[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Pages 17581-17582]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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 TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
                                  2002

  On September 19, 2001, the Senate amended and passed H.R. 2590, as 
follows:

         Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives 
     (H.R. 2590) entitled ``An Act making appropriations for the 
     Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the 
     Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent 
     Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and 
     for other purposes.'', do pass with the following amendment:
       Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:
     That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in 
     the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury 
     Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive 
     Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, 
     for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other 
     purposes, namely:

                  TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                          Departmental Offices


                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Departmental Offices 
     including operation and maintenance of the Treasury Building 
     and Annex; hire of passenger motor vehicles; maintenance, 
     repairs, and improvements of, and purchase of commercial 
     insurance policies for, real properties leased or owned 
     overseas, when necessary for the performance of official 
     business; not to exceed $3,500,000 for official travel 
     expenses; not to exceed $3,813,000, to remain available until 
     expended for information technology modernization 
     requirements; not to exceed $150,000 for official reception 
     and representation expenses; not to exceed $258,000 for 
     unforeseen emergencies of a confidential nature, to be 
     allocated and expended under the direction of the Secretary 
     of the Treasury and to be accounted for solely on his 
     certificate, $187,322,000: Provided, That the Office of 
     Foreign Assets Control shall be funded at no less than 
     $19,732,000: Provided further, That of these amounts 
     $2,900,000 is available for grants to State and local law 
     enforcement groups to help fight money laundering.

        Department-Wide Systems and Capital Investments Programs


                     (including transfer of funds)

       For development and acquisition of automatic data 
     processing equipment, software, and services for the 
     Department of the Treasury, $69,028,000, to remain available 
     until expended: Provided, That these funds shall be 
     transferred to accounts and in amounts as necessary to 
     satisfy the requirements of the Department's offices, 
     bureaus, and other organizations: Provided further, That this 
     transfer authority shall be in addition to any other transfer 
     authority provided in this Act: Provided further, That none 
     of the funds appropriated shall be used to support or 
     supplement the Internal Revenue Service appropriations for 
     Information Systems.

                      Office of Inspector General


                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
     in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act 
     of 1978, as amended, not to exceed $2,000,000 for official 
     travel expenses, including hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
     and not to exceed $100,000 for unforeseen emergencies of a 
     confidential nature, to be allocated and expended under the 
     direction of the Inspector General of the Treasury, 
     $35,150,000.

           Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration


                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Treasury Inspector General 
     for Tax Administration in carrying out the Inspector General 
     Act of 1978, as amended, including purchase (not to exceed 
     150 for replacement only for police-type use) and hire of 
     passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); services 
     authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be 
     determined by the Inspector General for Tax Administration; 
     not to exceed $6,000,000 for official travel expenses; and 
     not to exceed $500,000 for unforeseen emergencies of a 
     confidential nature, to be allocated and expended under the 
     direction of the Inspector General for Tax Administration, 
     $123,799,000.

           Treasury Building and Annex Repair and Restoration

       For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the Treasury 
     Building and Annex, $32,932,000, to remain available until 
     expended.

                 Expanded Access to Financial Services


                              (rescission)

       Of the funds appropriated under this heading in the 
     Department of Transportation and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 2001 (as enacted into law by Public Law 
     106-346), $8,000,000 are rescinded effective September 30, 
     2001.

                  Financial Crimes Enforcement Network


                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Financial Crimes Enforcement 
     Network, including hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel 
     expenses of non-Federal law enforcement personnel to attend 
     meetings concerned with financial intelligence activities, 
     law enforcement, and financial regulation; not to exceed 
     $14,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 
     and for assistance to Federal law enforcement agencies, with 
     or without reimbursement, $45,702,000, of which not to exceed 
     $3,400,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2004; 
     and of which $7,790,000 shall remain available until 
     September 30, 2003: Provided, That funds appropriated in this 
     account may be used to procure personal services contracts.

                         Counterterrorism Fund

       For necessary expenses, as determined by the Secretary, 
     $44,879,000, to remain available until expended, to reimburse 
     any Department of the Treasury organization for the costs of 
     providing support to counter, investigate, or prosecute 
     terrorism, including payment of rewards in connection with 
     these activities: Provided, That any amount provided under 
     this heading shall be available only after the advance 
     approval of the Committees on Appropriations.

