines it was required to reach 
     under the terms of a settlement agreement, consent decree, 
     voluntary agreement, or similar document as of the date of 
     application. The Department is also prohibited from 
     precluding funds from being used to carry out work to settle 
     an outstanding violation. The agreement continues to expect 
     the Department to work with PHAs to ensure that the 
     initiative reflects the unique needs of the industry and 
     strongly encourages HUD to work with PHAs, their maintenance 
     staff, and tenants to help ensure potential lead-based paint 
     risks are identified and addressed expeditiously.
       The agreement directs PIH to continue to work with the 
     Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes to improve 
     its monitoring processes and develop procedures to ensure 
     that HUD staff take consistent and timely steps to address 
     health hazards, as recommended by the GAO.
       Public housing agency accreditation.--The agreement reminds 
     the Department that the fiscal year 2021 joint explanatory 
     statement directed HUD to report to the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations on the feasibility of 
     partnerships between HUD and entities that provide 
     accreditation services to PHAs to improve PHA governance and 
     financial management.
       Public housing data dashboard.--The agreement urges the 
     Department to swiftly put into place a public dashboard for 
     the public housing program.


                    CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS INITIATIVE

       The bill provides $350,000,000 for the choice neighborhoods 
     initiative, to remain available until September 30, 2026. Of 
     this amount, not less than $175,000,000 shall be made 
     available to PHAs and not more than $10,000,000 is available 
     for planning grants.
       The agreement directs HUD to give recipients of prior year 
     planning grants priority consideration for implementation 
     grant awards.
       The bill increases the maximum amount of implementation 
     grant funding that may be used for supportive services 
     activities to not

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     more than 20 percent. In implementing this authority, the 
     agreement directs HUD to ensure grantees utilize an 
     appropriate mix of allowed funding mechanisms and do not 
     solely rely upon a supportive services endowment trust.


                       SELF-SUFFICIENCY PROGRAMS

       The bill provides $159,000,000 for self-sufficiency 
     programs, to remain available until September 30, 2025. Of 
     the total, $109,000,000 is for the family self-sufficiency 
     [FSS] program, $35,000,000 is for the resident opportunity 
     and self-sufficiency program, and $15,000,000 is for the 
     jobs-plus initiative.
       Family self-sufficiency program.--The agreement expects HUD 
     to continue to provide technical assistance and training as 
     appropriate in order to share best-practices on the FSS 
     program.
       Easing barriers to FSS participation.--For new families 
     enrolling in the FSS program in 2022, the agreement directs 
     that the income and rent amounts to be used in the ``Program 
     Contract of Participation'' shall be taken from the amounts 
     on the last reexamination or interim determination before the 
     family's initial participation in the FSS program.
       FSS data.--The agreement directs HUD to include in its 
     annual budget submission to Congress data showing FSS 
     participation, escrow accumulation, and graduation rates for 
     the FSS program, including data from participating entities 
     without coordinator grants.
       FSS performance measurement system.--The agreement supports 
     efforts to update FSS's performance measurement system and 
     notes that HUD is in the process of improving the quality of 
     the data and analysis of FSS programs. The agreement directs 
     HUD to brief the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations on the proposed improvements to the 
     performance measurement system no later than 30 days after 
     its completion of this effort.


                        NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS

       The bill provides $1,002,086,000 for Native American 
     programs, to remain available until September 30, 2026. The 
     bill provides the following levels for specific activities 
     within this account:

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Native American housing block grants--formula...........    $772,000,000
Native American housing block grants--competitive.......     150,000,000
Title VI loan program...................................       1,000,000
Indian community development block grant................      72,086,000
Training and technical assistance.......................       7,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       The agreement directs HUD to include activities that 
     improve water or energy efficiency or increase resilience to 
     natural hazards as eligible projects for the Native American 
     housing block grants--competitive and the Indian community 
     development block grant programs.
       Competitive grants.--In addition to the direction in House 
     Report 117-99, the agreement directs HUD to solicit feedback 
     from Tribes on the competition process and challenges, and to 
     brief the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
     within 180 days of enactment of this act on the results of 
     that outreach.
       Coordinated environmental reviews for Tribal housing and 
     related infrastructure.--The agreement directs HUD to 
     continue its efforts to collaborate with its Federal agency 
     partners to develop a coordinated environmental review 
     process to simplify and streamline Tribal housing development 
     and its related infrastructure needs in order to eliminate 
     unnecessary Federal barriers to housing development in Tribal 
     communities while also balancing the need to ensure 
     appropriate and necessary environmental protections. HUD is 
     expected to routinely report to the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations on task force meetings, action 
     items, goals, and recommendations.


           INDIAN HOUSING LOAN GUARANTEE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The bill provides $3,000,000 for the cost of guaranteed 
     loans, to remain available until expended. The bill provides 
     an additional $500,000 for administrative contract expenses 
     to carry out the loan guarantee program, to remain available 
     until expended. The bill allows HUD to use funds in this and 
     prior acts for the cost of guaranteed loans that are 
     unobligated to subsidize a total loan level of not more than 
     $1,400,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2023.


                  NATIVE HAWAIIAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANT

       The bill provides $22,300,000 for the Native Hawaiian 
     housing block grant program, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2026.
       The agreement directs HUD to ensure that the funds provided 
     are administered to maximize the provision of affordable 
     housing through the construction of high density, multi-
     family affordable housing and rental units, as well as 
     housing counseling services and the rehabilitation of housing 
     on Native Hawaiian homelands that do not meet safe and 
     sanitary housing building standards.


      NATIVE HAWAIIAN HOUSING LOAN GUARANTEE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT

                         (INCLUDING RESCISSION)

       The bill provides not more than $28,000,000 in loan 
     guarantee commitment authority, including the authority to 
     guarantee refinance loans. The bill rescinds previously 
     appropriated credit subsidy that is no longer viable in order 
     to align credit programs with an annual loan limitation based 
     on estimated demand as recommended in the budget request.

                   Community Planning and Development


              HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS

       The agreement provides $450,000,000 for housing 
     opportunities for persons with AIDS [HOPWA] program, to 
     remain available until September 30, 2023, except that 
     amounts allocated pursuant to 854(c)(5) shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2024.
       Improved coordination between HOPWA and the Ryan White HIV/
     AIDS programs.--The agreement directs HUD and the HHS to 
     provide a joint briefing to the House and Senate Committees 
     on Appropriations not later than 90 days after enactment of 
     this act on the challenges and opportunities for better 
     collaboration, including, but not limited to, data sharing, 
     duplication of efforts, and grantee capacity to inform 
     improved service delivery for all grantees for the HOPWA and 
     Ryan White HIV/AIDS programs.


