[House Report 104-183]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



104th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 1st Session                                                    104-183
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 TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 
                                  1996

                                _______


 July 12, 1995.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

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  Mr. Lightfoot, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the 
                               following

                              R E P O R T

                             together with

                     MINORITY AND ADDITIONAL VIEWS

                        [To accompany H.R. 2020]
    The Committee on Appropriations submits the following 
report in explanation of the accompanying bill making 
appropriations for the Treasury Department, the Postal Service, 
the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent 
Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and for 
other purposes.
                        INDEX TO BILL AND REPORT

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                                                            Page number

                                                            Bill Report
Summary of the Bill........................................
                                                                      2

                  TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Departmental Offices.......................................     2
                                                                      6
Office of Inspector General................................     3
                                                                      9
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.......................     3
                                                                     10
Treasury Forfeiture Fund...................................
                                                                     11
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center....................     4
                                                                     12
Foreign Law Enforcement....................................
                                                                     13
Financial Management Service...............................     6
                                                                     13
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms....................     7
                                                                     14
United States Customs Service..............................     9
                                                                     16
Bureau of Engraving and Printing...........................
                                                                     21
United States Mint.........................................
                                                                     23
Bureau of the Public Debt..................................    12
                                                                     24
Internal Revenue Service...................................    12
                                                                     25
United States Secret Service...............................    15
                                                                     29
Violent Crime Reduction Programs...........................    16
                                                                     30
General Provisions--Treasury Department....................    17
                                                                     32

                        TITLE II--POSTAL SERVICE

Payment to the Postal Service Fund.........................    19
                                                                     33
Payment to the Postal Service Fund for Nonfunded 
    Liabilities............................................    20
                                                                     33

TITLE III--EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO 
                             THE PRESIDENT

Compensation of the President..............................    21
                                                                     35
The White House Office.....................................    21
                                                                     36
Executive Residence at the White House.....................    22
                                                                     36
Official Residence of the Vice President...................    22
                                                                     37
Special Assistance to the President........................    22
                                                                     38
Council of Economic Advisers...............................
                                                                     38
Office of Policy Development...............................    23
                                                                     39
National Security Council..................................    23
                                                                     39
Office of Administration...................................    23
                                                                     40
Office of Management and Budget............................    23
                                                                     40
Office of National Drug Control Policy.....................    25
                                                                     43
Unanticipated Needs........................................    26
                                                                     44
Federal Drug Control Programs..............................    26
                                                                     44

                     TITLE IV--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

Administrative Conference of the United States.............
                                                                     46
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.........
                                                                     46
Committee for Purchase from People who are Blind or 
    Severely Disabled......................................    27
                                                                     47
Federal Election Commission................................    28
                                                                     47
Federal Labor Relations Authority..........................    28
                                                                     49
General Services Administration............................    29
                                                                     50
John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board.........    43
                                                                     58
Merit Systems Protection Board.............................    43
                                                                     59
National Archives and Records Administration...............    44
                                                                     59
National Historical Publications Commission................    44
                                                                     60
Office of Government Ethics................................    45
                                                                     61
Office of Personnel Management.............................    45
                                                                     61
Office of Special Counsel..................................    51
                                                                     66
United States Tax Court....................................    52
                                                                     66

                      TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS

This Act...................................................    52
                                                                     67

              TITLE VI--GOVERNMENTWIDE GENERAL PROVISIONS

Departments, Agencies, and Corporations....................    66
                                                                     69
Compliance with House Rules................................
                                                                     71
Tables.....................................................
                                                                     94
                       Summary of the Total Bill

    The accompanying bill contains recommendations for new 
budget (obligational) authority for fiscal year 1996 for the 
Department of the Treasury, the Postal Service, various offices 
in the Executive Office of the President, and certain 
Independent Agencies. The following table summarizes these 
recommendations and reflects comparisons with the budget, as 
amended, and with amounts appropriated to date for fiscal year 
1995:

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                                                                                    Bill compared with--        
                       New budget      Budget estimates                    -------------------------------------
                      (obligation)          of new         Recommended in       New budget                      
      Agency        authority fiscal    (obligational)        the bill        (obligational)    Budget estimate,
                   year 1995 enacted  authority, fiscal                      authority fiscal   fiscal year 1996
                        to date           year 1996                             year 1995                       
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Treasury.........         10,562,071         11,349,203         10,515,206            -46,864           -833,996
Postal Service...            130,093            145,922            121,908             -8,185            -24,014
Executive Office                                                                                                
 of the President            310,544            308,342            267,280            -43,264            -41,062
Independent                                                                                                     
 agencies........         12,498,239         13,134,356         12,273,892           -224,347           -860,464
                  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Grand total         23,500,947         24,937,823         23,178,286           -322,660         -1,759,536
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                             recommendation

    The Committee has provided a total of $23,178,286,500 for 
the agencies under its jurisdiction. This represents a 
reduction of $322,660,000 in budget authority from 1995 enacted 
levels and a reduction of $1,759,356,000 below the amount 
requested by the President. After adjustments for scorekeeping 
in both 1995 and 1996, the Committee has provided 
$23,315,119,500, an increase of $553,677,500 over 1995 levels 
and $1,749,543,500 below the request. The major scorekeeping 
adjustment is a $624,000,010 rescission in 1995 currently 
pending in HR 1944.

                           general statement

    On January 18, 1995, the Committee began an ambitious 
hearing schedule for the 1996 fiscal year. Over the past six 
months, the Committee held 42 hearings with 174 witnesses. This 
included representatives from the Administration, members of 
Congress and the general public. At the outset, the Committee 
made clear that fiscal year 1996 would not be business as usual 
and that the Committee would take a reasoned and careful path 
to downsizing and restructuring agencies under its 
jurisdiction. Every agency was put on notice that programs that 
have run on automatic pilot would no longer be given that 
luxury. Conversely, programs that have been cut in the past 
would not automatically be candidates for reductions this year. 
Witnesses were given the chance to justify their budgets; in 
some cases, the Committee has determined that these budgets are 
justified. In others, the Committee has determined they are 
not.
    It was the Committee's intention to undertake a 
comprehensive review of programs and activities under its 
jurisdiction and to subsequently fund those programs at levels 
that support a smaller government that works better and smarter 
for the American people. The Committee is confident that it has 
met this objective.
    Within the funding constraints presented to the Committee, 
priorities and initiatives are established. Overall, there are 
four themes in this bill: a reaffirmation of the importance of 
law enforcement, a restructuring of agencies including limited 
privatization of traditionally governmental functions, the 
termination of obsolete programs and activities, and 
flexibility in management.
    The Committee fully funds all of the President's proposed 
crime and law enforcement activities and, in some cases, goes 
beyond that level. The Committee was able to accommodate these 
increases by taking reductions from other accounts. The 
Committee believes that initiatives such as drug interdiction 
along the Southwest border are a much more valuable use of our 
limited resources than funding bureaucracies in Washington.
    The Committee has terminated four agencies under its 
jurisdiction and has assumed that a fifth will be transferred 
elsewhere in the federal budget for a savings of $12.75 million 
from 1995 enacted levels. The Committee is cognizant that these 
terminations will affect real people and real lives. Decisions 
to terminate agencies were not made lightly; nor were they made 
arbitrarily or for the sole purpose of achieving budgetary 
savings. Recommendations to terminate are consistent with the 
Committee's findings that certain programs are no longer 
necessary. In some cases, the Committee found these programs to 
be duplicative of other ongoing federal efforts; in other 
cases, the terminations reflect the Committee's belief that 
their functions are no longer an appropriate federal expense.
    The Committee encourages a restructuring of federal 
agencies and, in limited circumstances, demonstration projects 
to determine the feasibility of privatizing traditionally 
governmental functions. The Committee supports privatization 
and includes no legislative constraints to contracting. The 
Committee recommends that OPM get out of the business of 
testing and recruiting federal employees and assumes these 
functions will be done by individual federal agencies. The 
Committee also provides funds for the IRS to demonstrate the 
feasibility of collecting delinquent taxes through private 
collection agencies. The Committee recognizes that there are 
some functions performed by federal employees that constitute 
core governmental responsibilities. The Committee also 
recognizes, however, that some of these traditionally core 
governmental functions can perhaps be done in the private 
sector with a savings to the federal government.
    The Committee has deleted from its bill and report 
provisions carried in the past that establish FTE ceilings. The 
Committee has repeatedly heard from federal managers that these 
ceilings preclude managerial flexibility and limit efficiency. 
The Committee supports the Administration's opposition to these 
personnel constraints.
    Finally, in support of managerial efficiency and 
flexibility, the Committee continues a general provision 
allowing agencies under its jurisdiction to retain 50 percent 
of their unobligated balances remaining at the end of the 
fiscal year for certain purposes.
    From the beginning, the Committee committed itself to 
playing a vital role in the restructuring of government. The 
decisions included in this bill were not easy. But they are a 
start to a long term commitment to make the government work 
better and smarter for the people it serves. To that end, the 
Committee hopes that its priorities will be measured by looking 
at the vision it holds for a better and smarter government for 
programs under its jurisdiction.

                          HEARING TRANSCRIPTS

    The Committee is concerned that the agencies under its 
jurisdiction are not devoting the attention needed to the 
preparation and editing of hearing transcripts and galleys. 
Each year the Committee provides detailed instructions for 
editing these documents and the inclusion of any additional 
materials. Many agencies have chosen to ignore those 
instructions, thereby delaying the Committee's printing 
schedule. Agencies are advised that the preparation of the 
hearing record is as important as the budget request and are 
further reminded that delays in submitting hearing transcripts 
will delay the ability of the House to consider the annual 
appropriations bill. Finally, the Committee reminds witnesses 
that, under House Rules, hearing transcripts must reflect a 
substantially verbatim account of remarks actually made during 
the hearing, subject only to technical, grammatical, and 
typographical corrections authorized by the person making the 
remarks involved.

                          performance measures

    In last year's report, the Committee directed all of the 
agencies under its jurisdiction to continue implementation of 
performance measurement and stated its intent to use 
performance measurement in determining resource allocation. The 
Committee believes that most agencies are making progress 
toward relevant performance measurements and is encouraged by 
the initial data provided.
    The Congress has been given a mandate by the American 
public to reduce the cost of federal government, while ensuring 
the improvement of quality and efficiency of services. All 
agencies can expect to be asked to do more with less and do it 
better. This can be accomplished through sound planning, 
program review and performance assessment. Therefore, while 
developing performance measurements, the agencies should also 
be developing performance plans that allow for increased 
productivity. The Committee is aware that not all agencies will 
accomplish the same level of productivity increases. However, 
the Committee directs agencies under its jurisdiction to 
develop annual performance plans that provide for a minimum 
average productivity increase of 3 percent in appropriate 
functional areas. This level of increase was originally 
directed by Executive Order 12637, Productivity Improvement 
Program for the Federal Government.
    The Committee emphasizes the need for involvement by 
Federal managers in this process. It is the Federal manager's 
responsibility that resources are used efficiently and 
effectively in achieving identified goals. This involvement 
must include the development of appropriate management controls 
supporting the performance goals and plans. The Committee would 
refer Federal managers to PL 97-255, The Federal Managers' 
Financial Integrity Act, which defines those responsibilities. 
The Committee also wishes to emphasize the need for agencies to 
ensure that any performance measurements and productivity 
improvements are accountable through the Annual Report required 
by the Chief Financial Officer's Act, PL 101-576.

                  TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                          Departmental Offices

                         Salaries and Expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................    $104,379,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................     120,408,000
Recommended in the bill.................................     104,000,500
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................        -378,500
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 1996...................     -16,407,500
                                MISSION

    Departmental Offices' function in the Treasury Department 
is to provide basic support to the Secretary of the Treasury, 
who is the chief operating executive of the Department. The 
Secretary of the Treasury maintains the primary role in 
formulating and managing the domestic and international tax and 
financial policies of the Federal Government. The Secretary's 
responsibilities funded by the Salaries and Expenses 
appropriation include: recommending and implementing United 
States domestic and international economic and tax policy; 
fiscal policy; governing the fiscal operations of the 
Government; maintaining foreign assets control; managing the 
public debt; overseeing the law enforcement functions carried 
out by the Treasury Department; managing development of 
financial policy; representing the United States on 
international monetary, trade and investment issues; overseeing 
Treasury Department overseas operations; and directing the 
administrative operations of the Treasury Department.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends $104,000,500 for the Departmental 
Offices appropriation, a $16,407,500 reduction from the 
requested level and $378,500 below 1995.
    The Committee has reduced the funding for the Office of the 
Under Secretary for Law Enforcement by $1,066,000. The 
Committee directs that no funds be reprogrammed into this 
Office without prior Congressional approval.
    The Committee eliminated funding for the repair and 
alterations of the Treasury Building as explained below.

                     Budget Justification Material

    The Committee directs that future budget justification 
material for Departmental Offices shall separately identify the 
cost and staffing of the office of the Under Secretary of 
Enforcement, the Assistant Secretary for Management, and the 
U.S. Treasurer. The funding and staffing of these offices shall 
only be from amounts provided in the Departmental Offices 
appropriation and shall not be augmented by funds or staff from 
Treasury bureaus or other offices without prior approval of the 
Committee.

