[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 16]
[House]
[Pages 23182-23327]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 4635, DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND 
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS 
                               ACT, 2001

  Mr. WALSH submitted the following conference report and statement on 
the bill (H.R. 4635) making appropriations for the Departments of 
Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry 
independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes:

                  Conference Report (H. Rept. 106-988)

       The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the 
     two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 
     4635) ``making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans 
     Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry 
     independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and 
     offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and 
     for other purposes'', having met, after full and free 
     conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to 
     their respective Houses as follows:
       That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the Senate, and agree to the same with an 
     amendment, as follows:
       In lieu of the matter stricken and inserted by said 
     amendment, insert:
       Section 1. (a) The provisions of the following bills of the 
     106th Congress are hereby enacted into law:
       (1) H.R. 5482, as introduced on October 18, 2000.
       (2) H.R. 5483, as introduced on October 18, 2000.
       (b) In publishing this Act in slip form and in the United 
     States Statutes at Large pursuant to section 112 of title 1, 
     United States Code, the Archivist of the United States shall 
     include after the date of approval at the end appendixes 
     setting forth the texts of the bills referred to in 
     subsection (a) of this section.
     ; And the Senate agree to the same.
     James T. Walsh,
     Tom DeLay,
     Dave Hobson,
     Joe Knollenberg,
     Rodney Frelinghuysen,
     Anne M. Northup,
     John E. Sununu,
     Virgil Goode, Jr.,
     Bill Young,
     Alan B. Mollohan,
     Marcy Kaptur,
     Carrie P. Meek,
     David E. Price,
     Bud Cramer,
     Dave Obey,
                                Managers on the Part of the House.

     Christopher S. Bond,
     Conrad Burns,
     Richard C. Shelby,
     Larry E. Craig,
     Kay Bailey Hutchison,
     Ted Stevens,
     Pete V. Domenici,
     Barbara A. Mikulski,
     Patrick Leahy,
     Frank R. Lautenberg,
     Tom Harkin,
     Robert C. Byrd,
     Harry Reid,
     Daniel K. Inouye,
                               Managers on the Part of the Senate.

       JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE

       The managers on the part of the House and the Senate at the 
     conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the 
     amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 4635) making 
     appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
     Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent 
     agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for 
     the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other 
     purposes, submit the following joint statement to the House 
     and the Senate in explanation of the effect of the action 
     agreed upon by the managers and recommended in the 
     accompanying report.
       This conference agreement includes more than the 
     Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
     Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 
     2001. The conference agreement has been expanded to include 
     the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2001, as 
     well as the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and 
     Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations 
     Act, 2001. Both of these Acts have been enacted into law by 
     reference in this conference report; however, a copy of the 
     referenced legislation has been included in this statement 
     for convenience.

DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND 
                  INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

       The conference agreement would enact the provisions of H.R. 
     5482 as introduced on October 18, 2000. The text of that bill 
     follows:
     A BILL Making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans 
     Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry 
     independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and 
     offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and 
     for other purposes.
       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
     following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
     Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of 
     Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for 
     sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, 
     corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending 
     September 30, 2001, and for other purposes, namely:

                TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

                    Veterans Benefits Administration


                       Compensation and Pensions

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For the payment of compensation benefits to or on behalf of 
     veterans and a pilot program for disability examinations as 
     authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 107, chapters 11, 13, 18, 51, 
     53, 55, and 61); pension benefits to or on behalf of veterans 
     as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. chapters 15, 51, 53, 55, and 
     61; 92 Stat. 2508); and burial benefits, emergency and other 
     officers' retirement pay, adjusted-service credits and 
     certificates, payment of premiums due on commercial life 
     insurance policies guaranteed under the provisions of Article 
     IV of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, as 
     amended, and for other benefits as authorized by law (38 
     U.S.C. 107, 1312, 1977, and 2106, chapters 23, 51, 53, 55, 
     and 61; 50 U.S.C. App. 540-548; 43 Stat. 122, 123; 45 Stat. 
     735; 76 Stat. 1198), $22,766,276,000, to remain available 
     until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $17,419,000 of 
     the amount appropriated shall be reimbursed to ``General 
     operating expenses'' and ``Medical care'' for necessary 
     expenses in implementing those provisions authorized in the 
     Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, and in the 
     Veterans' Benefits Act of 1992 (38 U.S.C. chapters 51, 53, 
     and 55), the funding source for which is specifically 
     provided as the ``Compensation and pensions'' appropriation: 
     Provided further, That such sums as may be earned on an 
     actual qualifying patient basis, shall be reimbursed to 
     ``Medical facilities revolving fund'' to augment the funding 
     of individual medical facilities for nursing home care 
     provided to pensioners as authorized.


                         Readjustment Benefits

       For the payment of readjustment and rehabilitation benefits 
     to or on behalf of veterans as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 
     chapters 21, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 39, 51, 53, 55, and 61, 
     $1,634,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That

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     expenses for rehabilitation program services and assistance 
     which the Secretary is authorized to provide under section 
     3104(a) of title 38, United States Code, other than under 
     subsection (a)(1), (2), (5) and (11) of that section, shall 
     be charged to the account: Provided further, That funds shall 
     be available to pay any court order, court award or any 
     compromise settlement arising from litigation involving the 
     vocational training program authorized by section 18 of 
     Public Law 98-77, as amended.


                   Veterans Insurance and Indemnities

       For military and naval insurance, national service life 
     insurance, servicemen's indemnities, service-disabled 
     veterans insurance, and veterans mortgage life insurance as 
     authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 19; 70 Stat. 887; 72 Stat. 
     487, $19,850,000, to remain available until expended.


         Veterans Housing Benefit Program Fund Program Account

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, such sums as 
     may be necessary to carry out the program, as authorized by 
     38 U.S.C. chapter 37, as amended: Provided, That such costs, 
     including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as 
     defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
     1974, as amended: Provided further, That during fiscal year 
     2001, within the resources available, not to exceed $300,000 
     in gross obligations for direct loans are authorized for 
     specially adapted housing loans.
       In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
     direct and guaranteed loan programs, $162,000,000, which may 
     be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
     ``General operating expenses''.


                  Education Loan Fund Program Account

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For the cost of direct loans, $1,000, as authorized by 38 
     U.S.C. 3698, as amended: Provided, That such costs, including 
     the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in 
     section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as 
     amended: Provided further, That these funds are available to 
     subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of 
     direct loans not to exceed $3,400.
       In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry 
     out the direct loan program, $220,000, which may be 
     transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
     ``General operating expenses''.


            Vocational Rehabilitation Loans Program Account

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For the cost of direct loans, $52,000, as authorized by 38 
     U.S.C. chapter 31, as amended: Provided, That such costs, 
     including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as 
     defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
     1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds are 
     available to subsidize gross obligations for the principal 
     amount of direct loans not to exceed $2,726,000.
       In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry 
     out the direct loan program, $432,000, which may be 
     transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
     ``General operating expenses''.


          Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program Account

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For administrative expenses to carry out the direct loan 
     program authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, subchapter V, as 
     amended, $532,000, which may be transferred to and merged 
     with the appropriation for ``General operating expenses''.


  guaranteed transitional housing loans for homeless veterans program 
                                account

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Not to exceed $750,000 of the amounts appropriated by this 
     Act for ``General operating expenses'' and ``Medical care'' 
     may be expended for the administrative expenses to carry out 
     the guaranteed loan program authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 
     37, subchapter VI.

                     Veterans Health Administration


                              Medical Care

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses for the maintenance and operation of 
     hospitals, nursing homes, and domiciliary facilities; for 
     furnishing, as authorized by law, inpatient and outpatient 
     care and treatment to beneficiaries of the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs, including care and treatment in facilities 
     not under the jurisdiction of the department; and furnishing 
     recreational facilities, supplies, and equipment; funeral, 
     burial, and other expenses incidental thereto for 
     beneficiaries receiving care in the department; 
     administrative expenses in support of planning, design, 
     project management, real property acquisition and 
     disposition, construction and renovation of any facility 
     under the jurisdiction or for the use of the department; 
     oversight, engineering and architectural activities not 
     charged to project cost; repairing, altering, improving or 
     providing facilities in the several hospitals and homes under 
     the jurisdiction of the department, not otherwise provided 
     for, either by contract or by the hire of temporary employees 
     and purchase of materials; uniforms or allowances therefor, 
     as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; aid to State homes as 
     authorized by 38 U.S.C. 1741; administrative and legal 
     expenses of the department for collecting and recovering 
     amounts owed the department as authorized under 38 U.S.C. 
     chapter 17, and the Federal Medical Care Recovery Act, 42 
     U.S.C. 2651 et seq., $20,281,587,000, plus reimbursements: 
     Provided, That of the funds made available under this 
     heading, $900,000,000 is for the equipment and land and 
     structures object classifications only, which amount shall 
     not become available for obligation until August 1, 2001, and 
     shall remain available until September 30, 2002: Provided 
     further, That of the funds made available under this heading, 
     not to exceed $500,000,000 shall be available until September 
     30, 2002: Provided further, That of the funds made available 
     under this heading, not to exceed $28,134,000 may be 
     transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
     ``General operating expenses'': Provided further, That the 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall conduct by contract a 
     program of recovery audits for the fee basis and other 
     medical services contracts with respect to payments for 
     hospital care; and, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302(b), 
     amounts collected, by setoff or otherwise, as the result of 
     such audits shall be available, without fiscal year 
     limitation, for the purposes for which funds are appropriated 
     under this heading and the purposes of paying a contractor a 
     percent of the amount collected as a result of an audit 
     carried out by the contractor: Provided further, That all 
     amounts so collected under the preceding proviso with respect 
     to a designated health care region (as that term is defined 
     in 38 U.S.C. 1729A(d)(2)) shall be allocated, net of payments 
     to the contractor, to that region.
       In addition, in conformance with Public Law 105-33 
     establishing the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Care 
     Collections Fund, such sums as may be deposited to such Fund 
     pursuant to 38 U.S.C. 1729A may be transferred to this 
     account, to remain available until expended for the purposes 
     of this account.
       None of the foregoing funds may be transferred to the 
     Department of Justice for the purposes of supporting tobacco 
     litigation.


                    Medical and Prosthetic Research

       For necessary expenses in carrying out programs of medical 
     and prosthetic research and development as authorized by 38 
     U.S.C. chapter 73, to remain available until September 30, 
     2002, $351,000,000, plus reimbursements.


      Medical Administration and Miscellaneous Operating Expenses

       For necessary expenses in the administration of the 
     medical, hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, construction, 
     supply, and research activities, as authorized by law; 
     administrative expenses in support of capital policy 
     activities, $62,000,000 plus reimbursements: Provided, That 
     technical and consulting services offered by the Facilities 
     Management Field Service, including project management and 
     real property administration (including leases, site 
     acquisition and disposal activities directly supporting 
     projects), shall be provided to Department of Veterans 
     Affairs components only on a reimbursable basis, and such 
     amounts will remain available until September 30, 2001.

                      Departmental Administration


                       General Operating Expenses

       For necessary operating expenses of the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs, not otherwise provided for, including 
     uniforms or allowances therefor; not to exceed $25,000 for 
     official reception and representation expenses; hire of 
     passenger motor vehicles; and reimbursement of the General 
     Services Administration for security guard services, and the 
     Department of Defense for the cost of overseas employee mail, 
     $1,050,000,000: Provided, That expenses for services and 
     assistance authorized under 38 U.S.C. 3104(a) (1), (2), (5) 
     and (11) that the Secretary determines are necessary to 
     enable entitled veterans (1) to the maximum extent feasible, 
     to become employable and to obtain and maintain suitable 
     employment; or (2) to achieve maximum independence in daily 
     living, shall be charged to this account: Provided further, 
     That of the funds made available under this heading, not to 
     exceed $45,000,000 shall be available until September 30, 
     2002: Provided further, That funds under this heading shall 
     be available to administer the Service Members Occupational 
     Conversion and Training Act.

                    national cemetery administration


                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses for the maintenance and operation of 
     the National Cemetery Administration, not otherwise provided 
     for, including uniforms or allowances therefor; cemeterial 
     expenses as authorized by law; purchase of two passenger 
     motor vehicles for use in cemeterial operations; and hire of 
     passenger motor vehicles, $109,889,000: Provided, That travel 
     expenses shall not exceed $1,125,000: Provided further, That 
     of the amount made available under this heading, not to 
     exceed $125,000 may be transferred to and merged with the 
     appropriation for ``General operating expenses''.

                      office of inspector general


                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
     in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
     amended, $46,464,000: Provided, That of the amount made 
     available under this heading, not to exceed $28,000 may be 
     transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
     ``General operating expenses''.


                      Construction, Major Projects

       For constructing, altering, extending and improving any of 
     the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use of the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs, or for any of the purposes 
     set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102, 8103, 8106, 
     8108, 8109, 8110, and 8122 of title 38, United States Code, 
     including planning, architectural and engineering services, 
     maintenance or guarantee period services costs associated 
     with equipment guarantees provided under the project, 
     services of claims analysts, offsite utility and storm 
     drainage system construction costs,

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     and site acquisition, where the estimated cost of a project 
     is $4,000,000 or more or where funds for a project were made 
     available in a previous major project appropriation, 
     $66,040,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That except for advance planning of projects (including 
     market-based assessments of health care needs which may or 
     may not lead to capital investments) funded through the 
     advance planning fund and the design of projects funded 
     through the design fund, none of these funds shall be used 
     for any project which has not been considered and approved by 
     the Congress in the budgetary process: Provided further, That 
     funds provided in this appropriation for fiscal year 2001, 
     for each approved project shall be obligated: (1) by the 
     awarding of a construction documents contract by September 
     30, 2001; and (2) by the awarding of a construction contract 
     by September 30, 2002: Provided further, That the Secretary 
     shall promptly report in writing to the Committees on 
     Appropriations any approved major construction project in 
     which obligations are not incurred within the time 
     limitations established above: Provided further, That no 
     funds from any other account except the ``Parking revolving 
     fund'', may be obligated for constructing, altering, 
     extending, or improving a project which was approved in the 
     budget process and funded in this account until one year 
     after substantial completion and beneficial occupancy by the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs of the project or any part 
     thereof with respect to that part only.


                      Construction, Minor Projects

       For constructing, altering, extending, and improving any of 
     the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use of the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs, including planning, 
     architectural and engineering services, maintenance or 
     guarantee period services costs associated with equipment 
     guarantees provided under the project, services of claims 
     analysts, offsite utility and storm drainage system 
     construction costs, and site acquisition, or for any of the 
     purposes set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102, 8103, 
     8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, 8122, and 8162 of title 38, United 
     States Code, where the estimated cost of a project is less 
     than $4,000,000, $162,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended, along with unobligated balances of previous 
     ``Construction, minor projects'' appropriations which are 
     hereby made available for any project where the estimated 
     cost is less than $4,000,000: Provided, That funds in this 
     account shall be available for: (1) repairs to any of the 
     nonmedical facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use 
     of the department which are necessary because of loss or 
     damage caused by any natural disaster or catastrophe; and (2) 
     temporary measures necessary to prevent or to minimize 
     further loss by such causes.


                         Parking Revolving Fund

       For the parking revolving fund as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 
     8109, income from fees collected, to remain available until 
     expended, which shall be available for all authorized 
     expenses except operations and maintenance costs, which will 
     be funded from ``Medical care''.


       Grants for Construction of State Extended Care Facilities

       For grants to assist States to acquire or construct State 
     nursing home and domiciliary facilities and to remodel, 
     modify or alter existing hospital, nursing home and 
     domiciliary facilities in State homes, for furnishing care to 
     veterans as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 8131-8137, $100,000,000, 
     to remain available until expended.


        Grants for the Construction of State Veterans Cemeteries

       For grants to aid States in establishing, expanding, or 
     improving State veterans cemeteries as authorized by 38 
     U.S.C. 2408, $25,000,000, to remain available until expended.


                       Administrative Provisions

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Sec. 101. Any appropriation for fiscal year 2001 for 
     ``Compensation and pensions'', ``Readjustment benefits'', and 
     ``Veterans insurance and indemnities'' may be transferred to 
     any other of the mentioned appropriations.
       Sec. 102. Appropriations available to the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 for salaries and 
     expenses shall be available for services authorized by 5 
     U.S.C. 3109.
       Sec. 103. No appropriations in this Act for the Department 
     of Veterans Affairs (except the appropriations for 
     ``Construction, major projects'', ``Construction, minor 
     projects'', and the ``Parking revolving fund'') shall be 
     available for the purchase of any site for or toward the 
     construction of any new hospital or home.
       Sec. 104. No appropriations in this Act for the Department 
     of Veterans Affairs shall be available for hospitalization or 
     examination of any persons (except beneficiaries entitled 
     under the laws bestowing such benefits to veterans, and 
     persons receiving such treatment under 5 U.S.C. 7901-7904 or 
     42 U.S.C. 5141-5204), unless reimbursement of cost is made to 
     the ``Medical care'' account at such rates as may be fixed by 
     the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
       Sec. 105. Appropriations available to the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 for ``Compensation and 
     pensions'', ``Readjustment benefits'', and ``Veterans 
     insurance and indemnities'' shall be available for payment of 
     prior year accrued obligations required to be recorded by law 
     against the corresponding prior year accounts within the last 
     quarter of fiscal year 2000.
       Sec. 106. Appropriations accounts available to the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 shall be 
     available to pay prior year obligations of corresponding 
     prior year appropriations accounts resulting from title X of 
     the Competitive Equality Banking Act, Public Law 100-86, 
     except that if such obligations are from trust fund accounts 
     they shall be payable from ``Compensation and pensions''.
       Sec. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     during fiscal year 2001, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
     shall, from the National Service Life Insurance Fund (38 
     U.S.C. 1920), the Veterans' Special Life Insurance Fund (38 
     U.S.C. 1923), and the United States Government Life Insurance 
     Fund (38 U.S.C. 1955), reimburse the ``General operating 
     expenses'' account for the cost of administration of the 
     insurance programs financed through those accounts: Provided, 
     That reimbursement shall be made only from the surplus 
     earnings accumulated in an insurance program in fiscal year 
     2001, that are available for dividends in that program after 
     claims have been paid and actuarially determined reserves 
     have been set aside: Provided further, That if the cost of 
     administration of an insurance program exceeds the amount of 
     surplus earnings accumulated in that program, reimbursement 
     shall be made only to the extent of such surplus earnings: 
     Provided further, That the Secretary shall determine the cost 
     of administration for fiscal year 2001, which is properly 
     allocable to the provision of each insurance program and to 
     the provision of any total disability income insurance 
     included in such insurance program.
       Sec. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     collections authorized by the Veterans Millennium Health Care 
     and Benefits Act (Public Law 106-117) and credited to the 
     appropriate Department of Veterans Affairs accounts in fiscal 
     year 2001, shall not be available for obligation or 
     expenditure unless appropriation language making such funds 
     available is enacted.
       Sec. 109. In accordance with section 1557 of title 31, 
     United States Code, the following obligated balance shall be 
     exempt from subchapter IV of chapter 15 of such title and 
     shall remain available for expenditure until September 30, 
     2003: funds obligated by the Department of Veterans Affairs 
     for a contract with the Institute for Clinical Research to 
     study the application of artificial neural networks to the 
     diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer through the 
     Cooperative DoD/VA Medical Research program from funds made 
     available to the Department of Veterans Affairs by the 
     Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1995 (Public Law 
     103-335) under the heading ``Research, Development, Test and 
     Evaluation, Defense-Wide''.
       Sec. 110. As HR LINK$ will not be part of the Franchise 
     Fund in fiscal year 2001, funds budgeted in customer accounts 
     to purchase HR LINK$ services from the Franchise Fund shall 
     be transferred to the General Administration portion of the 
     ``General operating expenses'' appropriation in the following 
     amounts: $78,000 from the ``Office of Inspector General'', 
     $358,000 from the ``National cemetery administration'', 
     $1,106,000 from ``Medical care'', $84,000 from ``Medical 
     administration and miscellaneous operating expenses'', and 
     $38,000 shall be reprogrammed within the ``General operating 
     expenses'' appropriation from the Veterans Benefits 
     Administration to General Administration for the same 
     purpose.
       Sec. 111. Not to exceed $1,600,000 from the ``Medical 
     care'' appropriation shall be transferred to the ``General 
     operating expenses'' appropriation to fund personnel services 
     costs of employees providing legal services and 
     administrative support for the Office of General Counsel.
       Sec. 112. Not to exceed $1,200,000 may be transferred from 
     the ``Medical care'' appropriation to the ``General operating 
     expenses'' appropriation to fund contracts and services in 
     support of the Veterans Benefits Administration's Benefits 
     Delivery Center, Systems Development Center, and Finance 
     Center, located at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical 
     Center, Hines, Illinois.
       Sec. 113. Not to exceed $4,500,000 from the ``Construction, 
     minor projects'' appropriation and not to exceed $2,000,000 
     from the ``Medical care'' appropriation may be transferred to 
     and merged with the Parking Revolving Fund for surface 
     parking lot projects.
       Sec. 114. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
     none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available in 
     this Act for ``Medical care'' appropriations of the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs may be obligated for the 
     realignment of the health care delivery system in Veterans 
     Integrated Service Network 12 (VISN 12) until 60 days after 
     the Secretary of Veterans Affairs certifies that the 
     Department has: (1) consulted with veterans organizations, 
     medical school affiliates, employee representatives, State 
     veterans and health associations, and other interested 
     parties with respect to the realignment plan to be 
     implemented; and (2) made available to the Congress and the 
     public information from the consultations regarding possible 
     impacts on the accessibility of veterans health care services 
     to affected veterans.

         TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                       Public and Indian Housing


                        Housing Certificate Fund

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For activities and assistance to prevent the involuntary 
     displacement of low-income families, the elderly and the 
     disabled because of the loss of affordable housing stock, 
     expiration of subsidy contracts (other than contracts for 
     which amounts are provided under another heading in this Act) 
     or expiration of use restrictions, or other changes in 
     housing assistance arrangements, and for other purposes, 
     $13,940,907,000

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     and amounts that are recaptured in this account to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That of the total amount 
     provided under this heading, $13,430,000,000, of which 
     $9,230,000,000 shall be available on October 1, 2000 and 
     $4,200,000,000 shall be available on October 1, 2001, shall 
     be for assistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937 
     (``the Act'' herein) (42 U.S.C. 1437): Provided further, That 
     the foregoing amounts shall shall be for use in connection 
     with expiring or terminating section 8 subsidy contracts, for 
     amendments to section 8 subsidy contracts, for enhanced 
     vouchers (including amendments and renewals) under any 
     provision of law authorizing such assistance under section 
     8(t) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (47 U.S.C. 
     1437f(t)), contract administrators, and contracts entered 
     into pursuant to section 441 of the Stewart B. McKinney 
     Homeless Assistance Act: Provided further, That amounts 
     available under the first proviso under this heading shall be 
     available for section 8 rental assistance under the Act: (1) 
     for the relocation and replacement of housing units that are 
     demolished or disposed of pursuant to section 24 of the 
     United States Housing Act of 1937 or to other authority for 
     the revitalization of severely distressed public housing, as 
     set forth in the Appropriations Acts for the Departments of 
     Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and 
     Independent Agencies for fiscal years 1993, 1994, 1995, and 
     1997, and in the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and 
     Appropriations Act of 1996; (2) for the conversion of section 
     23 projects to assistance under section 8; (3) for funds to 
     carry out the family unification program; (4) for the 
     relocation of witnesses in connection with efforts to combat 
     crime in public and assisted housing pursuant to a request 
     from a law enforcement or prosecution agency; (5) for tenant 
     protection assistance, including replacement and relocation 
     assistance; and (6) for the 1-year renewal of section 8 
     contracts for units in a project that is subject to an 
     approved plan of action under the Emergency Low Income 
     Housing Preservation Act of 1987 or the Low-Income Housing 
     Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990: Provided 
     further, That of the total amount provided under this 
     heading, $11,000,000 shall be transferred to the Working 
     Capital Fund for the development and maintenance of 
     information technology systems: Provided further, That of the 
     total amount provided under this heading, $40,000,000 shall 
     be made available to nonelderly disabled families affected by 
     the designation of a public housing development under section 
     7 of the Act, the establishment of preferences in accordance 
     with section 651 of the Housing and Community Development Act 
     of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 1361l), or the restriction of occupancy to 
     elderly families in accordance with section 658 of such Act, 
     and to the extent the Secretary determines that such amount 
     is not needed to fund applications for such affected 
     families, to other nonelderly disabled families: Provided 
     further, That of the total amount provided under this 
     heading, $452,907,000 shall be made available for incremental 
     vouchers under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 
     1937 on a fair share basis and administered by public housing 
     agencies:
       Provided further, That of the total amount provided under 
     this heading, up to $7,000,000 shall be made available for 
     the completion of the Jobs Plus Demonstration: Provided 
     further, That amounts available under this heading may be 
     made available for administrative fees and other expenses to 
     cover the cost of administering rental assistance programs 
     under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937: 
     Provided further, That the fee otherwise authorized under 
     section 8(q) of such Act shall be determined in accordance 
     with section 8(q), as in effect immediately before the 
     enactment of the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act 
     of 1998: Provided further, That $1,833,000,000 is rescinded 
     from unobligated balances remaining from funds appropriated 
     to the Department of Housing and Urban Development under this 
     heading or the heading ``Annual Contributions for Assisted 
     Housing'' or any other heading for fiscal year 2000 and prior 
     years: Provided further, That any such balances governed by 
     reallocation provisions under the statute authorizing the 
     program for which the funds were originally appropriated 
     shall not be available for this rescission: Provided further, 
     That the Secretary shall have until September 30, 2001, to 
     meet the rescission in the proviso preceding the immediately 
     preceding proviso: Provided further, That any obligated 
     balances of contract authority that have been terminated 
     shall be canceled.


                      public housing capital fund

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For the Public Housing Capital Fund Program to carry out 
     capital and management activities for public housing 
     agencies, as authorized under section 9 of the United States 
     Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437), 
     $3,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
     up to $50,000,000 shall be for carrying out activities under 
     section 9(h) of such Act, for lease adjustments to section 23 
     projects and $43,000,000 shall be transferred to the Working 
     Capital Fund for the development and maintenance of 
     information technology systems: Provided, That no funds may 
     be used under this heading for the purposes specified in 
     section 9(k) of the United States Housing Act of 1937: 
     Provided further, That of the total amount, up to $75,000,000 
     shall be available for the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
     Development to make grants to public housing agencies for 
     emergency capital needs resulting from emergencies and 
     natural disasters in fiscal year 2001.


                     public housing operating fund

       For payments to public housing agencies for the operation 
     and management of public housing, as authorized by section 
     9(e) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 
     U.S.C. 1437g), $3,242,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended: Provided, That no funds may be used under this 
     heading for the purposes specified in section 9(k) of the 
     United States Housing Act of 1937.


             Drug Elimination Grants for Low-Income Housing

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For grants to public housing agencies and Indian tribes and 
     their tribally designated housing entities for use in 
     eliminating crime in public housing projects authorized by 42 
     U.S.C. 11901-11908, for grants for federally assisted low-
     income housing authorized by 42 U.S.C. 11909, and for drug 
     information clearinghouse services authorized by 42 U.S.C. 
     11921-11925, $310,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended: Provided, That of the total amount provided under 
     this heading, up to $3,000,000 shall be solely for technical 
     assistance, technical assistance grants, training, and 
     program assessment for or on behalf of public housing 
     agencies, resident organizations, and Indian tribes and their 
     tribally designated housing entities (including up to 
     $150,000 for the cost of necessary travel for participants in 
     such training) for oversight, training and improved 
     management of this program, $2,000,000 shall be available to 
     the Boys and Girls Clubs of America for the operating and 
     start-up costs of clubs located in or near, and primarily 
     serving residents of, public housing and housing assisted 
     under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-
     Determination Act of 1996, and $10,000,000 shall be used in 
     connection with efforts to combat violent crime in public and 
     assisted housing under the Operation Safe Home Program 
     administered by the Inspector General of the Department of 
     Housing and Urban Development: Provided further, That of the 
     amount under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be provided to 
     the Office of Inspector General for Operation Safe Home: 
     Provided further, That of the amount under this heading, 
     $20,000,000 shall be available for the New Approach Anti-Drug 
     program which will provide competitive grants to entities 
     managing or operating public housing developments, federally 
     assisted multifamily housing developments, or other 
     multifamily housing developments for low-income families 
     supported by non-Federal governmental entities or similar 
     housing developments supported by nonprofit private sources 
     in order to provide or augment security (including personnel 
     costs), to assist in the investigation and/or prosecution of 
     drug-related criminal activity in and around such 
     developments, and to provide assistance for the development 
     of capital improvements at such developments directly 
     relating to the security of such developments: Provided 
     further, That grants for the New Approach Anti-Drug program 
     shall be made on a competitive basis as specified in section 
     102 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform 
     Act of 1989.


     Revitalization of Severely Distressed Public Housing (Hope VI)

       For grants to public housing agencies for demolition, site 
     revitalization, replacement housing, and tenant-based 
     assistance grants to projects as authorized by section 24 of 
     the United States Housing Act of 1937, $575,000,000 to remain 
     available until expended, of which the Secretary may use up 
     to $10,000,000 for technical assistance and contract 
     expertise, to be provided directly or indirectly by grants, 
     contracts or cooperative agreements, including training and 
     cost of necessary travel for participants in such training, 
     by or to officials and employees of the department and of 
     public housing agencies and to residents: Provided, That none 
     of such funds shall be used directly or indirectly by 
     granting competitive advantage in awards to settle litigation 
     or pay judgments, unless expressly permitted herein.


                  Native American Housing Block Grants

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For the Native American Housing Block Grants program, as 
     authorized under title I of the Native American Housing 
     Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) 
     (Public Law 104-330), $650,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended, of which $6,000,000 shall be to support the 
     inspection of Indian housing units, contract expertise, 
     training, and technical assistance in the training, 
     oversight, and management of Indian housing and tenant-based 
     assistance, including up to $300,000 for related travel: 
     Provided, That of the amount provided under this heading, 
     $6,000,000 shall be made available for the cost of guaranteed 
     notes and other obligations, as authorized by title VI of 
     NAHASDA: Provided further, That such costs, including the 
     costs of modifying such notes and other obligations, shall be 
     as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
     1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds are 
     available to subsidize the total principal amount of any 
     notes and other obligations, any part of which is to be 
     guaranteed, not to exceed $54,600,000: Provided further, That 
     for administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan 
     program, up to $150,000 from amounts in the first proviso, 
     which shall be transferred to and merged with the 
     appropriation for ``Salaries and expenses'', to be used only 
     for the administrative costs of these guarantees: Provided 
     further, That of the amount provided in this heading, 
     $2,000,000 shall be

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     transferred to the Working Capital Fund for developing and 
     maintaining information technology systems.


           indian housing loan guarantee fund program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by section 
     184 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (106 
     Stat. 3739), $6,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That such costs, including the costs of modifying 
     such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided 
     further, That these funds are available to subsidize total 
     loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to 
     exceed $71,956,000.
       In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
     guaranteed loan program, up to $200,000 from amounts in the 
     first paragraph, which shall be transferred to and merged 
     with the appropriation for ``Salaries and expenses'', to be 
     used only for the administrative costs of these guarantees.

                   Community Planning and Development


              Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS

       For carrying out the Housing Opportunities for Persons with 
     AIDS program, as authorized by the AIDS Housing Opportunity 
     Act (42 U.S.C. 12901), $258,000,000, to remain available 
     until expended: Provided, That the Secretary shall renew all 
     expiring contracts that were funded under section 854(c)(3) 
     of such Act that meet all program requirements before 
     awarding funds for new contracts and activities authorized 
     under this section: Provided further, That the Secretary may 
     use up to 1 percent of the funds under this heading for 
     training, oversight, and technical assistance activities.


                 rural housing and economic development

       For the Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development in 
     the Department of Housing and Urban Development, $25,000,000 
     to remain available until expended, which amount shall be 
     awarded by June 1, 2001, to Indian tribes, State housing 
     finance agencies, State community and/or economic development 
     agencies, local rural nonprofits and community development 
     corporations to support innovative housing and economic 
     development activities in rural areas: Provided, That all 
     grants shall be awarded on a competitive basis as specified 
     in section 102 of the HUD Reform Act.


                EMPOWERMENT ZONES/ENTERPRISE COMMUNITIES

       For grants in connection with a second round of empowerment 
     zones and enterprise communities, $90,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That $75,000,000 shall be 
     available for the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
     for ``Urban Empowerment Zones'', as authorized in the 
     Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, including $5,000,000 for each 
     empowerment zone for use in conjunction with economic 
     development activities consistent with the strategic plan of 
     each empowerment zone: Provided further, That $15,000,000 
     shall be available to the Secretary of Agriculture for grants 
     for designated empowerment zones in rural areas and for 
     grants for designated rural enterprise communities.


                       community development fund

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For assistance to units of State and local government, and 
     to other entities, for economic and community development 
     activities, and for other purposes, $5,057,550,000: Provided, 
     That of the amount provided, $4,409,000,000 is for carrying 
     out the community development block grant program under title 
     I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as 
     amended (the ``Act'' herein) (42 U.S.C. 5301), to remain 
     available until September 30, 2003: Provided further, That 
     $71,000,000 shall be for grants to Indian tribes 
     notwithstanding section 106(a)(1) of such Act, $3,000,000 
     shall be available as a grant to the Housing Assistance 
     Council, $2,600,000 shall be available as a grant to the 
     National American Indian Housing Council, $10,000,000 shall 
     be available as a grant to the National Housing Development 
     Corporation, for operating expenses not to exceed $2,000,000 
     and for a program of affordable housing acquisition and 
     rehabilitation, and $45,500,000 shall be for grants pursuant 
     to section 107 of the Act of which $3,000,000 shall be made 
     available to support Alaska Native serving institutions and 
     native Hawaiian serving institutions, as defined under the 
     Higher Education Act, as amended, and of which $3,000,000 
     shall be made available to tribal colleges and universities 
     to build, expand, renovate, and equip their facilities: 
     Provided further, That not to exceed 20 percent of any grant 
     made with funds appropriated herein (other than a grant made 
     available in this paragraph to the Housing Assistance Council 
     or the National American Indian Housing Council, or a grant 
     using funds under section 107(b)(3) of the Housing and 
     Community Development Act of 1974, as amended) shall be 
     expended for ``Planning and Management Development'' and 
     ``Administration'' as defined in regulations promulgated by 
     the department: Provided further, That $15,000,000 shall be 
     transferred to the Working Capital Fund for the development 
     and maintenance of information technology systems: Provided 
     further, That $20,000,000 shall be for grants pursuant to the 
     Self Help Housing Opportunity Program.
       Of the amount made available under this heading, 
     $28,450,000 shall be made available for capacity building, of 
     which $25,000,000 shall be made available for ``Capacity 
     Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing'', 
     for LISC and the Enterprise Foundation for activities as 
     authorized by section 4 of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 
     (Public Law 103-120), as in effect immediately before June 
     12, 1997, of which not less than $5,000,000 of the funding 
     shall be used in rural areas, including tribal areas, and of 
     which $3,450,000 shall be made available for capacity 
     building activities administered by Habitat for Humanity 
     International.
       Of the amount made available under this heading, the 
     Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may use up to 
     $55,000,000 for supportive services for public housing 
     residents, as authorized by section 34 of the United States 
     Housing Act of 1937, as amended, and for residents of housing 
     assisted under the Native American Housing Assistance and 
     Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) and for grants for 
     service coordinators and congregate services for the elderly 
     and disabled residents of public and assisted housing and 
     housing assisted under NAHASDA.
       Of the amount made available under this heading, 
     $44,000,000 shall be available for neighborhood initiatives 
     that are utilized to improve the conditions of distressed and 
     blighted areas and neighborhoods, to stimulate investment, 
     economic diversification, and community revitalization in 
     areas with population outmigration or a stagnating or 
     declining economic base, or to determine whether housing 
     benefits can be integrated more effectively with welfare 
     reform initiatives: Provided, That any unobligated balances 
     of amounts set aside for neighborhood initiatives in fiscal 
     years 1998, 1999, and 2000 may be utilized for any of the 
     foregoing purposes: Provided further, That these grants shall 
     be provided in accord with the terms and conditions specified 
     in the statement of managers accompanying this conference 
     report.
       Of the amount made available under this heading, 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, $60,000,000 shall 
     be available for YouthBuild program activities authorized by 
     subtitle D of title IV of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
     Affordable Housing Act, as amended, and such activities shall 
     be an eligible activity with respect to any funds made 
     available under this heading: Provided, That local YouthBuild 
     programs that demonstrate an ability to leverage private and 
     nonprofit funding shall be given a priority for YouthBuild 
     funding: Provided further, That no more than ten percent of 
     any grant award may be used for administrative costs: 
     Provided further, That not less than $10,000,000 shall be 
     available for grants to establish YouthBuild programs in 
     underserved and rural areas: Provided further, That of the 
     amount provided under this paragraph, $4,000,000 shall be set 
     aside and made available for a grant to Youthbuild USA for 
     capacity building for community development and affordable 
     housing activities as specified in section 4 of the HUD 
     Demonstration Act of 1993, as amended.
       Of the amounts made available under this heading, 
     $2,000,000 shall be available to the Utah Housing Finance 
     Agency for the temporary use of relocatable housing during 
     the 2002 Winter Olympic Games provided such housing is 
     targeted to the housing needs of low-income families after 
     the Games.
       Of the amount made available under this heading, 
     $292,000,000 shall be available for grants for the Economic 
     Development Initiative (EDI) to finance a variety of targeted 
     economic investments in accordance with the terms and 
     conditions specified in the statement of managers 
     accompanying this conference report.
       For the cost of guaranteed loans, $29,000,000, as 
     authorized by section 108 of the Housing and Community 
     Development Act of 1974: Provided, That such costs, including 
     the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in 
     section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as 
     amended: Provided further, That these funds are available to 
     subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be 
     guaranteed, not to exceed $1,261,000,000, notwithstanding any 
     aggregate limitation on outstanding obligations guaranteed in 
     section 108(k) of the Housing and Community Development Act 
     of 1974: Provided further, That in addition, for 
     administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan 
     program, $1,000,000, which shall be transferred to and merged 
     with the appropriation for ``Salaries and expenses''.


                       Brownfields Redevelopment

       For Economic Development Grants, as authorized by section 
     108(q) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, 
     as amended, for Brownfields redevelopment projects, 
     $25,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
     make these grants available on a competitive basis as 
     specified in section 102 of the Department of Housing and 
     Urban Development Reform Act of 1989.


                  home investment partnerships program

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For the HOME investment partnerships program, as authorized 
     under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
     Housing Act, as amended, $1,800,000,000 to remain available 
     until expended: Provided, That up to $20,000,000 of these 
     funds shall be available for Housing Counseling under section 
     106 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968: 
     Provided further, That $17,000,000 shall be transferred to 
     the Working Capital Fund for the development and maintenance 
     of information technology systems.


                       homeless assistance grants

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For the emergency shelter grants program (as authorized 
     under subtitle B of title IV of the

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     Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, as amended); the 
     supportive housing program (as authorized under subtitle C of 
     title IV of such Act); the section 8 moderate rehabilitation 
     single room occupancy program (as authorized under the United 
     States Housing Act of 1937, as amended) to assist homeless 
     individuals pursuant to section 441 of the Stewart B. 
     McKinney Homeless Assistance Act; and the shelter plus care 
     program (as authorized under subtitle F of title IV of such 
     Act), $1,025,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That not less than 30 percent of these funds shall 
     be used for permanent housing, and all funding for services 
     must be matched by 25 percent in funding by each grantee: 
     Provided further, That all awards of assistance under this 
     heading shall be required to coordinate and integrate 
     homeless programs with other mainstream health, social 
     services, and employment programs for which homeless 
     populations may be eligible, including Medicaid, State 
     Children's Health Insurance Program, Temporary Assistance for 
     Needy Families, Food Stamps, and services funding through the 
     Mental Health and Substance Abuse Block Grant, Workforce 
     Investment Act, and the Welfare-to-Work grant program: 
     Provided further, That up to 1.5 percent of the funds 
     appropriated under this heading is transferred to the Working 
     Capital Fund to be used for technical assistance for 
     management information systems and to develop an automated, 
     client-level Annual Performance Report System: Provided 
     further, That $500,000 shall be made available to the 
     Interagency Council on the Homeless for administrative needs.


                       SHELTER PLUS CARE Renewals

       For the renewal on an annual basis of contracts expiring 
     during fiscal years 2001 and 2002 under the Shelter Plus Care 
     program, as authorized under subtitle F of title IV of the 
     Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, as amended, 
     $100,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That each Shelter Plus Care project with an expiring contract 
     shall be eligible for renewal only if the project is 
     determined to be needed under the applicable continuum of 
     care and meets appropriate program requirements and financial 
     standards, as determined by the Secretary.

                            Housing Programs


                    housing for special populations

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For assistance for the purchase, construction, acquisition, 
     or development of additional public and subsidized housing 
     units for low income families not otherwise provided for, 
     $996,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That $779,000,000 shall be for capital advances, including 
     amendments to capital advance contracts, for housing for the 
     elderly, as authorized by section 202 of the Housing Act of 
     1959, as amended, and for project rental assistance, and 
     amendments to contracts for project rental assistance, for 
     the elderly under such section 202(c)(2), and for supportive 
     services associated with the housing, of which amount 
     $50,000,000 shall be for service coordinators and the 
     continuation of existing congregate service grants for 
     residents of assisted housing projects and of which amount 
     $50,000,000 shall be for grants under section 202b of the 
     Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q-2) for conversion of 
     eligible projects under such section to assisted living or 
     related use: Provided further, That of the amount under this 
     heading, $217,000,000 shall be for capital advances, 
     including amendments to capital advance contracts, for 
     supportive housing for persons with disabilities, as 
     authorized by section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
     Affordable Housing Act, for project rental assistance, for 
     amendments to contracts for project rental assistance, and 
     supportive services associated with the housing for persons 
     with disabilities as authorized by section 811 of such Act: 
     Provided further, That $1,000,000, to be divided evenly 
     between the appropriations for the section 202 and section 
     811 programs, shall be transferred to the Working Capital 
     Fund for the development and maintenance of information 
     technology systems: Provided further, That the Secretary may 
     designate up to 25 percent of the amounts earmarked under 
     this paragraph for section 811 of such Act for tenant-based 
     assistance, as authorized under that section, including such 
     authority as may be waived under the next proviso, which 
     assistance is 5 years in duration: Provided further, That the 
     Secretary may waive any provision of such section 202 and 
     such section 811 (including the provisions governing the 
     terms and conditions of project rental assistance and tenant-
     based assistance) that the Secretary determines is not 
     necessary to achieve the objectives of these programs, or 
     that otherwise impedes the ability to develop, operate, or 
     administer projects assisted under these programs, and may 
     make provision for alternative conditions or terms where 
     appropriate.


                         Flexible Subsidy Fund

                          (transfer of funds)

       From the Rental Housing Assistance Fund, all uncommitted 
     balances of excess rental charges as of September 30, 2000, 
     and any collections made during fiscal year 2001, shall be 
     transferred to the Flexible Subsidy Fund, as authorized by 
     section 236(g) of the National Housing Act, as amended.

                     Federal Housing Administration


             fha--mutual mortgage insurance program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

       During fiscal year 2001, commitments to guarantee loans to 
     carry out the purposes of section 203(b) of the National 
     Housing Act, as amended, shall not exceed a loan principal of 
     $160,000,000,000.
       During fiscal year 2001, obligations to make direct loans 
     to carry out the purposes of section 204(g) of the National 
     Housing Act, as amended, shall not exceed $250,000,000: 
     Provided, That the foregoing amount shall be for loans to 
     nonprofit and governmental entities in connection with sales 
     of single family real properties owned by the Secretary and 
     formerly insured under the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund.
       For administrative expenses necessary to carry out the 
     guaranteed and direct loan program, $330,888,000, of which 
     not to exceed $324,866,000 shall be transferred to the 
     appropriation for ``Salaries and expenses''; and not to 
     exceed $4,022,000 shall be transferred to the appropriation 
     for ``Office of Inspector General''. In addition, for 
     administrative contract expenses, $160,000,000, of which 
     $96,500,000 shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund 
     for the development and maintenance of information technology 
     systems: Provided, That to the extent guaranteed loan 
     commitments exceed $65,500,000,000 on or before April 1, 2001 
     an additional $1,400 for administrative contract expenses 
     shall be available for each $1,000,000 in additional 
     guaranteed loan commitments (including a pro rata amount for 
     any amount below $1,000,000), but in no case shall funds made 
     available by this proviso exceed $16,000,000.


             fha--general and special risk program account

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by sections 
     238 and 519 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-3 
     and 1735c), including the cost of loan guarantee 
     modifications (as that term is defined in section 502 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended), $101,000,000, 
     to remain available until expended: Provided, That these 
     funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, any 
     part of which is to be guaranteed, of up to $21,000,000,000: 
     Provided further, That any amounts made available in any 
     prior appropriations Act for the cost (as such term is 
     defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
     1974) of guaranteed loans that are obligations of the funds 
     established under section 238 or 519 of the National Housing 
     Act that have not been obligated or that are deobligated 
     shall be available to the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
     Development in connection with the making of such guarantees 
     and shall remain available until expended, notwithstanding 
     the expiration of any period of availability otherwise 
     applicable to such amounts.
       Gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans, 
     as authorized by sections 204(g), 207(l), 238, and 519(a) of 
     the National Housing Act, shall not exceed $50,000,000; of 
     which not to exceed $30,000,000 shall be for bridge financing 
     in connection with the sale of multifamily real properties 
     owned by the Secretary and formerly insured under such Act; 
     and of which not to exceed $20,000,000 shall be for loans to 
     nonprofit and governmental entities in connection with the 
     sale of single-family real properties owned by the Secretary 
     and formerly insured under such Act.
       In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry 
     out the guaranteed and direct loan programs, $211,455,000, of 
     which $193,134,000, shall be transferred to the appropriation 
     for ``Salaries and expenses''; and of which $18,321,000 shall 
     be transferred to the appropriation for ``Office of Inspector 
     General''. In addition, for administrative contract expenses 
     necessary to carry out the guaranteed and direct loan 
     programs, $144,000,000, of which $33,500,000 shall be 
     transferred to the Working Capital Fund for the development 
     and maintenance of information technology systems: Provided, 
     That to the extent guaranteed loan commitments exceed 
     $8,426,000,000 on or before April 1, 2001, an additional 
     $19,800,000 for administrative contract expenses shall be 
     available for each $1,000,000 in additional guaranteed loan 
     commitments over $8,426,000,000 (including a pro rata amount 
     for any increment below $1,000,000), but in no case shall 
     funds made available by this proviso exceed $14,400,000.

                Government National Mortgage Association


guarantees of mortgage-backed securities loan guarantee program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

       New commitments to issue guarantees to carry out the 
     purposes of section 306 of the National Housing Act, as 
     amended (12 U.S.C. 1721(g)), shall not exceed 
     $200,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
     2002.
       For administrative expenses necessary to carry out the 
     guaranteed mortgage-backed securities program, $9,383,000 to 
     be derived from the GNMA guarantees of mortgage-backed 
     securities guaranteed loan receipt account, of which not to 
     exceed $9,383,000 shall be transferred to the appropriation 
     for ``Salaries and expenses''.

                    Policy Development and Research


                        Research and Technology

       For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of programs 
     of research and studies relating to housing and urban 
     problems, not otherwise provided for, as authorized by title 
     V of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970, as 
     amended (12 U.S.C. 1701z-1 et seq.), including carrying out 
     the functions of the Secretary under section 1(a)(1)(i) of 
     Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1968, $53,500,000, to remain 
     available until September 30, 2002: Provided, That of the 
     amount provided under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be for 
     the Partnership for Advancing

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     Technology in Housing (PATH) Initiative: Provided further, 
     That $3,000,000 shall be for program evaluation to support 
     strategic planning, performance measurement, and their 
     coordination with the Department's budget process: Provided 
     further, That $500,000, to remain available until expended, 
     shall be for a commission as established under section 525 of 
     Preserving Affordable Housing for Senior Citizens and 
     Families into the 21st Century Act.

                   Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity


                        Fair Housing Activities

       For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not otherwise 
     provided for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil Rights 
     Act of 1968, as amended by the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 
     1988, and section 561 of the Housing and Community 
     Development Act of 1987, as amended, $46,000,000, to remain 
     available until September 30, 2002, of which $24,000,000 
     shall be to carry out activities pursuant to such section 
     561: Provided, That no funds made available under this 
     heading shall be used to lobby the executive or legislative 
     branches of the Federal Government in connection with a 
     specific contract, grant or loan.

                     Office of Lead Hazard Control


                         lead hazard reduction

       For the Lead Hazard Reduction Program, as authorized by 
     sections 1011 and 1053 of the Residential Lead-Based Hazard 
     Reduction Act of 1992, $100,000,000 to remain available until 
     expended, of which $1,000,000 shall be for CLEARCorps and 
     $10,000,000 shall be for the Healthy Homes Initiative, 
     pursuant to sections 501 and 502 of the Housing and Urban 
     Development Act of 1970 that shall include research, studies, 
     testing, and demonstration efforts, including education and 
     outreach concerning lead-based paint poisoning and other 
     housing-related environmental diseases and hazards.

                     Management and Administration


                         Salaries and Expenses

                     (including transfers of funds)

       For necessary administrative and non-administrative 
     expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 
     not otherwise provided for, including not to exceed $7,000 
     for official reception and representation expenses, 
     $1,072,000,000, of which $518,000,000 shall be provided from 
     the various funds of the Federal Housing Administration, 
     $9,383,000 shall be provided from funds of the Government 
     National Mortgage Association, $1,000,000 shall be provided 
     from the ``Community development fund'' account, $150,000 
     shall be provided by transfer from the ``Title VI Indian 
     federal guarantees program'' account, and $200,000 shall be 
     provided by transfer from the ``Indian housing loan guarantee 
     fund program'' account: Provided, That the Secretary is 
     prohibited from using any funds under this heading or any 
     other heading in this Act from employing more than 77 
     schedule C and 20 noncareer Senior Executive Service 
     employees: Provided further, That not more than $758,000,000 
     shall be made available to the personal services object 
     class: Provided further, That no less than $100,000,000 shall 
     be transferred to the Working Capital Fund for the 
     development and maintenance of Information Technology 
     Systems: Provided further, That the Secretary shall fill 7 
     out of 10 vacancies at the GS-14 and GS-15 levels until the 
     total number of GS-14 and GS-15 positions in the Department 
     has been reduced from the number of GS-14 and GS-15 positions 
     on the date of enactment of this provision by two and one-
     half percent: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
     submit a staffing plan for the Department by May 15, 2001: 
     Provided further, That the Secretary is prohibited from using 
     funds under this heading or any other heading in this Act to 
     employ more than 14 employees in the Office of Public Affairs 
     or in any position in the Department where the employee 
     reports to an employee of the Office of Public Affairs.


                      office of inspector general

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
     in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
     amended, $85,000,000, of which $22,343,000 shall be provided 
     from the various funds of the Federal Housing Administration 
     and $10,000,000 shall be provided from the amount earmarked 
     for Operation Safe Home in the appropriation for ``Drug 
     elimination grants for low-income housing'': Provided, That 
     the Inspector General shall have independent authority over 
     all personnel issues within the Office of Inspector General.

             Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight


                         salaries and expenses

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For carrying out the Federal Housing Enterprise Financial 
     Safety and Soundness Act of 1992, including not to exceed 
     $500 for official reception and representation expenses, 
     $22,000,000, to remain available until expended, to be 
     derived from the Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight Fund: 
     Provided, That not to exceed such amount shall be available 
     from the General Fund of the Treasury to the extent necessary 
     to incur obligations and make expenditures pending the 
     receipt of collections to the Fund: Provided further, That 
     the General Fund amount shall be reduced as collections are 
     received during the fiscal year so as to result in a final 
     appropriation from the General Fund estimated at not more 
     than $0.

                       Administrative Provisions

                      financing adjustment factors

       Sec. 201. Fifty percent of the amounts of budget authority, 
     or in lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts associated 
     with such budget authority, that are recaptured from projects 
     described in section 1012(a) of the Stewart B. McKinney 
     Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-
     628; 102 Stat. 3224, 3268) shall be rescinded, or in the case 
     of cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury, and such amounts 
     of budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or 
     remitted to the Treasury shall be used by State housing 
     finance agencies or local governments or local housing 
     agencies with projects approved by the Secretary of Housing 
     and Urban Development for which settlement occurred after 
     January 1, 1992, in accordance with such section. 
     Notwithstanding the previous sentence, the Secretary may 
     award up to 15 percent of the budget authority or cash 
     recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to the Treasury to 
     provide project owners with incentives to refinance their 
     project at a lower interest rate.


                      fair housing and free speech

       Sec. 202. None of the amounts made available under this Act 
     may be used during fiscal year 2001 to investigate or 
     prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise lawful 
     activity engaged in by one or more persons, including the 
     filing or maintaining of a non-frivolous legal action, that 
     is engaged in solely for the purpose of achieving or 
     preventing action by a Government official or entity, or a 
     court of competent jurisdiction.


           housing opportunities for persons with aids grants

       Sec. 203. (a) Eligibility.--Notwithstanding section 
     854(c)(1)(A) of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 
     12903(c)(1)(A)), from any amounts made available under this 
     title for fiscal year 2001 that are allocated under such 
     section, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
     allocate and make a grant, in the amount determined under 
     subsection (b), for any State that--
       (1) received an allocation in a prior fiscal year under 
     clause (ii) of such section; and
       (2) is not otherwise eligible for an allocation for fiscal 
     year 2001 under such clause (ii) because the areas in the 
     State outside of the metropolitan statistical areas that 
     qualify under clause (i) in fiscal year 2001 do not have the 
     number of cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome 
     required under such clause.
       (b) Amount.--The amount of the allocation and grant for any 
     State described in subsection (a) shall be an amount based on 
     the cumulative number of AIDS cases in the areas of that 
     State that are outside of metropolitan statistical areas that 
     qualify under clause (i) of such section 854(c)(1)(A) in 
     fiscal year 2001, in proportion to AIDS cases among cities 
     and States that qualify under clauses (i) and (ii) of such 
     section and States deemed eligible under subsection (a).
       (c) Environmental Review.--Section 856 of the Act is 
     amended by adding the following new subsection at the end:
       ``(h) Environmental Review.--For purposes of environmental 
     review, a grant under this subtitle shall be treated as 
     assistance for a special project that is subject to section 
     305(c) of the Multifamily Housing Property Disposition Reform 
     Act of 1994, and shall be subject to the regulations issued 
     by the Secretary to implement such section.''.

                     enhanced disposition authority

       Sec. 204. Section 204 of the Departments of Veterans 
     Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997, is amended by striking 
     ``and 2000'' and inserting ``2000, and thereafter''.


             Maximum Payment Standard for Enhanced Vouchers

       Sec. 205. Section 8(t)(1)(B) of the United States Housing 
     Act of 1937 is amended by inserting ``and any other 
     reasonable limit prescribed by the Secretary'' immediately 
     before the semicolon.


                  Due Process for Homeless Assistance

       Sec. 206. None of the funds appropriated under this or any 
     other Act may be used by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
     Development to prohibit or debar or in any way diminish the 
     responsibilities of any entity (and the individuals 
     comprising that entity) that is responsible for convening and 
     managing a continuum of care process (convenor) in a 
     community for purposes of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless 
     Assistance Act from participating in that capacity unless the 
     Secretary has published in the Federal Register a description 
     of all circumstances that would be grounds for prohibiting or 
     debarring a convenor from administering a continuum of care 
     process and the procedures for a prohibition or debarment: 
     Provided, That these procedures shall include a requirement 
     that a convenor shall be provided with timely notice of a 
     proposed prohibition or debarment, an identification of the 
     circumstances that could result in the prohibition or 
     debarment, an opportunity to respond to or remedy these 
     circumstances, and the right for judicial review of any 
     decision of the Secretary that results in a prohibition or 
     debarment.


                       HUD Reform Act Compliance

       Sec. 207. Except as explicitly provided in legislation, any 
     grant or assistance made pursuant to Title II of this Act 
     shall be made in accordance with section 102 of the 
     Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 
     1989 on a competitive basis.


Expansion of Environmental Assumption Authority for Homeless Assistance 
                                Programs

       Sec. 208. Section 443 of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless 
     Assistance Act is amended to read as follows:

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     ``SEC. 443. ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW.

       ``For purposes of environmental review, assistance and 
     projects under this title shall be treated as assistance for 
     special projects that are subject to section 305(c) of the 
     Multifamily Housing Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994, 
     and shall be subject to the regulations issued by the 
     Secretary to implement such section.''.


    Technical Amendments and Corrections to the National Housing Act

       Sec. 209. (a) Section 203 Subsection Designations.--Section 
     203 of the National Housing Act is amended by--
       (1) redesignating subsection (t) as subsection (u);
       (2) redesignating subsection (s), as added by section 329 
     of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, as 
     subsection (t); and
       (3) redesignating subsection (v), as added by section 504 
     of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, as 
     subsection (w).
       (b) Mortgage Auctions.--The first sentence of section 
     221(g)(4)(C)(viii) of the National Housing Act is amended by 
     inserting after ``December 31, 2002'' the following: ``, 
     except that this subparagraph shall continue to apply if the 
     Secretary receives a mortgagee's written notice of intent to 
     assign its mortgage to the Secretary on or before such 
     date''.
       (c) Mortgagee Review Board.--Section 202(c)(2) of the 
     National Housing Act is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (E), by striking ``and'';
       (2) in subparagraph (F), by striking ``or their 
     designees.'' and inserting ``and'';
       (3) by adding the following new subparagraph at the end:
       ``(G) the Director of the Enforcement Center; or their 
     designees.''.


                   indian housing block grant program

       Sec. 210. Section 201(b) of the Native American Housing 
     Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 is amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraphs (4) and (5) as paragraphs 
     (5) and (6) respectively; and
       (2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(4) Law enforcement officers.--Notwithstanding paragraph 
     (1), a recipient may provide housing or housing assistance 
     provided through affordable housing activities assisted with 
     grant amounts under this Act to a law enforcement officer on 
     the reservation or other Indian area, who is employed full-
     time by a Federal, state, county or tribal government, and in 
     implementing such full-time employment is sworn to uphold, 
     and make arrests for violations of Federal, state, county or 
     tribal law, if the recipient determines that the presence of 
     the law enforcement officer on the Indian reservation or 
     other Indian area may deter crime.''.


PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF FEDERAL ASSISTANCE IN SUPPORT OF THE SALE OF 
                            TOBACCO PRODUCTS

       Sec. 211. None of the funds appropriated in this or any 
     other Act may be used by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
     Development to provide any grant or other assistance to 
     construct, operate, or otherwise benefit a facility, or 
     facility with a designated portion of that facility, which 
     sells, or intends to sell, predominantly cigarettes or other 
     tobacco products. For the purposes of this provision, 
     predominant sale of cigarettes or other tobacco products 
     means cigarette or tobacco sales representing more than 35 
     percent of the annual total in-store, non-fuel, sales.


      PROHIBITION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF PUERTO RICO PUBLIC HOUSING 
                  ADMINISTRATION Settlement Agreement

       Sec. 212. No funds may be used to implement the agreement 
     between the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico 
     Public Housing Administration, and the Department of Housing 
     and Urban Development, dated June 7, 2000, related to the 
     allocation of operating subsidies for the Puerto Rico Public 
     Housing Administration unless the Puerto Rico Public Housing 
     Administration and the Department of Housing and Urban 
     Development submit by December 31, 2000 a schedule of 
     benchmarks and measurable goals to the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations designed to address issues of 
     mismanagement and safeguards against fraud and abuse.


                   HOPE VI Grant for Hollander Ridge

       Sec. 213. The Housing Authority of Baltimore City may use 
     the grant award of $20,000,000 made to such authority for 
     development efforts at Hollander Ridge in Baltimore, Maryland 
     with funds appropriated for fiscal year 1996 under the 
     heading ``Public Housing Demolition, Site Revitalization, and 
     Replacement Housing Grants'' for use, as approved by the 
     Secretary of Housing and Urban Development--
       (1) for activities related to the revitalization of the 
     Hollander Ridge site; and
       (2) in accordance with section 24 of the United States 
     Housing Act of 1937.


              Computer Access for Public Housing Residents

       Sec. 214. (a) Use of Public Housing Capital and Operating 
     Funds.--Section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (d)(1)(E), by inserting before the 
     semicolon the following: ``, including the establishment and 
     initial operation of computer centers in and around public 
     housing through a Neighborhood Networks initiative, for the 
     purpose of enhancing the self-sufficiency, employability, and 
     economic self-reliance of public housing residents by 
     providing them with onsite computer access and training 
     resources'';
       (2) in subsection (e)(1)--
       (A) in subparagraph (I), by striking the word ``and'' at 
     the end;
       (B) in subparagraph (J), by striking the period and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (C) by adding after subparagraph (J) the following:
       ``(K) the costs of operating computer centers in public 
     housing through a Neighborhood Networks initiative described 
     in subsection (d)(1)(E), and of activities related to that 
     initiative.''; and
       (3) in subsection (h)--
       (A) in paragraph (6), by striking the word ``and'' at the 
     end;
       (B) in paragraph (7), by striking the period and inserting 
     ``; and''; and
       (C) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:
       ``(8) assistance in connection with the establishment and 
     operation of computer centers in public housing through a 
     Neighborhood Networks initiative described in subsection 
     (d)(1)(E).''.
       (b) Demolition, Site Revitalization, Replacement Housing, 
     and Tenant-Based Assistance Grants for Projects.--Section 24 
     of the United States Housing Act of 1937 is amended--
       (1) in subsection (d)(1)(G), by inserting before the 
     semicolon the following: ``, including a Neighborhood 
     Networks initiative for the establishment and operation of 
     computer centers in public housing for the purpose of 
     enhancing the self-sufficiency, employability, an economic 
     self-reliance of public housing residents by providing them 
     with onsite computer access and training resources''; and
       (2) in subsection (m)(2), in the first sentence, by 
     inserting before the period the following ``, including 
     assistance in connection with the establishment and operation 
     of computer centers in public housing through the 
     Neighborhoods Networks initiative described in subsection 
     (d)(1)(G)''.


                         Mark-to-Market Reform

       Sec. 215. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     properties known as the Hawthornes in Independence, Missouri 
     shall be considered eligible multifamily housing projects for 
     purposes of participating in the multifamily housing 
     restructuring program pursuant to title V of the Departments 
     of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and 
     Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 (Public Law 
     105-65).


                       Section 236 Excess Income

       Sec. 216. Section 236(g)(3)(A) of the National Housing Act 
     is amended by striking out ``fiscal year 2000'' and inserting 
     in lieu thereof ``fiscal years 2000 and 2001''.


                            cdbg eligibility

       Sec. 217. Section 102(a)(6)(D) of the Housing and Community 
     Development Act of 1974 is amended by--
       (1) in clause (v), striking out the ``or'' at the end;
       (2) in clause (vi), striking the period at the end; and
       (3) adding at the end the following new clause:
       ``(vii)(I) has consolidated its government with one or more 
     municipal governments, such that within the county boundaries 
     there are no unincorporated areas, (II) has a population of 
     not less than 650,000, (III) for more than 10 years, has been 
     classified as a metropolitan city for purposes of allocating 
     and distributing funds under section 106, and (IV) as of the 
     date of enactment of this clause, has over 90 percent of the 
     county's population within the jurisdiction of the 
     consolidated government; or
       ``(viii) notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     section, any county that was classified as an urban county 
     pursuant to subparagraph (A) for fiscal year 1999, at the 
     option of the county, may hereafter remain classified as an 
     urban county for purposes of this Act.''.


 EXEMPTION FOR ALASKA AND MISSISSIPPI FROM REQUIREMENT OF RESIDENT ON 
                              BOARD OF PHA

       Sec. 218. Public housing agencies in the States of Alaska 
     and Mississippi shall not be required to comply with section 
     2(b) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, 
     during fiscal year 2001.


             USE OF MODERATE REHABILITATION FUNDS FOR HOME

       Sec. 219. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall make the 
     funds available under contracts NY36K113004 and NY36K113005 
     of the Department of Housing and Urban Development available 
     for use under the HOME Investment Partnerships Act and shall 
     allocate such funds to the City of New Rochelle, New York.


                        LOMA LINDA REPROGRAMMING

       Sec. 220. Of the amounts made available under the sixth 
     undesignated paragraph under the heading ``Community Planning 
     and Development--Community Development Block Grants'' in 
     title II of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing 
     and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public Law 105-276) for the 
     Economic Development Initiative (EDI) for grants for targeted 
     economic investments, the $1,000,000 to be made available 
     (pursuant to the related provisions of the joint explanatory 
     statement in the conference report to accompany such Act 
     (House Report 105-769)) to the City of Loma Linda, 
     California, for infrastructure improvements at Redlands 
     Boulevard and California Streets shall, notwithstanding such 
     provisions, be made available to the City for infrastructure 
     improvements related to the Mountain View Bridge.


            NATIVE AMERICAN ELIGIBILITY FOR THE ROSS PROGRAM

       Sec. 221. (a) Section 34 of the United States Housing Act 
     of 1937 is amended--

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       (1) in the heading, by striking ``PUBLIC HOUSING'' and 
     inserting ``PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING'';
       (2) in subsection (a)--
       (A) by inserting after ``residents,'' the following: 
     ``recipients under the Native American Housing Assistance and 
     Self-Determination Act of 1996 (notwithstanding section 502 
     of such Act) on behalf of residents of housing assisted under 
     such Act,'' and
       (B) by inserting after ``public housing residents'' the 
     second place it appears the following: ``and residents of 
     housing assisted under such Act'',
       (3) in subsection (b)--
       (A) by inserting after ``project'' the first place it 
     appears the following: ``or the property of a recipient under 
     such Act or housing assisted under such Act'';
       (B) by inserting after ``public housing residents'' the 
     following: ``or residents of housing assisted under such 
     Act''; and
       (C) in subsection (b)(1), by inserting after ``public 
     housing project'' the following: ``or residents of housing 
     assisted under such Act''; and
       (4) in subsection (d)(2), by striking ``State or local'' 
     and inserting ``State, local, or tribal''.
       (b) Assessment and Report.--Section 538(b)(1) of the 
     Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 is 
     amended by inserting after ``public housing'' the following: 
     ``and housing assisted under the Native American Housing 
     Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996''.


      treatment of expiring economic development initiative grants

       Sec. 222. (a) Availability.--Section 220(a) of the 
     Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
     Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 
     2000 (Public Law 106-74; 113 Stat. 1075) is amended by 
     striking ``September 30, 2000'' and inserting ``September 30, 
     2001''.
       (b) Applicability.--The Secretary of the Treasury and the 
     Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall take such 
     actions as may be necessary to carry out such section 220 (as 
     amended by this subsection (a) of this section) 
     notwithstanding any actions taken previously pursuant to 
     section 1552 of title 31, United States Code.


           home program disaster funding for elderly housing

       Sec. 223. Of the amounts made available under Chapter IX of 
     the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1993 for assistance 
     under the HOME investment partnerships program to the city of 
     Homestead, Florida (Public Law 103-50; 107 Stat. 262), up to 
     $583,926.70 shall be made available to Dade County, Florida, 
     for use only for rehabilitating housing for low-income 
     elderly persons, and such amount shall not be subject to the 
     requirements of such program, except for section 288 of the 
     HOME Investment Partnerships Act (42 U.S.C. 12838).


                        cdbg public services cap

       Sec. 224. Section 105(a)(8) of the Housing and Community 
     Development Act of 1974 is amended by striking ``1993'' and 
     all that follows through ``City of Los Angeles'' and 
     inserting ``1993 through 2001 to the City of Los Angeles''.


  extension of applicability of downpayment simplification provisions

       Sec. 225. Subparagraph (A) of section 203(b)(10) of the 
     National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1709(b)(10)(A)) is amended, 
     in the matter that precedes clause (i), by striking 
     ``mortgage'' and all that follows through ``involving'' and 
     inserting ``mortgage closed on or before December 31, 2002, 
     involving''.


    use of supportive housing program funds for information systems

       Sec. 226. Section 423 of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless 
     Assistance Act is amended under subsection (a) by adding the 
     following paragraph:
       ``(7) Management information system.--A grant for the costs 
     of implementing and operating management information systems 
     for purposes of collecting unduplicated counts of homeless 
     people and analyzing patterns of use of assistance funded 
     under this Act.''.


                  Indian Housing Loan Guarantee Reform

       Sec. 227. Section 184 of the Housing and Community 
     Development Act of 1992 is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``or as a result of a 
     lack of access to private financial markets''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)(2), by inserting ``refinance,'' after 
     ``acquire,''.


                 Use of Section 8 Vouchers for Opt-Outs

       Sec. 228. Section 8(t)(2) of the United States Housing Act 
     of 1937 is amended by inserting after ``contract for rental 
     assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act 
     of 1937 for such housing project'' the following: 
     ``(including any such termination or expiration during fiscal 
     years after fiscal year 1996 prior to the effective date of 
     the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
     Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 
     2001)''.


                 Homeless Discharge Coordination Policy

       Sec. 229. (a) Discharge Coordination Policy.--Subtitle A of 
     title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

     ``SEC. 402. DISCHARGE COORDINATION POLICY.

       ``The Secretary may not provide a grant under this title 
     for any governmental entity serving as an applicant unless 
     the applicant agrees to develop and implement, to the maximum 
     extent practicable and where appropriate, policies and 
     protocols for the discharge of persons from publicly funded 
     institutions or systems of care (such as health care 
     facilities, foster care or other youth facilities, or 
     correction programs and institutions) in order to prevent 
     such discharge from immediately resulting in homelessness for 
     such persons.''.
       (b) Assistance Under Emergency Shelter Grants Program.--
     Section 414(a)(4) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless 
     Assistance Act is amended--
       (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting 
     a comma after ``homelessness'';
       (2) by striking ``Not'' and inserting the following: 
     ``Activities that are eligible for assistance under this 
     paragraph shall include assistance to very low-income 
     families who are discharged from publicly funded institutions 
     or systems of care (such as health care facilities, foster 
     care or other youth facilities, or correction programs and 
     institutions). Not''.


             TECHNICAL CHANGE TO SENIORS HOUSING COMMISSION

       Sec. 230. Section 525 of the Preserving Affordable Housing 
     for Senior Citizens and Families into the 21st Century Act'' 
     (42 U.S.C. 12701 note) is amended in subsection (a) by 
     striking ``Commission on Affordable Housing and Health Care 
     Facility Needs in the 21st Century'' and inserting 
     ``Commission on Affordable Housing and Health Facility Needs 
     for Seniors in the 21st Century''.


              INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON THE HOMELESS REFORMS

       Sec. 231. Title II of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless 
     Assistance Act is amended--
       (1) in section 202, under subsection (b) by inserting after 
     the period the following:
       ``The positions of Chairperson and Vice Chairperson shall 
     rotate among its members on an annual basis.''; and
       (2) in section 209 by striking ``1994'' and inserting 
     ``2005''.


                 section 8 pha project-based assistance

       Sec. 232. (a) In General.--Paragraph (13) of section 8(o) 
     of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
     1437f(o)(13)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(13) PHA project-based assistance.--
       ``(A) In general.--A public housing agency may use amounts 
     provided under an annual contributions contract under this 
     subsection to enter into a housing assistance payment 
     contract with respect to an existing, newly constructed, or 
     rehabilitated structure, that is attached to the structure, 
     subject to the limitations and requirements of this 
     paragraph.
       ``(B) Percentage limitation.--Not more than 20 percent of 
     the funding available for tenant-based assistance under this 
     section that is administered by the agency may be attached to 
     structures pursuant to this paragraph.
       ``(C) Consistency with pha plan and other goals.--A public 
     housing agency may approve a housing assistance payment 
     contract pursuant to this paragraph only if the contract is 
     consistent with--
       ``(i) the public housing agency plan for the agency 
     approved under section 5A; and
       ``(ii) the goal of deconcentrating poverty and expanding 
     housing and economic opportunities.
       ``(D) Income mixing requirement.--
       ``(i) In general.--Not more than 25 percent of the dwelling 
     units in any building may be assisted under a housing 
     assistance payment contract for project-based assistance 
     pursuant to this paragraph.
       ``(ii) Exceptions.--The limitation under clause (i) shall 
     not apply in the case of assistance under a contract for 
     housing consisting of single family properties or for 
     dwelling units that are specifically made available for 
     households comprised of elderly families, disabled families, 
     and families receiving supportive services.
       ``(E) Resident choice requirement.--A housing assistance 
     payment contract pursuant to this paragraph shall provide as 
     follows:
       ``(i) Mobility.--Each low-income family occupying a 
     dwelling unit assisted under the contract may move from the 
     housing at any time after the family has occupied the 
     dwelling unit for 12 months.
       ``(ii) Continued assistance.--Upon such a move, the public 
     housing agency shall provide the low-income family with 
     tenant-based rental assistance under this section or such 
     other tenant-based rental assistance that is subject to 
     comparable income, assistance, rent contribution, 
     affordability, and other requirements, as the Secretary shall 
     provide by regulation. If such rental assistance is not 
     immediately available to fulfill the requirement under the 
     preceding sentence with respect to a low-income family, such 
     requirement may be met by providing the family priority to 
     receive the next voucher or other tenant-based rental 
     assistance amounts that become available under the program 
     used to fulfill such requirement.
       ``(F) Contract term.--A housing assistance payment contract 
     pursuant to this paragraph between a public housing agency 
     and the owner of a structure may have a term of up to 10 
     years, subject to the availability of sufficient appropriated 
     funds for the purpose of renewing expiring contracts for 
     assistance payments, as provided in appropriations Acts and 
     in the agency's annual contributions contract with the 
     Secretary, and to annual compliance with the inspection 
     requirements under paragraph (8), except that the agency 
     shall not be required to make annual inspections of each 
     assisted unit in the development. The contract may specify 
     additional conditions for its continuation. If the units 
     covered by the contract are owned by the agency, the term of 
     the contract shall be agreed upon by the agency and the unit 
     of general local government or other entity approved by the 
     Secretary in the manner provided under paragraph (11).