                       COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND

       The bill provides $4,841,409,207 for the community 
     development fund, to remain available until September 30, 
     2025. Of the total, the bill provides $3,300,000,000 in 
     community development block grant [CDBG] formula funding, 
     $25,000,000 for activities authorized under section 8071 of 
     the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, and 
     $1,516,409,207 for economic development initiatives.
       Data in rural communities.--The agreement encourages HUD to 
     extend flexibilities for the use of alternative data for 
     rural communities with less than 1,000 residents when a CDBG 
     applicant considers American community survey data to be 
     unreliable.
       CDBG timely performance reviews.--To ensure HUD's 
     regulations for entitlement grantees allow for an appropriate 
     amount of time to effectively allocate funds to projects 
     after annual grants are awarded, the Department should review 
     in consultation with grantees its timely expenditure 
     regulations.
       CDBG disaster recovery [CDBG-DR].--The agreement directs 
     HUD to take appropriate actions to streamline and improve 
     program operations.
       The agreement also directs HUD to brief the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations, within 90 days of 
     enactment of this act, on recent and planned improvements to 
     the disaster recovery grant reporting system, best practices 
     in IT systems by past CDBG-DR grantees, and options for HUD 
     deployment of shared IT systems or modules to limit grantee 
     costs and burden.
       The agreement further directs HUD, in coordination with the 
     Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA], to provide a 
     joint briefing to the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations, within 180 days of enactment of this act, on: 
     (1) actions the agencies are taking to improve data sharing 
     and integration, (2) how such efforts are staffed, 
     coordinated, and monitored across the agencies to ensure 
     continual progress, (3) how such efforts can reduce redundant 
     and burdensome data collection from survivors, (4) known 
     challenges and barriers to advancing data sharing, (5) 
     safeguards to protect survivor privacy, and (6) key lessons 
     learned from prior efforts. Improved collaboration is 
     essential to rapidly deploying assistance, preventing 
     duplication, and ensuring funds go where they are needed 
     most. The agreement expects the Department and FEMA to pay 
     careful attention to the recovery needs of low-income and 
     other vulnerable households, who are most likely to be 
     displaced.
       Disaster recovery acceleration funds.--Lower income 
     disaster survivors often face the longest timelines and the 
     most significant barriers to recovery. The agreement is aware 
     that organizations, like SBP in New Orleans, Louisiana and 
     Enterprise Community Partners, are working to help these 
     survivors rebuild faster through the use of recovery 
     acceleration funds, which use private capital to help low- 
     and moderate-income households finance the upfront costs to 
     repair their homes while waiting for reimbursement from 
     Federal funding. The agreement urges HUD to prioritize the 
     acceleration of disaster recovery funds for eligible 
     individuals and families, and to explore the utilization of 
     mechanisms, like recovery acceleration funds, to speed 
     recovery.


         COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LOAN GUARANTEES PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The bill provides the authority to collect fees from 
     borrowers adequate to result in a subsidy cost of zero and an 
     aggregate limitation on commitments of no more than 
     $300,000,000 for loan guarantees under section 108.


                  HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM

       The bill provides $1,500,000,000, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2025, for the HOME investment partnerships 
     program.
       Affordable housing needs.--The agreement supports 
     innovative projects that combine public and private capital 
     and directs HUD to continue to work to expand the supply and 
     affordability of housing for low- and very low-income people.
       Reconciling income guidelines for disabled veterans.--The 
     income guidelines for HUD's HOME program and the Department 
     of the Treasury's Low Income Housing Tax Credit [LIHTC] 
     program vary, and reconciling the two program's requirements 
     can be challenging. The agreement directs the Department to 
     work with the Department of the Treasury to determine 
     policies that align HUD and LIHTC guidelines to address the 
     housing needs of low-income disabled veterans.


        SELF-HELP AND ASSISTED HOMEOWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM

       The bill provides $62,500,000 to remain available until 
     September 30, 2024. The bill

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     provides the following funding levels for specific activities 
     within this account:

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Self-help homeownership opportunity                          $12,500,000
 program [SHOP].....................
Section 4 program...................                          41,000,000
  [Rural capacity building                    [not less than $5,000,000]
   activities]......................
National rural capacity building....                           5,000,000
Veterans housing rehabilitation and                            4,000,000
 modification pilot program.........
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Multiyear agreements.--The agreement does not include the 
     direction in House Report 117-99 on multiyear agreements. The 
     bill provides HUD the authority to enter into multiyear 
     agreements for the section 4 capacity building for community 
     development and affordable housing program [section 4], 
     subject to the availability of annual appropriations. When 
     utilizing this authority, the agreement directs HUD to 
     include information in the multiyear NOFO outlining HUD's 
     process for re-evaluating grantees each fiscal year to 
     determine funding awards for appropriated funds from 
     subsequent fiscal years that are covered by the multiyear 
     NOFO and multiyear agreement.
       Section 4 program.--The agreement directs funds available 
     for the section 4 program to be used solely for capacity 
     building activities. The agreement also encourages targeted 
     capacity building activities to address housing affordability 
     and physical needs in Tribal communities and populations 
     through the section 4 program.
       National organization definition.--For the purposes of the 
     national rural capacity building NOFO, the agreement directs 
     HUD to define an eligible national organization as ``a 
     nonprofit entity, which has ongoing experience in rural 
     housing, including experience working with rural housing 
     organizations, local governments, and Indian Tribes, as 
     evidenced by past and continuing work in one or more states 
     in eight or more of HUD's Federal regions.''
       Assistance for low-income and disabled veterans.--The 
     agreement notes that HUD is now processing the veterans 
     housing rehabilitation and modification pilot program NOFO 
     and awards in a timely manner and expects additional funding 
     in this and any future year appropriations to receive similar 
     due diligence.
       Land acquisition costs.--The agreement encourages HUD to 
     consider increasing the cap for the combined cost of land 
     acquisition and infrastructure improvements per SHOP unit for 
     the fiscal year 2022 NOFO.


                       HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS

       The agreement provides $3,213,000,000 to remain available 
     until September 30, 2024, for homeless assistance grants. 
     Funding is provided in the amounts shown in the following 
     table:

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Emergency solutions grants................                  $290,000,000
Continuum of care [CoC] and rural housing                  2,809,000,000
 stability assistance.....................
  Projects to assist survivors of domestic    [not less than 52,000,000]
   violence, dating violence, sexual
   assault or stalking....................
National homeless data analysis project...                     7,000,000
Comprehensive approach to serving homeless                   107,000,000
 youth....................................
  Youth homelessness system improvement       [not less than 25,000,000]
   grants.................................
  Technical assistance....................            [up to 10,000,000]
                                           -----------------------------
    Total.................................                 3,213,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       The agreement modifies the House Report 117-99 directive 
     under this heading to not prioritize investigations or 
     outreach to specific homeless subpopulations.
       COVID-19 impacts.--The agreement modifies the House Report 
     117-99 directive under this heading by replacing the report 
     with a briefing.
       Comprehensive interventions to prevent and end youth 
     homelessness.--The agreement directs HUD to ensure that 
     sufficient technical assistance resources and equal 
     consideration for youth homelessness system improvement 
     grants are provided to rural areas. The agreement encourages 
     HUD to incorporate the following components when awarding 
     youth homelessness system improvement grants: youth 
     collaboration in project design and implementation, including 
     establishment of local youth advisory boards; quality data 
     collection, management, utilization, and evaluation; direct 
     coordination and communication with service providers; cross-
     system partnerships including juvenile justice, child 
     welfare, and education systems; and prevention and diversion 
     strategies. The agreement prohibits youth homelessness system 
     improvement grants from being used for services or housing. 
     Lastly, the agreement directs HUD to provide information on 
     successful youth transitional housing models on its website.
       Services for youth experiencing homelessness.--The 
     agreement encourages HUD to facilitate collaboration between 
     CoCs and specialty partners that provide mental health 
     services, including suicide prevention, for youth 
     experiencing homelessness. The agreement further encourages 
     HUD to inform grantees of methods to strategically provide 
     educational and outreach resources to secure the necessary 
     mechanisms and technologies to assist youth in confidentially 
     accessing mental health services in times of crisis.
       Tribal inclusion in youth homelessness demonstration 
     program [YHDP].--The agreement encourages HUD to include 
     Tribes and tribally designated housing entities as eligible 
     recipients in the fiscal year 2022 YHDP NOFO.
       Annual homeless assessment report [AHAR].--The agreement 
     directs HUD to incorporate additional Federal data on 
     homelessness, particularly as it relates to youth 
     homelessness, into the AHAR and to submit the report to the 
     House and Senate Committees on Appropriations by August 29, 
     2022.