                        reprogramming guidelines

    The Committee agrees to require a reprogramming request 
from any agency, department or office when the amount to be 
reprogrammed exceeds $500,000 or 10 percent of any object 
class, budget activity, program line item, or program activity, 
whichever is greater. For agencies receiving appropriations 
under $20,000,000, this threshold shall be $100,000 or 5 
percent, whichever is greater.
    Such requests shall be submitted for the prior approval of 
the Committees on Appropriations. The Committees must receive 
such requests in sufficient time to consider them before their 
proposed implementation. In the past, the Administration has 
delayed submission as much as four months between the time that 
it knew that the reprogramming was necessary and the time that 
it was formally transmitted. The committee expects that such 
delays will not recur in the future.

            repair and maintenance of the treasury building

    The Department requested $7,194,000 for certain repair and 
maintenance requirements of the Treasury Building, including a 
new electrical distribution system and steam and cooling lines. 
The Committee has not provided this amount in the Departmental 
Offices appropriation but has included the funding for these 
requirements in the General Services Administration's (GSA) 
Federal Buildings Fund Repair and Alteration account. While the 
Treasury Department building is not in GSA's inventory of 
facilities, GSA is the organization which should be 
coordinating all requirements for the government-wide inventory 
of facilities.

                 reimbursement to federal reserve banks

    The Federal Reserve banks support the fiscal operations and 
provide banking and financial services on behalf of the 
Treasury of the United States. The Committee directs that the 
fiscal year 1997 budget request include a permanent and 
indefinite appropriation for amounts necessary to reimburse the 
Federal Reserve banks for the services provided as fiscal 
agents on behalf of the Treasury.

       intergovernmental information technology enterprise panel

    The Committee strongly supports the efforts of the 
Department of the Treasury in the development of 
intergovernmental information technology policies and programs. 
Therefore, the Committee directs that within the funds 
appropriated for Departmental Offices, not less than $750,000 
shall be made available for the Intergovernmental Information 
Technology Enterprise Panel.

                     treasury communications system

    The Treasury Communications System (TCS) is being designed 
to enhance the current FTS-2000 system to meet the requirements 
of the Department of the Treasury. This system will be funded 
through an industrial fund concept which charges the Bureaus a 
cost based on usage and requirements. While the Department has 
experienced difficulty in the development and execution of this 
procurement, it appears that the major issues have been 
resolved and the contract award is imminent. The Committee 
recognizes that the evaluation of the proposals will be 
challenging because this type of network is not designed along 
traditional lines. However, this may well be the way network 
systems are procured in the future, making it necessary for all 
parties to accommodate changing views on the design of 
networks.
    The Committee believes the Department should ensure that 
security oversight is conducted by government, not contractor, 
personnel. Additionally, the Department shall submit a report 
to the Committee, no later than June 1, 1996, on its strategy 
for future cost containment and requirements validation.
             u.s. dutch treaty protocol amendments of 1993

    The Committee is aware that the Treasury Department has not 
yet corrected an error it made two years ago with respect to 
withholding tax under Paragraph 8 of Article 12 of the Income 
Tax convention between the United States of America and the 
Kingdom of the Netherlands on interest paid by American 
companies to their Dutch finance subsidiaries in the context of 
triangular finance structures. The profits of these 
subsidiaries are already subject to taxation under subpart F of 
the Internal Revenue Code, resulting in double taxation for the 
American companies affected by the U.S. Treasury mistake.
    The Department has acknowledged this error and has recently 
announced a temporary solution to correct the problem. The 
Committee believes that admitted errors should be swiftly 
followed by meaningful, permanent solutions. This is 
particularly urgent when these mistakes are working at cross 
purposes to the goal of encouraging international 
competitiveness for our domestic industries. Accordingly, the 
Committee directs that no later than October 31, 1995, the 
Treasury Department must provide the House and Senate 
Appropriations Committee with a report which (1) details the 
Treasury measures in place to ensure that current treaties are 
administered in a fair and responsible manner, (2) offers 
suggested mechanisms for preventing mistakes which could result 
in additional future cases of double taxation, and (3) 
addresses the current problem by providing a permanent solution 
which relieves American companies of the burden of a petition 
process.

                        United States Treasurer

                           currency redesign

    The Committee directs that the U.S. Treasurer have full 
operational control over all aspects of the public relations 
effort for currency redesign and should report directly to the 
Secretary of the Treasury on this important issue. 
Additionally, the Treasurer shall conduct an open and 
competitive contract award for any use of a commercial firm in 
the execution of the public relations campaign for currency 
redesign.

                       oversight responsibilities

    The office of the U.S. Treasurer has operated for years as 
a traditionally ceremonial position to promote certain 
``goodwill'' and promotional initiatives. Today the U.S. 
Treasurer insists on managing the day-to-day activities of both 
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) and the U.S. Mint. 
The Committee does not agree that this type of oversight should 
be conducted by the Treasurer and directs that these activities 
cease. The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury has a 
responsibility to ensure that all Treasury organizations 
accurately represent the position of the Department. However, 
oversight responsibilities such as that envisioned by the 
Treasurer simply adds a level of bureaucracy to the Department 
which the Committee finds excessive and unacceptable.
    Additionally, the U.S. Treasurer has sought assistance from 
both the BEP and the U.S. Mint in staffing the office of the 
Treasurer. The Committee believes that this office should only 
be funded and staffed within the Departmental Offices 
appropriation and staffing levels. There is no need to seek 
supplemental funding and staffing from other organizations.
                      Office of Inspector General

                         Salaries and Expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $29,700,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      31,864,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      29,319,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................        -381,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -2,545,000
                                mission

    This appropriation provides agencywide audit and 
investigative functions to identify and correct operational and 
administrative deficiencies which create conditions for 
existing or potential instances of fraud, waste, and 
mismanagement. The audit function provides program audit, 
contract audit and financial statement audit services. Contract 
audits provide professional advice to agency contracting 
officials on accounting and financial matters relative to 
negotiation, award, administration, repricing, and settlement 
of contracts. Program audits review and evaluate all facets of 
agency operations. Financial statement audits assess whether 
financial statements fairly present the agency's financial 
condition and results of operations, the adequacy of accounting 
controls, and compliance with laws and regulations. The 
investigative function provides for the detection and 
investigation of improper and illegal activities involving 
programs, personnel, and operations. This appropriation also 
provides for the oversight of internal investigations made by 
the office of Internal Affairs and Inspection in the Bureau of 
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Customs Service, and the 
Secret Service and, internal audits and internal investigations 
of the Inspection Service at the Internal Revenue Service.
    The Inspectors General Auditor Training Institute provides 
the necessary facilities, equipment, and support services for 
conducting auditor training for the Federal Government 
Inspector General community. Institute personnel develop and 
deliver instructional programs related to basic government 
audit skills. The cost of training is recovered by tuition 
charged to a student's agency.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends $29,319,000 for the Inspector 
General appropriation; a $2,545,000 reduction from the 
requested level and $381,000 below 1995. The Committee's 
reduction is made without prejudice and may be applied at the 
discretion of the Inspector General.

                       independent legal counsel

    According to a March 1995 General Accounting Office (GAO) 
report, problems could arise if an agency's Inspector General 
does not have legal counsel which is separate and independent 
from the agency's General Counsel. The General Counsel serves 
as an agency's chief legal official and as such, advises the 
agency head and articulates the agency's positions on legal 
matters. The IG serves as an independent evaluator of the 
agency's programs and operations. Attorneys advising the agency 
head and those advising the IG may view legal issues 
differently.
    The Department of the Treasury IG does not have an 
independent legal counsel and is forced to share the services 
of the General Counsel of the Department. This situation could 
cause problems for the agency. Therefore, the Committee directs 
that the Department of the Treasury ensure that the IG is 
provided the opportunity to retain the services of an 
independent legal counsel.

                  Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

                         Salaries and Expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $19,823,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      22,198,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      20,273,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................         450,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -1,925,000
                                mission

    The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has been 
assigned a central role in Treasury counter-money laundering 
efforts. It exercises Treasury's far-reaching responsibilities 
under the Bank Secrecy Act, 31 U.S.C. section 5311, et seq., 
and serves as a United States Government source for the 
systematic collation and analysis of information to assist in 
the investigation of money laundering and other financial 
crimes. FinCEN implements these responsibilities through 
analytical and technological platforms geared to combat money 
laundering through prevention and enforcement.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommendation of $20,273,000 includes 
$450,000 to fund pay raises and other inflationary adjustments 
to continue operating at 1995 levels. Although the Committee 
was not able to provide the additional $2,026,000 requested for 
information systems modernization, the Committee notes that it 
was able to provide $2,221,000 for FinCEN as part of Treasury's 
Violent Crime Reduction Programs.
    The Committee recommends a number of technical language 
changes to this account. The first allows FinCEN to use up to 
$14,000 for official reception and representation expenses. 
Since FinCEN has been given enhanced authority for enforcement 
under the Bank Secrecy Act and coordination with foreign 
financial intelligence agencies, resources for official 
representation and reception expenses have become necessary for 
meetings with foreign governments and U.S. bankers. These new 
responsibilities have also made necessary a provision allowing 
FinCEN to pay for the travel expenses of non-federal personnel, 
to be used in those instances in which the Director finds it 
necessary to pay for the expenses of key attendees to 
conferences or meetings involving financial law enforcement.
    The Committee also proposes a minor change to FinCEN's 
procurement statutes. As a law enforcement agency specializing 
in sophisticated financial crimes, FinCEN must also be on the 
cutting edge of new technology. At times, it may be necessary 
for FinCEN to procure certain pieces of electronic equipment, 
both hardware and software, without the elaborate competition 
and processes associated with federal procurement. Language 
included by the Committee will allow FinCEN to do so. It should 
be noted that the Committee intends that this language only be 
associated with occasional purchases of cutting edge 
technologies, and not for other procurement. In addition, the 
Committee expects that the Congress will enact more thorough 
procurement reform legislation before the start of the 1997 
fiscal year, making this language unnecessary as a permanent 
aspect of FinCEN's appropriation.
    The Committee also proposes a technical language change 
allowing FinCEN to purchase personal services contracts.
                        Treasury Forfeiture Fund

                (limitation on availability of deposits)
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $15,000,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      15,000,000
Recommended in the bill.................................................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................     -15,000,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................     -15,000,000
                                mission

    P.L. 102-393 authorized the establishment of the Treasury 
Forfeiture Fund, replacing the Customs Forfeiture Fund, and 
making it available to pay or reimburse certain costs and 
expenses related to seizures and forfeitures that occur 
pursuant to the Treasury Department's law enforcement 
activities. The Coast Guard also participates in the program.

                             recommendation

    The Committee provides no discretionary resources for this 
account. The most important activities of the fund, equitable 
sharing payments among law enforcement agencies and managing 
the fund's assets, are financed through its permanent 
expenditure authority. Discretionary resources are used to fund 
initiatives, projects and programs at the discretion of the 
Secretary.
    The Committee believes that discretionary appropriations 
should be requested and appropriated directly to the law 
enforcement bureaus, without the intervention of the Office of 
the Secretary. For that reason, it recommends no discretionary 
resources for the forfeiture fund.

                Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

                         Salaries and Expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $58,813,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      35,828,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      36,070,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................     -22,743,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................        +242,000
                                MISSION

    The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center provides the 
necessary facilities, equipment, and support services for 
conducting advanced, specialized, and refresher training for 
Federal law enforcement personnel. This appropriation is for 
operating expenses of the Center, for research in law 
enforcement training methods, and curriculum content. In 
addition, the Center has a reimbursable program to accommodate 
the training requirements of various Federal agencies. As funds 
are available, law enforcement training is provided to certain 
State and local law enforcement personnel on a space-available 
basis.

                             recommendation

    The Committee provides $36,070,000 for salaries and 
expenses, including $499,000 to fund pay raises and inflation, 
but denies the Administration's request for $358,000 in program 
enhancements because of insufficient resources. The Committee 
notes that it has provided $2,500,000 to the Federal Law 
Enforcement Training Center as part of Treasury's Violent Crime 
Reduction Programs.
    The Committee includes a technical change allowing some of 
the resources appropriated to be used for site-hardening and 
upgrade of anti-terrorist training facilities at Glynco, 
Georgia.
     Acquisition, Construction, Improvements, and Related Expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $5,815,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       8,163,000
Recommended in the bill.................................       8,163,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      +2,348,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................................
                                MISSION

    This account provides for the acquisition, construction, 
improvement, equipment, furnishing and related costs for 
expansion and maintenance of facilities of the Federal Law 
Enforcement Training Center.
                             recommendation

    The Committee concurs with the Administration's request. 
This includes $5,446,000 for facilities construction and 
maintenance and $2,717,000 for environmental restoration and 
reconstruction of outdoor firearms ranges.

                        Foreign Law Enforcement
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................................
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................     $14,490,000
Recommended in the bill.................................................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................................
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 1996...................     -14,490,000
                                MISSION

    The Administration proposes to establish a new account to 
consolidate law enforcement personnel deployed at foreign 
locations as designated by the Secretary of Treasury. These 
personnel would remain agents in their respective bureaus but 
would be trained to handle inquiries regarding all types of 
Treasury law enforcement matters.

                             recommendation

    The Committee provides no resources for the 
Administration's Foreign Law Enforcement initiative and has 
returned the amounts proposed for transfer to the originating 
Treasury law enforcement bureaus.

                      Financial Management Service

                         Salaries and Expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................    $183,729,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................     189,259,000
Recommended in the bill.................................     181,837,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      -1,892,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -7,422,000
                                MISSION

    The Financial Management Service (FMS) is responsible for 
improving the quality of Government financial management. As 
the Government's central financial agent, FMS receives and 
disburses public monies, maintains Government accounts, and 
reports on the status of the Government's finances. FMS is also 
accountable for developing and implementing the most reliable 
and efficient financial methods and systems to manage and 
improve the Government's cash management, credit management, 
and debt collection programs. Additionally, the Service sets 
Government-wide policy directing Federal agencies to adopt 
prudent financial management techniques.
                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends $181,837,000, for the Financial 
Management Service; a reduction of $7,422,000 from the request 
and $1,892,000 below 1995. The Committee has fully funded the 
request for the Electronic Benefits Transfer and Electronic 
Data Interchange programs.

                Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

                         Salaries and Expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................    $420,138,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................     400,885,000
Recommended in the bill.................................     391,035,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................     -29,103,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -9,850,000
                                mission

    The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is responsible 
for the enforcement of the laws designed to eliminate certain 
illicit activities and to regulate lawful activities relating 
to distilled spirits, beer, wine and nonbeverage alcohol 
products, tobacco, firearms, and explosives.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $391,035,000 
for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. This includes 
the requested $12,001,000 for pay raises and other price 
increases not under the control of the Bureau, as well as a net 
$7,500,000 to continue anti-terrorism activities that were 
initiated after the Oklahoma City bombing. The Committee does 
not provide additional resources for ATF's 1996 program 
initiatives, including $4,000,000 for critical equipment needs, 
$1,924,000 for systems modernization and $2,200,000 for the 
Atlanta Olympics. The Committee directs ATF to absorb funding 
for these items within this allocation. Since the Committee was 
unable to fund a full four National Response Teams as 
envisioned as part of ATF's anti-terrorism initiative, the 
Committee directs ATF to establish only two full time National 
Response Teams. The Committee also transferred $5,000,000 in 
funding for the Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) 
program from the Salaries and Expenses account to the Violent 
Crime Reduction Program account.

                        review of atf operations

    The Committee is aware of a number of serious questions 
regarding ATF management. Some of these complaints are that ATF 
has failed to discipline employees found guilty of incompetence 
or malfeasance; used deadly force unnecessarily; harassed 
legitimate firearms dealers; and ignored legal prohibitions on 
the centralization of records. The Committee will not ignore 
such serious charges.
    The Committee Chair therefore will send a letter to the 
General Accounting Office directing it to review and analyze 
ATF's policies and controls regarding the use of force, its 
regulation and treatment of licensed firearms dealers, its 
compliance with laws regarding the centralization of firearms 
dealer records, and its internal management.
    ATF faces a difficult task under the best of circumstances, 
and the vast majority of ATF employees exemplify the highest 
standards of public service. It is therefore, in the opinion of 
the Committee, all the more important to investigate these 
allegations thoroughly and expeditiously, so that problems can 
be corrected or false accusations put to rest.

               relief from federal firearms disabilities

    For the fourth consecutive year, the Committee has added 
bill language prohibiting the use of Federal funds to process 
applications for relief from Federal firearms disabilities. The 
Committee understands the controversial nature of the 
underlying law allowing convicted felons to have their right to 
own a firearm restored. However, those who commit serious 
crimes forfeit many rights and those who commit felonies should 
not be allowed to have their right to own a firearm restored. 
We have learned sadly that too many of these felons whose gun 
ownership rights were restored went on to commit violent crimes 
with firearms. There is no reason to spend the Governments' 
time or taxpayer's money to restore a convicted felon's right 
to own a firearm.

                    importation of curios or relics

    The Committee has inserted language that prohibits ATF from 
changing regulations or policy with regard to the definition of 
``curios or relics'' in the importation of firearms without 
allowing opportunity for public comment or prior notification 
in the Federal Register.

                 guide to federal firearms regulations

    The Committee notes that ATF has not published a revised 
version of ``(Your Guide to) Federal Firearms Regulation 1988-
89'' (also known as ``the red book''), despite numerous legal 
and regulatory changes since that date. The Committee directs 
ATF to publish a revised version of this guide in fiscal year 
1996.

                             great program

    The Committee reaffirms its support of the Gang Resistance 
Education and Training (GREAT) program, a project which 
utilizes personnel on a voluntary basis to become involved in 
their communities, particularly schools, and work with young 
people to promote a crime-free and gang-free environment. The 
Committee urges the Department of the Treasury to continue to 
actively support this program in the future. In addition, the 
Committee notes the success of this program in El Paso, Texas 
and urges that the Department give priority to funding this 
project when distributing funds under the GREAT program.

                    in-bond transfers and drawbacks

    The Committee is aware that the spirits industry has 
petitioned to allow the in-bond transfer of bottled distilled 
spirits between commonly-owned distilled spirits plants and for 
relief from regulations dealing with the filing of so-called 
drawbacks for nonbeverage alcohol claims. The Committee 
encourages ATF to cooperate with the industry to the greatest 
extent possible in eliminating unnecessary regulatory burdens, 
and requests that ATF report to the Committee with an analysis 
and response to the in-bond transfer and drawback proposals.

                     United States Customs Service

                         Salaries and Expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................  $1,395,793,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................   1,381,550,000
Recommended in the bill.................................   1,389,829,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      -5,964,000
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1996.....................      +8,279,000
                                mission
    The United States Customs Service is the Nation's principal 
border agency. Its mission is to ensure that all goods entering 
and exiting the United States do so in accordance with all 
United States laws and regulations. This mission includes 
enforcing U.S. laws intended to prevent illegal trade 
practices; protecting the American public and environment from 
the introduction of prohibited hazardous and noxious products; 
assessing and collecting revenue in the form of duties, taxes, 
and fees on imported merchandise; regulating the movement of 
persons, carriers, merchandise, and commodities between the 
United States and other nations, while facilitating the 
movement of all legitimate cargo, carriers, travelers, and 
mail; interdicting narcotics and other contraband; and 
enforcing certain provisions of the export control laws of the 
United States.

                             recommendation

    The Committee provides the amounts requested by the 
President for U.S. Customs Salaries and Expenses, including 
$39,966,000 to cover the cost of pay raises and other 
uncontrollable increases. The Committee provided $8,280,000 
which was requested by the Administration as part of the 
Administration's proposed foreign law enforcement initiative.

                         new orleans air branch

    The Committee is aware that the Customs Service may be able 
to relocate the New Orleans air branch elsewhere in Southeast 
Louisiana without paying for the extensive modifications 
necessary at the current facility, and perhaps even improving 
Customs operations and efficiency in the long run. The 
Committee therefore directs the Customs Service to halt all 
further design or construction related activities at its 
current location until the New Orleans Air Branch, in concert 
with Customs headquarters, has fully investigated and 
determined the long-term cost of other options and reported 
back to the Committee with its findings. The Committee directs 
that Customs submit this report no later than August 30, 1995.

                        unified port management

    The Committee requested in the Fiscal Year 1995 Conference 
and House Reports that the Customs Service undertake a study of 
unified port management for the port of Nogales, Arizona. The 
Customs Service responded with a description of the scope and 
status of ongoing cargo and passenger initiatives on the 
Southwest border. While laudable, the report did not address 
the point: that ports of entry would likely run better if there 
were a single port director responsible for all federal 
activities at the port.
    As a result, the Committee has provided statutory language 
providing that the U.S. Customs Service designate a single 
director of all port activities in two pilot ports, one on the 
Southern border and one on the Northern. The Customs Service 
shall evaluate this program and report back to the Committee no 
later than February 1, 1996 with a progress report.

                      training for chinese customs

    The Committee would like to congratulate the U.S. Customs 
Service in its efforts to train Chinese customs officials in 
efficient and effective border inspections with a minimum of 
intrusiveness. The Committee expects Customs to continue such 
efforts in fiscal year 1996.
                       el paso customs inspectors

    The Committee directs the US Customs Service to provide an 
additional 35 inspectors to the El Paso customs district.

                        oakland/pontiac airport

    The Committee directs the Customs Service to establish a 
full-time permanent presence at the Oakland/Pontiac Michigan 
airport.

                        national warplane museum

    In 1989, the U.S. Customs office in Buffalo seized two A-37 
Dragonfly jets as part of an investigation into the illegal 
weapons trade. The National Warplane Museum in Geneseo, New 
York, dedicated to the restoration and maintenance of World War 
II and Korean era aircraft and a registered non-profit 
organization, is interested in obtaining these aircraft for 
display. The Committee directs the Customs Service to transfer 
these aircraft, which have no further law enforcement use, to 
the National Warplane Museum.

              uh-60 black hawk mission improvement program

    The Committee shares the concern expressed in Senate Report 
103-286 regarding U.S. Army helicopters on loan to the United 
States Customs Service in support of counternarcotics 
operations. Since these UH-60 Blackhawks were restricted from 
night operations, drug smugglers have exploited their ability 
to operate on and over the water at night without risk of 
detection or apprehension by Blackhawks. The installation of 
Forward Looking Infrared Radar (FLIR) sensors on these UH-60s 
will deny the drug smuggler freedom of movement at night and 
will enhance crew safety and aircraft survivability. The 
committee notes that these Army-owned aircraft and FLIRs must 
be maintained to Special Operations Forces standards in order 
to meet a backup aircraft inventory requirement for Task Force 
106 should 72-hour recall by that unit be required.

                        refund of excess duties

    The Committee is concerned by evidence that the Department 
of Commerce has acknowledged collecting excess deposits 
amounting to millions of dollars on imports of products subject 
to anti-dumping orders due to clerical and computer programming 
errors. The Committee is further concerned that the U.S. 
Customs Service has failed to use statutory authority, under 
Section 212 of the Tariff and Trade Act of 1984 (19 U.S.C. 
1520), which provides for the refund, prior to liquidation 
(emphasis added), of excess duties deposited or paid on an 
entry by reason of clerical error.
    Recognizing that the Customs Service must work together 
with the Commerce Department to settle this matter, the 
Committee urges the Customs Service to work with the Commerce 
Department to resolve these matters in accordance with 
applicable laws and regulations as expeditiously as possible, 
and report back to the Committee with the results.
              canadian private aircraft reporting program

    This Committee is concerned that the Canadian Private 
Aircraft Reporting Program, designed to facilitate processing 
of private aircraft entering from Canada, may result in 
increased smuggling along the Northern border, particularly if 
``Operation Hardline'' is successful at curbing smuggling in 
the South. The Committee directs that Customs provide a report 
describing the anti-smuggling safeguards that it intends to 
install in this program before it begins implementation.

                     nafta and textile enforcement

    The Administration requested and the Congress approved in 
fiscal year 1995 $18 million and 186 full time equivalent 
employees for the Customs Service to enforce the NAFTA and GATT 
trade agreements, particularly with regard to textiles and 
apparel. In fiscal year 1996, the Committee provides full 
funding for this initiative and expects the Customs Service to 
use its resources for vigorous NAFTA and GATT enforcement, 
particularly with regard to textile and apparel trade rules.

               customs preclearance in the virgin islands

    The Committee directs that the Customs Service seek, in 
coordination with other Federal agencies, to provide pre-
clearance services at Cyril E. King International and Alexander 
Hamilton International Airports, Virgin Islands, for turbine 
and turbo-propeller powered aircraft on instrument flight 
plans. This processing should be targeted to begin on October 
1, 1995. The Committee requests a progress report on this 
effort by July 24, 1995.

        port of brownsville/matamoros bridge presidential permit

    The Committee is pleased to note that during the May 23-25, 
1995, bi-national meetings between Mexico and the United 
States, the Port of Brownsville Presidential Permit application 
for a commercial bridge, was elevated to the active 
consideration list, with the State Department indicating its 
intentions to give high priority to the review of the Port's 
final revised documentation. The Port submitted its formal 
application for this commercial bridge project in October of 
1991 and in January, 1992, U.S. Customs wrote the General 
Services Administration indicating that the Port bridge was 
among its top three priorities for new border stations. Most 
importantly, the Committee notes that the Port of Brownsville 
has agreed to finance all of the U.S. portion of the bridge, 
including all of the U.S. Customs, INS, and Agriculture 
inspection facilities and access made to the bridge site, and 
to provide free rent to the inspection agencies for a period of 
time to be negotiated with U.S. Customs. Additionally, the Port 
of Brownsville and the State of Tamaulipas intend to structure 
the project in such a way that all of the Mexican 
infrastructure, including access roads, would be financed by 
private sector funding, not government funding.
    The Committee recommends that Customs explore the 
possibility of initially staffing the proposed new Port bridge 
on a reimbursable basis. It is expected that the Port of 
Brownsville/Matamoros bridge will be opened in fiscal year 
1998.

                   harbor maintenance fee collection
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................................
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      $3,000,000
Recommended in the bill.................................       3,000,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      +3,000,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................................
                                mission

    The Harbor Maintenance Fee is established to provide 
resources to the Army Corps of Engineers for the improvement of 
American channels and harbors. It is assessed on the value of 
commercial imports and exports delivered to or from certain 
specified ports. The fee is collected by the U.S. Customs 
Service and deposited into the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund. 
In fiscal year 1996, $3,000,000 will be transferred from the 
Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund to the Customs Service Salaries 
and Expenses appropriation to offset costs incurred by Customs 
in collecting Harbor Maintenance Fees.

                             recommendation

    The Committee concurs with the President's request.

     operation and maintenance, air & marine interdiction programs
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $89,041,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      60,993,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      60,993,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................     -28,048,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................................
                                mission

    The Customs Air and Marine Interdiction Program combats the 
illegal entry of narcotics and other goods into the United 
States. This appropriation provides capital procurement and all 
operations and maintenance for the Customs air and marine 
program and support for the interdiction of narcotics by other 
Federal, State and local agencies.

                             recommendation

    The Committee funded this account at the President's 
request.