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       ``(G) Extension of contract term.--A public housing agency 
     may enter into a contract with the owner of a structure 
     assisted under a housing assistance payment contract pursuant 
     to this paragraph to extend the term of the underlying 
     housing assistance payment contract for such period as the 
     agency determines to be appropriate to achieve long-term 
     affordability of the housing or to expand housing 
     opportunities. Such a contract shall provide that the 
     extension of such term shall be contingent upon the future 
     availability of appropriated funds for the purpose of 
     renewing expiring contracts for assistance payments, as 
     provided in appropriations Acts, and may obligate the owner 
     to have such extensions of the underlying housing assistance 
     payment contract accepted by the owner and the successors in 
     interest of the owner.
       ``(H) Rent calculation.--A housing assistance payment 
     contract pursuant to this paragraph shall establish rents for 
     each unit assisted in an amount that does not exceed 110 
     percent of the applicable fair market rental (or any 
     exception payment standard approved by the Secretary pursuant 
     to paragraph (1)(D)), except that if a contract covers a 
     dwelling unit that has been allocated low-income housing tax 
     credits pursuant to section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code 
     of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 42) and is not located in a qualified 
     census tract (as such term is defined in subsection (d) of 
     such section 42), the rent for such unit may be established 
     at any level that does not exceed the rent charged for 
     comparable units in the building that also receive the low-
     income housing tax credit but do not have additional rental 
     assistance. The rents established by housing assistance 
     payment contracts pursuant to this paragraph may vary from 
     the payment standards established by the public housing 
     agency pursuant to paragraph (1)(B), but shall be subject to 
     paragraph (10)(A).
       ``(I) Rent adjustments.--A housing assistance payments 
     contract pursuant to this paragraph shall provide for rent 
     adjustments, except that--
       ``(i) the adjusted rent for any unit assisted shall be 
     reasonable in comparison with rents charged for comparable 
     dwelling units in the private, unassisted, local market and 
     may not exceed the maximum rent permitted under subparagraph 
     (H); and
       ``(ii) the provisions of subsection (c)(2)(C) shall not 
     apply.
       ``(J) Tenant selection.--A public housing agency shall 
     select families to receive project-based assistance pursuant 
     to this paragraph from its waiting list for assistance under 
     this subsection. Eligibility for such project-based 
     assistance shall be subject to the provisions of section 
     16(b) that apply to tenant-based assistance. The agency may 
     establish preferences or criteria for selection for a unit 
     assisted under this paragraph that are consistent with the 
     public housing agency plan for the agency approved under 
     section 5A. Any family that rejects an offer of project-based 
     assistance under this paragraph or that is rejected for 
     admission to a structure by the owner or manager of a 
     structure assisted under this paragraph shall retain its 
     place on the waiting list as if the offer had not been made. 
     The owner or manager of a structure assisted under this 
     paragraph shall not admit any family to a dwelling unit 
     assisted under a contract pursuant to this paragraph other 
     than a family referred by the public housing agency from its 
     waiting list. Subject to its waiting list policies and 
     selection preferences, a public housing agency may place on 
     its waiting list a family referred by the owner or manager of 
     a structure and may maintain a separate waiting list for 
     assistance under this paragraph, but only if all families on 
     the agency's waiting list for assistance under this 
     subsection are permitted to place their names on the separate 
     list.
       ``(K) Vacated units.--Notwithstanding paragraph (9), a 
     housing assistance payment contract pursuant to this 
     paragraph may provide as follows:
       ``(i) Payment for vacant units.--That the public housing 
     agency may, in its discretion, continue to provide assistance 
     under the contract, for a reasonable period not exceeding 60 
     days, for a dwelling unit that becomes vacant, but only (I) 
     if the vacancy was not the fault of the owner of the dwelling 
     unit, and (II) the agency and the owner take every reasonable 
     action to minimize the likelihood and extent of any such 
     vacancy. Rental assistance may not be provided for a vacant 
     unit after the expiration of such period.
       ``(ii) Reduction of contract.--That, if despite reasonable 
     efforts of the agency and the owner to fill a vacant unit, no 
     eligible family has agreed to rent the unit within 120 days 
     after the owner has notified the agency of the vacancy, the 
     agency may reduce its housing assistance payments contract 
     with the owner by the amount equivalent to the remaining 
     months of subsidy attributable to the vacant unit. Amounts 
     deobligated pursuant to such a contract provision shall be 
     available to the agency to provide assistance under this 
     subsection.

     Eligible applicants for assistance under this subsection may 
     enforce provisions authorized by this subparagraph.''.
       (b) Applicability.--In the case of any dwelling unit that, 
     upon the date of the enactment of this Act, is assisted under 
     a housing assistance payment contract under section 8(o)(13) 
     of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
     1437f(o)(13)) as in effect before such enactment, such 
     assistance may be extended or renewed notwithstanding the 
     requirements under subparagraphs (C), (D), and (E) of such 
     section 8(o)(13), as amended by subsection (a).


  disposition of hud-held and hud-owned multifamily projects for the 
                          elderly or disabled

       Sec. 233. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in 
     managing and disposing of any multifamily property that is 
     owned or held by the Secretary and is occupied primarily by 
     elderly or disabled families, the Secretary of Housing and 
     Urban Development shall maintain any rental assistance 
     payments under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 
     1937 that are attached to any dwelling units in the property. 
     To the extent the Secretary determines that such a 
     multifamily property owned or held by the Secretary is not 
     feasible for continued rental assistance payments under such 
     section 8, the Secretary may, in consultation with the 
     tenants of that property, contract for project-based rental 
     assistance payments with an owner or owners of other existing 
     housing properties or provide other rental assistance.


                       family unification program

       Sec. 234. Section 8(x)(2) of the United States Housing Act 
     of 1937 (42 U.S.C 1437f(x)(2)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``any family (A) who is otherwise eligible 
     for such assistance, and (B)'' and inserting ``(A) any family 
     (i) who is otherwise eligible for such assistance, and 
     (ii)''; and
       (2) by inserting before the period at the end the 
     following: ``and (B) for a period not to exceed 18 months, 
     otherwise eligible youths who have attained at least 18 years 
     of age and not more than 21 years of age and who have left 
     foster care at age 16 or older''.


 permanent extension of fha multifamily mortgage credit demonstrations

       Sec. 235. Section 542 of the Housing and Community 
     Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1707 note) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) in the first sentence, by striking ``demonstrate the 
     effectiveness of providing'' and inserting ``provide''; and
       (B) in the second sentence, by striking ``demonstration'' 
     and inserting ``the'';
       (2) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``determine the 
     effectiveness of'' and inserting ``provide''; and
       (B) by striking paragraph (5), and inserting the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(5) Insurance authority.--Using any authority provided in 
     appropriation Acts to insure mortgages under the National 
     Housing Act, the Secretary may enter into commitments under 
     this subsection for risk-sharing units.'';
       (3) in subsection (c)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``test the effectiveness 
     of'' and inserting ``provide''; and
       (B) by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(4) Insurance authority.--Using any authority provided in 
     appropriation Acts to insure mortgages under the National 
     Housing Act, the Secretary may enter into commitments under 
     this subsection for risk-sharing units.'';
       (4) by striking subsection (d);
       (5) by striking ``pilot'' and ``Pilot'' each place such 
     terms appear; and
       (6) in the section heading, by striking ``demonstrations'' 
     and inserting ``programs''.

                    TITLE III--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                  American Battle Monuments Commission

                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of the 
     American Battle Monuments Commission, including the 
     acquisition of land or interest in land in foreign countries; 
     purchases and repair of uniforms for caretakers of national 
     cemeteries and monuments outside of the United States and its 
     territories and possessions; rent of office and garage space 
     in foreign countries; purchase (one for replacement only) and 
     hire of passenger motor vehicles; and insurance of official 
     motor vehicles in foreign countries, when required by law of 
     such countries, $28,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended.

             Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board


                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pursuant 
     to section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, including hire of 
     passenger vehicles, and for services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
     3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem 
     equivalent to the maximum rate payable for senior level 
     positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376, $7,500,000, $5,000,000 of 
     which to remain available until September 30, 2001 and 
     $2,500,000 of which to remain available until September 30, 
     2002: Provided, That the Chemical Safety and Hazard 
     Investigation Board shall have not more than three career 
     Senior Executive Service positions: Provided further, That 
     there shall be an Inspector General at the Board who shall 
     have the duties, responsibilities, and authorities specified 
     in the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended: Provided 
     further, That an individual appointed to the position of 
     Inspector General of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
     (FEMA) shall, by virtue of such appointment, also hold the 
     position of Inspector General of the Board: Provided further, 
     That the Inspector General of the Board shall utilize 
     personnel of the Office of Inspector General of FEMA in 
     performing the duties of the Inspector General of the Board, 
     and shall not appoint any individuals to positions within the 
     Board.

                       Department of the Treasury

              Community Development Financial Institutions


              Community Development Financial Institutions

                          fund program account

       To carry out the Community Development Banking and 
     Financial Institutions Act of 1994,

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     including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates 
     for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to 
     the rate for ES-3, $118,000,000, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2002, of which $5,000,000 shall be for 
     technical assistance and training programs designed to 
     benefit Native American Communities, and up to $8,750,000 may 
     be used for administrative expenses, up to $19,750,000 may be 
     used for the cost of direct loans, and up to $1,000,000 may 
     be used for administrative expenses to carry out the direct 
     loan program: Provided, That the cost of direct loans, 
     including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as 
     defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
     1974: Provided further, That these funds are available to 
     subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of 
     direct loans not to exceed $53,000,000.

                   Consumer Product Safety Commission


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Consumer Product Safety 
     Commission, including hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
     services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for 
     individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the 
     maximum rate payable under 5 U.S.C. 5376, purchase of nominal 
     awards to recognize non-Federal officials' contributions to 
     Commission activities, and not to exceed $500 for official 
     reception and representation expenses, $52,500,000.

             Corporation for National and Community Service


                National and Community Service Programs

                           Operating Expenses

              (including transfer and rescission of funds)

       For necessary expenses for the Corporation for National and 
     Community Service (referred to in the matter under this 
     heading as the ``Corporation'') in carrying out programs, 
     activities, and initiatives under the National and Community 
     Service Act of 1990 (referred to in the matter under this 
     heading as the ``Act'') (42 U.S.C. 12501 et seq.), 
     $458,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2002: 
     Provided, That not more than $31,000,000 shall be available 
     for administrative expenses authorized under section 
     501(a)(4) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 12671(a)(4)) with not less 
     than $2,000,000 targeted for the acquisition of a cost 
     accounting system for the Corporation's financial management 
     system, an integrated grants management system that provides 
     comprehensive financial management information for all 
     Corporation grants and cooperative agreements, and the 
     establishment, operation and maintenance of a central 
     archives serving as the repository for all grant, cooperative 
     agreement, and related documents, without regard to the 
     provisions of section 501(a)(4)(B) of the Act: Provided 
     further, That not more than $2,500 shall be for official 
     reception and representation expenses: Provided further, That 
     not more than $70,000,000, to remain available without fiscal 
     year limitation, shall be transferred to the National Service 
     Trust account for educational awards authorized under 
     subtitle D of title I of the Act (42 U.S.C. 12601 et seq.), 
     of which not to exceed $5,000,000 shall be available for 
     national service scholarships for high school students 
     performing community service: Provided further, That not more 
     than $231,000,000 of the amount provided under this heading 
     shall be available for grants under the National Service 
     Trust program authorized under subtitle C of title I of the 
     Act (42 U.S.C. 12571 et seq.) (relating to activities 
     including the AmeriCorps program), of which not more than 
     $45,000,000 may be used to administer, reimburse, or support 
     any national service program authorized under section 
     121(d)(2) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 12581(d)(2)); and not more 
     than $25,000,000 may be made available to activities 
     dedicated to developing computer and information technology 
     skills for students and teachers in low-income communities: 
     Provided further, That not more than $10,000,000 of the funds 
     made available under this heading shall be made available for 
     the Points of Light Foundation for activities authorized 
     under title III of the Act (42 U.S.C. 12661 et seq.): 
     Provided further, That no funds shall be available for 
     national service programs run by Federal agencies authorized 
     under section 121(b) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 12571(b)): 
     Provided further, That to the maximum extent feasible, funds 
     appropriated under subtitle C of title I of the Act shall be 
     provided in a manner that is consistent with the 
     recommendations of peer review panels in order to ensure that 
     priority is given to programs that demonstrate quality, 
     innovation, replicability, and sustainability: Provided 
     further, That not more than $21,000,000 of the funds made 
     available under this heading shall be available for the 
     Civilian Community Corps authorized under subtitle E of title 
     I of the Act (42 U.S.C. 12611 et seq.): Provided further, 
     That not more than $43,000,000 shall be available for school-
     based and community-based service-learning programs 
     authorized under subtitle B of title I of the Act (42 U.S.C. 
     12521 et seq.): Provided further, That not more than 
     $28,500,000 shall be available for quality and innovation 
     activities authorized under subtitle H of title I of the Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 12853 et seq.): Provided further, That not more 
     than $5,000,000 shall be available for audits and other 
     evaluations authorized under section 179 of the Act (42 
     U.S.C. 12639): Provided further, That to the maximum extent 
     practicable, the Corporation shall increase significantly the 
     level of matching funds and in-kind contributions provided by 
     the private sector, shall expand significantly the number of 
     educational awards provided under subtitle D of title I, and 
     shall reduce the total Federal costs per participant in all 
     programs: Provided further, That of amounts available in the 
     National Service Trust account from previous appropriations 
     Acts, $30,000,000 shall be rescinded: Provided further, That 
     not more than $7,500,000 of the funds made available under 
     this heading shall be made available to America's Promise--
     The Alliance for Youth, Inc. only to support efforts to 
     mobilize individuals, groups, and organizations to build and 
     strengthen the character and competence of the Nation's 
     youth: Provided further, That not more than $5,000,000 of the 
     funds made available under this heading shall be made 
     available to the Communities In Schools, Inc. to support 
     dropout prevention activities: Provided further, That not 
     more than $2,500,000 of the funds made available under this 
     heading shall be made available to the Parents as Teachers 
     National Center, Inc. to support childhood parent education 
     and family support activities: Provided further, That not 
     more than $2,500,000 of the funds made available under this 
     heading shall be made available to the Boys and Girls Clubs 
     of America to establish an innovative outreach program 
     designed to meet the special needs of youth in public and 
     Native American housing communities: Provided further, That 
     not more than $1,500,000 of the funds made available under 
     this heading shall be made available to the Youth Life 
     Foundation to meet the needs of children living in insecure 
     environments.


                      Office of Inspector General

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
     in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
     amended, $5,000,000, which shall be available for obligation 
     through September 30, 2002.


                        administrative provision

       The Department of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
     Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 
     2000 (Public Law 106-74) is amended under the heading 
     ``Corporation for National and Community Service, National 
     and Community Service Programs Operating Expenses'' in title 
     III by reducing to $229,000,000 the amount available for 
     grants under the National Service Trust program authorized 
     under subtitle C of title I of the National and Community 
     Service Act of 1990 (the ``Act'') (with a corresponding 
     reduction to $40,000,000 in the amount that may be used to 
     administer, reimburse, or support any national service 
     program authorized under section 121(d)(2) of the Act), and 
     by increasing to $33,500,000 the amount available for quality 
     and innovation activities authorized under subtitle H of 
     title I of the Act, with the increase in subtitle H funds 
     made available to provide a grant covering a period of three 
     years to support the ``P.A.V.E. the Way'' project described 
     in House Report 106-379.

                  Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses for the operation of the United 
     States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims as authorized by 
     38 U.S.C. 7251-7298, $12,445,000, of which $895,000 shall be 
     available for the purpose of providing financial assistance 
     as described, and in accordance with the process and 
     reporting procedures set forth, under this heading in Public 
     Law 102-229.

                      Department of Defense--Civil

                       Cemeterial Expenses, Army

                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, for 
     maintenance, operation, and improvement of Arlington National 
     Cemetery and Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, 
     including the purchase of two passenger motor vehicles for 
     replacement only, and not to exceed $1,000 for official 
     reception and representation expenses, $17,949,000, to remain 
     available until expended.

                Department of Health and Human Services

                     National Institutes of Health


          national institute of environmental health sciences

       For necessary expenses for the National Institute of 
     Environmental Health Sciences in carrying out activities set 
     forth in section 311(a) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
     Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as 
     amended, $63,000,000.

            Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry


                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses for the Agency for Toxic Substances 
     and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in carrying out activities set 
     forth in sections 104(i), 111(c)(4), and 111(c)(14) of the 
     Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
     Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended; section 118(f) of 
     the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 
     (SARA), as amended; and section 3019 of the Solid Waste 
     Disposal Act, as amended, $75,000,000, to be derived from the 
     Hazardous Substance Superfund Trust Fund pursuant to section 
     517(a) of SARA (26 U.S.C. 9507): Provided, That not 
     withstanding any other provision of law, in lieu of 
     performing a health assessment under section 104(i)(6) of 
     CERCLA, the Administrator of ATSDR may conduct other 
     appropriate health studies, evaluations, or activities, 
     including, without limitation, biomedical testing, clinical 
     evaluations, medical monitoring, and referral to accredited 
     health care providers: Provided further, That in performing 
     any such health assessment or health study, evaluation, or 
     activity, the Administrator of ATSDR shall not be bound by 
     the deadlines in section 104(i)(6)(A) of CERCLA: Provided 
     further, That none of the funds appropriated under this 
     heading shall be available for the Agency for Toxic 
     Substances and Disease Registry to issue in excess of 40 
     toxicological profiles

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     pursuant to section 104(i) of CERCLA during fiscal year 2001, 
     and existing profiles may be updated as necessary.

                    Environmental Protection Agency

                         science and technology

       For science and technology, including research and 
     development activities, which shall include research and 
     development activities under the Comprehensive Environmental 
     Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as 
     amended; necessary expenses for personnel and related costs 
     and travel expenses, including uniforms, or allowances 
     therefore, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; services as 
     authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not 
     to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate 
     payable for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; 
     procurement of laboratory equipment and supplies; other 
     operating expenses in support of research and development; 
     construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and 
     renovation of facilities, not to exceed $75,000 per project, 
     $696,000,000, which shall remain available until September 
     30, 2002.


                 Environmental Programs and Management

       For environmental programs and management, including 
     necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for personnel 
     and related costs and travel expenses, including uniforms, or 
     allowances therefore, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; 
     services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for 
     individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the 
     maximum rate payable for senior level positions under 5 
     U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire, 
     maintenance, and operation of aircraft; purchase of reprints; 
     library memberships in societies or associations which issue 
     publications to members only or at a price to members lower 
     than to subscribers who are not members; construction, 
     alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of 
     facilities, not to exceed $75,000 per project; and not to 
     exceed $6,000 for official reception and representation 
     expenses, $2,087,990,000, which shall remain available until 
     September 30, 2002: Provided, That none of the funds 
     appropriated by this Act shall be used to propose or issue 
     rules, regulations, decrees, or orders for the purpose of 
     implementation, or in preparation for implementation, of the 
     Kyoto Protocol which was adopted on December 11, 1997, in 
     Kyoto, Japan at the Third Conference of the Parties to the 
     United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which 
     has not been submitted to the Senate for advice and consent 
     to ratification pursuant to article II, section 2, clause 2, 
     of the United States Constitution, and which has not entered 
     into force pursuant to article 25 of the Protocol: Provided 
     further, That none of the funds made available in this Act 
     may be used to implement or administer the interim guidance 
     issued on February 5, 1998, by the Environmental Protection 
     Agency relating to title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 
     and designated as the ``Interim Guidance for Investigating 
     Title VI Administrative Complaints Challenging Permits'' with 
     respect to complaints filed under such title after October 
     21, 1998, and until guidance is finalized. Nothing in this 
     proviso may be construed to restrict the Environmental 
     Protection Agency from developing or issuing final guidance 
     relating to title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: 
     Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
     1412(b)(12)(A)(v) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, 
     the Administrator shall promulgate a national primary 
     drinking water regulation for arsenic not later than June 22, 
     2001.


                      Office of Inspector General

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
     in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act 
     of 1978, as amended, and for construction, alteration, 
     repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to 
     exceed $75,000 per project, $34,094,000, to remain available 
     until September 30, 2002.


                        Buildings and Facilities

       For construction, repair, improvement, extension, 
     alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, 
     or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency, 
     $23,931,000, to remain available until expended.

                     hazardous substance superfund


                     (including transfers of funds)

       For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehensive 
     Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 
     1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including sections 111(c)(3), 
     (c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and for 
     construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and 
     renovation of facilities, not to exceed $75,000 per project; 
     $1,270,000,000 (of which $100,000,000 shall not become 
     available until September 1, 2001), to remain available until 
     expended, consisting of $635,000,000, as authorized by 
     section 517(a) of the Superfund Amendments and 
     Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), as amended by Public Law 
     101-508, and $635,000,000 as a payment from general revenues 
     to the Hazardous Substance Superfund for purposes as 
     authorized by section 517(b) of SARA, as amended: Provided, 
     That funds appropriated under this heading may be allocated 
     to other Federal agencies in accordance with section 111(a) 
     of CERCLA: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated 
     under this heading, $11,500,000 shall be transferred to the 
     ``Office of Inspector General'' appropriation to remain 
     available until September 30, 2002, and $36,500,000 shall be 
     transferred to the ``Science and technology'' appropriation 
     to remain available until September 30, 2002.


                Leaking Underground Storage Tank program

       For necessary expenses to carry out leaking underground 
     storage tank cleanup activities authorized by section 205 of 
     the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, and 
     for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and 
     renovation of facilities, not to exceed $75,000 per project, 
     $72,096,000, to remain available until expended.


                           oil spill response

       For expenses necessary to carry out the Environmental 
     Protection Agency's responsibilities under the Oil Pollution 
     Act of 1990, $15,000,000, to be derived from the Oil Spill 
     Liability trust fund, to remain available until expended.


                   State and Tribal Assistance Grants

       For environmental programs and infrastructure assistance, 
     including capitalization grants for State revolving funds and 
     performance partnership grants, $3,628,740,000, to remain 
     available until expended, of which $1,350,000,000 shall be 
     for making capitalization grants for the Clean Water State 
     Revolving Funds under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution 
     Control Act, as amended; $825,000,000 shall be for 
     capitalization grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving 
     Funds under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as 
     amended, except that, notwithstanding section 1452(n) of the 
     Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, none of the funds made 
     available under this heading in this Act, or in previous 
     appropriations Acts, shall be reserved by the Administrator 
     for health effects studies on drinking water contaminants; 
     $75,000,000 shall be for architectural, engineering, 
     planning, design, construction and related activities in 
     connection with the construction of high priority water and 
     wastewater facilities in the area of the United States-Mexico 
     Border, after consultation with the appropriate border 
     commission; $35,000,000 shall be for grants to the State of 
     Alaska to address drinking water and wastewater 
     infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska Native Villages; 
     $335,740,000 shall be for making grants for the construction 
     of wastewater and water treatment facilities and groundwater 
     protection infrastructure in accordance with the terms and 
     conditions specified for such grants in the conference report 
     and joint explanatory statement of the committee of 
     conference accompanying this Act, except that, 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the funds 
     herein and hereafter appropriated under this heading for such 
     special needs infrastructure grants, the Administrator may 
     use up to 3 percent of the amount of each project 
     appropriated to administer the management and oversight of 
     construction of such projects through contracts, allocation 
     to the Corps of Engineers, or grants to States; and 
     $1,008,000,000 shall be for grants, including associated 
     program support costs, to States, federally recognized 
     tribes, interstate agencies, tribal consortia, and air 
     pollution control agencies for multi-media or single media 
     pollution prevention, control and abatement and related 
     activities, including activities pursuant to the provisions 
     set forth under this heading in Public Law 104-134, and for 
     making grants under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for 
     particulate matter monitoring and data collection activities: 
     Provided, That notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) of the 
     Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, the 
     limitation on the amounts in a State water pollution control 
     revolving fund that may be used by a State to administer the 
     fund shall not apply to amounts included as principal in 
     loans made by such fund in fiscal year 2001 and prior years 
     where such amounts represent costs of administering the fund 
     to the extent that such amounts are or were deemed reasonable 
     by the Administrator, accounted for separately from other 
     assets in the fund, and used for eligible purposes of the 
     fund, including administration: Provided further, That for 
     fiscal year 2001, and notwithstanding section 518(f) of the 
     Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, the 
     Administrator is authorized to use the amounts appropriated 
     for any fiscal year under section 319 of that Act to make 
     grants to Indian tribes pursuant to section 319(h) and 518(e) 
     of that Act: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2001, 
     notwithstanding the limitation on amounts in section 518(c) 
     of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, up to 
     a total of 1\1/2\ percent of the funds appropriated for State 
     Revolving Funds under Title VI of that Act may be reserved by 
     the Administrator for grants under section 518(c) of such 
     Act: Provided further, That no funds provided by this 
     legislation to address the water, wastewater and other 
     critical infrastructure needs of the colonias in the United 
     States along the United States-Mexico border shall be made 
     available after June 1, 2001 to a county or municipal 
     government unless that government has established an 
     enforceable local ordinance, or other zoning rule, which 
     prevents in that jurisdiction the development or construction 
     of any additional colonia areas, or the development within an 
     existing colonia the construction of any new home, business, 
     or other structure which lacks water, wastewater, or other 
     necessary infrastructure: Provided further, That 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, all claims for 
     principal and interest registered through any current grant 
     dispute or any other such dispute hereafter filed by the 
     Environmental Protection Agency relative to construction 
     grants numbers C-180840-01, C-180840-04, C-470319-03, and C-
     470319-04, are hereby resolved in favor of the grantee: 
     Provided further, That EPA, in considering the local match 
     for the $5,000,000 appropriated in fiscal year 1999 for the 
     City of Cumberland, Maryland, to separate and relocate the 
     city's combined sewer and stormwater system, shall take into 
     account non-federal money spent by the City of Cumberland for 
     combined sewer,

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     stormwater and wastewater treatment infrastructure on or 
     after October 1, 1999, and that the fiscal year 1999 and any 
     subsequent funds may be used for any required non-federal 
     share of the costs of projects funded by the federal 
     government under Section 580 of Public Law 106-53.


                       administrative provisions

       For fiscal year 2001 and thereafter, the obligated balances 
     of sums available in multiple-year appropriations accounts 
     shall remain available through the seventh fiscal year after 
     their period of availability has expired for liquidating 
     obligations made during the period of availability.
       For fiscal year 2001, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 6303(1) and 
     6305(1), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
     Agency, in carrying out the Agency's function to implement 
     directly Federal environmental programs required or 
     authorized by law in the absence of an acceptable tribal 
     program, may award cooperative agreements to federally-
     recognized Indian Tribes or Intertribal consortia, if 
     authorized by their member Tribes, to assist the 
     Administrator in implementing Federal environmental programs 
     for Indian Tribes required or authorized by law, except that 
     no such cooperative agreements may be awarded from funds 
     designated for State financial assistance agreements.
       Section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act, as amended, is amended 
     by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(6) Notwithstanding paragraph 5, this subsection shall 
     not apply with respect to an area designated nonattainment 
     under section 107(d)(1) until one year after that area is 
     first designated nonattainment for a specific national 
     ambient air quality standard. This paragraph only applies 
     with respect to the national ambient air quality standard for 
     which an area is newly designated nonattainment and does not 
     affect the area's requirements with respect to all other 
     national ambient air quality standards for which the area is 
     designated nonattainment or has been redesignated from 
     nonattainment to attainment with a maintenance plan pursuant 
     to section 175(A) (including any pre-existing national 
     ambient air quality standard for a pollutant for which a new 
     or revised standard has been issued).''.

                   Executive Office of the President


                Office of Science and Technology Policy

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and 
     Technology Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the 
     National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and 
     Priorities Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6601 and 6671), hire of 
     passenger motor vehicles, and services as authorized by 5 
     U.S.C. 3109, not to exceed $2,500 for official reception and 
     representation expenses, and rental of conference rooms in 
     the District of Columbia, $5,201,000.


  Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality

       For necessary expenses to continue functions assigned to 
     the Council on Environmental Quality and Office of 
     Environmental Quality pursuant to the National Environmental 
     Policy Act of 1969, the Environmental Quality Improvement Act 
     of 1970, and Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1977, $2,900,000: 
     Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     no funds other than those appropriated under this heading 
     shall be used for or by the Council on Environmental Quality 
     and Office of Environmental Quality: Provided further, That 
     notwithstanding section 202 of the National Environmental 
     Policy Act of 1970, the Council shall consist of one member, 
     appointed by the President, by and with the advice and 
     consent of the Senate, serving as chairman and exercising all 
     powers, functions, and duties of the Council.

                 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

                      office of inspector general


                          (transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
     in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act 
     of 1978, as amended, $33,660,000, to be derived from the Bank 
     Insurance Fund, the Savings Association Insurance Fund, and 
     the FSLIC Resolution Fund.

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency


                            Disaster Relief

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses in carrying out the Robert T. 
     Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
     U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $300,000,000, and, notwithstanding 42 
     U.S.C. 5203, to remain available until expended, of which not 
     to exceed $2,900,000 may be transferred to ``Emergency 
     management planning and assistance'' for the consolidated 
     emergency management performance grant program; and up to 
     $15,000,000 may be obligated for flood map modernization 
     activities following disaster declarations: Provided, That of 
     the funds made available under this heading in this and prior 
     Appropriations Acts and under section 404 of the Robert T. 
     Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to the 
     State of Florida, $3,000,000 shall be for a hurricane 
     mitigation initiative in Miami-Dade County.
       For an additional amount for ``Disaster relief'', 
     $1,300,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
     amended: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be 
     available only to the extent that an official budget request 
     for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of 
     the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement 
     as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
     President to the Congress.


            Disaster Assistance Direct Loan Program Account

       For the cost of direct loans, $1,678,000, as authorized by 
     section 319 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
     Emergency Assistance Act: Provided, That such costs, 
     including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as 
     defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
     1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds are 
     available to subsidize gross obligations for the principal 
     amount of direct loans not to exceed $25,000,000.
       In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
     direct loan program, $427,000.


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
     including hire and purchase of motor vehicles as authorized 
     by 31 U.S.C. 1343; uniforms, or allowances therefor, as 
     authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; services as authorized by 5 
     U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the 
     per diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable for 
     senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; expenses of 
     attendance of cooperating officials and individuals at 
     meetings concerned with the work of emergency preparedness; 
     transportation in connection with the continuity of 
     Government programs to the same extent and in the same manner 
     as permitted the Secretary of a Military Department under 10 
     U.S.C. 2632; and not to exceed $2,500 for official reception 
     and representation expenses, $215,000,000.


                      Office of Inspector General

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
     in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
     amended, $10,000,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
     other provision of law, the Inspector General of the Federal 
     Emergency Management Agency shall also serve as the Inspector 
     General of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation 
     Board.


              Emergency Management Planning and Assistance

       For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, to 
     carry out activities under the National Flood Insurance Act 
     of 1968, as amended, and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 
     1973, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Robert T. 
     Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
     U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 
     1977, as amended (42 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), the Federal Fire 
     Prevention and Control Act of 1974, as amended (15 U.S.C. 
     2201 et seq.), the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended 
     (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.), sections 107 and 303 of the 
     National Security Act of 1947, as amended (50 U.S.C. 404-
     405), and Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978, $269,652,000: 
     Provided, That for purposes of pre-disaster mitigation 
     pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 5131(b) and (c) and 42 U.S.C. 5196(e) 
     and (i), $25,000,000 of the funds made available under this 
     heading shall be available until expended for project grants.


                Radiological Emergency Preparedness Fund

       The aggregate charges assessed during fiscal year 2001, as 
     authorized by Public Law 106-74, shall not be less than 100 
     percent of the amounts anticipated by FEMA necessary for its 
     radiological emergency preparedness program for the next 
     fiscal year. The methodology for assessment and collection of 
     fees shall be fair and equitable; and shall reflect costs of 
     providing such services, including administrative costs of 
     collecting such fees. Fees received pursuant to this section 
     shall be deposited in the Fund as offsetting collections and 
     will become available for authorized purposes on October 1, 
     2001, and remain available until expended.


                   Emergency Food and Shelter Program

       To carry out an emergency food and shelter program pursuant 
     to title III of Public Law 100-77, as amended, $140,000,000, 
     to remain available until expended: Provided, That total 
     administrative costs shall not exceed 3\1/2\ percent of the 
     total appropriation.

                     national flood insurance fund


                     (including transfer of funds)

       For activities under the National Flood Insurance Act of 
     1968, the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as amended, 
     not to exceed $25,736,000 for salaries and expenses 
     associated with flood mitigation and flood insurance 
     operations, and not to exceed $77,307,000 for flood 
     mitigation, including up to $20,000,000 for expenses under 
     section 1366 of the National Flood Insurance Act, which 
     amount shall be available for transfer to the National Flood 
     Mitigation Fund until September 30, 2002. In fiscal year 
     2001, no funds in excess of: (1) $55,000,000 for operating 
     expenses; (2) $455,627,000 for agents' commissions and taxes; 
     and (3) $40,000,000 for interest on Treasury borrowings shall 
     be available from the National Flood Insurance Fund without 
     prior notice to the Committees on Appropriations.
       In addition, up to $17,730,000 in fees collected but 
     unexpended during fiscal years 1994 through 1998 shall be 
     transferred to the Flood Map Modernization Fund and available 
     for expenditure in fiscal year 2001.
       Section 1309(a)(2) of the National Flood Insurance Act of 
     1968 (42 U.S.C. 4016(a)(2)), as amended by Public Law 104-
     208, is further amended by striking ``September 30, 2000'' 
     and inserting ``December 31, 2001''.
       The first sentence of section 1376(c) of the National Flood 
     Insurance Act of 1968, as amended

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     (42 U.S.C. 4127(c)), is amended by striking ``September 30, 
     2000'' and inserting ``December 31, 2001''.

                     national flood mitigation fund


                     (including transfer of funds)

       Notwithstanding sections 1366(b)(3)(B)-(C) and 1366(f) of 
     the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended, 
     $20,000,000 to remain available until September 30, 2002, for 
     activities designed to reduce the risk of flood damage to 
     structures pursuant to such Act, of which $20,000,000 shall 
     be derived from the National Flood Insurance Fund.

                    General Services Administration


                federal consumer information center fund

       For necessary expenses of the Federal Consumer Information 
     Center, including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
     $7,122,000, to be deposited into the Federal Consumer 
     Information Center Fund: Provided, That the appropriations, 
     revenues, and collections deposited into the Fund shall be 
     available for necessary expenses of Federal Consumer 
     Information Center activities in the aggregate amount of 
     $12,000,000. Appropriations, revenues, and collections 
     accruing to this Fund during fiscal year 2001 in excess of 
     $12,000,000 shall remain in the Fund and shall not be 
     available for expenditure except as authorized in 
     appropriations Acts.

             National Aeronautics and Space Administration

                           human space flight

       For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the 
     conduct and support of human space flight research and 
     development activities, including research, development, 
     operations, and services; maintenance; construction of 
     facilities including revitalization and modification of 
     facilities, construction of new facilities and additions to 
     existing facilities, facility planning and design, and 
     acquisition or condemnation of real property, as authorized 
     by law; space flight, spacecraft control and communications 
     activities including operations, production, and services; 
     and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance and operation of 
     mission and administrative aircraft, $5,462,900,000, to 
     remain available until September 30, 2002.

                  science, aeronautics and technology

       For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the 
     conduct and support of science, aeronautics and technology 
     research and development activities, including research, 
     development, operations, and services; maintenance; 
     construction of facilities including revitalization, and 
     modification of facilities, construction of new facilities 
     and additions to existing facilities, facility planning and 
     design, and acquisition or condemnation of real property, as 
     authorized by law; space flight, spacecraft control and 
     communications activities including operations, production, 
     and services; and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance and 
     operation of mission and administrative aircraft, 
     $6,190,700,000, to remain available until September 30, 2002.

                            mission support

       For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in 
     carrying out mission support for human space flight programs 
     and science, aeronautical, and technology programs, including 
     research operations and support; maintenance; construction of 
     facilities including revitalization and modification of 
     facilities, construction of new facilities and additions to 
     existing facilities, facility planning and design, 
     environmental compliance and restoration, and acquisition or 
     condemnation of real property, as authorized by law; program 
     management; personnel and related costs, including uniforms 
     or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; 
     travel expenses; purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and 
     operation of mission and administrative aircraft; not to 
     exceed $40,000 for official reception and representation 
     expenses; and purchase (not to exceed 33 for replacement 
     only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $2,608,700,000 to 
     remain available until September 30, 2002.


                      Office of Inspector General

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
     in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
     amended, $23,000,000.

                       administrative provisions

       Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of funds 
     appropriated for ``Human space flight'', ``Science, 
     aeronautics and technology'', or ``Mission support'' by this 
     appropriations Act, when any activity has been initiated by 
     the incurrence of obligations for construction of facilities 
     as authorized by law, such amount available for such activity 
     shall remain available until expended. This provision does 
     not apply to the amounts appropriated in ``Mission support'' 
     pursuant to the authorization for minor revitalization and 
     construction of facilities, and facility planning and design.
       Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of funds 
     appropriated for ``Human space flight'', ``Science, 
     aeronautics and technology'', or ``Mission support'' by this 
     appropriations Act, the amounts appropriated for construction 
     of facilities shall remain available until September 30, 
     2003.
       Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of funds 
     appropriated for ``Mission support'' and ``Office of 
     Inspector General'', amounts made available by this Act for 
     personnel and related costs and travel expenses of the 
     National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2001 and may be used to enter 
     into contracts for training, investigations, costs associated 
     with personnel relocation, and for other services, to be 
     provided during the next fiscal year. Funds for announced 
     prizes otherwise authorized shall remain available, without 
     fiscal year limitation, until the prize is claimed or the 
     offer is withdrawn.
       Unless otherwise provided for in this Act or in the joint 
     explanatory statement of the committee of conference 
     accompanying this Act, no part of the funds appropriated for 
     ``Human space flight'' may be used for the development of the 
     International Space Station in excess of the amounts set 
     forth in the budget estimates submitted as part of the budget 
     request for fiscal year 2001.
       No funds in this or any other Appropriations Act may be 
     used to finalize an agreement prior to December 1, 2001 
     between NASA and a nongovernment organization to conduct 
     research utilization and commercialization management 
     activities of the International Space Station.

                  National Credit Union Administration

                       central liquidity facility


                     (including transfer of funds)

       During fiscal year 2001, gross obligations of the Central 
     Liquidity Facility for the principal amount of new direct 
     loans to member credit unions, as authorized by 12 U.S.C. 
     1795 et seq., shall not exceed $1,500,000,000: Provided, That 
     administrative expenses of the Central Liquidity Facility 
     shall not exceed $296,303: Provided further, That $1,000,000 
     shall be transferred to the Community Development Revolving 
     Loan Fund, of which $650,000, together with amounts of 
     principal and interest on loans repaid, shall be available 
     until expended for loans to community development credit 
     unions, and $350,000 shall be available until expended for 
     technical assistance to low-income and community development 
     credit unions.

                      National Science Foundation


                    research and related activities

       For necessary expenses in carrying out the National Science 
     Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861-1875), and 
     the Act to establish a National Medal of Science (42 U.S.C. 
     1880-1881); services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; 
     authorized travel; maintenance and operation of aircraft and 
     purchase of flight services for research support; acquisition 
     of aircraft; $3,350,000,000, of which not to exceed 
     $275,592,000 shall remain available until expended for Polar 
     research and operations support, and for reimbursement to 
     other Federal agencies for operational and science support 
     and logistical and other related activities for the United 
     States Antarctic program; the balance to remain available 
     until September 30, 2002: Provided, That receipts for 
     scientific support services and materials furnished by the 
     National Research Centers and other National Science 
     Foundation supported research facilities may be credited to 
     this appropriation: Provided further, That to the extent that 
     the amount appropriated is less than the total amount 
     authorized to be appropriated for included program 
     activities, all amounts, including floors and ceilings, 
     specified in the authorizing Act for those program activities 
     or their subactivities shall be reduced proportionally: 
     Provided further, That $65,000,000 of the funds available 
     under this heading shall be made available for a 
     comprehensive research initiative on plant genomes for 
     economically significant crops: Provided further, That no 
     funds in this or any other Act shall be used to acquire or 
     lease a research vessel with ice-breaking capability built or 
     retrofitted by a shipyard located in a foreign country if 
     such a vessel of United States origin can be obtained at a 
     cost no more than 50 per centum above that of the least 
     expensive technically acceptable foreign vessel bid: Provided 
     further, That, in determining the cost of such a vessel, such 
     cost be increased by the amount of any subsidies or financing 
     provided by a foreign government (or instrumentality thereof 
     ) to such vessel's construction: Provided further, That if 
     the vessel contracted for pursuant to the foregoing is not 
     available for the 2002-2003 austral summer Antarctic season, 
     a vessel of any origin may be leased for a period of not to 
     exceed 120 days for that season and each season thereafter 
     until delivery of the new vessel.


                        Major Research Equipment

       For necessary expenses of major construction projects 
     pursuant to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as 
     amended, including authorized travel, $121,600,000, to remain 
     available until expended.


                     Education and Human Resources

       For necessary expenses in carrying out science and 
     engineering education and human resources programs and 
     activities pursuant to the National Science Foundation Act of 
     1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861-1875), including services as 
     authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, authorized travel, and rental of 
     conference rooms in the District of Columbia, $787,352,000, 
     to remain available until September 30, 2002: Provided, That 
     to the extent that the amount of this appropriation is less 
     than the total amount authorized to be appropriated for 
     included program activities, all amounts, including floors 
     and ceilings, specified in the authorizing Act for those 
     program activities or their subactivities shall be reduced 
     proportionally: Provided further, That $10,000,000 shall be 
     available for the Office of Innovation Partnerships.


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For salaries and expenses necessary in carrying out the 
     National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 
     U.S.C. 1861-1875); services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire 
     of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed $9,000 for

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     official reception and representation expenses; uniforms or 
     allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; 
     rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia; 
     reimbursement of the General Services Administration for 
     security guard services; $160,890,000: Provided, That 
     contracts may be entered into under ``Salaries and expenses'' 
     in fiscal year 2001 for maintenance and operation of 
     facilities, and for other services, to be provided during the 
     next fiscal year.


                      Office of Inspector General

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
     as authorized by the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
     amended, $6,280,000, to remain available until September 30, 
     2002.

                 Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

          payment to the neighborhood reinvestment corporation

       For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation 
     for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities, as 
     authorized by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 8101-8107), $90,000,000, of which $5,000,000 shall 
     be for a homeownership program that is used in conjunction 
     with section 8 assistance under the United States Housing Act 
     of 1937: Provided, That of the amount made available, 
     $2,500,000 shall be for an endowment to establish the George 
     Knight Scholarship Fund for the Neighborhood Reinvestment 
     Training Institute.

                        Selective Service System


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Selective Service System, 
     including expenses of attendance at meetings and of training 
     for uniformed personnel assigned to the Selective Service 
     System, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 4101-4118 for civilian 
     employees; and not to exceed $1,000 for official reception 
     and representation expenses; $24,480,000: Provided, That 
     during the current fiscal year, the President may exempt this 
     appropriation from the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 1341, whenever 
     he deems such action to be necessary in the interest of 
     national defense: Provided further, That none of the funds 
     appropriated by this Act may be expended for or in connection 
     with the induction of any person into the Armed Forces of the 
     United States.

                      TITLE IV--GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 401. Where appropriations in titles I, II, and III of 
     this Act are expendable for travel expenses and no specific 
     limitation has been placed thereon, the expenditures for such 
     travel expenses may not exceed the amounts set forth 
     therefore in the budget estimates submitted for the 
     appropriations: Provided, That this provision does not apply 
     to accounts that do not contain an object classification for 
     travel: Provided further, That this section shall not apply 
     to travel performed by uncompensated officials of local 
     boards and appeal boards of the Selective Service System; to 
     travel performed directly in connection with care and 
     treatment of medical beneficiaries of the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs; to travel performed in connection with 
     major disasters or emergencies declared or determined by the 
     President under the provisions of the Robert T. Stafford 
     Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act; to travel 
     performed by the Offices of Inspector General in connection 
     with audits and investigations; or to payments to interagency 
     motor pools where separately set forth in the budget 
     schedules: Provided further, That if appropriations in titles 
     I, II, and III exceed the amounts set forth in budget 
     estimates initially submitted for such appropriations, the 
     expenditures for travel may correspondingly exceed the 
     amounts therefore set forth in the estimates in the same 
     proportion.
       Sec. 402. Appropriations and funds available for the 
     administrative expenses of the Department of Housing and 
     Urban Development and the Selective Service System shall be 
     available in the current fiscal year for purchase of 
     uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
     5901-5902; hire of passenger motor vehicles; and services as 
     authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
       Sec. 403. Funds of the Department of Housing and Urban 
     Development subject to the Government Corporation Control Act 
     or section 402 of the Housing Act of 1950 shall be available, 
     without regard to the limitations on administrative expenses, 
     for legal services on a contract or fee basis, and for 
     utilizing and making payment for services and facilities of 
     Federal National Mortgage Association, Government National 
     Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, 
     Federal Financing Bank, Federal Reserve banks or any member 
     thereof, Federal Home Loan banks, and any insured bank within 
     the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, 
     as amended (12 U.S.C. 1811-1831).
       Sec. 404. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
     fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
       Sec. 405. No funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     expended--
       (1) pursuant to a certification of an officer or employee 
     of the United States unless--
       (A) such certification is accompanied by, or is part of, a 
     voucher or abstract which describes the payee or payees and 
     the items or services for which such expenditure is being 
     made; or
       (B) the expenditure of funds pursuant to such 
     certification, and without such a voucher or abstract, is 
     specifically authorized by law; and
       (2) unless such expenditure is subject to audit by the 
     General Accounting Office or is specifically exempt by law 
     from such audit.
       Sec. 406. None of the funds provided in this Act to any 
     department or agency may be expended for the transportation 
     of any officer or employee of such department or agency 
     between their domicile and their place of employment, with 
     the exception of any officer or employee authorized such 
     transportation under 31 U.S.C. 1344 or 5 U.S.C. 7905.
       Sec. 407. None of the funds provided in this Act may be 
     used for payment, through grants or contracts, to recipients 
     that do not share in the cost of conducting research 
     resulting from proposals not specifically solicited by the 
     Government: Provided, That the extent of cost sharing by the 
     recipient shall reflect the mutuality of interest of the 
     grantee or contractor and the Government in the research.
       Sec. 408. None of the funds in this Act may be used, 
     directly or through grants, to pay or to provide 
     reimbursement for payment of the salary of a consultant 
     (whether retained by the Federal Government or a grantee) at 
     more than the daily equivalent of the rate paid for level IV 
     of the Executive Schedule, unless specifically authorized by 
     law.
       Sec. 409. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be 
     used to pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-
     Federal parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory 
     proceedings. Nothing herein affects the authority of the 
     Consumer Product Safety Commission pursuant to section 7 of 
     the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2056 et seq.).
       Sec. 410. Except as otherwise provided under existing law, 
     or under an existing Executive Order issued pursuant to an 
     existing law, the obligation or expenditure of any 
     appropriation under this Act for contracts for any consulting 
     service shall be limited to contracts which are: (1) a matter 
     of public record and available for public inspection; and (2) 
     thereafter included in a publicly available list of all 
     contracts entered into within 24 months prior to the date on 
     which the list is made available to the public and of all 
     contracts on which performance has not been completed by such 
     date. The list required by the preceding sentence shall be 
     updated quarterly and shall include a narrative description 
     of the work to be performed under each such contract.
       Sec. 411. Except as otherwise provided by law, no part of 
     any appropriation contained in this Act shall be obligated or 
     expended by any executive agency, as referred to in the 
     Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 401 et 
     seq.), for a contract for services unless such executive 
     agency: (1) has awarded and entered into such contract in 
     full compliance with such Act and the regulations promulgated 
     thereunder; and (2) requires any report prepared pursuant to 
     such contract, including plans, evaluations, studies, 
     analyses and manuals, and any report prepared by the agency 
     which is substantially derived from or substantially includes 
     any report prepared pursuant to such contract, to contain 
     information concerning: (A) the contract pursuant to which 
     the report was prepared; and (B) the contractor who prepared 
     the report pursuant to such contract.
       Sec. 412. Except as otherwise provided in section 406, none 
     of the funds provided in this Act to any department or agency 
     shall be obligated or expended to provide a personal cook, 
     chauffeur, or other personal servants to any officer or 
     employee of such department or agency.
       Sec. 413. None of the funds provided in this Act to any 
     department or agency shall be obligated or expended to 
     procure passenger automobiles as defined in 15 U.S.C. 2001 
     with an EPA estimated miles per gallon average of less than 
     22 miles per gallon.
       Sec. 414. None of the funds appropriated in title I of this 
     Act shall be used to enter into any new lease of real 
     property if the estimated annual rental is more than $300,000 
     unless the Secretary submits, in writing, a report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the Congress and a period of 
     30 days has expired following the date on which the report is 
     received by the Committees on Appropriations.
       Sec. 415. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that, to the 
     greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products 
     purchased with funds made available in this Act should be 
     American-made.
       (b) In providing financial assistance to, or entering into 
     any contract with, any entity using funds made available in 
     this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the greatest 
     extent practicable, shall provide to such entity a notice 
     describing the statement made in subsection (a) by the 
     Congress.
       Sec. 416. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be 
     used to implement any cap on reimbursements to grantees for 
     indirect costs, except as published in Office of Management 
     and Budget Circular A-21.
       Sec. 417. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 
     2001 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall be 
     absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act.
       Sec. 418. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used for any program, project, or activity, when it is 
     made known to the Federal entity or official to which the 
     funds are made available that the program, project, or 
     activity is not in compliance with any Federal law relating 
     to risk assessment, the protection of private property 
     rights, or unfunded mandates.
       Sec. 419. Corporations and agencies of the Department of 
     Housing and Urban Development which are subject to the 
     Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, are hereby 
     authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of 
     funds and borrowing authority available to each such 
     corporation or agency and in accord with law, and to make 
     such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year 
     limitations as provided by section 104 of the Act

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     as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in 
     the budget for 2001 for such corporation or agency except as 
     hereinafter provided: Provided, That collections of these 
     corporations and agencies may be used for new loan or 
     mortgage purchase commitments only to the extent expressly 
     provided for in this Act (unless such loans are in support of 
     other forms of assistance provided for in this or prior 
     appropriations Acts), except that this proviso shall not 
     apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty operations of 
     these corporations, or where loans or mortgage purchases are 
     necessary to protect the financial interest of the United 
     States Government.
       Sec. 420. Notwithstanding section 320(g) of the Federal 
     Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1330(g)), funds made 
     available pursuant to authorization under such section for 
     fiscal year 2001 may be used for implementing comprehensive 
     conservation and management plans.
       Sec. 421. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     term ``qualified student loan'' with respect to national 
     service education awards shall mean any loan made directly to 
     a student by the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary 
     Education, in addition to other meanings under section 
     148(b)(7) of the National and Community Service Act.
       Sec. 422. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act, no 
     part of any appropriation for the Department of Housing and 
     Urban Development shall be available for any activity in 
     excess of amounts set forth in the budget estimates submitted 
     to the Congress.
       Sec. 423. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act shall be used to promulgate a final 
     regulation to implement changes in the payment of pesticide 
     tolerance processing fees as proposed at 64 Fed. Reg. 31040, 
     or any similar proposals. The Environmental Protection Agency 
     may proceed with the development of such a rule.
       Sec. 424. Except in the case of entities that are funded 
     solely with Federal funds or any natural persons that are 
     funded under this Act, none of the funds in this Act shall be 
     used for the planning or execution of any program to pay the 
     expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties to 
     lobby or litigate in respect to adjudicatory proceedings 
     funded in this Act. A chief executive officer of any entity 
     receiving funds under this Act shall certify that none of 
     these funds have been used to engage in the lobbying of the 
     Federal Government or in litigation against the United States 
     unless authorized under existing law.
       Sec. 425. No part of any funds appropriated in this Act 
     shall be used by an agency of the executive branch, other 
     than for normal and recognized executive-legislative 
     relationships, for publicity or propaganda purposes, and for 
     the preparation, distribution or use of any kit, pamphlet, 
     booklet, publication, radio, television or film presentation 
     designed to support or defeat legislation pending before the 
     Congress, except in presentation to the Congress itself.
       Sec. 426. None of the funds provided in title II for 
     technical assistance, training, or management improvements 
     may be obligated or expended unless HUD provides to the 
     Committees on Appropriations a description of each proposed 
     activity and a detailed budget estimate of the costs 
     associated with each activity as part of the Budget 
     Justifications. For fiscal year 2001, HUD shall transmit this 
     information to the Committees by December 1, 2000, for 30 
     days of review.
       Sec. 427. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used for the designation, or approval of the designation, 
     of any area as an ozone nonattainment area under the Clean 
     Air Act pursuant to the 8-hour national ambient air quality 
     standard for ozone that was promulgated by the Environmental 
     Protection Agency on July 18, 1997 (62 Fed. Reg. 38,356, p. 
     38855) and remanded by the District of Columbia Court of 
     Appeals on May 14, 1999, in the case, American Trucking 
     Ass'ns. v. EPA (No. 97-1440, 1999 Westlaw 300618) prior to 
     June 15, 2001 or final adjudication of this case by the 
     Supreme Court of the United States, whichever occurs first.
       Sec. 428. Section 432 of Public Law 104-204 (110 Stat. 
     2874) is amended--
       (a) in subsection (c) by inserting ``or to restructure and 
     improve the efficiency of the workforce'' after ``the 
     National Aeronautics and Space Administration'' and before 
     ``the Administrator'';
       (b) by deleting paragraph (4) of subsection (h) and 
     inserting in lieu thereof--
       ``(4) The provisions of subsections (1) and (3) of this 
     section may be waived upon a determination by the 
     Administrator that use of the incentive satisfactorily 
     demonstrates downsizing or other restructuring within the 
     Agency that would improve the efficiency of agency operations 
     or contribute directly to evolving mission requirements.''
       (c) by deleting subsection (i) and inserting in lieu 
     thereof--
       ``(i) Reports.--The Administrator shall submit a report on 
     NASA's restructuring activities to the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
     Committee on Appropriations of the Senate not later than 
     September 30, 2001. This report shall include--
       ``(1) an outline of a timetable for restructuring the 
     workforce at NASA Headquarters and field Centers;
       ``(2) annual Full Time Equivalent (FTE) targets by broad 
     occupational categories and a summary of how these targets 
     reflect the respective missions of Headquarters and the field 
     Centers;
       ``(3) a description of personnel initiatives, such as 
     relocation assistance, early retirement incentives, and 
     career transition assistance, which NASA will use to achieve 
     personnel reductions or to rebalance the workforce; and
       ``(4) a description of efficiencies in operations achieved 
     through the use of the voluntary separation incentive.''; and
       (d) in subsection (j), by deleting ``September 30, 2000'' 
     and inserting in lieu thereof ``September 30, 2002''.
       Sec. 429. Section 70113(f) of title 49, United States Code, 
     is amended by striking ``December 31, 2000'', and inserting 
     ``December 31, 2001''.
       Sec. 430. All Departments and agencies funded under this 
     Act are encouraged, within the limits of the existing 
     statutory authorities and funding, to expand their use of 
     ``E-Commerce'' technologies and procedures in the conduct of 
     their business practices and public service activities.
       Sec. 431. Title III of the National Aeronautics and Space 
     Act of 1958, Public Law 85-568, is amended by adding the 
     following new section at the end:
       ``Sec. 312. (a) Appropriations for the Administration for 
     fiscal year 2002 and thereafter shall be made in three 
     accounts, `Human space flight', `Science, aeronautics and 
     technology', and an account for amounts appropriated for the 
     necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General. 
     Appropriations shall remain available for 2 fiscal years. 
     Each account shall include the planned full costs of the 
     Administration's related activities.
       ``(b) To ensure the safe, timely, and successful 
     accomplishment of Administration missions, the Administration 
     may transfer amounts for Federal salaries and benefits; 
     training, travel and awards; facility and related costs; 
     information technology services; publishing services; 
     science, engineering, fabricating and testing services; and 
     other administrative services among accounts, as necessary.
       ``(c) The Administrator, in consultation with the Director 
     of the Office of Management and Budget, shall determine what 
     balances from the `Mission support' account are to be 
     transferred to the `Human space flight' and `Science, 
     aeronautics and technology' accounts. Such balances shall be 
     transferred and merged with the `Human space flight' and 
     `Science, aeronautics and technology' accounts, and remain 
     available for the period of which originally appropriated.''.

           TITLE V--FILIPINO VETERANS' BENEFITS IMPROVEMENTS

       Sec. 501. (a) Rate of Compensation Payments for Filipino 
     Veterans Residing in the United States.--(1) Section 107 of 
     title 38, United States Code, is amended--
       (A) by striking ``Payments'' in the second sentence of 
     subsection (a) and inserting ``Except as provided in 
     subsection (c), payments''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(c) In the case of benefits under subchapters II and IV 
     of chapter 11 of this title paid by reason of service 
     described in subsection (a) to an individual residing in the 
     United States who is a citizen of, or an alien lawfully 
     admitted for permanent residence in, the United States, the 
     second sentence of subsection (a) shall not apply.''.
       (2) The amendments made by paragraph (1) shall take effect 
     on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to 
     benefits paid for months beginning on or after that date.
       (b) Eligibility for Health Care of Disabled Filipino 
     Veterans Residing in the United States.--Section 1734 of such 
     title is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(a)'' before ``The Secretary,''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(b) An individual who is in receipt of benefits under 
     subchapter II or IV of chapter 11 of this title paid by 
     reason of service described in section 107(a) of this title 
     who is residing in the United States and who is a citizen of, 
     or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in, the 
     United States shall be eligible for hospital and nursing home 
     care and medical services in the same manner as a veteran, 
     and the disease or disability for which such benefits are 
     paid shall be considered to be a service-connected disability 
     for purposes of this chapter.''.
       (c) Health Care for Veterans Residing in the Philippines.--
     Section 1724 of such title is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new subsection:
       ``(e) Within the limits of an outpatient clinic in the 
     Republic of the Philippines that is under the direct 
     jurisdiction of the Secretary, the Secretary may furnish a 
     veteran who has a service-connected disability with such 
     medical services as the Secretary determines to be needed.''.

                        TITLE VI--DEBT REDUCTION

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                       Bureau of the Public Debt


      gifts to the united states for reduction of the public debt

       For deposit of an additional amount for fiscal year 2001 
     into the account established under section 3113(d) of title 
     31, United States Code, to reduce the public debt, 
     $5,172,730,916.14.
       Titles I-VI of this Act may be cited as the ``Departments 
     of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and 
     Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001''.
       The language and allocations set forth in House Report 106-
     674 and Senate Report 106-410 should be complied with unless 
     specifically addressed to the contrary in the conference 
     report and statement of the managers. Report language 
     included by the House which is not changed by the report of

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     the Senate or the conference, and Senate report language 
     which is not changed by the conference is approved by the 
     committee of conference. The statement of the managers, while 
     repeating some report language for emphasis, does not intend 
     to negate the language referred to above unless expressly 
     provided herein. In cases in which the House or Senate have 
     directed the submission of a report, such report is to be 
     submitted to both House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations.
       Unless specifically addressed in this report, the conferees 
     agree to retain the reprogramming thresholds for each 
     department or agency at the level established by the fiscal 
     year 2000 conference agreement.

                TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


                    veterans benefits administration

                         readjustment benefits

       Appropriates the budget request of $1,634,000,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate instead of $1,664,000,000 as proposed 
     by the House. The conferees retain bill language as proposed 
     by the Senate ensuring that all administrative services are 
     charged to the general operating expenses appropriation.


         veterans housing benefit program fund program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Appropriates $162,000,000 as proposed by the Senate instead 
     of $161,484,000 as proposed by the House.

                     VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION


                              medical care

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Retains the transfer of $28,134,000 as proposed by the 
     House instead of $27,907,000 as proposed by the Senate from 
     medical care to the general operating expenses appropriation 
     for expenses of the Office of Resolution Management and the 
     Office of Employment Discrimination Complaint Adjudication.
       Retains bill language delaying the availability of 
     $900,000,000 for equipment and land and structures until 
     August 1, 2001 and remaining available until September 30, 
     2002 as proposed by the Senate instead of $927,000,000 as 
     proposed by the House.
       Retains bill language making $500,000,000 available until 
     September 30, 2002 as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $900,000,000 as proposed by the House.
       Deletes bill language limiting $3,000,000,000 for 
     maintenance and operations expenses. The conferees strongly 
     support the redirection of medical resources from the 
     maintenance and operations of unneeded buildings to support 
     direct patient care. The conferees understand that for fiscal 
     year 2001 VA is anticipating spending less than 
     $3,000,000,000 in this area. The conferees direct that VA 
     carefully monitor maintenance and operation expenditures and 
     that significant efforts to reduce those expenditures be 
     undertaken prior to and in conjunction with full CARES 
     evaluation and implementation over the next several years. A 
     report that identifies these fiscal year 2001 costs by 
     network and the efforts to reduce these costs this year 
     should be submitted by March 31, 2001.
       Retains bill language proposed by the House prohibiting the 
     transfer of medical care funds to the Department of Justice 
     for the purpose of pursuing tobacco litigation.
       The conferees direct the Department to submit one report 
     within four months of enactment of this Act addressing the 
     concerns regarding hepatitis C expenditures, testing and 
     treatment contained in House Report 106-674 and Senate Report 
     106-410.
       The House report contained language directing the VA to 
     reimburse hepatitis C treatment as a complex care component 
     starting in fiscal year 2001. The conferees recognize VA for 
     releasing $20,000,000 from the National Reserve in June 2000 
     to address the growing need for treatment and the geographic 
     differences in prevalence of the disease. The conferees also 
     note the action by the Department in August 2000 to amend the 
     VERA policy to reimburse hepatitis C treatment as a complex 
     care component effective fiscal year 2001. The conferees 
     direct the Department to continue adjusting testing and 
     treatment funds as more is learned about the prevalence of 
     the disease and keep the Committees on Appropriations 
     informed about funding levels and decisions.
       The conferees urge the Department to establish up to five 
     centers of excellence for motor-neuron diseases such as 
     Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis.
       The conferees urge the implementation of the telemedicine 
     project in Huntsville, Alabama.
       The conferees direct that the Department include in the 
     fiscal year 2002 budget justification estimates for all 
     national programs, projects and initiatives totaling 
     $5,000,000 or more. The conferees further direct that the 
     Department include in the fiscal year 2001 operating plan its 
     efforts to implement management efficiencies, including 
     instituting best practices on a national basis.
       The conferees direct the Department to continue the 
     demonstration project involving the Clarksburg VAMC and the 
     Ruby Memorial Hospital at West Virginia University.
       The conferees direct that of the amounts provided, not to 
     exceed $250,000 may be used to host The Sixth International 
     Paralympic Committee Scientific Congress on ``Sport and Human 
     Performance Beyond Disability.'' The conferees believe this 
     conference is within the mission of VA considering the 
     Department's current programs, which support disabled 
     athletes.
       The conferees support the expansion of the Joslin Vision 
     Network to additional pilot sites in fiscal year 2001. 
     Estimated costs for fiscal year 2001 are $5,000,000.
       The conferees encourage VA to initiate a national 
     demonstration project of excellence in the care of aging 
     veterans with rehabilitative needs involving a collaborative 
     effort between the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 
     Emory Healthcare, and its affiliated network of community-
     based services, Atlanta Senior Care.
       The conferees are aware that the VA undertakes numerous 
     pilot projects in hospitals and VISNs across the country in 
     hopes of providing better access to medical care more 
     efficiently to our nation's veterans. The conferees trust 
     that the Department's leadership carefully reviews the costs 
     and benefits of pilot projects to determine the project's 
     feasibility and value for standard operation prior to 
     inclusion in the Department's budget justification. No funds 
     may be obligated for new pilot projects authorized by law in 
     fiscal year 2001 exceeding $10,000,000 in cost until a 
     reprogramming request is submitted by the Department and 
     approved by the Committees on Appropriations.
       The conferees are concerned with the issues raised in the 
     GAO report ``Disabled Veterans' Care, Better Data and More 
     Accountability Needed to Adequately Assess Care'' regarding 
     VA's ability to measure compliance with maintaining a certain 
     level of care for special disability programs such as spinal 
     cord injury and mental illness. The conferees urge the VA to 
     re-examine GAO's recommendation to establish a work group to 
     monitor these programs. In addition, the conferees direct VA 
     to develop outcome measures applicable to each VISN to 
     evaluate the Department's performance in these areas.


                    medical and prosthetic research

       Appropriates $351,000,000 for medical and prosthetic 
     research as proposed by the House instead of $321,000,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       The conferees are aware of the impact that drug addiction 
     has on the veterans population and are pleased with the VA's 
     leadership role in pursuing and developing new treatments for 
     addiction. The conferees strongly encourage the VA to 
     increase its support for addiction research efforts in this 
     area, and note that an effective research program must 
     include large clinical trials, as well as, biochemical and 
     neuro-pharmacological basic research.
       The conferees are encouraged by the progress made by the VA 
     and the National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) during the 
     past year in identifying promising VA technological advances 
     that offer the potential for commercial applications. The 
     conferees direct that this partnership should be continued at 
     the current level of effort and that a targeted partnership 
     identification process is essential to the successful 
     marketing and licensing process.

                      DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION


                       general operating expenses

       Appropriates $1,050,000,000 for general operating expenses 
     as proposed by the Senate instead of $1,006,000,000 as 
     proposed by the House. Retains bill language proposed by the 
     Senate making $45,000,000 available until September 30, 2002, 
     instead of $50,050,000 as proposed by the House.
       Deletes without prejudice the provision proposed by the 
     House regarding transfers. The conferees have no objection to 
     fund transfers authorized by law.
       Retains bill language as proposed by the Senate allowing 
     administrative services provided for rehabilitation services 
     to be charged to the general operating expenses account.
       The conferees direct that of the amount provided, 
     $826,488,000 is for the Veterans Benefits Administration. 
     Funding priority should be given to hiring additional FTEs 
     for improving claims processing time and accuracy.
       The conferees are aware that there is a pressing need for 
     renovating the Lafayette Building at 811 Vermont Avenue to 
     the benefit of both the VA and the Export-Import Bank. The 
     House report included language requesting a feasibility study 
     to be conducted on the potential utilization of enhanced-use 
     leasing authority by the VA as a means of renovating the 
     Lafayette Building. In lieu of the feasibility study 
     recommended by the House, the conferees direct the General 
     Services Administration to work with the VA and the Export-
     Import Bank on an expedited basis to develop a renovation 
     plan considering all alternatives authorized by law for the 
     Lafayette Building which would ensure the continued ability 
     of both agencies to collocate in the building and submit a 
     joint report to the Committee by June 1, 2001.
       The conferees have provided funds for the coreFLS and HR 
     LINK$ projects and expects VA to implement these initiatives 
     as top priorities. The conferees direct VA to submit a

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     report by December 1, 2000 on the milestones and funding 
     commitments for the projects through fiscal year 2002.


                    national cemetery administration

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Appropriates $109,889,000 for the National Cemetery 
     Administration as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $106,889,000 as proposed by the House.
       Retains House language transferring not to exceed $125,000 
     from the national cemetery administration appropriation to 
     the general operating expenses appropriation for expenses of 
     the Office of Resolution Management and the Office of 
     Employment Discrimination Complaint Adjudication instead of 
     $117,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       Retains language proposed by the House and stricken by the 
     Senate providing a travel limitation of $1,125,000 for the 
     National Cemetery Administration.
       The conferees are aware of the provision in the Veterans 
     Millennium Heath Care and Benefits Act (P.L. 106-117) 
     requiring VA to conduct a national cemetery needs survey. The 
     conferees direct the National Cemetery Administration to 
     complete this survey expeditiously and include in a report to 
     the Committees on Appropriations the geographic areas in need 
     of a cemetery within 75 miles of veterans populations, when 
     the currently-available cemeteries will close, and a priority 
     ranking for establishing new cemeteries. The survey should 
     include the Albuquerque area of New Mexico.


                      office of inspector general

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Retains House language transferring not to exceed $28,000 
     from the Office of Inspector General appropriation to the 
     general operating expenses appropriation for expenses of the 
     Office of Resolution Management and the Office of Employment 
     Discrimination Complaint Adjudication instead of $30,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.


                      construction, major projects

       Appropriates $66,040,000 for construction, major projects 
     instead of $62,140,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $48,540,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement includes the following changes 
     from the budget estimate:
       +$1,000,000 for advanced planning of a national cemetery in 
     Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
       +$2,500,000 for advanced planning of a national cemetery in 
     Atlanta, Georgia.
       +$15,000,000 for land acquisition for a national cemetery 
     in South Florida.
       +$12,000,000 for cemetery construction in Oklahoma City, 
     Oklahoma.
       +$1,000,000 for design of a nursing home at the Beckley, 
     West Virginia VAMC.
       -$26,600,000 from Palo Alto NHCU.
       -$0 for the medical design fund.
       +$1,400,000 for National Cemetery Administration advance 
     planning.
       -$1,735,000 from the working reserve.
       The conferees encourage the Department to begin planning 
     efforts for a national cemetery in New Mexico.


                      construction, minor projects

       Appropriates $162,000,000 for construction, minor projects 
     as proposed by the Senate instead of $100,000,000 as proposed 
     by the House.
       The conferees reiterate the expectation that VA will review 
     and approve all minor construction projects in a manner that 
     is consistent with the process applied by the Capital 
     Investment Board which reviews major projects, and consistent 
     with the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services 
     (CARES) initiative. A central office work group, consisting 
     of both VHA and other Department officials, is to review all 
     minor projects using criteria consistent with those developed 
     for CARES. If the total costs of projects being initiated at 
     any facility or integrated health care system exceeds 
     $4,000,000, the recommendations of the work group must be 
     approved by the Deputy Secretary.
       The conferees urge the Department to give highest priority 
     to projects improving female patient privacy in VA health 
     facilities.
       The conferees recommend $150,000 for construction of a 
     sunscreen structure for the National Memorial Cemetery of the 
     Pacific.


                         parking revolving fund

       Retains language proposed by the Senate permitting 
     operation and maintenance costs of parking facilities to be 
     funded from the medical care appropriation.


       grants for construction of state extended care facilities

       Appropriates $100,000,000 for grants for construction of 
     state extended care facilities as proposed by the Senate 
     instead of $90,000,000 as proposed by the House.
       The conferees note that the VA has not yet promulgated 
     regulations for the state grant program as directed in the 
     Veterans Millennium Health Care and Benefits Act (P.L. 106-
     117). Until those regulations are issued, many state and 
     local governments which seek to obtain these grants are 
     severely disadvantaged by the lack of criteria available to 
     determine eligibility. The conferees direct the VA to move 
     expeditiously to issue the regulations mandated by P.L. 106-
     117.


        grants for the construction of state veterans cemeteries

       The conferees encourage the Department to work with 
     California as the state applies for a state cemetery grant.


                       administrative provisions

       Retains language proposed by the Senate requiring receipts 
     collected under the Veterans Millennium Health Care and 
     Benefits Act (P.L. 106-117) to be maintained in the 
     collections fund subject to appropriation.
       Retains language proposed by the House extending the 
     availability of previously appropriated funds for artificial 
     neural networks research with the Department of Defense until 
     September 30, 2003.
       Retains language proposed by the House transferring funds 
     from the Office of Inspector General ($78,000), national 
     cemetery administration ($358,000), medical care 
     ($1,106,000), and medical administration and miscellaneous 
     operating expenses ($84,000) accounts, and reprogrammed 
     within the general operating expenses account ($38,000) to 
     general operating expenses for HR LINK$ services.
       Retains language proposed by the House transferring 
     $1,600,000 from medical care to general operating expenses 
     for general counsel services.
       Deletes language proposed by the House directing Capital 
     Investment Board pre-approval for large procurement actions 
     and a report on the establishment of mental illness, 
     education and clinical centers.
       Retains language proposed by the Senate transferring up to 
     $1,200,000 from medical care to general operating expenses 
     for Hines Data Center services.
       Retains language proposed by the Senate transferring up to 
     $4,500,000 from minor construction and up to $2,000,000 from 
     medical care to the parking revolving fund for surface 
     parking lot projects.
       Retains language proposed by the Senate establishing a 60-
     day wait period for any action related to VISN 12 realignment 
     after the Secretary makes a recommendation and consults all 
     pertinent stakeholders.

         TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT


                       PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING

                        HOUSING CERTIFICATE FUND

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

       Appropriates $13,940,907,000 for the housing certificate 
     fund, instead of $13,275,388,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $13,171,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference 
     agreement includes:
       $12,972,000,000 for expiring section 8 housing assistance 
     contracts, section 8 amendments, and contracts entered into 
     pursuant to section 441 of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless 
     Assistance Act;
       $452,907,000 to provide 79,000 ``incremental'' section 8 
     housing assistance vouchers, to increase the number of low-
     income individuals and families receiving assistance. The 
     conferees note that HUD took more than 12 months awarding new 
     vouchers despite the fact that a formula dictates their 
     distribution. The delay can be attributed, in large part, to 
     including the voucher Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) 
     with the ``Super NOFA,'' which is rarely published until 
     March--six months into the fiscal year. HUD is encouraged to 
     issue the NOFA earlier, so that vouchers can be awarded 
     within eight months of enactment of this appropriations 
     measure. The Committees will be following HUD's progress 
     making these awards, and will act appropriately if the funds 
     are not awarded with alacrity.
       $40,000,000 to provide section 8 housing vouchers to non-
     elderly, disabled residents who are affected by the 
     designation of public and assisted housing as ``elderly-
     only'' developments as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $25,000,000 as proposed by the House;
       $192,000,000 is for section 8 contract administrators as 
     proposed by the House. The Senate did not provide a specific 
     appropriation for this activity; and
       $266,000,000 is for tenant protection vouchers, including 
     for relocating residents impacted by a HOPE VI project.
       Deletes language proposed by the House providing 
     $37,000,000 for Shelter Plus Care renewals. A new account 
     called ``Shelter Plus Care'' was created for this purpose.
       Deletes language proposed by the House providing 
     $66,000,000 for low-income tax credit vouchers. The Senate 
     did not include a similar provision.
       Deletes language proposed by the House providing $660,000 
     for systems needed to monitor PHAs that increase the payment 
     standard of vouchers. The Senate did not include a similar 
     provision.
       Includes language proposed by the House transferring 
     $11,000,000 to the Working Capital Fund for developing and 
     maintaining information technology systems. The Senate did 
     not include a similar provision.
       Includes language proposed by the House to cancel obligated 
     balances of terminated contract authority. The Senate did not 
     include a similar provision.
       Deletes language proposed by the Senate providing that 
     funds for administrative fees may be used to cover costs of 
     administering section 8 programs. The House did not include a 
     similar provision.
       Inserts new language appropriating $7,000,000 to complete 
     the funding required for the Jobs-Plus Demonstration program.
       Rescinds $1,833,000,000 in excess section 8 recaptures.

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                      PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       Appropriates $3,000,000,000 for the public housing capital 
     fund instead of $2,955,000,000 as proposed by the Senate and 
     $2,800,000,000 as proposed by the House. Like last year, the 
     conferees recommend increasing this account above the 
     request, and above levels provided in the House and Senate 
     bills, recognizing the serious unmet needs for capital 
     improvements to the nation's public housing.
       Transfers $43,000,000 from this account to the Working 
     Capital Fund for the development and maintenance of 
     information technology systems.
       Recognizing that public housing for the elderly serves the 
     poorest, the most racially and ethnically diverse, the 
     oldest, and the largest number of seniors of the assisted 
     housing programs, the conferees reiterate the House report 
     regarding the potential importance of the Elderly Plus 
     demonstration which proposes to retrofit these buildings.


                     PUBLIC HOUSING OPERATING FUND

       Appropriates $3,242,000,000 for the public housing 
     operating fund instead of $3,139,000,000 as proposed by the 
     House and $3,192,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Like the 
     increase to the public housing capital fund, this increase 
     reflects the conferees' commitment to providing adequate 
     resources to public housing--in this case for basic costs 
     like water, gas and electric utilities, security, and routine 
     maintenance.
       The conferees remain troubled by the Department's 
     implementation of the ``Public Housing Assessment System'' 
     (PHAS). The system has had problems with the reliability of 
     the inspections, the training and skills of some contract 
     inspectors, and the effectiveness of quality assurance 
     measures. Accordingly, the conferees direct HUD to continue 
     to assess the accuracy and effectiveness of the PHAS system 
     and to take whatever remedial steps may be needed, including 
     implementing the recommendations made by GAO in its July 2000 
     report. Specifically, the conferees direct HUD to revise its 
     April 2000 quality assurance plan to ensure that quality 
     assurance activities it contains will provide HUD with the 
     information it needs to evaluate (1) inspection contractors' 
     compliance with provisions in their contracts and quality 
     control program, (2) inspectors' performance in applying 
     HUD's inspection protocol, (3) the accuracy of the 
     inspections and resulting scores, and (4) the performance of 
     the program as indicated by the precision and replicability 
     of the inspection protocol. Further, the conferees direct HUD 
     to perform a statistically valid test of PHAS, conduct a 
     thorough analysis of the results, and have the methodology 
     and results reviewed by an independent expert. The Department 
     should provide a report to the Committees on Appropriations 
     by March 1, 2001, that describes the results of these reviews 
     and the steps taken to improve the accuracy and reliability 
     of PHAS. In the interim, HUD should not take any adverse 
     actions against housing authorities solely on the basis of 
     PHAS scores.


            DRUG ELIMINATION GRANTS FOR LOW--INCOME HOUSING

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

       Appropriates $310,000,000 for drug elimination grants as 
     proposed by the Senate instead of $300,000,000 as proposed by 
     the House.
       Includes $20,000,000 for the New Approach Anti-Drug program 
     as proposed by the Senate instead of no funding as proposed 
     by the House.
       Includes $3,000,000 for technical assistance grants instead 
     of $5,000,000 as proposed by the House and Senate. This 
     account was reduced from the requested level of $10,000,000, 
     and the House and Senate proposed levels of $5,000,000. The 
     conferees are displeased about HUD's refusal to provide 
     information in a timely way about the amount of funds 
     expended and/or obligated on HUD's gun buy-back program--an 
     unauthorized activity according to a legal opinion by the 
     Comptroller General of the United States. Even if HUD's 
     attorneys interpret existing legal authority differently from 
     the Comptroller General, refusing to provide information to 
     the Committees, especially about matters clearly within their 
     purview, is unacceptable and will be dealt with accordingly.
       Includes $2,000,000 for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America 
     for operating expenses and start up costs of clubs operating 
     in or near public housing, or in housing assisted under the 
     Native American housing block grant program.


          REVITALIZATION OF SEVERELY DISTRESSED PUBLIC HOUSING

                               (HOPE VI)

       Appropriates $575,000,000 for the revitalization of 
     severely distressed public housing program as proposed by the 
     Senate instead of $565,000,000 as proposed by the House.
       Recognizing the importance of affordable basic financial 
     services in low-income neighborhoods, the conferees urge 
     grantees to encourage and facilitate the establishment of 
     community credit unions as part of HOPE VI housing 
     revitalization projects. The conferees further direct HUD to 
     provide technical assistance in meeting this goal, working in 
     cooperation with appropriate staff of the National Credit 
     Union Administration (NCUA).
       The conferees commend HUD's decision to continue support 
     for the Campus Affiliates Program, a unique partnership of 
     HUD, the Housing Authority of New Orleans, higher education, 
     and the private sector. This program has begun to meet the 
     needs of public housing residents in New Orleans by providing 
     assistance and activities that foster self-sufficiency. The 
     conferees expect HUD to continue to participate in this 
     activity.


                  NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANTS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

       Appropriates $650,000,000 for Native American Housing Block 
     Grants as proposed by the Senate instead of $620,000,000 as 
     proposed by the House.
       Appropriates $6,000,000 for technical assistance grants as 
     proposed by the House instead of $4,000,000 as proposed by 
     the Senate. The conferees agree not to provide $2,000,000 to 
     the National American Indian Housing Council (NAIHC) as 
     proposed by the House or $4,000,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate.
       Transfers $2,000,000 to the Working Capital Fund for the 
     development and maintenance of information technology systems 
     as proposed by the House. Similar language was not included 
     by the Senate.


           INDIAN HOUSING LOAN GUARANTEE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       Historically, Native Americans have had limited access to 
     private mortgage capital because much of the land in Indian 
     country is held in trust by the Federal government. As such, 
     the land cannot be encumbered or alienated. The Indian Home 
     Loan Guarantee Program was created to address the lack of 
     mortgage capital by authorizing HUD to guarantee loans made 
     by private lenders. Getting a loan, however, depends on the 
     borrower securing a leasehold on tribally-held lands. This 
     leasehold, which is used as security for the mortgage, can 
     only be obtained after the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) 
     conducts a title status report (TSR). HUD cannot endorse the 
     guarantee until a final TSR is completed and is part of the 
     financial package.
       Fortunately, HUD and BIA have made considerable progress 
     making their program requirements more compatible with one 
     another; however, if the loan guarantee program is to be used 
     to its greatest potential, additional progress needs to be 
     made, especially on the length of time it takes to complete a 
     TSR. HUD and BIA should continue their dialogue on removing 
     any impediments to this process.

                   COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT


              HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS

       Appropriates $258,000,000 for housing opportunities for 
     persons with AIDS instead of $250,000,000 as proposed by the 
     House and $232,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Of the 
     amount, one percent is appropriated for technical assistance 
     as proposed by the House instead of .75 percent as proposed 
     by the Senate.
       Includes language that requires HUD to renew all expiring 
     HOPWA contracts funded under the non-formula component of the 
     HOPWA program so long as the project meets all other program 
     requirements. The conferees believe that it is critical to 
     maintain the federal investment in existing projects to the 
     maximum extent feasible.


                 RURAL HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

       Appropriates $25,000,000 for rural housing and economic 
     development instead of $27,000,000 as proposed by the Senate, 
     and $20,000,000 as proposed by the House.


         AMERICA'S PRIVATE INVESTMENT COMPANIES PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The conferees are aware that the President and the Speaker 
     of the House of Representatives have agreed to a framework 
     for a ``New Markets Initiative'' that includes providing 
     $37,000,000 in credit subsidy for APIC. As part of this 
     conference agreement, the conferees agree, when the 
     initiative is enacted, to provide these funds through a 
     supplemental appropriation measure, or through another 
     appropriate vehicle.


                EMPOWERMENT ZONES/ENTERPRISE COMMUNITIES

       Inserts new language providing $75,000,000 for grants to 
     urban empowerment zones to be used in conjunction with 
     economic development activities detailed in the strategic 
     plans of each empowerment zone. Neither the House nor the 
     Senate included a similar provision.
       Inserts new language providing $15,000,000 to the Secretary 
     of Agriculture for grants to designated empowerment zones. 
     Neither the House nor the Senate included a similar 
     provision.
       As with APIC, the conferees agree to provide an additional 
     $110,000,000 for EZ/ECs when the New Markets Initiative is 
     enacted.


                       COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

       Appropriates $5,057,550,000 for the community development 
     fund instead of $4,505,000,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $4,800,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       Inserts language proposed by the House creating the 
     Community Development Fund

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     (CDF) and identifying the various set-asides in the account. 
     The conferees agree to the following earmarks;
       $4,409,000,000 for formula grants under the community 
     development block grant program;
       $71,000,000 for grants to Indian tribes instead of 
     $67,000,000 as proposed by the House and Senate;
       $45,500,000 for section 107 grants. The House provided 
     $39,500,000 for section 107 grants and the Senate provided 
     $41,500,000 for section 107 grants. The conference agreement 
     provides the following earmarks within section 107:
       $3,000,000 is for community development work study;
       $10,000,000 is for historically black colleges and 
     universities;
       $8,000,000 is for the Community Outreach Partnerships 
     program;
       $7,000,000 is for insular areas;
       $3,000,000 for tribal colleges and universities;
       $3,000,000 for Alaska Native-Serving Institutions and 
     native Hawaiian- serving institutions;
       $6,500,000 is for Hispanic-Serving Institutions; and
       $5,000,000 is for management information systems;
       $2,600,000 for the National American Indian Housing Council 
     instead of $3,000,000 as proposed by the House and $2,200,000 
     as proposed by the Senate;
       $10,000,000 for the National Housing Development 
     Corporation (NHDC), for continuation of its program of 
     acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of at-risk 
     affordable housing. The conferees direct NHDC to establish 
     benchmarks for performance (addressing matters such as the 
     amount of capital and loan funds raised, the degree to which 
     federal investment is leveraged through non-federal sources, 
     and the number of units of housing acquired and transferred 
     to new owners who will continue and protect the housing's 
     affordability for low-income residents), and to report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations regarding performance and 
     progress in meeting those benchmarks;
       $28,450,000 for the Capacity Building for Community 
     Development and Affordable Housing program, authorized by 
     section 4 of P.L. 103-120, as in effect before June 12, 1997, 
     instead of $23,450,000 proposed by the House and $25,000,000 
     proposed by the Senate. Of the amount provided, at least 
     $5,000,000 shall be for capacity building activities in rural 
     areas as proposed by the Senate instead of $4,000,000 as 
     proposed by the House. Additionally, $3,450,000 is for 
     Habitat for Humanity International as proposed by the House. 
     The Senate did not provide funds for this program;
       $60,000,000 for Youthbuild as proposed by the Senate 
     instead of $45,000,000 as proposed by the House. This amount 
     includes $4,000,000 for capacity building activities and 
     $10,000,000 for underserved and rural areas as proposed by 
     the Senate. The House did not include similar language;
       $20,000,000 for grants to eligible grantees under section 
     11 of the Self-Help Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act 
     of 1996, as proposed by the House. The Senate did not include 
     funds for this item;
       $44,000,000 for the Neighborhood Initiatives program 
     instead of $10,000,000 as proposed by the House and no 
     funding as proposed by the Senate, of which:
       $5,000,000 is for the Institute for Software Research for 
     construction related to a high-technology diversification 
     initiative;
       $10,000,000 is for the City of Syracuse for the 
     Neighborhood Initiative Program;
       $2,000,000 is for the Louisville Community Development Bank 
     for the Louisville Neighborhood Initiative;
       $5,000,000 to the Vandalia Heritage Foundation, Inc. for 
     community and neighborhood revitalization and economic 
     diversification initiatives;
       $2,500,000 for the Omaha Housing Initiative to create 
     affordable housing and encourage homeownership in Omah, 
     Nebraska;
       2,000,000 for the Community Development Corporation of 
     Kansas City and Health Midwest Partners for Change in Kansas 
     City, Missouri for the revitalization initiative on the 
     northwest corner of 63rd Street and Prospect Avenue;
       $2,850,000 for the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis, 
     Missouri for development and revitalization activities 
     associated with McRee Town;
       $2,500,000 for Downtwon Now for revitalization efforts of 
     the Old Post Office District in St. Louis Missouri;
       $2,000,000 for the Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance in 
     Kansas City, Missouri for the Neighborhood Preservation 
     Initiative in the Blue Hills and Vineyard neighborhoods;
       $1,500,000 for the City of South Bend, Indiana for the 
     redevelopment of the Studebaker Corridor;
       $1,500,000 for the Midtown Development Corporation in 
     Kansas City, Missouri for the redevelopment of the Mount 
     Cleveland Community;
       $850,000 for the City of Spartanburg, South Carolina for 
     Arkwright/Forest Park revitalization;
       $300,000 for the City of Beloit, Wisconsin for the Beloit 
     urban renewal project;
       $500,000 for the City of Waterloo, Iowa for the 
     redevelopment of blighted portions of the downtown area;
       $500,000 for Patterson Park Development Corporation for the 
     purchase and rehabilitation of homes in the Patterson Park 
     neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland;
       $1,000,000 for the City of Des Moines, Iowa for planning of 
     the redevelopment of the Riverpoint area;
       $1,200,000 for City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin for 
     revitalization of the Menomonee Valley industrial area;
       $500,000 for the City of Woodbury, New Jersey for downtown 
     economic development activities;
       $1,000,000 for the City of Wildwood, New Jersey for 
     revitalization of the Pacific Avenue Business District;
       $500,000 for the City of Gardena, California for planning 
     of downtown redevelopment;
       $300,000 for the City of Chicago, Illinois for the South 
     Chicago Housing Initiative;
       $500,000 for the city of Detroit, Michigan for the Detroit 
     River Promenade Project.
       $29,000,000 is appropriated separately for credit subsidy 
     for section 108 loan guarantees as proposed by the Senate 
     instead of $28,000,000 as proposed by the House. Limits loan 
     guarantees to $1,261,000,000 as proposed by the Senate 
     instead of $1,217,000,000 as proposed by the House;
       $2,000,000 is for the Utah Housing Finance Agency for 
     temporary housing necessary for the 2002 Olympic Games to be 
     held in Salt Lake City, Utah, as proposed by the Senate. The 
     House did not have similar language;
       $15,000,000 is to be transferred to the Working Capital 
     Fund for the development of information technology systems;
       $292,000,000 for economic development initiatives. The 
     targeted grants shall be made as follows:
       $500,000 for The Palace Theater for its renovation in 
     Manchester, New Hampshire;
       $300,000 for the Manchester Historic Association for the 
     restoration of the Millyard Museum in Manchester, New 
     Hampshire;
       $700,000 for Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon 
     for construction and program activities at Bicentennial Hall 
     in Portland, Oregon;
       $1,000,000 for the Omaha Housing Initiative to create 
     affordable housing and encourage homeownership in Omaha, 
     Nebraska;
       $1,000,000 for the LOVE Social Services Center in 
     Fairbanks, Alaska for a facility to serve disadvantaged youth 
     and provide other services;
       $250,000 for the Portland Oregon Visitors Association for 
     the Pioneer Courthouse Square Lobby Renovation project in 
     Portland, Oregon;
       $250,000 for Portland State University for the Portland 
     State Engineering Building and Central City Streetcar;
       $1,100,000 for the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois for 
     the development of the ``Sue'' exhibit, a showcase of a 67 
     million-year-old T-Rex;
       $1,000,000 for the Community Action Agency of Southern New 
     Mexico, Inc., for construction of a regional food bank and 
     supporting offices;
       $700,000 for the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to construct 
     a permanent site for the Santa Fe Area Farmers Market at the 
     historic Santa Fe rail yard;
       $250,000 for the Boys and Girls Club of Las Cruces, New 
     Mexico to upgrade existing facilities;
       $500,000 for Tatum, New Mexico to replace its community 
     center;
       $150,000 for the Bataan Death March Memorial renovations in 
     Las Cruces, New Mexico;
       $1,000,000 for Granite Falls, Minnesota to aid in recovery 
     efforts from a tornado and severe thunder storms;
       $1,020,000 for the University of Idaho for the construction 
     of the Center for Science and Technology in Idaho Falls, 
     Idaho;
       $200,000 for Elmore County, Idaho for meeting water system 
     needs in the town of Atlanta;
       $1,000,000 for the City of Salmon, Idaho for land 
     acquisition, construction, and alteration for the Sacajawea 
     Interpretive, Cultural, and Education Center;
       $500,000 for the Clearwater Economic Development 
     Association in Northern Idaho, for implementation of the 
     Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Plan;
       $500,000 for Lewis-Clark State College for start-up 
     activities associated with the Idaho Virtual Incubator;
       $1,200,000 for MSU-Billings for the acquisition of a 
     College of Business facility to house economic development 
     activities;
       $1,000,000 for Billings, Montana for the completion of the 
     Billings depot project;
       $100,000 for Miles Community College in Miles City, Montana 
     for a feasibility study regarding the conveyance of a VA 
     medical facility;
       $500,000 for the Jefferson County Local Development 
     Corporation in Whitehall, Montana for economic development 
     activities;
       $350,000 for the Human Resources Development Council in 
     Bozeman, Montana for the restoration of a historic property 
     for community services offices;
       $300,000 for the City of Columbia Falls, Montana for the 
     restructuring of the Old Main Veterans Facility;
       $1,500,000 for the City of Memphis for the construction of 
     the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis, Tennessee;
       $500,000 for the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Department 
     of Parks Recreation,

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     Arts, and Culture for revitalization efforts in Alton Park;
       $700,000 for Winston-Salem-Forsyth County, North Carolina 
     for the development of the Science Center and Environment 
     Park of Forsyth County, North Carolina;
       $700,000 for the redevelopment of Midwest City, Oklahoma 
     from damage from a tornado;
       $250,000 for the Allen County Historical Society for the 
     redevelopment of the Funston Museum complex in Iola, Allen 
     County, Kansas;
       $1,000,000 for the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries for 
     the purchase and renovation of a building;
       $500,000 for Northern Initiatives to capitalize an Upper 
     Peninsula Michigan Equity Fund to assist in the development 
     of small businesses;
       $250,000 for the City of Jackson, Michigan for downtown 
     redevelopment;
       $250,000 for William Tyndale College in Tyndale, Michigan 
     for a learning resource center;
       $500,000 for the University of Utah for the planning and 
     design of the Museum of Science and Nature;
       $700,000 for the Covenant House Michigan for the 
     construction costs of a permanent Rights of Passage facility;
       $1,000,000 for West Valley City, Utah for the construction 
     of the West Valley City Multi-Cultural Community Center.
       $500,000 for the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation for an 
     interactive learning center in Powell, Wyoming;
       $500,000 for the Vermont Rural Fire Protection Task Force 
     of Randolph, Vermont for the purchase of equipment;
       $500,000 for the Southern Vermont Recreation Center 
     Foundation in Springfield, Vermont;
       $500,000 for the Vermont Housing and conservation Board for 
     the development of affordable housing in Northern Vermont;
       $500,000 for Marlboro College for a technology incubator 
     facility in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont;
       $500,000 for the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board for 
     the development of affordable housing in Williston, Vermont;
       $500,000 for the Town of Hartford, Vermont for the 
     development of the Railroad Row Historic District in downtown 
     White River Junction, Vermont;
       $500,000 for Vermont Technical College for economic 
     development in Randolph, Vermont;
       $250,000 for the Town of Fairfield, Vermont for the 
     development of the President Chester A. Arthur visitor 
     facility;
       $800,000 for the City of Montrose, Colorado for the 
     development of affordable low-income housing;
       $900,000 for the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, 
     Rhode Island for the conversion of an abandoned banking 
     building;
       $300,000 for Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania to assist 
     residents with homes that are sinking due to soil subsidence;
       $150,000 for the Urban Redevelopment Authority of 
     Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for economic development on 
     Pittsburgh's North Shore;
       $100,000 for the City of Hazleton, Pennsylvania for 
     economic development and revitalization activities;
       $750,000 for the City of Johnstown, Pennsylvania for 
     downtown economic development;
       $300,000 for the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to 
     assist in the relocation of families in the Logan 
     neighborhood whose homes were built on an improperly filled 
     creek bed;
       $500,000 for Ford City, Pennsylvania for brownfield 
     revitalization;
       $300,000 for the City of Chester, Pennsylvania for the 
     redevelopment of DeShong Park;
       $250,000 for Erie, Pennsylvania for the Discovery Square 
     museum expansion;
       $500,000 for the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia, 
     Pennsylvania for relocation costs;
       $200,000 for the Boys and Girls Club of Allentown, 
     Pennsylvania for the Northern Lehigh Community Center;
       $400,000 for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania for the 
     redevelopment of the Braddock-Swissvale-Rankin industrial 
     site;
       $500,000 for the National Museum for American Jewish 
     History in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for expansion efforts;
       $500,000 for the Reading Berks Emergency Shelter in 
     Reading, Pennsylvania for the construction of a transitional 
     housing facility for the homeless;
       $250,000 for the City of Lancaster, Pennsylvania for the 
     development of the Lancaster Square project;
       $100,000 for Clarion County, Pennsylvania for continued 
     development of Liberty Towers Senior Activities Facility;
       $250,000 for the Nueva Esperanza Community Development 
     Corporation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for economic 
     revitalization of commercial and industrial facilities;
       $200,000 for Light of Life Ministries in Allegheny County, 
     Pennsylvania for infrastructure improvements at the Serenity 
     Village homeless program;
       $250,000 for Universal Community Homes for economic 
     development activities in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
       $250,000 for the City of Philadelphia to address the safety 
     concerns related to abandoned and structurally impaired homes
       $600,000 for the City of East Providence, Rhode Island to 
     develop recreational facilities at Crescent Park;
       $300,000 for the City of State Line, Mississippi for 
     downtown infrastructure and economic revitalization;
       $1,000,000 for the City of Madison, Mississippi for the 
     renovation of the historic downtown of Madison, Mississippi;
       $500,000 for Mississippi State University for the 
     renovation and expansion of facilities for the Stoneville, 
     Mississippi Research and Education Complex;
       $500,000 for the City of Canton, Mississippi for the 
     establishment of a State film complex;
       $2,000,000 for the rehabilitation and restoration of Cain 
     Hall on the campus of Hinds Community College in Raymond, 
     Mississippi;
       $400,000 for Nashua, New Hampshire for the redevelopment of 
     the Mines Fall Park;
       $1,000,000 for the City of Bangor, Maine for the 
     installation of steel bulkheading on the Penobscot River;
       $1,000,000 for the City of Portland, Maine for funding the 
     Bayside Development Project;
       $550,000 for Vinalhaven Elder Care Services, Inc. in Maine 
     for the development of an elder care facility;
       $500,000 for the City of Dayton, Ohio for the restoration 
     of the Main Street historic district;
       $500,000 for Cleveland Tomorrow in Cleveland, Ohio for the 
     restoration of the Euclid Beach Carousel;
       $700,000 for the City of Xenia, Ohio for the redevelopment 
     of the area from damage due to a tornado.
       $700,000 for the Cleveland Botanical garden for the 
     development of a glass house conservatory;
       $500,000 for Skagit County for the preservation of farmland 
     in Skagit County, Washington;
       $1,000,000 for the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, 
     Washington to complete the Mercer Island Slough Environmental 
     Education Center;
       $500,000 for the Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, Washington 
     for site development;
       $1,000,000 for the City of Lincoln, Nebraska for the 
     construction of the Northbridge Center for Children and 
     Youth;
       $500,000 for the Southwest Border Region Partnership for an 
     assessment of the border region's future economic health;
       $250,000 for the Centro de Salud familiar La Fe in El Paso, 
     Texas for community outreach activities to assist low-income 
     families;
       $1,000,000 for the City of Houston for redevelopment 
     activities within Freedman's Town;
       $250,000 for the Boys and Girls Club of Brownsville, Texas 
     for building repairs and community services;
       $250,000 for the George Gervin Youth center in San Antonio 
     for the construction of a youth center;
       $500,000 for the City of Beaumont, Texas to revitalize the 
     Charlton-Pollard neighborhood;
       $500,000 for the Bayfront Arts and Science Park in Corpus 
     Christi, Texas for the expansion of the park;
       $250,000 for West Texas A&M University to develop an 
     integrated services center in Amarillo, Texas;
       $250,000 for Sam Houston State University for the 
     redevelopment of the Sam Houston Memorial Museum;
       $7,000,000 for the University of Louisville for the 
     expansion of the university's main library;
       $1,000,000 for Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for the Oklahoma 
     City Murrah Revitalization project;
       $1,000,000 for the National Council on Agricultural Life 
     and Labor in Dover, Delaware for a variety of housing 
     assistance programs;
       $1,000,000 for the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 
     Alabama for the Gorgas House Renovation Project;
       $100,000 for the Hammoundville Armory in the Town of Valley 
     Head, Alabama for the renovation of a historic facility to 
     enhance economic development and tourist activity;
       $500,000 for Monroeville, Alabama for the Monroe County 
     Courthouse Restoration Project;
       $1,000,000 for the Mobile Public Library, Mobile, Alabama 
     for the renovation of facilities as part of a neighborhood 
     redevelopment project;
       $500,000 for the City of LaFayette, (Chambers County) 
     Alabama for the Chambers County Courthouse Restoration 
     Project;
       $100,000 for Union Springs, Alabama for the rehabilitation 
     of facilities for downtown restoration/revitalization;
       $250,000 for the Mobile Historic Development Commission for 
     the Oakleigh District Revitalization Project;
       $250,000 for the National Community College for the Deaf 
     and Blind in Talladega, Alabama for the renovation of 
     facilities for development of economic education program;
       $500,000 for Tuscaloosa, Alabama for the Tuscaloosa Alberta 
     City Project;
       $500,000 for the City of Brundidge, Alabama for the 
     completion of Pike County Covered Arena;
       $500,000 for the City of Mobile, Alabama for the 
     Battlehouse Restoration Project;
       $700,000 for Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, 
     Kansas for the restoration of the home of William Allen 
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       $1,000,000 for the development of the Life Center at 
     Franklin Pierce College in Ridge, New Hampshire;
       $100,000 for the Housing Partnership in Portsmouth, New 
     Hampshire to provide below market rents and to rehabilitate 
     deteriorated buildings;
       $400,000 for the Northern Forest Heritage Park in Berlin, 
     New Hampshire to develop facilities;
       $2,600,000 for the City of Meridian, Mississippi for the 
     rehabilitation of the opera house;
       $300,000 for the City of Laurel, Mississippi for the 
     development of a veterans museum;
       $100,000 for the City of Jackson, Mississippi for the 
     revitalization of LeFleur's Bluff;
       $500,000 for Rowan Oak for the restoration of the home of 
     William Faulkner in Oxford, Mississippi;
       $500,000 for the George Ohr Museum in Biloxi, Mississippi 
     for the development of an African-American art center;
       $500,000 for Ocean Springs, Mississippi for the restoration 
     of the old high school administration building;
       $500,000 for Mississippi State University School of 
     Architecture in Starkville, Mississippi for rural 
     revitalization;
       $2,500,000 for the University of Alaska for a pilot 
     training simulator;
       $450,000 for Bird TLC in Alaska for the construction of 
     Potter's Marsh Conservation Center;
       $2,000,000 for Catholic Community Services in Alaska for 
     the reconstruction of a homeless shelter and to acquire new 
     housing stock for battered women;
       $270,000 for the Fairbanks Hospitality House in Fairbanks, 
     Alaska for the purchase and renovation of an emergency 
     shelter;
       $500,000 for Kids are People, Inc. for a transitional 
     living program for homeless youth and an emergency shelter in 
     Wasilla, Alaska;
       $3,000,000 for the Alaska Pacific University for the 
     restoration of a historic property in Anchorage, Alaska;
       $250,000 for Marceline, Missouri for downtown redevelopment 
     activities;
       $500,000 for Ozark Action, Inc. of Missouri for low-income 
     rural housing;
       $400,000 for Sedalia, Missouri for the Katy Depot 
     Restoration Project;
       $200,000 for the Bond Family Housing Center in St. Louis, 
     Missouri for the Transitional Housing Program;
       $200,000 for Trenton, Missouri for community redevelopment, 
     including renovation and restoration activities of modifying 
     the Plaza hotel into a senior citizen apartment building;
       $500,000 for Sullivan County, Missouri for water supply and 
     interconnection projects;
       $2,000,000 for James S. McDonnell Planetarium in St. Louis, 
     Missouri for renovation;
       $100,000 for Clarksville, Missouri for improved year-round 
     facilities related to the Mississippi River and the American 
     Bald Eagle;
       $250,000 for the Center for Emerging Technologies in St. 
     Louis, Missouri for incubator space development;
       $300,000 for the Columbia Housing Authority in Missouri for 
     installation of fire suppression sprinkler systems in Oak and 
     Paquin Towers;
       $200,000 for the Bonne Terre, Missouri for infrastructure 
     improvement of an industrial development;
       $100,000 for the Lamar Community Betterment Association for 
     an open air pavillion in Lamar, Missouri;
       $100,000 for the Roxy Theater Youth Center in Hopkins, 
     Missouri for renovation;
       $250,000 for the Bootheel Youth Museum in Malden, Missouri 
     for expansion;
       $500,000 for renovation of the Ridgway Center at the 
     Missouri Botanical Gardens;
       $2,000,000 for Arkansas State University at Mountain Home, 
     Arkansas for the construction of a multipurpose auditorium;
       $1,000,000 for Marion County, Indiana for the construction 
     of the Sexually Transmitted Disease and HIV Prevention and 
     Research Center;
       $850,000 for the South Carolina Association of Community 
     Development Corporations in Charleston, South Carolina for 
     job creation, small business development and quality of life 
     improvements within the State of South Carolina;
       $850,000 for the University of South Carolina in Columbia, 
     South Carolina to enlarge the main building at the University 
     of South Carolina School of Public Health;
       $500,000 for Helping Hands Hawaii in Honolulu, Hawaii for 
     community based activities including the delivery of goods 
     and services to Hawaii's needy;
       $750,000 for Waipahu Community Association in Waipahu, 
     Hawaii for renovations and the establishment of a Waipahu 
     festival market fair;
       $500,000 for the Kauai Economic Development Board in Lihue, 
     Hawaii for site acquisition, design, construction and 
     equipment for the West Kauai Technology Center;
       $250,000 for the Maui Academy of Performing Arts in 
     Puunene, Hawaii for the acquisition and renovation of the 
     facility;
       $250,000 for the Homestake Opera House in Lead, South 
     Dakota for renovation of the interior of the Homestake Opera 
     House;
       $250,000 for the City of Fort Pierre, South Dakota for 
     development of the Lewis and Clark Waterfront Trail;
       $250,000 for Cedar Youth Services in Lincoln, Nebraska to 
     complete construction of the Northbridge Center for Children 
     and Youth;
       $250,000 for Family Housing Advisory Services Project 
     Jericho in Omaha, Nebraska for affordable housing activities;
       $500,000 for the Lowell Cultural and Performing Arts 
     Downtown Initiative in Lowell, Massachusetts for development 
     of the site for the Lowell Performing Arts Center;
       $500,000 for the City of Boston, Massachusetts for its Main 
     Streets Program;
       $500,000 for the City of New Bedford, Massachusetts for 
     construction and renovation of the Portugese American 
     Cultural Center;
       $325,000 for the City of Racine, Wisconsin for construction 
     of the Racine Root River Pathway;
       $300,000 for the Historic Third Ward Association in 
     Milwaukee, Wisconsin to establish a public market;
       $250,000 for Jentry-McDonald Corporation in Baltimore, 
     Maryland for capital improvements to the Jentry-McDonald 
     House;
       $250,000 for the City of Takoma Park, Maryland for the 
     construction of the Takoma Park Computer Center;
       $250,000 for Montgomery County, Maryland for costs 
     associated with the Wheaton Small Business Technology Center;
       $500,000 for the Central Montana Foundation to upgrade, 
     install technology, and facilitate occupancy of One Stop 
     Center in Lewistown, Montana;
       $250,000 for the City of South Bend, Indiana for economic 
     development activities related to the Studebaker Auto/Oliver 
     Plow Works project;
       $1,000,000 for the City of Belen, New Mexico for 
     construction of a community center;
       $350,000 for Rio Arriba County, New Mexico for an 
     environmental impact statement;
       $150,000 for Pueblo Cochiti, New Mexico for the 
     construction of a community center;
       $500,000 for Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico for the 
     construction of a multi-purpose facility;
       $500,000 for the City of San Francisco, California for 
     preservation and restoration of the Old Mint;
       $500,000 for Booker T. Washington Outreach, Inc. in Monroe, 
     Louisiana for construction of an Elderly Living Center;
       $250,000 for UNITY for the Homeless in New Orleans, 
     Louisiana for the Oasis project;
       $2,400,000 for Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, West 
     Virginia for construction of science/computer centers;
       $1,800,000 for the City of Hinton, West Virginia for 
     construction of a high technology office building and small 
     business incubator;
       $250,000 for the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, 
     Georgia for construction of the Tubman African American 
     Museum;
       $250,000 for the Lemmon Area Charitable and Economic 
     Development Corporation in Lemmon, South Dakota for economic 
     development activities;
       $100,000 for the Mathilda Geppert Childcare Center in 
     Vermillion, South Dakota for development of a child day care 
     center;
       $75,000 for the Spearfish Economic Development Corporation 
     in Spearfish, South Dakota for infrastructure development in 
     the city's industrial park;
       $300,000 for the City of Brandon, South Dakota to construct 
     a community library;
       $1,500,000 for the City of Aberdeen, South Dakota for 
     construction of a community center;
       $500,000 for the Sioux Falls Empire Fair Association in 
     Sioux Falls, South Dakota for infrastructure improvements to 
     the W.H. Lyons Fairgrounds;
       $250,000 for the City of Redfield, South Dakota for 
     infrastructure improvement at its industrial park;
       $250,000 for the West River Foundation in Sturgis, South 
     Dakota for a statewide business development initiative;
       $100,000 for South Dakota Housing Development Authority in 
     Pierre, South Dakota for the development of an employer 
     assisted housing program;
       $500,000 for Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut 
     for continued construction of an Information Technology 
     Center;
       $250,000 for Prince George's County, Maryland for the 
     Prince George's County Technology Commercialization Center;
       $100,000 for the American Visionary Arts Museum in 
     Baltimore, Maryland for expansion of the museum;
       $1,500,000 for the Discovery Center in Williston, North 
     Dakota for construction of a visitor center and 
     reconstruction of former barracks at Fort Buford State 
     Historic Site;
       $500,000 for the Rural Economic Area Partnership Zones in 
     North Dakota;
       $250,000 for North Dakota State University in Fargo, North 
     Dakota for development of a campus-based technology park;
       $500,000 for the City of Taylorville, Illinois for an 
     emergency services center;
       $1,000,000 for Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois for 
     development of a life sciences center;
       $200,000 for the Merit Music Program in Chicago, Illinois 
     to expand Project BEGIN;
       $400,000 for the City of Freeport, Illinois for Brownfields 
     cleanup;
       $100,000 for the City of Benton, Illinois for streetscape 
     and beautification of downtown Benton;
       $250,000 for the City of Charlotte, North Carolina for 
     economic development activities within Charlotte's Wilkinson 
     Boulevard Corridor;

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       $250,000 for Asheville-Buncome Technical College in 
     Asheville, North Carolina for construction of a small 
     business incubator;
       $250,000 for the Museum of Latin American Art in Long 
     Beach, California to expand and upgrade existing facilities;
       $250,000 for FAME Renaissance in Los Angeles, California to 
     continue work on a small business incubator;
       $750,000 for the City of Fresno, California for the Fresno 
     Community Health Centers regional medical center;
       $250,000 for the City of Inglewood, California for the 
     Market Street Senior Center;
       $250,000 for the City of San Francisco, California for a 
     homeless housing initiative;
       $250,000 for the City of Santa Ana, California for the IDEA 
     high-tech education center;
       $1,800,000 for Comprehensive Housing Assistance, Inc., in 
     Baltimore, Maryland for renovations to the Concord 
     Apartments;
       $500,000 for the City of Davenport, Iowa for development of 
     Friendly House;
       $500,000 for the City of Council Bluffs, Iowa for land 
     purchase and construction of an elderly community center;
       $10,000 for LaCrosse County, Wisconsin for economic 
     development information centers;
       $450,000 for the Biomedical Research Foundation of 
     Northwest Louisiana, Shreveport, Louisiana for infrastructure 
     improvements for InterTech Park and construction of a 
     Cleanroom Biotechnology Incubator;
       $1,000,000 for University Heights Science Park, Newark, New 
     Jersey for University Heights Science Park's Newark Digital 
     Century Center;
       $500,000 for Bayshore Economic Development Corporation for 
     development of the Henry Hudson Trail;
       $400,000 for Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West 
     Virginia for renovation of Scarborough Library;
       $400,000 for Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia for 
     continued work on a health and wellness center;
       $250,000 for the Town of Millville, New Jersey for 
     development of the Glasstown Center project;
       $400,000 for the City of Burlington, Vermont for Firehouse 
     Center for the Visual Arts;
       $400,000 for the City of Montpelier, Vermont for Pyralisk 
     Arts Center;
       $200,000 for the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association, 
     Colchester, Vermont for rehabilitation of the Fort Ethan 
     Allen Riding Hall;
       $250,000 for the Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 
     Vermont for restoration of historic library and addition to 
     the children's library;
       $750,000 for the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, 
     Brattleboro, Vermont for rehabilitation of the Westgate 
     apartments;
       $500,000 for the City of Detroit, Michigan for the Detroit 
     River Promenade Project;
       $500,000 for the Bushnell Theatre, Hartford, Connecticut 
     for final completion of renovation;
       $225,000 for the Boys and Girls Club of Drew County, 
     Arkansas for construction of general purpose facility;
       $250,000 for the Frank Lloyd Wright Darwin Martin House, 
     Buffalo, New York for restoration work;
       $250,000 for the Westside Rowing Club of Buffalo, New York 
     for construction of the Frank Lloyd Wright Boathouse;
       $1,750,000 for the Washington State Department of Community 
     Development to address farmworker housing issues in the 
     State;
       $250,000 for the Three Rivers Community Foundation in Tri-
     Cities, Washington for economic development activities in 
     Benton, Franklin and Grant counties related to the Hanford 
     Reach National Monument;
       $250,000 for the Trinity Repertory Pell-Chafee Theatre, 
     Providence, Rhode Island for theater expansion and 
     operations;
       $250,000 for the City of Providence, Rhode Island for 
     construction of the Lillian Feinstein Senior Center;
       $1,250,000 for the City of Henderson, Nevada for downtown 
     redevelopment and infrastructure upgrade;
       $350,000 for Opportunity Village Foundation, Las Vegas, 
     Nevada for start-up funding for downpayment assistance 
     program to disabled;
       $500,000 for the Boys and Girls Club of Las Vegas, Nevada 
     for the renovation and expansion of existing facilities;
       $750,000 for Henry and Martinsville Counties, Virginia for 
     economic development activities;
       $300,000 for CityArts for Youth, Inc. in Providence, Rhode 
     Island for renovations for a business incubator;
       $250,000 for Bayview Citizens for Social Justice and the 
     Northampton-Accomack Planning District Commission to support 
     economic development projects on the Eastern Shore of 
     Virginia;
       $250,000 for Monroe Community College, Rochester, New York 
     to establish a Virtual Campus Center;
       $250,000 for the West Virginia School of Osteopathic 
     Medicine in Lewisburg, West Virginia for expansion of the 
     ambulatory care facility;
       $400,000 for Prince George's County, Maryland for 
     architecture, design and engineering work for redevelopment 
     of McGuire House;
       $500,000 for Howard County, Maryland for renovations to 
     Route 1;
       $250,000 for the City of Atlanta, Georgia for continued 
     construction of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center;
       $500,000 for Philander-Smith College, Arkansas for 
     facilities and equipment upgrades for scientific and emerging 
     technology research;
       $250,000 for University of Arkansas in Pine Bluff, for 
     facilities and equipment upgrades for scientific and emerging 
     technology research;
       $100,000 for the Boys and Girls Club of Olney, Maryland for 
     facility construction;
       $100,000 for the Wesley Acres Independent Living Retirement 
     Center in Mitchell, South Dakota for capital and other 
     improvements;
       $500,000 for Liberty County, Georgia Economic Development 
     Authority for planning and engineering the industrial park 
     project in coastal Georgia;
       $500,000 for County of Maui, Hawaii for land acquisition, 
     planning and design, and construction of a senior housing/
     housing division office building in Central Maui, Hawaii;
       $500,000 for Vermont Historical Society for the Vermont 
     Historical Society renovation project;
       $250,000 for Eva's Village in Patterson, New Jersey for 
     renovation of new transitional housing sites;
       $500,000 for the Iowa Finance Authority and Muscatine 
     Center for Strategic Action to reduce illegal and predatory 
     mortgage lending practices;
       $500,000 for City of Reno, Nevada for land acquisition for 
     downtown revitalization;
       $500,000 for the City of Sheboygan, Wisconsin to redevelop 
     a contaminated former industrial site to mixed use 
     development;
       $500,000 for El Centro de la Raza in Seattle, Washington 
     for acquisition of the Beacon Hill School;
       $250,000 for North Dakota State University for the 
     development of the Virtual Archival Storage Terminal;
       $250,000 for the Smyrna-Clayton Heritage Association in 
     Smyrna, Delaware, for restoration work on the Smyrna Opera 
     House;
       $400,000 for the Montana World Trade Center for the 
     Informational Outreach Project;
       $325,000 to Boaz, Alabama for the Senior Citizens Center;
       $20,000 to the Blount County Multi-need Center in Alabama 
     for equipment for the mentally retarded and severely 
     handicapped;
       $800,000 to San Diego, California for final construction of 
     San Diego's Children's Convalescent Hospital;
       $930,000 to Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida for 
     an intercultural community center;
       $1,110,000 to Long Island University in New York for 
     restoration of the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts;
       $575,000 for Tennessee Valley Family Services in 
     Guntersville, Alabama for construction and repair costs for 
     the A+ house for homeless children;
       $1,145,000 to the Lubbock Science Spectrum Museum in Texas 
     for construction costs of the Brazos River Exhibit;
       $930,000 to Provo City, Utah for the Ironton Redevelopment 
     Site;
       $1,110,000 to Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey for 
     construction of a science building;
       $150,000 for the Owensboro Riverfront Project in Kentucky 
     for development of its waterfront;
       $1,000,000 to the Louisville Zoo, Kentucky for construction 
     of the Gorilla Forest Exhibition;
       $193,500 to the town of Yucca Valley, California for 
     community regional park improvements to provide recreational 
     opportunities to the local community;
       $51,600 to Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania for 
     construction of an industrial park and facility;
       $215,000 to complete the Logan, Utah Emergency Services 
     Training Facility project;
       $344,000 to the City of Ackerman and Choctaw County, 
     Mississippi for development of a community center;
       $800,000 to Aurora, Illinois to revitalize downtown through 
     adaptive reuse of architecturally significant structures;
       $860,000 to Waukegan, Illinois for renovation of the 
     historic Genesee Theater;
       $430,000 to Riverside, California for the Goeske Center for 
     Senior and Disabled Citizens;
       $200,000 to St. Stephen's Community Center in Kentucky for 
     expansion of the life center;
       $258,000 to West Palm Beach, Florida to refurbish and 
     expand the Northwood Community and Recreation Center;
       $825,000 to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania for the Capitol 
     Theatre project;
       $60,000 to the Coos Economic Development Corporation in New 
     Hampshire for the Connecticut River Byway Gateway Center 
     including purchase and renovation of a former cog mill;
       $365,500 to the Boys and Girls Club of Camden, Arkansas;
       $77,400 to Wayne County, Pennsylvania to establish a 
     revolving loan fund for a Small Business Incubation Program;
       $350,000 to the Patrick Henry Development Council (PHDC) of 
     Virginia for economic development;
       $215,000 to Escondido, California for the Quail Hills 
     Development Program;
       $860,000 to Dillard University in Louisiana to continue 
     construction of the International Center for Economic 
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       $215,000 to the City of Charlotte, North Carolina for 
     economic development activities within Charlotte's Wilkinson 
     Boulevard Corridor;
       $215,000 to Proctor Hospital in Peoria, Illinois for the 
     Women's Health Center;
       $172,000 to Baton Rouge, Louisiana for Downtown 
     Development/Plan Baton Rouge;
       $430,000 to the Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and 
     Technology in New Orleans, Louisiana for emergency assessment 
     and response;
       $43,000 to the Borough of Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, 
     Pennsylvania for upgrade of the Dietrich Theater Cultural 
     Center;
       $200,000 to the Marcelino Plan y Vino, Inc. A 501(c)(3) in 
     Virginia for the MAPAVI program to provide assistance to 
     communities and individuals coping with the financial burden 
     of catastrophic illness;
       $1,000,000 to Sandy City, Utah for the purchase of land 
     related to the Little Cottonwood Watershed Protection 
     project;
       $34,400 to the YWCA of Walla Walla, Washington for the 
     repair and enhancements to the family emergency shelter;
       $430,000 to Columbus, Ohio for a Housing Trust Fund;
       $250,000 to Motor City Blight Busters in Detroit, Michigan 
     to establish a revolving loan fund for new construction, 
     acquisition, and rehabilitation of distressed homes;
       $430,000 to Daytona Beach, Florida for design and 
     construction of Community Center;
       $43,000 to the County of San Bernardino, California for 
     roadway signage improvements to historic Route 66 between 
     Topock and Victorville;
       $430,000 to Montgomery County, Kentucky for a community 
     center;
       $430,000 to Hackensack University Medical Center in New 
     Jersey for women's and children's hospital;
       $1,720,000 to the Olympic Regional Development Authority to 
     upgrade the Lake Placid, New York winter sports facilities;
       $258,000 to the Hamlet Historic Train Depot in North 
     Carolina for depot restoration;
       $43,000 to Highland Falls, New York to renovate downtown;
       $473,000 to Monroe County, Pennsylvania for construction of 
     an industrial park;
       $860,000 for the restoration of Glamorgan Castle in 
     Alliance, Ohio;
       $301,000 to the City of Redlands, California for 
     infrastructure activities related to the Redlands Community 
     Center;
       $172,000 to Ouachita County, Arkansas for Tate's Bluff 
     Bridge;
       $430,000 to Doane College--Crete, Nebraska for 
     rehabilitation of historic Whitcomb Conservatory for 
     performing arts center;
       $215,000 to Memorial Health System in Springfield, Illinois 
     for initial facility planning for a Cardiology Center;
       $301,000 to Ft. Wayne, Indiana for revitalization of the of 
     Bowser Avenue and Hanna-Creighton brownfield area;
       $430,000 to the Town of Skaneateles, New York for 
     construction of a recreation center;
       $645,000 to Carnegie Hall in New York for continuation of 
     Carnegie Hall's Third Stage project;
       $430,000 to the MCB Foundation of Wichita, Kansas for 
     revitalization of the downtown community recreation center;
       $430,000 to the VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System 
     in California for renovation of the gymnasium on the 
     Sepulveda campus;
       $438,600 to the Children's Hospital and Health Center in 
     San Diego, California for construction and infrastructure 
     improvements;
       $301,000 to the Port of South, Louisiana for expansion of 
     the Globalplex intermodal terminal facility;
       $430,000 to the City of Tucson, Arizona for clean-up and 
     development of brownfield;
       $344,000 to Carmel, New York to create a downtown park and 
     commercial area;
       $1,240,000 to Spring Hill College in Alabama for the 
     Regional Library Resource Center;
       $25,600 to the City of Thibodaux, Louisiana for 
     infrastructure improvements to the Civic Center;
       $430,000 to Tuscaloosa, Alabama for the Alberta City 
     housing initiative;
       $444,000 to Knoxville, Tennessee for equipment needs of the 
     Halls-Powell Boys and Girls Club of Greater Knoxville;
       $200,000 to the Virginia Department of Transportation for 
     engineering design and construction of a debris diverter on 
     the Tripps Run in Falls Church, Virginia;
       $64,500 to the Twentynine Palms Fire Department in 
     Twentynine Palms, California for fire suppression equipment;
       $250,000 to the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks 
     in Tupper Lake, New York for the construction of the Natural 
     History Museum of the Adirondacks;
       $430,000 to Redding, California for Stillwater Industrial 
     Park within the Shasta Metro Enterprise Zone ``Distressed 
     Community'';
       $430,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of Tucson, Arizona for 
     new construction;
       $430,000 to the Coach George E. Ford Cultural Arts Center 
     in Georgia for building renovation;
       $430,000 to the St. Francis Community Center in New Jersey 
     for construction of indoor community pool;
       $430,000 for the New York Institute of Technology Robbins 
     Hall for renovation of the auditorium;
       $215,000 to the City of Syracuse, New York for 
     infrastructure improvements to the Erie Canal Museum;
       $430,000 to Kern County, California for infrastructure work 
     in support of the new air terminal to Meadows Field;
       $215,000 to the City of Medford, Oregon for the City of 
     Medford Urban Revitalization Project;
       $415,000 to Temecula, California for the Alternatives to 
     Domestic Violence Shelter;
       $21,500 to the City of Redlands, California for restoration 
     projects at the historic Kimberly Crest House and Gardens;
       $344,000 to the State University of New York at Albany for 
     continued development of a manufacturing/workforce training 
     center;
       $645,000 to the Cities of El Segundo, Manhattan Beach and 
     Hawthorne, California to ease traffic congestion along the 
     Rosecrans corridor;
       $645,000 to Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City for 
     facility construction;
       $430,000 to Rochelle, Illinois for economic development and 
     infrastructure improvements;
       $172,000 to the ArtSpace Victory Center in Texas for the 
     revitalization of the Our Lady of Victory Convent;
       $98,900 to the Whitman County Rural Fire District No. 11 in 
     Colfax, Washington for construction and repair of the Colfax 
     Fire Station;
       $215,000 to NewTown, Inc., Macon, Georgia for 
     revitalization of downtown area;
       $86,000 to the Economic Opportunity Authority of Chatham 
     County, Georgia for the Austin House shelter for homeless;
       $645,000 to the City of Leesburg, Virginia for preservation 
     and infrastructure improvements for the George C. Marshall 
     International Center at the Dodona Manor;
       $1,118,000 to the United Cerebral Palsy of Suffolk County, 
     New York for the Sports and Recreation Center and Education 
     complex;
       $1,000,000 to the Future of the Piedmont Foundation in 
     Danville, Virginia for development of a regional higher 
     education center;
       $236,500 to Arkadelphia, Arkansas for the Streetscape 
     project;
       $21,500 to the Donald L. Heiter Community Center in 
     Pennsylvania for renovation project;
       $129,000 to Bruce, Mississippi for a multi-purpose facility 
     for economic development purposes;
       $208,000 to Ashland, Alabama to complete renovations of the 
     Clay County Courthouse;
       $215,000 to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in 
     Ohio for renovation of the Medical Sciences Building;
       $215,000 to Pike County, Pennsylvania for construction of 
     an industrial facility to employ disabled individuals;
       $430,000 to the Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts in 
     Maryland for creation of children's art center;
       $344,000 to the San Diego Youth and Community Services in 
     California for the Storefront emergency shelter relocation of 
     facilities ($172,000) and for the Take Wing transitional 
     housing program for at-risk youth and families ($172,000);
       $430,000 to restore and rehabilitate Mile Square Park in 
     California;
       $250,000 to Lysander, Van Buren, and Eldridge, New York for 
     a water line extension for Jack's Reef;
       $430,000 to Cheyenne, Wyoming for economic development and 
     infrastructure improvements to the airport;
       $129,000 to Miami-Dade County, Florida for the City of 
     Miami Beach North Beach Recreational Corridor;
       $215,000 to Stamford, Connecticut to acquire property for 
     the Mill River Corridor Revitalization Project;
       $150,000 to the City of Johnstown, New York for 
     rehabilitation and redevelopment work at the former Karg 
     Brothers Tannery;
       $1,220,000 to St. Petersburg, Florida for the Sunken 
     Gardens improvement project;
       $860,000 to Citrus Heights, California for Phase II of the 
     Sunrise MarketPlace Revitalization project;
       $215,000 to El Monte, California for renovation of 
     recreational facility by replacing swimming pools, 
     modernizing parking areas, developing youth center;
       $430,000 to Fairview Health Services in Minnesota for the 
     Fairview-University Medical Center for Healthy Mothers and 
     Babies Technology Demonstration Initiative;
       $86,000 to the City of New Iberia, Louisiana for economic 
     development and revitalization of the downtown area;
       $215,000 to the Titusville YMCA in Pennsylvania for the 
     purchase of a new structure and preliminary renovation;
       $86,000 to St. Charles Parish, Louisiana for the 
     development of a bike path and enhancement of recreation 
     opportunities;
       $430,000 to the Terre Haute/Vigo County Department of 
     Redevelopment in Indiana pursuant to a memorandum of 
     understanding between the General Services Administration and 
     the United States Postal Service;
       $130,000 to El Rio, California for extension of water and 
     wastewater infrastructure to the community center gymnasium;
       $430,000 to Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama for 
     renovation and expansion of the Natural Sciences facility, 
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       $200,000 to TeenPride Inc. in Morristown, New Jersey to 
     expand outreach to low-income, at-risk teenagers and their 
     families;
       $258,000 to Mercer County, New Jersey for the Senior 
     Citizen Centers of Hamilton Township and the City of Trenton;
       $86,000 to the Upper Bucks County community of Quakertown, 
     Pennsylvania for revitalization of former brownfield site;
       $300,000 to Santa Paula, California purchase of new fire 
     engine and equipment for the Fire Department;
       $100,000 to the City of Rochester, New Hampshire for 
     emergency housing;
       $86,000 to Original Town of Liberal Revitalization, Inc. in 
     Kansas for economic development activities;
       $430,000 to Coachella, California for construction of Boys 
     and Girls Club facility;
       $400,000 to St. Joseph's Hospital Health Care Center for 
     the Central New York Cardiac Care and Hemodialysis 
     Enhancement Center in Syracuse, New York;
       $75,000 to Paul Smith's College in Paul Smiths, New York 
     for the construction of the Adirondack Information Resource 
     Center;
       $860,000 to Rockland County, New York for extension of 
     water and wastewater infrastructure of the Western Ramapo 
     Sewer District;
       $450,000 to Xenia, Ohio for renovation of fire station No. 
     1;
       $860,000 to the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children 
     in Indiana to expand services at the autism clinic;
       $215,000 to the County of San Bernardino, California for a 
     public park complex to meet the recreational needs of the 
     Spring Valley Lake community in Victorville;
       $430,000 to Laural, Mississippi for the Veterans Memorial 
     Museum;
       $1,500,000 for development of the Interactive Education 
     Center at the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum in New York;
       $415,000 to Oceanside, California for the Calle Montecito 
     Neighborhood Center;
       $100,000 to complete the Chattahoochee Indian Heritage 
     Center at Fort Mitchell County Park, Alabama;
       $17,200 to the City of Grand Isle, Louisiana for emergency 
     service needs;
       $395,000 to the City of Ellicottville, New York for use 
     toward the repair and/or replacement of the City's waste 
     water treatment plant;
       $172,000 to Shea's Performing Arts Center in the City of 
     Buffalo, New York for renovations to the main theater;
       $430,000 to Bradford, Pennsylvania for the restoration of 
     Bradford City Hall;
       $495,000 for the Green County ``Spec Building'' in Kentucky 
     for preparation and construction of an industrial site;
       $430,000 to Oklahoma State University to continue and 
     expand rural economic development;
       $430,000 to the University of Missouri-Columbia for the 
     Agriculture Product Utilization and Incubation Center;
       $430,000 to Rural Enterprises Inc. of Oklahoma to continue 
     and expand rural economic development;
       $114,000 to Fairfax County, Virginia for the Computer 
     Clubhouse Project at the Bailey's Community Center;
       $430,000 to Yakima, Washington for railroad grade 
     separations;
       $215,000 to Bristol, Pennsylvania for construction of a 
     gateway and beautification;
       $172,000 to Stepping-Stones for Youth in Hutchinson, 
     Kansas;
       $35,000 to the St. Lawrence Aquarium and Ecological Center 
     in Massena, New York for continued development and 
     construction of the St. Lawrence Aquarium;
       $245,100 to Holly Springs, Mississippi for North Memphis 
     Street District Redevelopment and Revitalization Program;
       $430,000 to the Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Georgia 
     for development plan and expansion;
       $500,000 to Somerset County, New Jersey for the Eldercare 
     Center in Bridgewater Township;
       $930,000 to the City of Cincinnati, Ohio for the expansion 
     of Findlay Market;
       $50,000 to the City of Ogdensburg, New York for 
     reconstruction of Fort La Presentation;
       $86,000 to Nike Base in the Town of Hamburg, New York for 
     removal of storage tank;
       $387,000 to Lake Worth Palm Beach County, Florida for the 
     Mid-County Senior Center;
       $25,000 to Safe Haven, Inc. in Oswego, New York for 
     construction of a museum/interpretive center chronicling the 
     Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee;
       $215,000 to Memorial Temple Community Center in the city of 
     Buffalo, New York for equipment for the inner-city community 
     center;
       $43,000 to Onondaga County, New York for restoration and 
     preservation of Civil War flags;
       $172,000 for the Huntington Station Enrichment Center in 
     New York for renovation and conversion to a community center;
       $215,000 to Fairfield University in Connecticut for 
     establishment of Information Technology Center;
       $215,000 to the City of Syracuse, New York for renovations 
     to the Salt City Theatre for the Performing Arts;
       $400,000 to Marshall County, Alabama for drinking water 
     infrastructure improvements on Merrill Mountain;
       $430,000 to the City of Syracuse, New York for monument 
     repair and infrastructure improvements for Clinton Square;
       $75,000 to Fulton-Montgomery Community College in 
     Johnstown, New York for construction of a remote sensing/
     spatial information technology center;
       $200,000 to the James Lee Community Center in Virginia;
       $258,000 to Fort Worth, Texas for renovation of the 
     historic Marine Theater;
       $268,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of McGehee, Arkansas;
       $430,000 to the Community House in Hinsdale, Illinois for 
     renovation, upgrades and restoration to meet ADA compliance 
     codes and local fire codes;
       $430,000 to South Sioux City, Nebraska for downtown 
     redevelopment for civic building site;
       $430,000 to Sacramento County, California for 
     rehabilitation and preservation of historic structures and 
     physical improvements for the town of Locke;
       $430,000 to Chester, Pennsylvania for the Institute for 
     Economic Development for planning funds for high-tech 
     building;
       $860,000 to the City of Pikeville, Kentucky for an 
     integrated transit/parking facility;
       $250,000 to Elmira College in New York for the historic 
     renovation of Cowles Hall;
       $172,000 to the Millennium Port Commission for planning and 
     development of the Millennium Port in south Louisiana;
       $75,000 to Fayette County, Alabama for emergency services 
     equipment;
       $172,000 to Morgantown, Kentucky to construct recreation 
     center;
       $215,000 to Rockdale County, Georgia for Georgia's 
     Veteran's Park for future veteran memorials and events;
       $172,000 to the County of Inyo, California for facility and 
     infrastructure improvements at the Bishop Airport to 
     facilitate economic development and recreational access;
       $430,000 to the New Britain Museum of American Art in 
     Connecticut for expansion of facilities;
       $860,000 to Arizona State University for the establishment 
     of the Center for Basic Research and Applied Research within 
     the Barry M. Goldwater Center for Science and Engineering;
       $500,000 to Cortland County, New York for infrastructure 
     and expanded operational improvements for Borg-Warner 
     Automotive, Inc.;
       $215,000 to the Town of Aurora, New York for renovation of 
     the Aurora Senior's and Adult Day Care facility;
       $860,000 to Winston-Salem, North Carolina for Downtown 
     revitalization;
       $258,000 to Albemarle, North Carolina for the Gateway to 
     Albemarle project;
       $400,000 to the City of Syracuse, New York for equipment 
     and infrastructure improvements for the Institute of Human 
     Performance;
       $215,000 to Jacksonville, Florida for redevelopment of 
     Cecil Field;
       $43,000 to the City of Dumas, Arkansas for the Tannenbaum 
     Theatre renovations;
       $344,000 to Broward County, Florida for the Museum of 
     Discovery and Science;
       $430,000 to Muncie, Indiana for downtown economic 
     development project;
       $258,000 to the Fund for the Preservation of the California 
     State Mining and Mineral Museum;
       $215,000 to Jackson, Michigan for the downtown 
     redevelopment project;
       $215,000 for Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, New 
     York for infrastructure improvements along Westside Drive;
       $86,000 to the Hamlet Opera House in North Carolina for 
     development of a performing arts center;
       $430,000 to the Hebrew Academy for Special Children in New 
     York to construct a national service center for low-income 
     and developmentally disabled;
       $200,000 to the Village of Malone, New York for 
     rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Hotel Flanagan 
     Project;
       $98,900 for the Inland Northwest Blood Center in Washington 
     for construction and improvements of the blood center;
       $56,000 to Fairfax County, Virginia for the Herndon Senior 
     Center;
       $77,400 to the City of Imperial Beach, California for lands 
     purchased by the city for the Tijuana Wildlife Refuge;
       $430,000 to Boyle County, Kentucky for Phase III of 
     Millennium Park;
       $129,000 to SocialServe.com in North Carolina for a 
     demonstration grant to increase access to low-income and 
     special needs housing;
       $215,000 to Miami Beach, Florida for the Atlantic Greenway 
     Corridor Initiative--North Beach Recreational Corridor;
       $215,000 to the Economic Corporation of Newport, New 
     Hampshire for rehabilitation of Eagle Block;
       $86,000 to Vista Optimist Club, California for the Youth 
     Activities Facility to build lighted ballfields;
       $750,000 to William Tyndale College in Farmington Hills, 
     Michigan for the construction of a science and computing 
     learning center;
       $688,000 to Baton Rouge, Louisiana for expansion of the 
     South Louisiana Community Health Alliance;
       $215,000 for renovation and rehabilitation of North Central 
     Flint Hills Area Agency on Aging, Manhattan, Kansas;

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       $800,000 to the Tawawa Community Development Corporation in 
     Wilberforce, Ohio;
       $215,000 to Shake-A-Leg Miami, Inc. in Florida for 
     recreation facilities serving people with disabilities and 
     at-risk youth;
       $73,100 to Bellevue, Washington for Eastside Domestic 
     Violence;
       $172,000 to Grand Junction, Colorado for planning 
     assistance for the Grand Valley Audubon Nature Center;
       $430,000 to Lees-McRae College in North Carolina for a 
     field laboratory to support the College's Biology departments 
     and community outreach;
       $860,000 to Pasadena, California for construction of a new 
     fire station;
       $205,000 to the Children's Center in Brooklyn, New York for 
     the construction of a facility to house educational and 
     therapeutic programs for disabled preschool children;
       $270,000 to the County of San Bernardino, California for 
     the construction of the Hall of Paleontology at the historic 
     San Bernardino County Museum;
       $250,000 to the Shiloh Community Renewal Center in Kentucky 
     for rehabilitation of facilities;
       $90,000 to the Fairfax County Parks Authority in Virginia 
     for the Mason District Park;
       $170,000 to the Pittsfield Library in New Hampshire for 
     renovations necessary to meet ADA compliance;
       $1,935,000 to Syracuse University in New York for 
     completion of the Crouse-Marshall Street Improvement Project;
       $50,000 to the Nelson County Senior Citizen Center in 
     Virginia for renovation and expansion of the facility near 
     Lovingston, Virginia;
       $1,200,000 to the City of Syracuse, New York for the 
     building of a temporary transmission tower during the 
     transition of the public TV station from analog to digital 
     television;
       $430,000 for Madison County, New York for economic 
     development and infrastructure improvements;
       $430,000 to California State University and the City of 
     Omaha, California for the Omaha Housing Initiative;
       $430,000 to Shreveport, Louisiana for Convention Center 
     Downtown Redevelopment and construction of infrastructure 
     surrounding convention center;
       $258,000 to the Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum in 
     Michigan for the ``Legacy of Flight'' project;
       $215,000 to the Boys Town National Research Hospital in 
     Nebraska for establishing the National Center for the Study 
     and Treatment of Usher Syndrome;
       $43,000 for the Central Bucks, Pennsylvania Joint Municipal 
     Planning Issues study;
       $820,000 for Griffiss Business and Technology Park in 
     Oneida County, New York for economic development and 
     infrastructure improvements;
       $860,000 to Midwest City, Oklahoma for construction of 
     small conference center;
       $645,000 to the University of Southern California to help 
     create the Alfred E. Mann Institute and Biomedical 
     Engineering Center;
       $215,000 to Lebanon College in New Hampshire for a 
     community center;
       $430,000 to Monrovia, California for the renovation and 
     upgrade of existing city facility into teen center;
       $645,000 for the Cornell Agriculture and Technical Park-
     Geneva Station in Ontario County, New York;
       $800,000 to the Washington Association in Harding Township, 
     New Jersey;
       $258,000 for the Troy Rent-to-Own Housing Pilot project in 
     North Carolina;
       $344,000 to the University Colleges of Technology at the 
     State University of New York for the continued development of 
     a Telecommunications Center for Education;
       $309,000 to the New York Public Library for renovations and 
     infrastructure improvements;
       $500,000 to MBI International in Michigan for economic 
     development activities that provide infrastructure to 
     accelerate the development of biobased industrial product 
     technologies;
       $98,900 to the Oaksdale/Farmington Fire District No. 10 in 
     Whitman County, Washington for the repair and construction of 
     facilities;
       $215,000 to the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, 
     Georgia for the construction of the Tubman African American 
     Museum;
       $98,900 to the Coalition for Women on the Street in 
     Spokane, Washington for the development of the Downtown 
     Women's Shelter;
       $20,000 to Culman, Alabama for a study to plan and design 
     the Agriplex Agriculture Museum;
       $172,000 to 1490 Enterprises Inc., City of Buffalo, New 
     York for a Community Action Organization (CAO) Head Start 
     Expansion;
       $100,000 to the City of Bedford, Virginia for economic 
     development and tourism in connection with the World War II 
     D-Day Memorial;
       $645,000 to Warren County, Virginia for asbestos 
     remediation and lead paint removal at the Avtex Superfund 
     site;
       $430,000 to the Next Generation Economy Initiative in 
     Albuquerque, New Mexico to enter into ``matching funds'' 
     technology maturation partnerships with local companies using 
     the expertise from the University of New Mexico and Sandia 
     National Laboratories;
       $125,000 to Escambia County in Florida for development 
     costs for infrastructure of Central Commerce Park;
       $600,000 to the City of Portland, Oregon for the Portland-
     Vancouver Regional Housing Affordability Pilot Program;
       $750,000 to Northeast Ventures Corporation in Duluth, 
     Minnesota to provide equity capital support for community 
     development venture capital and microenterprise in Northeast 
     Minnesota;
       $350,000 to the City of Indianapolis, Indiana for 
     infrastructure needs in the King Park homeownership zone;
       $700,000 to the City of Takoma, Washington for the Downtown 
     Revitalization and Shelter Improvements Program;
       $15,000 to Renew Oakville in the town of Oakville, Missouri 
     for a community enhancement program;
       $200,000 to the City of Burlington, Vermont for a 
     homeownership program designed to assist low and moderate 
     income first time homebuyers in purchasing duplex housing, 
     including down payment assistance;
       $250,000 to the Township of Plainsboro, New Jersey for 
     construction of a nature center at the Plainsboro Preserve;
       $150,000 to Marin City, California for a Marin City 
     Cultural and Community Center facility;
       $350,000 to the Jefferson County, Missouri Parks & 
     Recreation Department for improvements to existing county-
     owned parks;
       $1,000,000 to the City of Johnstown, Pennsylvania for 
     construction of an intermodal parking garage;
       $1,000,000 to the Self-Help Ventures Fund in Durham, North 
     Carolina to establish a revolving loan fund;
       $150,000 to the Memphis Zoo in Memphis, Tennessee for the 
     Northwest Passage Campaign;
       $50,000 to the Historical Centre Foundation in San Antonio, 
     Texas for construction of a community center and startup of a 
     program for community outreach near the San Fernando 
     Cathedral;
       $175,000 to St. Ignace, Michigan for construction of a 
     public library;
       $200,000 to the Flint, Michigan Chamber of Commerce for 
     economic development efforts;
       $100,000 to the Wholistic Family Agape Ministries 
     Industries in Arlington, Virginia for an HIV/AIDS/Substance 
     Abuse program;
       $125,000 to the Word of God Parish and School, St. Anselm 
     site, in Swissvale, Pennsylvania for infrastructure 
     rehabilitation projects;
       $200,000 to the Sacramento, California Housing and 
     Redevelopment Agency for the Smart Workplace Demonstration 
     Center;
       $100,000 to the City of Berwyn, Illinois for the expansion 
     and renovation of Public Safety and Fire facilities;
       $250,000 to the Baltimore, Maryland Symphony Orchestra for 
     construction of a concert hall and youth music education 
     center in Rockville, Maryland;
       $100,000 to Essex County, Massachusetts for cyberdistrict 
     economic development initiatives;
       $250,000 to the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the 
     rehabilitation and revitalization of the Garfield 
     neighborhood;
       $200,000 to the Governing Board of Tower Grove Park in St. 
     Louis, Missouri for an ongoing renovation project;
       $350,000 to the Town of Wilson, New York for repair and 
     expansion of the pier at Wilson Harbor;
       $300,000 to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, 
     Illinois for infrastructure needs related to the development 
     of a University Research Park;
       $1,000,000 to Ford City Borough, Armstrong County, 
     Pennsylvania for development of the Ford City Heritage and 
     Technology Park;
       $310,000 to the West Virginia Humanities Council: $210,000 
     to support production of ``The Appalachians,'' a film 
     documentary, and $100,000 for Council programs;
       $500,000 to the Fairmont Community Development Partnership 
     for downtown revitalization, and relocation of a homeless 
     nutrition service program;
       $400,000 to the City of Gainesville, Florida for the East 
     Side Community Recreation Center, Cone Park;
       $250,000 to Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts for 
     construction of the National Center for Science Education;
       $50,000 to the Great Lakes Consortium for an International 
     Training and Development program in Toledo, Ohio;
       $100,000 to the Village of Chicago Ridge, Illinois for 
     construction of a Municipal Complex;
       $450,000 to the Potomac Heritage Partnership for the 
     Potomac River Heritage Trail Project to improve access to 
     parks;
       $100,000 to the Washington County Economic Development 
     Council in Washington County, Florida for economic 
     development efforts;
       $50,000 to the Institute for Economic Development for 
     development of University Technology Park in Chester, 
     Pennsylvania;
       $1,000,000 to Northeastern University in Boston, 
     Massachusetts for a pilot program on the health problems of 
     urban communities;
       $150,000 to Elkhart County, Indiana for natural gas and 
     electric service to the Harrison Ridge subdivision project;
       $100,000 to the New Kensington Redevelopment Authority in 
     New Kensington, Pennsylvania for asbestos removal and 
     demolition of the Ridge Avenue High School building;