                            Housing Programs


                    PROJECT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE

       The bill provides $13,940,000,000 for project-based rental 
     assistance activities, to remain available until expended, 
     including $13,540,000,000 to be available on October 1, 2021, 
     and an advance appropriation of $400,000,000 to be available 
     on October 1, 2022. Of the total, not more than $355,000,000 
     is for performance-based contract administrators and up to 
     $5,000,000 is for tenant education and outreach, which 
     combined with available prior year funding will be sufficient 
     to support tenant organizing activities, capacity building, 
     and technical assistance. The agreement does not provide the 
     funding requested for service coordinators.
       Performance-based contract administrators.--The agreement 
     directs HUD to ensure that any solicitation for performance-
     based contract administrators does not impede housing finance 
     agencies from bidding on state-based contracts.
       Managing troubled properties.--The agreement directs HUD to 
     submit a report to the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations within 90 days of enactment of this act 
     regarding the status, results, and enforcement actions, if 
     any, of all physical inspections over the last five years of 
     properties that received funding under this heading. If a 
     property had not been inspected under the inspection timeline 
     set by 24 C.F.R. 200.857(b), the report shall include a 
     detailed explanation for why uniform physical condition 
     standards were not applied.


                        HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY

       The agreement provides $1,033,000,000 for the section 202 
     program, to remain available until September 30, 2025, of 
     which up to $125,000,000 shall be for service coordinators 
     and the continuation of existing congregate service grants. 
     Of the total, up to $199,000,000 is for new capital advance 
     and project rental assistance contracts, of which up to 
     $10,000,000 is for the expansion of intergenerational 
     dwelling units, and up to $6,000,000 is to support 
     preservation transactions of housing for the elderly 
     originally developed by a capital advance and assisted by a 
     project rental assistance contract.
       Investments in new construction.--The agreement directs the 
     Department to make all remaining funding provided in fiscal 
     years 2019, 2020, and 2021 available within 60 days of 
     enactment of this act, and to award that funding within 180 
     days of enactment of this act.
       Service coordinators.--The agreement directs the Department 
     to implement the following recommendations from the GAO 
     report entitled ``Elderly Housing: HUD Should Do More to 
     Oversee Efforts to Link Residents to Services'' (GAO-16-758): 
     (1) continue to improve the accuracy of the Department's data 
     on section 202 properties with service coordination; (2) 
     develop and make available written guidance on assessing 
     compliance with supportive services requirements; and (3) 
     develop and implement procedures for verifying and analyzing 
     performance data. The agreement directs the Department to 
     report to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
     within 60 days of enactment of this act on an action plan to 
     implement these outstanding GAO recommendations.


                 HOUSING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

       The agreement provides $352,000,000 for the section 811 
     program, to remain available until September 30, 2025. This 
     includes up to $160,000,000 for new project rental assistance 
     [PRA] and capital advance awards.
       Investments in new construction.--The agreement directs the 
     Department to expeditiously make all remaining funding 
     provided in fiscal years 2019, 2020, and 2021 available 
     within 60 days of enactment of this act and to award that 
     funding within 180 days of enactment of this act.
       Individuals with intellectual and developmental 
     disabilities.--The agreement directs HUD to continue to 
     prioritize projects targeting and serving individuals with 
     intellectual and developmental disabilities who have been 
     receiving care through family members when awarding the new 
     PRA funds provided in this act. The agreement directs HUD to 
     coordinate with Federal partners, including HHS, and other 
     public, private, and non-profit stakeholders to review 
     existing programs and regulations to identify gaps in 
     services and existing barriers to stable housing. The 
     agreement also requires HUD to provide a briefing to the 
     House and Senate Committees on Appropriations with its 
     findings and recommendations within 280 days of enactment of 
     this act.


                     HOUSING COUNSELING ASSISTANCE

       The agreement provides $57,500,000 for housing counseling, 
     including up to $4,500,000 for administrative contract 
     services, to remain available until September 30, 2023.
       Homeownership counseling.--The agreement directs that not 
     less than $3,000,000 of the funds provided for the housing 
     counseling grant program is for pre- and post-purchase 
     homeownership counseling.
       Housing counseling agency partnerships with minority-
     serving institutions [MSIs].--The agreement directs that not 
     less than $3,000,000 of the funds provided for the housing 
     counseling grant program are for housing counseling agencies 
     to partner with historically black colleges and universities, 
     Tribal colleges and universities, and other MSIs.

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            PAYMENT TO MANUFACTURED HOUSING FEES TRUST FUND

       The agreement provides $14,000,000 for the manufactured 
     housing standards programs, of which $14,000,000 is to be 
     derived from fees collected and deposited in the manufactured 
     housing fees trust fund. The agreement directs that not more 
     than $4,500,000 shall be for the monitoring of manufacturers' 
     compliance with construction and safety standards by third-
     party inspection agencies.
       Manufactured housing consensus committee construction and 
     safety standards backlog.--The agreement directs HUD to 
     prioritize clearing the backlog of unpublished Manufactured 
     Housing Consensus Committee recommendations and to publish 
     the fourth and fifth sets of standards no later than 1 year 
     from the enactment of this act.

                     Federal Housing Administration


               MUTUAL MORTGAGE INSURANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The agreement sets a limit of $400,000,000,000 on 
     commitments to guarantee single-family loans and $150,000,000 
     for administrative contract expenses, which shall be 
     available until September 30, 2023.
       FHA guidelines for manufactured housing.--The agreement 
     directs HUD to review its financing guidelines for all of its 
     manufactured housing mortgage programs to modernize policies 
     to reflect today's market and improve the availability of 
     this housing financing option.
       Institutional investment in single-family housing.--The 
     agreement directs HUD to brief the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations within 180 days of enactment of 
     this act on FHA actions to encourage more owner occupants, 
     government entities, and non-profit organizations (rather 
     than institutional investors) to purchase HUD-insured and 
     HUD-owned properties.