                          customs air program

    The Committee has provided statutory language allowing the 
Customs Service to provide assistance in law enforcement and 
humanitarian operations not specifically related to its primary 
mission of drug law enforcement. This is a technical change in 
the law. Customs has in the past provided such assistance in 
the spirit of cooperation among law enforcement agencies, but 
discontinued this practice over the course of the past year 
after discovering that it lacked specific authority to do so. 
The Committee notes that such operations constitute the third 
priority for Customs pilots, after drug interdiction and 
support for other Customs law enforcement efforts, but that it 
is necessary to undertake these other missions during ``down'' 
times to keep the Customs pilot's skills honed.

                         puerto rico air branch

    The Committee is aware of the difficulty in staffing the 
air branches in Puerto Rico because of a lack of resources 
available for Permanent Change of Station (PCS) relocations. 
The Committee has provided some such resources as part of 
Operation Hardline for the Southwest border but expects the 
Customs Service to reprogram resources from other areas in 
order to adequately staff the air branch in Puerto Rico.

  customs facilities, construction, improvements and related expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $1,000,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................................
Recommended in the bill.................................................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      -1,000,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................................
                                mission

    This account funds major Customs construction, repair, and 
facility improvement initiatives. Funds were provided in the 
Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations 
Act, 1995 (P.L. 103-329), for a hangar at the Customs Air 
Branch in Puerto Rico. No funds are requested for fiscal year 
1996.

                             recommendation

    The Committee concurs with the President's request.

                   customs services at small airports

                  (to be derived from fees collected)
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $1,406,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       1,406,000
Recommended in the bill.................................       1,406,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................................
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................................
                                mission

    Customs charges user fees at certain small airports where 
the volume or value of business is insufficient to justify the 
availability of Customs services. The funds generated from 
these user fees are applied to expenditures incurred in 
providing Customs services at each of these designated small 
airports.

                             recommendation

    The Committee concurs with the President's request.

                    Bureau of Engraving and Printing

                                mission

    The Bureau of Engraving and Printing, a non-appropriated 
fund account, designs, manufactures, and supplies Federal 
Reserve notes, various public debt instruments, as well as most 
evidences of a financial character issued by the United States, 
such as postage and internal revenue stamps. The Bureau 
executes certain printings for various territories administered 
by the United States, particularly postage and revenue stamps.
    The operations of the Bureau are currently financed by 
means of a revolving fund established in accordance with the 
provisions of Public Law 656, August 4, 1950 (31 U.S.C. 181), 
which requires the Bureau to be reimbursed by customer agencies 
for all costs of manufacturing products and services performed. 
The Bureau is also authorized to assess amounts to acquire 
capital equipment and provide for working capital needs. The 
anticipated work volume is based on estimates of requirements 
submitted by agencies served.

                    relationship with the committee

    The Committee is concerned that the Department of the 
Treasury is attempting to circumvent the excellent working 
relationship which has existed for years between the Committee, 
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), and the U.S. Mint. 
It would be most unfortunate if the Department of Treasury 
continued to insist that these organizations receive approval 
for day-to-day activities or for providing the Committee with 
information and assistance. The Committee directs that the BEP 
and the Mint be allowed to communicate directly with the 
Committee without interference from the Treasury bureaucracy.
    Additionally, the Committee strongly recommends that the 
Director of the BEP and the Director of the U.S. Mint report 
directly to the Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Management 
without intervention by the office of the U.S. Treasurer on 
matters concerning their respective operations.

              implementation of task force recommendations

    In April of 1995, the Department of the Treasury released 
its Departmental Task Force Report on Physical Security and 
Internal Controls at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing 
(BEP). This is a comprehensive report which addresses all major 
issues which need to be resolved by BEP. The Committee is 
pleased that BEP has taken the initiative and has implemented 
many of the recommendations. The recommendations which have not 
yet been implemented are those which are complex and costly in 
nature and therefore require additional time to correct. The 
Committee directs that BEP provide quarterly reports on its 
progress in implementing the recommendations of the task force.

                          web press technology

    Since June of 1983, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing 
(BEP) has spent over $32 million on an unsuccessful attempt to 
develop a one-of-a-kind, three-component, web-based currency 
production system. Technical problems identified as early as 
1982 continue to plague the web press and solving these 
problems will probably cost more than could be gained through 
its operation. Furthermore, the circumstances which prompted 
the BEP to solicit a web-based currency production system no 
longer exist. In 1993, the BEP greatly expanded its production 
capability by adding a facility in Ft. Worth, Texas which uses 
modern sheet-fed presses. This facility eliminated concerns 
about meeting currency production demands and single-site 
vulnerability, the primary reasons for initiating web-press 
development. Therefore, the Committee directs that BEP 
immediately suspend its work on developing the Web Press.

                   classification of chief of police

    The Committee has included a new provision (sec. 521) which 
authorizes the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to pay its 
Chief of Police at a GS-14 level.

                              new facility

    The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) has initiated a 
review of its operations to investigate the possibility of 
opening a third currency production facility. The Committee 
directs the BEP to develop a plan for expansion and submit the 
plan for review by the Committee.

                expanding competition for currency paper

    For the purposes of section 622 of Public Law 100-202, the 
fiscal year 1988 Continuing Resolution, a corporation or other 
entity is deemed not to be owned or controlled by persons not 
citizens of the United States, if it was created under the laws 
of the United States or any one of its states or possessions; 
and, if more than 50 percent of the entity is held by United 
States citizen(s). This language will allow increased 
competition among companies that supply paper used in the 
printing of currency. The Committee's intent is to open up 
competition to reduce costs. The Committee insists that 
production locations for currency paper remain under the 
jurisdiction of U.S. law enforcement officials.
                           United States Mint

                         salaries and expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $55,740,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      58,261,000
Recommended in the bill.................................               0
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................     -55,740,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................     -58,261,000
                                mission

    The United States Mint manufactures coins, receives 
deposits of gold and silver bullion, and safeguards the 
Government's holdings of monetary metals.
                    relationship with the committee

    The Committee is concerned that the Department of the 
Treasury is attempting to circumvent the excellent working 
relationship which has existed for years between the Committee, 
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), and the U.S. Mint. 
It would be most unfortunate if the Department of Treasury 
continued to insist that these organizations receive approval 
for day-to-day activities or for providing the Committee with 
information and assistance. The Committee directs that the BEP 
and the Mint be allowed to communicate directly with the 
Committee without interference from the Treasury bureaucracy.
    Additionally, the Committee strongly recommends that the 
Director of the BEP and the Director of the U.S. Mint report 
directly to the Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Management 
without intervention by the office of the U.S. Treasurer on 
matters concerning their respective operations.

                          mint revolving fund

    The Committee has included a provision (sec. 522) which 
authorizes the establishment of a revolving fund to finance the 
operations of the U.S. Mint. The Fund will be financed through 
the transfer of seingniorage.
    After years of reviewing U.S. Mint operations, and 
discussions with Mint officials and the House Banking 
Committee, it has become apparent to the Committee that there 
should be more application of basic business practices to the 
operations of this agency. The U.S. Mint is one of the last 
true production operations of the Federal government and should 
be allowed to operate without funding variables imposed by 
annual appropriations. The House Banking Committee has reviewed 
the provision establishing a revolving fund and has no 
objections to including it in this bill.
    Without an annual appropriation, there may be the undesired 
consequence of limiting Congressional oversight of Mint 
operations. To ensure that Congress continues to have 
information available for proper oversight, the Director of the 
U.S. Mint is required to submit quarterly reports to the 
Chairman of the Appropriations Committee detailing the 
implementation of the Fund and its impact with regards to 
ongoing operations of the U.S. Mint. The reports should, among 
other things, compare operations and procedures prior to and 
subsequent to the enactment of this legislation.
    Furthermore, the Director of the U.S. Mint shall submit an 
annual report to Congress detailing the amount transferred to 
the Treasury as Miscellaneous Receipts in excess of the amount 
required by the Fund, the amount on deposit in the Fund that 
exceeds the estimated costs of the Fund, and an explanation of 
the specific purposes for which such excess amounts are being 
retained in the Fund. The Director shall prepare and submit to 
Congress a budget for the Fund, and estimates and Statements of 
Financial Condition of the Fund. The Director shall also submit 
an Annual Report on the operation of the Mint which includes 
the Financial Statement and Auditor's report prepared in 
accordance with Federal Agency Accounting Standards and the 
Office of Management and Budget's Form and Content Guidance. By 
April 30 of each year, the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
submit a report on the Fund for the most recently completed 
year to the President, the Congress, and the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget.
    The Committee does not agree with a proposal advanced by 
the Department of the Treasury which would have allowed the 
Fund to support personnel levels and functions of the office of 
the U.S. Treasurer. This proposal violates the intent of the 
Fund and is therefore denied by the Committee.

                       Bureau of the Public Debt

                     administering the public debt
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................    $183,458,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................     176,965,000
Recommended in the bill.................................     170,000,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................     -13,458,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -6,965,000
                                mission

    This appropriation provides funds for the conduct of all 
public debt operations and the promotion of the sale of U.S. 
savings-type securities.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends $170,000,000 for the Bureau of the 
Public Debt (BPD) appropriation; a $6,965,000 reduction from 
the request and $13,458,000 below 1995. The Committee notes 
that current estimate for fee collections is $5,398,000 as 
opposed to the $3,100,000 proposed in the budget request which 
decreases the amount required for BPD operations by another 
$2,298,000.

          reassignment of people to parkersburg, west virginia

    The Committee has continued a provision (Sec. 529) 
prohibiting the use of funds to take adverse action against an 
employee of the Bureau of the Public Debt under certain 
circumstances, amended to cut off the effect of the provision 
on February 15, 1996. This provision does not bar the Bureau 
from making preparations, prior to February 15, 1996, necessary 
to separate affected employees. The Committee directs the 
Bureau to continue its efforts to provide job placement 
assistance to affected employees and to report back to the 
Committee on these efforts no later than December 1, 1995.

                        Internal Revenue Service

                 processing, assistance, and management
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................  $1,511,266,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................   1,805,042,000
Recommended in the bill.................................   1,682,742,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................    +171,476,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................    -122,300,000
                                mission

    This appropriation provides for processing tax returns and 
related documents, processing data for compiling statistics of 
income, assisting taxpayers in correct filing of their returns 
and in paying taxes that are due overall planning, and 
direction of the Internal Revenue Service, and management of 
financial resources and procurement.

                             recommendation

    In fiscal year 1996, the Administration proposed merging 
the former ``Administration and Management'' and ``Processing, 
Tax Returns, and Assistance'' appropriations. The Committee 
agrees with the Administration's request and has merged these 
accounts.
    The Committee recommends a funding level of $1,682,742,000, 
a reduction of $122,300,000 from the request and $171,476,000 
over 1995. The Committee denies, without prejudice, requests 
for increased funding for tax refund fraud, account resolution, 
and amounts to maintain current funding levels and labor costs.
          irs ruling affecting american farm bureau federation

    The Committee remains concerned about the Internal Revenue 
Service (IRS) administration of and ruling on Technical Advice 
Memorandum 9416002, which affects the American Farm Bureau 
Federation. The IRS ruling involves Unrelated Business Income 
Tax (UBIT), and adversely affects thousands of Farm Bureau 
members.
    The Committee understands the rationale used by the IRS in 
its recent report to Congress. However, the Committee believes 
that IRS should work with the appropriate congressional 
committees to review this ruling.

                   enforcement of employment tax laws

    Current Federal income and employment tax laws may provide 
employers with incentives for treating workers as independent 
contractors rather than employees as defined by the Internal 
Revenue Code. The Congress and the General Accounting Office 
have been investigating this situation and there is significant 
concern about the annual revenue loss to the government when 
employment tax laws are circumvented in this manner.
    The Committee directs that the IRS provide the proper level 
of resources to ensure the diligent enforcement of the Internal 
Revenue Code, especially the laws governing employment tax.

                  freedom of expression in irs offices

    The Committee has become aware of a situation which 
developed in an office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 
which a memorandum was circulated among the staff restricting 
religious items within employees' personal work areas.
    The Committee directs the Secretary of the Treasury to 
ensure that neither the IRS or any of its divisions, issue 
rules, regulations, memos, or instructions which limit the 
constitutional freedom of religious expression by its 
employees. The Secretary of the Treasury shall provide the 
Committee a copy of his direction to the Commissioner of the 
IRS implementing the Committee's direction, which shall be 
considered an agency-wide policy direction, within 30 days of 
enactment of this Act.
                          tax law enforcement
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................  $4,385,459,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................   4,524,351,000
Recommended in the bill.................................   4,254,476,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................    -130,983,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................    -269,875,000
                                mission

    This appropriation provides for the examination of tax 
returns, both domestic and international, and the 
administrative and judicial settlement of taxpayer appeals of 
examination findings. It also provides for technical rulings, 
monitoring employee pension plans, determining qualifications 
of organizations seeking tax-exempt status, examining tax 
returns of exempt organizations, enforcing statutes relating to 
detection and investigation of criminal violations of the 
internal revenue laws, collecting unpaid accounts, compiling 
statistics of income and compliance research, and securing 
unfiled tax returns and payments. Included in this amount is 
the Tax Compliance Initiative, a five year plan to ensure 
equitable application and adequate enforcement of the tax laws, 
to promote voluntary compliance with the internal revenue laws, 
to identify possible nonfilers for investigation and to 
investigate cases of fraud or financial transactions related to 
possible money laundering schemes.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends a funding level of $4,254,476,000; 
a reduction of $269,875,000 from the request and $130,983,000 
below 1995.

                       tax compliance initiative

    The Committee recognizes that, while the House Budget 
Resolution includes a set aside of $405 million for the Tax 
Compliance Initiative, the conference agreement on the Budget 
Resolution does not agree with such a set aside. This requires 
the Committee to accommodate the Initiative within its 
allocation. To meet the overall commitment to this initiative 
and its funding allocation, the Committee recommends a 
``stretch out'': from a 5-year, $2 billion program to a 7-year 
$2 billion program. In taking this action, the Committee 
recognizes that, according to IRS calculations, the result 
could reduce projected revenues by $800 million over 7 years. 
This ``stretch out'' will reduce the $405,000,000 included in 
the 1996 budget request to $266,000,000. The Committee has 
provided $266,000,000 for the Tax Compliance Initiative, 
$57,000,000 to fund the 1996 pay raise, and $13,000,000 for a 
test of privatization of collections.