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       $450,000 to the City of Durham, North Carolina for 
     community development, employment training, and youth 
     development efforts;
       $300,000 to the City of Monticello, Florida for conversion 
     of a school building to a multi-purpose community center;
       $270,000 to the Somerset County Commission in Somerset 
     County, Pennsylvania for facilities improvements at Windber 
     Recreational Park;
       $450,000 to Family Connections in Weirton, West Virginia 
     for facility needs related to the provision of services to 
     at-risk juvenile females;
       $25,000 to the City of Jacksonville, Florida for 
     development of a distinctive business district;
       $200,000 to the Abilene, Texas Regional Airport for hangar 
     renovation related to the Southwest Regional Fly-In;
       $400,000 to the City of Salinas, California for the 
     construction of a municipal pool;
       $50,000 to the City of Thousand Oaks, California for 
     planning and construction of a child care center;
       $100,000 to the New York City, New York Department of Parks 
     and Recreation for clean-up of the College Point Sports 
     Complex in Queens;
       $100,000 to the Brooke-Hancock County Veterans Memorial, 
     Inc. in West Virginia for a community park improvement 
     project, military history museum and memorial;
       $100,000 to Covenant House Washington in Washington, D.C. 
     for the construction of a Community Service Center;
       $900,000 to the City of Wausau, Wisconsin for a supportive 
     living facility to serve low income elderly residents;
       $150,000 to the City of Tonawanda, New York for public 
     works infrastructure and housing rehabilitation grants;
       $200,000 to the St. Louis County, Missouri Parks & 
     Recreation Department for renovation of the structures at Bee 
     Tree Park;
       $1,100,000 to Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center 
     in Chicago, Illinois for the Center for Research on Aging;
       $80,000 to the Borough of Latrobe, Pennsylvania for the 
     Latrobe Veterans Plaza;
       $200,000 to SW Resources, Inc. in Parkersburg, West 
     Virginia for facilities expansion for the creation of 
     additional job opportunities for people with disabilities;
       $50,000 to the Cambria Historical Society in Cambria, 
     California for the preservation of the Bianchini House;
       $400,000 to the City of Dayton, Ohio for land acquisition 
     for the Tool Town precision metal working park;
       $80,000 to the St. Louis County, Missouri Parks & 
     Recreation Department for the renovation of recreation 
     facilities within Black Forest Park;
       $150,000 to the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency for 
     mortgage assistance in Chatham County;
       $225,000 to the Alabama State University for facility needs 
     related to the Environmental Microbiology program;
       $100,000 to Lorain County Community College in Ohio for the 
     establishment of the Learning Technology Center;
       $100,000 to Salem International University in West Virginia 
     for equipment, information technology and infrastructure 
     needs;
       $50,000 to Portland State University in Portland, Oregon 
     for development of the Northwest Center for Engineering, 
     Science, and Technology;
       $400,000 to the UDI Community Development Corporation in 
     Durham, North Carolina for economic development efforts;
       $250,000 to the New York City, New York Department of Parks 
     and Recreation for costs relating to construction of a 
     Recreation Center in Chelsea;
       $250,000 to the Upper Kanawha Valley Economic Development 
     Corporation in Montgomery, West Virginia for the development 
     of a technology community park;
       $25,000 to CHANGE, Inc. Community Action Agency in Weirton, 
     West Virginia for equipment needs for after-school programs 
     for under-served youth;
       $175,000 to the National Council of La Raza to provide 
     technical and financial assistance to community development 
     efforts through its Hope Fund;
       $200,000 to the Southside Boys and Girls Club in St. Cloud, 
     Minnesota for planning and construction of a community 
     center;
       $100,000 to the Fresno Community Medical Center in Fresno, 
     California for development of a regional trauma and burn 
     center;
       $175,000 to the City of Houston, Texas for a homeownership 
     program, involving down payment subsidy assistance for sewer/
     water hook-up;
       $150,000 to the Multicultural Educational Counseling 
     Through the Arts (MECA) program in Houston, Texas for 
     operational and facilities needs;
       $75,000 to the Lafayette, Louisiana Chamber of Commerce for 
     the Zydetech Initiative;
       $100,000 to the Village of Tuckahoe, New York for 
     streetscape improvements;
       $50,000 to the Cambridge, Massachusetts Redevelopment 
     Authority for recreation development efforts;
       $1,250,000 to the City of Mt. Clemens, Michigan for the 
     establishment of a community recreation center;
       $250,000 to the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative in Los 
     Angeles, California for economic development efforts in the 
     Fairfax Avenue Ethiopian Business District;
       $250,000 to the City of Brownsville, Texas for 
     reconstruction of downtown streets as part of city center 
     redevelopment efforts;
       $200,000 to the Village of Matteson, Illinois for 
     renovation and expansion of a community center;
       $500,000 to Southern West Virginia Community and Technical 
     College in Logan, West Virginia for a cooperative economic 
     development effort with the Appalachian Transportation 
     Institute at Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia;
       $250,000 to Culver City, California for the construction of 
     the Culver City Senior Center;
       $200,000 to the Safer Foundation in Chicago, Illinois for a 
     workforce development program to provide ex-offenders with 
     education and job training;
       $125,000 to the Franklin County Community Development 
     Corporation in Greenfield, Massachusetts for construction of 
     a food processing center;
       $200,000 to the Township of Stickney, Illinois for 
     renovations related to a multipurpose municipal center;
       $150,000 to Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana for 
     facilities renovation and educational outreach at the AMISTAD 
     Research Center;
       $250,000 to Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York to 
     study the feasibility of establishing a wellness center as a 
     collaborative effort with Brooklyn Hospital;
       $200,000 to the Sacramento, California Boys and Girls Club 
     for the construction of a facility on Lemon Hill Avenue;
       $200,000 to Calhoun Community College in Decatur, Alabama 
     for the Aerospace and Advanced Technology Park;
       $300,000 to the Township of North Bergen, New Jersey for 
     the establishment of Technology Literacy Learning Centers;
       $250,000 to Casa Puerto Rico in New York City, New York: 
     $150,000 for a feasibility study and seed money for the 
     restoration of a theater located in the Villa Alejandrina 
     Apartments in South Bronx, New York, and $100,000 for a 
     feasibility study and startup costs for the conversion of the 
     Bronx Borough Courthouse into a Puerto Rican Historical, 
     Cultural and Activities Center;
       $800,000 to the Wausau Performing Arts Foundation, Inc. in 
     Wausau, Wisconsin for the ArtsBlock project;
       $150,000 to the City of Baytown, Texas for construction of 
     an Emergency Operations Center;
       $75,000 to Northern Kentucky University in Highland 
     Heights, Kentucky for the Urban Learning Center;
       $400,000 to Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia for the 
     historic preservation of Packard Hall;
       $400,000 to Milwaukee County, Wisconsin for renovations to 
     the Milwaukee County War Memorial;
       $50,000 to the City of Norwalk, California for renovations 
     at the Norwalk Aquatic Center;
       $100,000 to the Tampa Port Authority in Tampa, Florida for 
     infrastructure improvements related to the Channelside 
     economic development project;
       $200,000 to the L.I.F.T. Women's Resource Center in 
     Detroit, Michigan for expansion of the Positive Change 
     Project;
       $50,000 to the 21st Century Council Adult Career Center in 
     Scottsboro, Alabama for computer system improvements, 
     acquisition of office equipment, and instructional materials;
       $50,000 to the Tri-Valley Business Council in Livermore, 
     California for a business incubator initiative known as Tri-
     Valley Technology Enterprise Center;
       $400,000 to the City of New Haven, Connecticut for the 
     restoration and rehabilitation of the West River Memorial 
     Park;
       $25,000 to the Township of Branchburg, New Jersey for the 
     construction of a war veterans memorial;
       $400,000 to Ohio University in Athens, Ohio for the 
     Innovation Center, a technology business incubator;
       $250,000 to the Wawashkamo Restoration and Preservation 
     Fund in Mackinac Island, Michigan for initiatives related to 
     the Mackinac Island Battlefield;
       $100,000 to the City of Dallas, Texas for an affordable 
     housing program operated by the T.R. Hoover Community 
     Development Corporation;
       $100,000 to the New London Development Corporation in New 
     London, Connecticut for renovation related to affordable 
     housing;
       $100,000 to Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation of Kansas 
     City, Kansas for development of low income housing;
       $50,000 to the New York City, New York Department of Parks 
     and Recreation for phase three of the rebuilding and 
     restoration of Joyce Kilmer Park in South Bronx, New York;
       $550,000 to the Springfield Library and Museum Association 
     in Springfield, Massachusetts for construction and 
     infrastructure improvements related to a national memorial 
     and park honoring Theodor Geisel;
       $225,000 to the City of Ferndale, Michigan for 
     refurbishment of Washington Elementary School for use as a 
     community center;
       $100,000 to the City of Mollalla, Oregon for the conversion 
     of a gymnasium into a public

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     library, community and technology training center;
       $300,000 to the City of Albany, New York for waterfront 
     improvements;
       $250,000 to the Berkeley County Commission in Martinsburg, 
     West Virginia for the Historic Baltimore and Ohio Roundhouse 
     Renovation Project;
       $100,000 to the Cape Cod, Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce 
     for the Cape Cod High Technology Center technology incubator 
     initiative;
       $100,000 to Consolidated Fruit Packers, Inc. in New Paltz, 
     New York for a job retention program;
       $1,000,000 to the National Children's Advocacy Center in 
     Huntsville, Alabama for the establishment of a research and 
     training facility;
       $350,000 to the Richland County Neighborhood Technology 
     Center in Richland County, South Carolina for facilities and 
     equipment needs;
       $500,000 to the Center for Economic Development at the 
     University of San Francisco in San Francisco, California for 
     economic development efforts;
       $400,000 to the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans in 
     Washington, DC for the provision of technical assistance to 
     local organizations;
       $150,000 to the Saugerties Historical Society in 
     Saugerties, New York for historic preservation of the 
     Kiersted House;
       $200,000 to the Village of Glenwood, Illinois for 
     renovations to the Glenwood Senior Center;
       $150,000 to the Point Community Development Corporation in 
     New York City, New York for the purchase and/or renovation as 
     a boathouse of an abandoned factory at the corner of 
     Lafayette Avenue and Edgewater Road in South Bronx, New York;
       $500,000 to the City of Falls Church, Virginia to refinance 
     the Winter Hill Apartments, low-income housing complex;
       $100,000 to Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, New York 
     for the establishment of a community service center;
       $1,050,000 to Lucas County, Ohio for the acquisition and 
     improvement of Quarry Farms Park;
       $250,000 to Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, 
     California for the Madison Site Theater Center;
       $200,000 to the Lewiston Auburn Economic Growth Council in 
     Lewiston, Maine for administering loans to stimulate economic 
     growth;
       $50,000 to the Borough of Peapack, New Jersey for facility 
     improvements to the Township Hall;
       $225,000 to the City of Los Angeles, California for 
     construction of the Ernest E. Debs Nature Center;
       $450,000 to the American Indian Business Development 
     Corporation for construction of a multi-purpose facility to 
     support business development in south Minneapolis, Minnesota;
       $325,000 to the Berkshire South Regional Community Center 
     in Great Barrington, Massachusetts for planning and 
     construction;
       $165,000 to the Millvale Borough Development Corporation in 
     Millvale, Pennsylvania for the implementation of the Millvale 
     Gateway and Riverfront Plan;
       $200,000 to Nanticoke, Pennsylvania for downtown 
     revitalization and infrastructure improvements;
       $1,000,000 to the George Meany Center for Labor Studies in 
     Silver Spring, Maryland for facility needs;
       $500,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of Nogales, Arizona for 
     expenses related to the construction of a facility;
       $250,000 to the City of Buffalo, New York for refurbishing 
     of the exterior of St. Louis Church, including facade work;
       $80,000 to the Eureka Volunteer Fire Department in 
     Tarentum, Pennsylvania for asbestos removal and demolition of 
     the Tarentum Municipal Building;
       $150,000 to the Tioga County Rural Economic Area 
     Partnership in Owego, New York for economic development 
     efforts;
       $100,000 to the Village of Hempstead, New York for 
     infrastructure improvements to Kennedy Park;
       $465,000 to the Prospect Park Alliance in New York City, 
     New York for interior exhibits and furnishing for Prospect 
     Park Audubon Center at the Boathouse;
       $200,000 to the Ukrainian Museum Archives in Cleveland, 
     Ohio for facilities improvements;
       $25,000 to the Orlando Community Redevelopment Agency in 
     Orlando, Florida for redevelopment of Otey Place;
       $125,000 to the Academy Family Foundation in Fairmont, West 
     Virginia for facility and programmatic needs;
       $100,000 to the Little Tokyo Service Community Center in 
     Los Angeles, California for the development of a job training 
     program;
       $200,000 to Broward County, Florida for the Broward County 
     African-American Community and Cultural Center;
       $50,000 to the County of San Diego, California for planning 
     related to the development of a business park in East Otay 
     Mesa;
       $150,000 to the Indiana County Community Action Program in 
     Indiana County, Pennsylvania for equipment, facilities and 
     activities needs;
       $200,000 to the City of East Palo Alto, California for the 
     redevelopment of the Ravenswood Industrial Area;
       $300,000 to the City of Huntington, New York for a sewage 
     treatment facility;
       $100,000 to the Town of Beacon Falls, Connecticut for the 
     purchase of Pinesbridge Industrial Park;
       $100,000 to the City of Worcester, Massachusetts for the 
     Gardner-Kilby-Hammond Street neighborhood revitalization 
     project;
       $100,000 to the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York City, 
     New York for infrastructure improvements, construction, 
     renovation, operation and facility upgrades;
       $50,000 to the Eugene A. Obregon CMH Memorial Foundation 
     for the creation of a memorial to honor Latinos who have 
     served in the Armed Services;
       $50,000 to the City of Garden Grove, California for 
     planning and construction of the West Haven Park Community 
     Center;
       $250,000 to the City of Abilene, Texas for renovation of 
     the historic Wooten Hotel;
       $100,000 to the City of San Leandro, California for 
     landslide mitigation efforts;
       $200,000 to the City of Saint Marys, West Virginia for 
     downtown revitalization, and vehicle and equipment needs to 
     support the Senior Service Advisory Council's senior 
     nutrition program;
       $75,000 to the City of Hartford, Connecticut for the Temple 
     Street redevelopment project;
       $250,000 to the Brotherhood Crusade Business Development 
     and Capital Fund in Los Angeles, California for facility 
     infrastructure needs and/or technical assistance and loans to 
     small businesses;
       $200,000 to West Virginia University at Parkersburg for 
     equipment needs related to the Caperton Center;
       $500,000 to the International Glass Museum in Takoma, 
     Washington for capital costs associated with a new facility;
       $400,000 to the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New 
     Jersey for facility expansion;
       $225,000 to the South Sumter Resource Center in Sumter 
     County, South Carolina for facilities renovation and 
     equipment;
       $40,000 to the Schuylkill County Fire Fighters Association 
     in Morea, Pennsylvania for facilities improvements;
       $100,000 to West Liberty State College in West Liberty, 
     West Virginia for planning and development related to the 
     SMART Center;
       $200,000 to Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama for the 
     establishment of a Wellness Center;
       $200,000 to the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center in Milwaukee, 
     Wisconsin for facilities construction;
       $200,000 to the Filipino Community Center in Seattle, 
     Washington for costs related to facilities relocation;
       $250,000 to Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota for 
     rehabilitation of Sverdrup Hall;
       $50,000 to the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands for 
     fire fighting efforts in territorial waters;
       $1,000,000 to the Salvatore Mancini Center on Aging in 
     North Providence, Rhode Island for facilities needs;
       $400,000 to Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County, 
     Pennsylvania for economic development studies and activities;
       $200,000 to the St. Louis County, Missouri Parks & 
     Recreation Department for renovations and improvements to 
     Jefferson Barracks Park;
       $750,000 to John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio to 
     support the Center for Mathematics and Science Education;
       $50,000 to the Town of Pelham, New York for renovations to 
     Memorial Park;
       $75,000 to the Town of St. George, South Carolina for the 
     Klauber Building Project;
       $150,000 to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington 
     School of Nursing to provide multidisciplinary nurse-managed 
     primary health care services in rural northern Brunswick 
     County and rural eastern Columbus County, North Carolina;
       $950,000 to the Mid-Atlantic Aerospace Complex, Inc. for 
     operating and marketing expenses, site use assessment, land 
     acquisition and construction of facilities;
       $600,000 to the National Civil Rights Hall of Fame in Gary, 
     Indiana for facility construction;
       $100,000 to Camp Kon-O-Kwee/Spencer YMCA camp in Beaver 
     County, Pennsylvania for continued construction of a 
     wastewater treatment facility;
       $325,000 to the Seneca Center in New York City, New York 
     for the acquisition and partial renovation of a permanent 
     facility in South Bronx, New York;
       $250,000 to the Huntington Park Oldtimers Foundation in 
     Huntington Park, California for the rehabilitation of a 
     senior center;
       $50,000 to Ottawa County, Ohio for street improvements for 
     the central business district in Rocky Ridge, Ohio;
       $200,000 to the Peninsula Marine Institute in Newport News, 
     Virginia for the acquisition of a permanent facility to house 
     its juvenile offenders program;
       $100,000 to the Martin Luther King Freedom Center in 
     Oakland, California for planning and development purposes;
       $1,500,000 to Miami-Dade County, Florida to expand and 
     improve the physical plant of the anchor industry in 
     Poinciana Industrial Park;

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       $300,000 to St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York 
     to establish an Institute of Teaching and Learning;
       $200,000 to the Daniel Freeman Hospital in Inglewood, 
     California for community health outreach to the uninsured and 
     medically underserved;
       $1,000,000 to Columbia University in New York City, New 
     York for its audubon research project;
       $400,000 to the University of California-Merced for the 
     renovation of the civil engineering building on Castle Air 
     Force Base;
       $150,000 to the City of Moundsville, West Virginia for 
     downtown revitalization associated with the Strand Theater;
       $250,000 to the Mystic Valley Development Commission for a 
     regional technology development project known as TeleCom 
     City;
       $200,000 to Bethune Cookman College in Daytona Beach, 
     Florida for costs related to a community services and student 
     union building;
       $50,000 to the city of Dallas, Texas for the Pleasant Wood/
     Pleasant Grove Community Development Corporation for 
     improvement efforts focused on West Dallas neighborhoods;
       $1,200,000 to the West Virginia High Technology Consortium 
     Foundation, Inc. for continued development of the I-79 
     Technology Park;
       $100,000 to the City of Dallas, Texas for the Southfair 
     Community Development Corporation for land acquisition and 
     efforts to revitalize the Grand Avenue corridor;
       $1,000,000 to the St. Coletta School in Alexandria, 
     Virginia for facilities needs;
       $50,000 to the St. Louis County, Missouri Economic Council 
     for infrastructure and streetscape enhancements for the 
     Affton/Gravois Business District;
       $110,000 to the Reading Area Community College in Berks 
     County, Pennsylvania for planning and development of an 
     Advanced Technology Center;
       $100,000 to Temple University Ambler in Montgomery County, 
     Pennsylvania for a community planning and sustainable 
     development initiative;
       $150,000 to the Arlington Housing Corporation to purchase 
     investor-owned units at the Arlington Oaks condominium 
     complex for operation as affordable housing;
0,000 to the Abington Township Public Library in Abington, Pennsylvania 
for facilities renovation;
       $200,000 to Pittson, Pennsylvania for downtown 
     revitalization and infrastructure improvements;
       $1,000,000 to Concord College in Athens, West Virginia for 
     infrastructure development for an information technology 
     training program;
       $200,000 to the St. Louis, Missouri City Parks Department 
     for renovations of Wilmore Park;
       $250,000 to the Village of Mamaroneck, New York for 
     streetscape improvements;
       $50,000 to the St. Louis County, Missouri Economic Council 
     for infrastructure and streetscape enhancements for the LeMay 
     Business District;
       $1,000,000 to the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences' 
     Center for Community Development at Case Western Reserve 
     University for the establishment of the Lou Stokes Fellows 
     Program in Community Organization and Development;
       $50,000 to the City of Tuscumbia, Alabama for stage and 
     infrastructure improvements at Spring Park;
       $150,000 to Fulton County, Ohio for upgrades of emergency 
     notification/siren systems;
       $225,000 to the Town of Bolton, Mississippi for a business 
     district restoration plan that includes job training and a 
     revolving loan fund;
       $300,000 to the Christiansburg Institute Board in 
     Christiansburg, Virginia for renovation of a historic 
     building into a museum and community learning center;
       $1,000,000 to St. John's County, Florida for water, sewer, 
     wastewater, and stormwater system improvements.
       Excludes report language proposed by the Senate directing 
     HUD to make a comprehensive report on all EDI grants. Similar 
     language was not included by the House. However, the 
     conferees agree that HUD should conduct a close-out review of 
     each non-congressionally designated EDI grant within five 
     years of the award. Any funds not obligated should be 
     identified and reported to the Committees by May 1, 2001, for 
     possible rescission and reallocation.


                       BROWNFIELDS REDEVELOPMENT

       Appropriates $25,000,000 for brownfields redevelopment as 
     proposed by the Senate instead of $20,000,000 as proposed by 
     the House.


                  HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       Appropriates $1,800,000,000 for the HOME program instead of 
     $1,585,000,000 as proposed by the House, and $1,600,000,000 
     as proposed by the Senate. The conferees increased the 
     funding level for HOME above the Senate and House levels, and 
     above the request, as an indication of their support for 
     producing substantially more affordable homes for low-income 
     Americans.
       Recognizing the tremendous unmet need for affordable 
     housing, and in light of the fact that 5,400,000 families pay 
     more than half their income for rent, the conferees seriously 
     considered proposing a new production program targeted at 
     extremely low-income families. In addition to creating new 
     affordable homes, the proposal would have encouraged the 
     concepts of income-mixing, and tenant choice. Unfortunately, 
     in deference to the committees of jurisdiction, the conferees 
     agreed to withdraw the proposal. Nevertheless, the conferees 
     encourage the authorizing committees to consider the need for 
     additional homes for extremely low-income families, and to 
     draft legislation that will meet these increasing needs.
       Includes $20,000,000 for the Housing Counseling program as 
     proposed by the Senate instead of $15,000,000 as proposed by 
     the House. For two consecutive years, HUD has been directed 
     to develop a process for measuring the performance of housing 
     counseling agencies. This year, several nonprofit 
     intermediaries working cooperatively with HUD developed 
     meaningful recommendations that include such measurements. 
     The conferees direct HUD to implement these recommendations 
     and, upon implementation, report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations.
       Transfers $17,000,000 to the Working Capital Fund for the 
     development and maintenance of information technology systems 
     as proposed by the House instead of no funding as proposed by 
     the Senate.
       The conferees are concerned that there appears to be some 
     ambiguity about whether Native American non-profit entities 
     working on Indian lands are eligible to receive HOME funds. 
     After reviewing the relevant statutes, the conferees see 
     nothing that indicates Native American nonprofits are 
     ineligible to compete for HOME funds at the state level. 
     Furthermore, the conferees believe it is highly questionable 
     for states to count low-income Native American residents in 
     their funding calculations, but upon receipt of their 
     allocation, be unwilling to share HOME funds with Native 
     American non-profits. Economic and housing conditions on 
     Native American lands are among the most challenging in the 
     United States. The HOME program was designed to assist in 
     meeting these challenges for all Americans and not to 
     discriminate based on where an individual chooses to live.

                       HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS


                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       Appropriates $1,025,000,000 for homeless assistance grants 
     instead of $1,020,000,000 as proposed by the House and the 
     Senate. Funds provided in this account include funds for new 
     Shelter Plus Care grants. Renewals of existing grants are 
     included in a new account called ``Shelter Plus Care 
     Renewals.''
       Includes language proposed by the House requiring that all 
     homeless programs be coordinated with health, social service, 
     and employment programs. The Senate did not include similar 
     language.
       Includes language proposed by the House providing that 1.5 
     percent of the funds appropriated for the program shall be 
     for technical assistance and the development and maintenance 
     of management information systems, instead of .75 percent as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       Appropriates $500,000 for the Interagency Council on the 
     Homeless as proposed by the Senate. The House did not include 
     similar language.
       The conferees reiterate and endorse language included in 
     the Senate report regarding the need for data and analysis on 
     the extent of homelessness and the effectiveness of McKinney 
     Act programs, the desirability of convening a group of 
     experts to discuss alternatives to the current ``pro rata 
     shares'' formula, the importance of oversight by HUD field 
     staff, and the need to increase the supply of permanent 
     supportive housing. The conferees concur with the importance 
     of developing unduplicated counts of the homeless at the 
     local level, as well as taking whatever steps are possible to 
     draw inferences from this data about the extent and nature of 
     homelessness in the nation as a whole.
       Likewise, the conferees agree that local jurisdictions 
     should be collecting an array of data on homelessness in 
     order to prevent duplicate counting of homeless persons, and 
     to analyze their patterns of use of assistance, including how 
     they enter and exit the homeless assistance system and the 
     effectiveness of the systems. HUD is directed to take the 
     lead in working with communities toward this end, and to 
     analyze jurisdictional data within three years. 
     Implementation and operation of Management Information 
     Systems (MIS), and collection and analysis of MIS data, have 
     been made eligible uses of Supportive Housing Program funds. 
     The conferees direct HUD to report to the Committees within 
     six months after the date of enactment of this Act on its 
     strategy for achieving this goal, including details on 
     financing, implementing, and maintaining the effort.
       Recognizing the need to provide assured funding for 
     renewing Shelter Plus Care grants, the conferees have shifted 
     renewal funding to a separate account. The conferees are 
     aware that there is a similar permanent housing component to 
     the Supportive Housing Program (SHP), which remains funded 
     through the Homeless Assistance Grants account under this 
     conference agreement. While the conferees have not shifted 
     renewal funding for the SHP permanent housing program to the 
     new account, they nevertheless

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     believe there is good reason to provide for reliable renewal 
     of permanent housing for the formerly homeless people with 
     disabilities, addictions, and similar problems who are served 
     by both of these programs.
       Accordingly, the conferees direct HUD to implement a 
     mechanism for renewing the permanent housing component of SHP 
     grants as part of its process for awarding funds under this 
     account--provided, of course, that the activities funded by 
     the grant are determined to meet local needs and appropriate 
     standards of performance and financial accountability.


                       SHELTER PLUS CARE RENEWALS

       Appropriates $100,000,000 for renewing shelter plus care 
     grants that expire in fiscal years 2001 and 2002 instead of 
     $105,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The House proposed 
     renewing these contracts in the Housing Certificate Fund. 
     These are the grants that would be subject to renewal in the 
     fiscal years 2000 and 2001 funding cycles.
       Because renewal funding is provided in this account for 
     Shelter Plus Care grants being handled in the fiscal year 
     2000 continuum of care funding competition now underway, the 
     conferees intend that grants qualifying for renewal under 
     this account be removed from that competition and instead be 
     renewed with funds in this account.

                            HOUSING PROGRAMS


                    HOUSING FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       Appropriates $996,000,000 for housing for special 
     populations as proposed by the Senate instead of $911,000,000 
     as proposed by the House.
       Includes $779,000,000 for section 202 housing for the 
     elderly instead of $783,000,000 as proposed by the Senate and 
     $710,000,000 as proposed by the House.
       Includes $217,000,000 for section 811 housing for the 
     disabled instead of $213,000,000 as proposed by the Senate 
     and $210,000,000 as proposed by the House.
       Includes language proposed by the House providing grants 
     under section 202b for converting eligible projects to 
     assisted living.
       Includes language proposed by the Senate allowing the 
     Secretary to designate up to 25% of amounts earmarked for 
     section 811 for tenant-based assistance. The House included 
     language that allowed the Secretary to earmark between 25% 
     and 50% of the funds for this use.
       Transfers $1,000,000 to the Working Capital Fund for the 
     development and maintenance of information technology systems 
     as proposed by the House. The Senate did not include a 
     similar provision.

                     FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION


             FHA--MUTUAL MORTGAGE INSURANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

       Limits obligations for direct loans to no more than 
     $250,000,000 as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $100,000,000 as proposed by the House.
       Transfers $96,500,000 from administrative contract expenses 
     to the Working Capital Fund for the development and 
     maintenance of information technology systems as proposed by 
     the House. The Senate did not include similar language.
       The conferees reiterate report language included by the 
     Senate regarding the implementation of the single family 
     property disposition legislation, specifically the statutory 
     authority to discount properties in distressed neighborhoods. 
     In fiscal year 1999, legislation was enacted authorizing HUD 
     to dispose of its HUD-held single family loans. As part of 
     that agreement, seriously distressed neighborhoods where the 
     possibility of disinvestment is greatest could be designated 
     as asset control areas. For these areas, HUD was granted the 
     authority to establish discounts on the price of foreclosed 
     homes for local governments and nonprofit institutions that 
     establish neighborhood redevelopment plans to revitalize 
     these areas.
       HUD, however, has not aggressively implemented this 
     legislative mandate. In fact, HUD has instituted a pricing 
     structure that is far more restrictive than required in the 
     law, making it extremely difficult for local governments to 
     repair deteriorated homes and to reinvigorate neighborhoods. 
     The conferees reiterate their support for the solution 
     contained in the fiscal year 1999 legislation, and direct HUD 
     to implement it--specifically the discount provisions--in a 
     way that allows local governments and nonprofits to rebuild 
     neighborhoods. Furthermore, the conferees reaffirm the 
     Senate's directive to report on the implementation of the 
     disposition program by May 15, 2001.
       Finally, the conferees are extremely concerned about the 
     proliferation of predatory lending and commend HUD for acting 
     to combat this practice. As directed in the Senate report, 
     the conferees look forward to being briefed by HUD on the 
     progress made in this area.
       The conferees are disappointed that HUD utilized only a 
     small fraction of the lending authority made available in 
     fiscal year 1999 for direct loans to nonprofit organizations 
     and local government agencies in connection with sales of 
     HUD-owned single-family homes under section 204(g) of the 
     National Housing Act. HUD is expected to make fuller use of 
     this lending authority in fiscal year 2001. In particular, 
     the conferees believe that section 204(g) loans could be a 
     valuable tool to assist with the acquisition, rehabilitation, 
     and sale of homes in the asset control areas created in the 
     fiscal year 1999 VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, and direct HUD to take steps to 
     facilitate use of section 204(g) loans by nonprofit 
     organizations working to revitalize neighborhoods in these 
     areas.


             FHA--GENERAL AND SPECIAL RISK PROGRAM ACCOUNT

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

       Transfers $33,500,000 from administrative contract expenses 
     to the Working Capital Fund for the development and 
     maintenance of information technology systems as proposed by 
     the House. The Senate did not include similar language.
       Deletes language included by the Senate requiring at least 
     $50,000,000 of credit subsidy be directed to insuring 
     multifamily projects where a portion of the units are 
     targeted to extremely low-income families. However, HUD is 
     directed to report back to the Committees on Appropriations 
     on the feasibility of creating an insurance program that 
     targets extremely low- and low-income families. As part of 
     this report, HUD should include an estimate of the costs of 
     providing credit subsidy, or of any other subsidies, that 
     would be necessary for such a program to be successful.

                    POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH


                        RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

       Appropriates $53,500,000 for research and technology 
     instead of $45,000,000 as proposed by the Senate and 
     $40,000,000 as proposed by the House. As proposed by the 
     House, $3,000,000 of the amount provided is for program 
     evaluation to support the inclusion of strategic planning and 
     performance measurements in the preparation of the budget. 
     The Senate did not include similar language.
       Includes new language providing $500,000 for the Commission 
     on Affordable Housing and Health Care Facility Needs for 
     Seniors in the 21st Century.

                   FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY


                        FAIR HOUSING ACTIVITIES

       Appropriates $46,000,000 for fair housing activities 
     instead of $44,000,000 as proposed by the House and the 
     Senate. Of the amount provided, $24,000,000 is for section 
     561 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987.

                     OFFICE OF LEAD HAZARD CONTROL


                         LEAD HAZARD REDUCTION

       Appropriates $100,000,000 for lead hazard reduction, as 
     proposed by the Senate instead of $80,000,000 as proposed by 
     the House.
       Of the amount, $10,000,000 is for the Healthy Homes 
     Initiative as proposed by the House instead of $5,000,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       Inserts language proposed by the House and stricken by the 
     Senate providing $1,000,000 for CLEARCorps.
       Deletes language proposed by the Senate transferring 
     balances from pre-existing lead reduction programs. This 
     transfer was included in the fiscal year 2000 appropriations 
     measure and has already been implemented.

                     MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

       Appropriates $1,072,000,000 for salaries and expenses 
     instead of $1,003,380,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $1,002,233,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       Deletes language proposed by the Senate limiting per-
     employee costs (including benefits) to an average of $78,000. 
     The House did not include similar language.
       Inserts language proposed by the Senate prohibiting HUD 
     from employing more than 14 employees in the Office of Public 
     Affairs. The House did not include similar language.
       Deletes language proposed by the Senate limiting the number 
     of HUD full time equivalent (FTE) positions to no more than 
     9,100.
       Inserts new language limiting the personal services object 
     class to no more than $758,000,000.
       Inserts new language requiring that not less than 
     $100,000,000 in the Working Capital Fund be used for the 
     development and maintenance of information technology 
     systems.
       Inserts new language limiting the number of outside 
     employees that HUD may hire at grade levels of GS-14 and GS-
     15. Under the limitation, HUD may hire only 7 GS-14 and GS-15 
     level employees for every 10 such employees who leave the 
     Department. The limitation will be lifted only when the 
     number of GS-14 and GS-15 level employees falls 2.5 percent 
     from the level at the date of enactment. This moratorium on 
     hiring does not include promoting from within HUD, nor does 
     it impact the number of Schedule C employees that can be 
     hired at these grade levels.
       The conferees are concerned about the growth of the 
     personal service object class in the salaries and expenses 
     account. To gain control over its growth, a cap of 
     $758,000,000 has been placed on the personal service object 
     class. Finally, HUD is directed to spend at least 
     $100,000,000 on the development and maintenance of 
     information technology systems. The conferees hope that HUD 
     will use these tools in a constructive manner to deal with 
     several serious issues.

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       First, HUD has been unable to accurately portray its salary 
     and expense needs. In its fiscal year 2000 request, HUD 
     requested funding for 9,300 people though only 9,030 people 
     were on staff at the time. Despite this knowledge, which HUD 
     did not share with the Committees, HUD threatened a reduction 
     in force (RIF) unless more funds were forthcoming. Relying on 
     the representation that a RIF was a real possibility, 
     $20,000,000 more than was recommended was provided. Even 
     then, HUD claimed this amount was insufficient.
       However, during fiscal year 2000, instead of threatened 
     staff reductions, HUD hired more than 700 employees, an 
     unprecedented number of new hires. In addition, HUD increased 
     the number of personnel receiving quality step increases from 
     a negligible amount to approximately 30% of the total staff. 
     This action brought the average cost per employee up to 
     $81,500--a level that is $2,700 higher than estimated in the 
     fiscal year 2001 budget request--thus making the fiscal year 
     2001 budget request insufficient by $18,650,000.
       Making a bad situation worse, almost 25% of HUD's total 
     staff--or 2,018 people according to HUD--are at the GS-14 and 
     GS-15 levels of pay. Yet in fiscal year 2000 alone, HUD hired 
     more than 200 new GS-14 and GS-15s, causing displacement of 
     existing staff and making it virtually impossible for younger 
     employees to expect upward movement in their careers in a 
     reasonable amount of time.
       Such poor management decisions only underscore other 
     management deficiencies. For years, Congress has requested 
     HUD to provide a staff plan that matches staffing 
     requirements with programmatic responsibilities. For six 
     years, HUD has systematically and deliberately ignored these 
     Congressional requests and directives. Therefore, it isn't 
     surprising that the National Academy of Public Administration 
     (NAPA) recently reported that ``. . . the basis for most 
     staff level changes in the recent past has been top-down 
     direction that HUD reduce staff levels to get to a target 
     number. The lack of an analytical basis for much of that 
     direction has not let top management know whether resulting 
     staff levels in individual offices and overall are adequate 
     to accomplish the department's mission.'' Not only does this 
     conclusion concern the conferees, it flies in the face of 
     HUD's own restructuring plan embodied in Management Reform 
     Plan 2020.
       Exacerbating these problems is HUD's annual transfer of 
     funds from its information technology account to offset the 
     personal services account, significantly delaying HUD's entry 
     to the information age. HUD's inability to account for its 
     appropriations--in terms of funding and in terms of results--
     and its raid of the IT account to supplement an inadequate 
     personal services account is simply unacceptable. For that 
     reason, the conferees have fenced the IT account and direct 
     HUD to move forward on implementing an enterprise data 
     warehouse that incorporates a geographic information system 
     (GIS) platform for HUD as quickly as possible.
       The conferees reassert the House report language directing 
     HUD to present a comprehensive, multi-year budget plan that 
     creates, maintains, and refines HUD's information technology 
     systems. Finally, HUD is directed to provide a plan that 
     matches staff resources with programmatic needs by May 15, 
     2001.


                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

       Appropriates $85,000,000 for the Office of Inspector 
     General instead of $83,000,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $87,843,000 as proposed by the Senate.


                       ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

       Restores language proposed by the House and stricken by the 
     Senate giving HUD enhanced authority to dispose of HUD-held 
     mortgages.
       Restores language proposed by the House and stricken by the 
     Senate allowing HUD to set maximum payment standards for 
     enhanced vouchers.
       Deletes language proposed by the House authorizing PHAs to 
     utilize any excess section 8 for increasing the value of a 
     voucher in high cost areas, and for other purposes. The 
     Senate had included similar language in its Title II of 
     Division B.
       Includes language proposed by the Senate to prohibit HUD 
     from prohibiting or debarring entities that administer the 
     continuum of care process for homeless grants without due 
     process. The House did not include similar language.
       Includes language proposed by the Senate to require all 
     Title II programs to comply with the HUD Reform Act. The 
     House did not include similar language.
       Includes language proposed by the Senate enabling homeless 
     programs to utilize the environmental assumption authority 
     contained in section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing 
     Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994. The House did not 
     include similar language.
       Includes language proposed by the Senate making technical 
     changes and corrections to the National Housing Act. The 
     House did not include similar language.
       Includes language proposed by the Senate making law 
     enforcement officers eligible for housing assistance under 
     the Indian housing block grant program. The House did not 
     include similar language.
       Includes language proposed by the Senate prohibiting 
     federal assistance to facilities that sell predominantly 
     cigarettes or other tobacco products. The House did not 
     include similar language.
       Modifies language proposed by the Senate prohibiting the 
     implementation of the Puerto Rico PHA settlement agreement 
     until management reform goals and benchmarks are identified 
     including safeguards against fraud and abuse by inserting a 
     date by which the report is due. The House did not include 
     similar language.
       Modifies language proposed by the Senate allowing a grant 
     award to the Hollander Ridge project to be used for 
     activities that benefit the site. The House did not include 
     similar language.
       Deletes language proposed by the Senate reducing the 
     downpayment requirements for teachers and uniformed municipal 
     employees. The House did not include similar language. 
     However, the Office of Policy Development and Research is 
     directed to contract with an outside entity to determine the 
     feasibility of decreasing the downpayment requirements for 
     these individuals and assess its impact on communities.
       Includes language proposed by the Senate authorizing the 
     ``neighborhood networks'' computer concept to be an eligible 
     activity to receive funding under the modernization and HOPE 
     VI grant programs. The House did not include similar 
     language.
       Includes language proposed by the Senate deeming a project 
     in Independence, Missouri, to be eligible for mark-to-market 
     reforms. The House did not include similar language.
       Modifies language proposed by the Senate to extend section 
     236(g)(3)(A) of the National Housing Act for one year. The 
     House did not include similar language.
       Modifies language proposed by the Senate enabling a county 
     to elect to remain an ``urban county'' if it was so defined 
     in fiscal year 1999. The House did not include similar 
     language.
       Deletes language proposed by the Senate to authorize a low-
     income multifamily risk-sharing mortgage insurance program. 
     The House did not include similar language.
       Includes language proposed by the Senate exempting Alaska 
     and Mississippi from the statutory requirement of having a 
     resident on the board of a PHA. The House did not include 
     similar language.
       Includes new language making moderate rehabilitation funds 
     available for use under the HOME Investment Partnerships Act 
     for two projects in New Rochelle, New York.
       Includes new language reprogramming $1,000,000 for the City 
     of Loma Linda for infrastructure improvements at Redlands 
     Boulevard and California Streets, for infrastructure 
     improvements in the city related to Mountain View Bridge.
       Includes new language making Native American communities 
     eligible to receive funding under the Resident Opportunity 
     and Social Services program.
       Includes new language extending for one year an economic 
     development initiative in Miami Beach, Florida.
       Includes new language reprogramming funds from Homestead, 
     Florida, to housing for low-income elderly persons in Dade 
     County, Florida.
       Includes new language waiving the CDBG social services cap 
     for the City of Los Angeles.
       Includes new language extending FHA's downpayment 
     simplification provisions to December 31, 2002.
       Includes new language amending section 423 of the Stewart 
     B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act program to allow grants 
     to be used to pay for the costs of implementing and operating 
     management information systems.
       Includes new language amending section 184 of the Housing 
     and Community Development Act of 1992 by allowing the program 
     to be used to refinance previously made loans for purposes of 
     rehabilitation, and by eliminating the requirement to show 
     lack of access to private financial markets.
       Includes new language making enhanced vouchers available to 
     residents who have continued to reside in section 8 
     properties which opted out of expired federal assistance 
     contracts prior to enactment of Subtitle C of Title V of the 
     fiscal year 2000 VA, HUD and Independent Agencies 
     Appropriations Act.
       Includes new language requiring grantees under Subtitle A 
     of title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance 
     Act to coordinate their discharge policies.
       Includes new language amending section 525 of the VA, HUD 
     and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act of 2000 by 
     changing the title of the ``Commission on Affordable Housing 
     and Health Care Facility Needs'' to the ``Commission on 
     Affordable Housing and Health Care Facility Needs for Seniors 
     in the 21st Century.''
       Includes new language amending the McKinney Act allowing 
     for the chair of the Interagency Council for the Homeless to 
     rotate between HUD, the Department of Health and Human 
     Services, the Department of Labor, and the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs.
       Modifies language proposed by the Senate amending the 
     Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 (QHWRA), 
     to allow PHAs to ``project-base'' up to 20 percent of

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     their section 8 voucher funds. For many reasons, including 
     burdensome implementation regulations, the option in QHWRA 
     has never worked effectively. Therefore, the conferees have 
     agreed to include legislation that makes substantive 
     revisions to section 8(o)(13) of the United States Housing 
     Act.
       First, the revision makes the option to project-base 
     vouchers more flexible, and allows PHAs to designate up to 
     20% of their available voucher funds for this purpose without 
     any requirement that owners invest additional funding in the 
     units. This change allows PHAs to decide whether to link 
     project-basing to new construction, to rehabilitation, or 
     simply to use project-basing as a tool to promote voucher 
     utilization and to expand housing opportunities. A PHA may 
     project-base their vouchers only if the choice is consistent 
     with the housing needs and strategies identified in the PHA 
     plan. If a PHA chooses this option, the initial contract term 
     with the owner of the development may be no more than 10 
     years in duration, but may be extended, subject to the 
     agreement of the owner and the PHA. All contracts are subject 
     to the availability of appropriations.
       Additionally, it requires PHAs to offer families with 
     project-based vouchers a ``continued assistance option''--a 
     program variation that allows families to move from the 
     assisted building, and to retain federal housing assistance. 
     Under this option, PHAs agree to link a specified number of 
     subsidies to a particular development. The initial families 
     are selected by the manager of the development from among 
     families referred by PHAs. Families with the continued 
     assistance option have the right to move after one year but 
     retain their federal housing assistance by going to the top 
     of the PHA waiting list, or by receiving assistance through 
     other means devised by the PHA. Families that move from a 
     subsidized unit are replaced by families referred from the 
     PHA's waiting list, ensuring that the specified number of 
     subsidies continue to be utilized at the development 
     throughout the term of the PHA's contract with the owner. 
     Special rules would be applied in tax credit units.
       To promote mixed-income developments, only 25 percent of 
     the units in a multifamily building may have project-based 
     assistance. PHAs are allowed to offer vacancy payments to 
     owners for no more than 60 days. However, PHAs and owners 
     must seek to reduce the need for vacancy payments and such 
     payments may not be made if the vacancy is the fault of the 
     owner--for example, the unit does not pass re-inspection, or 
     a PHA refers a reasonable number of families to the owner but 
     the owner refuses to select any of them.
       Modifies language proposed by the Senate requiring HUD to 
     maintain section 8 rental assistance payments on HUD-held or 
     HUD-owned properties that are occupied primarily by elderly 
     or disabled families. If the properties are not viable 
     affordable housing, the Secretary may contract for project-
     based assistance with other existing housing properties, or 
     provide other rental assistance.
       Modifies language proposed by the Senate making the family 
     unification program more flexible.
       Includes language proposed by the Senate making the FHA 
     risk-sharing programs permanent.

                    TITLE III--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                  American Battle Monuments Commission


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       Appropriates $28,000,000 for salaries and expenses as 
     proposed by the House instead of $26,196,000 as proposed by 
     the Senate. The conferees commend the ABMC for the progress 
     made in reducing the backlogged maintenance needs throughout 
     the ABMC system, and have provided funds in excess of the 
     budget request to continue this important program.

             Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       Appropriates $7,500,000 for salaries and expenses instead 
     of $8,000,000 as proposed by the House and $7,000,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate. Bill language has been included again 
     this fiscal year which limits the number of career Senior 
     Executive Service positions to three. Of the available funds, 
     $5,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2001, 
     and $2,500,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
     2002.
       In addition, language has been adopted which stipulates 
     that the Inspector General of the Federal Emergency 
     Management Agency shall also serve as the Inspector General 
     of the Board, shall utilize personnel of the Office of 
     Inspector General of FEMA in performing the duties of the 
     Inspector General of the Board, and shall not appoint any 
     individuals to positions within the Board.
       The conferees agree that not later than March 1, 2002, and 
     thereafter, the Chief Operating Officer of the Board shall 
     prepare a financial report for the preceding year, covering 
     all accounts and associated activities of the Board. Each 
     such financial report shall be audited according to generally 
     accepted accounting principles by the Inspector General of 
     the Board or another qualified external auditor as determined 
     by the Inspector General, and each such audit report shall be 
     submitted to the Chief Operating Officer not later than June 
     30 following the fiscal year for which the audit was 
     performed.

                       Department of the Treasury


              COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

   COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       Appropriates $118,000,000 for community development 
     financial institutions fund program account instead of 
     $105,000,000 as proposed by the House and $95,000,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       Includes $5,000,000 for technical assistance to promote 
     economic development in Native American communities. The 
     conferees intend that this assistance be provided primarily 
     through qualified community development lenders, 
     organizations with experience and expertise in banking and 
     lending in Indian country, Native American organizations, and 
     other suitable providers, as well as through financial 
     assistance to tribes and tribal organizations for procurement 
     of appropriate expertise and services.
       Provides $8,750,000 for administrative expenses instead of 
     $9,500,000 as proposed by the House, and $8,000,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       Provides $19,750,000 for the cost of direct loans instead 
     of $23,000,000 as proposed by the House, and $16,500,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       Excludes language proposed by the House and stricken by the 
     Senate regarding the accounting of certain administrative 
     costs.
       Eliminates language proposed by the Senate capping the Bank 
     Enterprise Award program at $30,000,000. The House did not 
     include similar language.

                   Consumer Product Safety Commission


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       Appropriates $52,500,000 for the Consumer Product Safety 
     Commission, salaries and expenses, as proposed by the Senate, 
     instead of $51,000,000 as proposed by the House.
       The conferees are in agreement that significant progress 
     has been made by the Commission in reducing children's deaths 
     in cribs. Despite this accomplishment, deaths in used cribs 
     remain too high. Accordingly, the conferees urge the 
     Commission to undertake an initiative to continue its 
     excellent efforts to further reduce crib deaths.

             Corporation for National and Community Service


       NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS OPERATING EXPENSES

              (INCLUDING TRANSFER AND RESCISSION OF FUNDS)

       Appropriates $458,500,000 for national and community 
     service programs operating expenses, instead of $433,500,000 
     as proposed by the Senate. The House proposed termination of 
     the Corporation for National and Community Service using 
     funds appropriated in prior years.
       Limits funds for administrative expenses to not more than 
     $31,000,000, instead of $29,000,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate. The conferees have included language proposed by the 
     Senate which directs the Corporation to use $2,000,000 for 
     acquisition of a cost accounting system for the Corporation's 
     financial management system, an integrated grants management 
     system that provides comprehensive financial management 
     information for all Corporation grants and cooperative 
     agreements, and the establishment, operation and maintenance 
     of a central archives. The conferees agree that improvements 
     to the Corporation's accounting systems, including a cost 
     accounting system, is of very high priority and deserves 
     senior management's full attention. The conferees agree that 
     the Corporation is prohibited from providing any salary 
     increases (with the exception of locality adjustments and 
     other appropriate adjustments provided to all government 
     employees) or bonuses to its senior management until the 
     Corporation has certified, with the IG's concurrence, that an 
     adequate cost accounting and grants management system has 
     been acquired, implemented, and conforms to all Federal 
     requirements.
       Limits funds as proposed by the Senate to not more than: 
     $28,500,000 for quality and innovation activities; $2,500 for 
     official reception and representation expenses; $70,000,000 
     for education awards, of which not to exceed $5,000,000 shall 
     be available for national service scholarships for high 
     school students performing community service; $231,000,000 
     for AmeriCorps grants, of which not to exceed $45,000,000 may 
     be for national direct programs and $25,000,000 shall be for 
     activities dedicated to developing computer and information 
     technology skills; $10,000,000 for the Points of Light 
     Foundation; $21,000,000 for the civilian community corps; 
     $43,000,000 for school-based and community-based service-
     learning programs; and $5,000,000 for audits and other 
     evaluations.
       The conferees agree to add $3,000,000 to the national 
     civilian community corps (NCCC) account to cover the 
     additional costs of relocating a campus site in San Diego and 
     to administer a program level of 1,100 members, which would 
     match its fiscal year 1998 level. The conferees understand 
     that the number of campuses would remain at the current level 
     of five sites.
       Inserts language proposed by the Senate which prohibits 
     using any funds for national service programs run by Federal 
     agencies; provides that, to the maximum extent feasible, 
     funds for the AmeriCorps program will

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     be provided consistent with the recommendation of peer review 
     panels; and provides that, to the maximum extent practicable, 
     the level of matching funds shall be increased, education 
     only awards shall be expanded, and the cost per participant 
     shall be reduced.
       Rescinds $30,000,000 from the National Service Trust, 
     instead of $50,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The 
     conferees have taken this action because the balances in the 
     Trust appear at this time to be in excess of requirements 
     based upon usage rates. The conferees direct the Corporation 
     to provide a quarterly report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House and Senate on the assets and 
     liabilities of the National Service Trust fund, including 
     information on interest earned and interest received and an 
     explanation of the relationship between the amounts in the 
     completed financial statements and the budget request.
       The conferees agree to the Senate proposal to earmark 
     $5,000,000 for Communities In Schools, Inc., $2,500,000 for 
     Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc., $7,500,000 for 
     America's Promise--The Alliance for Youth, Inc., and 
     $2,500,000 for Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
       The conferees agree to provide $1,500,000 for the Youth 
     Life Foundation (YLF). The YLF aims to replicate the programs 
     it has developed in Washington, D.C. to address the 
     challenges of children living in insecure environments and 
     make those programs applicable to other parts of the Nation. 
     The conferees recognize that America's Promise is already 
     trying to establish partnerships with locally-based 
     organizations such as YLF. Accordingly, the conferees expect 
     YLF to continue its effort in coordinating and collaborating 
     its activities with America's Promise.
       The House proposed that the Corporation be terminated and 
     did not include any of the foregoing limitations or 
     provisions proposed by the Senate.


                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

       Appropriates $5,000,000 for the Office of Inspector 
     General, the same amount as provided by the House and the 
     Senate.


                        administrative provision

       Includes an administrative provision, as proposed by the 
     Senate, which provides a technical correction to language 
     included in the fiscal year 2000 appropriations Act.

                  Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims


                         salaries and expenses

       Appropriates $12,445,000 for the Court of Appeals for 
     Veterans Claims as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $12,500,000 as proposed by the House.

         Department of Defense-Civil Cemeterial Expenses, Army


                         salaries and expenses

       Appropriates $17,949,000 for salaries and expenses as 
     proposed by the House instead of $15,949,000 as proposed by 
     the Senate. The conferees note that the funding level 
     represents an increase of over $5,000,000 above the previous 
     fiscal year, and will be used for the highest priority 
     maintenance and capital improvement projects as identified in 
     the Cemetery's Ten-Year Plan.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                     National Institutes of Health


          national institute of environmental health sciences

       Appropriates $63,000,000 for the National Institute of 
     Environmental Health Sciences in a new, separate account 
     instead of $60,000,000 as proposed in a new account by the 
     House and $60,000,000 as proposed through the Environmental 
     Protection Agency's Hazardous Substance Superfund account by 
     the Senate. The conferees believe this new account structure 
     will provide higher visibility and better oversight of the 
     NIEHS. The conferees have deleted language proposed by the 
     House making funding available until September 30, 2002.
       Of the funds provided, $40,000,000 is for the research 
     program and $23,000,000 is for the worker training program.

            Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry


                         salaries and expenses

       Appropriates $75,000,000 for salaries and expenses of the 
     Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in a new, 
     separate account instead of $70,000,000 as provided by the 
     House in a new account and $75,000,000 as provided through 
     the Environmental Protection Agency's Hazardous Substance 
     Superfund account by the Senate. The conferees believe this 
     new account structure will provide higher visibility and 
     better oversight of the ATSDR.
       The conferees have also included bill language which 
     permits the Administrator of the ATSDR to conduct other 
     appropriate health studies and evaluations or activities in 
     lieu of health assessments pursuant to section 104(i)(6) of 
     the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
     Liability Act of 1980, as amended (CERCLA). The language 
     further stipulates that in the conduct of such other health 
     assessments, evaluations, or activities, the ATSDR shall not 
     be bound by the deadlines imposed in section 104(i)(6)(A) of 
     CERCLA. The conferees have deleted language proposed by the 
     House making funding available until September 30, 2002.
       Funds provided for fiscal year 2001 cannot be used by the 
     ATSDR to conduct in excess of 40 toxicological profiles.
       Within the appropriated level, ATSDR is to use up to 
     $2,000,000 to continue the Great Lakes fish consumption 
     study; up to $6,000,000 for medical monitoring and related 
     activities in Libby, Montana; $500,000 to conduct subsistence 
     and dietary studies of contaminents in the environment, 
     subsistence resources, and people in Alaska Native 
     populations; and up to $1,000,000 for completion of the Toms 
     River, New Jersey cancer evaluation and research project. The 
     ATSDR is further directed to provide support for the minority 
     health professions program.
       As in the past, ATSDR's administrative costs charged by the 
     CDC are capped at 7.5 percent of the amount appropriated 
     herein.

                    Environmental Protection Agency


                         science and technology

       Appropriates $696,000,000 for science and technology 
     instead of $650,000,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $670,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conferees have agreed to the following increases to the 
     budget request:
       1. $2,500,000 for EPSCoR.
       2. $4,000,000 for the Water Environment Research 
     Foundation.
       3. $4,000,000 for the American Water Works Association 
     Research Foundation.
       4. $2,000,000 for the National Decentralized Water Resource 
     Capacity Development Project, in coordination with EPA, for 
     continued training and research and development.
       5. $1,500,000 for the National Jewish Medical and Research 
     Center for research on the relationship between indoor and 
     outdoor pollution and the development of respiratory 
     diseases.
       6. $1,900,000 for the National Environmental Respiratory 
     Center at the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute. The 
     research should be coordinated with EPA's overall particulate 
     matter research program and consistent with the 
     recommendations set forth by the National Academy of Sciences 
     report on PM research.
       7. $1,000,000 for the Environmental Technology 
     Commercialization Center to increase the transfer of 
     federally-developed environmental technology.
       8. $1,250,000 for the Center for Air Toxics Metals at the 
     Energy and Environmental Research Center.
       9. $1,500,000 for the Mickey Leland National Urban Air 
     Toxics Research Center.
       10. $250,000 for acid rain research at the University of 
     Vermont.
       11. $1,500,000 for the Gulf Coast Hazardous Substance 
     Research Center.
       12. $250,000 for the Institute for Environmental and 
     Industrial Science at Southwest Texas State University.
       13. $750,000 for the Integrated Public/Private Energy and 
     Environmental Consortium (IPEC) to develop cost-effective 
     environmental technology, improved business practices, and 
     technology transfer for the domestic petroleum industry.
       14. $1,000,000 for the University of South Alabama Center 
     for Estuarine Research.
       15. $4,527,000 for the Mine Waste Technology Program and 
     the Heavy Metal Water Program at the National Environmental 
     Waste Technology, Testing, and Evaluation Center ($3,902,000) 
     and for a field demonstration of ceramic microfiltration 
     technology ($625,000).
       16. $400,000 for the Texas Institute for Applied 
     Environmental Research at Tarleton State University.
       17. $500,000 for the Consortium for Plant Biotechnology 
     Research.
       18. $750,000 for the Geothermal Heat Pump (GHP) Consortium.
       19. $750,000 for the Kalamazoo River Watershed Initiative 
     through Western Michigan University's Environmental Research 
     Institute.
       20. $900,000 to Old Dominion University in Virginia for the 
     continued development, design, and implementation of a 
     research effort on tributyltin-based ship bottom paints.
       21. $1,000,000 to the University of California, Riverside 
     for continued research of advanced vehicle design, advanced 
     transportation systems, vehicle emissions, and atmospheric 
     pollution at the CE-CERT facility.
       22. $2,000,000 to the University of Miami in Florida for 
     the Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
       23. $1,000,000 for the Environmental Protection Agency to 
     become involved in the Department of Energy's fine 
     particulate matter research program.
       24. $3,000,000 to the National Technology Transfer Center 
     to continue its cooperative agreement with EPA to assess, 
     market and license technologies owned by EPA, and to conduct 
     commercialization best practices training activities.
       25. $2,000,000 to the Canaan Valley Institute for 
     continuation of its regional environmental data center and 
     coordinated information management system in the Mid-Atlantic 
     Highlands in coordination with the Federal Geographic Data 
     Committee and the National Spatial Data Infrastructure.
       26. $1,000,000 above the budget request to the Canaan 
     Valley Institute in close coordination with the Regional 
     Vulnerability and

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     Assessment (ReVA) initiative to develop research and 
     educational tools using integrative technologies to predict 
     future environmental risk and support informed, proactive 
     decision-making.
       27. $500,000 to establish the Center for Metals in the 
     Environment in Delaware.
       28. $625,000 to New Mexico State University to determine 
     the Carbon Sequestration Potential of southwestern lands.
       29. $1,400,000 to the University of New Hampshire for 
     continuation of the Bedrock Bioremediation Center research 
     project.
       30. $990,000 for research associated with the restoration 
     and enhancement of Manchac Swamp conducted by Southeastern 
     Louisiana at the Turtle Cove Research Station.
       31. $500,000 to the Metropolitan Development Association of 
     Syracuse and Central New York to continue assessing and 
     mitigating the impact of exposure to multiple indoor 
     contaminants on human health.
       32. $3,637,000 to the National Alternative Fuels Foundation 
     for research and development of a new class of alternative 
     fuels known as vapor-phase combustion fuels.
       The conferees have agreed to the following reductions from 
     the budget request:
       1. $26,089,000 from the CCTI Transportation research 
     program; and
       2. $1,138,000 from project EMPACT.
       Within the funds transferred from the Hazardous Substance 
     Superfund (HSS) account, $7,000,000 is for the Superfund 
     Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) program, including 
     $500,000 for a demonstration project at the Port of 
     Richfield, Washington involving an innovative steam 
     extraction technology. Also from within those funds 
     transferred from HSS as well as from funds appropriated to 
     science and technology, $4,500,000 is for continued operation 
     of the Hazardous Substance Research Centers.
       The conferees direct EPA to contract, within 30 days of 
     enactment of this Act, with the National Academy of Sciences 
     or other appropriate entity for a study of carbon monoxide 
     episodes in meteorological and topographical problem areas, 
     addressing the role of cold weather inversions and addressing 
     public health significance and strategies, including the use 
     of catalytic converter and other cold-start technology, for 
     managing these rare occurrences in national ambient air 
     quality standards non-attainment areas, due mostly to cold 
     weather inversions. One of the major case studies is to be 
     Fairbanks, Alaska, for which there shall be a preliminary 
     report by September 1, 2001 in order to inform the further 
     development of a State Implementation Plan for such area.