                GENERAL AND SPECIAL RISK PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The agreement sets a $30,000,000,000 limit on multifamily 
     and specialized loan guarantees and provides that such 
     commitment authority shall be available until September 30, 
     2023.

                Government National Mortgage Association


GUARANTEES OF MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The agreement sets a limit of up to $900,000,000,000 for 
     new commitments and provides $33,500,000 for salaries and 
     expenses for the Government National Mortgage Association 
     [Ginnie Mae], which shall be available until September 30, 
     2023. The agreement does not approve Ginnie Mae's proposed 
     reorganization included in the budget request at this time, 
     but will revisit the proposal once Ginnie Mae completes the 
     analysis underway regarding the optimal mix of contractor and 
     in-sourced government employees, as well as its review of 
     critical pay needs, and can provide a comprehensive briefing 
     to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on the 
     results and recommendations for future workforce needs and 
     structure.

                    Policy Development and Research


                        RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

       The bill provides $145,400,000 for research and technology 
     activities and technical assistance, to remain available 
     until September 30, 2023.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Core research and technology..............                   $66,800,000
  [Innovation activities].................                     [500,000]
  [Cooperative agreements and research                       [5,500,000]
   partnerships with HBCUs]...............
  [Cooperative agreements and research                       [5,500,000]
   partnerships with HSIs]................
Legal assistance to low-income tenants at                     20,000,000
 risk of or subject to eviction...........
Research, demonstrations, and evaluations.                    17,600,000
Technical assistance......................                    41,000,000
  [Violence Against Women Act technical                      [5,000,000]
   assistance]............................
  [Thriving communities]..................                   [5,000,000]
                                           -----------------------------
    Total.................................                   145,400,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       Core research and technology.--The agreement provides 
     $66,800,000 for core research and technology including: 
     market surveys, research support and dissemination, data 
     acquisition, housing finance studies, research partnerships, 
     and housing technology. Of the total amount, $500,000 is for 
     innovation activities, $5,500,000 is for cooperative 
     agreements and research partnerships with historically black 
     colleges and universities, and $5,500,000 is for cooperative 
     agreements and research partnerships with Hispanic serving 
     institutions.
       Legal assistance.--The agreement provides $20,000,000, to 
     remain available until September 30, 2024, for competitive 
     grants to nonprofit or government entities to provide legal 
     assistance to low-income tenants at risk of or subject to 
     eviction.
       Research, demonstrations, and evaluations.--The agreement 
     provides $17,600,000 for research, demonstrations, and 
     evaluations. Included in this total is the continuation of 
     the following research and evaluations: mobility 
     demonstration evaluation; family options long-term tracking 
     study; choice neighborhoods initiative; and stakeholder 
     engagement for national evictions database. The following new 
     research and evaluations are also funded: evictions legal 
     assistance demonstration; and the effectiveness of the ERA 1 
     and ERA 2 emergency rental assistance programs. In addition, 
     the agreement encourages HUD to pursue funding related to 
     these evaluations as joint efforts with other agencies, 
     including the Department of the Treasury, to allow for cost 
     sharing and greater efficiencies.
       Technical assistance.--The agreement provides $41,000,000 
     for technical assistance, including assistance to grantees 
     receiving allocations for SUPPORT Act activities under the 
     heading ``Community Development Fund''. Of this amount, 
     $5,000,000 is for training and technical assistance on the 
     Violence Against Women Act [VAWA] housing protections for 
     survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 
     assault, and stalking. HUD should coordinate with other 
     Federal agencies responsible for covered housing programs on 
     this training and technical assistance to improve the 
     timeliness of emergency transfers, local planning, and cross-
     programmatic coordination on transfers. Within the total for 
     technical assistance, $5,000,000 shall be available on a 
     competitive basis to non-profit or private sector 
     organizations to provide technical assistance, including 
     outreach efforts to local governments with persistent poverty 
     tracts in their jurisdiction, to units of general local 
     government or non-profit organizations that serve distressed 
     areas, prioritizing applications from jurisdictions 
     containing persistent poverty census tracts that have had 20 
     percent or more of the population living in poverty as 
     measured by the 1990 and 2000 decennial census and the most 
     recent five-year data series available from the American 
     community survey of the Census Bureau, and any territory or 
     possession of the United States. In addition, of the amount 
     provided for technical assistance, $5,000,000 shall be used 
     by HUD to work with DOT to ensure housing and infrastructure 
     development is taken into consideration as part of the 
     thriving communities program.
       Higher education and community partnerships.--The agreement 
     encourages the Department to competitively award a 
     cooperative agreement for institutions of higher education or 
     nonprofit entities that train and support institutions of 
     higher education, to conduct research or provide technical 
     assistance on matters related to economic opportunity, 
     reducing homelessness, or other areas that improve the long-
     term capacity of communities or otherwise address priorities 
     of the Office of Policy Development and Research.
       Broadband access for HUD-assisted households.--The 
     agreement encourages the Department to undertake an analysis 
     of the extent to which broadband infrastructure barriers and 
     high monthly costs result in HUD-assisted households 
     receiving inadequate access to Internet, including potential 
     methods for providing high-quality, subsidized broadband to 
     HUD-assisted households.
       Office of Innovation.--The agreement does not include 
     directions relating to the Office of Innovation included in 
     House Report 117-99. Instead, the agreement encourages the 
     Office of Innovation to challenge the affordable housing 
     industry to substantially drive down the cost of affordable 
     housing design and production, including consideration of 
     modular housing development.
       Evictions counseling.--The agreement encourages HUD to work 
     with housing counselors to identify the predominant causes of 
     evictions and efforts to improve their processes, including 
     the identification of any barriers to the collection of data 
     on at-risk households, as well as to augment the services 
     offered by housing counselors.
       Demolition of abandoned properties.--The agreement 
     encourages HUD to examine property demolition programs, 
     including the neighborhood stabilization program, on the 
     feasibility and reasonableness of these types of programs.
       Digitizing housing code violations.--The agreement directs 
     the Department to complete a feasibility study on the extent 
     to which HUD can help cities and localities digitize housing 
     codes for public view, including the associated costs, and 
     submit the feasibility study to the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations.
       Fair market rents [FMRs].--The agreement strongly 
     encourages HUD, to the extent permissible under current 
     regulations, to set FMRs at no lower than the previous year's 
     level for an FMR area, unless the Department has sufficient 
     local data to justify such a change. HUD shall brief the 
     House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on the findings 
     upon completion of current studies underway to improve FMR 
     estimates, including any lessons related to alternative data 
     sources and methods to decreased PHA cost burden.
       Regulatory barriers clearinghouse.--The agreement 
     encourages HUD to continue to collect, assess, and 
     disseminate information on State and local regulations and 
     policies affecting the creation and maintenance of affordable 
     housing, including through the publication of regular 
     articles and other policy guidance through the Department's 
     regulatory barriers clearinghouse.