                             tax collection

    The inability of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to 
collect a significant portion of tax liabilities has prompted 
the General Accounting Office (GAO) and the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) to recognize Accounts Receivable as 
a high-risk area. In a February 1995 report, GAO found that IRS 
collections decreased about 8 percent between 1990 and 1995. 
These poor results are attributable, in part, to IRS' lengthy 
and inefficient collection process which does not incorporate 
techniques used by the private sector.
    In fiscal year 1994, the IRS developed a project seeking 
assistance from private debt collection agencies to enforce 
compliance efforts. IRS estimated that this effort would raise 
an additional $62 million in revenue. This project was never 
implemented. The Committee believes that this initiative 
continues to have merit and has included language which directs 
that $13 million of the funds appropriated for Tax Law 
Enforcement be used to award contracts for private sector 
assistance in collection activities.
    The Committee recognizes that there are valid legal issues 
which must be taken into account before this initiative can be 
implemented. For example, according to OMB, the actual 
collection of taxes is considered an inherently governmental 
function requiring performance by government employees. 
However, the Committee notes that private companies can and do 
perform collection-related activities.
    The Committee is certainly not interested in violating the 
rights of taxpayers and has limited the funds to contracts 
which provide protections found in the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. 
Additionally, the Committee believes that the contracts should 
provide for ``progress'' payments to the private sector 
companies where payment on the contract will depend on 
adherence to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights as well as revenue 
actually collected. In this way the contractor only receives 
payment if revenue is collected.
    To ensure that this initiative receives an opportunity to 
flourish, the Committee is adamant that IRS should consider a 
regional test of the program, assigning collection cases that 
would fit the profile of a private sector collection agency. 
Additionally, the Committee insists that the contracts should 
include the opportunity for smaller collection agencies to 
participate.

                          information systems
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................  $1,386,510,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................   1,879,582,000
Recommended in the bill.................................   1,575,216,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................    +188,706,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................    -304,366,000
                                mission

    This appropriation provides for IRS data processing 
support, including the evaluation, development, and 
implementation of computer systems, software, and hardware 
requirements. This appropriation also includes funds for Tax 
Systems Modernization.

                             recommendation

    The Committee has provided $1,575,216,000 for Information 
Systems; a reduction of $304,366,000 from the request and 
$188,706,000 above 1995. Of this amount, $721,835,000 is for 
Tax Systems Modernization (TSM) and $143,234,000 for other 
computer efforts designed to keep the current system operating 
until TSM comes on line. The Committee notes that these figures 
represent the IRS' and Treasury Department's efforts to revise 
TSM priorities. The Committee is clearly pleased to see the 
Department working in partnership with the IRS to enhance 
oversight and implementation of the TSM program.

                       tax systems modernization

    The Committee has not included statutory language, as it 
has in the past, placing a ``floor'' on the amount that must be 
expended on TSM. However, the Committee is adamant that IRS 
implement the program at the $721,835,000 level and directs 
that any plan which would change this funding level be approved 
in advance by the Committee.
    On February 16, 1995, the Committee held a hearing on the 
Tax Systems Modernization program. The General Accounting 
Office testified that, while IRS had made some progress in its 
management and planning of TSM, there remained several 
significant problems: a lack of sufficient technical and 
management expertise and skills to implement TSM; an inability 
to take into account changes during development of TSM; and a 
lack of set system development priorities, established 
performance measures, or fully established technical 
guidelines. Additionally, the GAO suggested that although IRS 
had plans to implement the direction contained in House Report 
103-534, complete implementation of the Committee's direction 
had not yet occurred.
    In a follow on report submitted to the Committee in April 
of 1995, the GAO reiterated these points and provided its 
recommendations of items the IRS should address immediately. 
The recommendations included: implement a complete process for 
selecting, prioritizing, controlling and evaluating the 
progress and performance of all major information systems 
investments; review all planned and ongoing systems investments 
according to decision criteria; define, implement, and mandate 
a consistent set of procedures; complete an integrated systems 
architecture; develop a Test and Evaluation Master Plan for 
modernization; and establish an integration test and control 
facility. The Committee agrees with GAO's recommendations, but 
believes the limited time frame suggested by the GAO is 
unrealistic.
    The Committee has included a provision in the appropriation 
language which prohibits the expenditure of a portion of the 
1996 funds until the IRS provides a plan for implementing, by 
September 30, 1996, the GAO recommendations included in its 
April 1995 report. The report must also address the methods IRS 
will use to ensure sufficient technical and management 
expertise and skills are available to develop and implement 
TSM, an area which the Committee believes should be solved 
through contract rather than through direct hiring on the part 
of IRS. The report must be submitted to the House 
Appropriations Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee 
for approval before the expenditure of $70,000,000 in 1996 
funds.
    As indicated last year, it is not the intent of the 
Committee that reductions to the amount requested be applied 
disproportionately to contracted efforts. In particular, the 
Committee anticipates that the strategic re-planning required 
to implement the 1996 funding level will require more intensive 
utilization of the IRS's federally funded research and 
development center.
    The Committee has included a provision (Sec. 526) which 
terminates the role of the General Services Administration 
(GSA) in the delegation of procurement authority with regards 
to Tax Systems Modernization. The Committee believes that this 
change will eliminate the inefficiencies of duplicate 
requirements imposed by both the Federal Acquisition Regulation 
(FAR) and GSA. The Committee notes that this provision does not 
alleviate the Secretary's requirement to adhere to the FAR.

              tax systems modernization-program management

    The Committee is pleased that the IRS has taken the 
development and implementation of the TSM program seriously and 
has elevated its management to the level of Associate 
Commissioner. The Committee is also pleased that the Secretary 
of the Treasury has taken a serious interest in the management 
of TSM and has formed a management team to monitor the 
development and implementation of the program. It is important 
that this management team not become a bureaucratic mill stone 
around the neck of TSM, but instead provide leadership, 
oversight, and support.

          administrative provisions--internal revenue service

    Section 1. The Committee has continued a provision which 
allows funds available to the IRS to be transferred to other 
IRS operations with the advanced approval of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations. The Committee has modified 
the amount from four percent to two percent.
    Section 2. The Committee has continued a provision which 
institutes and maintains a training program in taxpayer's 
rights and cross-cultural relations.
                      United States Secret Service

                         Salaries and Expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................    $483,606,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................     541,258,000
Recommended in the bill.................................     542,461,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................     +58,855,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      +1,203,000
                                Mission

    The Secret Service is responsible for the security of the 
President, the Vice President and other dignitaries and 
designated individuals; for enforcement of laws relating to 
obligations and securities of the United States and financial 
crimes such as financial institution fraud and other fraud; and 
for protection of the White House and other buildings within 
Washington, DC.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $542,461,000, 
an increase of $1,203,000 above the fiscal year 1996 request 
and an increase of $58,855,000 above fiscal year 1995.
    In support of the Secret Service's primary mission to 
protect the President, the Vice President and other 
dignitaries, the Committee has provided $41,216,000 in 
recognition of the upcoming Presidential election and other 
mandatory workload changes. This is above the President's 
request by $3,910,000 as the Committee denies the request to 
transfer funds and 17 FTEs from the Secret Service to the 
proposed Foreign Law Enforcement Account.
    The Committee disapproves the proposed reallocation of 
$3,000,000 from Financial Institution Fraud Investigations to 
Credit Card/Access Device Fraud Investigations.
    The Committee has reduced the request of $16,295,000 for 
the costs associated with the Secret Service's headquarters 
move by $2,488,000; additional funds needed for interior build 
out, specialized filing, and technical support services can be 
absorbed within the amounts appropriated.
    The Committee has also denied the request of $1.2 million 
for the replacement of the mainframe computer; this request 
should be made in a future fiscal year after the Secret Service 
has relocated to its new headquarters space.

                          white house security

    Because the Committee did not approve the proposed transfer 
of $1,814,000 to White House Security in 1995, the Committee 
has restored this amount to the 1996 base request. The 
additional White House Security requirements supported by the 
$1.8 million transfer were included in the pending 1995 
supplemental appropriations bill.

                    Violent Crime Reduction Programs
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $38,700,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      78,200,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      63,886,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................     +25,186,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................     -14,314,000
                                mission

    Amounts for the Department of the Treasury's portion of 
Crime Control Programs are derived from transfers from the 
Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund (VCRTF) as authorized by the 
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. In 1996, the 
President proposed creation of a grant program operated by the 
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. This program, called 
the ``Violence Reduction Alliance'', will provide funds for 
states and localities to work in partnership with BATF to 
combat firearms crime and interstate gun trafficking. 
Additional crime bill funds were proposed to be used to attack 
the problem of refund fraud in tax returns, to enhance border 
enforcement, to fight overseas counterfeiting, to crack down on 
money laundering, and to increase training of and communication 
among Federal law enforcement personnel.

                             recommendation

    The Committee has provided $63,886,000 to the Treasury 
Violent Crime Reduction Program.
    The Committee approved the $2,221,000 request for the 
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
    The Committee denied ATF's request of $25,300,000 for its 
proposed Violence Reduction Alliances (VRA). The Committee 
finds this to be an intriguing idea, but declines to fund new 
projects when there is not enough money to fund worthy, 
existing programs. Instead, the Committee provides $3,100,000 
for ATF to continue its efforts in the development of 
ballistics technologies as part of the ``CEASEFIRE'' program.
    The Committee provides $12,200,000 for the Gang Resistance 
Education and Training (GREAT) project, including the 
$7,200,000 proposed by the Administration and $5,000,000 
transferred from the ATF salaries and expenses account.
    The Committee provides the Customs Service $33,865,000 in 
support of Operation Hardline. This includes $12,000,000 for 
cargo X-ray systems, $5,300,000 for ``jersey barriers'' and 
ballards, $875,000 for port lighting, $700,000 for body armor, 
$10,500,000 for permanent change of station (PCS) funding for 
special agents, $2,500,000 for special border problem solving 
teams, $990,000 in relocation funding for air program officers 
and $1,000,000 in computer support for the Southwest border 
initiative.
    The Committee provides $2,500,000 for enhanced basic 
training support at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center 
at Glynco, Georgia.
    The Committee has provided $10 million for the Secret 
Service's efforts associated with the 1994 Crime Bill. The 
Committee denies the President's proposal to reprogram $1.6 
million appropriated in 1995 from Missing and Exploited 
Children to Counterfeiting, and instead funds Counterfeiting at 
$5.0 million and Missing and Exploited Children at $1.6 
million. The Committee has also included $3.0 million for 
Financial Institution Fraud Investigations and $400,000 to 
expand the Treasury Recipient Integrity Program, ``TRIP'', 
domestically. The Committee is encouraged by the success of the 
Domestic Benefit Recipient Verification Program and encourages 
the Secret Service to develop a pilot project to expand 
entitlement fraud investigations through this program.
                             Counterfeiting

    Last year, the Committee provided the Secret Service with 
additional funds to combat the dramatic growth in overseas 
counterfeiting. The Committee directed the Secret Service to 
use these funds to increase staffing at their existing foreign 
offices and to establish a new office in Moscow. The Committee 
further directed the Secret Service to report by March 1, 1995 
on its overseas staffing requirements. The Committee has 
received this report and notes that the Secret Service has 
identified the need for 28 additional FTE's overseas and the 
establishment of 6 new foreign offices. To date, these staffing 
requirements and new foreign office openings have not been 
accomplished. While the Committee recognizes the interim 
efforts of the Secret Service to combat foreign counterfeiting 
with task forces, it believes the permanent presence of the 
Secret Service in the areas identified in the March 1 report is 
essential to combating this serious problem.
    The Committee recommends the Secret Service to take the 
necessary steps to increase their foreign office staffing and 
establish new foreign offices in Bogota, Hong Kong, Mexico 
City, Moscow, Nicosia, and Ottawa. The Committee also directs 
the Secret Service to report by February 1, 1996, with 
specificity, on the progress of this initiative.

             General Provisions--Department of the Treasury

    Section 101. The Committee has continued a provision which 
requires the Secretary of the Treasury to comply with certain 
reprogramming guidelines when obligating or expending funds for 
law enforcement activities.
    Section 102. The Committee has continued a provision which 
allows the Department of Treasury to purchase uniforms, 
insurance, motor vehicles without regard to the general 
purchase price limitation, and enter into contracts with the 
State Department for health and medical services for Treasury 
employees in overseas locations.
    Section 103. The Committee has continued a provision which 
allows two percent of the funds available to the Treasury 
Department to be transferred between Treasury accounts with the 
advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations.
    Section 104. The Committee has continued a provision which 
restricts the use of funds appropriated to the IRS if employees 
are not in compliance with the Fair Debt Collection Practices 
Act. The Committee has modified this provision by adding the 
requirement that private sector employees under contract to the 
IRS must also comply with the Fair Debt Collection Practices 
Act.
    Section 105. The Committee has continued a provision which 
mandates the IRS institute policies and procedures which 
safeguard the confidentiality of taxpayer information.
    Section 106. The Committee has continued a provision which 
requires expenditure of funds so as not to diminish efforts 
under the Federal Alcohol Administration Act.
    The Committee has deleted a provision which limits the use 
of efficiency savings for the IRS.