                 ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT

       Appropriates $2,087,990,000 for environmental programs and 
     management instead of $1,895,000,000 as proposed by the House 
     and $2,000,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conferees 
     have included bill language as proposed by the House, 
     identical to that carried in the fiscal years 1999 and 2000 
     Acts, which limits the expenditure of funds to implement or 
     administer guidance relating to title VI of the Civil Rights 
     Act of 1964, with certain exceptions. This provision does not 
     provide the Agency statutory authority to implement its 
     Environmental Justice Guidance. Rather, it simply clarifies 
     the applicability of the Interim Guidance with respect to 
     certain pending cases as an administrative convenience for 
     the Agency.
       The conferees have included bill language providing up to 
     an additional 6 months for EPA to issue a final regulation 
     for arsenic in drinking water. The conferees are very 
     concerned about the cost of EPA's proposed arsenic drinking 
     water rule to small communities. Moreover, the information 
     EPA used to develop the proposed standard is the subject of 
     considerable controversy and disagreement. The conferees 
     believe EPA should take a full year--as intended by the Safe 
     Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996--to finalize the new 
     standard and therefore strongly recommend EPA not finalize 
     the rule until June 2001 and provide significant, additional 
     opportunity for public comment.
       Bill language proposed by the House and the Senate has been 
     included, as in the past two fiscal years, prohibiting EPA 
     from spending funds to implement the Kyoto Protocol. The 
     conferees note that this restriction on the use of funds 
     shall not apply to the conduct of education activities and 
     seminars by the agency.
       The conferees note that several programs funded through 
     this Act conduct science and technology research that are 
     associated partly with global climate change. To the extent 
     that the conferees have funded this work, they have done so 
     based on each program's individual merits of contributing to 
     issues associated with domestic energy production, national 
     energy security, energy efficiency and cost savings, related 
     environmental assessments, and general energy emission 
     improvements. The bill language is intended to prohibit funds 
     provided in this bill from being used to implement actions 
     called for solely under the Kyoto Protocol, prior to its 
     ratification.
       The Byrd-Hagel Resolution passed in 1997 (S. Res. 98) 
     remains the clearest statement of the will of the Senate with 
     regards to the Kyoto Protocol, and the conferees are 
     committed to ensuring that the Administration not implement 
     the Kyoto Protocol without Congressional consent. The 
     conferees recognize, however, that there are also 
     longstanding energy research programs which have goals and 
     objectives that, if met, could have positive effects on 
     energy use and the environment. The conferees do not intend 
     to preclude these programs from proceeding, provided they 
     have been funded and approved by Congress.
       To the extent future funding requests may be submitted 
     which would increase funding for climate change activities 
     prior to Senate consideration of the Kyoto Protocol (whether 
     under the auspices of the Climate Change Technology 
     Initiative or any other initiative), the Administration must 
     do a better job of explaining the components of the programs, 
     their anticipated goals and objectives, the justification for 
     any funding increases, a discussion of how success will be 
     measured, and a clear definition of how these programs are 
     justified by goals and objectives independent of 
     implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. The conferees expect 
     these items to be included as part of the fiscal year 2002 
     budget submission for all affected agencies.
       The conferees have agreed to the following increases to the 
     budget request:
       1. $14,500,000 for rural water technical assistance and 
     groundwater protection, including $8,600,000 for the NWRA, 
     $2,600,000 for RCAP, $700,000 for GWPC, $1,600,000 for the 
     SFC, and $1,000,000 for the NETC.
       2. $1,000,000 for implementation of the National Biosolids 
     Partnership Program.
       3. $1,500,000 for source water protection programs. These 
     funds are to be used to develop local source water protection 
     programs within each state utilizing the infrastructure and 
     process of an organization now engaged in groundwater and 
     wellhead protection programs.
       4. $1,250,000 for the national onsite and community 
     wastewater treatment demonstration project through the Small 
     Flows Clearinghouse.
       5. $2,500,000 for the Southwest Center for Environmental 
     Research and Policy.
       6. $4,000,000 for the Small Public Water System Technology 
     Centers at Western Kentucky University; the University of New 
     Hampshire; the University of Alaska-Sitka; Pennsylvania State 
     University; the University of Missouri-Columbia; Montana 
     State University; the University of Illinois; and Mississippi 
     State University.
       7. $500,000 for the final year of Federal funding to assist 
     communities in Hawaii to meet successfully the water quality 
     permitting requirements for rehabilitating native Hawaiian 
     fishponds.
       8. $5,000,000 under section 104(b) of the Clean Water Act 
     for America's Clean Water Foundation for implementation of 
     on-farm environmental assessments for livestock operations, 
     with the goal of improving surface and ground water quality.
       9. $500,000 for the Ohio River Watershed Pollutant 
     Reduction Program, to be cost-shared.
       10. $1,650,000 to continue the sediment decontamination 
     technology demonstration in the New York-New Jersey Harbor.
       11. $1,500,000 for the National Alternative Fuels Vehicle 
     Training Program.
       12. $300,000 for the Coalition for Utah's Future to 
     continue the Envision Utah project including the development 
     of a sustainable plan for future growth and environmental 
     stewardship in the Wasatch Front.
       13. $300,000 for the Northeast States for Coordinated Air 
     Use Management.
       14. $750,000 for planning, coordination and development of 
     a comprehensive watershed based implementation program for 
     the Santa Fe River.
       15. $500,000 for the Brazos-Navasota watershed management 
     project.
       16. $500,000 for the Kentucky Center for Wastewater 
     Research to establish training, education and database 
     management for wastewater research to identify the greatest 
     threats to regional watersheds.
       17. $250,000 for the Maryland Bureau of Mines for an acid 
     mine drainage remediation project to reduce or eliminate the 
     loss of quality water from surface streams in the Kempton 
     Mine complex.
       18. $2,000,000 to the University of Missouri-Rolla for 
     research and development of technologies to mitigate the 
     impacts of livestock operations on the environment.
       19. $500,000 for marsh restoration activities at Acowmin 
     Marsh and Little River Marsh near North Hampton and Rye, New 
     Hampshire.
       20. $200,000 for the Tri-State Water Quality Council for 
     development of voluntary nutrient reduction programs, 
     establishing a basin-wide water quality monitoring program, 
     and related activities.
       21. $1,000,000 for the Global Environmental Management 
     Education Center within the College of Natural Resources at 
     the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, to provide 
     training and outreach education for safeguarding the quality 
     of surface and groundwater resources.
       22. $1,000,000 for the Frank Tejeda Center for Excellence 
     in Environmental Operations to continue its efforts to 
     demonstrate new technology for water and wastewater 
     treatment.
       23. $1,250,000 for the Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed 
     Grants Program. Funds provided for the Chesapeake Bay small 
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     program are to be managed by the Fish and Wildlife Foundation 
     and shall be used for community-based projects including 
     those that design and implement on-the-ground and in-the-
     water environmental restoration or protection activities to 
     help meet Chesapeake Bay Program goals and objectives.
       24. $1,000,000 for the Lake Champlain management plan.
       25. $4,500,000 for operation of the Long Island Sound 
     Office and programs consistent with new authorization 
     relative to the Long Island Sound. The total program is 
     provided $5,000,000.
       26. $500,000 for the Environmentors project.
       27. $200,000 for the Northeast Waste Management Officials 
     Association to continue solid waste, hazardous waste, cleanup 
     and pollution prevention programs.
       28. $2,000,000 for the Food and Agricultural Policy 
     Research Institute's Missouri watershed initiative project to 
     link economic and environmental data with ambient water 
     quality.
       29. $500,000 for the Small Business Pollution Prevention 
     Center at the University of Northern Iowa.
       30. $750,000 for the painting and coating compliance 
     enhancement project through the Iowa Waste Reduction Center.
       31. $1,890,000 for the Michigan Biotechnology Institute for 
     development and demonstration of environmental cleanup 
     technologies.
       32. $200,000 for the Hawaii Department of Agriculture and 
     the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and 
     Human Resources to continue projects aimed at improving the 
     acceptability and efficacy of agriculturally-based 
     environmental restoration technologies.
       33. $1,000,000 for the Animal Waste Management Consortium 
     through the University of Missouri, acting with Iowa State 
     University, North Carolina State University, Michigan State 
     University, Oklahoma State University, and Purdue University 
     to supplement ongoing research, demonstration, and outreach 
     projects associated with animal waste management.
       34. $1,000,000 to complete a cumulative impacts study by 
     the National Academy of Sciences of North Slope oil and gas 
     development.
       35. $750,000 for an expansion of EPA's efforts related to 
     the Government's purchase and use of environmentally 
     preferable products focused on bio-based products with an 
     emphasis on soy-based industrial oils, greases and hydraulic 
     fluid. This includes $200,000 to complete the soy smoke 
     initiative through the University of Missouri-Rolla.
       36. $975,000 for the Alabama Department of Environmental 
     Management water and wastewater training programs.
       37. $250,000 for the Vermont Department of Agriculture to 
     work with the conservation districts along the Connecticut 
     River in Vermont to reduce nonpoint source pollution.
       38. $600,000 for the Wetland Development project in Logan, 
     Utah.
       39. $500,000 for the Economic Development Alliance of 
     Hawaii to accelerate commercialization of biotechnology to 
     reduce pesticide use in tropical and subtropical agricultural 
     production.
       40. $100,000 for the Connecticut River Science Consortium 
     to develop an interdisciplinary scientific monitoring and 
     analysis project in the Connecticut River Basin.
       41. $1,000,000 to develop and demonstrate new tools for 
     imaging and monitoring the movement of fluids and 
     contaminants in the shallow subsurface using time-lapse 
     geophysical imaging and tomography techniques. This project 
     will involve researchers from Boise State University, the 
     Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, 
     other Federal labs and industry.
       42. $500,000 for Mississippi State University, the 
     University of Mississippi and the University of Georgia to 
     conduct forestry best management practice water quality 
     effectiveness studies in the States of Mississippi and 
     Georgia.
       43. $750,000 for the University of Idaho's groundwater 
     assessment project for rural Idaho cities and towns.
       44. $500,000 for a study by the City of Fairbanks using 
     geographic information system mapping to assess methods to 
     comply with NPDES requirements.
       45. $150,000 to Colchester, Vermont to study nonpoint 
     source influences on water quality in Mallets Bay on Lake 
     Champlain and to plan for mitigation, with a focus on 
     stormwater management and on-site disposal systems.
       46. $750,000 for the Resource and Agricultural Policy 
     Systems Project at Iowa State University.
       47. $700,000 to continue the Urban Rivers Awareness Program 
     at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia for its 
     environmental science program.
       48. $500,000 for the Kenai River Center for continued 
     research on watershed issues and related activities.
       49. $750,000 for the New Hampshire Estuaries Project 
     management plan implementation.
       50. $100,000 to continue the Design for the Environment for 
     Farmers Program to address the unique environmental concerns 
     of the American Pacific area through the adoption of 
     sustainable agricultural practices.
       51. $5,000,000 to the Gas Research Institute for the 
     development of a bio-refinery commercialization pilot project 
     which will utilize thermal-depolymerization technology to 
     break down waste streams into usable products.
       52. $700,000 to the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission 
     for programs as described in Senate Report 106-410.
       53. $300,000 to Davie County, North Carolina for the 
     Cooleemee Falls Project.
       54. $1,000,000 to Union County, Arkansas for the 
     continuation of the Union County Sparta Aquifer study.
       55. $500,000 to Riverside County, California for the 
     Community and Environmental Transportation Acceptability 
     Process (CETAP).
       56. $150,000 for the Santa Clara River Enhancement and 
     Management Plan.
       57. $450,000 to Ventura County, California for continued 
     development of the Calleguas Creek Watershed management plan.
       58. $1,200,000 to Gateway Cities, Council of Governments in 
     California to complete Phase II of the Truck Impacted 
     Intersections Program and develop the comprehensive Diesel 
     Emissions Reduction Program.
       59. $900,000 for continuation of the Sacramento River Toxic 
     Pollution Control Project, to be cost shared.
       60. $600,000 to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for design and 
     construction as part of the Fort Lauderdale International 
     Airport Wetlands Development Project.
       61. $131,000 to Miami-Dade County, Florida for lead 
     screening, testing, outreach, education and abatement in the 
     Liberty City neighborhood.
       62. $600,000 for fishery and habitat restoration in Lake 
     Panasoffkee, Florida.
       63. $600,000 to Osceola County, Florida to preserve the 
     watershed and drainage system currently under attack by 
     exotic aquatic plants.
       64. $1,150,000 for the Tampa Bay Watch program.
       65. $1,000,000 to St. Petersburg, Florida for the Clam 
     Bayou Habitat Restoration Project.
       66. $100,000 to Pinellas County, Florida for the 
     cooperative exchange education module on environmental 
     sustainability and the stewardship of natural resources.
       67. $1,000,000 to the Illinois Environmental Protection 
     Agency for the ``Illinois Rivers 2020'' restoration program.
       68. $600,000 for the Water Systems Council in Iowa to 
     assist in the effective delivery of water to rural citizens 
     nationwide.
       69. $300,000 for investigation of pollution sources in the 
     Lower Arkansas River in Wichita, Kansas.
       70. $300,000 for the Urban Waste Management and Research 
     Center in Louisiana.
       71. $700,000 for the Louisiana Environmental Research 
     Center.
       72. $300,000 for the Oyster Habitat Restoration program in 
     the Chesapeake Bay.
       73. $800,000 for the National Center for Manufacturing 
     Sciences in Michigan to facilitate industrial input into 
     EPA's compliance assistance clearinghouse and to expand the 
     scope of compliance assistance centers ($500,000) and for 
     continuation of EPA's Environmental Roadmapping Initiative 
     ($300,000).
       74. $300,000 to Mississippi State University for the 
     Southeast Center for Technology Assistance for Small Drinking 
     Water Systems.
       75. $300,000 to the Ten Towns Great Swamp Watershed 
     Management Committee in New Jersey.
       76. $1,000,000 to Alfred University in New York for the 
     Center for the Engineered Conservation of Energy (EnCo).
       77. $1,000,000 to the Darrin Fresh Water Institute in New 
     York to extend and expand studies of acid deposition.
       78. $500,000 to Cortland County, New York for continued 
     work on the aquifer protection plan of which $150,000 is for 
     continued implementation of the comprehensive water quality 
     management program in the Upper Susquehanna Watershed.
       79. $1,200,000 for continued work on the water quality 
     management plans for the Central New York watersheds in 
     Onondaga and Cayuga Counties.
       80. $300,000 to the Central New York Regional Planning and 
     Development Board for the Oneida Lake and Watershed 
     Management Plan.
       81. $1,200,000 for the Dry Creek Flood Mitigation project 
     in Cortland, New York.
       82. $500,000 to the town of Pilot Mountain, North Carolina 
     for stream restoration and upland protection in the 
     watershed.
       83. $300,000 to Charlotte, North Carolina for the Charlotte 
     Surface Water Improvement and Management Program.
       84. $855,000 to North Carolina Central University for the 
     Environmental Risk and Impact Research Initiative.
       85. $300,000 to Cleveland State University in Ohio for 
     continuation of the Program of Excellence in Risk Analysis.
       86. $1,000,000 to the Pennsylvania Geographic Information 
     Consortium to continue development of a comprehensive 
     environmental masterplan for Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna 
     Watershed.
       87. $175,000 to the Pennsylvania State University Technical 
     Assistance Center to provide technical expertise to operate 
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       88. $2,000,000 to the University of Houston, Texas and in 
     consultation with the Greater Houston Partnership for Ozone 
     Simulation and Forecasting.
       89. $500,000 to Texas A&M University for the National 
     Chemical Safety Data System.
       90. $2,500,000 to the Salt Lake Organizing Committee or its 
     designee for environmental programs and operations of the 
     2002 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Eligible activities 
     may include tree programs; environmental compliance 
     activities; programs highlighting the use of environmentally-
     friendly technologies including, but not limited to, 
     photovoltaic lighting and CNG fuel; waste management and 
     recycling programs and operations; and public information and 
     outreach efforts.
       91. $600,000 to Fairfax County, Virginia for the Fairfax 
     County Water Authority to conduct a study on water supply for 
     drought resistance.
       92. $1,000,000 to Arlington County and the City of 
     Alexandria, Virginia for demonstration of environmental 
     improvements to Four Mile Run.
       93. $600,000 to Franklin, Grant and Adams counties in 
     Washington for the Groundwater Management Area to address 
     nitrate levels in drinking water.
       94. $300,000 for the continuation of the Molten Carbonate 
     Fuel Cell Demonstration project in King County, Washington.
       95. $168,000 for the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife 
     Commission for technical work near the Crandon Mine in 
     Wisconsin.
       96. $1,225,000 to the Canaan Valley Institute for ongoing 
     operations.
       97. $2,400,000 for the National Energy Technology 
     Laboratory (NETL) for continued activities of a comprehensive 
     clean water initiative in cooperation with EPA Region III.
       98. $2,800,000 to the Polymer Alliance Zone's MARCEE 
     Initiative with oversight being provided by the Office of 
     Solid Waste.
       99. $500,000 to the University of North Carolina at 
     Greensboro for the Bioterrorism Water Quality Protection 
     Program with the aim of developing highly automated and 
     inexpensive testing protocols.
       100. $500,000 to Water Project 2000 in Tennessee to provide 
     a benchmark water quality study.
       101. $500,000 to Fallon, Nevada to address levels of 
     naturally occurring arsenic.
       102. $500,000 to the University of Toledo in the Ohio Lake 
     Erie Research Center for participation in the Western Lake 
     Erie Basin Study authorized by Sec. 441 of WRDA 1999, Public 
     Law 106-53.
       103. $450,000 for the Water Resources Institute at 
     California State University, San Bernardino to develop and 
     maintain an information repository of water-related research 
     and conflict resolution.
       104. $600,000 for the San Bernardino Municipal Water 
     District in California for research and design of a 
     mitigation project addressing the City's contaminated high 
     groundwater table and dangers presented by liquefaction.
       105. $990,000 for continuation of the Soil Aquifer 
     Treatment Project.
       106. $200,000 to Miami-Dade County Department of 
     Environmental Resources Management in Florida to expand the 
     existing education program.
       107. $300,000 to Leon County, Florida for the Aquifer 
     Protection Assessment program.
       108. $750,000 to Calhoun County, Michigan for development 
     of a comprehensive research and development plan for 
     Kalamazoo River Watershed.
       109. $250,000 to the Northwest Straits Advisory Commission 
     of Washington.
       The conferees have agreed to the following reductions from 
     the budget request:
       1. $27,413,000 from the CCTI Buildings program.
       2. $9,495,000 from the CCTI Transportation program.
       3. $31,686,100 from the CCTI Industry program.
       4. $5,076,200 from the CCTI International Capacity Building 
     program.
       5. $2,025,000 from the CCTI State and Local program.
       6. $2,410,000 from the CCTI Carbon Removal program.
       7. $848,800 from Project EMPACT.
       8. $9,000,000 from the Integrated Information Initiative. 
     The conferees have provided $5,000,000 for continued planning 
     and design of this new initiative's exchange network.
       9. $4,841,000 from the innovative community partnership 
     program.
       10. $9,000,000 from the Montreal Protocol Multilateral 
     Fund.
       11. $4,250,000 from the international environmental 
     monitoring program.
       12. $3,840,000 from the regional geographic program.
       13. $3,395,000 from urban environmental quality and human 
     health.
       14. $10,000,000 as a reduction in payroll costs.
       The seven Environmental Finance Centers and the Regional 
     Environmental Enforcement Associations are to be funded at 
     the fiscal year 2000 funding level, and the Environmental 
     Education programs are to be funded as proposed in the budget 
     submission. The conferees agree that operations of the Clean 
     Water Act Sec. 104(g)(1) Wastewater Onsite Technical 
     Assistance Centers shall remain at the current funding level.
       The conference agreement includes the budget request of 
     $34,100,000 for pesticides reregistration, and $39,300,000 
     for pesticides registration activities performed by EPA. 
     Faster review and approval for registration applications will 
     allow safer, more environmentally friendly products on the 
     market sooner and ensure that farmers have the ability to 
     protect their crop. The conferees expect no reductions to be 
     proposed for these programs in the operating plan submission.
       Similarly, the Endocrine Disruptor Screening and the 
     Pesticide Residue Tolerance Reassessment programs are to 
     receive $10,200,000 and $14,600,000, respectively. The 
     Tolerance Reassessment program has been funded at a level 
     that equals the budget request if a tolerance fee was imposed 
     by EPA and an additional $7,000,000 was recovered through 
     that fee. The conferees have prohibited implementation of the 
     fee again this year, due in part to provisions of that fee 
     structure proposed by EPA which would charge more than 100 
     percent of actual costs and which would make such charges 
     retroactive. Until the Agency works toward a fee-for-service 
     proposal which is both fair and reasonable, the conferees do 
     not expect to entertain approval. As noted previously, these 
     programs are not to be proposed for reduction through the 
     operating plan submission.
       The Agency is directed to take no reductions below the 
     budget request from the NPDES permit backlog, the High 
     Production Volume Chemical Challenge Program, the Chesapeake 
     Bay Program Office, and the water quality monitoring program 
     along the New Jersey-New York shoreline. The Agency is 
     expected to fund the Great Lakes Program Office and the 
     National Estuary program at no less than the 2000 level, and 
     is directed to fund compliance assistance activities at no 
     less than $25,000,000.
       The conferees direct EPA to contract expeditiously with the 
     National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for a review of the 
     quality of science used to develop and implement TMDLs, and 
     direct that the final report be submitted to Congress by June 
     1, 2001. Further, EPA is directed to conduct a comprehensive 
     assessment of the potential State resources which will be 
     required for the development and implementation of TMDLs and 
     present the results of the study to Congress within 120 days 
     of enactment of this Act. In conducting this cost assessment, 
     EPA must, in addition to direction included in Senate Report 
     106-410, provide an estimate of the annual costs to the 
     regulated community in both the private and public sectors; 
     address concerns regarding the economic analysis performed by 
     the Administrator on regulatory changes to the TMDL program 
     that were identified by the Comptroller General in a June 21, 
     2000, report; and estimate the costs to small businesses that 
     would result from regulatory changes to the TMDL program. In 
     conducting these analyses, the Administrator shall solicit 
     comment from the Comptroller General, each State, and the 
     public regarding the Agency's assessment.
       In addition, the conferees direct the Agency to prepare an 
     analysis of the monitoring data needed for development and 
     implementation of TMDLs, and further direct EPA Region IX as 
     well as all other EPA Regions and EPA Headquarters not to 
     impose or mandate new TMDL-related requirements or issue new 
     guidance relative to new TMDL-related permits prior to the 
     date the TMDL rule can be implemented under current law.
       The conferees understand that in June 2000, EPA released a 
     substantially revised draft dioxin reassessment after five 
     years of considering recommendations from its Science 
     Advisory Board (SAB). The SAB's November 1995 Report noted 
     numerous weaknesses in the risk characterization and dose-
     response chapters of the 1994 draft reassessment and directed 
     EPA to ensure that its conclusions were based on a more 
     complete consideration of available scientific studies.
       The conferees commend EPA for convening a peer review panel 
     to assess two key sections of the revised reassessment prior 
     to a second SAB review. The conferees are concerned, based on 
     the report of this peer review panel, that EPA's key 
     conclusions regarding dioxin risks remain controversial and 
     do not completely address questions raised by the SAB in 
     1995.
       The conferees understand that Congressional science and 
     agriculture committees have called for a SAB review of the 
     full dioxin reassessment, including all new information. The 
     conferees further understand that the Department of 
     Agriculture is finalizing an agreement with the National 
     Academy of Sciences to understand better the dioxin impacts 
     on the U.S. food supply. Therefore, the conferees strongly 
     encourage the Agency to await completion of these reviews 
     before finalizing its dioxin reassessment.
       This direction should not be interpreted to restrict EPA 
     from issuing regulations to control dioxin emissions such as 
     air toxics rules under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act 
     Amendments of 1990, which have reduced industrial emissions 
     of dioxin by 90 percent.
       In view of the uncertain future supply of pharmaceutical-
     grade CFCs, the conferees are mindful that a smooth and 
     timely transition to chlorofluorocarbon-free metered dose 
     inhalers (MDIs) is needed for patients to continue to have 
     access to the treatments they need. The conferees are aware 
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     ago FDA, in consultation with EPA, issued a proposed rule to 
     determine when CFC MDIs are non-essential, and that a 
     decision was proposed at a July 2000 Meeting of the Montreal 
     Protocol's Open-Ended Working Group. The conferees understand 
     that major patient and physician organizations, environmental 
     groups and industry supported the July decision. This 
     decision has now been revised. The conferees note that the 
     July decision and this revised decision include a provision 
     on the non-essentiality of new CFC MDIs unless certain 
     specified criteria are met. The conferees believe that a 
     decision by the Protocol Parties such as the revised decision 
     could facilitate the transition without putting patients at 
     risk, and believe it is important that a final decision make 
     it clear that each national health authority make the finding 
     as to whether the essentiality criteria are met for a 
     particular product. The conferees strongly urge EPA to work 
     with the U.S. Delegation to the Protocol's Meeting of the 
     Parties this December to actively seek adoption of a decision 
     which incorporates the essential use criteria contained in 
     the revised July decision, which adheres to a timely phase-
     out of new CFC MDIs, and which retains the ability of FDA to 
     protect the health and safety of U.S. citizens. The conferees 
     further urge EPA to work with FDA on any final Protocol 
     decision.
       The conferees note that EPA's plans to promulgate a 
     regulation pertaining to radon in drinking water have 
     significant financial implications for states and local water 
     districts across the United States. The conferees believe it 
     is important that the Agency obtain cost data prior to 
     finalizing such a rule. In this regard, the General 
     Accounting Office is directed to study the financial impacts 
     of the proposed EPA regulation and submit the report 
     expeditiously to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     House and Senate. Prior to finalizing this rule, the Agency 
     is strongly encouraged to consider fully the GAO's findings.
       The conferees note with disappointment that the Agency has 
     not solicited public comment regarding scientific community 
     recommendations for exemptions from the 1994 proposed rule 
     regarding so-called ``plant pesticides.'' The conferees urge 
     EPA to solicit and consider public comment regarding such 
     recommendations before completion of the ``plant pesticide'' 
     rulemaking. EPA's failure to consider such exemptions timely 
     is not a basis for promulgation of an over-reaching final 
     rule.
       The conferees fully expect the Agency to follow through on 
     its current commitment to the Sustainable Industry program. 
     The program's success thus far with the metal finishing 
     industry has focused on collaboration rather than 
     confrontation with industry, improved EPA understanding of 
     industry practices, and achieving better environmental 
     results from companies in tandem with concrete improvements 
     to the regulatory system. The Agency is encouraged to provide 
     resources at the fiscal year 1999 level in order to support 
     necessary personnel, outreach, grants, and EPA regional 
     capacity for continued progress with the metal finishing 
     industry and other key participating sectors, including 
     specialty chemicals, meat processing, metal casting, 
     shipbuilding and repair, photo processing, and travel and 
     tourism.
       The conferees are concerned that EPA has not submitted for 
     independent peer review the Agency's application of the 
     persistent, bioaccumulative toxicants (PBT) criteria and 
     methodology to metals as utilized in various Agency programs 
     and proposed regulations. Serious doubts about the scientific 
     validity of applying PBT criteria and methodology to metals 
     have been expressed by international scientific bodies, 
     invited experts at a January 2000 public workshop co-
     sponsored by EPA, and EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB). In 
     May 2000, the SAB noted that ``classification of metals as 
     PBTs is problematic, since their environmental fate and 
     transport cannot be adequately described using models for 
     organic contaminants.'' Therefore, the conferees urge EPA to 
     seek independent peer review and refer to the SAB the 
     question of the scientific appropriateness of applying PBT 
     criteria and methodology to metals before any application of 
     the PBT criteria and methodology to metals.
       The EPA has proposed to redesignate the San Joaquin Valley 
     Ozone Nonattainment area from ``serious'' to ``severe'' 
     nonattainment. The conferees note that the East Kern County 
     portion of this area is geographically separated from the San 
     Joaquin Valley air basin and in itself may not warrant a 
     reclassification and may not contribute to the ozone 
     nonattainment in the San Joaquin Valley. The conferees also 
     note that within the East Kern County area are two defense 
     installations pursuing vital defense programs and a NASA 
     laboratory conducting advanced aerospace research which could 
     be hampered seriously by reclassification. In view of this 
     the Administrator is strongly encouraged to exclude the East 
     Kern County area from the San Joaquin area redesignation.
       The conferees continue to be concerned with EPA's chosen 
     preferred alternative for constructing secondary treatment 
     facilities at the USIWTP near San Diego. The conferees are 
     aware of EPA's request to raise the existing cap on 
     construction spending at the IWTP in order to build 25 mgd of 
     secondary ponds at the IWTP with previously appropriated 
     monies in the BEIF. The conferees are also aware of the 
     significant concerns which exist regarding the limited 
     capacity of EPA's preferred alternative, the lack of 
     available land on which future capacity could be constructed, 
     and its inadequacy in addressing increasing future cross-
     border sewage flows in the region. Finally, the conferees 
     note there is at least one private sector proposal to 
     construct in Mexico similar secondary facilities which would 
     have considerably greater potential capacity better suited to 
     the long term sewage treatment needs of the rapidly growing 
     border region.
       The conferees are encouraged by the progress of separate 
     authorizing legislation now pending before the Congress which 
     would facilitate such a proposal, as well as the growing 
     level of documented support for such a proposal by Mexican 
     leaders. The conferees thus continue to believe that it would 
     be inappropriate to lift the cap at this time or to permit 
     construction of a limited capacity secondary treatment 
     facility at the IWTP which would not meet long-term sewage 
     treatment needs. The conferees urge EPA to continue working 
     with the IBWC, State Department, and its counterparts in 
     Mexico to encourage and develop such a viable proposal in a 
     timely manner.


                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

       Appropriates $34,094,000 for the Office of Inspector 
     General as proposed by the Senate instead of $34,000,000 as 
     proposed by the House. In addition to this appropriation, 
     $11,500,000 is available to the OIG by transfer from the 
     Hazardous Substance Superfund account.


                        BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES

       Appropriates $23,931,000 for buildings and facilities as 
     proposed by the House instead of $23,000,000 as proposed by 
     the Senate.


                     HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

       Appropriates $1,270,000,000 for hazardous substance 
     superfund as proposed by the House instead of $1,400,000,000 
     as proposed by the Senate. Bill language provides that 
     $635,000,000 of the appropriated amount is to be derived from 
     the Superfund Trust Fund, while the remaining $635,000,000 is 
     to be derived from General Revenues of the Treasury. 
     Additional language (1) provides for a transfer of 
     $11,500,000 to the Office of Inspector General; (2) provides 
     for a transfer of $36,500,000 to the Science and Technology 
     account; and (3) provides that $100,000,000 of the 
     appropriated amount shall not become available for obligation 
     until September 1, 2001.
       The conferees note that funds for the Agency for Toxic 
     Substances and Disease Registry and for the National 
     Institute of Environmental Health Sciences have been provided 
     in new, separate accounts elsewhere in this Act instead of 
     through the Environmental Protection Agency as has been done 
     in previous years.
       The conferees have agreed to the following fiscal year 2001 
     funding levels:
       1. $914,800,000 for Superfund response/cleanup actions.
       2. $140,000,000 for enforcement activities.
       3. $139,500,000 for management and support. Of this amount, 
     $11,500,000 is to be provided by transfer to the Office of 
     Inspector General.
       4. $36,500,000 for research and development activities, to 
     be transferred to the Science and Technology account.
       5. $39,200,000 for reimbursable interagency activities, 
     including $28,500,000 for the Department of Justice, $650,000 
     for OSHA, $1,100,000 for FEMA, $2,450,000 for NOAA, 
     $5,500,000 for the Coast Guard, and $1,000,000 for the 
     Department of the Interior.
       6. The Brownfields program has been funded at the budget 
     request level of $91,600,000, which includes funding from 
     various programs within this account and the Environmental 
     Programs and Management account.
       The Agency is directed to notify the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House and Senate of any non-ATSDR 
     resources to be devoted to the Libby, Montana medical 
     monitoring program and related activities.
       The conferees remain concerned regarding the Agency's plans 
     to conduct certain dredging or invasive remediation 
     technology activities while these matters remain under study 
     by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The pending NAS 
     study is addressing dredging, capping, source control, 
     natural recovery, and disposal of contaminated sediments, and 
     is comparing the risks of each technology. The NAS expects to 
     submit its draft report of this study during Fall 2000 and 
     the conferees strongly encourage the NAS to issue a final 
     report no later than January 2001. Accordingly, the conferees 
     continue to direct the EPA to take no action to initiate or 
     order the use of dredging or invasive remedial technologies 
     where a final plan has not been adopted prior to October 1, 
     2000 or where such activities are not now occurring until the 
     NAS report has been completed and its findings have been 
     properly considered by the Agency. As in previous years, 
     exceptions are provided for voluntary agreements and for 
     urgent cases where contaminated sediment poses a significant 
     threat to public health.

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       In adopting this direction to the Agency, the conferees do 
     not intend to prevent EPA from publishing, issuing, or taking 
     public comment on specific proposed or draft remediation 
     plans; but do encourage the Agency to take into account the 
     NAS study when available as it goes through the above 
     process. However, any such plans are not to be finalized 
     until June 30, 2001 or until the Agency has properly 
     considered the NAS report, whichever comes first.


                LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK PROGRAM

       Appropriates $72,096,000 for the leaking underground 
     storage tank program as provided by the Senate instead of 
     $79,000,000 as proposed by the House.


                           OIL SPILL RESPONSE

       Appropriates $15,000,000 for oil spill response as provided 
     by both the House and the Senate.


                   STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS

       Appropriates $3,628,740,000 for state and tribal assistance 
     grants instead of $3,176,957,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $3,320,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Bill language 
     specifically provides $1,350,000,000 for Clean Water State 
     Revolving Fund (SRF) capitalization grants, $825,000,000 for 
     Safe Drinking Water SRF capitalization grants, $75,000,000 
     for the United States-Mexico Border program, $35,000,000 for 
     grants to address drinking water and wastewater 
     infrastructure needs in rural and native Alaska, 
     $1,008,000,000 for categorical grants to the states and 
     tribes, and $335,740,000 for grants for construction of water 
     and wastewater treatment facilities and for groundwater 
     protection infrastructure.
       The conferees have included bill language which, for fiscal 
     year 2001 only, authorizes the Administrator of the EPA to 
     use funds appropriated under section 319 of the Federal Water 
     Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) to make grants to Indian tribes 
     pursuant to section 319 (h) and 518 (e) of FWPCA. In 
     addition, bill language has been adopted by the conferees to 
     permit states to include as principal amounts considered to 
     be the cost of administering SRF loans to eligible borrowers, 
     with certain limitations.
       The conferees have further agreed to include bill language 
     which resolves in favor of the grantee two disputed grants, 
     docket numbers C-180840-01, C-180840-04, C-470319-03, and C-
     470319-04; as well as language carried in previous years' 
     Acts which stipulates that none of the funds in this or any 
     previous Act may be used by the Administrator for health 
     effects studies on drinking water contaminants. As in past 
     years, funds for such studies have been provided in other EPA 
     accounts. In addition, language requested in the budget 
     submission has been included which permits the Administrator 
     to reserve up to 1\1/2\ percent of the funds appropriated for 
     the SRF under Title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
     Act for grants under section 518 (c) of the Act.
       Finally, the conferees have included language which 
     stipulates that no funds provided in this Act to address 
     water infrastructure needs of colonias within the United 
     States along the U.S.-Mexico border shall be made available 
     after June 1, 2001 unless the receiving governmental entity 
     has established an enforceable ordinance or rule which 
     prevents the development or construction of any additional 
     colonia areas, or the development within an existing colonia 
     of any new home, business, or other structure which lacks 
     water, wastewater or other necessary infrastructure.
       Of the funds provided for the United States-Mexico Border 
     Program, $3,500,000 is for the El Paso-Las Cruces sustainable 
     water project, $2,000,000 is for the Brownsville, Texas water 
     supply project, $1,000,000 is for the Del Rio/San Felipe 
     Springs Water Treatment Plant, and $3,000,000 is for upgrades 
     and expansion of the Nogales International Waste Treatment 
     Plant, replacement of the International Outfall Interceptor, 
     and replacement of sewer infrastructure facilities of the 
     City of Nogales. Of the funds provided for rural and Alaska 
     Native villages, $2,000,000 is for training and technical 
     assistance. The State of Alaska must also provide a 25 
     percent match for all expenditures through this program.
       The conferees agree that the $335,740,000 provided to 
     communities or other entities for construction of water and 
     wastewater treatment facilities and for groundwater 
     protection infrastructure shall be accompanied by a cost-
     share requirement whereby 45 percent of a project's cost is 
     to be the responsibility of the community or entity 
     consistent with long-standing guidelines of the Agency. These 
     guidelines also offer flexibility in the application of the 
     cost-share requirement for those few circumstances when 
     meeting the 45 percent requirement is not possible. The 
     Agency is commended for its past efforts in working with 
     communities and other entities to resolve problems in this 
     regard, and the conferees expect this level of effort and 
     flexibility to continue throughout fiscal year 2001. The 
     distribution of funds under this program is as follows:
       1. $2,100,000 for the Jasper, Alabama sewer extension 
     project.
       2. $900,000 for the Scottsboro, Alabama drinking water 
     project.
       3. $3,000,000 for the Thomasville, Alabama water facility 
     project.
       4. $350,000 to Winfield, Alabama for sewer infrastructure 
     improvements near the Corridor X highway.
       5. $350,000 to Hamilton, Alabama for water and sewer 
     infrastructure improvements.
       6. $1,000,000 to Cullman County, Alabama for a water 
     infrastructure improvements.
       7. $150,000 to the Fayett County Water Board in Alabama for 
     drinking water system enhancements.
       8. $60,000 to Winston County, Alabama to complete Phase I 
     of the Houston-Moreland water project.
       9. $1,000,000 to Shelby County, Alabama for water 
     infrastructure improvements.
       10. $1,000,000 to the City of Huntsville, Alabama for water 
     and wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       11. $1,000,000 to the City of Hartselle, Alabama for 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       12. $1,000,000 to Morgan County, Alabama for wastewater 
     infrastructure improvements at the Sherbrooke Sanitary Sewer 
     System.
       13. $500,000 to the Limestone County Water and Sewer 
     Authority in Alabama for wastewater infrastructure 
     improvements.
       14. $250,000 to the City of Rogersville, Alabama for 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       5. $250,000 the City of Triana, Alabama for wastewater 
     infrastructure improvements.
       16. $3,000,000 for the State of Alaska Department of 
     Environmental Conservation groundwater remediation project 
     near the Kenai River. The match requirement can be met with 
     non-Federally funded pre-award expenditures by the State of 
     Alaska for this project.
       17. $2,200,000 for water and sewer improvements in the 
     North Star Borough, Alaska.
       18. $1,100,000 for water and sewer improvements in 
     Whittier, Alaska.
       19. $2,200,000 for water and sewer improvements in Sitka, 
     Alaska.
       20. $2,500,000 for the Water Infrastructure Finance 
     Authority of Arizona (WIFA) for a loan to Pima County, 
     Arizona for wastewater treatment facility improvements. WIFA 
     may lend the funds directly to Pima County or use the funds 
     to support bonds to fund loans to Pima County and other 
     Arizona communities on Arizona's SRF priority list. Pima 
     County and other benefiting communities, if any, shall repay 
     loans to Arizona's SRF.
       21. $750,000 to Gila County, Arizona for water 
     infrastructure improvements in the Kellner and Ice House 
     Canyon areas.
       22. $450,000 to Barling, Arkansas for water infrastructure 
     development and engineering studies for future water and 
     sewer improvements.
       23. $2,000,000 to San Diego, California for the Coastal Low 
     Flow Storm Drain Diversion Project.
       24. $1,500,000 to the Mission Springs Water District in 
     California to protect groundwater in the City of Desert Hot 
     Springs.
       25. $2,650,000 to Olivenhain Municipal Water District in 
     California for continued construction of a water treatment 
     plant.
       26. $1,000,000 for the Cutler-Orosi Wastewater JPA for a 
     wastewater treatment plant serving Cutler, Orosi, East Orosi, 
     and Sultana, California.
       27. $1,000,000 for wastewater infrastructure improvements 
     at the Placer County, California Subregional Wastewater 
     Treatment Plant.
       28. $1,900,000 to the Metropolitan Water District of 
     Southern California for the Desalination Research and 
     Innovation Partnership.
       29. $1,500,000 to Lomita, California to upgrade water 
     reservoir infrastructure.
       30. $600,000 for the continuation of a water reuse nitrate 
     treatment demonstration project in Yucca Valley, California.
       31. $500,000 for continuation of water infrastructure 
     improvements in Twentynine Palms, California.
       32. $850,000 for the continuation of water infrastructure 
     improvements in the Yucaipa Valley Water District in Yucaipa, 
     California.
       33. $1,300,000 for the Lower Owens River Project in Inyo 
     County, California ($900,000) and in the City of Los Angeles 
     ($400,000).
       34. $500,000 for storm and wastewater drainage and 
     infrastructure improvements in the City of Yucaipa, 
     California .
       35. $1,000,000 to San Clemente, California for the storm 
     drainage management and pilot program implementation.
       36. $1,750,000 to Carlsbad, California for the Encina Basin 
     Recycled Water System.
       37. $1,000,000 to San Joaquin County, California to 
     rehabilitate water, sewer, storm drains, and surface 
     infrastructure in East Stockton.
       38. $1,250,000 to Huntington Beach, California for 
     wastewater and sewer infrastructure improvements.
       39. $1,000,000 for the City of Sacramento, California 
     combined sewer overflow project.
       40. $1,000,000 for the City of Vallejo, California for a 
     sanitary sewer system at Mare Island.
       41. $100,000 for wastewater and groundwater infrastructure 
     improvements in Murrieta, California.
       42. $500,000 for Eureka, California for work on the Martin 
     Slough Interceptor.
       43. $2,000,000 for the City of Montrose, Colorado sewage 
     treatment upgrade.

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       44. $1,500,000 for the New Britain Water Department in 
     Connecticut for wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       45. $1,000,000 to the Council of Governments of the Central 
     Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut for water and sewer 
     improvements in the Naugatuck Valley.
       46. $1,000,000 to Lewes, Delaware to construct pump 
     stations, force mains, storage lagoons and spray irrigation 
     facility.
       47. $1,200,000 for the West Rehoboth Expansion of the Dewey 
     Beach Sanitary District, Delaware.
       48. $15,000,000 to the Florida Department of Environmental 
     Protection for the Tampa Bay, Florida regional reservoir 
     infrastructure project.
       49. $1,700,000 to the City of Tallahassee, Florida for 
     improvements to the stormwater drainage system.
       50. $900,000 to the City of West Palm Beach, Florida for 
     completion of wetlands-based indirect potable water and 
     wastewater reuse program.
       51. $1,325,000 to the City of Opa-locka, Florida for 
     wastewater and sewer infrastructure improvements.
       52. $2,325,000 to the City of North Miami Beach, Florida 
     for wastewater and sewer infrastructure improvements in the 
     Highland Village Neighborhood.
       53. $1,500,000 to Sarasota Bay, Florida for wastewater 
     infrastructure improvements necessary to reduce effluent 
     discharge into the Bay.
       54. $1,000,000 to the Escambia County Utilities Authority 
     in Florida for extension of the sanitary sewer collection 
     system.
       55. $1,500,000 for the Homosassa Regional Wastewater 
     Project in Citrus County, Florida.
       56. $1,000,000 to Paulding County, Georgia for the Richland 
     Creek Reservoir Project.
       57. $1,000,000 to the City of Roswell, Georgia for 
     infrastructure development and improvements of the Big Creek 
     Watershed Demonstration Project.
       58. $700,000 to the Toombs County Development Authority in 
     Georgia to provide water and wastewater infrastructure 
     improvements.
       59. $1,900,000 to Big Haynes Creek, Georgia for continued 
     work on the basin stormwater retention and reuse project.
       60. $500,000 for the Waimea Wastewater Treatment Plant 
     Interim Expansion in the County of Kauai, Hawaii.
       61. $1,000,000 for Burley, Idaho sewer system improvement 
     project.
       62. $2,300,000 for Granite Reeder, Idaho Water and Sewer 
     District sewer system construction.
       63. $1,500,000 for the McCall, Idaho water plant 
     improvement project.
       64. $500,000 to Burley, Idaho for water and wastewater 
     infrastructure improvements.
       65. $750,000 to the City of Hailey, Idaho for water and 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       66. $750,000 to the City of Glenns Ferry, Idaho for the 
     Glenns Ferry Water Improvement Project.
       67. $500,000 to Burr Ridge, Illinois for a sanitary sewer 
     improvement project.
       68. $400,000 to Earlville, Illinois for a new wastewater 
     treatment facility.
       69. $250,000 to Maple Park, Illinois for wastewater 
     infrastructure improvements.
       70. $1,750,000 to North Aurora, Illinois for construction 
     of water treatment and wastewater treatment facilities.
       71. $1,000,000 to West Chicago, Illinois for construction 
     of water treatment and wastewater treatment facilities.
       72. $1,750,000 to Dixon, Illinois for construction of water 
     treatment and wastewater treatment facilities.
       73. $1,900,000 to Bloomington, Illinois for construction of 
     water treatment and wastewater treatment facilities.
       74. $350,000 to DuPage County, Illinois for the Village of 
     Bensenville and the City of Wood Dale water and wastewater 
     infrastructure improvements.
       75. $1,400,000 to Prospect Heights, Illinois for 
     construction of a new drinking water conveyance system.
       76. $1,000,000 for the Village of Johnsburg, Illinois 
     wastewater treatment project.
       77. $3,440,000 to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation 
     District in Chicago, Illinois for continued development of 
     the tunnel and reservoir project (TARP).
       78. $550,000 to the City of Liberty, Indiana for the 
     Waterworks System Improvement Project.
       79. $1,000,000 to Evansville, Indiana for infrastructure 
     development of the Pigeon Creek Enhancement project.
       80. $1,000,000 to West Lafayette, Indiana for 
     infrastructure improvements associated with the development 
     of a new business district.
       81. $1,000,000 to Mason City, Iowa for construction of a 
     new water treatment facility.
       82. $3,250,000 for Clinton, Iowa to separate storm and 
     sewage systems.
       83. $2,000,000 to Wichita, Kansas for water and wastewater 
     infrastructure improvements.
       84. $500,000 to Clark County, Kentucky for the WMU head 
     works facility.
       85. $500,000 to upgrade the wastewater infrastructure 
     facilities in Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky.
       86. $300,000 to the Bluegrass Area Development District in 
     Kentucky for a regional water treatment feasibility study.
       87. $200,000 to Scott County, Kentucky for construction of 
     a water tower.
       88. $500,000 to Madison County, Kentucky for sewer 
     infrastructure improvements.
       89. $100,000 to Mercer County, Kentucky for drinking water 
     system enhancements.
       90. $500,000 to the East Casey County Water District, 
     Kentucky for water and wastewater infrastructure 
     improvements.
       91. $1,000,000 for the Northern Kentucky Area Development 
     District for the expansion of the Carrollton, Kentucky 
     Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant.
       92. $1,000,000 to Pike County, Kentucky for water and 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       93. $1,000,000 to Lawrence County, Kentucky for water and 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       94. $400,000 to Christian County, Kentucky for water and 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       95. $300,000 to the Crittenden-Livingston Regional Water 
     System in Kentucky for the improvement of water distribution 
     facilities.
       96. $400,000 to Madisonville, Kentucky for sewer system 
     improvements.
       97. $300,000 to Centertown, Kentucky for sewer system 
     improvements.
       98. $3,000,000 for Logan/Todd, Kentucky Regional Water 
     Commission for water system improvements.
       99. $1,000,000 to the City of Monroe, Louisiana for water 
     and wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       100. $800,000 to the East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana for 
     water and wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       101. $600,000 to the Town of Livingston, Louisiana to 
     expand the town's water system.
       102. $100,000 to Iberville Parish, Louisiana for water and 
     sewer infrastructure improvements.
       103. $1,000,000 to Shreveport, Louisiana to address 
     infrastructure and storage problems affecting water quality 
     as identified in a recent study.
       104. $1,400,000 to St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana for water 
     and wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       105. $1,200,000 to Iberia Parish, Louisiana for water and 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements in the City of Iberia 
     ($1,000,000) and to the City of Jeanerette ($200,000).
       106. $100,000 to St. John Parish, Louisiana for water and 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       107. $50,000 to Ascension Parish, Louisiana for water and 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       108. $100,000 to Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana for water 
     and wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       109. $1,000,000 for the Corinna, Maine sewer upgrade.
       110. $4,600,000 for biological nutrient removal on the 
     eastern shore of Maryland, including $2,000,000 to the City 
     of Crisfield; $1,800,000 for the City of Fruitland; and 
     $800,000 for the Somerset County Sanitary District for 
     Princess Anne.
       111. $2,000,000 for Bristol County, Massachusetts, 
     wastewater projects.
       112. $1,000,000 for the Massachusetts Water Resources 
     Authority's combined sewer overflow control plan.
       113. $1,000,000 for water and wastewater infrastructure 
     improvements in Taunton, Massachusetts.
       114. $2,000,000 for St. Clair Shores, Michigan combined 
     sewer overflow correction project.
       115. $1,000,000 to Bad Axe, Michigan for continued drinking 
     water infrastructure improvements.
       116. $1,500,000 to Port Huron, Michigan for water and 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       117. $500,000 to Mt. Clemens, Michigan for water and 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       118. $1,000,000 to Higgins Lake, Michigan for a wastewater 
     treatment program.
       119. $1,500,000 to Grand Rapids, Michigan for combined 
     sewer overflow infrastructure improvements for the National 
     Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
       120. $2,000,000 for continuation of the Rouge River 
     National Wet Weather Demonstration Project.
       121. $800,000 to Oakland County, Michigan for 
     infrastructure improvements within the George W. Kuhn 
     Drainage District.
       122. $1,000,000 for water system infrastructure 
     improvements in Jackson, Mississippi.
       123. $1,500,000 to the City of Picayune, Mississippi for 
     water and wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       124. $1,300,000 to Tupelo, Mississippi for water 
     infrastructure needs.
       125. $3,000,000 for the DeSoto County, Mississippi 
     comprehensive water and wastewater management project.
       126. $1,000,000 for the City of Pearl, Mississippi 
     wastewater collection rehabilitation.
       127. $3,000,000 for Jefferson County, Mississippi water and 
     sewer infrastructure needs.
       128. $1,000,000 for West Rankin Metropolitan Sewer 
     Authority to develop alternative water and wastewater systems 
     for Rankin County, Mississippi.
       129. $6,500,000 for St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri for 
     the Meramec River enhancement and wetlands protection project

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     ($3,500,000) and the Central Industrial District wastewater 
     project ($3,000,000).
       130. $100,000 for Allendale, Missouri wastewater 
     infrastructure improvements.
       131. $900,000 for Nodaway County, Missouri wastewater 
     needs, including the communities of Pickering and Ravenwood.
       132. $500,000 to Holt County, Missouri for water and 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements including the 
     communities of Mound City and Craig.
       133. $2,000,000 to Jefferson County, Missouri for water and 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       134. $700,000 to the City of Byrnes Mill, Missouri for 
     water and wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       135. $3,000,000 for the Lockwood, Montana wastewater 
     collection system and wastewater treatment and disposal 
     system.
       136. $2,000,000 for the City of Belgrade, Montana 
     wastewater collection, treatment and disposal system.
       137. $1,000,000 for West Valley, Montana water and sewer 
     development.
       138. $1,000,000 for water and wastewater infrastructure 
     needs of the Moapa Valley, Nevada Water District.
       139. $1,000,000 to Omaha, Nebraska for combined sewer 
     overflow infrastructure improvements.
       140. $2,000,000 to Nashua, New Hampshire for combined sewer 
     overflow infrastructure improvements.
       141. $300,000 for Lebanon, New Hampshire combined sewer 
     overflow elimination project.
       142. $400,000 for the Newmarket, New Hampshire outflow 
     discharge pipe.
       143. $2,000,000 for the Berlin, New Hampshire water works 
     improvement project.
       144. $1,500,000 for the City of Elizabeth, New Jersey 
     combined sewer overflow abatement project.
       145. $1,500,000 for the City of Carteret, New Jersey 
     combined sewer overflow improvements.
       146. $2,500,000 to the Musconetcong Sewerage Authority in 
     New Jersey to assist the plant in accommodating sewage from 
     Hopatcong and Jefferson Township.
       147. $800,000 to the Ocean County Utilities Authority in 
     New Jersey for reimbursement of the completed Crestwood 
     Interceptor project.
       148. $1,700,000 to Las Cruces, New Mexico for improvements 
     to the wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
       149. $500,000 to Village Bosque Farms, New Mexico for water 
     and wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       150. $1,000,000 to Silver City, New Mexico for water and 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       151. $4,380,000 for North and South Valley of the City of 
     Albuquerque and the county of Bernalillo, New Mexico regional 
     water and wastewater system improvements.
       152. $990,000 for Corrales, New Mexico centralized water 
     and wastewater treatment system.
       153. $830,000 for Los Lunas, New Mexico wastewater system 
     upgrade.
       154. $750,000 for Clovis, New Mexico wastewater treatment 
     system repair.
       155. $750,000 to the Village of Morrisville, New York for 
     the construction of a wastewater treatment system.
       156. $1,400,000 to Genesee County, New York for Phase I of 
     the Public Water Supply Program.
       157. $14,000,000 for continued clean water improvements for 
     Onondaga Lake, New York.
       158. $2,500,000 to the City of Auburn, New York for the 
     Auburn Municipal Water Filtration Plant and Water Reservoir.
       159. $3,000,000 to Wayne County, New York for Phase I of 
     the Wayne County wastewater treatment facility improvements.
       160. $500,000 to Onondaga County, New York for water and 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements in the Village of 
     Minoa.
       161. $350,000 to Onondaga County, New York for drainage 
     improvements in the Town of Onondaga for Nedrow.
       162. $300,000 to Onondaga County, New York for drainage 
     improvements in the Village of Marcellus.
       163. $500,000 to the Town of Clarence, New York for 
     construction of a sanitary sewer system.
       164. $300,000 to the Village of McGraw, New York for the 
     replacement of a water storage tank.
       165. $8,000,000 for drinking water infrastructure needs in 
     the New York City Watershed.
       166. $1,350,000 for extension and construction of water 
     infrastructure in Union County, North Carolina.
       167. $650,000 for water and wastewater infrastructure 
     improvements in Stanly County, North Carolina.
       168. $2,000,000 to the North Carolina Rural Economic 
     Development Center for water and wastewater treatment 
     planning.
       169. $1,500,000 to Henderson County, North Carolina for 
     sewer line connections and improvements.
       170. $1,000,000 to Rosman, North Carolina for facility 
     repairs to the current wastewater treatment facility and 
     engineering plans for a new facility.
       171. $500,000 to Rutherford County, North Carolina for 
     repairs to water and sewer lines in Lake Lure, Spindale and 
     Chimney Rock, North Carolina.
       172. $3,000,000 for Grand Forks, North Dakota water 
     treatment plant.
       173. $1,800,000 to the City of Toledo, Ohio for Secor 
     Garden infrastructure improvements ($1,400,000) and for Erie 
     Street Market water and wastewater infrastructure 
     improvements ($400,000).
       174. $300,000 to the City of Oregon, Ohio for extension of 
     water and wastewater infrastructure.
       175. $300,000 to Lucas County, Ohio for the Jerusalem 
     Township water and wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       176. $200,000 to Swanton Township, Ohio for the Bittersweet 
     Farms/Camp Courageous Infrastructure project.
       177. $75,000 to Fulton County, Ohio for the Village of 
     Lyons Sanitary Sewer Project.
       178. $825,000 to Wood County Regional Water and Sewer 
     District in Ohio for the Owens-Walbridge-Plumey Roads 
     Sanitary Sewer Project ($325,000); for the Village of 
     Millbury Infiltration Inflow project ($250,000); and for 
     water and wastewater infrastructure improvements in the 
     Village of Walbridge ($250,000).
       179. $1,650,000 for the Doan Brook Watershed Area in Ohio 
     for continued development of a storm water abatement system.
       180. $1,500,000 to Beach City, Ohio for a wastewater 
     infrastructure improvement project.
       181. $2,875,000 for Dunlap Reservoir and related 
     infrastructure upgrades, and phase I and II wastewater 
     treatment plant improvements for the city of Washington Court 
     House, Ohio.
       182. $875,000 for sewer infrastructure upgrades for the 
     villages of DeGraff and Quincy, Ohio.
       183. $250,000 for water and sewer infrastructure upgrades 
     for the City of Springfield, Ohio.
       184. $1,650,000 to Norman, Oklahoma for expanding existing 
     wastewater treatment facilities.
       185. $1,000,000 to Hood River, Oregon for water and 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       186. $750,000 to Hermitage, Pennsylvania for the Pine 
     Hollow Pump Station upgrade and forcemain replacement.
       187. $750,000 to Sharon, Pennsylvania for storm and 
     sanitary sewer projects repairs.
       188. $1,000,000 to Washington County, Pennsylvania for 
     construction of wastewater infrastructure improvements in 
     Cecil Township.
       189. $2,000,000 to Lincoln Township in Somerset County, 
     Pennsylvania for water and wastewater infrastructure 
     improvements.
       190. $500,000 to Monroe County, Pennsylvania for sewer and 
     water infrastructure improvements.
       191. $500,000 to Wayne County, Pennsylvania to upgrade and 
     renovate a sewer system in the Borough of Honesdale.
       192. $1,000,000 to Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania for 
     upgrade of combined sewer overflow system for the Borough of 
     Moosic ($500,000) and the Borough of Archbald ($500,000).
       193. $450,000 for water and wastewater infrastructure 
     improvements in Sandy Township, Clearfield County, 
     Pennsylvania.
       194. $450,000 to Blair County, Pennsylvania for water and 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements in Logan Township.
       195. $450,000 to the Clearfield Municipal Authority in 
     Clearfield County, Pennsylvania for water and wastewater 
     infrastructure improvements.
       196. $450,000 to the Bear Valley, Franklin County, 
     Pennsylvania Joint Authority for water and wastewater 
     infrastructure improvements.
       197. $450,000 to Mifflin County, Pennsylvania for water and 
     wastewater infrastructure improvements in Lewistown Borough.
       198. $450,000 to the Bedford Township Municipal Authority 
     in Bedford County, Pennsylvania for water and wastewater 
     infrastructure improvements.
       199. $1,000,000 for the Springettsbury, Pennsylvania 
     regional sewer project.
       200. $5,000,000 for the Three Rivers Wet Weather 
     Demonstration project, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
       201. $750,000 for the Pawtucket, Rhode Island water 
     treatment plant construction.
       202. $1,000,000 to the Narragansett Bay Commission of Rhode 
     Island for the combined sewer overflow control project.
       203. $900,000 to the West Georgetown, South Carolina County 
     Regional Wastewater Treatment System for construction of a 
     wastewater interceptor transmission system.
       204. $1,000,000 for the city of Florence, South Carolina 
     for water and wastewater infrastructure.
       205. $500,000 for Branchville, South Carolina water 
     distribution system.
       206. $1,000,000 for the City of York, South Carolina water 
     treatment plant upgrade.
       207. $500,000 for the City of Alcester, South Dakota for a 
     wastewater treatment facility.
       208. $3,000,000 for Rapid City, South Dakota to upgrade its 
     water reclamation facility.
       209. $4,000,000 for the City of Huron, South Dakota to 
     upgrade its water treatment facility.
       210. $1,000,000 to Athens, Tennessee for storm sewer 
     reconstruction and improvements to the drainage basin.
       211. $500,000 to Clinton, Tennessee for engineering study 
     and design to address water and wastewater system flooding 
     problems.

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       212. $1,000,000 to Oak Ridge, Tennessee for the extension 
     of water and sewer infrastructure.
       213. $1,000,000 to Sequatchie County, Tennessee for 
     waterline infrastructure improvements.
       214. $1,000,000 to the City of Meridian, Texas for water 
     and wastewater infrastructure improvements.
       215. $1,000,000 for the City of Abilene, Texas water 
     treatment facility.
       216. $1,750,000 to Grand Water and Sewer Service Agency in 
     Utah for the extension of water and sewer lines to Arches 
     National Park.
       217. $2,000,000 for Ogden, Utah, water and sewer 
     improvements.
       218. $4,000,000 for water and wastewater infrastructure 
     improvements in Sandy City, Utah.
       219. $1,000,000 for Montgomery, Vermont wastewater 
     demonstration project.
       220. $2,500,000 for the City of Pownal, Vermont wastewater 
     treatment project.
       221. $2,000,000 to Richmond, Virginia for continued 
     development of combined sewer overflow improvements.
       222. $2,000,000 to Lynchburg, Virginia for continued 
     development of combined sewer overflow improvements.
       223. $1,000,000 to Tazewell County, Virginia for 
     construction of a public wastewater system to serve Bluefield 
     and Divides.
       224. $650,000 to the Smith Mountain Lake 4-H Education 
     Center in Wirtz, Virginia for sewage treatment operation 
     improvements.
       225. $2,000,000 to Henry County, Virginia for the Henry 
     County City of Martinsville's water and sewer infrastructure 
     improvements project.
       226. $250,000 to Buckley, Washington for water pipe 
     replacement.
       227. $85,000 to the City of Carnation, Washington for the 
     engineering and design of wastewater treatment plant and 
     collection facilities.
       228. $3,000,000 for the City of Bremerton, Washington 
     Callow 5 combined sewer overflow project.
       229. $600,000 for the Hoodsport Water System, Mason County, 
     Washington drinking water system improvements.
       230. $2,000,000 for the Coulee Dam, Washington water 
     infiltration system.
       231. $650,000 for the Cowen Public Service District to 
     provide water and sewer to the proposed Cowen Industrial Park 
     in Webster County, West Virginia.
       232. $10,200,000 to the Brooke County PSD, West Virginia 
     for wastewater infrastructure needs in the Eldersville Road, 
     Mahan's Lane and Bruin Drive areas.
       233. $3,200,000 to the City of Thomas, West Virginia for 
     water infrastructure needs.
       234. $1,500,000 to Huntington, West Virginia for the 
     Fourpole/Park Sewer project No. 1.
       235. $680,000 to the Lake Tomahawk Sanitary District, 
     Wisconsin for repayment of debt on a water treatment 
     conveyance project.
       236. $1,000,000 for Beloit, Wisconsin combined sewer 
     overflow project.
       237. $3,000,000 for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Metropolitan 
     Sewerage District for continued renovations and repairs to 
     the sewer system.
       The conferees have included bill language which allows the 
     Administrator to use up to 3% of the appropriated amount of 
     each above-listed project to administer the management and 
     oversight of construction of such projects through contracts, 
     allocation to the Corps of Engineers, or grants to the 
     States.
       The conferees intend that the non-federal share of the cost 
     of planning, design and construction of water and wastewater 
     infrastructure improvements in Bernalillo, New Mexico and in 
     the North and South Valley areas of Albuquerque and 
     Bernalillo County, New Mexico, may be paid in installments of 
     any amount so long as the entire amount of the non-federal 
     share is paid by the end of the 10-year project period, 
     including fiscal year 2000. Bill language has been included 
     regarding a grant provided in fiscal year 1999 for 
     Cumberland, Maryland clarifying the intent of this grant.
       Of the amount provided for categorical grants, $209,000,000 
     is for State and local air assistance grants, including 
     $8,000,000 for section 103 grants to the states to develop 
     regional haze programs under title I, part C of the Clean Air 
     Act. It is the intention of the conferees that these funds be 
     used to aid states in the development of emissions 
     inventories, quantification of natural visibility conditions, 
     monitoring and other data necessary to define reasonable 
     progress and develop control strategies, and to support the 
     states' participation in regional efforts to coordinate their 
     strategies, where necessary, and at the election of the 
     individual states. The conferees have also provided 
     $238,000,000 for section 319 non-point source pollution 
     grants and $172,262,300 for section 106 pollution control 
     grants to, among other things, assist the States in meeting 
     the long-term needs of the TMDL program. Included in the 
     total is $2,000,000 for grants to coastal states as provided 
     in Senate Report 106-410.
       No funds have been provided for the new Great Lakes 
     Initiative program, and funds for the Information Integration 
     Initiative have been provided only in the Environmental 
     Programs and Management account. Funds for the new Clean Air 
     Partnership have not been provided by the conferees. 
     Legislation proposed by the Agency to require a 40% cost-
     share for the section 106 grant program has not been approved 
     by the conferees.
       In the interest of minimizing the need for additional 
     administrative appeals, judicial review, and legislative 
     remedies relative to EPA's construction grant program, the 
     conferees direct EPA to resolve, equitably and as 
     expeditiously as its resources will allow, grantee requests 
     for review or waiver, audit resolutions, and appeals in 
     accordance with a specific set of guidelines set forth on 
     page 62 of House Report 106-674. The conferees expect this 
     process will eliminate the need for Congress to resolve 
     specific audit disputes in the future.
       The conferees agree that, due to economic hardship, EPA 
     should not apply the normal cost-share requirements to a 
     grant provided for the Fancy Farm, Kentucky water system in 
     Public Law 106-74.


                       ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

       The conferees have included an administrative provision 
     which, for fiscal year 2001 and thereafter, provides that the 
     obligated balances of sums available in multiple year 
     appropriations accounts shall remain available through the 
     seventh fiscal year after their period of availability has 
     expired for liquidating obligations made during the period of 
     availability.
       In addition, an administrative provision is included which 
     stipulates that, for fiscal year 2001, the Administrator, in 
     carrying out environmental programs required or authorized by 
     law in the absence of an acceptable tribal program, may award 
     cooperative agreements to federally-recognized tribes or duly 
     authorized intertribal groups to assist the Administrator in 
     implementing federal environmental programs for tribes 
     required or authorized by law. Funds designated for State 
     financial assistance agreements may not be used for such 
     cooperative agreements.
       Finally, an administrative provision has been included 
     which reinstates the 12-month grace period following 
     designation for new nonattainment areas for the National 
     Ambient Air Quality Standards originally contained in EPA 
     conformity regulations.
       The conferees direct EPA to implement GPRA to the fullest 
     extent possible. This includes defining its long-term 
     strategic goals in terms of environmental, health, and other 
     outcomes and tracking progress using appropriate outcomes 
     measures. Such measures include indicators of health, ecology 
     and welfare, exposure or body burden or uptake, ambient 
     environmental conditions, discharges or emissions, and 
     actions and/or responses by regulated parties.
       The conferees recognize that the Agency may not be able to 
     establish nor measure all the appropriate outcome measures by 
     the time of its first Strategic Plan revision after 2000. The 
     conferees therefore direct the Agency to make significant 
     progress in its first revision after 2000, and in subsequent 
     revisions to the Strategic Plan. Further, the conferees call 
     on the Agency to organize and present performance measures in 
     a manner that makes appropriate use of performance 
     information supplied by EPA regions and states.

                   Executive Office of The President


                OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY

       Appropriates $5,201,000 for the Office of Science and 
     Technology Policy as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $5,150,000 as proposed by the House.
       Public Law 105-261 transferred responsibility for satellite 
     technology export licensing from the Department of Commerce 
     to the Department of State as part of the International 
     Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). An unfortunate and 
     unintended consequence of that move has been that university-
     based fundamental science and engineering research, widely 
     disseminated and unclassified, has become subject to overly 
     restrictive and inconsistent ITAR direction. The result has 
     been critical delays in NASA-funded research projects and has 
     forced some universities to forgo participation in such 
     projects. Such research traditionally has been excluded from 
     export controls under the fundamental research exemption. The 
     conferees find the current situation to be unacceptable and 
     direct the Office of Science and Technology Policy to work 
     jointly with the National Security Council, in consultation 
     with the NASA Administrator and the Secretary of State, to 
     expeditiously issue clarification of ITAR that ensures that 
     university collaborations and personnel exchanges, which are 
     vital to the continued success of federally-funded research, 
     are allowed to continue as they had under the long-standing 
     fundamental research exception in the Export Administration 
     Regulations, which had governed export controls over this 
     technology when the Department of Commerce had jurisdiction 
     over it. The conferees expect this review to be completed 
     within 120 days of enactment of this Act. Upon the issuance 
     of guidance, NASA shall ensure that university principal 
     investigators are fully aware of their responsibilities.


  COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

       Appropriates $2,900,000 for the Council on Environmental 
     Quality and the Office of Environmental Quality as proposed 
     by the

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     House and the Senate. The conferees have once again included 
     bill language which prohibits CEQ from using funds other than 
     those appropriated directly under this heading. The Council 
     is expected to implement this provision in a manner 
     consistent with its implementation during fiscal years 1998 
     and 1999. Language has also been included again this year 
     which, notwithstanding law, authorizes the Council to operate 
     with one member, that member acting as chairman of the 
     Council.

                 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation


                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

                          (TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       Appropriates $33,660,000 for the Office of Inspector 
     General as proposed by the Senate instead of $33,661,000 as 
     proposed by the House. Funds for this account are derived 
     from the Bank Insurance Fund, the Savings and Loan 
     Association Insurance Fund, and the FSLIC Resolution Fund, 
     and are therefore not reflected in either the budget 
     authority or budget outlay totals.

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency


                            DISASTER RELIEF

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       Appropriates $300,000,000 for disaster relief as proposed 
     by both the House and the Senate. In addition, appropriates 
     $1,300,000,000 in emergency funding for disaster relief 
     instead of $2,609,220,000 as proposed by the Senate. The 
     House had proposed no emergency funding. Retains language 
     proposed by the Senate authorizing the transfer of $2,900,000 
     to EMPA for the consolidated emergency management performance 
     grant, in lieu of $5,500,000 as proposed by the House.
       The conferees agree that up to $15,000,000 of the funds 
     provided in this account may be used for flood map 
     modernization activities in areas which receive Presidential 
     disaster declarations, as proposed by the Senate. The House 
     had proposed that $30,000,000 be transferred from this 
     account to the Flood Map Modernization Fund for non-disaster 
     and disaster-related flood map modernization.
       The conferees do not agree with the House proposal to allow 
     up to $50,000,000 of the disaster relief funds to be 
     obligated for predisaster mitigation and repetitive loss 
     property buyouts. The conferees have taken this action 
     because additional funding was provided for buyouts and 
     elevation of flood damaged properties as part of the fiscal 
     year 2000 supplemental and these funds are not required at 
     this time.
       The conferees have agreed to include language in the bill 
     making $3,000,000 from section 404 hazard mitigation grant 
     funding available to the State of Florida hurricane 
     mitigation initiative in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The 
     conferees recognize that, in light of the devastation of 
     Hurricanes Floyd, Irene, and Dennis to the Southeast United 
     States, resources must be focused on mitigation activities 
     because many communities are not adequately prepared to 
     provide local emergency shelter for category 3 or higher 
     hurricanes. To demonstrate the effectiveness of certain 
     mitigation technologies, the conferees direct that a portion 
     of the section 404 hazard mitigation grant funding available 
     to the State of Florida be used for a pre-disaster hurricane 
     mitigation program initiative in Miami-Dade County, Florida 
     utilizing perforated metal technology employed in fixed, 
     passive protection window applications as demonstrated 
     through the Miami Wind Shutter Program.
       The conferees are not in agreement with regard to the issue 
     of insurance requirements for public and non-profit 
     buildings. While the goal of reducing Federal costs 
     associated with natural disasters is shared by the conferees, 
     there is not agreement on the best way to achieve that goal. 
     The House continues to believe that FEMA must ensure that the 
     concerns of all interested parties are taken into 
     consideration and that a detailed cost-benefit analysis must 
     be completed prior to finalizing any rule in this regard. The 
     Senate continues to believe that all relevant information is 
     in hand and that a final rule should be promulgated 
     expeditiously. The conferees acknowledge their inability to 
     resolve this issue and urge the Congress to address this 
     issue as part of a comprehensive legislative package.


            DISASTER ASSISTANCE DIRECT LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT

       The conferees agree to provide a limitation of $25,000,000 
     on direct loans, a cost of $1,678,000 for direct loans, and a 
     limitation on administrative expenses of $427,000 for the 
     disaster assistance direct loan program account. The 
     foregoing amounts are the same as proposed by the Senate. The 
     House had proposed a limitation of $19,000,000 on direct 
     loans, a cost of $1,295,000 for direct loans, and a 
     limitation on administrative expenses of $420,000.


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

       Appropriates $215,000,000 for salaries and expenses as 
     proposed by the Senate instead of $190,000,000 as proposed by 
     the House.


                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

       Appropriates $10,000,000 for the Office of Inspector 
     General as proposed by the Senate instead of $8,015,000 as 
     proposed by the House. The conferees are in agreement that 
     the FEMA Inspector General shall also serve as the Inspector 
     General for the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation 
     Board. In order to fulfill these additional duties, the 
     conferees agree to provide the Inspector General with 
     additional funds and anticipate that the duties will require 
     an increase of 8 FTE. To ensure the independence of the 
     Office of Inspector General, funds are provided to enable the 
     OIG to support its own administrative functions rather than 
     relying on FEMA for support services such as budget and 
     accounting, procurement and personnel.


              EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND ASSISTANCE

       Appropriates $269,652,000 for emergency management planning 
     and assistance as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $267,000,000 as proposed by the House. The conferees agree to 
     include bill language earmarking $25,000,000 of the funds 
     provided in this account for pre-disaster mitigation 
     activities as proposed by the Senate. The House had included 
     authority to use disaster relief funds for this purpose, to 
     be administered through the EMPA account.


                   EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER PROGRAM

       Appropriates $140,000,000 for emergency food and shelter 
     instead of $110,000,000 as proposed by both the House and 
     Senate.


                      FLOOD MAP MODERNIZATION FUND

       Appropriates no funding for this activity in this account. 
     The conferees have included authority within the disaster 
     relief account to use up to $15,000,000 for post-disaster 
     flood map activities in areas which receive Presidential 
     disaster declarations.


                     NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FUND

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       The conferees agree to include bill language which 
     authorizes the National Flood Insurance Program through 
     December 31, 2001 instead of September 30, 2001 as proposed 
     by the House and Senate. Without this authorization, new 
     flood insurance policies could not be written throughout the 
     fiscal year. In addition, the conferees direct FEMA to make 
     $2,000,000 available to the New York Department of 
     Environmental Conservation for initiating the Statewide Flood 
     Plain Mapping Program.


                     NATIONAL FLOOD MITIGATION FUND

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       Provides for the transfer of $20,000,000 from the National 
     Flood Insurance Fund to the National Flood Mitigation Fund as 
     proposed by both the House and Senate.

                    General Services Administration


                FEDERAL CONSUMER INFORMATION CENTER FUND

       Appropriates $7,122,000 for the Federal Consumer 
     Information Fund as proposed by both the House and the 
     Senate.

             National Aeronautics and Space Administration

       The conferees agree with the requirement of the Senate that 
     NASA must articulate a comprehensive agenda and strategy 
     through a strategic plan for each of NASA's primary centers 
     that links staffing, funding resources, mission activities 
     and core competencies in a manner that will ensure each 
     primary center will be vested with specific responsibilities 
     and activities. Within each plan, NASA should identify where 
     a center has or is expected to develop the same or similar 
     expertise and capacity as another center, including the 
     justification for this need. The plan should also include a 
     specific 10-year profile of flight mission elements. This 
     profile should identify the primary NASA center responsible 
     for each flight's mission management. The profile also should 
     articulate clearly the criteria that is used and/or will be 
     used to permit missions to be built intramurally, as well as 
     the strategy for using industry and leading academic 
     laboratories for mission development and execution. These 
     plans are to be updated annually, with the first plan to be 
     submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
     and Senate by July 31, 2001. For purposes of the foregoing 
     reporting requirement, primary NASA centers shall include the 
     nine centers and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory listed on page 
     AS-21 of the fiscal year 2001 budget submission.
       The conferees agree that information on the long-term 
     consequences of reprogramming and operating plan actions 
     should be made available to the Committees on Appropriations 
     of the House and Senate when requested. While the Senate had 
     proposed making the information a requirement to be submitted 
     with all reprogrammings and operating plans, the conferees 
     recognize that this would be a burden on the agency when most 
     of the changes are relatively minor in nature. The conferees 
     expect NASA to be responsive whenever such an information 
     request is made.
       The conferees agree that NASA should report annually on the 
     issue of safeguarding sensitive technology as proposed by the 
     Senate.
       The conferees agree that NASA should not be required to 
     include an accounting of program reserves when addressing a 
     program in the initial operating plan or subsequent operating 
     plans. The conferees expect NASA to be able to provide this 
     information when requested by the Committees on 
     Appropriations.
       The conferees have agreed to delete the general provision, 
     proposed by the House

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     which would have terminated all NASA-Air Force joint 
     aeronautics and space-related research.
       The conferees do not agree that NASA should conduct a joint 
     study with the National Research Council and the National 
     Academy of Public Administration on the research and analysis 
     portions of NASA's programs. The conferees urge NASA to take 
     actions to ensure that research and analysis funding is 
     sufficient to support the goals of the various programs.
       Of the amounts approved in the following appropriations 
     accounts, NASA must limit transfers of funds between programs 
     and activities to not more than $500,000 without prior 
     approval of the Committees on Appropriations of the House and 
     Senate. Further, no changes may be made to any account or 
     program element if it is construed to be policy or a change 
     in policy. Any activity or program cited in this report shall 
     be construed as the position of the conferees and should not 
     be subject to reductions or reprogramming without prior 
     approval of the Committees on Appropriations of the House and 
     Senate. Finally, it is the intent of the conferees that all 
     carryover funds in the various appropriations accounts are 
     subject to the normal reprogramming requirements outlined 
     above.
       The conferees recognize that personnel management at an 
     agency such as NASA is difficult and note that the Congress 
     has provided authority in the past for NASA to offer 
     incentives to employees as a way to reduce the agency's 
     overall workforce. The challenge NASA now faces is to ensure 
     that the proper skill mix is in place at the various NASA 
     Centers. To accomplish this task, NASA has proposed a 
     continuation of its current buyout authority with 
     modifications which allow the agency to retain the same 
     number of full-time equivalent personnel, while offering 
     incentives to achieve a workforce reduction in skill areas 
     where an excess exists. The conferees agree to provide NASA 
     with this authority for two years and have included the 
     necessary statutory authority as a general provision of the 
     bill.
       The conferees agree to include the House provision on NASA 
     full cost accounting instead of the Senate provision. The 
     conferees remain concerned about the impact of full cost 
     accounting on program and financial information that will be 
     made available to the Congress through full cost accounting. 
     If the program and financial information is determined to be 
     inadequate, the conferees expect NASA to be able to address 
     the concerns of the Congress. In addition, the conferees 
     direct NASA to report to the Committees on Appropriations of 
     the House and Senate on the status of any program or activity 
     that has exceeded its budget plan by 15 percent. The report 
     should be provided to the Committees within 15 days of the 
     date on which NASA has determined that the budget overrun has 
     occurred. This report shall include the reasons for the 
     budget overrun including any proposals for the termination or 
     restructuring of the program or activity and the related 
     impact on the funding of other programs or activities.


                           HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT

       Appropriates $5,462,900,000 for Human Space Flight instead 
     of $5,472,000,000 as proposed by the House and $5,400,000,000 
     as proposed by the Senate. The funding level arrived at for 
     this account includes a reduction of $40,000,000 as proposed 
     by NASA to provide additional funding for the Mars 2003 
     Lander program. This reduction includes $30,000,000 from 
     shuttle reserves and $10,000,000 from the commercialization 
     and technology program. Other adjustments follow.
       The conferees recognize that NASA is obligated to ensure 
     the well-being of astronauts, who will build the 
     International Space Station (ISS), and live and work there 
     for increasingly longer periods of time. On-orbit stay times 
     beyond 90 days will require implementation of countermeasures 
     against the negative effects of space flight. The basic 
     research and countermeasure development will be done using 
     the ISS crew members as research subjects. This requires 
     establishment of medical baselines prior to flight, close 
     monitoring of in-flight changes to the baseline, including 
     the beneficial impacts of the countermeasures, and post-
     flight monitoring throughout the rehabilitation process. A 
     key objective of NASA's Bioastronautics Initiative is to re-
     focus existing NASA biomedical assets to accomplish this aim 
     more effectively.
       The conferees understand that NASA has determined that the 
     most effective approach to ensuring synergy between a strong 
     research program and necessary astronaut clinical care is to 
     construct a Bioastronautics Facility at the Johnson Space 
     Center. The facility will be sited at NASA's Johnson Space 
     Center because that is the living and working area of the 
     astronaut corps and the medical support personnel. The 
     facility will provide a necessary focal point for human 
     health care delivery, research, and education for Space 
     Medicine and Research. The research capabilities provided in 
     this facility will be consistent with the NASA analysis of 
     research requirements. This facility will enable access to 
     all peer reviewed researchers, including universities across 
     the country, NASA, NIH, and NSBRI, to carry out their science 
     in a symbiotic laboratory setting and accomplish their goals.
       The conferees agree to provide $3,000,000 to complete the 
     facility design effort, and that a design/build approach is 
     being baselined to ensure timely completion of the facility. 
     The conferees further understand that initial construction 
     funding could be required in fiscal year 2001 if the design 
     is completed as planned by mid-2001, and direct NASA to 
     submit an Operating Plan notification to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House and Senate at that time to 
     identify construction funds within ISS resources.
       The conferees agree that NASA should develop a 10-year plan 
     for all research efforts related to the International Space 
     Station, including operational needs as proposed by the 
     Senate. NASA is directed to submit this report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate no later 
     than April 15, 2001.
       The conferees do not agree with the Senate requirement for 
     a blueprint plan that identifies lead and complimentary 
     universities that will coordinate with NASA for science 
     disciplines that will be the focus of research after assembly 
     of the ISS is complete. The conferees direct NASA to submit a 
     plan to the Committees on Appropriations of the House and 
     Senate which includes various ISS management options. The 
     conferees agree that such a plan will give the Congress the 
     information it needs in order to determine what management 
     structure is best and most able to deliver the benefits of 
     the ISS. The Committees on Appropriations will require this 
     information prior to approving funding for any final 
     agreement. Therefore, the conferees have included an 
     administrative provision which prohibits the expenditure of 
     any funds prior to December 1, 2001 for finalizing an 
     agreement between NASA and a non government organization to 
     conduct research utilization and commercialization management 
     activities of the ISS.
       For the past several years, the conferees have expressed 
     dismay at the lack of dedicated life and microgravity 
     research missions being flown on shuttle during station 
     assembly. This problem is made worse by continuing delay in 
     station assembly, leading to a significant backlog of 
     critical research waiting to be flown. The conferees believe 
     it is prudent to plan regular life and microgravity shuttle 
     research missions during station assembly to protect the 
     shuttle flight rate and to prepare experiments for the space 
     station. The conferees therefore direct NASA, within 30 days 
     of enactment of this Act, to submit a plan to the Committees 
     on Appropriations of the House and Senate which details a 
     schedule for shuttle research missions, beginning after the 
     flight of STS-107 and continuing until the space station 
     reaches its full research capability.


                  SCIENCE, AERONAUTICS AND TECHNOLOGY

       Appropriates $6,190,700,000 for science, aeronautics and 
     technology instead of $5,579,600,000 as proposed by the House 
     and $5,837,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The amount 
     provided is $261,300,000 above the budget request. The amount 
     provided consists of:
      $2,508,300,000 for space science.
      $316,900,000 for life and microgravity sciences.
      $1,498,050,000 for earth sciences.
      $1,253,150,000 for aero-sapce technology.
      $529,400,000 for space operations.
      $134,000,000 for academic programs.
      $49,100,000 as a general reduction.
       In reaching the amount of $6,190,700,000 appropriated for 
     science, aeronautics and technology, the conferees have 
     included only $8,000,000 for space solar power, $20,000,000 
     for commercial remote sensing data buys, $20,000,000 for 
     quiet aircraft technology, $10,000,000 for the EPSCoR 
     program, and $19,100,000 for space grant colleges designated 
     under section 208 of the National Space Grant College and 
     Fellowship Act.
       The conferees recognize the efforts of NASA, particularly 
     Goddard Space Flight Center, in developing comprehensive 
     programmatic and operations plans for the Independent 
     Verification and Validation Facility and in confirming the 
     Facility's agency-wide role in software reliability. The 
     conferees further recognize NASA's increased commitment to 
     IV&V as a mission critical activity, as evidenced by the 
     increase in funding (to $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2001) 
     dedicated to IV&V activities. The conferees expect NASA to 
     report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House and 
     Senate by May 1, 2001 regarding progress on development of 
     the Facility, its role within NASA and the degree to which 
     new and related software initiatives have been implemented.

                             Space Science

       The conferees have agreed to provide $2,508,300,000 for 
     space science programs. Included in this amount is 
     $75,000,000 for the Mars 2003 Lander program as proposed by 
     NASA in communications with the conferees subsequent to 
     submission of the budget. Of this amount, $2,000,000 is to be 
     financed within the space science account; $7,000,000 is to 
     be derived from the life and microgravity account; 
     $20,000,000 is to be derived from the aeronautics and space 
     technology account; $6,000,000 is to be derived from the 
     mission support account; and $40,000,000 is to be derived 
     from the human space flight account.
       Prior conference agreements have directed NASA to establish 
     a goal of competitively

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     selecting 75 percent of space science advanced technology 
     funding. Based upon this direction, NASA recently released an 
     open research announcement in the Cross-Enterprise Technology 
     Development Program (CETDP) that resulted in an impressive 
     response of over 1200 proposals competing for $40,000,000 in 
     funding. The conferees are aware that NASA was only able to 
     award funding for 8 percent of the proposals and that a 92 
     percent disapproval rate is frustrating to the university 
     community and industry partners. In addition, the conferees 
     note that NASA has expressed concern that the diversion of a 
     high percentage of funds to open solicitations is 
     contributing to a loss of needed ``core competencies'' in 
     technology at the NASA field centers. NASA, on the CETDP, is 
     directed to allocate at least 75% of all new procurement 
     awards through full and open competition. If NASA feels that 
     additional funding is needed in fiscal year 2001 to address 
     transitional core competency issues, then the agency may 
     propose for the consideration by the Committees on 
     Appropriations, a reprogramming of funds from other sources.
       The conferees understand that the responsibility and 
     funding for the CETDP is being transferred from the Office of 
     Space Science to the Office of Aerospace Technology. 
     Therefore, the conferees direct that NASA's Office of 
     Aerospace Technology submit a report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House and Senate by April 30, 2001 
     which addresses how NASA plans to increase competitive 
     selection of advanced technology funding while maintaining 
     NASA Center core competencies. The report should identify the 
     core competencies by NASA Center that are critical to the 
     long-term future of the Nation's space program and the level 
     of resources required to ensure their support. The NASA core 
     competency strategy should include long-term strategic 
     alliances with universities and industry partners.
       The conferees note that applying the recommendations of the 
     Mars Program Independent Assessment Team to all space science 
     programs may lead to cost increases for those programs. The 
     conferees agree that NASA should provide a five-year profile 
     of the costs associated with implementing these 
     recommendations as part of the budget submission for fiscal 
     year 2002, as proposed by the Senate.
       The conferees have provided the budget request of 
     $20,000,000 for the Living with a Star program, as proposed 
     by the Senate. The House had deleted the funding for this 
     program because of concern about the contracting strategy 
     being used by the program. The NASA Inspector General has 
     reviewed the procurement strategy and the conferees are 
     confident that NASA will take into consideration the 
     recommendations of the Inspector General with regard to this 
     program, as well as the recommendations of the Applied 
     Physics Laboratory and NASA. The conferees agree with the 
     direction of the Senate that NASA should submit a long-term 
     plan to create a resilient Sun-Earth Connection program and 
     that the report should be submitted by February 15, 2001.
       The conferees agree that the cost of the Hubble Wide Field 
     Camera 3 should have a cost cap of $75,500,000 as proposed by 
     the Senate. The conferees do not agree that cost increases 
     associated with the Hubble Servicing Mission should be 
     allocated to the Human Space Flight account. Instead, the 
     conferees direct NASA to provide a report to the Committees 
     on Appropriations of the House and Senate on the policy for 
     allocating cost increases which are associated with launch or 
     payload delays and the rationale for the policy. The report 
     should be provided no later that March 31, 2001.
       The conferees agree to the following changes to the budget 
     request:
       1. An increase of $1,500,000 for Ohio Wesleyan University 
     for infrastructure needs.
       2. An increase of $1,500,000 for the Center for Space 
     Sciences at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
       3. An increase of $8,000,000 for space solar power.
       4. An increase of $5,000,000 for the STEP-AirSEDS tether 
     propulsion program.
       5. An increase of $2,500,000 for the Hubble telescope 
     project to initiate a Composites Technology Institute in 
     Bridgeport, West Virginia.
       6. An increase of $3,500,000 for a center on life in 
     extreme thermal environments at Montana State University, 
     Bozeman.
       7. An increase of $2,500,000 for the Bishop Museum/Mauna 
     Kea Astronomy Education Center.
       8. An increase of $1,000,000 for the Chabot Observatory and 
     Science Center, Oakland, California.
       9. An increase of $4,000,000 for the Green Bank Radio 
     Astronomy Observatory visitor center.
       10. An increase of $2,000,000 for equipment for the South 
     Carolina State Museum's Observatory, Planetarium and Theater.
       11. An increase of $8,000,000 for the University of Hawaii 
     for infrastructure needs of the Mauna Kea Education Center.