                   Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity


                        FAIR HOUSING ACTIVITIES

       The agreement provides $85,000,000 for fair housing 
     activities, to remain available until September 30, 2023. 
     This includes $56,000,000 for the fair housing initiatives 
     program [FHIP], $25,000,000 for the fair housing assistance 
     program, $3,000,000 for the national fair housing training 
     academy, and $1,000,000 for translated materials. Of the 
     funds available for FHIP, not less than $10,400,000 is for 
     education and outreach programs, and not less than $3,700,000 
     is for fair housing organization initiatives. The agreement 
     does not include the directives included in House Report 117-
     99 on additional legal analysis.

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            Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes


                         LEAD HAZARD REDUCTION

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The agreement provides $415,000,000 for lead hazard control 
     and healthy homes programs, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2024. Of the amount provided, $90,000,000 is 
     available for the healthy homes initiative [HHI], and not 
     less than $95,000,000 is available for lead-based paint 
     hazard reduction in jurisdictions with the highest lead-based 
     paint abatement needs.
       Aging-in-place home modification grants.--The agreement 
     includes $15,000,000 within HHI for aging-in-place home 
     modification grants in order to enable low-income seniors to 
     remain in their homes through low-cost, high-impact home 
     modifications. The intended beneficiaries of these grants 
     have always been low-income senior homeowners, and HUD shall 
     ensure the use of funds appropriated in this and previous 
     fiscal years will reflect that intent. In designing the NOFO 
     for this program, HUD is directed to continue to take into 
     account successful models of low-barrier, participant-led, 
     holistic approaches to aging-in-place, including Johns 
     Hopkins University's community aging in place-advancing 
     better living for elders program and the community aging in 
     place program of the Maine State Housing Authority. The 
     agreement continues to direct HUD to track the outcomes of 
     seniors whose homes have been modified in order to better 
     understand the effectiveness of this funding in reducing at 
     home falls, hospitalizations, and emergency response calls, 
     as well as improving independence and tenure in home over 
     time.
       Improving the lead grant application process.--Through 
     utilizing the technical assistance and NOFO improvements 
     provided by the Department, applicants and grantees are 
     encouraged to develop and utilize public-private partnerships 
     as a means to leverage capital, as well as assist with grant 
     and project management. The agreement directs HUD to continue 
     to improve the NOFOs to encourage more grantees to apply, 
     especially those that may not have access to professional 
     grant writers. Additionally, HUD shall continue to clearly 
     state in the NOFO that an application may include non-profit 
     co-applicants, provided that an eligible city, county/parish, 
     other unit of local government, or eligible state or Tribe 
     are identified as the lead or co-applicant. The agreement 
     continues to direct HUD to allow for an overlap in grant 
     cycles in order to ensure continuity and improved program 
     management at the local level. Further, HUD is directed to 
     continue the weighting of criteria that ensures proper 
     consideration is given to applicants that demonstrate 
     previous successful completion of lead grants.
       Multiple health hazards in homes.--The HHI strives to 
     protect children and their families from housing-related 
     health and safety hazards. Among these health and safety 
     concerns are mold, noise, allergens, asthma, pesticides, and 
     volatile organic compounds. Additionally, these safety 
     concerns include fire hazards such as, but not limited to, 
     cooking, smoking, heating, lighting, flammable liquids, and 
     other home hazards that may lead to a fire. The presence of 
     these multiple hazards exacerbates existing health problems 
     and can lead to new physical and psychological ones. The 
     agreement directs the Office of Lead Hazard Control and 
     Healthy Homes [OLHCHH] to give homes with multiple hazards 
     priority consideration.
       Radon testing and mitigation resident safety 
     demonstration.--The agreement includes $5,000,000 for radon 
     testing and mitigation activities in public housing units as 
     proposed in the fiscal year 2022 budget request. The OLHCHH 
     shall coordinate with the Office of Public and Indian Housing 
     throughout the length of the demonstration to ensure proper 
     engagement and communication with the impacted PHAs. The 
     agreement expects HUD to issue a broad, agency-wide radon 
     policy in response to the Office of Inspector General's [OIG] 
     2021 evaluation (Report Number: 2020-OE-0003). Additionally, 
     according to the EPA's final Federal Radon Action Plan 
     Scorecard issued in 2016, HUD failed to complete the 
     following commitments assigned to the agency regarding 
     healthy homes activities: (1) collaborating with EPA, HHS, 
     and USDA on an interagency radon outreach initiative; and (2) 
     working with EPA and USDA to engage the philanthropic 
     community to support radon risk reduction. The fiscal year 
     2021 joint explanatory statement directed the Department to 
     complete these objectives, which have been subsumed into the 
     subsequent, broader public-private national radon action plan 
     led by the American Lung Association. The agreement continues 
     to direct HUD to complete these objectives.
       Weatherization assistance program.--Homes are often 
     eligible for assistance under the Department of Energy's 
     [DOE's] weatherization assistance program [WAP] and HUD's 
     lead-based paint hazard control and healthy homes programs. 
     The agreement continues to support OLHCHH's participation in 
     the interagency working group with the DOE. OLHCHH is 
     encouraged to continue to leverage partnerships between DOE, 
     WAP grantees, and sub-grantees to perform window removal and 
     installation work in older low-income housing. HUD is 
     directed to collect information on how many units benefit 
     from this coordination and how much this coordination has 
     reduced costs for hardware and labor. HUD is directed to 
     provide this information to the House and Senate Committees 
     on Appropriations no later than 180 days after the end of 
     each grant cycle on an annual basis.
       Overdue directive.--The agreement notes the Committees are 
     awaiting the submission of the inspection standards report 
     outlining recommendations to strengthen lead inspection 
     standards beyond a visual lead assessment in federally-
     assisted housing, HCV units, and households with a child 
     under age six, as required by the fiscal year 2021 joint 
     explanatory statement. HUD is directed to submit this report 
     to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations within 
     30 days of enactment of this act.