                        TITLE II--POSTAL SERVICE

                     Payments to the Postal Service

                   Payment to the Postal Service Fund
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $92,317,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................     109,094,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      85,080,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      -7,237,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................     -24,014,000
      Payment to the Postal Service Fund for Nonfunded Liabilities
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $37,776,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      36,828,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      36,828,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................        -948,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................................
                   payment to the postal service fund

    The Committee provides the Postal Service's request of 
$55,700,000 for free mail for the blind, $380,000 for overseas 
voting and $29,000,000 for the revenue foregone adjustment. 
Because of budgetary constraints, the Committee was unable to 
recommend the $24,014,000 reconciliation adjustment and defers, 
without prejudice, funding for this item.
    While the Committee is unable to fund in fiscal year 1996 
the $24 million reconciliation adjustment payment due to the 
Postal Service for revenue foregone on free and reduced-rate 
mail in fiscal years 1992 and 1993, the Committee recognizes 
that the government has a statutory obligation to reimburse the 
Postal Service for these expenses. It is the Committee's intent 
to fund this payment next year in addition to other payments 
due in fiscal year 1997.

                  american canyon, california zip code

    The Committee believes that the Postal Service should 
reconsider its decision to deny the City of American Canyon, 
California, its own Zip Code. Despite the fact that American 
Canyon is a separately incorporated municipality of more than 
8,000 residents in Napa County, it is assigned the same Zip 
Code as the City of Vallejo, which is in Solano County. Not 
only is this a matter of civic identity, but the situation 
disadvantages the City and its residents. Mail intended for 
Solano County residents is misdelivered, and the residents have 
to drive more than six miles to obtain postal services. The 
unified Zip Code also makes it difficult for the State 
Controller and State Board of Equalization to apportion State 
subvention funds to cities.
    The Committee notes that many communities smaller than 
American Canyon have their own Zip Codes. Under such 
circumstances, the Committee strongly encourages the Postal 
Service to give further consideration to assigning American 
Canyon its own Zip Code.

              processing center in staten island, new york

    While understanding the need for the Postal Service to 
adjust its operations to take advantage of advances in 
automation, the Committee is concerned about the impact of the 
proposed relocation of outgoing mail processing operations 
currently stationed in Staten Island, New York.
    The Committee requests that the Postal Service conduct a 
review to determine the impact on postal operations and 
employees, the cost of the move, and the anticipated effect on 
mail service in this area. A copy of this review and a written 
justification for the proposal should be provided to the 
Committee if the Postal Service decides to proceed with this 
change.

                          breast cancer stamp

    The Committee believes that, despite increasing public 
education and an emphasis on early detection, over the last 
three decades the incidence of breast cancer in this Nation has 
risen to an all-time high. Therefore, additional efforts to 
provide for greater national awareness of breast cancer are 
warranted. To this end, the United States Postal Service and 
the Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee are encouraged to 
introduce, in fiscal year 1996, a postage stamp that is 
primarily focused toward the enhancement of breast cancer 
awareness. The symbol for breast cancer awareness, the pink 
ribbon, should be featured on the stamp.

                    alamogordo and hobbs, new mexico

    The Committee is concerned about the need for new post 
office locations and facilities for the growing cities of 
Alamogordo and Hobbs, New Mexico. The small Alamogordo post 
office has seen a tripling of the number of the routes it 
serves in the last thirty years and presently has no parking 
for either customers or employees at its high traffic location. 
The sixty-year-old Hobbs post office is wholly inadequate in 
terms of condition, size, safety, and parking. The Committee 
directs the Postal Service to evaluate plans for new facilities 
at these locations, and to report back to the Committee as soon 
as possible in this regard.

                         flexibility in pricing

    The Committee is aware that small businesses that are large 
volume users are unable to get the discounts offered to larger 
businesses by the Postal Service because they cannot meet 
current requirements. During testimony before the Committee, 
the Postmaster General indicated he would welcome greater 
flexibility in pricing. The Committee supports the Postmaster 
General in seeking greater flexibility in pricing and, in 
particular, contract pricing practices that would allow the 
Postal Service to set discount prices for projected volume.

                   u.s. post office, Baxley, georgia

    The Committee is aware that a new Post Office is slated for 
Baxley, Georgia. While the Committee realizes that the Baxley 
Post Office must go through the normal process, the Committee 
supports the proposed project and encourages the Postal Service 
to continue working with the residents of Baxley to ensure that 
an updated facility is built.

                         breckenridge, colorado

    The Committee is concerned about the failure of the Postal 
Service to complete planning for the construction of a new post 
office in Breckenridge, Colorado. The Committee instructed the 
Service in last year's report to complete this planning in 
fiscal year 1995, so that construction of a new post office, 
for which the Postal Service has already purchased land, could 
begin in fiscal year 1996. The Committee urges that planning 
for the project be completed in fiscal year 1996. The Postal 
Service is further requested to report back to the Committee by 
April 1, 1996, on the progress of this necessary project.
                  philadelphia airport postal facility

    The Committee understands that the American Helicopter 
Museum and Learning Center in Philadelphia, PA requires a 
facility for the refurbishment, storage, display and flight 
demonstration of historic rotary wing aircraft and that the 
vacant Postal Service facility at the Philadelphia airport 
meets the Museum's requirements. Recognizing the Nation's 
interest in preserving its rich heritage in rotary wing 
aviation, the Postal Service's pioneering role in the 
application of such aircraft for mail delivery, and 
Philadelphia's role in the development of the rotary wing 
industry, the Committee encourages the Postal Service to enter 
into discussions with the Museum regarding the possible 
transfer of the vacant Postal facility.

                      pleasant hill, iowa zip code

    The Committee understands that the city of Pleasant Hill, 
Iowa is experiencing difficulty with existing postal service 
delivery due to the city having two zip codes, one in Des 
Moines and the other in Altoona. The Committee directs the 
United States Postal Service to conduct a study of the 
situation and report back to the Committee its findings and a 
solution to the problem three months from the date of enactment 
of this legislation.

TITLE III--EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO 
                             THE PRESIDENT

                     Compensation of the President
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................        $250,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................         250,000
Recommended in the bill.................................         250,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................................
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................................
                                mission

    These funds provide for the compensation of the President 
and for official expenses as authorized by 3 USC 102.

                         The White House Office

                         salaries and expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $40,022,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      40,193,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      39,459,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................        -563,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................        -734,000
                                mission

    These funds provide the President with staff assistance and 
provide administrative services for the direct support of the 
President.

                             Recommendation

    The Committee recommends $39,459,000, a reduction of 
$563,000 from 1995 levels and a reduction of $734,000 from the 
amount requested by the President.
    The Committee assumes the lower of the 1995 enacted level 
or the President's request.

                      white house gift collection

    The Committee directs the White House to work with the 
National Archives and Records Administration to review the 
White House Gift Collection to determine the advisability of 
displaying the Collection at the Archives II facility.
                 Executive Residence at the White House

                           operating expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $7,827,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       7,827,000
Recommended in the bill.................................       7,522,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................        -305,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................        -305,000
                                Mission

    These funds provide for the care, maintenance, and 
operation of the Executive Residence.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends $7,522,000, a reduction of 
$305,000 from both the fiscal year 1995 enacted level and the 
amount requested by the President. The Committee assumes all of 
the savings identified in the President's FY 1996 request and 
none of the increases.

                      young americans chef program

    Last year, in testimony before the Committee, the Executive 
Residence testified that $23,000 in funds to support the 
``Young Americans Chef'' internship program would reduce the 
number of additional chefs required for the White House Chef. 
To date, the Committee notes there has been no reduction in the 
number of chefs employed by the Executive Residence. The 
Executive Residence is seeking $18,000 in additional funds to 
support this internship program in 1996; the Committee 
encourages the Executive Residence to review the 
appropriateness of continuing this program in light of tight 
budgetary constraints.

                   White House Repair and Restoration
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................................
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      $2,200,000
Recommended in the bill.................................................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................................
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -2,200,000
                                Mission

    The President has requested an appropriation of $2,200,000 
for expenses necessary for the repair and restoration of the 
roof of the Executive Residence.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends no appropriation for White House 
Repair and Restoration and instead funds this request through 
the General Services Administration.
    The Committee supports efforts to repair and restore the 
roof of the Executive Residence but is concerned that the 
National Park Service has not taken the necessary steps to 
complete this project in the most cost efficient manner and, in 
particular, that only one evaluation of the roof has been 
completed to date. The Committee has funded this request 
through the GSA in order to ensure that this restoration will 
receive the appropriate level of review and encourages GSA to 
proceed with the restoration in a manner consistent with the 
repair and alteration of federally controlled space. The 
Committee further directs GSA and the National Park Service to 
work in complete cooperation with the Secret Service in order 
to accommodate necessary White House security requirements.

                Official Residence of the Vice President

                           operating expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................        $324,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................         324,000
Recommended in the bill.................................         324,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................................
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................................
                                mission

    These funds provide for the care and operation of the Vice 
President's official residence.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends $324,000, the same as the 1995 
enacted level and the amount requested by the President.

                  Special Assistance to the President

                         Salaries and Expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $3,280,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       3,280,000
Recommended in the bill.................................       3,175,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................        -105,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................        -105,000
                                mission

    These funds are to be used by the Vice President to carry 
out responsibilities assigned him by the President and by 
various statutes.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends $3,175,000, a reduction of 
$105,000 from both the 1995 enacted level and the amount 
requested by the President.
    In most cases, the Committee's recommendation assumes the 
lower of the 1995 enacted level or the amount requested by the 
President.

                      Council of Economic Advisers

                         Salaries and Expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $3,439,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       3,439,000
Recommended in the bill.................................................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      -3,439,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -3,439,000
                                mission

    The Council of Economic Advisers analyzes the national 
economy and its various segments, advises the President on 
economic developments, recommends policies for economic growth 
and stability, appraises economic programs and policies of the 
Federal Government, and assists in preparation of the annual 
Economic Report of the President to Congress.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends no appropriation for the Council 
of Economic Advisors.

                        Duplication of Programs

    The Committee is concerned about the duplication of effort 
within the Executive Office of the President (EOP), 
particularly as it relates to advising the President on 
economic policy. Under the current organizational structure, 
there are three separate entities responsible for advising and 
assisting the President in the formulation, coordination, and 
implementation of economic policy; the National Economic 
Council, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Council 
of Economic Advisors. In support of initiatives to eliminate 
duplicative federal programs, as proposed in the Vice 
President's National Performance Review, the Committee has 
terminated the Council of Economic Advisors. Functions 
previously performed by the Council can be assumed by both OMB 
and the National Economic Council.

                      Office of Policy Development

                         Salaries and Expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $5,058,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       3,867,000
Recommended in the bill.................................       3,867,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      -1,191,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................................
                                mission

    The Office of Policy Development supports the National 
Economic Council and the Domestic Policy Council in carrying 
out their responsibilities to advise and assist the President 
in the formulation, coordination, and implementation of 
economic and domestic policy. The Office of Policy Development 
also provides support for other domestic policy development and 
implementation activities as directed by the President.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends $3,867,000, the same as the 1995 
enacted level and the amount requested by the President.
                    council on Environmental Quality

    The Committee's recommendation supports the President's 
request to transfer the Office on Environmental Policy to the 
Council on Environmental Quality, for savings of $1,130,000 
from 1995 levels.
                       National Security Council

                         salaries and expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $6,648,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       6,648,000
Recommended in the bill.................................       6,459,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................        -189,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................        -189,000
                                mission

    The National Security Council advises the President on the 
integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies 
relating to national security.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends $6,459,000, a reduction of 
$189,000 from both the 1995 enacted level and the amount 
requested by the President. The Committee assumes all of the 
reductions proposed by the President and none of the increases.

                           Political Advocacy

    The Committee is concerned that NSC's role appears to be 
evolving from a policy advisory to a political advocacy group. 
The Committee strongly disagrees with the NSC's assertion that 
reductions in foreign aid are tantamount to unilateral 
disarmament or back-door isolationism. However, the Committee 
notes NSC's concerns.

                        Office of Administration

                         salaries and expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $26,100,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      26,100,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      25,736,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................        -364,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................        -364,000
                                mission

    The Office of Administration's mission is to provide high-
quality, cost-effective, administrative services to the 
Executive Office of the President. These services, defined by 
Executive Order 12028 of 1977, include financial, personnel, 
library and records services, information management systems 
support, and general office services.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends $25,736,000, a reduction of 
$364,000 below 1995 enacted levels and $364,000 below the 
amount requested by the President. The recommendation assumes 
the lower of 1995 levels or the amount requested by the 
President for the various activities funded within this 
appropriation account.

                            Telephone Bills

    The Committee notes that the Office of Administration has 
failed to resolve several outstanding telephone billing issues 
that have been in dispute since as early as October of 1994. 
The Committee directs the Office of Administration to resolve 
these issues expeditiously and to report to the House Committee 
on Appropriations on the resolution of the disputes, including 
the final amount of payment.