                     Life and Microgravity Sciences

       The conferees agree to provide $316,900,000 for life and 
     microgravity sciences. This amount includes a reduction of 
     $7,000,000 from the biomedical research and countermeasures 
     program which has been transferred to the space sciences 
     account for the Mars 2003 Lander program. The conferees agree 
     to the following changes to the budget request:
       1. An increase of $5,000,000 for the Space Radiation 
     program at Loma Linda University Hospital.
       2. An increase of $1,000,000 to EARTH University and the 
     University of Alabama in Birmingham to research Chagas 
     disease.
       3. An increase of $500,000 for ongoing research in the area 
     of disease monitoring and diagnosis through the use of 
     medical intelligence for the manned spaceflight effort.
       4. An increase of $3,000,000 for the Donald Danforth Plant 
     Science Center's Modern Genetics project.
       5. An increase of $15,000,000 for infrastructure needs for 
     the Life Sciences building at the University of Missouri-
     Columbia.

                             Earth Sciences

       The conferees agree to provide $1,498,050,000 for the earth 
     sciences account.
       The conferees take seriously their responsibility to 
     oversee the activities of the various Departments and 
     Agencies and feel the direction provided by the Congress in 
     the Statement of Managers accompanying the Conference Report 
     for prior fiscal years should be implemented without fail. It 
     has come to the attention of the conferees that this has not 
     been the case with the implementation of direction contained 
     in the fiscal year 2000 Appropriations Act and accompanying 
     Statement of Managers. For this reason, the conferees agree 
     with the Senate proposal to suspend the authority of the 
     Office of Earth Science to reprogram any funds in fiscal year 
     2001 unless specifically authorized by the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House and Senate.
       The conferees direct NASA to report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House and Senate, by March 15, 2001 
     with a ten-year strategy and funding profile to extend the 
     benefits of Earth science, technology and data results beyond 
     the traditional science community and address practical, 
     near-term problems. This strategy should incorporate fully 
     the unique data, data products and services available from 
     U.S. companies. NASA is also directed to develop, with 
     universities, existing Applications Centers, such as ARCs and 
     RESACs, NASA Field Centers, and other cognizant Federal 
     agencies, mechanisms through which current public and private 
     remote sensing and related technologies will be made readily 
     available to state and local governments, public agencies and 
     private organizations for applications in agriculture, flood 
     mapping, forestry, environmental protection, urban planning 
     and other land-use issues.
       The Vegetation Canopy LIDAR Project (VCL), the first NASA 
     Earth Systems Pathfinder Mission, is designed to provide a 
     global database of forest structure and tree height. The 
     conferees believe that this data will be invaluable as the 
     scientific community continues research into global climate 
     change and related areas. At the same time, the conferees 
     recognize the valuable commercial potential of the data and 
     the associated interest within the commercial sector. The 
     conferees are concerned that if the VCL mission is not 
     launched by 2002, the baseline data needed by the United 
     States scientific and commercial community may be delayed or 
     lost. Therefore, the conferees direct NASA to report by 
     October 2001 on the progress of developing the VCL mission, 
     with the expectation of a Spring 2002 launch date.
       The conferees agree to the following changes to the budget 
     request:
       1. An increase of $500,000 for the Temporal Landscape 
     Change Research Program to establish a regional baseline 
     monitoring program.
       2. An increase of $500,000 for the operations of the 
     applications center for remote sensing at Fulton-Montgomery 
     Community College, Johnston, New York.
       3. An increase of $1,000,000 for the Center for Earth 
     Observing and Space Research at George Mason University.
       4. An increase of $5,000,000 for NASA's Regional 
     Applications Center for the Northeast.
       5. An increase of $2,500,000 for the U.S. portion of the 
     joint U.S./Italian satellite development program to remotely 
     observe forest fires.
       6. An increase of $450,000 for continuation of application 
     remote sensing to forestry at the State University of New 
     York, College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry.
       7. An increase of $4,000,000 for the continuation of 
     programs at the American Museum of Natural History.
       8. An increase of $1,000,000 for the Advanced Tropical 
     Remote Sensing Center of the National Center for Tropical 
     Remote Sensing Applications and Resources at the Rosenstiel 
     School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
       9. An increase of $8,800,000 to the Institute for Software 
     Research, for the following activities: $5,000,000 for 
     development and construction of research facilities; 
     $2,300,000 for the development of a Goddard Institute for 
     Systems, Software and Technology Research (GISSTR) in 
     cooperation with the Goddard Space Flight Center's Systems, 
     Technology and Advanced Concepts (STAAC) organization; and 
     $1,500,000 for a microcomputer clustering and data 
     throughput/visualization algorithm research initiative.

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       10. An increase of $20,000,000 to continue commercial data 
     purchases.
       11. An increase of $3,000,000 for the University of South 
     Mississippi for research into remotely sensed data for 
     coastal zone management.
       12. An increase of $1,000,000 for carbon cycle remote 
     sensing technology at the KARS Regional Earth Sciences 
     Applications Center at the University of Kansas.
       13. An increase of $1,500,000 for the University of North 
     Dakota to support the Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium.
       14. An increase of $1,500,000 for topographic sensor 
     measurement efforts in Alaska.
       15. An increase of $2,000,000 for remote ocean sensing 
     research and measurements in the areas of the Bering Sea and 
     the northernmost Pacific Ocean.
       16. An increase of $500,000 for continued development of 
     nickel metal hydride battery technology.
       17. An increase of $3,000,000 for the NASA International 
     Earth Observing System Natural Resource Training Center at 
     the University of Montana, Missoula.
       18. An increase of $1,000,000 for the Pipelines Project at 
     Iowa State University/Southern University--Baton Rouge.
       19. An increase of $35,000,000 for the Earth Observing 
     System Data Information System, for a total fiscal year 2001 
     program level of $277,000,000. These additional funds are for 
     the EOSDIS Core System only so that its total program level 
     in fiscal year 2001 shall be $115,000,000 allocated as 
     follows: First, an additional $22,500,000 should be added to 
     the core ECS program to provide optimized system 
     functionality, planning for future growth and adaptations due 
     to instrument team changes, provision for additional 
     processing, and archival capabilities needed at the DAAC's. 
     Second, the remaining $12,500,000 is to continue and expand 
     the Synergy program that was begun in fiscal year 2000. In 
     fiscal year 2001, the conferees believe the Synergy program 
     should focus on the following: continued development of the 
     current applications to make them accessible to the general 
     public; expansion of the number of info marts/data store 
     fronts to broaden the application base and implementation of 
     a unified access data server for local, State, and Federal 
     agencies and the commercial marketplace. As part of this 
     effort, NASA is directed to integrate the regional earth 
     science applications centers into the Synergy program by the 
     end of fiscal year 2001.
       20. The conferees provided the full amount requested for 
     the EOS follow-on. Within the amount provided, the conferees 
     recommend: $1,500,000 for studies initiating a Landsat-7 
     follow-on commercial data purchase; $2,000,000 for the Global 
     Precipitation Mission for phase A/B studies and preliminary 
     advanced technology development work; $2,000,000 for the 
     Global Earthquake Satellite for phase A/B studies and 
     preliminary advanced technology development work; $1,500,000 
     for studies related to the ``New DIS'' which the conferees 
     believe should emphasize the re-use of the existing system in 
     order to minimize future costs; $35,600,000 for studies and 
     advanced technology development for the NPOESS preparatory 
     project of which $4,000,000 shall be allocated for the 
     development of high speed data processing and algorithm 
     validation processes that maximize prior year investments in 
     this area; and $2,000,000 to initiate a global wind profile 
     commercial data purchase consistent with the science 
     objectives identified in the National Academy of Sciences 
     study.

                         Aero-Space Technology

       The conferees agree to provide $1,253,150,000 for the aero-
     space technology account. Included in this amount is a 
     reduction of $20,000,000 to the research and technology base 
     with the funds transferred to the space sciences account for 
     the Mars 2003 Lander program.
       The conferees agree to provide the budget request of 
     $9,000,000 for the small aircraft transportation system 
     (SATS) as proposed by the Senate. The House had deleted 
     funding for this effort. The House action was based upon 
     limited funding available to NASA and an underlying concern 
     that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was less than 
     enthusiastic about the program which was not very well 
     defined in the budget submission. Based upon new information 
     provided to the conferees, funding for SATS has been restored 
     to be used for operational evaluations, or proofs of concept 
     where operational evaluations are not possible, of four new 
     capabilities that promise to increase the safe and efficient 
     capacity of the National Airspace System for all NAS users, 
     and to extend reliable air service to smaller communities. 
     These capabilities are:
       High-volume operations at airports without control towers 
     or terminal radar facilities.
       Lower adverse weather landing minimums at minimally 
     equipped landing facilities.
       Integration of SATS aircraft into a higher en route 
     capacity air traffic control system with complex flows and 
     slower aircraft.
       Improved single-pilot ability to function competently in 
     complex airspace in an evolving NAS.
       The conferees recognize that the expansion of the SATS is a 
     technically high-risk program, and that the expansion of the 
     SATS program to perform operational evaluations on all four 
     capabilities will require additional resources. Therefore, 
     the conferees direct the Administration to include such 
     resources in the fiscal year 2002 budget request for NASA.
       It is the expectation of the conferees that SATS will 
     develop and operationally evaluate these four capabilities in 
     a five-year program which will produce sufficient data to 
     support FAA decisions to approve operational use of the 
     capabilities, and FAA and industry decisions to invest in the 
     necessary technologies. The conferees direct that not less 
     than 75% of the funding provided for development of 
     technologies shall be awarded subject to full and open 
     competition. Collaborative industry/university teams are 
     encouraged to compete for these awards. In addition, NASA is 
     directed to transfer funds as required to the FAA for 
     personnel with authority to set criteria and approve test 
     plans.
       The usefulness of the data for this purpose will be ensured 
     through the following process:
       1. In fiscal year 2001, NASA will plan SATS activities 
     with, and secure the agreement of, FAA staff from aircraft 
     certification, flight standards, air traffic, and airports 
     before undertaking the proof of concept or operational 
     evaluations. This will also be done with appropriate industry 
     involvement.
       2. The SATS plan will identify the operational safety 
     criteria required by FAA for each capability, and test plans 
     determined by FAA to be adequate to establish that these 
     criteria are met.
       3. The objective of SATS is that the output of the 
     operational evaluation as defined in the plan will be 
     sufficient for the FAA to give full credit to the test data 
     when an applicant subsequently proposes the certification and 
     operational approvals for a system that would implement these 
     SATS capabilities.
       NASA and FAA SATS program managers will keep the SATS 
     Subcommittee, a joint subcommittee of NASA's Aero Space 
     Technology Advisory Committee and FAA's Research Engineering 
     and Development Advisory Committee, fully informed of all 
     planning activities. SATS program managers will seek specific 
     advice on their plan from the Subcommittee and respond in 
     writing to such advice. The Advisory Committees will request 
     status reports from the SATS Subcommittee on the planning 
     activities and their conformance to the above directions of 
     the conferees and these reports shall also be provided to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate.
       NASA is directed to provide a report the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House and Senate on the status of 
     implementing this program with the first report to be 
     submitted by July 31, 2001 and subsequent reports to be 
     submitted on each March 31 thereafter.
       The conferees agree to provide the budget request for the 
     Space Launch Initiative (SLI) as proposed by the Senate. The 
     conferees are in general agreement with the direction in the 
     Senate report with regard to the key principles NASA should 
     maintain throughout the life of the program, namely: (1) any 
     launch vehicles developed fully will be owned and operated by 
     private industry and be capable of competing effectively in 
     the commercial marketplace; and (2) the program will rely on 
     competition from existing and emerging launch service 
     providers to ensure innovations, openness, and resiliency. 
     Further, the conferees are in agreement that at least 75% of 
     SLI funding should be subject to full and open competition 
     and that all NASA Centers should be eligible to participate 
     in the SLI program.
       The conferees continue to support the Software Optimization 
     and Reuse Technology (SORT) program, which will help NASA 
     address the growing cost and schedule complexities associated 
     with traditional one-at-a-time software development 
     strategies. The conferees are aware of a recent independent 
     assessment of SORT program efforts at the Goddard Space 
     Flight Center (GSFC) Information Systems Center (ISC), which 
     confirmed the compatibility of GSFC/ISC goals with those of 
     the SORT program. The report confirmed that the technologies 
     proposed under the SORT program would promote improvements in 
     productivity, quality, cost and schedule, but identified 
     communication and management problems between the SORT 
     program and NASA. The conferees fully support the transfer of 
     SORT's management to the GSFC/ISC, and expect the contents of 
     the independent assessment to be integrated into a detailed 
     plan for future SORT activities. The conferees direct GSFC/
     ISC to submit this plan to Congress no later than April 1, 
     2001.
       The conferees agree to the following changes to the budget 
     request:
       1. An increase of $13,000,000 for the Ultra Efficient 
     Engine Technology program.
       2. An increase of $2,000,000 for the development of 
     eyetracking technology and applications research.
       3. An increase of $500,000 for evaluation and design of 
     Lithium-Ion batteries for use on space shuttles.
       4. An increase of $3,000,000 for the NASA-Illinois 
     Technology Commercialization Center at DuPage County Research 
     Park.
       5. An increase of $3,000,000 for the University of New 
     Orleans Composites Research Center for Excellence at Michoud, 
     Louisiana.
       6. An increase of $5,000,000 for Rotocraft Research and 
     Technology base programs.

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       7. An increase of $6,000,000 to expand the Space Alliance 
     Technology Outreach Program in the states of Florida, New 
     Mexico, New York, and Texas.
       8. An increase of $4,000,000 for deployment of 
     multilateration and Mode-S based Automatic Dependent 
     Surveillance-Broadcast sensors for the Helicopter In-Flight 
     Tracking System.
       9. An increase of $1,800,000 to augment deployment of an 
     ATIDS multilateration sensor and surveillance server for the 
     Airport Surface Management System.
       10. An increase of $1,600,000 for the continued development 
     of the Dynamic Runway Occupancy Measurement System 
     integration with the Multistatic Dependent Surveillance 
     System and SensorBahn server.
       11. An increase of $1,000,000 for the remote sensing SAID 
     research program at Syracuse University.
       12. An increase of $1,000,000 for Agile Collaboration 
     Environments for Systems Synthesis in Engineering Education.
       13. An increase of $1,000,000 for Enhanced Vision Systems 
     development and testing.
       14. An increase of $2,000,000 to continue work on SOCRATES.
       15. An increase of $1,000,000 for the Center for Emerging 
     Technologies at Stony Brook, State University of New York.
       16. An increase of $1,000,000 for the Garrett Morgan 
     Commercialization Initiative in Ohio.
       17. An increase of $6,500,000 to the Institute for Software 
     Research, for the following activities: $2,000,000 to perform 
     fundamental research of propellantless space propulsion with 
     NASA's Center of Excellence for Space Propulsion, including 
     the analysis of prototype radio frequency momentum sources 
     and the use of automated tensor algorithms to simulate and 
     evaluate prototype drive mechanisms; $3,500,000 to continue 
     the Self-Adaptive Vehicular Equipment (SAVE) initiative; and 
     $1,000,000 to continue the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics 
     (BPP) program.
       18. An increase of $7,500,000 for completion of the 
     National Space Science and Technology Center for 
     infrastructure needs.
       19. An increase of $2,000,000 for the Earth Alert project 
     at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
       20. An increase of $10,000,000 for a Propulsion Research 
     Laboratory to be located at NASA's Center of Excellence for 
     Space Propulsion at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
       21. An increase of $2,000,000 for Montana State University, 
     Bozeman for research in advanced optoelectronic materials.
       22. An increase of $1,000,000 for the University of Akron, 
     for nanotechnology research.
       23. An increase of $1,000,000 for aerospace projects at MSE 
     Technology Applications in Butte, Montana.
       24. An increase of $250,000 for the Oklahoma Aeronautics 
     and Space Commission for sounding rockets.
       25. An increase of $1,000,000 for Montana State University 
     for the techlink program.
       26. An increase of $500,000 for the National Aviation Hall 
     of Fame for development of exhibits.
       27. An increase of $1.500,000 for the National Technology 
     Transfer Center, for a total of $7,300,000.

                            Space Operations

       The conferees have provided $529,400,000 for space 
     operations, the same amount as provided by both the House and 
     Senate.

                           Academic Programs

       The conferees have agreed to provide $134,000,000 for 
     academic programs. The conferees agree to the following 
     changes to the budget request:
       1. An increase of $3,000,000 for continued academic and 
     infrastructure needs related to the computer sciences, 
     mathematics and physics building at the University of 
     Redlands, Redlands, California.
       2. An increase of $1,000,000 for equipment needs at the 
     University of San Diego Science and Education Outreach 
     Center.
       3. An increase of $500,000 for Science, Engineering, Math 
     and Aerospace Academy programs at Central Arizona College.
       4. An increase of $1,000,000 for the Science Facilities 
     Initiative at Heidelberg College in Ohio.
       5. An increase of $1,000,000 for the NASA Glenn ``Gateway 
     to the Future: Ohio Pilot'' project.
       6. An increase of $1,500,000 for the Santa Ana College 
     Space Education Center in California.
       7. An increase of $5,400,000 for the EPSCoR program for a 
     total funding level of $10,000,000 in fiscal year 2001.
       8. An increase of $9,100,000 for the Minority University 
     Research and Education program for a total funding level of 
     $55,000,000 in fiscal year 2001.
       9. An increase of $500,000 for a hands-on interactive 
     science education facility at the University of North 
     Carolina at Chapel Hill.
       10. An increase of $1,000,000 for the Science Learning 
     Center in Hammond, Indiana.
       11. An increase of $1,000,000 for the Environmental 
     Sciences Learning Center (part of the California Science 
     Center) in Los Angeles, California.
       12. An increase of $2,000,000 for the University of 
     Wisconsin-Milwaukee to implement the Wisconsin Initiative for 
     Math, Science, and Technology.
       13. An increase of $2,500,000 for the Jason Foundation.
       14. An increase of $1,000,000 for the NASA Center of 
     Excellence in Mathematics, Science and Technology at Texas 
     College in Tyler, Texas.
       15. An increase of $2,000,000 for the Lewis and Clark 
     Rediscovery Web Technology Project.
       16. An increase of $500,000 for the Aerospace Education 
     Center in Cleveland, Ohio as a national hub for the SEMAA 
     program.
       17. An increase of $1,000,000 for the Carl Sagan Discovery 
     Science Center at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore 
     Medical Center to implement the educational programming for 
     this science learning project.
       18. An increase of $1,000,000 for the Challenger Learning 
     Center in Kenai, Alaska.


                            MISSION SUPPORT

       Appropriates $2,608,700,000 for mission support instead of 
     $2,584,000,000 as proposed by the House and Senate. The 
     funding level arrived at for this account includes a 
     reduction of $6,000,000 to research operations support from 
     IFMP rescheduling as proposed by NASA to provide additional 
     funding for the Mars 2003 Lander program.
       The conferees are aware that NASA owns and operates a small 
     fleet of administrative aircraft that are vital for the 
     oversight and implementation of its mission. The conferees 
     understand that the majority of the aircraft in this fleet 
     are aging, presenting a burden upon NASA management in terms 
     of maintenance requirements and resultant costs. The 
     conferees, therefore, direct that NASA develop a plan to 
     replace these aging administrative aircraft and consider 
     fractional ownership as an alternative. NASA should submit 
     this plan for administrative aircraft replacement to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate by April 
     15, 2001. The conferees continue to believe that fractional 
     ownership may be of value to NASA and have therefore included 
     $2,200,000 to be used for a two-year test of the concept. 
     NASA is directed to enter into a fractional ownership 
     contract, to be fully competed, by June 15, 2001.
       The conferees agree to provide $18,000,000 for the E-
     Complex upgrades at Stennis Space Center and $10,500,000 for 
     a propulsion test operations building and for upgrades to the 
     East/West access road at Stennis. In addition, the funds used 
     for upgrades to the East/West access road may be used to 
     match title 23 highway funds.


                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

       The conferees agree to provide $23,000,000 for the Office 
     of Inspector General, the same as proposed by both the House 
     and Senate.


                       ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

       The conferees agree to include four administrative 
     provisions which were included in the bill in fiscal year 
     2000. The fifth administrative provision is addressed at the 
     beginning of the NASA section of this statement. The 
     conferees have not included an administrative provision 
     proposed by the Senate which would have incorporated the 
     Senate report into the bill by reference.

                  National Credit Union Administration


                       CENTRAL LIQUIDITY FACILITY

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

       Limits direct loans from the Central Liquidity Facility 
     (CLF) to credit unions from borrowed funds to $1,500,000,000 
     instead of $3,000,000,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $600,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       Appropriates $1,000,000 to the National Credit Union 
     Administration for the Community Development Revolving Loan 
     Program for low-income credit unions of which $350,000 is 
     provided specifically for technical assistance, as proposed 
     by the House instead of no funding as proposed by the Senate.
       The conferees are very supportive of the credit union 
     industry and the service it provides to its members. 
     Increasing the lending cap for the Central Liquidity Facility 
     (CLF) for new direct loans gives greater financial security 
     to the industry and ensures the statutory role of the CLF to 
     provide liquidity to credit unions experiencing unusual or 
     unexpected shortfalls.
       The conferees consider loans administered through the CLF 
     necessary in situations when private sources are not 
     available and when unanticipated events are the cause of 
     liquidity drains. The conferees do not expect that loan sales 
     or other business decisions that result in excessive demand 
     for liquidity should be considered emergency events that 
     warrant the use of CLF funds. To this end, the conferees 
     direct the NCUA to develop written policies and procedures to 
     clarify the role of the CLF and the circumstances when the 
     CLF will approve a Regular or Agent Member's request for a 
     CLF advance. This information is to be included in the budget 
     request for fiscal year 2002. The conferees also direct the 
     NCUA to report on the loans made by the CLF for short-term 
     adjustment, seasonal, and protracted adjustment liquidity 
     needs for each month from 1996 through December 2000. This 
     report is to be submitted to the Committees by February 15, 
     2001. The conferees request that NCUA continue to provide 
     this information on CLF loans on a monthly basis through 
     September 2001.

                      National Science Foundation


                    research and related activities

       Appropriates $3,350,000,000 for research and related 
     activities instead of $3,117,690,000 as

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     proposed by the House and $3,245,562,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate. Bill language provides up to $275,592,000 of this 
     amount for Polar research and operations support.
       The conferees have included bill language which specifies 
     that $65,000,000 of appropriated funds are to be for a 
     comprehensive research initiative on plant genomes for 
     economically significant crops.
       Finally, the conferees have agreed to bill language which: 
     (1) prohibits funds spent in this or any other Act to acquire 
     or lease a research vessel with ice-breaking capability built 
     or retrofitted outside of the United States if such a vessel 
     of United States origin can be obtained at a cost of not more 
     than 50 per centum above the cost of the least expensive, 
     technically acceptable, non-United States vessel; (2) 
     requires that the amount of subsidy or financing provided by 
     a foreign government, or instrumentality thereof, to a 
     vessel's construction shall be included as part of the total 
     cost of such vessel; and (3) provides that should a U.S. 
     vessel as set forth in the foregoing language not be 
     available for leasing for the austral summer Antarctic season 
     of 2002-2003, and thereafter, a vessel of any origin can be 
     leased for a period not to exceed 120 days of that season and 
     every season thereafter until delivery of such a United 
     States vessel occurs.
       The conference agreement provides an increase of 
     $384,000,000 above the fiscal year 2000 appropriated level 
     for research and related activities. Within the appropriated 
     level is $215,000,000 for the information technology 
     initiative, $75,000,000 for the biocomplexity initiative, 
     $65,000,000 for plant genome research for economically 
     significant crops, $150,000,000 for the new nanotechnology 
     initiative, $75,000,000 for major research instrumentation, 
     $94,910,000 for facilities within the astronomical sciences 
     activity, and $1,000,000 to begin design and model testing of 
     a vessel to replace the R/V Alpha Helix.
       The increase of $15,000,000 provided for astronomical 
     sciences facilities is intended to upgrade specifically 
     facilities and operations, including new construction and 
     instrumentation as appropriate, for the Arecibo Observatory, 
     the Green Bank Telescope, the Very Large Array, the Very Long 
     Baseline Array, and other facilities in need of such 
     attention on a priority basis. The Foundation is directed to 
     provide the Committees on Appropriations of the House and 
     Senate with a list of facilities and the specific needs of 
     each, on a priority basis, within the Operating Plan 
     submission and on a semi-yearly basis after that.
       The conferees have provided $5,000,000 within the total for 
     social and behavioral sciences to initiate a separately 
     competed Children's Research Initiative (CRI). While the NSF 
     does fund some research that provides a better understanding 
     of children, a distinct program is needed if the 
     recommendations of the 1997 National Science and Technology 
     Council report are to be achieved. In fact, as the NSF 
     anticipates potential budget growth in future years, the 
     conferees expect the CRI to be a vital part of any planned 
     program expansion. The NSF should employ its normal peer 
     review process for determining grants for the CRI, and should 
     award both principal investigator and no less than three 
     center awards with this first-year funding.
       Highest funding priority should be given to proposals from 
     distinct human sciences units in institutions of higher 
     education that have an interdisciplinary academic program in 
     human and family development, nutrition, and related areas. 
     Proposals should also be evaluated for their effectiveness in 
     utilizing existing delivery systems for program outreach and 
     evaluation to assess how the implementation of research 
     findings can benefit the majority of all children in a given 
     state or region. A strong emphasis should also be placed on 
     pursuing theory-driven, applied policy-related research on 
     children, learning, and the influence of families and 
     communities on child development.
       The conferees expect the Foundation to work with the human 
     sciences community in the development of the proposed program 
     guidelines for the CRI and to have awards made by June 2001. 
     Finally, the conferees expect a detailed plan in the fiscal 
     year 2002 budget submission on how the NSF intends to expand 
     the CRI as a multi-year strategic initiative.
       The Opportunity Fund has again, without prejudice, not been 
     funded for fiscal year 2001.
       Except as previously noted, the conferees expect that the 
     remaining funds will be distributed proportionately and 
     equitably, consistent with the ratio of the budget request 
     level above the fiscal year 2000 funding level, among all of 
     the remaining directorates. In the distribution of funds 
     within each directorate, the NSF is directed to provide each 
     program, project, and activity the same percentage of the 
     overall budget as that provided in the budget request. The 
     conferees request that such distribution be specifically 
     noted in the fiscal year 2001 Operating Plan submission.


                        major research equipment

       Appropriates $121,600,000 for major research equipment 
     instead of $76,600,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $109,100,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement provides the budget request level 
     for all ongoing projects within the MRE account, including 
     $45,000,000 for the development and construction of a second, 
     single site, five-plus teraflop computing facility. The 
     conferees are encouraged by the recent progress made in the 
     development of the first terascale facility and urge the 
     Foundation to move as quickly as possible in soliciting 
     proposals for the second facility. The conferees urge the 
     Foundation to pay special attention to qualified proposals 
     that will utilize newer generation processors and other 
     equipment as well as exhibit appropriate cost-share benefits 
     as part of a proposal.
       The conferees expect the Foundation to provide regular, 
     informal reports as to the progress of the entire terascale 
     program, including updates on construction, acquisition, 
     funding requirements, and other appropriate information 
     associated with this important program.
       The conference agreement also provides $12,500,000 to 
     continue production of the High-Performance Instrumented 
     Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (HIAPER). This 
     new high-altitude research aircraft will, upon its 
     completion, be available to support critical and outstanding 
     atmospheric science research opportunities over the next 25 
     to 30 years.
       Budget constraints have forced the conferees to not approve 
     funding for two new starts for fiscal year 2001 under major 
     research equipment, the U.S. Array and San Andreas Fault 
     Observatory at Depth, and the National Ecological Observatory 
     Network. This decision was made without prejudice and does 
     not reflect on the quality of research proposed to be 
     developed through these two programs.


                     education and human resources

       Appropriates $787,352,000 for education and human resources 
     instead of $694,310,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $765,352,000 as proposed by the Senate. Bill language is 
     included which requires that from within available funds, 
     $10,000,000 is for the Office of Innovation Partnerships.
       Within this appropriated level, the conferees have provided 
     $75,000,000 for the Experimental Program to Stimulate 
     Competitive Research (EPSCoR) to allow for renewed emphasis 
     on research infrastructure development in the EPSCoR states, 
     as well as to permit full implementation awards to states 
     which have research proposals in the planning process. In 
     addition, the conferees have provided $10,000,000 to fund the 
     Office of Innovation Partnerships. This new office was 
     created last year to, among other things, house the EPSCoR 
     program, and should continue to examine means of helping 
     those non-EPSCoR institutions receiving among the least 
     federal research funding expand their research capacity and 
     competitiveness so as to develop a truly national scientific 
     research community with appropriate research centers located 
     throughout the nation.
       The conference agreement provides $15,000,000 for the HBCU-
     UP program, including $14,000,000 from the EHR account and 
     $1,000,000 from the RRA account. The conferees have provided 
     an increase of $10,000,000 above the budget request level for 
     the Informal Science Education (ISE) program. This increase 
     is intended to provide additional resources to expand the 
     pool of ISE grantees to providers in smaller communities, 
     thus ensuring that the impact of the ISE program reaches an 
     even more diverse audience.
       The conference agreement further provides $34,250,000 for 
     Advanced Technological Education; $13,000,000 for the SMETE 
     Digital Library; $19,750,000 for Graduate Teaching 
     Fellowships in K-12 Education; $16,500,000 for programs 
     designed for women and persons with disabilities; $55,200,000 
     for the Graduate Research Fellowships program; and the fiscal 
     year 2001 budget requests for the Louis Stokes Alliance for 
     Minority Participation program, the new Tribal Colleges 
     program, the Minority Graduate Education program, the Centers 
     of Research Excellence in Science and Technology program, and 
     the Model Institutions for Excellence program.
       Finally, the conferees have agreed to provide $11,200,000 
     for the new Scholarships for Service program.
       Except as previously noted, the conferees expect that the 
     remaining funds will be distributed proportionately and 
     equitably, consistent with the ratio of the budget request 
     level above the fiscal year 2000 funding level, among all of 
     the remaining directorates. In the distribution of funds 
     within each directorate, the NSF is directed to provide each 
     program, project, and activity the same percentage of the 
     overall budget as that provided in the budget request. The 
     conferees request that such distribution be specifically 
     noted in the fiscal year 2001 Operating Plan submission.


                         salaries and expenses

       Appropriates $160,890,000 for salaries and expenses instead 
     of $152,000,000 as proposed by the House and $170,890,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       The conferees note that the increase of $3,000,000 above 
     the budget request is for travel expenses that the budget 
     submission proposed to fund from within the RRA and EHR 
     accounts instead of from within salaries and expenses. 
     Accordingly, the conferees

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     direct the NSF to fund employee travel from within salaries 
     and expenses, consistent with existing practice.


                      office of inspector general

       Appropriates $6,280,000 for the Office of Inspector General 
     as proposed by the Senate instead of $5,700,000 as proposed 
     by the House. The conferees continue to expect the OIG to 
     increase efforts in the areas of cost-sharing, indirect 
     costs, and misconduct in scientific research. The conferees 
     further direct the OIG to evaluate the Foundation's 
     management of its growing program responsibilities.

                 Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation


          Payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

       Appropriates $90,000,000 for the Neighborhood Reinvestment 
     Corporation as proposed by the House instead of $80,000,000 
     as proposed by the Senate.
       Includes language proposed by the House allowing $5,000,000 
     of the total appropriation to be used for a section 8 
     homeownership program. The Senate did not include a similar 
     provision.
       Includes new language making $2,500,000 available for the 
     purpose of endowing a ``George Knight Scholarship Fund.'' The 
     conferees would like to recognize the retirement of George 
     Knight, executive director of Neighborhood Reinvestment 
     Corporation since 1990. Mr. Knight has dedicated more than 24 
     years of service to the Corporation and its predecessor 
     organization, the Urban Reinvestment Task Force. To 
     acknowledge Mr. Knight's dedication to America's communities, 
     the conferees are designating a set-aside of $2,500,000 to 
     establish a scholarship fund in his honor for the 
     Neighborhood Reinvestment Training Institute. This fund will 
     allow hundreds of local leaders, community developers and 
     residents to have access to high-quality training, which will 
     help them acquire the expertise to improve their communities.

                        Selective Service System


                         salaries and expenses

       Appropriates $24,480,000 for salaries and expenses as 
     proposed by the Senate instead of $23,000,000 as proposed by 
     the House.
       Retains language proposed by the Senate providing a one-
     year exemption from 31 U.S.C. 1341 if the President deems the 
     exemption necessary in the interest of national defense.

                      TITLE IV--GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Inserts language proposed by the Senate permitting EPA 
     appropriations to be used for comprehensive conservation and 
     management plans.
       Retains language proposed by the House amending the 
     National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to implement full 
     cost accounting, allow the transfer of administrative funds 
     and allow the transfer of balances from old accounts to new 
     accounts. The Senate deleted the House language, but included 
     language implementing full cost accounting in a new account 
     structure and limiting the transfer of funds. The Senate had 
     also proposed a requirement for notification if program costs 
     increase by 15 percent.
       Inserts language proposed by the Senate defining a 
     qualified student loan.
       Retains language proposed by the House prohibiting HUD from 
     using funds for any activity in excess of amounts set forth 
     in the budget estimates to the Congress. The Senate included 
     similar language referencing the budget estimates submitted 
     for appropriations, not the Congress.
       Deletes language proposed by the Senate prohibiting the use 
     of funds to carry out Executive Order 13083.
       Inserts language proposed by the House and stricken by the 
     Senate prohibiting the EPA's expenditure of funds to 
     promulgate a final regulation to implement changes in the 
     payment of pesticide tolerance fees for fiscal year 2001. 
     This issue is addressed under the Environmental Protection 
     Agency elsewhere in this joint explanatory statement of the 
     managers.
       Deletes language proposed by the House and stricken by the 
     Senate directing the General Services Administration (GSA) to 
     allocate one of its Senior Executive Service positions for 
     Director, Federal Consumer Information Center. The conferees 
     recognize the GSA has already taken action on this issue.
       Deletes language proposed by the House and stricken by the 
     Senate restricting the use of funds for joint NASA--Air Force 
     research programs.
       Modifies language proposed by the House and stricken by the 
     Senate prohibiting the use of funds for the designation of 
     any area as an ozone nonattainment area. The conferees agree 
     to limit the prohibition until the Supreme Court rules on 
     this issue or June 15, 2001, whichever comes first.
       Deletes language proposed by the House and stricken by the 
     Senate prohibiting the use of funds for administration of the 
     Communities for Safer Guns Coalition.
       Inserts language proposed by the Senate prohibiting the use 
     of funds for the purpose of lobbying or litigating against 
     any Federal entity or official, with certain exceptions.
       Inserts language proposed by the Senate prohibiting the use 
     of funds for any activity or publication or distribution of 
     literature that is designed to promote public support or 
     opposition to any legislative proposal on which Congressional 
     action is not complete.
       Inserts language encouraging the use of E-Commerce as a 
     cost effective and efficient method of purchasing needed 
     products in a timely, paperless manner from qualified 
     vendors. In addition, the conferees encourage open, non-
     proprietary, Internet access to conduct E-Commerce as the use 
     of proprietary software in services can diminish the net 
     value of E-Commerce and limit choices by the customer. The 
     conferees note that the use of E-Commerce is in harmony with 
     the goals of the Federal Acquisition and Streamlining Act of 
     1994 and will enhance government purchasing efficiency.
       Retains language proposed by the House and stricken by the 
     Senate requiring HUD to provide detailed descriptions of how 
     funds identified for technical assistance, training, or 
     management in the budget justifications will be utilized.
       Inserts language amending the National Aeronautics and 
     Space Act of 1958 to allow for insurance, indemnification, 
     and liability protection for experimental aerospace vehicle 
     developers through December 31, 2001.
       Inserts language extending for two years and modifying NASA 
     employee buyout authority.

           TITLE V--FILIPINO VETERANS' BENEFITS IMPROVEMENTS

       The conference agreement bill includes a new title that 
     provides more equitable veterans benefits for certain 
     Filipino Army veterans who served with the U.S. Armed Forces 
     and under the U.S. Command during World War II. Under current 
     law these veterans are entitled to compensation from the VA 
     but at a lower level than other veterans and medical care 
     only for service-connected conditions. The changes covered by 
     this amendment include equal disability payments and health 
     care services for those covered veterans who live permanently 
     and legally in the United States, and expanded outpatient 
     healthcare at the Manila VA Outpatient Clinic for these 
     covered veterans who live in the Philippines.
       During WW II the Philippines was a Commonwealth of the 
     United States and members of the Commonwealth Army and the 
     New Philippine Scouts were called into service with the U.S. 
     Armed Forces at the order of President Roosevelt. The 
     bravery, sacrifice and commitment of these soldiers to the 
     cause of winning the war are legendary. In 1946, Congress 
     provided $200,000,000 to the Philippines to create their own 
     veterans benefit system and passed the Rescissions Act of 
     1946 which authorized disability pay at a rate for Filipino 
     veterans significantly below that paid to American veterans, 
     except to the Old Philippine Scouts, who to date receive 
     compensation and medical benefits equal to U.S. veterans. The 
     language added by this title restores a portion of these 
     benefits to the small number of these veterans who live in 
     the U.S. The changes include:
       Increasing the disability benefits compensation paid to 
     such veterans who live legally and permanently in the United 
     States to full parity with benefits paid to other entitled 
     veterans. Currently these benefits are paid at a 50 percent 
     level. This affects only the level of benefits paid. No new 
     eligibility is established under this section.
       Filipino veterans who already receive medical care at VA 
     facilities for service-connected conditions are made eligible 
     for full medical and related care at medical care facilities 
     on the same basis as other U.S. veterans. Currently these 
     veterans are only eligible for care for treatment of service-
     connected problems.
       Veterans living in the Philippines who already receive 
     medical care at a VA facility for service-connected 
     conditions are made eligible for full medical care at the VA 
     outpatient facility in the Philippines.
       The conferees believe that recognizing the service of these 
     loyal veterans through enactment of a more equitable benefit 
     structure is long overdue. Because of the advanced age of 
     this small population, enacting legislation has been given 
     special consideration in this conference agreement.


                   conference total--with comparisons

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

                       [In thousands of dollars]

New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 2000.......$99,736,845
Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority fiscal year109,783,099
House bill, fiscal year 2001................................103,101,836
Senate bill, fiscal year 2001...............................107,507,953
Conference agreement, fiscal year 2001......................107,341,317
Conference agreement compared with:
    New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 2000....+7,604,472
    Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority, fiscal -2,441,782

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    House bill, fiscal year 2001.............................+4,239,481
    Senate bill, fiscal year 2001..............................-166,636

DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND 
                  INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

       Following is explanatory language on H.R. 5482, as 
     introduced on October 18, 2000.
       The conferees on H.R. 4635 agree with the matter included 
     in H.R. 5482 and enacted in this conference report by 
     reference and the following description of it. This bill was 
     developed through negotiations by the conferees on the 
     differences in the House and Senate versions of H.R. 4635. 
     References in the following description to the ``conference 
     agreement'' mean the matter included in the introduced bill 
     enacted by this conference report. References to the House 
     bill mean the House passed version of H.R. 4635. References 
     to the Senate bill or Senate reported bill mean the Senate 
     reported version of H.R. 4635, not the Senate passed version 
     of H.R. 4635, unless otherwise stated.

              ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

       The conference agreement would enact the provisions of H.R. 
     5483 as introduced on October 18, 2000. The text of that bill 
     follows:
     A BILL Making appropriations for energy and water development 
     for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other 
     purposes
       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
     following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
     Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for energy and water 
     development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, 
     and for other purposes, namely:

                                TITLE I

                      DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL

                         DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil

       The following appropriations shall be expended under the 
     direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of 
     the Chief of Engineers for authorized civil functions of the 
     Department of the Army pertaining to rivers and harbors, 
     flood control, beach erosion, and related purposes.

                         General Investigations

       For expenses necessary for the collection and study of 
     basic information pertaining to river and harbor, flood 
     control, shore protection, and related projects, restudy of 
     authorized projects, miscellaneous investigations, and, when 
     authorized by laws, surveys and detailed studies and plans 
     and specifications of projects prior to construction, 
     $160,038,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That in conducting the Southwest Valley Flood Damage 
     Reduction Study, Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Secretary of 
     the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall 
     include an evaluation of flood damage reduction measures that 
     would otherwise be excluded from the feasibility analysis 
     based on policies regarding the frequency of flooding, the 
     drainage areas, and the amount of runoff: Provided further, 
     That the Secretary of the Army is directed to use $750,000 of 
     the funds appropriated herein to continue preconstruction 
     engineering and design for the Murrieta Creek, California 
     flood protection and environmental restoration project in 
     accordance with Alternative 6, based on the Murrieta Creek 
     feasibility report and environmental impact statement dated 
     June 2000 at a total cost of $90,866,000, with an estimated 
     Federal cost of $59,063,900 and an estimated non-Federal cost 
     of $31,803,100.

                         Construction, General

       For the prosecution of river and harbor, flood control, 
     shore protection, and related projects authorized by laws; 
     and detailed studies, and plans and specifications, of 
     projects (including those for development with participation 
     or under consideration for participation by States, local 
     governments, or private groups) authorized or made eligible 
     for selection by law (but such studies shall not constitute a 
     commitment of the Government to construction), 
     $1,717,199,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
     such sums as are necessary for the Federal share of 
     construction costs for facilities under the Dredged Material 
     Disposal Facilities program shall be derived from the Harbor 
     Maintenance Trust Fund, as authorized by Public Law 104-303; 
     and of which such sums as are necessary pursuant to Public 
     Law 99-662 shall be derived from the Inland Waterways Trust 
     Fund, for one-half of the costs of construction and 
     rehabilitation of inland waterways projects, including 
     rehabilitation costs for the Lock and Dam 12, Mississippi 
     River, Iowa; Lock and Dam 24, Mississippi River, Illinois and 
     Missouri; Lock and Dam 3, Mississippi River, Minnesota; and 
     London Locks and Dam, and Kanawha River, West Virginia, 
     projects; and of which funds are provided for the following 
     projects in the amounts specified:
       Elba, Alabama, $8,400,000;
       Geneva, Alabama, $10,800,000;
       San Gabriel Basin Groundwater Restoration, California, 
     $25,000,000;
       San Timoteo Creek (Santa Ana River Mainstem), California, 
     $5,000,000;
       Indianapolis Central Waterfront, Indiana, $10,000,000;
       Southern and Eastern Kentucky, Kentucky, $4,000,000;
       Clover Fork, Middlesboro, City of Cumberland, Town of 
     Martin, Pike County (including Levisa Fork and Tug Fork 
     Tributaries), Bell County, Martin County, and Harlan County, 
     Kentucky, elements of the Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big 
     Sandy River and Upper Cumberland River, Kentucky, 
     $20,000,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Army, acting 
     through the Chief of Engineers, is directed to proceed with 
     planning, engineering, design and construction of the Town of 
     Martin, Kentucky, element, in accordance with Plan A as set 
     forth in the preliminary draft Detailed Project Report, 
     Appendix T of the General Plan of the Huntington District 
     Commander;
       Jackson County, Mississippi, $2,000,000;
       Bosque and Leon Rivers, Texas, $4,000,000; and
       Upper Mingo County (including Mingo County Tributaries), 
     Lower Mingo County (Kermit), Wayne County, and McDowell 
     County, elements of the Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big Sandy 
     River and Upper Cumberland River project in West Virginia, 
     $4,100,000:

     Provided further, That using $900,000 of the funds 
     appropriated herein, the Secretary of the Army, acting 
     through the Chief of Engineers, is directed to undertake the 
     Bowie County Levee project, which is defined as Alternative B 
     Local Sponsor Option, in the Corps of Engineers document 
     entitled Bowie County Local Flood Protection, Red River, 
     Texas, Project Design Memorandum No. 1, Bowie County Levee, 
     dated April 1997: Provided further, That no part of any 
     appropriation contained in this Act shall be expended or 
     obligated to begin Phase II of the John Day Drawdown study or 
     to initiate a study of the drawdown of McNary Dam unless 
     authorized by law: Provided further, That the Secretary of 
     the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is directed 
     hereafter to use available Construction, General funds in 
     addition to funding provided in Public Law 104-206 to 
     complete design and construction of the Red River Regional 
     Visitors Center in the vicinity of Shreveport, Louisiana at 
     an estimated cost of $6,000,000: Provided further, That 
     section 101(b)(4) of the Water Resources Development Act of 
     1996, is amended by striking ``total cost of $8,600,000'' and 
     inserting in lieu thereof ``total cost of $15,000,000'': 
     Provided further, That the Secretary of the Army, acting 
     through the Chief of Engineers, is directed to use $3,000,000 
     of the funds appropriated herein for additional emergency 
     bank stabilization measures at Galena, Alaska under the same 
     terms and conditions as previous emergency bank stabilization 
     work undertaken at Galena, Alaska pursuant to Section 116 of 
     Public Law 99-190: Provided further, That with $4,200,000 of 
     the funds appropriated herein, the Secretary of the Army, 
     acting through the Chief of Engineers, is directed to 
     continue construction of the Brunswick County Beaches, North 
     Carolina-Ocean Isle Beach portion in accordance with the 
     General Reevaluation Report approved by the Chief of 
     Engineers on May 15, 1998: Provided further, That the 
     Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, 
     is directed to use not to exceed $300,000 of funds 
     appropriated herein to reimburse the City of Renton, 
     Washington, at full Federal expense, for mitigation expenses 
     incurred for the flood control project constructed pursuant 
     to 33 U.S.C. 701s at Cedar River, City of Renton, Washington, 
     as a result of over-dredging by the Army Corps of Engineers: 
     Provided further, That $2,000,000 of the funds appropriated 
     herein shall be available for stabilization and renovation of 
     Lock and Dam 10, Kentucky River, Kentucky, subject to 
     enactment of authorization by law: Provided further, That the 
     Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, 
     is directed to use $3,000,000 of the funds appropriated 
     herein to initiate construction of a navigation project at 
     Kaumalapau Harbor, Hawaii: Provided further, That the 
     Secretary of the Army is directed to use $2,000,000 of the 
     funds provided herein for Dam Safety and Seepage/Stability 
     Correction Program to design and construct seepage control 
     features at Waterbury Dam, Winooski River, Vermont: Provided 
     further, That the Secretary of the Army, acting through the 
     Chief of Engineers, is directed to design and construct barge 
     lanes at the Houston-Galveston Navigation Channels, Texas, 
     project, immediately adjacent to either side of the Houston 
     Ship Channel, from Bolivar Roads to Morgan Point, to a depth 
     of 12 feet with prior years' Construction, General carry-over 
     funds: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Army, 
     acting through the Chief of Engineers, may use Construction, 
     General funding as directed in Public Law 105-62 and Public 
     Law 105-245 to initiate construction of an emergency outlet 
     from Devils Lake, North Dakota, to the Sheyenne River, except 
     that the funds shall not become available unless the 
     Secretary of the Army determines that an emergency (as 
     defined in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
     Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122)) exists 
     with respect to the emergency need for the outlet and reports 
     to Congress that the construction is technically sound, 
     economically justified, and environmentally acceptable, and 
     in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 
     1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.): Provided further, That the 
     economic justification for the emergency outlet shall be 
     prepared in accordance with the principles and guidelines for 
     economic evaluation as required by regulations and procedures 
     of the Army Corps of Engineers for all flood control 
     projects, and that the economic justification be fully 
     described, including the analysis of the benefits and costs, 
     in the project plan documents: Provided further, That the 
     plans for the

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     emergency outlet shall be reviewed and, to be effective, 
     shall contain assurances provided by the Secretary of State, 
     after consultation with the International Joint Commission, 
     that the project will not violate the requirements or intent 
     of the Treaty Between the United States and Great Britain 
     Relating to Boundary Waters Between the United States and 
     Canada, signed at Washington, January 11, 1909 (36 Stat. 
     2448; TS 548) (commonly known as the ``Boundary Waters Treaty 
     of 1909''): Provided further, That the Secretary of the Army 
     shall submit the final plans and other documents for the 
     emergency outlet to Congress: Provided further, That no funds 
     made available under this Act or any other Act for any fiscal 
     year may be used by the Secretary of the Army to carry out 
     the portion of the feasibility study of the Devils Lake 
     Basin, North Dakota, authorized under the Energy and Water 
     Development Appropriations Act, 1993 (Public Law 102-377), 
     that addresses the needs of the area for stabilized lake 
     levels through inlet controls, or to otherwise study any 
     facility or carry out any activity that would permit the 
     transfer of water from the Missouri River Basin into Devils 
     Lake: Provided further, That within available funds, the 
     Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, 
     is directed to continue construction of the Rio Grand de 
     Manati flood control project at Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, 
     which was initiated under the authority of the Section 205 
     program prior to being specifically authorized in the Water 
     Resources Development Act of 1999.


 Flood Control, Mississippi River and Tributaries, Arkansas, Illinois, 
       Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee

       For expenses necessary for prosecuting work of flood 
     control, and rescue work, repair, restoration, or maintenance 
     of flood control projects threatened or destroyed by flood, 
     as authorized by law (33 U.S.C. 702a and 702g-1), 
     $347,731,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That the Secretary of the Army is directed to complete his 
     analysis and determination of Federal maintenance of the 
     Greenville Inner Harbor, Mississippi navigation project in 
     accordance with section 509 of the Water Resources 
     Development Act of 1996.

                   Operation and Maintenance, General

       For expenses necessary for the preservation, operation, 
     maintenance, and care of existing river and harbor, flood 
     control, and related works, including such sums as may be 
     necessary for the maintenance of harbor channels provided by 
     a State, municipality or other public agency, outside of 
     harbor lines, and serving essential needs of general commerce 
     and navigation; surveys and charting of northern and 
     northwestern lakes and connecting waters; clearing and 
     straightening channels; and removal of obstructions to 
     navigation, $1,901,959,000, to remain available until 
     expended, of which such sums as become available in the 
     Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to Public Law 99-662, 
     may be derived from that Fund, and of which such sums as 
     become available from the special account established by the 
     Land and Water Conservation Act of 1965, as amended (16 
     U.S.C. 460l), may be derived from that account for 
     construction, operation, and maintenance of outdoor 
     recreation facilities: Provided, That the Secretary of the 
     Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, from the funds 
     provided herein for the operation and maintenance of New York 
     Harbor, New York, is directed to prepare the necessary 
     documentation and initiate removal of submerged obstructions 
     and debris in the area previously marked by the Ambrose Light 
     Tower in the interest of safe navigation: Provided further, 
     That the Secretary of the Army is directed to use $500,000 of 
     funds appropriated herein to remove and reinstall the docks 
     and causeway, in kind, at Astoria East Boat Basin, Oregon: 
     Provided further, That $500,000 of the funds appropriated 
     herein for the Ohio River Open Channel, Illinois, Kentucky, 
     Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, project, are 
     provided for the Secretary of the Army, acting through the 
     Chief of Engineers, to dredge a channel from the mouth of 
     Wheeling Creek to Tunnel Green Park in Wheeling, West 
     Virginia.

                           Regulatory Program

       For expenses necessary for administration of laws 
     pertaining to regulation of navigable waters and wetlands, 
     $125,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of 
     Engineers, is directed to use funds appropriated herein to: 
     (1) by March 1, 2001, supplement the report, Cost Analysis 
     For the 1999 Proposal to Issue and Modify Nationwide Permits, 
     to reflect the Nationwide Permits actually issued on March 9, 
     2000, including changes in the acreage limits, 
     preconstruction notification requirements and general 
     conditions between the rule proposed on July 21, 1999, and 
     the rule promulgated and published in the Federal Register; 
     (2) after consideration of the cost analysis for the 1999 
     proposal to issue and modify nationwide permits and the 
     supplement prepared pursuant to this Act and by September 30, 
     2001, prepare, submit to Congress and publish in the Federal 
     Register a Permit Processing Management Plan by which the 
     Corps of Engineers will handle the additional work associated 
     with all projected increases in the number of individual 
     permit applications and preconstruction notifications related 
     to the new and replacement permits and general conditions. 
     The Permit Processing Management Plan shall include specific 
     objective goals and criteria by which the Corps of Engineers' 
     progress towards reducing any permit backlog can be measured; 
     (3) beginning on December 31, 2001, and on a biannual basis 
     thereafter, report to Congress and publish in the Federal 
     Register, an analysis of the performance of its program as 
     measured against the criteria set out in the Permit 
     Processing Management Plan; (4) implement a 1-year pilot 
     program to publish quarterly on the U.S. Army Corps of 
     Engineer's Regulatory Program website all Regulatory Analysis 
     and Management Systems (RAMS) data for the South Pacific 
     Division and North Atlantic Division beginning within 30 days 
     of the enactment of this Act; and (5) publish in Division 
     Office websites all findings, rulings, and decisions rendered 
     under the administrative appeals process for the Corps of 
     Engineers Regulatory Program as established in Public Law 
     106-60: Provided further, That, through the period ending on 
     September 30, 2003, the Corps of Engineers shall allow any 
     appellant to keep a verbatim record of the proceedings of the 
     appeals conference under the aforementioned administrative 
     appeals process: Provided further, That within 30 days of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army, acting 
     through the Chief of Engineers, shall require all U.S. Army 
     Corps of Engineers Divisions and Districts to record the date 
     on which a section 404 individual permit application or 
     nationwide permit notification is filed with the Corps of 
     Engineers: Provided further, That the Corps of Engineers, 
     when reporting permit processing times, shall track both the 
     date a permit application is first received and the date the 
     application is considered complete, as well as the reason 
     that the application is not considered complete upon first 
     submission.

            Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program

       For expenses necessary to clean up contamination from sites 
     throughout the United States resulting from work performed as 
     part of the Nation's early atomic energy program, 
     $140,000,000, to remain available until expended.

                            General Expenses

       For expenses necessary for general administration and 
     related functions in the Office of the Chief of Engineers and 
     offices of the Division Engineers; activities of the Coastal 
     Engineering Research Board, the Humphreys Engineer Center 
     Support Activity, the Water Resources Support Center, and 
     headquarters support functions at the USACE Finance Center, 
     $152,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That no part of any other appropriation provided in title I 
     of this Act shall be available to fund the activities of the 
     Office of the Chief of Engineers or the executive direction 
     and management activities of the division offices: Provided 
     further, That none of these funds shall be available to 
     support an office of congressional affairs within the 
     executive office of the Chief of Engineers.

                             Revolving Fund

       Amounts in the Revolving Fund are available for the costs 
     of relocating the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers headquarters 
     to office space in the General Accounting Office headquarters 
     building in Washington, D.C.

                       Administrative Provisions

       Appropriations in this title shall be available for 
     official reception and representation expenses (not to exceed 
     $5,000); and during the current fiscal year the Revolving 
     Fund, Corps of Engineers, shall be available for purchase 
     (not to exceed 100 for replacement only) and hire of 
     passenger motor vehicles.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil

       Sec. 101. (a) The Secretary of the Army shall enter into an 
     agreement with the City of Grand Prairie, Texas, wherein the 
     City agrees to assume all of the responsibilities of the 
     Trinity River Authority of Texas under Contract No. DACW63-
     76-C-0166, other than financial responsibilities, except as 
     provided for in subsection (c) of this section. The Trinity 
     River Authority shall be relieved of all of its financial 
     responsibilities under the Contract as of the date the 
     Secretary of the Army enters into the agreement with the 
     City.
       (b) In consideration of the agreement referred to in 
     subsection (a), the City shall pay the Federal Government a 
     total of $4,290,000 in two installments, one in the amount of 
     $2,150,000, which shall be due and payable no later than 
     December 1, 2000, and one in the amount of $2,140,000, which 
     shall be due and payable no later than December 1, 2003.
       (c) The agreement executed pursuant to subsection (a) shall 
     include a provision requiring the City to assume all costs 
     associated with operation and maintenance of the recreation 
     facilities included in the Contract referred to in that 
     subsection.
       Sec. 102. Agreements proposed for execution by the 
     Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works or the United 
     States Army Corps of Engineers after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act pursuant to section 4 of the Rivers and 
     Harbor Act of 1915, Public Law 64-291; section 11 of the 
     River and Harbor Act of 1925, Public Law 68-585; the Civil 
     Functions Appropriations Act, 1936, Public Law 75-208; 
     section 215 of the Flood Control Act of 1968, as amended, 
     Public Law 90-483; sections 104, 203, and 204 of the Water 
     Resources Development Act of 1986, as amended (Public Law 99-
     662); section 206 of the Water Resources Development Act of 
     1992, as amended, Public Law 102-580; section 211 of the 
     Water Resources Development Act of 1996, Public Law 104-303, 
     and any other specific project authority, shall be limited to 
     credits and reimbursements per project not to exceed 
     $10,000,000 in each fiscal year, and total credits and 
     reimbursements for all applicable projects not to exceed 
     $50,000,000 in each fiscal year.

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       Sec. 103. The Secretary of the Army, acting through the 
     Chief of Engineers, is authorized to construct the locally 
     preferred plan for flood control, environmental restoration 
     and recreation, Murrieta Creek, California, described as 
     Alternative 6, based on the Murrieta Creek Feasibility Report 
     and Environmental Impact Statement dated October 2000, at a 
     total cost of $89,850,000, with an estimated Federal cost of 
     $57,735,000 and an estimated non-Federal cost of $32,115,000.
       Sec. 104. St. Georges Bridge, Delaware.--None of the funds 
     made available by this Act may be used to carry out any 
     activity relating to closure or removal of the St. Georges 
     Bridge across the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Delaware, 
     including a hearing or any other activity relating to 
     preparation of an environmental impact statement concerning 
     the closure or removal.
       Sec. 105. Within available funds under title I, the 
     Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, 
     shall provide up to $7,000,000 to replace and upgrade the dam 
     in Kake, Alaska which collapsed July 2000, to provide 
     drinking water and hydroelectricity.

                                TITLE II

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                          Central Utah Project


                central utah project completion account

       For carrying out activities authorized by the Central Utah 
     Project Completion Act, $38,724,000, to remain available 
     until expended, of which $19,158,000 shall be deposited into 
     the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account: 
     Provided, That of the amounts deposited into that account, 
     $5,000,000 shall be considered the Federal contribution 
     authorized by paragraph 402(b)(2) of the Central Utah Project 
     Completion Act and $14,158,000 shall be available to the Utah 
     Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission to carry 
     out activities authorized under that Act.
       In addition, for necessary expenses incurred in carrying 
     out related responsibilities of the Secretary of the 
     Interior, $1,216,000, to remain available until expended.

                         Bureau of Reclamation

       The following appropriations shall be expended to execute 
     authorized functions of the Bureau of Reclamation:


                      water and related resources

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For management, development, and restoration of water and 
     related natural resources and for related activities, 
     including the operation, maintenance and rehabilitation of 
     reclamation and other facilities, participation in fulfilling 
     related Federal responsibilities to Native Americans, and 
     related grants to, and cooperative and other agreements with, 
     State and local governments, Indian tribes, and others, 
     $678,450,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
     $1,916,000 shall be available for transfer to the Upper 
     Colorado River Basin Fund and $39,467,000 shall be available 
     for transfer to the Lower Colorado River Basin Development 
     Fund; of which such amounts as may be necessary may be 
     advanced to the Colorado River Dam Fund; of which $16,000,000 
     shall be for on-reservation water development, feasibility 
     studies, and related administrative costs under Public Law 
     106-163; of which not more than 25 percent of the amount 
     provided for drought emergency assistance may be used for 
     financial assistance for the preparation of cooperative 
     drought contingency plans under title II of Public Law 102-
     250; and of which not more than $500,000 is for high priority 
     projects which shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation 
     Corps, as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1706: Provided, That such 
     transfers may be increased or decreased within the overall 
     appropriation under this heading: Provided further, That of 
     the total appropriated, the amount for program activities 
     that can be financed by the Reclamation Fund or the Bureau of 
     Reclamation special fee account established by 16 U.S.C. 
     460l-6a(i) shall be derived from that Fund or account: 
     Provided further, That funds contributed under 43 U.S.C. 395 
     are available until expended for the purposes for which 
     contributed: Provided further, That funds advanced under 43 
     U.S.C. 397a shall be credited to this account and are 
     available until expended for the same purposes as the sums 
     appropriated under this heading: Provided further, That funds 
     available for expenditure for the Departmental Irrigation 
     Drainage Program may be expended by the Bureau of Reclamation 
     for site remediation on a non-reimbursable basis: Provided 
     further, That section 301 of Public Law 102-250, Reclamation 
     States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991, as amended, is 
     amended further by inserting ``2000, and 2001'' in lieu of 
     ``and 2000'': Provided further, That the amount authorized 
     for Indian municipal, rural, and industrial water features by 
     section 10 of Public Law 89-108, as amended by section 8 of 
     Public Law 99-294, section 1701(b) of Public Law 102-575, 
     Public Law 105-245, and Public Law 106-60 is increased by 
     $2,000,000 (October 1998 prices): Provided further, That the 
     amount authorized for Minidoka Project North Side Pumping 
     Division, Idaho, by Section 5 of Public Law 81-864, is 
     increased by $2,805,000: Provided further, That the 
     Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 (43 U.S.C. 509) is 
     amended as follows: (1) by inserting in Section 4(c) after 
     ``1984,'' and before ``costs'' the following: ``and the 
     additional $95,000,000 further authorized to be appropriated 
     by amendments to that Act in 2000,''; (2) by inserting in 
     section 5 after ``levels),'' and before ``plus'' the 
     following: ``and, effective October 1, 2000, not to exceed an 
     additional $95,000,000 (October 1, 2000, price levels),''; 
     and (3) by striking ``sixty days (which'' and all that 
     follows through ``day certain)'' and inserting ``30 calendar 
     days''.


               bureau of reclamation loan program account

       For the cost of direct loans and/or grants, $8,944,000, to 
     remain available until expended, as authorized by the Small 
     Reclamation Projects Act of August 6, 1956, as amended (43 
     U.S.C. 422a-422l): Provided, That such costs, including the 
     cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 
     502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: 
     Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize 
     gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans 
     not to exceed $27,000,000.
       In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry 
     out the program for direct loans and/or grants, $425,000, to 
     remain available until expended: Provided, That of the total 
     sums appropriated, the amount of program activities that can 
     be financed by the Reclamation Fund shall be derived from 
     that Fund.


                central valley project restoration fund

       For carrying out the programs, projects, plans, and habitat 
     restoration, improvement, and acquisition provisions of the 
     Central Valley Project Improvement Act, $38,382,000, to be 
     derived from such sums as may be collected in the Central 
     Valley Project Restoration Fund pursuant to sections 3407(d), 
     3404(c)(3), 3405(f ), and 3406(c)(1) of Public Law 102-575, 
     to remain available until expended: Provided, That the Bureau 
     of Reclamation is directed to assess and collect the full 
     amount of the additional mitigation and restoration payments 
     authorized by section 3407(d) of Public Law 102-575.


                       policy and administration

       For necessary expenses of policy, administration, and 
     related functions in the office of the Commissioner, the 
     Denver office, and offices in the five regions of the Bureau 
     of Reclamation, to remain available until expended, 
     $50,224,000, to be derived from the Reclamation Fund and be 
     nonreimbursable as provided in 43 U.S.C. 377: Provided, That 
     no part of any other appropriation in this Act shall be 
     available for activities or functions budgeted as policy and 
     administration expenses.


                        administrative provision

       Appropriations for the Bureau of Reclamation shall be 
     available for purchase of not to exceed four passenger motor 
     vehicles for replacement only.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

       Sec. 201. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this or any other Act may be used to pay the 
     salaries and expenses of personnel to purchase or lease water 
     in the Middle Rio Grande or the Carlsbad Projects in New 
     Mexico unless said purchase or lease is in compliance with 
     the purchase requirements of section 202 of Public Law 106-
     60.
       Sec. 202. Funds under this title for Drought Emergency 
     Assistance shall be made available primarily for leasing of 
     water for specified drought related purposes from willing 
     lessors, in compliance with existing State laws and 
     administered under State water priority allocation. Such 
     leases may be entered into with an option to purchase: 
     Provided, That such purchase is approved by the State in 
     which the purchase takes place and the purchase does not 
     cause economic harm within the State in which the purchase is 
     made.
       Sec. 203. Beginning in fiscal year 2001 and thereafter, the 
     Secretary of the Interior shall assess and collect annually 
     from Central Valley Project (CVP) water and power contractors 
     the sum of $540,000 (June 2000 price levels) and remit, 
     without further appropriation, the amount collected annually 
     to the Trinity Public Utilities District (TPUD). This 
     assessment shall be payable 70 percent by CVP Preference 
     Power Customers and 30 percent by CVP Water Contractors. The 
     CVP Water Contractor share of this assessment shall be 
     collected by the Secretary through established Bureau of 
     Reclamation (Reclamation) Operation and Maintenance 
     ratesetting practices. The CVP Power Contractor share of this 
     assessment shall be assessed by Reclamation to the Western 
     Area Power Administration, Sierra Nevada Region (Western), 
     and collected by Western through established power 
     ratesetting practices.
       Sec. 204. (a) In General.--For fiscal year 2001 and each 
     fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary of the Interior shall 
     continue funding, from power revenues, the activities of the 
     Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program as authorized by 
     section 1807 of the Grand Canyon Protection Act of 1992 (106 
     Stat. 4672), at not more than $7,850,000 (October 2000 price 
     level), adjusted in subsequent years to reflect changes in 
     the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published by 
     the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor.
       (b) Voluntary Contributions.--Nothing in this section 
     precludes the use of voluntary financial contributions 
     (except power revenues) to the Adaptive Management Program 
     that may be authorized by law.
       (c) Activities To Be Funded.--The activities to be funded 
     as provided under subsection (a) include activities required 
     to meet the requirements of section 1802(a) and subsections 
     (a) and (b) of section 1805 of the Grand Canyon Protection 
     Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4672), including the requirements of 
     the Biological Opinion on the Operation of Glen Canyon Dam 
     and activities required by the Programmatic Agreement on 
     Cultural and Historic Properties, to the extent

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     that the requirements and activities are consistent with the 
     Grand Canyon Protection Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4672).
       (d) Additional Funding.--To the extent that funding under 
     subsection (a) is insufficient to pay the costs of the 
     monitoring and research and other activities of the Glen 
     Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program, the Secretary of the 
     Interior may use funding from other sources, including funds 
     appropriated for that purpose. All such appropriated funds 
     shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable.
       Sec. 205. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and 
     directed to use not to exceed $1,000,000 of the funds 
     appropriated under title II to refund amounts received by the 
     United States as payments for charges assessed by the 
     Secretary prior to January 1, 1994 for failure to file 
     certain certification or reporting forms prior to the receipt 
     of irrigation water, pursuant to sections 206 and 224(c) of 
     the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 (96 Stat. 1226, 1272; 43 
     U.S.C. 390ff, 390ww(c)), including the amount of associated 
     interest assessed by the Secretary and paid to the United 
     States pursuant to section 224(i) of the Reclamation Reform 
     Act of 1982 (101 Stat. 1330-268; 43 U.S.C. 390ww(i)).
       Sec. 206. Canyon Ferry Reservoir, Montana. (a) 
     Appraisals.--Section 1004(c)(2)(B) of title X of division C 
     of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental 
     Appropriations Act, 1999 (112 Stat. 2681-713; 113 Stat. 
     1501A-307) is amended--
       (1) in clause (i), by striking ``be based on'' and 
     inserting ``use'';
       (2) in clause (vi), by striking ``Notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law,'' and inserting ``To the extent consistent 
     with the Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal Land 
     Acquisition,''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(vii) Applicability.--This subparagraph shall apply to 
     the extent that its application is practicable and consistent 
     with the Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal Land 
     Acquisition.''.
       (b) Timing.--Section 1004(f )(2) of title X of division C 
     of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental 
     Appropriations Act, 1999 (112 Stat. 2681-714; 113 Stat. 
     1501A-308) is amended by inserting after ``Act,'' the 
     following: ``in accordance with all applicable law,''.
       (c) Interest.--Section 1008(b) of title X of division C of 
     the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental 
     Appropriations Act, 1999 (112 Stat. 2681-717; 113 Stat. 
     1501A-310) is amended by striking paragraph (4).
       Sec. 207. Beginning in fiscal year 2000 and thereafter, any 
     amounts provided for the Newlands Water Rights Fund for 
     purchasing and retiring water rights in the Newlands 
     Reclamation Project shall be non-reimbursable.
       Sec. 208. Use of Colorado-Big Thompson Project Facilities 
     for Nonproject Water.--The Secretary of the Interior may 
     enter into contracts with the city of Loveland, Colorado, or 
     its Water and Power Department or any other agency, public 
     utility, or enterprise of the city, providing for the use of 
     facilities of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, Colorado, 
     under the Act of February 21, 1911 (43 U.S.C. 523), for--
       (1) the impounding, storage, and carriage of nonproject 
     water originating on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains 
     for domestic, municipal, industrial, and other beneficial 
     purposes; and
       (2) the exchange of water originating on the eastern slope 
     of the Rocky Mountains for the purposes specified in 
     paragraph (1), using facilities associated with the Colorado-
     Big Thompson Project, Colorado.
       Sec. 209. Amendment to Irrigation Project Contract 
     Extension Act of 1998.--(a) Section 2(a) of the Irrigation 
     Project Contract Extension Act of 1998, Public Law 105-293, 
     is amended by striking the date ``December 31, 2000'', and 
     inserting in lieu thereof the date ``December 31, 2003''; and
       (b) Subsection 2(b) of the Irrigation Project Contract 
     Extension Act of 1998, Public Law 105-293, is amended by--
       (1) striking the phrase ``not to go beyond December 31, 
     2001'', and inserting in lieu thereof the phrase ``not to go 
     beyond December 31, 2003''; and
       (2) striking the phrase ``terminates prior to December 31, 
     2000'', and inserting in lieu thereof ``terminates prior to 
     December 31, 2003''.
       Sec. 210. Section 202 of division B, title I, chapter 2 of 
     Public Law 106-246 is amended by adding at the end the 
     following: ``This section shall be effective through 
     September 30, 2001.''.
       Sec. 211. (a) Section 106 of the San Luis Rey Indian Water 
     Rights Settlement Act (Public Law 100-675; 102 Stat. 4000 et 
     seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(f) Requirements To Furnish Water, Power Capacity, and 
     Energy.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in order 
     to fulfill the trust responsibility to the Bands, the 
     Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, 
     shall permanently furnish annually the following:
       ``(1) Water.--16,000 acre-feet of the water conserved by 
     the works authorized by title II, for the benefit of the 
     Bands and the local entities in accordance with the 
     settlement agreement: Provided, That during construction of 
     said works, the Indian Water Authority and the local entities 
     shall receive 17 percent of any water conserved by said works 
     up to a maximum of 16,000 acre-feet per year. The Indian 
     Water Authority and the local entities shall pay their 
     proportionate share of such costs as are provided by section 
     203(b) of title II or are agreed to by them.
       ``(2) Power capacity and energy.--Beginning on the date 
     when conserved water from the works authorized by title II 
     first becomes available, power capacity and energy through 
     the Yuma Arizona Area Aggregate Power Managers (Yuma Area 
     Contractors), at no cost and at no further expense to the 
     United States, the Indian Water Authority, the Bands, and the 
     local entities, in amounts sufficient to convey the water 
     conserved pursuant to paragraph (1) from Lake Havasu through 
     the Colorado River Aqueduct and to the places of use on the 
     Bands' reservations or in the local entities' service areas 
     in accordance with the settlement agreement. The Secretary, 
     through a coterminous exhibit to Bureau of Reclamation 
     Contract No. 6-CU-30-P1136, shall enter into an agreement 
     with the Yuma Area Contractors which shall provide for 
     furnishing annually and permanently said power capacity and 
     energy by said Yuma Area Contractors at no cost and at no 
     further expense to the United States, the Indian Water 
     Authority, the Bands, and the local entities. The Secretary 
     shall authorize the Yuma Area Contractors to utilize Federal 
     project use power provided in Bureau of Reclamation Contracts 
     numbered 6-CU-30-P1136, 6-CU-30-P1137, and 6-CU-30-P1138 for 
     the full range of purposes served by the Yuma Area 
     Contractors, including the purpose of supplying the power 
     capacity and energy to convey the conserved water referred to 
     in paragraph (1), for so long as the Yuma Area Contractors 
     meet their obligation to provide sufficient power capacity 
     and energy for the conveyance of said conserved water. If for 
     any reason the Yuma Area Contractors do not provide said 
     power capacity and energy for the conveyance of said 
     conserved water, then the Secretary shall furnish said power 
     capacity and energy annually and permanently at the lowest 
     rate assigned to project use power within the jurisdiction of 
     the Bureau of Reclamation in accordance with Exhibit E 
     `Project Use Power' of the Agreement between Water and Power 
     Resources Service, Department of the Interior, and Western 
     Area Power Administration, Department of Energy (March 26, 
     1980).''.
       (b) Title II of the San Luis Rey Indian Water Rights 
     Settlement Act (Public Law 100-675; 102 Stat. 4000 et seq.) 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

     ``SEC. 210. ANNUAL REPAYMENT INSTALLMENTS.