                      INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FUND

       The agreement provides $323,200,000 for the information 
     technology fund, to remain available until September 30, 
     2024, of which up to $40,000,000 is available for 
     development, modernization, and enhancement [DME] projects.
       FHA IT modernization.--The House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations have provided $60,000,000 in dedicated funding 
     towards FHA single-family IT modernization over the past 
     three fiscal years as requested. However, during 2021, it 
     became evident from the Office of Inspector General and GAO 
     reports as well as the Committees' own oversight that the 
     project is over-budget and behind schedule. Consequently, the 
     agreement expects the Department to provide the sustained 
     executive-level attention needed to remedy the chronic 
     management challenges that caused these additional costs and 
     delays, takes into account the project's $19,200,000 in 
     unobligated balances, and provides up to $12,300,000 in new 
     budget authority to continue progress on FHA IT 
     modernization, which the agreement designates as a major 
     modernization project. These funds are to be used for single-
     family insured mortgage processing, underwriting and 
     delivery, single-family asset management and claims systems, 
     lender management activities, and program compliance. These 
     funds may also be used for more immediate FHA IT needs, 
     including the system interface with the Department of the 
     Treasury's ``Do Not Pay'' system, compliance with HUD IT 
     security policy, and the reverse mortgage system. Up to 
     $5,000,000 of these funds may also be used toward modernizing 
     FHA multifamily housing IT systems, but are limited to 
     planning activities and development of the automated 
     underwriting system. The agreement directs the Department to 
     provide timely updates on the FHA multifamily project as 
     planning efforts conclude. Not more than $1,230,000 of this 
     amount may be obligated until the required plan is approved.
       PIH IT modernization.--The agreement provides up to 
     $12,300,000 to make critical investments in the modernization 
     and development of PIH IT systems, which the agreement 
     designates as a major modernization project. The agreement 
     directs these funds to be used for DME work related to the 
     public housing information center, data warehouse, voucher 
     management systems, the operating fund web portal, property 
     inspections, and Tribal grant and loan guarantee programs. 
     The agreement expects HUD to prioritize completion of already 
     identified projects to achieve full functionality and 
     targeted decommissioning of outdated systems prior to 
     proposing any new projects. Not more than $1,230,000 of this 
     amount may be obligated until the required plan is approved.
       Non-major modernization project priorities.--Within the 
     total amounts available for the DME of HUD IT systems, the 
     agreement provides up to $8,600,000 for non-major 
     modernization projects. Not more than $860,000 of this amount 
     may be obligated across all non-major projects until the 
     required plan is approved. The agreement directs HUD to 
     prioritize the modifications needed to accommodate the 
     economic development initiatives and the disaster recovery 
     data portal. Funds may also be used for the enterprise IT 
     asset management and analytics, section 3 reporting, and 
     geocoding IT projects.
       Improving IT modernization management and cybersecurity.--
     The agreement urges the OCIO to address the following 
     priority GAO recommendations that remain open: (1) to 
     establish an enterprise-wide view of cost savings and 
     operational efficiencies generated by investments and 
     governance processes; and (2) to identify and correctly 
     categorize critical cybersecurity staffing needs.
       IT reporting and oversight.--The agreement directs HUD to 
     include greater detail in its congressional justifications 
     to: (1) delineate between funding for operations and 
     maintenance and DME, including planning; (2) consistent with 
     OMB guidance, summarize spending by major, non-major, and 
     standard IT investments; and (3) include plain language 
     summaries of proposed DME projects, total costs and savings 
     potential, and target functionality and mission benefits. The 
     act requires HUD to provide updated reports on a quarterly 
     basis to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on 
     all DME projects, with additional detail on major 
     modernization projects, and directs the Department to brief 
     the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations within 30 
     days of enactment of this act on its plans to comply with 
     this directive to ensure the format and clarity of such 
     reports meets the Committees' needs.

                      Office of Inspector General

       The bill provides $140,000,000 for the salaries and 
     expenses of the Office of Inspector General.

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       Audit reports.--The Office of Inspector General is expected 
     to continue to provide copies of all audit reports to the 
     House and Senate Committees on Appropriations immediately 
     upon issuance and to make the Committees aware of any review 
     that recommends significant budgetary savings.
       Contracting audits of annual financial statements.--The 
     agreement directs the Office of Inspector General to continue 
     to rely on an independent external auditor, or auditors, to 
     audit the financial statements of the Department, including 
     the financial statements of FHA and GNMA.

    General Provisions--Department of Housing and Urban Development


                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

                        (INCLUDING RESCISSIONS)

       Section 201 splits overpayments evenly between Treasury and 
     state HFAs.
       Section 202 prohibits funds from being used to investigate 
     or prosecute lawful activities under the Fair Housing Act.
       Section 203 requires any grant or cooperative agreement to 
     be made on a competitive basis, unless otherwise provided, in 
     accordance with section 102 of the Department of Housing and 
     Urban Development Reform Act of 1989.
       Section 204 relates to the availability of funds for 
     services and facilities for GSEs and others subject to the 
     Government Corporation Control Act and the Housing Act.
       Section 205 prohibits the use of funds in excess of the 
     budget estimates, unless provided otherwise.
       Section 206 relates to the expenditure of funds for 
     corporations and agencies subject to the Government 
     Corporation Control Act.
       Section 207 requires the Secretary to provide quarterly 
     reports on uncommitted, unobligated, recaptured, and excess 
     funds in each departmental program and activity.
       Section 208 exempts GNMA from certain requirements of the 
     Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990.
       Section 209 authorizes HUD to transfer debt and use 
     agreements from an obsolete project to a viable project, 
     provided that no additional costs are incurred and other 
     conditions are met.
       Section 210 sets forth certain requirements for section 8 
     eligibility and includes consideration for persons with 
     disabilities.
       Section 211 distributes Native American housing block 
     grants to the same Native Alaskan recipients as in fiscal 
     year 2005.
       Section 212 instructs HUD on managing and disposing of any 
     multifamily property that is owned or held by HUD.
       Section 213 allows PHAs that own and operate 400 or fewer 
     units of public housing to be exempt from asset management 
     requirements.
       Section 214 restricts the Secretary from imposing any 
     requirements or guidelines relating to asset management that 
     restrict or limit the use of capital funds for central office 
     costs, up to the limits established in law.
       Section 215 requires that no employee of the Department be 
     designated as an allotment holder unless the CFO determines 
     that such employee has received certain training.
       Section 216 requires the Secretary to notify the public of 
     notices of funding opportunity for competitively awarded 
     funds, and establishes how such notification may occur.
       Section 217 requires attorney fees for programmatic 
     litigation to be paid from the individual program office and 
     Office of General Counsel salaries and expenses 
     appropriations.
       Section 218 allows the Secretary to transfer up to 10 
     percent of funds or $5,000,000, whichever is less, 
     appropriated under the headings ``Administrative Support 
     Offices'' or ``Program Offices'' to any other office funded 
     under such headings.
       Section 219 requires HUD to take certain actions against 
     owners receiving rental subsidies that do not maintain safe 
     properties.
       Section 220 places a salary and bonus limit on public 
     housing agency officials and employees.
       Section 221 requires the Secretary to notify the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations at least 3 full business 
     days before grant awards are announced.
       Section 222 prohibits funds for HUD financing of mortgages 
     for properties that have been subject to eminent domain.
       Section 223 prohibits the use of funds to terminate the 
     status of a unit of general local government as a 
     metropolitan city with respect to grants under section 106 of 
     the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.
       Section 224 allows funding for research, evaluation, and 
     statistical purposes that is unexpended at the time of 
     completion of the contract, grant, or cooperative agreement 
     to be re-obligated for additional research.
       Section 225 prohibits funds for financial awards for 
     employees subject to administrative discipline.
       Section 226 allows program income as an eligible match for 
     2015 through 2022 continuum of care funds.
       Section 227 permits HUD to provide one year transition 
     grants under the continuum of care program.
       Section 228 maintains current promise zone designations and 
     agreements.
       Section 229 prohibits funds from being used to establish 
     review criteria, including rating factors or preference 
     points, for competitive grants programs for envision center 
     participation or coordination, with exceptions.
       Section 230 clarifies the use of funds for the family self-
     sufficiency program.
       Section 231 addresses the establishment of reserves for 
     public housing agencies designated as MTW agencies.
       Section 232 prohibits funds from being used to make certain 
     eligibility limitations as part of a notice of funding 
     opportunity for competitive grant awards under the public 
     housing fund.
       Section 233 prohibits funds from being used to issue rules 
     or guidance in contravention of section 1210 of Public Law 
     115-254 (132 Stat. 3442) or section 312 of the Robert T. 
     Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
     U.S.C. 5155).
       Section 234 extends the time period for the liquidation of 
     valid obligations for the choice neighborhoods initiative 
     program in Public Law 113-235.
       Section 235 prohibits the use of funds to direct a grantee 
     to undertake specific changes to existing zoning laws as part 
     of carrying out the final rule entitled, ``Affirmatively 
     Furthering Fair Housing'' or the notice entitled, 
     ``Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Assessment Tool''.
       Section 236 makes changes to the rental assistance 
     demonstration.
       Section 237 addresses the manner in which HUD may make 
     adjustments for formula allocation corrections.
       Section 238 rescinds unobligated balances made available in 
     Public Law 116-260 from the ``Executive Offices'' and 
     ``Administrative Support Offices''.
       Section 239 allows the Secretary to waive or specify 
     alternative requirements to facilitate the use of certain 
     funds made available in Public Law 116-260, with exceptions.