                    Office of Management and Budget

                         salaries and expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $57,754,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      56,272,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      55,426,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      -2,328,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................        -846,000
                                mission

    This Office of Management and Budget assists the President 
in the discharge of budgetary, economic, management, and other 
executive responsibilities.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends $55,426,000, a reduction of 
$2,328,000 from 1995 levels and a reduction of $846,000 from 
the amount requested by the President. The Committee supports 
the President's proposal to transfer funding for the 
Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) from OMB, for a 
savings of $1,482,000 from 1995 levels.

                 information security oversight office

    In fiscal year 1995, the Congress moved the Information 
Security Oversight Office (ISOO) from the General Services 
Administration (GSA) to the Office of Management and Budget. 
The original 1996 request established ISOO as an independent 
agency. A subsequent budget amendment submitted to Congress on 
May 2, 1995 proposed transferring ISOO to the National Archives 
and Records Administration (NARA). The Committee addresses ISOO 
funding in the NARA portion of this report.

                        presidential priorities

    The Committee supports the President's prerogative to fund 
agencies under the umbrella of the Executive Office of the 
President (EOP), including the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB), at levels necessary to support the Administration's 
priorities. As such, the Committee traditionally does not 
propose major changes to the President's request for EOP 
agencies.
    The Committee notes, however, that over the past two years 
the Administration has maintained that OMB should not be 
considered as part of EOP for the purposes of calculating the 
25 percent staff reduction the President committed to achieve 
at the start of this Administration. By placing OMB outside the 
historical organization of the Executive Office of the 
President, the President established a precedent which is 
supported by the Committee. In support of this precedent, the 
Committee is confident that the funding level recommended for 
OMB in 1996 will not impair the Administration's ability to 
advance the President's priorities.
                 Growth in Resource Management Offices

    The Committee is concerned about the overall growth in 
various Resource Management Offices within OMB and, in 
particular, that funding and staffing patterns within these 
offices may not reflect new directions being taken within the 
federal government as a whole. The Committee is particularly 
concerned about growth in the Office of Health and Personnel 
where funding has grown by 85 percent from 1993 to 1995 and 
staffing has increased by nearly 100 percent. In general, the 
Committee believes there are opportunities available within 
OMB's internal structure to achieve significant reductions in 
staffing and budgetary resources. The Committee also notes, 
with concern, that OMB currently has 77 SES positions, a level 
that exceeds the number of SES employees in comparably sized 
agencies.
                      Pilot Demonstration project

    In support of the President's commitment to the line item 
veto, the Committee has included bill language for the Office 
of Management and Budget detailing the allocation of funding 
levels by program, as set forth in the President's budget. The 
Committee agrees with the President that the line item veto, 
and appropriations legislation structured to support the line 
item veto, will increase accountability and the ability of both 
the legislative and the executive branches to review individual 
spending programs.
    The Committee believes that, by providing the detail of 
appropriated amounts in the bill, the OMB will have an 
opportunity to gain experience on operating under line item 
veto authority and will be able to share the results of that 
experience with other executive branch agencies.
    The Committee directs OMB to report back to the House 
Committee on Appropriations on the advantages and disadvantages 
to this concept no later than January 1, 1996.

                           unfunded mandates

    The Committee is aware that the Advisory Commission on 
Intergovernmental Relations is tasked with completing a 
baseline study and intergovernmental review of federal mandates 
and their impact on state, local and tribal governments. The 
Committee is further aware that Public Law 104-4, the 
``Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995'' authorized $500,000 
for ACIR to carry out these reviews. The Committee, however, 
has terminated the ACIR.
    The Committee believes that OMB has both the technical and 
resource capacity to prepare the reports required under P.L. 
104-4 and directs OMB to complete these reports according to 
the provisions of P.L. 104-4. The Committee has included an 
increase of $334,000 above the amount requested by the 
President for OMB wide offices to support this effort and 
directs OMB to use these funds for this purpose.

                         Institute of Medicine

    The Committee is aware of the 1994 Institute of Medicine 
(IOM) Report, ``Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders: Frontiers 
for Preventive Intervention Research'' that documents the 
uncoordinated research and service efforts that now exist in 23 
federal agencies in this field. The Committee believes that 
efforts to coordinate these activities would result in both 
financial savings and improved science and concurs with the IOM 
findings that Executive Branch leadership to coordinate this 
field is critical for the efficient expenditure of federal 
funds. The Committee urges OMB to coordinate efforts in the 
prevention of mental disorders that now exist across the 
various federal agencies.

                         classification reform

    The Committee anticipates that the policy changes contained 
in Executive Order 12958, ``Classified National Security 
Information,'' issued by the President on April 17, 1995 will 
result in future budget savings. To realize these savings as 
quickly as possible, the Committee directs the office of 
Management and Budget to submit to the Committee by January 1, 
1996, a copy of each agency's plan to comply with the 
declassification requirements of Section 3.4 of E.O. 12958 and 
a copy of any instruction, directive or regulation issued by 
OMB to develop a security cost accounting system. The Committee 
notes that section 5.6(c) (8) of E.O. 12958 requires agencies 
to account for the costs of their security classification, 
including the costs incurred by contractors in performing 
classified work for the Government. The Committee directs OMB 
to submit by May 1, 1996, an agency-by-agency report on FY 1995 
security classification costs (including contractor costs) and 
an estimate of FY 1996 security classification costs to the 
House Committee on Appropriations.

                adjudicating federal employee grievances

    The Committee is concerned regarding the duplication of 
effort inherent in the fact that both the Federal Labor 
Relations Authority (FLRA) and Merit Systems Protection Board 
(MSPB) adjudicate federal employee grievances, and wishes to 
indicate that it has no intention of allowing this to continue. 
To express its concern, the Committee has reduced the 
appropriation for MSPB by $3,420,000 and FLRA by $2,488,000. 
The Committee directs the Administration to develop a proposal 
to merge these two agencies into a single adjudicatory board 
and submit it to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations, the House Committee on Government Reform and 
Oversight and the Senate Government Operations Committee no 
later than February 1, 1996.

            fair labor standards act statute of limitations

    In the fiscal year 1995 Treasury-Postal Act, the Committee 
included a provision directing the Comptroller General to apply 
a six year statute of limitation to Fair Labor Standards Act 
overtime claims filed by June 30, 1994. The Committee has been 
asked to consider repeal of this provision for two reasons: 
cost and fairness. The Committee will review this issue prior 
to conference with the Senate and, if deemed appropriate, will 
suggest changes at that time. In the interim, the Committee 
directs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide an 
estimate of the cost of last year's provision to the 
government, including a high and low cost estimate as well as a 
description of the methdology and assumptions inherent in this 
calculation.

                 Office of National Drug Control Policy

                         salaries and expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $9,942,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       9,942,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      20,062,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................     +10,120,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................     +10,120,000
                                mission

    The Office of National Drug Control Policy, established by 
the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, is charged with developing 
policies, objectives and priorities for the National Drug 
Control Program as defined by the Act and Executive Order 
12880.

                             recommendation

    The Committee provides a total of $20,062,000 for the 
Office of National Drug Control Policy. Of this amount, 
$9,262,000 supports the functions previously performed by the 
salaries and expenses account. In this area, the Committee 
recommends a reduction of $386,000, owing to a decrease of 5 
FTE, establishing 1994 staffing levels for the office, as well 
as a $294,000 reduction in other overhead expenditures. Another 
$10,200,000, to remain available until expended, shall be used 
for the operations of the Counterdrug Technology Assessment 
Center. The remaining $600,000 shall be transferred to the Drug 
Enforcement Administration for the El Paso Intelligence Center 
(EPIC).

                          Unanticipated Needs
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $1,000,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       1,000,000
Recommended in the bill.................................       1,000,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................................
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................................
                                Mission

    These funds enable the President to meet unanticipated 
needs in furtherance of the national interest and security.
                     Federal Drug Control Programs

             High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................    $107,000,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................     110,000,000
Recommended in the bill.................................     104,000,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      -3,000,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -6,000,000
                                mission

    The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Program 
was established by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to provide 
assistance to Federal and State and local law enforcement 
entities operating in those areas most adversely affected by 
drug trafficking. Since January 1990, the Director of the 
Office of National Drug Control Policy has designated seven 
areas as HIDTAs: New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, 
Baltimore/Washington, Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands, and the 
Southwest Border.
    Each HIDTA has a designated Federal official who 
coordinates the Federal HIDTA program. Funds made available 
under the HIDTA program are disbursed at the discretion of the 
Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

                             recommendation

    The Committee has provided statutory language to use the 
resources provided as part of the High Intensity Drug 
Trafficking Area program more flexibly. The first five HIDTAs 
in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, the Southwest Border and 
Miami focused almost exclusively on enabling coordination among 
law enforcement agencies. The Washington-Baltimore HIDTA 
offered the first example of a new HIDTA, one that focused on 
improving interaction between health care providers, the 
courts, and law enforcement. The language proposed would allow 
the Office of National Drug Control Policy to expand its 
efforts along these lines, using resources to bring probation 
and parole departments, as well as non-profit organizations, 
into closer coordination with law enforcement in order to show 
that better coordination among all of these entities can reduce 
the number of ``hard-core'' drug users.

                         southwest border hidta

    The Committee recognizes the importance of drug-
interdiction initiatives being conducted by High Intensity Drug 
Trafficking Areas (HIDTAs), especially their role in 
coordinating the activities of state and local agencies in our 
nation's war against drugs. The Committee is concerned about 
statistics which reveal the proliferation of trafficking in the 
Southwestern region of our country and directs the ONDCP to 
give the Southwest Border HIDTA high priority in its funding 
distribution.

                           operation alliance

    The Committee is aware that ONDCP, the Department of 
Justice, and the Department of Treasury are conducting a review 
of drug law enforcement programs along the Southwest border. 
Among the programs being reviewed is Operation Alliance, which 
coordinates the actions of 15 Federal agencies, as well as 
state and local agencies in four southwest border states, to 
combat drug smuggling in the Southwestern United States. The 
Committee reaffirms its support for Operation Alliance.

                        Special Forfeiture Fund
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $41,900,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      37,000,000
Recommended in the bill.................................................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................     -41,900,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................     -37,000,000
                                Mission

    The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 established the Special 
Forfeiture Fund, to be administered by the Director of the 
Office of National Drug Control Policy. The Special Forfeiture 
Fund supports high-priority drug control programs, as defined 
by the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. 
This Fund, which began operation in fiscal year 1990, receives 
deposits from the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund 
and the Department of the Treasury Assets Forfeiture Fund. The 
monies in the Fund are transferred to the drug control agencies 
in accordance with the priorities articulated in the National 
Drug Control Strategy.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends terminating this account. Since 
this fund fell short of resources in fiscal year 1995, and the 
Administration projects no transfers from the Justice or 
Treasury forfeiture funds in fiscal year 1996, there is no 
reason for the continued operation of this appropriation.
                     TITLE IV--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

             Administrative Conference of the United States

                         salaries and expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $1,800,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       2,259,000
Recommended in the bill.................................................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      -1,800,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -2,259,000
                             recommendation

    The Committee has eliminated funding for the Administrative 
Conference of the United States (ACUS). The House Budget 
Resolution assumes termination of ACUS and, as such, the 
Committee did not received a 602(b) allocation sufficient to 
support the continued funding of this agency.

           Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations

                         salaries and expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $1,000,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       1,400,000
Recommended in the bill.................................................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      -1,000,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -1,400,000
                             recommendation

    The Committee has eliminated funding for the Advisory 
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR).

                           unfunded mandates

    The Committee is aware that the Advisory Commission on 
Intergovernmental Relations is tasked with completing a 
baseline study and intergovernmental review of federal mandates 
and their impact on state, local and tribal governments. The 
Committee is further aware that Public Law 104-4, the 
``Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995'' authorized $500,000 
for ACIR to carry out these reviews.
    The House Budget Resolution assumes termination of ACIR 
and, as such, the Committee did not receive a 602(b) allocation 
sufficient to support the continued funding of this agency. 
Furthermore, the Committee believes that the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) has both the technical and the 
resource capacity to prepare the reports required under P.L. 
104-4. The Committee has provided an additional $334,000 to OMB 
for this purpose. The Committee directs OMB to prepare these 
reports under the provisions of P.L. 104-4.

 Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

                         salaries and expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $1,682,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       1,800,000
Recommended in the bill.................................       1,682,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................................
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................        -118,000
                                mission

    The Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or 
Severely Disabled was established by the Wagner-O'Day Act of 
1938, as amended. Its primary objective is to increase the 
employment opportunities for people who are blind or have other 
severe disabilities and, whenever possible, to prepare them to 
engage in competitive employment. In 1996, approximately 27,000 
people who are blind or have other severe disabilities are 
projected to be employed in nearly 600 producing nonprofit 
agencies. The Committee's duties include promoting the program; 
determining which commodities and services are suitable for 
Government procurement from qualified nonprofit agencies 
serving people who are blind or have other severe disabilities; 
maintaining a procurement list of such commodities and 
services; determining the fair market price for commodities and 
services on the procurement list; and making rules and 
regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act. In 
1996 the Committee expects to have nearly 5,000 items on its 
Procurement List and sales of $570 million.

                             recommendation

    The Committee provides $1,682,000 for this account, the 
same amount appropriated in fiscal year 1995.
                      Federal Election Commission

                         salaries and expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $25,710,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      29,021,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      26,521,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................        +811,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -2,500,000
                                mission

    The Commission administers the disclosure of campaign 
finance information, enforces limitations on contributions and 
expenditures, supervises the public funding of Presidential 
elections, and performs other tasks related to Federal 
elections.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $26,521,000, a 
reduction of $2,500,000 below the fiscal year 1996 request and 
an increase of $811,000 above the revised 1995 enacted level. 
The recommendation is also $1,113,000 below the 1996 authorized 
level of $27,634,000.
    The Committee's recommendation assumes the lower of FEC 
1995 current plan, the 1996 FEC request, or the amount required 
to support an FTE level of 320.