                Federal Law Enforcement Training Center


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforcement 
     Training Center, as a bureau of the Department of the 
     Treasury, including materials and support costs of Federal 
     law enforcement basic training; purchase (not to exceed 52 
     for police-type use, without regard to the general purchase 
     price limitation) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; for 
     expenses for student athletic and related activities; 
     uniforms without regard to the general purchase price 
     limitation for the current fiscal year; the conducting of and 
     participating in firearms matches and presentation of awards; 
     for public awareness and enhancing community support of law 
     enforcement training; not to exceed $11,500 for official 
     reception and representation expenses; room and board for 
     student interns; and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
     $106,317,000, of which $650,000 shall be available for an 
     interagency effort to establish written standards on 
     accreditation of Federal law enforcement training; and of 
     which up to $17,166,000 for materials and support costs of 
     Federal law enforcement basic training shall remain available 
     until September 30, 2004, and of which up to 20 percent of 
     the $17,166,000 also shall be available for travel, room and 
     board costs for participating agency basic training during 
     the first quarter of a fiscal year, subject to full 
     reimbursement by the benefitting agency: Provided, That the 
     Center is authorized to accept and use gifts of property, 
     both real and personal, and to accept services, for 
     authorized purposes, including funding of a gift of intrinsic 
     value which shall be awarded annually by the Director of the 
     Center to the outstanding student who graduated from a basic 
     training program at the Center during the previous fiscal 
     year, which shall be funded only by gifts received through 
     the Center's gift authority: Provided further, That 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, students 
     attending training at any Federal Law Enforcement Training 
     Center site shall reside in on-Center or Center-provided 
     housing, insofar as available and in accordance with Center 
     policy: Provided further, That funds appropriated in this 
     account shall be available, at the discretion of the 
     Director, for the following: training United States Postal 
     Service law enforcement personnel and Postal police officers; 
     State and local government law enforcement training on a 
     space-available basis; training of foreign law enforcement 
     officials on a space-available basis with reimbursement of 
     actual costs to this appropriation, except that reimbursement 
     may be waived by the Secretary for law enforcement training 
     activities in foreign countries undertaken pursuant to 
     section 801 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty 
     Act of 1996, Public Law 104-32; training of private sector 
     security officials on a space-available basis with 
     reimbursement of actual costs to this appropriation; and 
     travel expenses of non-Federal personnel to attend course 
     development meetings and training sponsored by the Center: 
     Provided further, That the Center is authorized to obligate 
     funds in anticipation of reimbursements from agencies 
     receiving training sponsored by the Federal Law Enforcement 
     Training Center, except that total obligations at the end of 
     the fiscal year shall not exceed total budgetary resources 
     available at the end of the fiscal year: Provided further, 
     That the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is 
     authorized to provide training for the Gang Resistance 
     Education and Training program to Federal and non-Federal 
     personnel at any facility in partnership with the Bureau of 
     Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms: Provided further, That the 
     Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is authorized to 
     provide short-term medical services for students undergoing 
     training at the Center.


     Acquisition, Construction, Improvements, and Related Expenses

       For expansion of the Federal Law Enforcement Training 
     Center, for acquisition of necessary additional real property 
     and facilities, and for ongoing maintenance, facility 
     improvements, and related expenses, $33,434,000, to remain 
     available until expended.

                      Interagency Law Enforcement


                 Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement

       For expenses necessary to conduct investigations and 
     convict offenders involved in organized crime drug 
     trafficking, including cooperative efforts with State and 
     local law enforcement, as it relates to the Treasury 
     Department law enforcement violations such as money 
     laundering, violent crime, and smuggling,

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     $106,965,000, of which $7,827,000 shall remain available 
     until expended.

                      Financial Management Service


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Financial Management Service, 
     $212,316,000, of which not to exceed $9,220,000 shall remain 
     available until September 30, 2004, for information systems 
     modernization initiatives; and of which not to exceed $2,500 
     shall be available for official reception and representation 
     expenses.

                Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco 
     and Firearms, including purchase of not to exceed 812 
     vehicles for police-type use, of which 650 shall be for 
     replacement only, and hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire 
     of aircraft; services of expert witnesses at such rates as 
     may be determined by the Director; for payment of per diem 
     and/or subsistence allowances to employees where a major 
     investigative assignment requires an employee to work 16 
     hours or more per day or to remain overnight at his or her 
     post of duty; not to exceed $20,000 for official reception 
     and representation expenses; for training of State and local 
     law enforcement agencies with or without reimbursement, 
     including training in connection with the training and 
     acquisition of canines for explosives and fire accelerants 
     detection; not to exceed $50,000 for cooperative research and 
     development programs for Laboratory Services and Fire 
     Research Center activities; and provision of laboratory 
     assistance to State and local agencies, with or without 
     reimbursement, $821,421,000, of which $3,500,000 shall be 
     available for retrofitting and upgrades of the National 
     Tracing Center Facility in Martinsburg, West Virginia; of 
     which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available for the 
     payment of attorneys' fees as provided by 18 U.S.C. 
     924(d)(2); of which up to $2,000,000 shall be available for 
     the equipping of any vessel, vehicle, equipment, or aircraft 
     available for official use by a State or local law 
     enforcement agency if the conveyance will be used in joint 
     law enforcement operations with the Bureau of Alcohol, 
     Tobacco and Firearms and for the payment of overtime salaries 
     including Social Security and Medicare, travel, fuel, 
     training, equipment, supplies, and other similar costs of 
     State and local law enforcement personnel, including sworn 
     officers and support personnel, that are incurred in joint 
     operations with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, 
     and of which $16,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
     shall be available for disbursements through grants, 
     cooperative agreements or contracts to local governments for 
     Gang Resistance Education and Training: Provided, That no 
     funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to 
     transfer the functions, missions, or activities of the Bureau 
     of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to other agencies or 
     Departments in fiscal year 2002: Provided further, That no 
     funds appropriated herein shall be available for salaries or 
     administrative expenses in connection with consolidating or 
     centralizing, within the Department of the Treasury, the 
     records, or any portion thereof, of acquisition and 
     disposition of firearms maintained by Federal firearms 
     licensees: Provided further, That no funds appropriated 
     herein shall be used to pay administrative expenses or the 
     compensation of any officer or employee of the United States 
     to implement an amendment or amendments to 27 CFR 178.118 or 
     to change the definition of ``Curios or relics'' in 27 CFR 
     178.11 or remove any item from ATF Publication 5300.11 as it 
     existed on January 1, 1994: Provided further, That none of 
     the funds appropriated herein shall be available to 
     investigate or act upon applications for relief from Federal 
     firearms disabilities under 18 U.S.C. 925(c): Provided 
     further, That such funds shall be available to investigate 
     and act upon applications filed by corporations for relief 
     from Federal firearms disabilities under 18 U.S.C. 925(c): 
     Provided further, That no funds under this Act may be used to 
     electronically retrieve information gathered pursuant to 18 
     U.S.C. 923(g)(4) by name or any personal identification code.

                     United States Customs Service


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the United States Customs 
     Service, including purchase and lease of up to 1,050 motor 
     vehicles of which 550 are for replacement only and of which 
     1,030 are for police-type use and commercial operations; hire 
     of motor vehicles; contracting with individuals for personal 
     services abroad; not to exceed $40,000 for official reception 
     and representation expenses; and awards of compensation to 
     informers, as authorized by any Act enforced by the United 
     States Customs Service, $2,022,453,000, of which such sums as 
     become available in the Customs User Fee Account, except sums 
     subject to section 13031(f)(3) of the Consolidated Omnibus 
     Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (19 U.S.C. 
     58c(f)(3)), shall be derived from that Account; of the total, 
     not to exceed $150,000 shall be available for payment for 
     rental space in connection with preclearance operations; not 
     to exceed $4,000,000 shall be available until expended for 
     research; of which not less than $100,000 shall be available 
     to promote public awareness of the child pornography tipline; 
     of which not less than $200,000 shall be available for 
     Project Alert; of which not less than $1,000,000 shall be 
     provided to develop a curriculum for the training of law 
     enforcement dogs to combat and respond to terrorist 
     activities specifically related to chemical and biological 
     threats; not to exceed $5,000,000 shall be available until 
     expended for conducting special operations pursuant to 19 
     U.S.C. 2081; not to exceed $8,000,000 shall be available 
     until expended for the procurement of automation 
     infrastructure items, including hardware, software, and 
     installation; and not to exceed $5,000,000 shall be available 
     until expended for repairs to Customs facilities: Provided, 
     That uniforms may be purchased without regard to the general 
     purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year: 
     Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, the fiscal year aggregate overtime limitation prescribed 
     in subsection 5(c)(1) of the Act of February 13, 1911 (19 
     U.S.C. 261 and 267) shall be $30,000.