                               TITLE III

                            RELATED AGENCIES

                              Access Board


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The agreement provides $9,750,000 for salaries and 
     expenses.

                      Federal Maritime Commission


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The bill provides $32,869,000 for the salaries and expenses 
     of the Federal Maritime Commission [FMC], of which not more 
     than $3,500 shall be available for official reception and 
     representation expenses. Of the funds provided, up to 
     $577,781 is available for the FMC Inspector General.
       The agreement provides funding above the budget request to: 
     (1) support the formal investigation to examine issues 
     related to detention and demurrage practices, container 
     return practices, and the availability of containers for 
     export cargo, and to determine if the policies and practices 
     of vessel-operating common carriers [VOCCs] violate 46 U.S.C. 
     44102(c); (2) review information provided by VOCCs and marine 
     terminal operators on their current practices; (3) support 
     the national shipper advisory committee for exporters and 
     importers; and (4) further the statutorily established 
     purpose of the FMC to ``promote the growth and development of 
     United States exports through competitive and efficient ocean 
     transportation and by placing a greater reliance on the 
     marketplace'' (46 U.S.C. 40101(4)), including to support the 
     Office of Consumer Affairs and Dispute Resolution Services 
     [CADRS], Bureau of Enforcement, Area Representatives, Bureau 
     of Trade Analysis, Office of the Secretary, fact finding 
     investigations, and for necessary support services. The FMC 
     is directed to brief the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations no later than 90 days after enactment of this 
     act detailing its plans for these additional resources.
       Shipping practices.--The agreement includes the direction 
     in House Report 117-99; however, the agreement does not 
     preclude the FMC from engaging on export and import issues 
     through means other than the CADRS.

  National Railroad Passenger Corporation Office of Inspector General


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The bill provides $26,248,000 for the salaries and expenses 
     of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation Office of 
     Inspector General.

                  National Transportation Safety Board


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The bill provides $121,400,000 for the salaries and 
     expenses of the National Transportation Safety Board [NTSB].
       Alaska.--The agreement directs the NTSB to identify and 
     delineate Alaska specific accident data within existing 
     monthly aviation reporting and make them publicly available.
       Recommendations to the DOT.--The agreement directs the NTSB 
     to continue to provide the compliance report required under 
     49 U.S.C. 1135(e).

                 Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation


          PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION

       The agreement provides $166,000,000 for the Neighborhood 
     Reinvestment Corporation [NRC]. Within the total, the bill 
     provides $3,000,000 to remain available until September 30, 
     2025, for the promotion and development of shared equity 
     housing models.
       Neighborhood revitalization.--The agreement recognizes the 
     importance of restoring communities that are suffering from 
     depopulation and deindustrialization. The agreement further 
     recognizes that innovative revitalization strategies from 
     partnerships including municipalities, land banks, community 
     development organizations, nonprofits, and anchor 
     institutions are needed to address the problem and encourages 
     the NRC to work together with these partners in communities 
     that have been left behind.

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       Grant notifications.--The agreement directs the NRC to 
     provide at least three days' advance notice to the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations prior to the announcement 
     of any grant exceeding $50,000 that is awarded to a NRC 
     network organization.
       Rural areas.--The agreement urges the NRC to continue 
     capacity-building initiatives in rural areas.
       Multilingual training courses.--The agreement directs the 
     NRC to continue surveying the NRC network to determine 
     whether there is sufficient need for additional professional 
     development and certification training courses for non-profit 
     community development staff to be offered in additional 
     languages.
       Shared equity.--Of the $3,000,000 provided for shared 
     equity, the NRC is directed to invest $1,000,000 in technical 
     assistance and $2,000,000 for capital grants for affiliates 
     to bring new homes into their existing shared equity 
     portfolios. The agreement encourages the NRC to invest in at 
     least one recipient that serves a rural area or a city with a 
     population under 50,000 that has demonstrated success in 
     managing a shared equity portfolio. The agreement further 
     directs the NRC to work with affiliate organizations with 
     experience in offering shared equity homeownership 
     opportunities as technical assistance providers.
       GAO audit.--The agreement directs the GAO to audit the NRC. 
     The agreement also directs the GAO to review and make 
     recommendations to improve the NRC's compliance with title 2 
     U.S. Code of Federal Regulations Part 200 and internal 
     policies and practices related to, at a minimum, internal 
     controls for grant making and procurement, the independence 
     of its internal audit function, conflicts of interest, 
     whistleblower protections, and the audit of its annual 
     financial statement. The GAO shall report its findings to the 
     House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not later than 
     180 days after enactment of this act.

                      Surface Transportation Board


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       The bill provides $39,152,000 for the salaries and expenses 
     of the Surface Transportation Board [STB]. The bill permits 
     the collection of up to $1,250,000 in user fees to be 
     credited to this appropriation and provides that the general 
     fund appropriation be reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis by 
     the actual amount collected in user fees to result in a final 
     appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more 
     than $37,902,000.
       Regulatory proceedings.--The agreement continues to 
     encourage the STB to provide a timely and decisive regulatory 
     process.