       ``During the period of planning, design, and construction 
     of the works and during the period that the Indian Water 
     Authority and the local entities receive up to 16,000 acre-
     feet of the water conserved by the works, the annual 
     repayment installments provided in section 102(b) of the 
     Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act (Public Law 93-320; 
     88 Stat. 268) shall continue to be non-reimbursable. Nothing 
     in this section shall affect the national obligation set 
     forth in section 101(c) of such Act.''.
       Sec. 212. (a) Definitions.--For the purpose of this 
     section, the term--
       (1) ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Interior;
       (2) ``Sly Park Unit'' means the Sly Park Dam and Reservoir, 
     Camp Creek Diversion Dam and Tunnel, and conduits and canals 
     as authorized under the American River Act of October 14, 
     1949 (63 Stat. 853), including those used to convey, treat, 
     and store water delivered from Sly Park, as well as all 
     recreation facilities thereto; and
       (3) ``District'' means the El Dorado Irrigation District.
       (b) In General.--The Secretary shall, as soon as 
     practicable after date of the enactment of this Act and in 
     accordance with all applicable law, transfer all right, 
     title, and interest in and to the Sly Park Unit to the 
     District.
       (c) Sale Price.--The Secretary is authorized to receive 
     from the District $2,000,000 to relieve payment obligations 
     and extinguish the debt under contract number 14-06-200-
     949IR3, and $9,500,000 to relieve payment obligations and 
     extinguish all debts associated with contracts numbered 14-
     06-200-7734, as amended by contracts numbered 14-06-200-4282A 
     and 14-06-200-8536A. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, 
     the District shall continue to make payments required by 
     section 3407(c) of Public Law 102-575 through year 2029.
       (d) Credit Revenue to Project Repayment.--Upon payment 
     authorized under subsection (b), the amount paid shall be 
     credited toward repayment of capital costs of the Central 
     Valley Project in an amount equal to the associated 
     undiscounted obligation.
       (e) Future Benefits.--Upon payment, the Sly Park Unit shall 
     no longer be a Federal reclamation project or a unit of the 
     Central Valley Project, and the District shall not be 
     entitled to receive any further reclamation benefits.
       (f) Liability.--Except as otherwise provided by law, 
     effective on the date of conveyance of the Sly Park Unit 
     under this Act, the United States shall not be liable for 
     damages of any kind arising out of any act, omission, or 
     occurrence based on its prior ownership or operation of the 
     conveyed property.
       (g) Costs.--All costs, including interest charges, 
     associated with the Project that have been included as a 
     reimbursable cost of the Central Valley Project are declared 
     to be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable.

                               TITLE III

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

                            ENERGY PROGRAMS

                             Energy Supply

       For Department of Energy expenses including the purchase, 
     construction and acquisition of

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     plant and capital equipment, and other expenses necessary for 
     energy supply, and uranium supply and enrichment activities 
     in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy 
     Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), including the 
     acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any 
     facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, 
     or expansion; and the purchase of not to exceed 17 passenger 
     motor vehicles for replacement only, $660,574,000 to remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That, in addition, 
     royalties received to compensate the Department of Energy for 
     its participation in the First-Of-A-Kind-Engineering program 
     shall be credited to this account to be available until 
     September 30, 2002, for the purposes of Nuclear Energy, 
     Science and Technology activities.

                  Non-Defense Environmental Management

       For Department of Energy expenses, including the purchase, 
     construction and acquisition of plant and capital equipment 
     and other expenses necessary for non-defense environmental 
     management activities in carrying out the purposes of the 
     Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et 
     seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real 
     property or any facility or for plant or facility 
     acquisition, construction or expansion, $277,812,000, to 
     remain available until expended.

             Uranium Facilities Maintenance and Remediation


                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses to maintain, decontaminate, 
     decommission, and otherwise remediate uranium processing 
     facilities, $393,367,000, of which $345,038,000 shall be 
     derived from the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and 
     Decommissioning Fund, all of which shall remain available 
     until expended: Provided, That $72,000,000 of amounts derived 
     from the Fund for such expenses shall be available in 
     accordance with title X, subtitle A, of the Energy Policy Act 
     of 1992.

                                Science

       For Department of Energy expenses including the purchase, 
     construction and acquisition of plant and capital equipment, 
     and other expenses necessary for science activities in 
     carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy 
     Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), including the 
     acquisition or condemnation of any real property or facility 
     or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or 
     expansion, and purchase of not to exceed 58 passenger motor 
     vehicles for replacement only, $3,186,352,000, to remain 
     available until expended.

                         Nuclear Waste Disposal

       For nuclear waste disposal activities to carry out the 
     purposes of Public Law 97-425, as amended, including the 
     acquisition of real property or facility construction or 
     expansion, $191,074,000, to remain available until expended 
     and to be derived from the Nuclear Waste Fund: Provided, That 
     not to exceed $2,500,000 may be provided to the State of 
     Nevada solely for expenditures, other than salaries and 
     expenses of State employees, to conduct scientific oversight 
     responsibilities pursuant to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 
     1982, Public Law 97-425, as amended: Provided further, That 
     $6,000,000 shall be provided to affected units of local 
     governments, as defined in Public Law 97-425, to conduct 
     appropriate activities pursuant to the Act: Provided further, 
     That the distribution of the funds as determined by the units 
     of local government shall be approved by the Department of 
     Energy: Provided further, That the funds for the State of 
     Nevada shall be made available solely to the Nevada Division 
     of Emergency Management by direct payment and units of local 
     government by direct payment: Provided further, That within 
     90 days of the completion of each Federal fiscal year, the 
     Nevada Division of Emergency Management and the Governor of 
     the State of Nevada and each local entity shall provide 
     certification to the Department of Energy that all funds 
     expended from such payments have been expended for activities 
     authorized by Public Law 97-425 and this Act. Failure to 
     provide such certification shall cause such entity to be 
     prohibited from any further funding provided for similar 
     activities: Provided further, That none of the funds herein 
     appropriated may be: (1) used directly or indirectly to 
     influence legislative action on any matter pending before 
     Congress or a State legislature or for lobbying activity as 
     provided in 18 U.S.C. 1913; (2) used for litigation expenses; 
     or (3) used to support multi-State efforts or other coalition 
     building activities inconsistent with the restrictions 
     contained in this Act: Provided further, That all proceeds 
     and recoveries by the Secretary in carrying out activities 
     authorized by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 in Public 
     Law 97-425, as amended, including but not limited to, any 
     proceeds from the sale of assets, shall be available without 
     further appropriation and shall remain available until 
     expended.

                      Departmental Administration

       For salaries and expenses of the Department of Energy 
     necessary for departmental administration in carrying out the 
     purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 
     U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), including the hire of passenger motor 
     vehicles and official reception and representation expenses 
     (not to exceed $35,000), $226,107,000, to remain available 
     until expended, plus such additional amounts as necessary to 
     cover increases in the estimated amount of cost of work for 
     others notwithstanding the provisions of the Anti-Deficiency 
     Act (31 U.S.C. 1511 et seq.): Provided, That such increases 
     in cost of work are offset by revenue increases of the same 
     or greater amount, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided further, That moneys received by the Department for 
     miscellaneous revenues estimated to total $151,000,000 in 
     fiscal year 2001 may be retained and used for operating 
     expenses within this account, and may remain available until 
     expended, as authorized by section 201 of Public Law 95-238, 
     notwithstanding the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 3302: Provided 
     further, That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced by 
     the amount of miscellaneous revenues received during fiscal 
     year 2001 so as to result in a final fiscal year 2001 
     appropriation from the General Fund estimated at not more 
     than $75,107,000.

                    Office of the Inspector General

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector 
     General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 
     General Act of 1978, as amended, $31,500,000, to remain 
     available until expended.

                    ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE ACTIVITIES

                National Nuclear Security Administration


                           Weapons Activities

       For Department of Energy expenses, including the purchase, 
     construction and acquisition of plant and capital equipment 
     and other incidental expenses necessary for atomic energy 
     defense weapons activities in carrying out the purposes of 
     the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et 
     seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real 
     property or any facility or for plant or facility 
     acquisition, construction, or expansion; and the purchase of 
     passenger motor vehicles (not to exceed 12 for replacement 
     only), $5,015,186,000, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That, $130,000,000 shall be immediately available 
     for Project 96-D-111, the National Ignition Facility at 
     Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Provided further, 
     That $69,100,000 shall be available only upon a certification 
     by the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security 
     Administration to the Congress after March 31, 2001, that: 
     (a) includes a recommendation on an appropriate path forward 
     for the project; (b) certifies all established project and 
     scientific milestones have been met on schedule and on cost; 
     (c) certifies the first and second quarter project reviews in 
     fiscal year 2001 determined the project to be on schedule and 
     cost; (d) includes a study of requirements for and 
     alternatives to a 192 beam ignition facility for maintaining 
     the safety and reliability of the current nuclear weapons 
     stockpile; (e) certifies an integrated cost-schedule earned-
     value project control system has been fully implemented; and 
     (f ) includes a 5-year budget plan for the stockpile 
     stewardship program.


                    Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation

       For Department of Energy expenses, including the purchase, 
     construction and acquisition of plant and capital equipment 
     and other incidental expenses necessary for atomic energy 
     defense, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation activities, in 
     carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy 
     Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), including the 
     acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any 
     facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, 
     or expansion, $874,196,000, to remain available until 
     expended: Provided, That not to exceed $7,000 may be used for 
     official reception and representation expenses for national 
     security and nonproliferation (including transparency) 
     activities in fiscal year 2001.


                             Naval Reactors

       For Department of Energy expenses necessary for naval 
     reactors activities to carry out the Department of Energy 
     Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), including the 
     acquisition (by purchase, condemnation, construction, or 
     otherwise) of real property, plant, and capital equipment, 
     facilities, and facility expansion, $690,163,000, to remain 
     available until expended.


                      Office of the Administrator

       For necessary expenses of the Office of the Administrator 
     of the National Nuclear Security Administration, including 
     official reception and representation expenses (not to exceed 
     $5,000), $10,000,000, to remain available until expended.

                    OTHER DEFENSE RELATED ACTIVITIES

         Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management

       For Department of Energy expenses, including the purchase, 
     construction and acquisition of plant and capital equipment 
     and other expenses necessary for atomic energy defense 
     environmental restoration and waste management activities in 
     carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy 
     Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), including the 
     acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any 
     facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, 
     or expansion; and the purchase of 30 passenger motor vehicles 
     for replacement only, $4,974,476,000, to remain available 
     until expended.

                  Defense Facilities Closure Projects

       For expenses of the Department of Energy to accelerate the 
     closure of defense environmental management sites, including 
     the purchase, construction and acquisition of plant and 
     capital equipment and other necessary expenses, 
     $1,082,714,000, to remain available until expended.

             Defense Environmental Management Privatization

       For Department of Energy expenses for privatization 
     projects necessary for atomic energy defense environmental 
     management activities authorized by the Department of Energy 
     Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), $65,000,000, to 
     remain available until expended.

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                        Other Defense Activities

       For Department of Energy expenses, including the purchase, 
     construction and acquisition of plant and capital equipment 
     and other expenses necessary for atomic energy defense, other 
     defense activities, in carrying out the purposes of the 
     Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et 
     seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real 
     property or any facility or for plant or facility 
     acquisition, construction, or expansion, $585,755,000, to 
     remain available until expended, of which $17,000,000 shall 
     be for the Department of Energy Employees Compensation 
     Initiative upon enactment of authorization legislation into 
     law.

                     Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal

       For nuclear waste disposal activities to carry out the 
     purposes of Public Law 97-425, as amended, including the 
     acquisition of real property or facility construction or 
     expansion, $200,000,000, to remain available until expended.

                    Power Marketing Administrations


                  Bonneville Power Administration Fund

       Expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund, 
     established pursuant to Public Law 93-454, are approved for 
     the Nez Perce Tribe Resident Fish Substitution Program, the 
     Cour D'Alene Tribe Trout Production facility, and for 
     official reception and representation expenses in an amount 
     not to exceed $1,500.
       During fiscal year 2001, no new direct loan obligations may 
     be made. Section 511 of the Energy and Water Development 
     Appropriations Act, 1997 (Public Law 104-206), is amended by 
     striking the last sentence and inserting ``This authority 
     shall expire January 1, 2003.''.

      Operation and Maintenance, Southeastern Power Administration

       For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of 
     power transmission facilities and of marketing electric power 
     and energy, including transmission wheeling and ancillary 
     services, pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of the 
     Flood Control Act of 1944 (16 U.S.C. 825s), as applied to the 
     southeastern power area, $3,900,000, to remain available 
     until expended; in addition, notwithstanding the provisions 
     of 31 U.S.C. 3302, amounts collected by the Southeastern 
     Power Administration pursuant to the Flood Control Act to 
     recover purchase power and wheeling expenses shall be 
     credited to this account as offsetting collections, to remain 
     available until expended for the sole purpose of making 
     purchase power and wheeling expenditures as follows: for 
     fiscal year 2001, up to $34,463,000; for fiscal year 2002, up 
     to $26,463,000; for fiscal year 2003, up to $20,000,000; and 
     for fiscal year 2004, up to $15,000,000.

      Operation and Maintenance, Southwestern Power Administration

       For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of 
     power transmission facilities and of marketing electric power 
     and energy, and for construction and acquisition of 
     transmission lines, substations and appurtenant facilities, 
     and for administrative expenses, including official reception 
     and representation expenses in an amount not to exceed $1,500 
     in carrying out the provisions of section 5 of the Flood 
     Control Act of 1944 (16 U.S.C. 825s), as applied to the 
     southwestern power area, $28,100,000, to remain available 
     until expended; in addition, notwithstanding the provisions 
     of 31 U.S.C. 3302, not to exceed $4,200,000 in 
     reimbursements, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That amounts collected by the Southwestern Power 
     Administration pursuant to the Flood Control Act to recover 
     purchase power and wheeling expenses shall be credited to 
     this account as offsetting collections, to remain available 
     until expended for the sole purpose of making purchase power 
     and wheeling expenditures as follows: for fiscal year 2001, 
     up to $288,000; for fiscal year 2002, up to $288,000; for 
     fiscal year 2003, up to $288,000; and for fiscal year 2004, 
     up to $288,000.


 Construction, Rehabilitation, Operation and Maintenance, Western Area 
                          Power Administration

       For carrying out the functions authorized by title III, 
     section 302(a)(1)(E) of the Act of August 4, 1977 (42 U.S.C. 
     7152), and other related activities including conservation 
     and renewable resources programs as authorized, including 
     official reception and representation expenses in an amount 
     not to exceed $1,500, $165,830,000, to remain available until 
     expended, of which $154,616,000 shall be derived from the 
     Department of the Interior Reclamation Fund: Provided, That 
     of the amount herein appropriated, $5,950,000 is for deposit 
     into the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account 
     pursuant to title IV of the Reclamation Projects 
     Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992: Provided further, 
     That amounts collected by the Western Area Power 
     Administration pursuant to the Flood Control Act of 1944 and 
     the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to recover purchase power 
     and wheeling expenses shall be credited to this account as 
     offsetting collections, to remain available until expended 
     for the sole purpose of making purchase power and wheeling 
     expenditures as follows: for fiscal year 2001, up to 
     $65,224,000; for fiscal year 2002, up to $33,500,000; for 
     fiscal year 2003, up to $30,000,000; and for fiscal year 
     2004, up to $20,000,000.

           Falcon and Amistad Operating and Maintenance Fund

       For operation, maintenance, and emergency costs for the 
     hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams, 
     $2,670,000, to remain available until expended, and to be 
     derived from the Falcon and Amistad Operating and Maintenance 
     Fund of the Western Area Power Administration, as provided in 
     section 423 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
     Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995.

                  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Federal Energy Regulatory 
     Commission to carry out the provisions of the Department of 
     Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), including 
     services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, the hire of 
     passenger motor vehicles, and official reception and 
     representation expenses (not to exceed $3,000), $175,200,000, 
     to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, not to exceed 
     $175,200,000 of revenues from fees and annual charges, and 
     other services and collections in fiscal year 2001 shall be 
     retained and used for necessary expenses in this account, and 
     shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
     the sum herein appropriated from the General Fund shall be 
     reduced as revenues are received during fiscal year 2001 so 
     as to result in a final fiscal year 2001 appropriation from 
     the General Fund estimated at not more than $0.

                              RESCISSIONS

                     Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds appropriated in Public Law 104-46 for interim 
     storage of nuclear waste, $75,000,000 are transferred to this 
     heading and are hereby rescinded.

             Defense Environmental Management Privatization


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds appropriated in Public Law 106-60 and prior 
     Energy and Water Development Acts for the Tank Waste 
     Remediation System at Richland, Washington, $97,000,000 of 
     unexpended balances of prior appropriations are rescinded.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

       Sec. 301. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
     may be used to award a management and operating contract 
     unless such contract is awarded using competitive procedures 
     or the Secretary of Energy grants, on a case-by-case basis, a 
     waiver to allow for such a deviation. The Secretary may not 
     delegate the authority to grant such a waiver.
       (b) At least 60 days before a contract award, amendment, or 
     modification for which the Secretary intends to grant such a 
     waiver, the Secretary shall submit to the Subcommittees on 
     Energy and Water Development of the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
     a report notifying the subcommittees of the waiver and 
     setting forth the reasons for the waiver.
       Sec. 302. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     used to--
       (1) develop or implement a workforce restructuring plan 
     that covers employees of the Department of Energy; or
       (2) provide enhanced severance payments or other benefits 
     for employees of the Department of Energy,

     under section 3161 of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 1993 (Public Law 102-484; 106 Stat. 2644; 42 
     U.S.C. 7274h).
       Sec. 303. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     used to augment the $24,500,000 made available for obligation 
     by this Act for severance payments and other benefits and 
     community assistance grants under section 3161 of the 
     National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 
     (Public Law 102-484; 106 Stat. 2644; 42 U.S.C. 7274h) unless 
     the Department of Energy submits a reprogramming request 
     subject to approval by the appropriate Congressional 
     committees.
       Sec. 304. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     used to prepare or initiate Requests For Proposals (RFPs) for 
     a program if the program has not been funded by Congress.


                   (transfers of unexpended balances)

       Sec. 305. The unexpended balances of prior appropriations 
     provided for activities in this Act may be transferred to 
     appropriation accounts for such activities established 
     pursuant to this title. Balances so transferred may be merged 
     with funds in the applicable established accounts and 
     thereafter may be accounted for as one fund for the same time 
     period as originally enacted.
       Sec. 306. Of the funds in this Act provided to government-
     owned, contractor-operated laboratories, not to exceed 6 
     percent shall be available to be used for Laboratory Directed 
     Research and Development.
       Sec. 307. (a) Of the funds appropriated by this title to 
     the Department of Energy, not more than $185,000,000 shall be 
     available for reimbursement of management and operating 
     contractor travel expenses, of which $10,000,000 is available 
     for use by the Chief Financial Officer of the Department of 
     Energy for emergency travel expenses.
       (b) Funds appropriated by this title to the Department of 
     Energy may be used to reimburse a Department of Energy 
     management and operating contractor for travel costs of its 
     employees under the contract only to the extent that the 
     contractor applies to its employees the same rates and 
     amounts as those that apply to Federal employees under 
     subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code, or 
     rates and amounts established by the Secretary of Energy. The 
     Secretary of Energy may provide exceptions to the 
     reimbursement requirements of this section as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate.

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       (c) The limitation in subsection (a) shall not apply to 
     reimbursement of management and operating contractor travel 
     expenses within the Laboratory Directed Research and 
     Development program.
       Sec. 308. No funds are provided in this Act or any other 
     Act for the Administrator of the Bonneville Power 
     Administration to enter into any agreement to perform energy 
     efficiency services outside the legally defined Bonneville 
     service territory, with the exception of services provided 
     internationally, including services provided on a 
     reimbursable basis, unless the Administrator certifies that 
     such services are not available from private sector 
     businesses.
       Sec. 309. None of the funds in this Act may be used to 
     dispose of transuranic waste in the Waste Isolation Pilot 
     Plant which contains concentrations of plutonium in excess of 
     20 percent by weight for the aggregate of any material 
     category on the date of enactment of this Act, or is 
     generated after such date. For the purposes of this section, 
     the material categories of transuranic waste at the Rocky 
     Flats Environmental Technology Site include: (1) ash 
     residues; (2) salt residues; (3) wet residues; (4) direct 
     repackage residues; and (5) scrub alloy as referenced in the 
     ``Final Environmental Impact Statement on Management of 
     Certain Plutonium Residues and Scrub Alloy Stored at the 
     Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site''.
       Sec. 310. The Administrator of the National Nuclear 
     Security Administration may authorize the plant manager of a 
     covered nuclear weapons production plant to engage in 
     research, development, and demonstration activities with 
     respect to the engineering and manufacturing capabilities at 
     such plant in order to maintain and enhance such capabilities 
     at such plant: Provided, That of the amount allocated to a 
     covered nuclear weapons production plant each fiscal year 
     from amounts available to the Department of Energy for such 
     fiscal year for national security programs, not more than an 
     amount equal to 2 percent of such amount may be used for 
     these activities: Provided further, That for purposes of this 
     section, the term ``covered nuclear weapons production 
     plant'' means the following:
       (1) The Kansas City Plant, Kansas City, Missouri.
       (2) The Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
       (3) The Pantex Plant, Amarillo, Texas.
       (4) The Savannah River Plant, South Carolina.
       Sec. 311. Notwithstanding any other law, and without fiscal 
     year limitation, each Federal Power Marketing Administration 
     is authorized to engage in activities and solicit, undertake 
     and review studies and proposals relating to the formation 
     and operation of a regional transmission organization.
       Sec. 312. Not more than $10,000,000 of funds previously 
     appropriated for interim waste storage activities for Defense 
     Nuclear Waste Disposal in Public Law 104-46, the Energy and 
     Water Development Appropriations Act, 1996, may be made 
     available to the Department of Energy upon written 
     certification by the Secretary of Energy to the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations that the Site 
     Recommendation Report cannot be completed on time without 
     additional funding.
       Sec. 313. Term of Office of Person First Appointed as Under 
     Secretary for Nuclear Security of the Department of Energy. 
     (a) Length of Term.--The term of office as Under Secretary 
     for Nuclear Security of the Department of Energy of the first 
     person appointed to that position shall be 3 years.
       (b) Exclusive Reasons for Removal.--The exclusive reasons 
     for removal from office as Under Secretary for Nuclear 
     Security of the person described in subsection (a) shall be 
     inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
       (c) Position Described.--The position of Under Secretary 
     for Nuclear Security of the Department of Energy referred to 
     in this section is the position established by subsection (c) 
     of section 202 of the Department of Energy Organization Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 7132), as added by section 3202 of the National 
     Nuclear Security Administration Act (title XXXII of Public 
     Law 106-65; 113 Stat. 954).
       Sec. 314. Scope of Authority of Secretary of Energy to 
     Modify Organization of National Nuclear Security 
     Administration. (a) Scope of Authority.--Subtitle A of the 
     National Nuclear Security Administration Act (title XXXII of 
     Public Law 106-65; 113 Stat. 957; 50 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new section:

     ``SEC. 3219. SCOPE OF AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY OF ENERGY TO 
                   MODIFY ORGANIZATION OF ADMINISTRATION.

       ``Notwithstanding the authority granted by section 643 of 
     the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7253) or 
     any other provision of law, the Secretary of Energy may not 
     establish, abolish, alter, consolidate, or discontinue any 
     organizational unit or component, or transfer any function, 
     of the Administration, except as authorized by subsection (b) 
     or (c) of section 3291.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 643 of the Department 
     of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7253) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``The Secretary'' and inserting ``(a) 
     Subject to subsection (b), the Secretary''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(b) The authority of the Secretary to establish, abolish, 
     alter, consolidate, or discontinue any organizational unit or 
     component of the National Nuclear Security Administration is 
     governed by the provisions of section 3219 of the National 
     Nuclear Security Administration Act (title XXXII of Public 
     Law 106-65).''.
       Sec. 315. Prohibition on Pay of Personnel Engaged in 
     Concurrent Service or Duties Inside and Outside National 
     Nuclear Security Administration.--Subtitle C of the National 
     Nuclear Security Administration Act (title XXXII of Public 
     Law 106-65; 50 U.S.C. 2441 et seq.) is amended by adding at 
     the end the following new section:

     ``SEC. 3245. PROHIBITION ON PAY OF PERSONNEL ENGAGED IN 
                   CONCURRENT SERVICE OR DUTIES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE 
                   ADMINISTRATION.

       ``(a) Except as otherwise expressly provided by statute, no 
     funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made 
     available for the Department of Energy may be obligated or 
     utilized to pay the basic pay of an officer or employee of 
     the Department of Energy who--
       ``(1) serves concurrently in a position in the 
     Administration and a position outside the Administration; or
       ``(2) performs concurrently the duties of a position in the 
     Administration and the duties of a position outside the 
     Administration.
       ``(b) The provision of this section shall take effect 60 
     days after the date of enactment of this section.''.

                                TITLE IV

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                    Appalachian Regional Commission

       For expenses necessary to carry out the programs authorized 
     by the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, as 
     amended, for necessary expenses for the Federal Co-Chairman 
     and the alternate on the Appalachian Regional Commission, for 
     payment of the Federal share of the administrative expenses 
     of the Commission, including services as authorized by 5 
     U.S.C. 3109, and hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
     $66,400,000, to remain available until expended.

                Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Defense Nuclear Facilities 
     Safety Board in carrying out activities authorized by the 
     Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by Public Law 100-456, 
     section 1441, $18,500,000, to remain available until 
     expended.

                        Delta Regional Authority


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses to establish the Delta Regional 
     Authority and to carry out its activities, $20,000,000, to 
     remain available until expended.

                           Denali Commission

       For expenses of the Denali Commission including the 
     purchase, construction and acquisition of plant and capital 
     equipment as necessary and other expenses, $30,000,000, to 
     remain available until expended.

                     Nuclear Regulatory Commission


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Commission in carrying out 
     the purposes of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as 
     amended, and the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 
     including official representation expenses (not to exceed 
     $15,000), $481,900,000, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That of the amount appropriated herein, $21,600,000 
     shall be derived from the Nuclear Waste Fund: Provided 
     further, That revenues from licensing fees, inspection 
     services, and other services and collections estimated at 
     $447,958,000 in fiscal year 2001 shall be retained and used 
     for necessary salaries and expenses in this account, 
     notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, and shall remain available 
     until expended: Provided further, That $3,200,000 of the 
     funds herein appropriated for regulatory reviews and 
     assistance to other Federal agencies and States shall be 
     excluded from license fee revenues, notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 
     2214: Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated 
     shall be reduced by the amount of revenues received during 
     fiscal year 2001 so as to result in a final fiscal year 2001 
     appropriation estimated at not more than $33,942,000.

                      Office of Inspector General

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
     in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act 
     of 1978, as amended, $5,500,000, to remain available until 
     expended: Provided, That revenues from licensing fees, 
     inspection services, and other services and collections 
     estimated at $5,390,000 in fiscal year 2001 shall be retained 
     and be available until expended, for necessary salaries and 
     expenses in this account notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302: 
     Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated shall be 
     reduced by the amount of revenues received during fiscal year 
     2001 so as to result in a final fiscal year 2001 
     appropriation estimated at not more than $110,000.

                  Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Nuclear Waste Technical 
     Review Board, as authorized by Public Law 100-203, section 
     5051, $2,900,000, to be derived from the Nuclear Waste Fund, 
     and to remain available until expended.

                                TITLE V

               FISCAL YEAR 2001 EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

                    ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE ACTIVITIES


                      Cerro Grande Fire Activities

       For necessary expenses to remediate damaged Department of 
     Energy facilities and for other expenses associated with the 
     Cerro Grande fire, $203,460,000, to remain available until 
     expended, of which $2,000,000 shall be made available to

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     the United States Army Corps of Engineers to undertake 
     immediate measures to provide erosion control and sediment 
     protection to sewage lines, trails, and bridges in Pueblo and 
     Los Alamos Canyons downstream of Diamond Drive in New Mexico: 
     Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to 
     the extent an official budget request for $203,460,000, that 
     includes designation of the entire amount of the request as 
     an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
     and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
     transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
     further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
     as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
     of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                    Appalachian Regional Commission

       For necessary expenses to carry out the programs authorized 
     by the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, as 
     amended, $11,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
     which shall be available only to the extent an official 
     budget request for $11,000,000, that includes designation of 
     the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement 
     as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
     President to the Congress: Provided, That the entire amount 
     is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
     pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                                TITLE VI

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 601. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
     used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence 
     congressional action on any legislation or appropriation 
     matters pending before Congress, other than to communicate to 
     Members of Congress as described in section 1913 of title 18, 
     United States Code.
       Sec. 602. (a) Purchase of American-Made Equipment and 
     Products.--It is the sense of the Congress that, to the 
     greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products 
     purchased with funds made available in this Act should be 
     American-made.
        (b) Notice Requirement.--In providing financial assistance 
     to, or entering into any contract with, any entity using 
     funds made available in this Act, the head of each Federal 
     agency, to the greatest extent practicable, shall provide to 
     such entity a notice describing the statement made in 
     subsection (a) by the Congress.
        (c) Prohibition of Contracts With Persons Falsely Labeling 
     Products as Made in America.--If it has been finally 
     determined by a court or Federal agency that any person 
     intentionally affixed a label bearing a ``Made in America'' 
     inscription, or any inscription with the same meaning, to any 
     product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not 
     made in the United States, the person shall be ineligible to 
     receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made 
     available in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, 
     and ineligibility procedures described in sections 9.400 
     through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
       Sec. 603. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to determine the final 
     point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis 
     Unit until development by the Secretary of the Interior and 
     the State of California of a plan, which shall conform to the 
     water quality standards of the State of California as 
     approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
     Agency, to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis 
     drainage waters.
       (b) The costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program 
     and the costs of the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program 
     shall be classified by the Secretary of the Interior as 
     reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully 
     repaid pursuant to the ``Cleanup Program--Alternative 
     Repayment Plan'' and the ``SJVDP--Alternative Repayment 
     Plan'' described in the report entitled ``Repayment Report, 
     Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and San Joaquin Valley 
     Drainage Program, February 1995'', prepared by the Department 
     of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. Any future 
     obligations of funds by the United States relating to, or 
     providing for, drainage service or drainage studies for the 
     San Luis Unit shall be fully reimbursable by San Luis Unit 
     beneficiaries of such service or studies pursuant to Federal 
     Reclamation law.
       Sec. 604. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall 
     be used to propose or issue rules, regulations, decrees, or 
     orders for the purpose of implementation, or in preparation 
     for implementation, of the Kyoto Protocol which was adopted 
     on December 11, 1997, in Kyoto, Japan at the Third Conference 
     of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on 
     Climate Change, which has not been submitted to the Senate 
     for advice and consent to ratification pursuant to article 
     II, section 2, clause 2, of the United States Constitution, 
     and which has not entered into force pursuant to article 25 
     of the Protocol.
       Sec. 605. Funding of the Coastal Wetlands Planning, 
     Protection and Restoration Act. Section 4(a) of the Act of 
     August 9, 1950 (16 U.S.C. 777c(a)), is amended in the second 
     sentence by striking ``2000'' and inserting ``2009''.
       Sec. 606. Redesignation of Interstate Sanitation Commission 
     and District. (a) Interstate Sanitation Commission.--
       (1) In general.--The district known as the ``Interstate 
     Sanitation Commission'', established by article III of the 
     Tri-State Compact described in the Resolution entitled, ``A 
     Joint Resolution granting the consent of Congress to the 
     States of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut to enter into 
     a compact for the creation of the Interstate Sanitation 
     District and the establishment of the Interstate Sanitation 
     Commission'', approved August 27, 1935 (49 Stat. 933), is 
     redesignated as the ``Interstate Environmental Commission''.
       (2) References.--Any reference in a law, regulation, map, 
     document, paper, or other record of the United States to the 
     Interstate Sanitation Commission shall be deemed to be a 
     reference to the Interstate Environmental Commission.
       (b) Interstate Sanitation District.--
       (1) In general.--The district known as the ``Interstate 
     Sanitation District'', established by article II of the Tri-
     State Compact described in the Resolution entitled, ``A Joint 
     Resolution granting the consent of Congress to the States of 
     New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut to enter into a compact 
     for the creation of the Interstate Sanitation District and 
     the establishment of the Interstate Sanitation Commission'', 
     approved August 27, 1935 (49 Stat. 932), is redesignated as 
     the ``Interstate Environmental District''.
       (2) References.--Any reference in a law, regulation, map, 
     document, paper, or other record of the United States to the 
     Interstate Sanitation District shall be deemed to be a 
     reference to the Interstate Environmental District.

                               TITLE VII

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                       Bureau of the Public Debt


      gifts to the united states for reduction of the public debt

       For deposit of an additional amount for fiscal year 2001 
     into the account established under section 3113(d) of title 
     31, United States Code, to reduce the public debt, 
     $5,000,000,000.

                               TITLE VIII

                     NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

       Section 6101 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 
     1990 (42 U.S.C. 2214) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(3), by striking ``September 30, 
     1999'' and inserting ``September 20, 2005''; and
       (2) in subsection (c)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``or certificate 
     holder'' after ``licensee''; and
       (B) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
       ``(2) Aggregate amount of charges.--
       ``(A) In general.--The aggregate amount of the annual 
     charges collected from all licensees and certificate holders 
     in a fiscal year shall equal an amount that approximates the 
     percentages of the budget authority of the Commission for the 
     fiscal year stated in subparagraph (B), less--
       ``(i) amounts collected under subsection (b) during the 
     fiscal year; and
       ``(ii) amounts appropriated to the Commission from the 
     Nuclear Waste Fund for the fiscal year.
       ``(B) Percentages.--The percentages referred to in 
     subparagraph (A) are--
       ``(i) 98 percent for fiscal year 2001;
       ``(ii) 96 percent for fiscal year 2002;
       ``(iii) 94 percent for fiscal year 2003;
       ``(iv) 92 percent for fiscal year 2004; and
       ``(v) 90 percent for fiscal year 2005.''.
       This Act may be cited as the ``Energy and Water Development 
     Appropriations Act, 2001''.

              ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

       Following is explanatory language on H.R. 5483, as 
     introduced on October 18, 2000.
       The conferees on H.R. 4635 agree with the matter included 
     in H.R. 5483 and enacted in this conference report by 
     reference and the following description of it. This bill was 
     developed through negotiations by subcommittee members of the 
     Energy and Water Development Subcommittees of the House and 
     Senate on the differences in H.R. 4733, a bill that was 
     vetoed. That vetoed bill has been modified and is included in 
     this conference report. References in the following 
     description to the ``conference agreement'' mean the matter 
     included in the introduced bill enacted by this conference 
     report. References to the House bill mean the House passed 
     version of H.R. 4733. References to the Senate bill mean the 
     Senate passed version of H.R. 4733, not the Senate passed 
     version of H.R. 4635, unless otherwise stated.
       The language and allocations set forth in House Report 106-
     693 and Senate Report 106-395 should be complied with unless 
     specifically addressed to the contrary in the conference 
     report and statement of the managers. Report language 
     included by the House which is not contradicted by the report 
     of the Senate or the statement of the managers, and Senate 
     report language which is not contradicted by the report of 
     the House or the statement of the managers is approved by the 
     committee of conference. The statement of the managers, while 
     repeating some report language for emphasis, does not intend 
     to negate the language referred to above unless expressly 
     provided herein. In cases where both the House report and 
     Senate report address a particular issue not specifically 
     addressed in the conference report or joint statement of 
     managers, the conferees have determined that the House and 
     Senate reports are not inconsistent and are to be interpreted 
     accordingly. In cases in which the House or Senate have 
     directed the submission of a report, such report is to be 
     submitted to both House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations.

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       Senate amendment: The Senate deleted the entire House bill 
     after the enacting clause and inserted the Senate bill. The 
     conference agreement includes a revised bill.

                                TITLE I

                      DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL

                         DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil

       The summary tables at the end of this title set forth the 
     conference agreement with respect to the individual 
     appropriations, programs, and activities of the Corps of 
     Engineers. Additional items of conference are discussed 
     below.


                         General Investigations

       The conference agreement appropriates $160,038,000 for 
     General Investigations instead of $153,327,000 as proposed by 
     the House and $139,219,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       Within available funds, $50,000 is provided for erosion 
     control studies in the Harding Lake watershed in Alaska. The 
     conference agreement deletes the bill language proposed by 
     the Senate for this project.
       The conference agreement does not include funds proposed by 
     the House in this account for the Hamilton Airfield Wetlands 
     Restoration project in California and the Ohio River Greenway 
     project in Indiana. Funding for these projects is included in 
     the Construction, General account. The conference agreement 
     does not include funds in this account for the White River, 
     Muncie, Indiana, project. Funding for this project has been 
     included within the amount provided for the Section 1135 
     program.
       The conference agreement includes $150,000 for the Corps of 
     Engineers to undertake studies of potential navigational 
     improvements, shoreline protection, and breakwater protection 
     at the ports of Rota and Tinian in the Commonwealth of the 
     Northern Mariana Islands.
       The conferees have provided $200,000 for the Corps of 
     Engineers to initiate and complete a comprehensive water 
     management reconnaissance study for ecosystem restoration and 
     related purposes in the St. Clair River and Lake St. Clair 
     watersheds in Michigan pursuant to section 426 of the Water 
     Resources Development Act of 1999.
       Within the amount provided for Research and Development, 
     $200,000 is provided for a topographic/bathymetric mapping 
     project for Coastal Louisiana in cooperation with the 
     National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at the 
     interagency Federal laboratory in Lafayette, Louisiana. The 
     conference agreement does not include bill language proposed 
     by the Senate for this work. The conferees also urge the 
     Corps of Engineers to use available Research and Development 
     funds for a review of innovative dredging technologies for 
     potential implementation in the Peoria Lakes, Illinois, area.
       The conference agreement includes language proposed by the 
     House and the Senate which provides that in conducting the 
     Southwest Valley Flood Damage Reduction, Albuquerque, New 
     Mexico, study, the Corps of Engineers shall include an 
     evaluation of flood damage reduction measures that would 
     otherwise be excluded from the feasibility analysis based on 
     policies regarding the frequency of flooding, the drainage 
     area, and the amount of runoff.
       The conferees have agreed to include language in the bill 
     which directs the Corps of Engineers to use $750,000 to 
     continue preconstruction engineering and design of the 
     Murrieta Creek, California, flood control project in 
     accordance with Alternative 6, as identified in the Murrieta 
     Creek Feasibility Report and Environmental Impact Statement 
     dated June 2000.
       The conference agreement deletes bill language proposed by 
     the Senate providing funds for the John Glenn Great Lakes 
     Basin Program, the Detroit River, Michigan, project, and the 
     Niobrara River and Missouri River, South Dakota, project. 
     Funds for these projects have been included in the overall 
     amount provided for General Investigations.
       The conference agreement does not include language proposed 
     by the Senate providing funds for the selection of a 
     permanent disposal site for environmentally sound dredged 
     material from navigation projects in the State of Rhode 
     Island. Funds for this work have been provided within the 
     amount appropriated for Operation and Maintenance, General.
       Within the amount provided for Flood Plain Management 
     Services, the conference agreement includes $250,000 for the 
     Corps of Engineers to undertake a study of drainage problems 
     in the Winchester, Kentucky, area. In addition, the conferees 
     urge the Corps of Engineers to complete a report on flood 
     control problems on Negro Creek at Sprague, Washington.
       Within the amount provided for Planning Assistance to 
     States, the conference agreement includes $100,000 for the 
     Corps of Engineers to update the daily flow model for the 
     Delaware River Basin.


                         Construction, General

       The conference agreement appropriates $1,717,199,000 for 
     Construction, General instead of $1,378,430,000 as proposed 
     by the House and $1,361,449,000 as proposed by the Senate. 
     The amount recommended by the conferees for the Corps of 
     Engineers construction program represents a significant 
     increase over the budget request and the amount appropriated 
     in fiscal year 2000. However, the conferees note that the 
     budget request grossly underfunds many ongoing construction 
     projects, and its enactment would result in increased project 
     costs, major delays in the completion of projects and loss of 
     project benefits. The conferees also note that the Corps of 
     Engineers, through the use of unobligated balances, expects 
     its fiscal year 2000 construction expenditures to be 
     approximately $1,600,000,000.
       The conferees note that the Lake Worth Inlet, Florida, sand 
     transfer plant project is behind schedule and expect the 
     Corps of Engineers to proceed with the project as 
     expeditiously as possible.
       Within the amount provided for the West Virginia and 
     Pennsylvania Flood Control Project, $1,000,000 is provided 
     for the following projects within the State of Pennsylvania: 
     Bloody Run/Everett Borough ($25,000); Shoups Run/Carbon 
     Township ($150,500); Six Mile Run/Coaldale ($125,000); Black 
     Log Creek/Boroughs of Orbisonia and Rockhill Furnace 
     ($127,000); Newton Hamilton Borough ($465,500); and Coal Bank 
     Run/Coalmont Borough ($107,000).
       The conference agreement includes $150,000 for the 
     Southeastern Pennsylvania project for the Corps of Engineers 
     to prepare a decision document to determine the Federal 
     interest in and the scope of the problems in the Logan and 
     Feltonville sections of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
       The conferees direct the Corps of Engineers to use $500,000 
     to initiate the Hillsboro Inlet, Florida, project in 
     accordance with the Jacksonville District's General 
     Reevaluation Report for the project dated May 2000.
       The conference agreement includes $4,000,000 for the Corps 
     of Engineers to undertake water related infrastructure 
     projects in northeastern Pennsylvania as authorized by 
     section 502(f)(11) of the Water Resources Development Act of 
     1999.
       The conference agreement includes $500,000 for the Corps of 
     Engineers to undertake water related infrastructure projects 
     in Avis Borough and Renovo Borough, Clinton County, 
     Pennsylvania.
       The conference agreement includes $1,000,000 for sanitary 
     sewer and water and wastewater infrastructure projects in 
     Towanencin Township, Pennsylvania, as authorized by section 
     502(f)(8) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1999; 
     $3,000,000 for a project to eliminate or control combined 
     sewer overflows in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, as 
     authorized by section 502(f)(32) of the Water Resources 
     Development Act of 1999; and $300,000 for water related 
     infrastructure projects in Lake and Porter Counties, Indiana, 
     as authorized by section 502(f)(12) of the Water Resources 
     Development Act of 1999. In addition, the conference 
     agreement includes $2,500,000 to carry out environmental 
     infrastructure projects in northeastern Minnesota as 
     authorized by section 569 of the Water Resources Development 
     Act of 1999.
       The conference agreement includes $25,000,000 for the Corps 
     of Engineers to design, construct, and operate water quality 
     projects in the San Gabriel Basin of California; and 
     $4,000,000 for the Corps of Engineers, in coordination with 
     other Federal agencies and the Brazos River Authority, to 
     participate in investigations and projects in the Bosque and 
     Leon Watersheds in Texas to assess the impact of the 
     perchlorate associated with the former Naval Weapons 
     Industrial Reserve Plant at McGregor, Texas.
       The conference agreement includes $300,000 for the Corps of 
     Engineers to continue the environmental restoration pilot 
     project at Dog River, Alabama.
       The conference agreement includes $1,500,000 for a project 
     to eliminate or control combined sewer overflows in the City 
     of Lebanon, New Hampshire, as authorized by section 
     502(f)(37) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1999; 
     $1,500,000 for environmental infrastructure projects in Ohio 
     authorized in section 594 of the Water Resources Development 
     Act of 1999; and $3,000,000 for environmental infrastructure 
     projects in central New Mexico authorized in section 593 of 
     the Water Resources Development Act of 1999.
       The conference agreement includes a total of $37,100,000 
     for the Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big Sandy River and Upper 
     Cumberland River project. In addition to the amounts included 
     in the budget request, the conference agreement includes: 
     $4,000,000 for the Clover Fork, Kentucky, element of the 
     project; $4,800,000 for the Middlesboro, Kentucky, element of 
     the project; $1,000,000 for the City of Cumberland, Kentucky, 
     element of the project; $700,000 for the Town of Martin, 
     Kentucky, element of the project; $4,200,000 for the Pike 
     County, Kentucky, element of the project, including 
     $1,400,000 for additional studies along the tributaries of 
     the Tug Fork and the initiation of a Detailed Project Report 
     for the Levisa Fork; $3,500,000 for the Martin County, 
     Kentucky, element of the project; $1,200,000 for additional 
     studies along the tributaries of the Cumberland River in Bell 
     County, Kentucky; $800,000 to continue the detailed project 
     report for the Buchanan County, Virginia, element of the 
     project; $700,000 to continue the detailed project report for 
     the Dickenson County, Virginia, element of the project; 
     $1,500,000 for the Upper

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     Mingo County, West Virginia, element of the project; 
     $1,600,000 for the Kermit, Lower Mingo County (Kermit), West 
     Virginia, element of the project; $400,000 for the Wayne 
     County, West Virginia, element of the project; and $600,000 
     for the McDowell County, West Virginia, element of the 
     project.
       The conference agreement includes $7,000,000 for the Dam 
     Safety and Seepage Stability Correction Program. Of the 
     amount provided, $1,000,000 is for repairs to the 
     Mississinewa Lake, Indiana, project, and up to $2,000,000 is 
     for the Waterbury Dam, Vermont, project.
       Within the funds provided for the Missouri River Levee 
     System project, $227,000 is provided for the Unit L15 levee, 
     the same as the budget request. With these funds, the 
     conferees expect the Corps of Engineers to complete 
     engineering and design, negotiate a Project Cooperation 
     Agreement, and initiate construction of the project.
       The conference agreement includes $4,000,000 for the Rural 
     Nevada project authorized by section 595 of the Water 
     Resources Development Act of 1999. Of the amount provided, 
     $1,500,000 is for the Lawton-Verdi, Nevada, sewer inceptor 
     project; $1,000,000 is for the Mesquite, Nevada, project; and 
     $1,500,000 for the Silver Springs, Nevada, sanitary sewer 
     project.
       The conferees direct the Corps of Engineers to undertake 
     the projects listed in the House and Senate reports and the 
     projects described below for the various continuing 
     authorities programs. The recommended funding levels for 
     those programs are as follows: Section 206--$19,000,000; 
     Section 204--$4,000,000; Section 14--$9,000,000; Section 
     205--$35,000,000; Section 111--$300,000; Section 107--
     $11,000,000; Section 1135--$21,000,000; Section 103--
     $2,500,000; and Section 208--$600,000. The conferees are 
     aware that there are funding requirements for ongoing 
     continuing authorities projects that may not be accommodated 
     within the funds provided for each program. It is not the 
     conferees' intent that ongoing projects be terminated. If 
     additional funds are needed during the year to keep ongoing 
     work in any program on schedule, the conferees urge the Corps 
     of Engineers to reprogram funds into the program within 
     available funds.
       Of the amount provided for the Section 14 program, $580,000 
     is to initiate and complete the planning and design analysis 
     phase, execute a project cooperation agreement, and initiate 
     and complete construction for the Rouge River, Southfield, 
     Michigan, project.
       Of the amount provided for the Section 111 program, 
     $300,000 is to prepare a shoreline stabilization study and 
     plans and specifications, and award a construction contract 
     for the Virginia Key, Florida, project.
       Of the amount provided for the Section 205 program, 
     $100,000 is to undertake the Columbus, New Mexico, project; 
     and $200,000 is to undertake the Battle Mountain, Nevada, 
     project. The conference agreement deletes the bill language 
     proposed by the Senate for the Hay Creek project. In 
     addition, for the McKeel Brook, Dover and Rockaway Townships, 
     New Jersey, project, the funds provided are to be used to 
     complete plans and specifications and initiate construction 
     of the Morris County plan.
       Of the amount provided for the Section 1135 program, 
     $100,000 is to initiate the upland environmental restoration 
     study for the Virginia Key, Florida, project; $300,000 is to 
     prepare an environmental restoration report and prepare a 
     project cooperation agreement for the White River, Muncie, 
     Indiana, project; $250,000 is to initiate and complete a 
     preliminary restoration plan and a feasibility report for the 
     Sand Creek, Newton, Kansas, project; and $200,000 is to 
     initiate the ecosystem restoration report for the Lake 
     Champlain Watershed, Vermont, project. In addition, the Corps 
     of Engineers is directed to proceed with the most cost 
     effective solution to the water quality degradation and 
     related environmental and public impacts associated with the 
     western jetty at the mouth of the Genessee River at 
     Rochester, New York.
       Of the amount provided for the Section 107 program, 
     $810,000 is for construction of the Pemiscot Harbor, 
     Missouri, project; $3,000,000 is for construction of the 
     Ouzinkie Harbor, Alaska, project; and $500,000 is to initiate 
     construction of the South Basin Inner Harbor, Buffalo, New 
     York, project.
       The amount provided for the Section 206 program does not 
     include funds for the Upper Truckee River project. Funds for 
     this project are included in the Bureau of Reclamation's 
     Wetlands Development Program. The amount provided for the 
     Section 206 program includes $500,000 for the Hay Creek, 
     Roseau County, Minnesota, project. The conference agreement 
     deletes the bill language proposed by the Senate for the Hay 
     Creek project.
       The conference agreement includes $4,000,000 for the 
     Aquatic Plant Control program. Within the amount provided, 
     $400,000 is for aquatic weed control in Lake Champlain, 
     Vermont, $250,000 is for aquatic plant control within the 
     State of South Carolina, and $100,000 is for the control and 
     tracking of aquatic plants in the Potomac River in Virginia 
     and Maryland.
       The conferees have included language in the bill earmarking 
     funds for the following projects in the amount specified: 
     Elba, Alabama, $8,400,000; Geneva, Alabama, $10,800,000; San 
     Timoteo Creek (Santa Ana River Mainstem), California, 
     $5,000,000; San Gabriel Basin Groundwater Restoration, 
     California, $25,000,000; Indianapolis Central Waterfront, 
     Indiana, $10,000,000; Southern and Eastern Kentucky, 
     Kentucky, $4,000,000; Clover Fork, Middlesboro, City of 
     Cumberland, Town of Martin, Pike County (including Levisa 
     Fork and Tug Fork tributaries), Bell County, Martin County, 
     and Harlan County, Kentucky, elements of the Levisa and Tug 
     Forks of the Big Sandy River and Upper Cumberland River 
     project, $20,000,000; Jackson County, Mississippi, 
     $2,000,000; Bosque and Leon Rivers, Texas, $4,000,000; Upper 
     Mingo County (including Mingo County Tributaries), Lower 
     Mingo County (Kermit), Wayne County, and McDowell County, 
     West Virginia, elements of the Levisa and Tug Forks of the 
     Big Sandy River and Upper Cumberland River project, 
     $4,100,000.
       The conference agreement includes language proposed by the 
     House which directs the Corps of Engineers to proceed with 
     the Town of Martin element of the Levisa and Tug Forks of the 
     Big Sandy River and Upper Cumberland River project in 
     accordance with a Plan A as set forth in the preliminary 
     draft Detailed Project Report, Appendix T of the General Plan 
     of the Huntington District Commander.
       The conference agreement includes language proposed by the 
     House which directs the Corps of Engineers to use $900,000 to 
     undertake the Bowie County Levee project in Texas, which is 
     defined as Alternative B Local Sponsor Option in the Corps of 
     Engineers document entitled Bowie County Local Flood 
     Protection, Red River, Texas, project Design Memorandum No. 
     1, Bowie County Levee, dated April 1997.
       The conference agreement includes language proposed by the 
     Senate which provides that none of the funds appropriated in 
     the Act may be used to begin Phase II of the John Day 
     Drawdown study or to initiate a study of the drawdown of 
     McNary Dam unless authorized by law.
       The conference agreement includes language proposed by the 
     Senate which directs the Corps of Engineers to use available 
     Construction, General, funds to complete design and 
     construction of the Red River Regional Visitors Center in the 
     vicinity of Shreveport, Louisiana, at an estimated cost of 
     $6,000,000.
       The conference agreement includes language proposed by the 
     Senate which increases the authorization for the Norco 
     Bluffs, California, project.
       The conference agreement includes language proposed by the 
     Senate which directs the Corps of Engineers to use $3,000,000 
     of the funds appropriated in the Act for additional emergency 
     bank stabilization measures at Galena, Alaska, under the same 
     terms and conditions as previously undertaken emergency bank 
     stabilization work.
       The conference agreement includes language proposed by the 
     Senate directing the Corps of Engineers to use $4,200,000 
     appropriated in the Act to continue construction of the Ocean 
     Isle Beach segment of the Brunswick County Beaches, North 
     Carolina, project in accordance with the General Reevaluation 
     Report approved by the Chief of Engineers on May 15, 1998.
       The conference agreement includes language proposed by the 
     Senate which directs the Corps of Engineers to use $300,000 
     of the funds appropriated in the Act to reimburse the City of 
     Renton, Washington, for mitigation expenses incurred for the 
     flood control project constructed on the Cedar River at 
     Renton as a result of over-dredging by the Corps of 
     Engineers.
       The conference agreement includes language proposed by the 
     Senate subjecting the expenditure of previously appropriated 
     funds for the Devils Lake, North Dakota, project to a number 
     of conditions.
       The conference agreement includes language which provides 
     that $2,000,000 shall be available for stabilization and 
     renovation of Lock and Dam 10 on the Kentucky River, subject 
     to the enactment of authorization for the project.
       The conference agreement includes language which directs 
     the Corps of Engineers to use $3,000,000 to initiate 
     construction of a navigation project at Kaumalapau Harbor, 
     Hawaii. The project will consist of a 350-foot long 
     breakwater and a channel depth of 19 feet.
       The conference agreement includes language which directs 
     the Corps of Engineers to design and construct seepage 
     control features at Waterbury Dam, Winooski River, Vermont. 
     The Dam Safety and Seepage Correction Program includes up to 
     $2,000,000 to initiate this work. The proposed corrective 
     actions will restore the structural integrity of the dam and 
     reduce the chances of potential failure.
       The conference agreement includes language which directs 
     the Corps of Engineers to design and construct barge lanes at 
     the Houston-Galveston Navigation Channels, Texas, project.
       The conference agreement includes language which directs 
     the Corps of Engineers to continue construction of the Rio 
     Grand de Manati flood control project at Barceloneta, Puerto 
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 Flood Control, Mississippi River and Tributaries, Arkansas, Illinois, 
       Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee

       The conference agreement appropriates $347,731,000 for 
     Flood Control, Mississippi River and Tributaries instead of 
     $323,350,000 as proposed by the House and $334,450,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement includes $900,000 for the 
     Southeast Arkansas feasibility study. The House had proposed 
     to fund this study in the General Investigations account.
       The conference agreement includes language proposed by the 
     Senate which directs the Secretary of the Army to complete 
     the analysis and determination regarding Federal maintenance 
     of the Greenville Inner Harbor, Mississippi, navigation 
     project in accordance with section 509 of the Water Resources 
     Development Act of 1996.
       The conference agreement includes $375,000 for construction 
     of the Yazoo Basin Tributaries project and $47,000,000 for 
     continuing construction of Mississippi River levees. The 
     conference agreement deletes bill language proposed by the 
     Senate regarding these projects.
       The conference agreement includes $7,242,000 for operation 
     and maintenance of Arkabutla Lake; $5,280,000 for operation 
     and maintenance of Grenada Lake; $7,680,000 for operation and 
     maintenance of Sardis Lake; and $4,376,000 for operation and 
     maintenance of Enid Lake. The conference agreement deletes 
     bill language proposed by the Senate regarding these 
     projects.


                   Operation and Maintenance, General

       The conference agreement appropriates $1,901,959,000 for 
     Operation and Maintenance, General, instead of $1,854,000,000 
     as proposed by the House and $1,862,471,000 as proposed by 
     the Senate.
       The conference agreement includes $6,755,000 for the 
     Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, and Flint Rivers project in 
     Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. The additional funds above the 
     budget request shall be used to implement environmental 
     restoration requirements as specified under the certification 
     issued by the State of Florida under section 401 of the 
     Federal Water Pollution Control Act and dated October 1999, 
     including $1,200,000 for increased environmental dredging and 
     $500,000 for related environmental studies required by the 
     state water quality certification. The conference agreement 
     does not include bill language proposed by the Senate 
     regarding this project.
       The conferees have provided $5,071,000 for the Red Rock Dam 
     and Lake, Iowa, project. The funds provided above the budget 
     request are for repair and replacement of various features of 
     the project including repair of the scouring of the South-
     East Des Moines levee.
       The conference agreement includes $10,400,000 for operation 
     and maintenance of the Pascagoula Harbor, Mississippi, 
     project.
       The conference agreement includes $1,500,000 over the 
     budget request for the Corps of Engineers to address impacts 
     of recent fires, undertake habitat restoration activities, 
     and address other essential requirements at Cochiti Lake in 
     New Mexico.
       The conference agreement includes an additional $3,000,000 
     for the Jemez Dam, New Mexico, project for the Corps of 
     Engineers to address the impacts of increased water releases 
     required to help sustain the endangered silvery minnow.
       The conferees have provided an additional $600,000 for the 
     Waco Lake, Texas, project for the Corps of Engineers to 
     address the higher lake levels associated with the raising of 
     the dam.
       The conferees have provided $12,570,000 for the Grays 
     Harbor, Washington, project, including $650,000 for repair of 
     the south jetty, $1,000,000 to complete the rehabilitation of 
     the north jetty at Ocean Shores, and $1,100,000 for the north 
     jetty operations and maintenance study.
       The conference agreement includes language proposed by the 
     Senate which directs the Corps of Engineers to prepare the 
     necessary documents and initiate removal of submerged 
     obstructions in the area previously marked by the Ambrose 
     Light Tower in New York Harbor.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate providing $500,000 for maintenance and repair of the 
     Sakonnet Harbor breakwater in Little Compton, Rhode Island. 
     Funds for this project are included in the amount 
     appropriated for Operation and Maintenance, General.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate providing $50,000 for a study of crossings across the 
     Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. The amount provided for 
     operation and maintenance of the Chesapeake and Delaware 
     Canal project includes $50,000 for the Corps of Engineers to 
     conduct a study to determine the adequacy and timing for 
     maintaining good and sufficient crossings across the canal.
       Although the conference agreement deletes bill language 
     proposed by the Senate regarding the marketing of dredged 
     material from the Delaware River Deepening project, the 
     conferees expect the Corps of Engineers to establish such a 
     program.
       The conference agreement includes language which directs 
     the Corps of Engineers to use $500,000 to dredge a channel 
     from the mouth of Wheeling Creek to Tunnel Green Park in 
     Wheeling, West Virginia.
       The conference agreement includes language which provides 
     that $500,000 of the funds provided for the Columbia and 
     Lower Willamette River below Vancouver, Washington, and 
     Portland, Oregon, project shall be used to remove and 
     reinstall the docks and causeway, in kind, at the Astoria 
     East Boat Basin in Oregon.
       The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of 
     Engineers, is authorized and directed to extend the sheet 
     pile wall on the west end of the entrance to the Dillingham, 
     Alaska, small boat harbor, and to replace the existing wooden 
     bulkhead at the city dock under the provisions of Public Law 
     99-190.
       The conferees are aware of costs associated with 
     maintaining and operating the complex computer system used to 
     execute and program activities for the entire Operation and 
     Maintenance program. The conferees direct the Corps of 
     Engineers to specifically budget for this computer system in 
     future years and, within available fiscal year 2001 funds, 
     pay for this effort under Operation and Maintenance, General.
       The conferees are aware of a plan to improve the 
     effectiveness of public information exhibits located within 
     visitor centers at Corps of Engineers projects. The initial 
     plan will be developed by a multidiscipline team and is 
     scheduled to be completed this year. The conferees expect the 
     plan to be developed within available Operation and 
     Maintenance, General, funds and expect implementation of any 
     plans to be justified in future budget requests.


                 Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies

       The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of 
     Engineers, is authorized and directed to extend the existing 
     Bethel Bank Stabilization project in Alaska an additional 
     1200 linear feet upstream, and to remove sediments from 
     Brown's Slough that hamper safe navigation.


                           Regulatory Program

       The conference agreement appropriates $125,000,000 for the 
     Corps of Engineers Regulatory Program as proposed by the 
     House instead of $120,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement includes language proposed by the 
     House and the Senate which will improve the analysis and 
     increase the information available to the public and the 
     Congress regarding the costs of the nationwide permit program 
     and permit processing times.


            Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program

       The conference agreement appropriates $140,000,000 for the 
     Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program as proposed 
     by the House and the Senate.
       The conferees concur with the language in the Senate report 
     regarding the Parks Township Shallow Land Disposal Area in 
     Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.


                            General Expenses

       The conference agreement appropriates $152,000,000 for 
     General Expenses as proposed by the Senate instead of 
     $149,500,000 as proposed by the House.


                             Revolving Fund

       The conference agreement includes language proposed by the 
     House and the Senate which provides that amounts in the 
     Revolving Fund are available for the costs of relocating the 
     Corps of Engineers headquarters to the General Accounting 
     Office building.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil

       Section 101. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the House which provides for the transfer of 
     responsibility of local sponsorship of recreation development 
     at Joe Pool Lake, Texas, from the Trinity River Authority to 
     the City of Grand Prairie, Texas.
       Section 102. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the Senate which places a limit on credits and 
     reimbursements allowable per project and annually.
       Section 103. The conference agreement includes language 
     authorizing the Corps of Engineers to construct the Murrieta 
     Creek, California, flood control project.
       Section 104. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the Senate which provides that none of the funds 
     provided in this Act may be used for activities related to 
     the closure or removal of the St. Georges Bridge across the 
     Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in Delaware.
       Section 105. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the Senate which provides that the Secretary of 
     the Army shall provide up to $7,000,000 to replace and 
     upgrade the dam in Kake, Alaska.
       Provisions not included in the conference agreement.--The 
     conference agreement does not include language proposed by 
     the House extending the authorization for spending Coastal 
     Wetlands Restoration Trust Fund receipts. This matter has 
     been addressed in Title VI. The conference agreement does not 
     include language proposed by the Senate regarding the use of 
     continuing contracts for Corps of Engineers projects. The 
     conference agreement does not include language proposed by 
     the Senate earmarking funds for the Pascagoula Harbor, 
     Mississippi, project and the Gulfport Harbor, Mississippi,

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     project. Funds for those projects are included in the amounts 
     appropriated for Operation and Maintenance, General, and 
     Construction, General, respectively.
       The conference agreement does not include language proposed 
     by the Senate regarding the Kihei Area Erosion project in 
     Hawaii. It is the intent of the conferees that the Kihei Area 
     Erosion study shall include an analysis of the extent and 
     causes of the shoreline erosion. Further, a regional economic 
     development (RED) analysis shall be included. The results of 
     the RED analysis shall be displayed in all study documents 
     along with the traditional benefit-cost analysis including 
     recommendations of the Chief of Engineers.
       The conference agreement does not include language proposed 
     by the Senate regarding the Waikiki Erosion Control project 
     in Hawaii. It is the intent of the conferees that the Waikiki 
     Erosion Control study shall include an analysis of 
     environmental resources that have been, or may be, threatened 
     by erosion of the shoreline. Further, a regional economic 
     development (RED) analysis shall be included. The results of 
     the RED analysis shall be displayed in all study documents 
     along with the traditional benefit-cost analysis including 
     recommendations of the Chief of Engineers.
       The conference agreement does not include language proposed 
     by the Senate directing the Secretary of the Army to conduct 
     a study to determine the need for providing additional 
     crossing capacity across the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. 
     The conference agreement includes $50,000 under Operation and 
     Maintenance, General for the Corps of Engineers to conduct a 
     study to determine the adequacy and timing for maintaining 
     good and sufficient crossings across the Chesapeake and 
     Delaware Canal.
       The conference agreement does not include language proposed 
     by the Senate expressing the sense of the Senate concerning 
     dredging of the main channel of the Delaware River and 
     language proposed by the Senate regarding the Historic Area 
     Remediation Site.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate regarding the Missouri River Master Water Control 
     Manual.

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                                TITLE II

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                          Central Utah Project


                Central Utah Project Completion Account

       The conference agreement appropriates $39,940,000 to carry 
     out the provisions of the Central Utah Project Completion Act 
     as proposed by the House and the Senate.


                         Bureau of Reclamation

       The summary tables at the end of this title set forth the 
     conference agreement with respect to the individual 
     appropriations, programs and activities of the Bureau of 
     Reclamation. Additional items of the conference agreement are 
     discussed below.


                      Water and Related Resources

       The conference agreement appropriates $678,450,000 for 
     Water and Related Resources instead of $635,777,000 as 
     proposed by the House and $655,192,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate.
       The conference agreement includes $39,467,000 for the 
     Central Arizona Project as proposed by the House.
       The additional funds provided by the House under the 
     California Investigations Program for studies of ways to 
     increase the reliability of water supplies in southern Orange 
     County, California, have been included under the Southern 
     California Investigations Program.
       The conference agreement includes an additional $1,000,000 
     for the Columbia and Snake Rivers Salmon Recovery project. 
     The additional funds may be used for water acquisition and 
     other actions that may be required by Endangered Species Act 
     biological opinions concerning the operation and maintenance 
     of Bureau of Reclamation projects.
       The conference agreement includes an increase of $4,758,000 
     over the budget request for the Middle Rio Grande project in 
     New Mexico for the Bureau of Reclamation to undertake 
     research, monitoring, and modeling of evapotranspiration, 
     implement a program for the transplant of silvery minnow 
     larvae and young-of-year, and carry out habitat conservation 
     and restoration activities along the middle Rio Grande River 
     valley as specified in the Senate report. Additional funding 
     is also provided for Bureau of Reclamation participation in 
     the recent settlement regarding the recovery of the Rio 
     Grande silvery minnow.
       The conference agreement includes $2,960,000 for the Title 
     XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Program. Of the funds 
     provided, $500,000 is provided for the Bureau of Reclamation 
     to participate with the City of Espanola, New Mexico, in a 
     feasibility study to investigate opportunities to reclaim and 
     reuse municipal wastewater and naturally impaired surface and 
     groundwater, and $300,000 is provided to continue the Phoenix 
     Metropolitan Water Reclamation and Reuse (Aqua Fria) project 
     in Arizona. In addition, $1,000,000 is provided for the 
     Bureau of Reclamation to support the WateReuse Foundation's 
     research program as described in the House report.
       The conferees have provided $5,000,000 for the Drought 
     Emergency Assistance Program to address the severe drought 
     conditions that currently exist in New Mexico and other 
     western states. The conferees direct the attention of the 
     Bureau of Reclamation to the need for the acquisition of 
     water for the San Carlos Reservoir on the Gila River in 
     Arizona.
       The conference agreement includes $8,500,000 for the Native 
     American Affairs Program of the Bureau of Reclamation, of 
     which $200,000 is for the Bureau to undertake studies, in 
     consultation and cooperation with the Jicarilla Apache Tribe, 
     of the most feasible method of developing a safe and adequate 
     municipal, rural and industrial water supply for the 
     residents of the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation in New 
     Mexico.
       Of the amount provided for the Wetlands Development 
     Program, $1,500,000 is provided for design and construction 
     of the restoration of the Upper Truckee River in the vicinity 
     of the airport at South Lake Tahoe, California, including 
     channel realignment, and meadow and floodplain restoration.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     House which provides that none of the funds appropriated in 
     the Act may be used by the Bureau of Reclamation for closure 
     of the Auburn Dam, California, diversion tunnel or 
     restoration of the American River channel through the Auburn 
     Dam construction site.
       The conferees have included language in the bill proposed 
     by the Senate which provides that $16,000,000 shall be 
     available for the Rocky Boys Indian Water Rights Settlement 
     project in Montana; provides that not more than $500,000 
     shall be available for projects carried out by the Youth 
     Conservation Corps; increases the amount authorized for 
     Indian municipal, rural, and industrial water features of the 
     Garrison Diversion project in North Dakota by $2,000,000; and 
     amends the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978.
       The conference agreement deletes bill language proposed by 
     the Senate providing $2,300,000 for the Albuquerque 
     Metropolitan Area Water Reclamation and Reuse project. 
     Funding for this project is included in the total amount 
     appropriated for Water and Related Resources.


               Bureau of Reclamation Loan Program Account

       The conference agreement appropriates $9,369,000 for the 
     Bureau of Reclamation Loan Program account as proposed by the 
     House and the Senate.


                Central Valley Project Restoration Fund

       The conference agreement appropriates $38,382,000 for the 
     Central Valley Project Restoration Fund as proposed by the 
     House and the Senate.


                       Policy and Administration

       The conference agreement appropriates $50,224,000 for 
     Policy and Administration as proposed by the Senate instead 
     of $47,000,000 as proposed by the House.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

                       Department of the Interior

       Section 201. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the House which provides that none of the funds 
     appropriated by this or any other Act may be used to purchase 
     or lease water in the Middle Rio Grande or Carlsbad projects 
     in New Mexico unless the purchase or lease is in compliance 
     with the requirements of section 202 of Public Law 106-60.
       Section 202. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the Senate which provides that funds for Drought 
     Emergency Assistance are to be used primarily for leasing of 
     water for specified drought related purposes from willing 
     lessors in compliance with State laws. The language also 
     provides that leases may be entered into with an option to 
     purchase provided the purchase is approved in the State in 
     which the purchase takes place and does not cause economic 
     harm in the State in which the purchase is made.
       Section 203. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the House which provides authority to the 
     Secretary of the Interior to make an annual assessment upon 
     Central Valley Project water and power contractors for the 
     purpose of making an annual payment to the Trinity Public 
     Utilities District. The language has been amended to clarify 
     that the payments to the Trinity Public Utilities District 
     will be made without the need for appropriations.
       Section 204. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the Senate regarding the activities of the Glen 
     Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program. The language in the 
     Senate bill has been amended to increase the funding limit 
     for the program to not more than $7,850,000, adjusted for 
     inflation, and to not preclude voluntary contributions to the 
     Adaptive Management Program.
       Section 205. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the Senate which authorizes and directs the 
     Secretary of the Interior to use not to exceed $1,000,000 to 
     refund amounts received by the United States as payments for 
     charges assessed by the Secretary prior to January 1, 1994, 
     for failure to file certain certification or reporting forms 
     prior to the receipt of project water pursuant to sections 
     206 and 224(c) of the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982.
       Section 206. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the Senate which amends the Canyon Ferry 
     Reservoir, Montana, Act.
       Section 207. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the Senate which provides that beginning in 
     fiscal year 2000 and thereafter, any amounts provided for the 
     Newlands Water Rights Fund for purchasing and retiring water 
     rights in the Newlands Reclamation Project shall be non-
     reimbursable.
       Section 208. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the Senate which permits the use of Colorado-Big 
     Thompson Project facilities for nonproject water.
       Section 209. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the Senate which amends the Irrigation Project 
     Contract Extension Act of 1998.
       Section 210. The conference agreement includes a provision 
     proposed by the Senate which extends through fiscal year 2001 
     the prohibition on the use of funds to further reallocate 
     Central Arizona Project water until the enactment of 
     legislation authorizing and directing the Secretary of the 
     Interior to make allocations and enter into contracts for the 
     delivery of Central Arizona Project water.
       Section 211. The conference agreement includes language 
     which amends the San Luis Rey Indian Water Rights Settlement 
     Act, Public Law 100-675.
       Section 212. The conference agreement includes language 
     providing for the conveyance of the Sly Park Unit in 
     California to the El Dorado Irrigation District.
       Provision not included in the conference agreement.--The 
     conference agreement does not include a provision proposed by 
     the Senate related to recreation development within the State 
     of Montana.

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                               TITLE III

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

       The summary tables at the end of this title set forth the 
     conference agreement with respect to the individual 
     appropriations, programs, and activities of the Department of 
     Energy. Additional items of conference agreement are 
     discussed below.


                           PROJECT MANAGEMENT

       The conferees strongly support the progress being made by 
     the Office of Engineering and Construction Management in 
     bringing standardization, discipline, oversight, and 
     increased professionalism to the Department's project 
     management efforts. The project engineering and design (PED) 
     process developed by the Department represents significant 
     progress toward correcting serious management deficiencies 
     that have historically plagued the Department's construction 
     projects. The conferees believe that implementation of the 
     PED process for all construction and environmental projects 
     throughout the Department will provide the assurance 
     necessary to eliminate the current requirement for an 
     external independent review of all projects prior to 
     releasing funds for construction. The conferees expect the 
     continuation of the external independent review process as 
     discussed in both the House and Senate reports.


                        PASSENGER MOTOR VEHICLES

       The conferees have provided statutory limitations on the 
     number of passenger motor vehicles that can be purchased by 
     the Department of Energy in fiscal year 2001. These 
     limitations are included each year, but the Department has 
     been interpreting this limitation to mean that sport utility 
     vehicles are not considered passenger motor vehicles and do 
     not count against the appropriation ceiling. The conferees 
     consider this to be disingenuous at best and a violation of 
     the appropriations language at worst.
       The conferees expect the Department to adhere strictly to 
     the limits set for the purchase of motor vehicles. It is the 
     intention of the conferees in prescribing these limitations 
     that sport utility vehicles are to be considered passenger 
     motor vehicles and, therefore, subject to the limitation. 
     Further, the Department is to provide a full and complete 
     accounting of the current motor vehicle inventory at each 
     location. The Department should work with the Committees on 
     Appropriations to ensure that the report provides the 
     necessary information.


                           CONTRACTOR TRAVEL

       The conference agreement includes a statutory provision 
     limiting reimbursement of Department of Energy management and 
     operating contractors for travel expenses to not more than 
     $185,000,000. This limitation consists of $175,000,000 for 
     contractor travel and a reserve fund of $10,000,000 to be 
     administered by the Department's Chief Financial Officer and 
     released for emergency travel requirements.
       The Department had requested $200,000,000 for contractor 
     travel. The reduction in fiscal year 2001 is not to be 
     prorated, but should be applied to those organizations that 
     appear to have the most questionable travel practices. This 
     is not meant to restrict trips between laboratories to 
     coordinate on program issues.


                          INDEPENDENT CENTERS

       The Department is to identify all independent centers at 
     each DOE laboratory and facility in the fiscal year 2002 
     budget submission. These centers are to be funded directly in 
     program accounts, rather than overhead, with the exception of 
     those centers which clearly benefit more than one program at 
     a laboratory or facility. The Department is directed to 
     provide a list of any centers that are funded through 
     overhead accounts with the fiscal year 2002 budget 
     submission.


                             REPROGRAMMINGS

       The conference agreement does not provide the Department of 
     Energy with any internal reprogramming flexibility in fiscal 
     year 2001 unless specifically identified by the House, 
     Senate, or conference agreement. Any reallocation of new or 
     prior year budget authority or prior year deobligations must 
     be submitted to the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations in advance, in writing, and may not be 
     implemented prior to approval by the Committees.


              LABORATORY DIRECTED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

       The conference agreement includes an allowance of six 
     percent for the laboratory directed research and development 
     (LDRD) program and two percent for nuclear weapons production 
     plants. Travel costs for LDRD are exempt from the contractor 
     travel ceiling. The conferees direct the Department's Chief 
     Financial Officer to develop and execute a financial 
     accounting report of LDRD expenditures by laboratory and 
     weapons production plant. This report, due to the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations by December 31, 2000, and 
     each year thereafter, should provide costs by personnel 
     salaries, equipment, and travel. The Department should work 
     with the Committees on the specific information to be 
     included in the report.


                SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY BUDGET AMENDMENT

       The conferees have chosen to reflect the amounts requested 
     for safeguards and security funding in the manner proposed in 
     the budget amendment submitted to Congress by the Department. 
     Adjustments have been made in each account to reflect the 
     consolidation of safeguards and security costs into a few 
     major accounts and the transfer of these costs from overhead 
     accounts to specific program line items. However, the 
     conferees do not concur with the amendment to the extent its 
     purpose is to reorganize all safeguards and security 
     functions at the Department under the control and direction 
     of the Office of Security and Emergency Operations, or any 
     other entity not part of line management. The conferees agree 
     that the direct responsibility for safeguards and security 
     must be united and integrated with the responsibility of line 
     operations.


              ADDITIONAL DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY REQUIREMENTS

       The conferees agree with the House report language on 
     augmenting Federal staff, overhead costs reviews and 
     reprogramming guidelines.


GENERAL REDUCTIONS NECESSARY TO ACCOMMODATE SPECIFIC PROGRAM DIRECTIONS

       The Department is directed to provide a report to the House 
     and Senate Committees on Appropriations by January 15, 2001, 
     on the actual application of any general reductions of 
     funding or use of prior year balances contained in the 
     conference agreement. In general, such reductions should not 
     be applied disproportionately against any program, project, 
     or activity. However, the conferees are aware there may be 
     instances where proportional reductions would adversely 
     impact critical programs and other allocations may be 
     necessary. The report should also include the distribution of 
     the safeguards and security funding adjustments.


                             ENERGY SUPPLY

       The conference agreement provides $660,574,000 for Energy 
     Supply instead of $616,482,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $691,520,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference 
     agreement includes the House proposal to make funds available 
     until expended rather than the Senate proposal to limit 
     availability to two years. The conference agreement does not 
     include the Senate bill language transferring funds from the 
     United States Enrichment Corporation or earmarking funds for 
     a variety of projects to demonstrate alternative energy 
     technologies.


                       Renewable Energy Resources

       The conference agreement provides $422,085,000 instead of 
     $390,519,000 as proposed by the House and $444,117,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate for renewable energy resources.
       Biomass/biofuels.--The conference agreement includes 
     $112,900,000 for biomass/biofuels. The conferees have 
     provided $26,740,000 for research to be managed by the Office 
     of Science, the same as the budget request. The conference 
     agreement includes $40,000,000 for power systems and 
     $46,160,000 for the transportation program. The conference 
     agreement does not include prescriptive language specifying 
     funding allocations as contained in the House and Senate 
     reports.
       The conferees encourage the Department to continue the 
     integrated approach to bioenergy activities and recommend the 
     use of up to $18,000,000 within available funds for the 
     bioenergy initiative. Funding for this initiative may be 
     derived from both the power and transportation programs.
       In the power program, the conference agreement provides 
     $2,000,000 for the Iowa switch grass project which is a 
     multi-year project; $4,000,000 for the McNeill biomass plant 
     in Burlington, Vermont; $395,000 for the final Federal 
     contribution to the Vermont agriculture methane project; 
     $500,000 for the bioreactor landfill project to be 
     administered by the Environmental Education and Research 
     Foundation and Michigan State University; $1,000,000 for 
     methane energy and agriculture development (MEAD) in 
     Tillamook Bay, Oregon; and $1,000,000 for the Mount Wachusett 
     College biomass conversion project in Massachusetts.
       The Department is to accelerate the large-scale biomass 
     demonstration at the Winona, Mississippi, site.
       The conference agreement provides $4,000,000 in power 
     systems to support a project to demonstrate a commercial 
     facility employing the thermo-depolymerization technology at 
     a site adjacent to the Nevada Test Site. The project shall 
     proceed on a cost-shared basis where Federal funding shall be 
     matched in at least an equal amount with non-Federal funding.
       In the transportation program, the conference agreement 
     provides $1,000,000 for continuation of biomass research at 
     the Energy and Environmental Research Center on the 
     integration of biomass with fossil fuels for advanced power 
     systems transportation fuels; $600,000 for the University of 
     Louisville to work on the design of bioreactors for 
     production of fuels and chemicals for ethanol production; and 
     $2,000,000 for the design and construction of a demonstration 
     facility for regional biomass ethanol manufacturing in 
     southeast Alaska.
       The conference agreement also includes $2,000,000 for the 
     Michigan Biotechnology Institute to be derived equally from 
     power and transportation systems.
       Funding allocated by the Department for the regional 
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     production should be derived equally from the power and 
     transportation programs.
       Geothermal.--The conference agreement includes $27,000,000 
     for geothermal activities. The conference agreement does not 
     include language specifying funding allocations as contained 
     in the Senate report. The conferees have provided $2,000,000 
     to complete the Lake County Basin 2000 Geothermal project in 
     Lake County, California.
       Hydrogen.--The conference agreement includes $29,970,000 
     for hydrogen activities, including $350,000 for the Montana 
     Trade Port Authority in Billings, Montana; $250,000 for the 
     gasification of Iowa switch grass; and $800,000 for the ITM 
     Syngas project.
       The conferees have also provided $2,000,000 for the multi-
     year demonstration of an underground mining locomotive and an 
     earth loader powered by hydrogen at existing facilities 
     within the State of Nevada. The demonstration is subject to a 
     private sector industry cost-share of not less than an equal 
     amount, and a portion of these funds may also be used to 
     acquire a prototype hydrogen fueling appliance to provide on-
     site hydrogen in the demonstration.
       Hydropower.--The conference agreement includes $5,000,000 
     for hydropower. The conferees are aware that the Department 
     is funding research that is supposed to be applicable to the 
     needs of the large dams in the northwest United States. The 
     Department is concerned that the Federal power marketing 
     administrations are not involved in developing this research 
     program. The Department is directed to provide a report 
     coordinated with the power marketing administrations that 
     indicates how this hydropower research is applicable to the 
     current and future needs of the power marketing 
     administrations and the schedule by which this research will 
     provide useable products.
       Solar Energy.--The conference agreement includes 
     $110,632,000 for solar energy programs. The conference 
     agreement does not include language specifying funding 
     allocations as contained in the House and Senate reports.
       The conference agreement provides $13,800,000 for 
     concentrating solar power, including $1,000,000 to initiate 
     planning of a one MW dish engine field validation power 
     project at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
       The conference agreement includes $78,622,000 for 
     photovoltaic energy systems, including up to $3,000,000 for 
     the million solar roofs initiative. The conferees have 
     provided $1,500,000 for the Southeast and Southwest 
     photovoltaic experiment stations.
       The conference agreement includes $3,950,000 for solar 
     building technology research.
       Wind.--The conference agreement includes $40,283,000 for 
     wind programs. The conference agreement does not include 
     prescriptive language specifying allocations as included in 
     the Senate report. The conferees have provided $1,000,000 for 
     the Kotzebue wind project. Of the funding for wind energy 
     systems, not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available for 
     new and ongoing small wind programs, including not less than 
     $2,000,000 for the small wind turbine development project. 
     From within available funds, $100,000 has been provided for a 
     wind turbine and for educational purposes at the Turtle 
     Mountain Community College in North Dakota.
       Electric energy systems and storage.--The conference 
     agreement includes $52,000,000 for electric energy systems 
     and storage. The conferees urge the Department to support the 
     university, industry-based partnership at the University of 
     California-Irvine Advanced Power and Energy Program to 
     conduct energy and information related technology 
     demonstrations to accelerate the development and deployment 
     of cost-efficient technologies benefiting all energy 
     consumers affected by a deregulated energy industry.
       The conference agreement includes $6,000,000 to accelerate 
     the development and application of high temperature 
     superconductor technologies through joint efforts among DOE 
     laboratories, universities, and industry to be led by Los 
     Alamos and Oak Ridge National Laboratories.
       The conference agreement includes $500,000 for completion 
     of the distributed power demonstration project begun last 
     year at the Nevada Test Site.
       Renewable Support and Implementation.--The conference 
     agreement includes $21,600,000 for renewable support and 
     implementation programs.
       The Federal Energy Management Program should report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations by December 31, 2001, on the 
     accomplishments of the Departmental energy management program 
     with the fiscal year 2001 appropriations including the number 
     of energy efficiency projects funded, the number of energy 
     savings performance contracts supported, and the total 
     estimated savings.
       From within available funds, the conference agreement 
     provides $1,000,000 for the Office of Arctic Energy as 
     proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement includes $5,000,000 for the 
     international renewable energy program. Of this amount, 
     $1,000,000 is to be provided to International Utility 
     Efficiency Partnerships, Inc. (IUEP). The IUEP shall 
     competitively award all projects, continuing its leadership 
     role in reducing carbon dioxide emissions using voluntary 
     market-based mechanisms.
       The conference agreement includes $4,000,000 for the 
     renewable energy production incentive program.
       The conference agreement includes $6,600,000 for renewable 
     Indian energy resources projects as proposed by the Senate.
       The conference agreement includes $4,000,000 for renewable 
     program support, of which $1,000,000 is for an Indoor Air 
     Quality and Energy Conservation Research Planning grant to 
     study and develop technologies to improve air quality within 
     homes and buildings.
       Program direction.--The conference agreement includes 
     $18,700,000 for program direction. The conferees have 
     provided additional funding to support implementation of the 
     management reforms identified in the recent National Academy 
     of Public Administration review.


                             Nuclear Energy

       The conference agreement provides $259,925,000 for nuclear 
     energy activities instead of $231,815,000 as proposed by the 
     House and $262,084,000 as proposed by the Senate.
       Advanced radioisotope power systems.--The conference 
     agreement includes $32,200,000, an increase over the budget 
     request of $30,864,000. The additional funds are to maintain 
     the infrastructure to support future national security needs 
     and NASA missions.
       Isotope support.--The conference agreement includes a total 
     program level of $27,215,000 for the isotope program. This 
     amount is reduced by offsetting collections of $8,000,000 to 
     be received in fiscal year 2001, resulting in a net 
     appropriation of $19,215,000. The conferees understand that 
     the total estimated cost of Project 99-E-201, the isotope 
     production facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has 
     increased significantly due to factors outside the control of 
     the Office of Nuclear Energy and have included $2,500,000 to 
     partially cover these additional costs.
       University reactor fuel assistance and support.--The 
     conference agreement includes $12,000,000, the same as the 
     budget request.
       Research and development.--The conference agreement 
     provides $47,500,000 for nuclear energy research and 
     development activities.
       The conference agreement includes $5,000,000, the same as 
     the budget request, for nuclear energy plant optimization. 
     The conferees direct the Department to ensure that projects 
     are funded jointly with non-Federal partners and that total 
     non-Federal contributions are equal to or in excess of total 
     Department contributions to projects funded in this program.
       The conferees have provided $35,000,000 for the nuclear 
     energy research initiative.
       The conference agreement includes $7,500,000 for nuclear 
     energy technologies. The Senate had included these activities 
     in the nuclear energy research initiative program. Funding of 
     $4,500,000 is provided to develop a road map for the 
     commercial deployment of a next generation power reactor; 
     $1,000,000 for the preparation of a detailed assessment that 
     analyzes and describes the changes needed to existing 
     advanced light water reactor (ALWR) designs; $1,000,000 for 
     planning and implementation of initiatives in support of an 
     advanced gas reactor; and $1,000,000 to undertake a study to 
     determine the feasibility of deployment of small modular 
     reactors.
       Infrastructure.--The conference agreement includes the 
     budget request of $39,150,000 for ANL-West Operations, 
     $9,000,000 for test reactor landlord activities, and 
     $44,010,000 for the Fast Flux Test Facility.
       Nuclear facilities management.--The conference agreement 
     adopts the budget structure proposed by the House and 
     provides $34,850,000 for nuclear facilities management 
     activities, the same as the budget request.
       The conference agreement provides the full amount of the 
     budget request to complete draining and processing EBR-II 
     primary sodium. The conferees direct the Department to notify 
     the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations immediately 
     if any issues arise that would delay the Department's 
     scheduled date to complete these activities.
       Uranium programs.--The conference agreement transfers the 
     budget request of $53,400,000 for uranium programs to a new 
     appropriation account, Uranium Facilities Maintenance and 
     Remediation.
       Program direction.--The conference agreement includes 
     $22,000,000 for program direction. This reduction reflects 
     the transfer of 25 employees in the field and up to 5 
     employees at Headquarters who managed the uranium programs to 
     the Office of Environmental Management.


                     Environment, Safety and Health

       The conference agreement includes $35,998,000 for non-
     defense environment, safety and health activities. The 
     conferees direct that the reduction from the budget request 
     be directed to eliminate lower-priority activities currently 
     funded in this program. The conference agreement includes 
     $1,000,000 to be transferred to the Occupational Safety and 
     Health Administration as proposed by the House. The conferees 
     expect the Department to budget for this activity in fiscal 
     year 2002.


                Technical Information Management Program

       The conference agreement includes $8,600,000 as proposed by 
     the Senate.

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                          Funding Adjustments

       The conference agreement also includes $47,100,000, the 
     same amount as the budget request, for research performed by 
     the Office of Science related to renewable energy 
     technologies, and $2,352,000 proposed as an offset from 
     nuclear energy royalties to be received in fiscal year 2001. 
     A reduction of $16,582,000 reflects the transfer of 
     safeguards and security costs in accordance with the 
     Department's amended budget request.


                  NON-DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

       The conference agreement provides $277,812,000 for Non-
     Defense Environmental Management instead of $281,001,000 as 
     proposed by the House and $309,141,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate. Funding of $5,000,000 is provided to expedite 
     environmental cleanup at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. 
     No funding has been provided for the Atlas site in Moab, 
     Utah, which has not been authorized. The recommendation 
     transfers $1,900,000 from the post-2006 program to the site/
     project completion program to maintain the schedule for 
     completing cleanup of three Oakland geographic sites.


             URANIUM FACILITIES MAINTENANCE AND REMEDIATION

       The conference agreement provides $393,367,000 for uranium 
     activities instead of $301,400,000 as proposed by the House 
     and $297,778,000 as proposed by the Senate, and adopts the 
     budget structure proposed by the House.


      Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund

       The conference agreement includes $345,038,000 for the 
     uranium enrichment decontamination and decommissioning fund. 
     This includes $273,038,000 for cleanup activities and 
     $72,000,000 for uranium and thorium reimbursements. The 
     conferees recognize there are eligible uranium and thorium 
     licensee claims under Title X of the Energy Policy Act that 
     have been approved for reimbursement, but not yet paid in 
     full. Additional funding of $42,000,000 over the budget 
     request of $30,000,000 has been provided for these payments.


                            Uranium Programs

       The conference agreement provides $62,400,000 for uranium 
     activities, an increase of $9,000,000 over the budget request 
     of $53,400,000. Additional funding of $9,000,000, as proposed 
     by the Senate, has been provided for activities associated 
     with the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) management and 
     conversion project.


                       Domestic Uranium Industry

       The conferees are very concerned about the front end of the 
     U.S. nuclear fuel cycle. The conferees direct the Secretary 
     to work with the President and other Federal agencies to 
     ensure that current laws with respect to the privatization of 
     USEC and with respect to the implementation of the Russian 
     HEU agreement and their impact on United States domestic 
     capabilities are carried out. In addition, the Secretary is 
     instructed to take timely measures to ensure that conversion 
     capability is not lost in the United States. The conferees 
     expect that any such measures will not interfere with the 
     implementation of the Russian HEU agreement and the important 
     national security goals it is accomplishing.
       The conferees direct the Secretary to undertake an 
     evaluation and make specific recommendations on the various 
     options to sustain a domestic uranium enrichment industry in 
     the short and long-term to be delivered to Congress no later 
     than December 31, 2000. The Secretary's evaluation shall 
     include recommendations for dealing with the Portsmouth 
     facility and its role in maintaining a secure and sufficient 
     domestic supply of enriched uranium. Further, this 
     investigation should consider the technological viability and 
     commercial feasibility of all proposed enrichment 
     technologies including various centrifuge options, AVLIS and 
     SILEX technologies, or other emerging technology. The 
     evaluation should also consider the role of the Federal 
     government in developing and supporting the implementation 
     and regulation of these new technologies in order to secure a 
     reliable and competitive source of domestic nuclear fuel.


                           Funding Adjustment

       A reduction of $14,071,000 reflects the transfer of 
     safeguards and security costs in accordance with the 
     Department's amended budget request.


                                SCIENCE

       The conference agreement provides $3,186,352,000 instead of 
     $2,830,915,000 as proposed by the House and $2,870,112,000 as 
     proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement does not 
     include the Senate language earmarking funds for various 
     purposes and limiting funding for the small business 
     innovation research program.
       High energy physics.--The conference agreement provides 
     $726,130,000 for high energy physics and reflects the 
     adjustments recommended in the Science budget amendment 
     submitted by the Department. Funding of $230,931,000 has been 
     provided for facility operations at the Fermi National 
     Accelerator Laboratory.
       Nuclear physics.--The conference agreement provides 
     $369,890,000 for nuclear physics, the same as the original 
     budget request.
       Biological and environmental research.--The conference 
     agreement includes $500,260,000 for biological and 
     environmental research. The conferees have included 
     $20,135,000 for the low-dose effects program, an increase of 
     $8,453,000 over the budget request. The conference agreement 
     provides $9,000,000 for molecular nuclear medicine.
       The conferees have provided the budget request of 
     $2,500,000 for the Laboratory for Comparative and Functional 
     Genomics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
       The conference agreement includes $2,000,000 for the 
     Discovery Science Center in Orange County, California; 
     $1,500,000 for the Children's Hospital emergency power plant 
     in San Diego; $1,000,000 for the Center for Science and 
     Education at the University of San Diego; $500,000 for the 
     bone marrow transplant program at Children's Hospital Medical 
     Center Foundation in Oakland, California; $1,000,000 for the 
     North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System in New York; 
     $1,700,000 for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago; 
     $2,000,000 for the Livingston Digital Millenium Center to be 
     located at Tulane University; and $1,000,000 for the Center 
     for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance at the University of Alabama-
     Birmingham.
       The conference agreement includes $3,000,000 for the 
     Nanotechnology Engineering Center at the University of Notre 
     Dame in South Bend, Indiana; $2,000,000 for the School of 
     Public Health at the University of South Carolina for 
     modernization upgrades; $2,000,000 for the National Center 
     for Musculoskeletal Research at the Hospital for Special 
     Surgery in New York; and $1,300,000 for the Western States 
     Visibility Assessment Program at New Mexico Tech to trace 
     emissions resulting from energy consumption.
       The conference agreement includes $1,000,000 for high 
     temperature super conducting research and development at 
     Boston College; $2,500,000 for the positron emission 
     tomography facility at West Virginia University; $1,000,000 
     for the advanced medical imaging center at Hampton 
     University; $500,000 for the Natural Energy Laboratory in 
     Hawaii; $800,000 for the Child Health Institute of New 
     Brunswick, New Jersey; and $900,000 for the linear 
     accelerator for University Medical Center of Southern Nevada.
       The conference agreement also includes $200,000 for the 
     study of biological effects of low level radioactive activity 
     at University of Nevada-Las Vegas; $1,000,000 for the Medical 
     University of South Carolina Oncology Center; $11,000,000 for 
     development of technologies using advanced functional brain 
     imaging methodologies, including magnetoencephalography, for 
     conduct of basic research in mental illness and neurological 
     disorders, and for construction; $2,000,000 for a science and 
     technology facility at New Mexico Highlands University; 
     $2,000,000 for the University of Missouri-Columbia to expand 
     the federal investment in the university's nuclear medicine 
     and cancer research capital program; and $2,000,000 for the 
     Inland Northwest Natural Resources Research Center at Gonzaga 
     University.
       Basic energy sciences.--The conference agreement includes 
     $1,013,370,000 for basic energy sciences. The conferees have 
     included $8,000,000 for the Experimental Program to Stimulate 
     Competitive Research (EPSCoR).
       Spallation Neutron Source.--The recommendation includes 
     $278,600,000, including $259,500,000 for construction and 
     $19,100,000 for related research and development, the same as 
     the amended budget request, for the Spallation Neutron 
     Source.
       Advanced scientific computing research.--The conference 
     agreement includes $170,000,000 for advanced scientific 
     computing research.
       Energy research analyses.--The conference agreement 
     includes $1,000,000 for energy research analyses, the same 
     amount provided by the House and the Senate.
       Multiprogram energy labs--facility support.--The conference 
     agreement includes $33,930,000 for multi-program energy labs-
     facility support.
       Fusion energy sciences.--The conference agreement includes 
     $255,000,000, as proposed by the House, for fusion energy 
     sciences.
       Safeguards and security.--Consistent with the Department's 
     amended budget request for safeguards and security, the 
     conference agreement includes $49,818,000 for safeguards and 
     security activities at laboratories and facilities managed by 
     the Office of Science. This is offset by a reduction of 
     $38,244,000 that is to be allocated among the various 
     programs which budgeted for safeguards and security costs in 
     their overhead accounts.
       Program Direction.--The conference agreement includes 
     $139,245,000 for program direction. Funding of $4,500,000 has 
     been provided for science education.
       Funding adjustments.--A reduction of $38,244,000 reflects 
     the allocation of safeguards and security costs in accordance 
     with the Department's amended budget request. A general 
     reduction of $34, 047,000 has been applied to this account.

                         NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL

       The conference agreement provides $191,074,000 for Nuclear 
     Waste Disposal instead of $213,000,000 as proposed by the 
     House and $59,175,000 as proposed by the Senate. Combined 
     with the appropriation of $200,000,000 to the Defense Nuclear 
     Waste Disposal account, a total of $391,074,000 will be 
     available for program activities in fiscal year 2001. The 
     funding level reflects a reduction of $39,500,000 from the 
     budget request

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     and the transfer of $6,926,000 in safeguards and security 
     costs in accordance with the Department's amended budget 
     request.
       In addition, the conferees recommend that $10,000,000 of 
     funds previously appropriated for interim waste storage 
     activities in Public Law 104-46 may be made available upon 
     written certification by the Secretary of Energy to the House 
     and Senate Committees on Appropriations that the site 
     recommendation report cannot be completed on time without 
     additional funding.
       Site recommendation report.--The conferees reiterate the 
     expectation by Congress that the Department submit its site 
     recommendation report in July 2001 according to the current 
     schedule. While the conference agreement does not provide the 
     full funding requested by the Department, the conferees 
     expect the Department to promptly submit a reprogramming 
     request if it becomes apparent that limited funding will 
     delay the site recommendation report beyond July 2001.
       The conferees further expect that, if the site is approved, 
     the Department will continue to analyze further design 
     improvements and enhancements between that time and the 
     submittal of a license application to the Nuclear Regulatory 
     Commission.
       State oversight funding.--The conference agreement includes 
     $2,500,000 for the State of Nevada. This funding will be 
     provided to the Department of Energy which will reimburse the 
     State for actual expenditures on appropriate scientific 
     oversight responsibilities conducted pursuant to the Nuclear 
     Waste Policy Act of 1982. These funds are to be provided to 
     the Nevada Division of Emergency Management for program 
     management and execution and may not be used for payment of 
     salaries and expenses for State employees.
       Local oversight funding.--The conference agreement includes 
     $6,000,000 for affected units of local government. The 
     conferees expect the Department to provide the full amount of 
     funding allocated to the State and local counties for 
     oversight activities. Any proposed reduction to the amounts 
     identified by Congress for State and local oversight will 
     require prior approval of a reprogramming request by the 
     Committees on Appropriations.
       Limitation on the use of funds to promote or advertise 
     public tours.--The conferees direct that none of the funds be 
     used to promote or advertise any public tour of the Yucca 
     Mountain facility, other than public notice that is required 
     by statute or regulation.


                      DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION

       The conference agreement provides $226,107,000 for 
     Departmental Administration instead of $153,527,000 as 
     proposed by the House and $210,128,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate. Additional funding adjustments include a transfer of 
     $25,000,000 from Other Defense Activities; the use of 
     $8,000,000 of prior year balances; and a reduction of $18,000 
     for safeguards and security costs. Revenues of $151,000,000 
     are estimated to be received in fiscal year 2001, resulting 
     in a net appropriation of $75,107,000.
       The conference agreement provides $5,000,000 for the Office 
     of the Secretary as proposed by the House. All funds for the 
     newly established National Nuclear Security Administration 
     have been provided in the defense portion of this bill.
       The conference agreement provides $32,148,000 for the Chief 
     Financial Officer, an increase of $1,400,000 over the budget 
     request of $30,748,000. These additional funds are to support 
     the DOE project management career development program.
       Working capital fund.--The conference agreement does not 
     include statutory language proposed by the House prohibiting 
     funding Federal employee salaries and expenses in the working 
     capital fund. However, any proposal by the Department to 
     transfer salaries and expenses to the working capital fund 
     will require prior approval by the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations.
       Cost of work for others.--The conference agreement includes 
     a one-time increase of $40,000,000 in the cost of work for 
     others program to accommodate safeguards and security 
     requirements. It is anticipated that this amount will be 
     offset by an estimated $40,000,000 in revenues derived from 
     non-Department of Energy customers for the purpose of funding 
     safeguards and security activities throughout the Department. 
     In fiscal year 2002 and beyond, the conferees expect the 
     Department to submit a safeguards and security budget that 
     includes amounts obtained previously from other agencies or 
     customers.

                    Office of the Inspector General

       The conference agreement provides $31,500,000 for the 
     Inspector General as proposed by the House instead of 
     $28,988,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference 
     agreement does not include statutory language proposed by the 
     House requiring a study of the economic basis of recent 
     gasoline price levels.

                    ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE ACTIVITIES

                National Nuclear Security Administration

       The conferees support the Administrator's efforts to 
     establish and fill critical positions within the National 
     Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The conferees agree 
     that the Administrator's authority should not be impacted by 
     any action that would otherwise limit or preclude hiring 
     which may occur as a result of a change of administrations, 
     and that the Administrator should to the maximum extent 
     possible under applicable statutes proceed with effecting 
     appointments.


                           WEAPONS ACTIVITIES

       The conference agreement provides $5,015,186,000 for 
     Weapons Activities instead of $4,579,684,000 as proposed by 
     the House and $4,883,289,000 as proposed by the Senate. 
     Statutory language proposed by the House limiting the funds 
     availability to two years has not been included by the 
     conferees.
       Reprogramming.--The conference agreement provides limited 
     reprogramming authority of $5,000,000 or 5 percent, whichever 
     is less, within the Weapons Activities account without 
     submission of a reprogramming to be approved in advance by 
     the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. No 
     individual program account may be increased or decreased by 
     more than this amount during the fiscal year using this 
     reprogramming authority. This should provide the needed 
     flexibility to manage this account.
       Congressional notification within 30 days of the use of 
     this reprogramming authority is required. Transfers which 
     would result in increases or decreases in excess of 
     $5,000,000 or 5 percent to an individual program account 
     during the fiscal year require prior notification and 
     approval from the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations.
       The Department is directed to submit a report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations by January 15, 2001, that 
     reflects the allocation of the safeguards and security 
     reduction, the use of prior year balances and the application 
     of general reductions, and any proposed accounting 
     adjustments.
       Directed stockpile work.--In stockpile research and 
     development, additional funding of $19,000,000 has been 
     provided for life extension development activities and to 
     support additional sub-critical experiments. Additional 
     funding of $10,000,000 has been provided to support 
     activities required to maintain the delivery date for a 
     certified pit. No additional funds are provided for 
     cooperative research on hard and deeply buried targets.
       Funding for stockpile maintenance has been increased by 
     $22,000,000 as follows: $13,000,000 for life extension 
     operations and development and engineering activities; 
     $5,000,000 for the Kansas City Plant; and $4,000,000 for the 
     Y-12 Plant.
       Funding for stockpile evaluation has been increased by 
     $23,000,000 as follows: $6,000,000 for the elimination of the 
     testing backlog and joint test equipment procurements; 
     $8,000,000 for the Pantex Plant; $6,000,000 for the Y-12 
     Plant; and $3,000,000 for the Savannah River Plant.
       Campaigns.--The conference agreement provides $41,400,000 
     for pit certification, the same as the budget request. 
     Additional funding of $10,000,000 has been provided for 
     dynamic materials properties to support the maintenance of 
     core scientific capabilities, Liner Demonstration 
     Experiments, and other various multi-campaign supporting 
     physics demonstrations for the Atlas pulsed power facility at 
     the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Nevada Test Site.
       An additional $15,000,000 has been provided to support 
     research, development and pre-conceptual design studies for 
     an advanced hydrodynamic test facility using protons.
       Additional funding of $17,000,000 has been provided for 
     enhanced surveillance activities as follows: $3,000,000 for 
     the Kansas City Plant; $7,000,000 for the Pantex Plant; 
     $4,000,000 for the Y-12 Plant; $1,000,000 for the Savannah 
     River Plant; and $2,000,000 to support accelerated deployment 
     of test and diagnostic equipment.
       Funding for pit manufacturing readiness is increased by 
     $17,000,000. An increase of $2,000,000 is provided to 
     initiate conceptual design work on a pit manufacturing 
     facility. Additional funding of $15,000,000 is provided to 
     support the pit production program which is now behind 
     schedule and over cost. The conferees strongly support the 
     Senate language regarding the Department's lack of attention 
     to this critical program and the requirement for a progress 
     report by December 1, 2000, and each quarter thereafter.
       An additional $5,000,000 has been provided to the Y-12 
     Plant for secondary readiness.
       Inertial Fusion.--The conference agreement includes 
     $449,600,000 for the inertial fusion program in the budget 
     structure proposed by the House.
       Additional funding of $25,000,000 as proposed by the House 
     has been provided to further development of high average 
     power lasers. The conference agreement includes the budget 
     request of $9,750,000 for the Naval Research Laboratory and 
     the budget request of $32,150,000 for the University of 
     Rochester. The conference agreement reflects the transfer of 
     $40,000,000 from National Ignition Facility (NIF) operations 
     funding to the NIF construction project.
       The conference agreement provides $2,500,000 from within 
     available funds to transfer the Petawatt Laser from Lawrence 
     Livermore National Laboratory to the University of Nevada-
     Reno, as proposed by the Senate.
       National Ignition Facility.--The conference agreement 
     provides $199,100,000 for continued construction of the 
     National Ignition Facility (NIF). The conferees have included 
     a directed reduction of $25,000,000 in the Weapons

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     Activities account which is to be applied to programs under 
     the direction of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
       The conferees have included statutory language providing 
     that only $130,000,000 shall be made available for NIF at the 
     beginning of fiscal year 2001 and the remaining $69,100,000 
     shall be available only upon a certification after March 31, 
     2001, by the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security 
     Administration that several requirements have been met. These 
     requirements include:
       A. A recommendation on an appropriate path forward for the 
     project based on a detailed review of alternative 
     construction options that would (1) focus on first achieving 
     operation of a 48 or 96 beam laser; (2) allow for the full 
     demonstration of a such a system in support of the stockpile 
     stewardship program before proceeding with construction and 
     operation of a larger laser complex; and (3) include a 
     program and funding plan for the possible future upgrade to a 
     full NIF configuration. The recommendation should include 
     identification of available ``off-ramps'' and decision points 
     where the project could be scaled to a smaller system.
       B. Certification that project and scientific milestones as 
     established in the revised construction project data sheet 
     for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2000 and the first two 
     quarters of fiscal year 2001 have been met on schedule and on 
     cost.
       C. Certification that the first and second quarter project 
     reviews in fiscal year 2001 determined the project to be on 
     schedule and cost and have provided further validation to the 
     proposed path forward.
       D. Completion of a study that includes conclusions as to 
     whether the full-scale NIF is required in order to maintain 
     the safety and reliability of the current nuclear weapons 
     stockpile, and whether alternatives to the NIF could achieve 
     the objective of maintaining the safety and reliability of 
     the current nuclear weapons stockpile.
       E. Certification that the NIF project has implemented an 
     integrated cost-schedule earned-value project control system 
     by March 1, 2001.
       F. A five-year budget plan for the stockpile stewardship 
     program that fully describes how the NNSA intends to pay for 
     NIF over the out years and what the potential for other 
     impacts on the stockpile stewardship program will be.
       The conferees remain concerned about the Department's 
     proposed budget increase and schedule delay for the NIF at 
     the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The 
     conferees believe that previously the Department of Energy, 
     and most recently the National Nuclear Security 
     Administration (NNSA), may have failed to examine adequately 
     options for NIF that have fewer than the full 192 beams. For 
     example, a preferred course for NIF may be to complete 48 or 
     96 beams as soon as possible (although block procurement of 
     infrastructure and glass may be considered), bring the 
     reduced NIF into operation, perform the necessary scientific 
     and technical tests to evaluate whether a full NIF will work 
     and its impact on stockpile stewardship, and then develop a 
     path forward for NIF that balances its scientific importance 
     within the overall needs of the stockpile stewardship 
     program. To move on this path in fiscal year 2001, the 
     conferees recommend that $199,100,000 be appropriated for NIF 
     as follows: $74,100,000 as originally proposed for Project 
     96-D-111, $40,000,000 from NIF operations funding within the 
     budget request for LLNL, $25,000,000 to be identified within 
     the budget request at LLNL, plus an additional $60,000,000 in 
     new appropriations.
       Furthermore, the conferees direct the Administration to 
     prepare a budget request for fiscal year 2002 that fully 
     reflects a balanced set of programs and investments within 
     the stockpile stewardship program, and that the overall 
     budget profile over the next eight years will accommodate a 
     $3.4 billion NIF along with the other critical aspects of the 
     program.
       Defense computing and modeling.--The conference agreement 
     provides $786,175,000 for defense computing modeling and the 
     Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative in the budget 
     structure proposed by the House. The recommendation is 
     $10,000,000 less than the budget request, and the reduction 
     should be taken against lower priority activities.
       Tritium.--A total of $167,000,000 is provided for continued 
     research and development on a new source of tritium. Funding 
     of $15,000,000 has been provided for design only activities 
     in Project 98-D-126, Accelerator Production of Tritium.
       Readiness in technical base and facilities.--The conference 
     agreement includes several funding adjustments transferring 
     funds from this program to individual campaigns.
       For operations of facilities, $137,300,000 has been 
     transferred to the inertial fusion program. An additional 
     $36,000,000 has been provided to the production plants for 
     replacement of critical infrastructure and equipment as 
     follows: $12,000,000 for the Kansas City Plant; $12,000,000 
     for the Pantex Plant; $10,000,000 for the Y-12 Plant; and 
     $2,000,000 for the Savannah River Plant.
       Additional funding of $10,000,000 has been provided for the 
     operation of pulsed power facilities; $20,000,000 for 
     microsystems and microelectronics activities at the Sandia 
     National Laboratory; $7,000,000 for a replacement CMR 
     facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory; and $3,100,000 to 
     fund the transition period for the new contractor at the 
     Pantex Plant in Texas.
       For program readiness, the conference agreement transfers 
     $7,400,000 to the inertial fusion program and adds $6,100,000 
     for the TA-18 relocation.
       For nuclear weapons incident response, a new program 
     established in readiness technical base and facilities, the 
     conference agreement provides $56,289,000. Funding of 
     $44,205,000 for the nuclear emergency search team and 
     $12,084,000 for the accident response group was transferred 
     from the emergency management program in the Other Defense 
     Activities account.
       Special projects are supported at the budget request of 
     $48,297,000. Additional funds have not been provided for 
     AMTEX. From within available funds, $1,000,000 has been 
     provided to support a program in partnership with university 
     systems to meet the needs of the NNSA.
       For materials recycling, the conference agreement provides 
     an additional $8,000,000 to maintain restart schedules for 
     hydrogen fluoride and wet chemistry operations at the Y-12 
     Plant.
       For containers, the conference agreement provides an 
     additional $4,000,000 to support the effort to repackage pits 
     which is currently behind schedule at the Pantex Plant due to 
     operational problems.
       Funding for advanced simulation and computing has been 
     transferred to the defense computing and modeling campaign.
       The conference agreement does not provide additional 
     funding to process uranium-233 as proposed by the Senate, but 
     the conferees expect the Department to act expeditiously to 
     process this material in a manner that would retain and make 
     available isotopes for beneficial use. The Department should 
     provide to the House and Senate Committees a report on the 
     status of this project by March 1, 2001.
       Construction projects.--The conference agreement provides 
     $35,500,000 for preliminary project engineering and design. 
     Funding of $20,000,000 is provided for design and supporting 
     infrastructure upgrades for the Microsystems and Engineering 
     Sciences Applications facility at Sandia National Laboratory; 
     $5,000,000 for proof of concept and completion of facility 
     operational capability for the Atlas pulsed power machine at 
     the Nevada Test Site; and $1,000,000 for initiation of design 
     activities for the relocation of the TA-18 nuclear materials 
     handling facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
       Safeguards and security.--Consistent with the Department's 
     amended budget request for safeguards and security, the 
     conference agreement includes $377,596,000 for safeguards and 
     security activities at laboratories and facilities managed by 
     the Office of Defense Programs. This is offset by a reduction 
     of $310,796,000 to be allocated among the various programs 
     which budgeted for safeguards and security costs in their 
     overhead accounts.
       Program direction.--The conference agreement provides 
     $224,071,000 for program direction as proposed by the Senate.
       Funding adjustments.--The conference agreement includes the 
     use of $13,647,000 in prior year balances and a reduction of 
     $310,796,000 that reflects the allocation of safeguards and 
     security costs in accordance with the Department's amended 
     budget request. In addition, the conference agreement 
     includes a general reduction of $35,700,000 of which 
     $25,000,000 is to be taken against programs at Lawrence 
     Livermore National Laboratory.


                    DEFENSE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION

       The conference agreement provides $874,196,000 for Defense 
     Nuclear Nonproliferation instead of $861,477,000 as proposed 
     by the House and $908,967,000 as proposed by the Senate. 
     Statutory language proposed by the House limiting the funds 
     availability to two years has not been included by the 
     conferees. Statutory language proposed by the Senate to 
     earmark funding for the Incorporated Research Institutions 
     for Seismology has not been included. The conferees have 
     provided a total of $53,000,000 for the long-term Russian 
     initiative within this account.
       Limitation on Russian and Newly Independent States' (NIS) 
     program funds.--The conferees are concerned about the amount 
     of funding for Russian and NIS programs which remains in the 
     United States for Department of Energy contractors and 
     laboratories rather than going to the facilities in Russia 
     and the NIS. The conferees direct that not more than the 
     following percentages of funding may be spent in the United 
     States in fiscal year 2001 for these programs: Materials 
     Protection, Control and Accounting, 43%; International 
     Proliferation Prevention Program, 40%; Nuclear Cities 
     Initiative, 49%; Russian Plutonium Disposition, 38%; and 
     International Nuclear Safety, 78%.
       The conferees expect the Department to continue to increase 
     the level of funding which is provided to Russia versus the 
     funding which remains in the United States for Department of 
     Energy contractors and laboratories in each subsequent year. 
     The Department is to provide a report to the Committees by 
     January 31, 2001, and each subsequent year on the amount of 
     funding provided to Russia and NIS in each program

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     area. The Department should work with the Committees on the 
     specific information to be included in the report.
       Nonproliferation and verification research and 
     development.--The conference agreement provides $252,990,000 
     for nonproliferation and verification research and 
     development. Funding of $17,000,000 has been provided for the 
     nonproliferation and international security center (NISC) at 
     Los Alamos National Laboratory, and $1,000,000 for the 
     Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology PASSCAL 
     Instrument Center.
       Concerns have been raised repeatedly that there should be 
     more opportunity for open competition in certain areas of the 
     nonproliferation and verification research and development 
     program. A recent report by an outside group established by 
     the Department to review the Office of Nonproliferation 
     Research and Engineering included a similar recommendation. 
     The report stated that, ``There should be greater opportunity 
     for the wider U.S. scientific and technical community to 
     contribute to the success of the NN-20 portfolio. This can be 
     done through open competition administered by DOE 
     Headquarters and through partnerships chosen and managed by 
     the DOE national laboratories.'' . . . ``Areas that come to 
     mind as candidates for open competition include seismic 
     verification technologies for very low yield underground 
     nuclear tests and chemical and biological agent detection and 
     identification technologies. Other possible areas might be 
     specialized electronic chip development and certain radio-
     frequency technologies.''
       The conferees expect the Department to act in good faith on 
     the recommendations provided by the external review group, 
     and direct the Department to initiate a free and open 
     competitive process for 25 percent of its research and 
     development activities during fiscal year 2001 for ground-
     based systems treaty monitoring. The competitive process 
     should be open to all Federal and non-Federal entities.
       The conferees direct the Department to report to the 
     Committees on Appropriations on the status of implementing 
     the external review panel's recommendations and the results 
     of the directed open competition by March 30, 2001.
       Arms control.--The conference agreement provides 
     $152,014,000 for arms control activities including 
     $24,500,000 for the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention 
     and $27,500,000 for the Nuclear Cities Initiative. In 
     addition to the $10,000,000 added to the Nuclear Cities 
     Initiative, the conferees have provided another $19,000,000 
     for the long-term Russian initiative in the arms control 
     program to be distributed as follows: $15,000,000 for spent 
     fuel dry storage; $500,000 for the plutonium registry at 
     Mayak; $2,500,000 for geologic repository cooperation 
     research and planning; and $1,000,000 for research reactor 
     spent fuel acceptance.
       International materials protection, control and accounting 
     (MPC&A).--The conference agreement includes $173,856,000 for 
     the MPC&A program including $24,000,000 for the long-term 
     Russian initiative. The conferees have provided $5,000,000 
     for plutonium storage at Mayak and $19,000,000 for expanded 
     MPC&A activities at Russian naval sites.
       HEU transparency implementation.--The conference agreement 
     provides $15,190,000, the same as the budget request.
       International nuclear safety.--The conference agreement 
     provides $20,000,000, the same as the budget request, for the 
     international nuclear safety program. This funding is to be 
     used only for activities in support of completing the 
     upgrades to Soviet-designed nuclear reactors. From within 
     available funds, the conference agreement provides $1,000,000 
     for a cooperative effort between the United States and Russia 
     to address intergranular stress corrosion cracking and 
     restore the structural integrity of Russian nuclear plants 
     until decommissioning.
       Fissile materials disposition.--The conference agreement 
     provides $249,449,000 for fissile materials disposition. 
     Funding of $139,517,000, as proposed by the House, has been 
     provided for the U.S. surplus materials disposition program. 
     The conference agreement provides $26,000,000 for Project 99-
     D-143, the MOX fuel fabrication facility.
       Program direction.--The conference agreement provides 
     $51,468,000 for the program direction account as proposed by 
     the House. The conferees are aware that the Department does 
     not have enough qualified Federal employees available to 
     manage the nonproliferation and national security programs, 
     particularly the Russian programs. The conferees will 
     favorably consider a reprogramming of funds from program 
     areas to the program direction account as Federal employees 
     are hired to replace the contractor employees who currently 
     oversee these programs.
       Funding adjustment.--The conference agreement includes a 
     reduction of $40,245,000 that reflects the transfer of 
     safeguards and security costs in accordance with the 
     Department's amended budget request.


                             NAVAL REACTORS

       The conference agreement provides $690,163,000 for Naval 
     Reactors instead of $694,600,000 as proposed by the Senate 
     and $677,600,000 as proposed by the House. Additional funding 
     of $17,000,000 is provided to optimize the program to 
     shutdown prototype reactors and complete all major 
     inactivation work by fiscal year 2002.
       Funding adjustment.--The conference agreement includes a 
     reduction of $4,437,000 that reflects the transfer of 
     safeguards and security costs in accordance with the 
     Department's amended budget request.

                      Office of the Administrator

       The conference agreement provides $10,000,000 for this new 
     account as proposed by the Senate. These funds are provided 
     to the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security 
     Administration for the costs associated with hiring new 
     employees and establishing the office.

                    OTHER DEFENSE RELATED ACTIVITIES

         Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management

       The conference agreement provides $4,974,476,000 for 
     Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management 
     instead of $4,522,707,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $4,635,763,000 as proposed by the Senate. Additional funding 
     of $1,082,714,000 is contained in the Defense Facilities 
     Closure Projects account and $65,000,000 in the Defense 
     Environmental Management Privatization account for a total of 
     $6,122,190,000 provided for all defense environmental 
     management activities.
       The conference agreement does not include statutory 
     language proposed by the House pertaining to the use of funds 
     for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant or language proposed by 
     the Senate earmarking funds for programs to be managed by the 
     Carlsbad office of the Department of Energy.
       The conference agreement limits the number of motor 
     vehicles that can be purchased in fiscal year 2001 to not 
     more than 30 for replacement only. The conferees have 
     included an additional reporting requirement on the entire 
     Department and have specified that sport utility vehicles are 
     to be counted within this ceiling.
       National monument designation.--The conferees agree that no 
     funds spent by the Department for the coordination, 
     integration, or implementation of a management plan related 
     to the Hanford Reach National Monument shall result in the 
     reduction or delay of cleanup at the Hanford site.
       Site/Project Completion.--The conference agreement provides 
     an additional $11,000,000 for F and H-area stabilization 
     activities at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina as 
     proposed by the House, and $19,000,000 to address funding 
     shortfalls at the Hanford site in Richland, Washington, as 
     proposed by the Senate. Funding of $12,308,000 has been 
     transferred to other accounts as proposed by the House.
       The conference agreement supports the budget request of 
     $2,500,000 for the cooperative agreement with WERC and 
     provides $25,000 for an independent evaluation of the mixed-
     waste landfill at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico.
       For construction, the conference agreement provides 
     $17,300,000 for Project 01-D-414, preliminary project 
     engineering and design (PE&D). Project 01-D-415, 235-F 
     packaging and stabilization, at the Savannah River Site has 
     been funded at $4,000,000. Funding of $500,000 requested for 
     Project 01-D-402, INTEC cathodic protection system expansion 
     project, at Idaho Falls has been transferred to the new PE&D 
     project. Funding of $27,932,000 for the Highly Enriched Blend 
     Down Facility has been transferred to the fissile materials 
     disposition program.
       Post 2006 Completion.--The conference agreement includes an 
     additional $10,000,000 to maintain schedules required by 
     revised compliance agreements with the State of Washington as 
     proposed by the Senate, and $6,000,000 to support transuranic 
     and low-level waste activities at the Savannah River Site in 
     South Carolina as proposed by the House. Funding of 
     $10,000,000 for the Four Mile Branch project and $18,000,000 
     for the Consolidated Incinerator Facility at the Savannah 
     River Site has not been provided as proposed by the House. 
     Funding of $18,692,000 has been transferred to the Science 
     and Technology program.
       The conference agreement provides $400,000 to begin design 
     activities for a subsurface geosciences laboratory at Idaho.
       From within available funds for the Waste Isolation Pilot 
     Plant, $1,000,000 has been provided for a transparency 
     demonstration project.
       A total of $3,000,000 has been provided to support a 
     program with the United States-Mexico Border Health 
     Commission to demonstrate technologies to reduce hazardous 
     waste streams and to support the Materials Corridor 
     Partnership Initiative.
       Funding of $1,300,000 for Project 01-D-403, immobilized 
     high level waste interim storage facility, at Richland, 
     Washington, has been transferred to the PE&D project in site/
     project completion account.
       Office of River Protection.--The conference agreement 
     provides $757,839,000 for the Office of River Protection at 
     the Hanford site in Washington. The conference agreement 
     provides $377,000,000 for Project 01-D-416, Tank Waste 
     Remediation System, at Richland, Washington, to vitrify the 
     high-level waste in underground tanks. Funding to vitrify 
     waste at the Hanford site was requested in the Defense 
     Environmental Management Privatization account in fiscal year 
     2001.

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     However, due to the failure of the contractor to provide a 
     viable cost estimate under the concept of a ``privatized'' 
     contract, the contract will now be structured as a cost plus 
     incentive fee contract and will be funded in the regular 
     appropriation account.
       Science and technology development.--The conference 
     agreement provides $256,898,000 for the science and 
     technology development program. Funding of $21,000,000 has 
     been transferred to this account for the Idaho validation and 
     verification program. This transfer is not intended to reduce 
     the environmental management base program in Idaho. The 
     Department is directed to provide $10,000,000 for the next 
     round of new and innovative research grants in the 
     environmental management science program in fiscal year 2001, 
     and $10,000,000 for technology deployment activities.
       The conference agreement provides $4,000,000 for the 
     international agreement with AEA Technology; $4,500,000 for 
     the Diagnostic Instrumentation and Analysis Laboratory; 
     $4,350,000 for the university robotics research program; an 
     additional $1,000,000 for the D&D focus area; and up to 
     $4,000,000 to continue evaluation, development and 
     demonstration of the Advanced Vitrification System upon 
     successful completion of supplemental testing. The conferees 
     have provided $2,000,000 to the National Energy Technology 
     Laboratory to be used for the continuation of the Mid-
     Atlantic Recycling Center for End-of-Life Electronics 
     initiative (MARCEE) in cooperation with the Polymer Alliance 
     Zone.
       The conference agreement includes $4,000,000 for the long-
     term stewardship program to be administered at Headquarters 
     and $4,000,000 for the Idaho National Engineering and 
     Environmental Laboratory. No funds are provided for the low 
     dose radiation effects program, as the entire Senate 
     recommended amount is provided within the Office of Science.
       Safeguards and security.--Consistent with the Department's 
     amended budget request for safeguards and security, the 
     conference agreement includes $203,748,000 for safeguards and 
     security activities at laboratories and facilities managed by 
     the Office of Defense Programs. This is offset by a reduction 
     of $193,217,000 to be allocated among the various programs 
     which budgeted for safeguards and security costs in their 
     overhead accounts.
       Program direction.--The conferees have provided 
     $363,988,000 for the program direction account. This funding 
     level reflects the transfer of the uranium programs from the 
     office of nuclear energy to the office of
     environmental management. Funding of $4,100,000 has been 
     provided to allow for the transfer of up to 5 employees from 
     Headquarters and 25 employees at Oak Ridge who manage the 
     uranium programs.
       Funding adjustments.--The conference agreement includes the 
     use of $34,317,000 of prior year balances and $50,000,000 in 
     pension refunds, the same as the budget request. The 
     conference agreement includes a reduction of $193,217,000 
     that reflects the allocation of safeguards and security costs 
     in accordance with the Department's amended budget request. A 
     general reduction of $10,700,000 has also been included.

                  Defense Facilities Closure Projects

       The conference agreement appropriates $1,082,714,000 the 
     same as the amended budget request. The conferees expect the 
     Department to request adequate funds to keep each of these 
     projects on a schedule for closure by 2006 or earlier.
       Any savings resulting from safeguards and security costs 
     are to be retained and used for cleanup activities at the 
     closure sites.

             Defense Environmental Management Privatization

       The conference agreement provides $65,000,000 for the 
     defense environmental management privatization program 
     instead of $259,000,000 as proposed by the House and 
     $324,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference 
     agreement provides no funds for the Tank Waste Remediation 
     System (TWRS) project at Hanford. Funding for this project, 
     which had previously been considered as a privatization 
     contract, has been transferred to the Defense Environmental 
     Restoration and Waste Management appropriation account.
       The conference agreement also includes a rescission of 
     $97,000,000 of funds previously appropriated for the TWRS 
     project in the Defense Environmental Management Privatization 
     appropriation account.

                        Other Defense Activities

       The conference agreement appropriates $585,755,000 for 
     Other Defense Activities instead of $592,235,000 as proposed 
     by the House and $579,463,000 as proposed by the Senate. 
     Details of the conference agreement are provided below.


                   Security and Emergency Operations

       For nuclear safeguards and security, the conference 
     agreement provides $116,409,000 as proposed by the House. The 
     conferees have provided $3,000,000 for the critical 
     infrastructure protection program, an increase of $600,000 
     over fiscal year 2000. The conference agreement also provides 
     $2,000,000 to procure safety locks to meet Federal 
     specifications.
       The conference agreement provides $33,000,000 for security 
     investigations, the same as the budget request.
       The conference agreement includes $33,711,000 for emergency 
     management. Funding of $3,600,000 was transferred to the 
     program direction account to reflect the conversion of 
     contractor employees to Federal employees at a substantial 
     cost savings. Funding of $44,205,000 for the nuclear 
     emergency search team and $12,084,000 for the accident 
     response group was transferred to the Weapons Activities 
     account.
       Program direction.--The conference agreement provides 
     $92,967,000 for the program direction account as proposed by 
     the House. This reflects the transfer of $3,600,000 from the 
     emergency management program.


                              Intelligence

       The conference agreement includes $38,059,000 as proposed 
     by the House and the Senate to support the Department's 
     intelligence program.


                          Counterintelligence

       The conference agreement includes $45,200,000 as proposed 
     by the House and the Senate to support the Department's 
     counterintelligence program.


                   Advanced Accelerator Applications

       The conference agreement provides $34,000,000 to establish 
     a new program for advanced accelerator applications, 
     including $3,000,000 for research and development of 
     technologies for economic and environmentally sound 
     refinement of spent nuclear fuel at the University of Nevada-
     Las Vegas.
       The Department is directed to prepare a program plan for 
     managing and executing this program using the extensive 
     expertise of the Office of Science and the Office of Defense 
     Programs in accelerator research, design, and applications, 
     and the expertise of the Office of Nuclear Energy in 
     transmutation of nuclear waste. This program plan should be 
     submitted to the Committees by March 1, 2001.
       The conferees make no recommendation as to how the 
     Department should manage the advanced accelerator application 
     program.


            Independent Oversight and Performance Assurance

       The conference agreement provides $14,937,000, the same as 
     the budget request for the office of independent oversight 
     and performance assurance.


                Environment, Safety and Health (Defense)

       The conference agreement provides $125,567,000 for defense-
     related environment, safety and health activities. The 
     conferees have provided $3,000,000 to establish a program at 
     the University of Nevada-Las Vegas for Department-wide 
     management of electronic records; $1,750,000 for the 
     University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky to 
     undertake epidemiological studies of workers; $880,000 to 
     provide medical screening for workers employed at the 
     Amchitka nuclear weapons test site; and $500,000 for the 
     State of Nevada to address deficiencies in the Cancer 
     Registry, Vital Statistics, and Birth Defects Registry 
     activities.
       The conference agreement includes $17,000,000 for the 
     Department's administrative costs associated with the 
     proposed Energy Employees Compensation Initiative. These 
     funds are not available until the program is authorized by 
     law.


                    Worker and Community Transition

       The conference agreement provides $24,500,000 for the 
     worker and community transition program, including $2,100,000 
     for infrastructure improvements at the former Pinellas plant. 
     The conferees expect that communities denied funds in fiscal 
     year 2000 will be granted priority status in fiscal year 
     2001.
       The conference agreement provides that no funds may be used 
     to augment the $24,500,000 made available for obligation for 
     severance payments and other benefits and community 
     assistance grants unless the Department of Energy submits a 
     reprogramming request subject to approval by the appropriate 
     Congressional committees.


           National Security Programs Administrative Support

       The conference agreement provides $25,000,000 for national 
     security programs administrative support instead of 
     $51,000,000 as proposed by the House and no funding as 
     proposed by the Senate.


                     Office of Hearings And Appeals

       The conference agreement provides $3,000,000 as proposed by 
     the House and the Senate.


                          Funding Adjustments

       A reduction of $595,000 and the elimination of the 
     $20,000,000 offset to user organizations for security 
     investigations reflects the allocation of the safeguards and 
     security amended budget request.

                     Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal

       The conference agreement provides $200,000,000 as proposed 
     by the House instead of $292,000,000 as proposed by the 
     Senate.

                    Power Marketing Administrations


                  BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION FUND

       The conferees have included the statutory language 
     extending Bonneville's voluntary separation incentive program 
     until January 1, 2003.
       During fiscal year 2001, Bonneville plans to pay the 
     Treasury $620,000,000 of which

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     $163,000,000 is to repay principal on the Federal investment 
     in these facilities.


                   SOUTHEASTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION

       The conference agreement includes $3,900,000, the same as 
     the budget request, for the Southeastern Power 
     Administration.


                   SOUTHWESTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION

       The conference agreement includes $28,100,000, the same as 
     the budget request, for the Southwestern Power 
     Administration.


                   WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

       The conference agreement provides $165,830,000, instead of 
     $164,916,000 as proposed by the Senate and $160,930,000 as 
     proposed by the House. The conference agreement increases the 
     amount of purchase power and wheeling to $65,224,000 and 
     increases offsetting collections by the same amount. Funding 
     of $5,950,000 is provided for the Utah Reclamation Mitigation 
     and Conservation Account.


                        FALCON AND AMISTAD FUND

       The conference agreement includes $2,670,000, the same as 
     the budget request, for the Falcon and Amistad Operating and 
     Maintenance Fund.


                  FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

       The conference agreement includes $175,200,000, the same as 
     the budget request for the Federal Energy Regulatory 
     Commission.


                              RESCISSIONS

                     Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal

       The conference agreement includes language rescinding 
     $75,000,000 from funds previously appropriated for interim 
     waste storage activities for Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal 
     in Public Law 104-46, the fiscal year 1996 Energy and Water 
     Development Appropriations Act.


             Defense Environmental Management Privatization

       The conference agreement includes language rescinding 
     $97,000,000 from the Defense Environmental Management 
     Privatization account. Funds were appropriated in this 
     account in prior years for the Hanford Tank Waste Remediation 
     System Project. This project is no longer being considered 
     for a privatization contract. It has been transferred to the 
     Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management 
     appropriation account and will be funded there in future 
     appropriation acts.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

                          Department of Energy

       Sec. 301. The conference agreement includes a provision 
     proposed by the House that none of the funds may be used to 
     award a management and operating contract unless such 
     contract is awarded using competitive procedures, or the 
     Secretary of Energy grants a waiver to allow for such a 
     deviation. Section 301 does not preclude extension of a 
     contract awarded using competitive procedures.
       Sec. 302. The conference agreement includes a provision 
     proposed by the House and Senate that none of the funds may 
     be used to prepare or implement workforce restructuring plans 
     or provide enhanced severance payments and other benefits and 
     community assistance grants for Federal employees of the 
     Department of Energy under section 3161 of the National 
     Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 1993, Public Law 
     102-484.
       Sec. 303. The conference agreement modifies a provision 
     proposed by the House that none of the funds may be used to 
     augment the $24,500,000 made available for obligation for 
     severance payments and other benefits and community 
     assistance grants unless the Department of Energy submits a 
     reprogramming request subject to approval by the appropriate 
     Congressional committees.
       Sec. 304. The conference agreement includes a provision 
     proposed by the House and Senate that none of the funds may 
     be used to prepare or initiate Requests for Proposals for a 
     program if the program has not been funded by Congress in the 
     current fiscal year. This provision precludes the Department 
     from initiating activities for new programs which have been 
     proposed in the budget request, but which have not yet been 
     funded by Congress.
       Sec. 305. The conference agreement includes a provision 
     proposed by the House and Senate that permits the transfer 
     and merger of unexpended balances of prior appropriations 
     with appropriation accounts established in this bill.
       Sec. 306. The conference agreement includes language 
     providing that not to exceed 6 percent of funds shall be 
     available for Laboratory Directed Research and Development.
       Sec. 307. The conference agreement includes language 
     limiting to $185,000,000 the funds available for 
     reimbursement of management and operating contractor travel 
     expenses. Of the $185,000,000, $175,000,000 is available for 
     contractor travel and $10,000,000 is to be held in reserve by 
     the Department's Chief Financial Officer for emergency travel 
     requirements. The language also requires the Department of 
     Energy to reimburse contractors for travel consistent with 
     regulations applicable to Federal employees and specifies 
     that the travel ceiling does not apply to travel funded from 
     Laboratory Directed Research and Development funds.
       Sec. 308. The conference agreement includes language 
     prohibiting the Bonneville Power Administration from 
     performing energy efficiency services outside the legally 
     defined Bonneville service territory.
       Sec. 309. The conference agreement includes language 
     limiting the types of waste that can be disposed of in the 
     Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. None of the funds 
     may be used to dispose of transuranic waste in excess of 20 
     percent plutonium by weight for the aggregate of any material 
     category. At the Rocky Flats site, this provision includes 
     ash residues; salt residues; wet residues; direct repackage 
     residues; and scrub alloy as referenced in the ``Final 
     Environmental Impact Statement on Management of Certain 
     Plutonium Residues and Scrub Alloy Stored at the Rocky Flats 
     Environmental Technology Site''.
       Sec. 310. The conference agreement includes language 
     allowing the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security 
     Administration to authorize certain nuclear weapons 
     production plants to use not more than 2 percent of available 
     funds for research, development and demonstration activities.
       Sec. 311. The conference agreement includes language 
     allowing each Federal power marketing administration to 
     engage in activities relating to the formation and operation 
     of a regional transmission organization.
       Sec. 312. The conference agreement includes language that 
     would permit the Secretary of Energy to use $10,000,000 of 
     funds previously appropriated for interim waste storage 
     activities for Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal upon receipt of 
     written certification that the site recommendation report 
     cannot be completed on time without additional funding.
       Sec. 313. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the Senate that would provide a three year term 
     of office for the first person appointed to the position of 
     the Under Secretary of Nuclear Security of the Department of 
     Energy.
       Sec. 314. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the Senate limiting the authority of the 
     Secretary of Energy to modify the organization of the 
     National Nuclear Security Administration.
       Sec. 315. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the Senate prohibiting the pay of personnel 
     engaged in concurrent service or duties inside and outside 
     the National Nuclear Security Administration.
       Report on impacts of limits on on-site storage.--The 
     conference agreement does not include statutory language 
     proposed by the Senate, but the conferees direct that not 
     later than 90 days after enactment of the fiscal year 2001 
     Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, the 
     Secretary of Energy shall submit to Congress a report 
     containing a description of all alternatives that are 
     available to the Northern States Power Company and the 
     Federal government to allow the company to continue to 
     operate the Prairie Island nuclear generating plant until the 
     end of the term of the license issued to the company by the 
     Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in view of a law of the State 
     of Minnesota that limits the quantity of spent nuclear fuel 
     that may be stored at the plant, assuming that the existing 
     Federal and State laws remain unchanged.
       Report on electricity prices.--The conferees note that 
     California is currently experiencing an energy crisis. 
     Wholesale electricity prices have soared, resulting in 
     electrical bills that have increased by as much as 300 
     percent in the San Diego area. Conferees understand that the 
     staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is 
     currently investigating the crisis. The Commission is 
     directed to submit to Congress a report on the results of the 
     investigation no later than December 1, 2000. The report 
     shall include identification of the causes of the San Diego 
     price increases, a determination whether California wholesale 
     electricity markets are competitive, a recommendation whether 
     a regional price cap should be set in the Western States, a 
     determination whether manipulation of prices has occurred at 
     the wholesale level, and a determination of remedies, 
     including legislation or regulations, that are necessary to 
     correct the problem and prevent similar incidents in 
     California and elsewhere in the United States.
       Provisions not adopted by the conferees.--The conference 
     agreement deletes language proposed by the House and Senate 
     prohibiting the use of funds for contracts modified in a 
     manner that deviates from the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate allowing the Secretary of Energy to enter into 
     multiyear contracts without obligating the estimated costs.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate requiring the Department of Energy's laboratories to 
     provide an annual funding plan to the Department.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     House prohibiting the payment of Federal salaries in the 
     working capital fund.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate prohibiting the expenditure of funds to establish or 
     maintain independent centers at Department of Energy 
     laboratories or facilities. The conference agreement includes 
     report language

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     requiring the Department to identify these centers in the 
     budget request.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     House requiring a report on activities of the executive 
     branch to address high gasoline prices and develop an overall 
     national energy strategy.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate prohibiting the expenditure of funds to restart the 
     High Flux Beam Reactor.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate limiting the inclusion of costs of protecting fish and 
     wildlife within the rates charged by the Bonneville Power 
     Administration.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate limiting the cost of construction of the National 
     Ignition Facility.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate requiring an evaluation of innovative technologies for 
     demilitarization of weapons components and treatment of 
     hazardous waste.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate requiring a report on national energy policy.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate noting concern with the House provision on limiting 
     funds for worker and community transition. The conference 
     agreement deletes language proposed by the Senate requiring a 
     report on the impact of State-imposed limits on spent nuclear 
     fuel storage. This requirement has been included in report 
     language.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate limiting the use of funds to promote or advertise 
     public tours at Yucca Mountain. This requirement has been 
     included in report language.

                       CONFERENCE RECOMMENDATIONS

       The conference agreement's detailed funding recommendations 
     for programs in title III are contained in the following 
     table.

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                                TITLE IV

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                    Appalachian Regional Commission

       The conference agreement includes $66,400,000 for the 
     Appalachian Regional Commission as proposed by the Senate 
     instead of $63,000,000 as proposed by the House.

                Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

       The conference agreement includes $18,500,000 for the 
     Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board as proposed by the 
     Senate instead of $17,000,000 as proposed by the House.

                        Delta Regional Authority

       The conference agreement includes $20,000,000 for the Delta 
     Regional Authority as proposed by the Senate.

                           Denali Commission

       The conference agreement includes $30,000,000 for the 
     Denali Commission as proposed by the Senate.

                     Nuclear Regulatory Commission


                         salaries and Expenses

       The conference agreement includes $481,900,000 as proposed 
     by the House and the Senate, to be offset by revenues of 
     $447,958,000, for a net appropriation of $33,942,000. This 
     reflects the statutory language adopted by the conference to 
     reduce the revenues collected in fiscal year 2001 by 2 
     percent.


                      Office of Inspector General

       The conference agreement includes $5,500,000 as proposed by 
     the House and the Senate, to be offset by revenues of 
     $5,390,000, for a net appropriation of $110,000. This 
     reflects the statutory language adopted by the conference to 
     reduce the revenues collected in fiscal year 2001 by 2 
     percent.

                  Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board

       The conference agreement provides $2,900,000 instead of 
     $2,700,000 as proposed by House and $3,000,000 as proposed by 
     the Senate.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate establishing a Presidential Energy Commission.

                                TITLE V

               FISCAL YEAR 2001 EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

                    Atomic Energy Defense Activities


                      Cerro Grande Fire Activities

       The conference agreement includes an emergency 
     appropriation of $203,460,000 as proposed by the Senate for 
     Cerro Grande Fire Activities at the Los Alamos National 
     Laboratory in New Mexico.
       The recommendation includes $46,860,000 for repair and risk 
     mitigation associated with physical damage and destruction; 
     $25,400,000 for restoring services; $18,000,000 for emergency 
     response; and $15,000,000 for resuming laboratory operations.
       In addition, funding is provided for the following 
     construction projects: $6,100,000 for Project 97-D-102, Dual-
     Axis Radiographic Hydrotest Facility (DAHRT); $25,000,000 for 
     Project 01-D-701, Site-wide Fire Alarm System Replacement; 
     $20,000,000 for Project 01-D-702, Emergency Operations Center 
     Replacement and Relocation; $29,100,000 for Project 01-D-703, 
     TA-54 Waste Management Mitigation; $10,000,000 for Project 
     01-D-704, Office Building Replacement Program for Vulnerable 
     Facilities; and $8,000,000 for Project 01-D-705, Multi-
     channel Communications System. The Department is directed to 
     include construction project data sheets for these projects 
     in the fiscal year 2002 budget request.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                    Appalachian Regional Commission

       The conference agreement includes an emergency 
     appropriation of $11,000,000 for the Appalachian Regional 
     Commission for the North Fork Hughes River Watershed project 
     in Ritchie County, West Virginia.

                                TITLE VI

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 601. The conference agreement includes language 
     directing that none of the funds in this Act or any prior 
     appropriations Act may be used in any way, directly or 
     indirectly, to influence congressional action on any 
     legislation or appropriation matters pending before Congress, 
     other than to communicate to Members of Congress as described 
     in section 1913 of title 18, United States Code.
       Sec. 602. The conference agreement includes language 
     regarding the purchase of American-made equipment and 
     products, and prohibiting contracts with persons falsely 
     labeling products as made in America.
       Sec. 603. The conference agreement includes language 
     providing that no funds may be used to determine the final 
     point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis 
     Unit of the Central Valley Project until certain conditions 
     are met. The language also provides that the costs of the 
     Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and the San Joaquin 
     Valley Drainage Program shall be classified as reimbursable 
     or non-reimbursable by the Secretary of the Interior and that 
     any future obligation of funds for drainage service or 
     drainage studies for the San Luis Unit shall be fully 
     reimbursable by San Luis Unit beneficiaries pursuant to 
     Reclamation law.
       Sec. 604. The conference agreement includes language 
     proposed by the Senate limiting the use of funds to propose 
     or issue rules, regulations, decrees, or orders for the 
     purpose of implementing the Kyoto Protocol. The conferees do 
     not concur with the report language proposed by the House.
       Sec. 605. The conference agreement includes language 
     extending the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and 
     Restoration Act.
       Sec. 606. The conference agreement includes language 
     redesignating the Interstate Sanitation Commission as the 
     Interstate Environmental Commission.
       Provisions not adopted.--The conference agreement deletes 
     language proposed by the House amending the Energy Policy and 
     Conservation Act.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     House limiting the use of funds to pay salaries of employees 
     of the Department of Energy who refused to take polygraph 
     examinations.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate repealing sections of Public Law 106-246.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate requiring the Tennessee Valley Authority to complete 
     an environmental impact statement before proceeding with the 
     sale of mineral rights.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     Senate requiring a report to Congress on electricity prices. 
     This requirement has been included in report language.
       The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
     House prohibiting the use of funds to pay an individual who 
     simultaneously holds positions within the National Nuclear 
     Security Administration and the Department of Energy. This 
     matter has been addressed in section 315.

                               TITLE VII

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                       Bureau of the Public Debt


      Gifts to the United States for Reduction of the Public Debt

       The conference agreement includes language providing funds 
     to reduce the public debt.

                               TITLE VIII

                     Nuclear Regulatory Commission

       The conference agreement includes language extending the 
     Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) authority to assess 
     license and annual fees through fiscal year 2005. This 
     extension is necessary to provide the resources needed to 
     fund the activities of the Commission. The conferees have 
     also provided authority to reduce the fee recovery 
     requirement from 100 percent to 98 percent in fiscal year 
     2001, and further decrease the fee incrementally until the 
     fee recovery requirement is reduced to 90 percent in 2005. 
     This will address fairness and equity concerns relating to 
     charging NRC licensees for agency expenses which do not 
     provide a direct benefit to them.

                   Conference Total--With Comparisons

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

                       [In thousands of dollars]

New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 2000.......$21,647,047
Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority, fiscal year23,146,559
House bill, fiscal year 2001.................................22,204,000
Senate bill, fiscal year 2001................................23,131,901
Conference agreement, fiscal year 2001.......................24,088,380
Conference agreement compared with:
  New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 2000......+2,441,333
  Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority, fiscal year+941,821
  House bill, fiscal year 2001...............................+1,884,380
  Senate bill, fiscal year 2001................................+956,479

     James T. Walsh,
     Tom DeLay,
     Dave Hobson,
     Joe Knollenberg,
     Rodney Frelinghuysen,
     Anne M. Northup,
     John E. Sununu,
     Virgil Goode, Jr.,
     Bill Young,
     Alan B. Mollohan,
     Marcy Kaptur,
     Carrie P. Meek,
     David E. Price,
     Bud Cramer,
     Dave Obey,
                                Managers on the Part of the House.

     Christopher S. Bond,
     Conrad Burns,
     Richard C. Shelby,
     Larry E. Craig,
     Kay Bailey Hutchison,

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     Ted Stevens,
     Pete V. Domenici,
     Barbara A. Mikulski,
     Patrick Leahy,
     Frank R. Lautenberg,
     Tom Harkin,
     Robert C. Byrd,
     Harry Reid,
     Daniel K. Inouye,
     Managers on the Part of the Senate.

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