           United States Interagency Council on Homelessness


                           OPERATING EXPENSES

       The agreement provides $3,800,000 for operating expenses of 
     the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness [USICH]. The 
     agreement modifies House Report 117-99 and does not request a 
     report on access to housing services.
       Vehicular homelessness community response.--The agreement 
     directs USICH, in consultation with HUD's Office of Special 
     Needs Assistance Program and Office of Policy Development and 
     Research, to brief the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations on how communities are responding to the 
     challenge of individuals who are experiencing vehicular 
     homelessness within 180 days of enactment of this act.
       Supporting transitioning service members.--The agreement 
     directs USICH to brief the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations on interagency progress to support the 
     effective referral of transitioning service members to 
     employment and housing services, including improved data 
     sharing efforts, metrics that provide a direct comparison of 
     warm handovers before 2018 when USICH identified the need for 
     data transparency and each year thereafter, as well as any 
     other relevant deliverables. The briefing shall also include 
     next steps USICH intends to take to continue its progress, 
     and, if applicable, outline areas of further improvement to 
     continue decreasing rates of veteran homelessness.
       Technical assistance in providing transitional housing for 
     survivors of domestic violence.--The agreement directs USICH 
     to continue collaborating with relevant stakeholders to 
     improve the intake methodology and practices for survivors of 
     domestic violence by providing necessary technical assistance 
     that CoCs can efficiently implement. USICH shall continue 
     providing periodic updates to the House and Senate Committees 
     on Appropriations as they make progress.
       Housing and supportive services.--The agreement directs 
     USICH to submit to the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations within 270 days of enactment of this act a 
     report identifying current federally funded supportive 
     service programs, how those programs interact with federally 
     funded housing programs, and challenges or barriers that 
     hinder improved performance in such programs in meeting the 
     needs of formerly chronically homeless individuals living 
     with substance use disorders or mental and/or behavioral 
     health issues.
       Annual reporting requirements.--The agreement directs USICH 
     to provide an annual report to the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations that compiles and summarizes all 
     information required by section 203(c) of the McKinney Vento 
     Homeless Assistance Act and identify any challenges in 
     obtaining the required data, and the rationale behind any 
     incomplete data. The agreement directs USICH to submit the 
     fiscal year 2022 report no later than September 30, 2022.
       Federal agency data collection of homeless individuals and 
     grantees.--The agreement directs USICH to submit to the House 
     and Senate Committees on Appropriations within 270 days of 
     enactment of this act a report identifying the homeless data 
     collection systems being used by the member agencies of 
     USICH, including identification of which systems interact 
     with, or are accessible by, multiple agencies.
       Implementation of best practices.--The agreement directs 
     USICH to ensure best practices and evidence-based conclusions 
     are central to any technical assistance and recommendations 
     released by the agency.

                                TITLE IV

                      GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS ACT

       Section 401 prohibits the use of funds for the planning or 
     execution of any program to pay the expenses of, or otherwise 
     compensate, non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or 
     adjudicatory proceedings.
       Section 402 prohibits the obligation of funds beyond the 
     current fiscal year and the transfer of funds to other 
     appropriations, unless expressly provided.
       Section 403 limits consulting service expenditures through 
     procurement contracts to those contracts contained in the 
     public record, except where otherwise provided under existing 
     law.
       Section 404 prohibits funds from being used for certain 
     types of employee training.
       Section 405 specifies requirements for the reprogramming of 
     funds and requires agencies to submit a report in order to 
     establish the baseline for the application of reprogramming 
     and transfer authorities.
       Section 406 provides that not to exceed 50 percent of 
     unobligated balances for salaries and expenses may remain 
     available until September 30, 2023, for each account for the 
     purposes authorized, subject to the approval of the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations.
       Section 407 prohibits the use of funds for any project that 
     seeks to use the power of eminent domain, unless eminent 
     domain is employed only for a public use.
       Section 408 prohibits funds from being transferred to any 
     department, agency, or instrumentality of the U.S. 
     Government, except where transfer authority is provided in 
     this or any other appropriations act.
       Section 409 prohibits funds from being used by an entity 
     unless the expenditure is in compliance with the Buy American 
     Act.
       Section 410 prohibits funds from being made available to 
     any person or entity that has been convicted of violating the 
     Buy American Act.
       Section 411 prohibits funds from being used for first-class 
     airline accommodations in contravention of sections 301-
     10.122 and 301-10.123 of title 41, CFR.
       Section 412 restricts the number of employees that agencies 
     may send to international conferences unless such attendance 
     is important to the national interest.
       Section 413 caps the amount of fees the STB can charge or 
     collect for rate or practice complaints filed at the amount 
     authorized for district court civil suit filing fees.
       Section 414 prohibits funds from being used to maintain or 
     establish computer networks unless such networks block the 
     viewing, downloading, or exchange of pornography.
       Section 415 prohibits funds from being used to deny an 
     Inspector General timely access to any records, documents, or 
     other materials available to the department or agency over 
     which that Inspector General has responsibilities, or to 
     prevent or impede that Inspector General's access to such 
     records, documents, or other materials.
       Section 416 prohibits funds to be used to pay award or 
     incentive fees for contractors whose performance is below 
     satisfactory, behind schedule, over budget, or failed to meet 
     requirements of the contract, with exceptions.
       Section 417 references ``Community Project Funding/
     Congressionally Directed Spending'' contained in this joint 
     explanatory statement.
       Section 418 prohibits funds made available by this act to 
     DOT from being used in contravention of 54 U.S.C. 306108.
       Section 419 prohibits funds from being used to permanently 
     replace an employee intent on returning to his or her past 
     occupation following completion of military service.
       Section 420 prohibits funds from being used for the 
     approval of a new foreign air carrier permit or exemption 
     application if that approval would contravene United States 
     law or Article 17 bis of the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air 
     Transport Agreement.
       Section 421 allows for a new future interstate route.
       Section 422 extends the period of availability for amounts 
     made available for capital investment grants in Public Law 
     116-6.
       Section 423 makes technical corrections to title VIII of 
     division J of Public Law 117-58.
       Section 424 makes technical corrections to title VIII of 
     division J of Public Law 117-58.
       Section 425 makes technical corrections to title VIII of 
     division J of Public Law 117-58.
       Section 426 makes technical corrections to title VIII of 
     division J of Public Law 117-58.
       Section 427 makes technical corrections to title VIII of 
     division J of Public Law 117-58.
       Section 428 makes technical corrections to title VIII of 
     division J of Public Law 117-58.
       Section 429 makes technical corrections to title VIII of 
     division J of Public Law 117-58.
       Section 430 makes technical corrections to title VIII of 
     division J of Public Law 117-58.

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     division J of Public Law 117-58.
       Section 432 changes the availability of certain funding 
     from the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 (Public Law 
     113-2, division A; 127 Stat 36).
       Section 433 expands the eligible use of funds provided in 
     Public Law 110-252.

   DISCLOSURE OF EARMARKS AND CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING ITEMS

       Following is a list of congressional earmarks and 
     congressionally directed spending items (as defined in clause 
     9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
     and rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     respectively) included in the bill or this explanatory 
     statement, along with the name of each House Member, Senator, 
     Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who submitted a request to 
     the Committee of jurisdiction for each item so identified. 
     For each item, a Member is required to provide a 
     certification that neither the Member nor the Member's 
     immediate family has a financial interest, and each Senator 
     is required to provide a certification that neither the 
     Senator nor the Senator's immediate family has a pecuniary 
     interest in such congressionally directed spending item. 
     Neither the bill nor the explanatory statement contains any 
     limited tax benefits or limited tariff benefits as defined in 
     the applicable House and Senate rules.

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