                         computer modernization

    The Committee is sympathetic to FEC's position that a full 
scale computer modernization plan that includes electronic 
filing can not be completed absent an appropriate authorizing 
vehicle. Without this authorization, the Committee agrees that 
there are limits to the number and types of initiatives that 
FEC can pursue toward electronic filing. However, the Committee 
is concerned at FEC's current lack of progress toward internal 
ADP modernization and is assured that FEC has no statutory 
impediments to such a modernization.
    The Committee believes the FEC has failed to adequately 
plan for internal ADP modernization. To date, despite intense 
Committee interest, the FEC has not completed a strategic plan 
including a systems requirements analysis. The Committee 
further understands that FEC does not have a formal plan with a 
methodology for supporting or accomplishing upgrades.
    The Committee is convinced the FEC can make tremendous 
progress toward managing its workloads more efficiently with an 
adequate computer modernization plan in place. Given FEC's 
reluctance to independently pursue a comprehensive internal 
computer modernization plan, the Committee has earmarked 
$1,500,000 of FEC's appropriation for computer modernization 
and includes a proviso requiring FEC to submit a systems 
requirements analysis to the House Committee on Appropriations 
prior to the obligation of any of these funds.

                        performance measurement

    The FEC's basic functions of campaign finance disclosure, 
enforcing compliance with the Federal Election Campaign Act, 
and oversight of Presidential campaign funding easily lend 
themselves to performance based management including 
established objectives, milestones and outcomes. Many of FEC's 
operations are mechanical and rote in nature. For instance, the 
indexing and posting of reports filed by political committee 
within the statutory 24 hour time frame can easily be measured. 
Other functions are also easily quantified.
    The Committee is aware that the FEC is required to comply 
with Public Law 103-62, the Government Performance and Results 
Act of 1993 and is working to meet the requirements of that 
Act. In addition, last year, the Committee included language in 
House Report 103-534 directing all agencies under its 
jurisdiction to continue with the development of agency 
performance measures. The Committee has continued this 
direction again and is concerned that, to date, FEC has failed 
to submit any such measurements. While FEC has provided the 
Committee with workload measures, the FEC has not compared 
these workloads to annual objectives.
    Based on the testimony the Committee heard during 
preparation of the 1996 budget for the FEC, the Committee is 
convinced that performance measures will put FEC on a path of 
improved service delivery as well as efficiency. The Committee 
directs FEC to submit a strategic plan for program activities, 
consistent with the provisions of Public Law 103-62, with its 
fiscal year 1997 budget request.
                   Federal Labor Relations Authority

                         salaries and expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $21,341,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      22,230,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      19,742,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      -1,599,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -2,488,000
                                mission

    The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) serves as a 
neutral party in the settlement of disputes that arise between 
unions, employees, and agencies on matters outlined in the 
Federal Service Labor Management Relations statute, decides 
major policy issues, prescribes regulations, and disseminates 
information appropriate to the needs of agencies, labor 
organizations, and the public. Establishment of the FLRA gives 
full recognition to the role of the Federal Government as an 
employer.

                             recommendation

    Both the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) and the 
Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) adjudicate employee 
grievances. Although the Committee appreciates the importance 
of separating the adjudicatory and prosecutorial functions of 
the employee grievance process, the Committee refuses to 
continue funding two separate adjudicatory agencies in these 
times of fiscal restraint. To express its concern, the 
Committee has reduced the FLRA appropriation by $2,488,000, and 
directs the Administration to develop a legislative proposal to 
merge all federal employee adjudicatory functions and to submit 
this plan to Congress no later than February 1, 1996.

                                                             General Services Administration                                                            
                                                                 federal buildings fund                                                                 
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                                                           Fiscal year--                                                                                
                                           --------------------------------------------         House          House compared with   House compared with
                                                1995 enacted         1996 estimates                                  enacted               request      
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Appropriation.............................            31,197,000          -259,112,000  ....................          -310,197,000          +259,112,000
Rescissions...............................        (-715,532,000)  ....................  ....................        (+715,532,000)  ....................
Limitations on availability of revenue:                                                                                                                 
    Construction & acquisition of                                                                                                                       
     facilities...........................         (604,002,000)  ....................         (367,777,000)        (-236,225,000)        (+367,777,000)
    Alfred P. Murrah Federal Office                                                                                                                     
     Building.............................          (40,400,000)  ....................  ....................         (-40,400,000)  ....................
    Repairs and alterations...............         (723,864,000)         (911,000,000)         (713,086,000)         (-10,788,000)        (-197,914,000)
    Installment acquisition payments......         (127,531,000)         (181,963,000)         (181,963,000)         (+54,432,000)  ....................
    Rental of space.......................       (2,181,300,000)       (2,339,000,000)       (2,341,100,000)        (+159,800,000)          (+2,100,000)
    Building operations...................       (1,322,025,000)       (1,352,551,000)       (1,389,463,000)         (+67,438,000)         (+36,912,000)
    Transfer to Construction and                                                                                                                        
     Acquisition..........................  ....................         (554,813,000)  ....................  ....................        (-554,813,000)
    Repayment of Debt.....................  ....................          (73,433,000)          (73,433,000)         (+73,433,000)  ....................
    Emergency funding.....................         (-66,800,000)  ....................  ....................         (+66,800,000)  ....................
                                           -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Total, Federal Buildings Fund...           310,197,000          -259,112,000  ....................          -310,197,000          +259,112,000
              (Limitations)...............       (4,932,322,000)       (5,412,760,000)       (5,066,822,000)        (+134,500,000)        (-345,938,000)
Real Property Activities:                                                                                                                               
    Appropriation.........................  ....................         1,022,213,000  ....................  ....................        -1,022,213,000
    Transfer from FBF.....................  ....................         (554,813,000)  ....................  ....................        (-554,813,000)
    Construction and Acquisition--                                                                                                                      
     Limitation:                                                                                                                                        
        (Construction--Limitation)........  ....................       (1,017,213,000)  ....................  ....................      (-1,017,213,000)
        (Acquisition--Limitation).........  ....................           (5,000,000)  ....................  ....................          (-5,000,000)
                                           -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Subtotal........................  ....................       (1,022,213,000)  ....................  ....................      (-1,022,213,000)
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         General Services Administration Federal Buildings Fund

                             recommendation

    The fiscal year 1996 budget request included a 
$1,022,213,000 appropriation into the Federal Buildings Fund 
(FBF) for the construction and acquisition of new facilities. 
The Committee denies this request because it violates the 
Public Buildings Act which established the FBF as a revolving 
fund.
    To finance the construction and acquisition of new 
facilities, the Committee has made available $367,777,000 from 
the FBF, a reduction of $233,925,000 from the 1995 level. The 
level of funding for each project is detailed in the bill.
    The recommendation reflects the Committee's recognition of 
the House Budget Resolution which places a moratorium on new 
construction. The Committee's recommendation funds no new 
projects. Projects with funding ``in the pipeline'' did receive 
continued support. The Committee's recommendation includes a 
requirement that all projects receive authorization prior to 
the obligation of funds.

               united states courthouse construction plan

    The Committee has included a new provision (Sec. 4) which 
prohibits the submission of a fiscal year 1997 budget for the 
construction of United States Courthouses, unless the 
facilities meet the construction standards developed by the GSA 
and OMB and reflects the priorities of the Judicial Conference 
of the United States established in its five-year construction 
plan. The development of this plan shall be monitored by the 
General Accounting Office (GAO). This document must be produced 
and approved before the Committee will consider new funding 
requests for courthouse construction in future fiscal years.
    The Committee takes this action because, despite repeated 
requests, the Courts have been unwilling to produce a 
construction plan which would give the Congress an estimation 
of the short term and long term needs for Courthouse 
construction and renovation. The only plan the Courts have 
produced thus far is a ``wish list'' which totals over $10 
billion. There is no plan which presents priorities of 
construction, annual requirements, or trade-offs if the 
priorities are not met.
    Furthermore, while the Committee is pleased that the GSA 
and the Courts have established ``standards'' for the design of 
courthouses; those standards may still be too grand. The 
Committee directs the GSA and the Courts to establish new 
standards which maximize the useable space, incorporate cost 
saving design (such as all the courtrooms on the same floor and 
centralized library space), and cost saving construction 
techniques such as using the same kind of paneling and 
carpeting throughout the building. The Committee suggests that 
additional design changes such as shared courtrooms, should be 
included in the new standards developed by the GSA. 
Additionally, GSA should review current projects to reduce 
costs consistent with these new standards and submit revised 
prospectuses as necessary.
    The Committee recognizes that the Judiciary, as a 
Constitutionally separate branch of government, is entitled to 
buildings befitting the rank and responsibilities of US Judges. 
However, the Constitution of the United States clearly 
establishes the Congress as the party responsible for 
representing the interests of the American people, including 
financial decisions. It is in this capacity that the Committee 
makes these recommendations.

                           commercial broker

    The GSA has conducted a review of its Commercial Broker 
function to determine if it should be retained within GSA's 
operations or if it could be contracted to private sector 
concerns. While GSA has made no final decision regarding this 
function, the Committee believes that a test of the concept of 
privatizing this function should be conducted by the GSA.
    Therefore, the Committee directs the GSA to develop a plan 
to implement the privatization of the Commercial Broker 
function by March 31, 1996, in a large region of GSA 
responsibility. The plan shall be submitted to the Committee 
for approval no later than December 1, 1995. The plan should 
also address the method GSA will use to compare and contrast 
efficiencies of maintaining the function in-house versus 
privatization.

            Grove Arcade Building, Asheville, North Carolina

    The Committee understands that the Grove Arcade Building in 
Asheville, North Carolina has been vacated by the Federal 
government because the agencies have moved into a new Federal 
Office Building in the City. The City of Asheville would now 
like to regain title to the property at no additional cost, 
considering the lost tax revenue which the City has experienced 
over the years.
    Therefore, the Committee directs the GSA to work with the 
City of Asheville to work out the transfer of the title to the 
Grove Arcade Building to the City at no additional cost.

                    El Paso, Texas Federal Building

    The Committee directs that, within funds provided in 
Building Operations, $560,000 be made available for identified 
security improvements at the El Paso, Texas Federal Building.

                 collocation of usda, davis, california

    The Committee commends the General Services Administration 
(GSA) for its efforts to assist with the collocation of a 
number of Department of Agriculture state offices in Davis, 
California. The Committee urges the GSA to continue their 
expeditious development of a collocation facility.

              pennsylvania avenue development corporation

    The Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations has transferred 
the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation to the General 
Services Administration (GSA). The Committee has included bill 
language which directs the GSA to establish a Federal Triangle 
Office which reports to the Commissioner of the Public 
Buildings Service and directs the continued utilization of 
procurement and operating procedures established for the 
project pursuant to 40 U.S.C. 1104. It is the intent of the 
Committee that this office should exist as a short-term 
approach until the project is complete.

                       surplus military equipment

    The Committee has noted with concern the fact that Federal 
officers this year seized eight armored personnel carriers, 
formerly used at a Department of Energy facility, that 
evidently had been transferred to private parties in a manner 
which may be inconsistent with applicable law, including the 
restrictions on who can receive such military-style equipment, 
and to protect public safety, the General Services 
Administration is directed to review its policies and 
procedures, to assure that future transfers of military 
equipment governed by such policies and procedures will be in 
compliance with legal requirements, and is directed to report 
the results of that review, together with any appropriate 
recommendations for changes in law, to the Congress no later 
than January 1, 1996.

                         Repair and Alterations

                             recommendation

    The Committee has made available $713,086,000 for repairs 
and alterations of federal facilities; a reduction of 
$197,934,000 from the requested level. The level of funding for 
each project is detailed in the bill.

                           treasury building

    The Committee has included $7,194,000 for repairs and 
alterations for the Treasury Building in Washington, DC. This 
project includes replacement of the electrical distribution 
system and steam and cooling lines.
    While the Treasury Department building is not in GSA's 
inventory of facilitates, GSA is the organization which should 
be coordinating all requirements for the government-wide 
inventory of facilities. The Committee also recognizes that 
this is a long-term project which will require additional 
funding. GSA is directed to include sums as necessary in future 
budget requests for this project.

                              white house

    The Committee has included $2,200,000 for repairs and 
alterations for the White House roof. The Committee has funded 
this request through the Federal Buildings Fund to ensure that 
this restoration will receive the appropriate level of review. 
The Committee encourages GSA to proceed with the restoration in 
a manner consistent with the repair and alteration of federally 
controlled space. The Committee further directs GSA and the 
National Park Service to work in complete cooperation with the 
Secret Service in order to accommodate security requirements.

  national animal disease center and the national veterinary services 
                              laboratories

    The Committee has included $100,000 to initiate the design 
for expansion of the National Veterinary Services Laboratories 
and a new shared Animal Biocontainment Facility. The Committee 
directs the GSA to work with the U.S. Department of Agriculture 
in designing facilities that can be utilized by both government 
and academic institutions in the furtherance of animal health 
research.

                          policy and oversight
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................................
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................    $111,827,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      62,499,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................     +62,499,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................     -49,328,000
                                mission

    This appropriations account consolidates policy, oversight, 
and asset management functions associated with real and 
personal property, supplies, acquisition, and information 
technology into a single account separate from operations. The 
establishment of this appropriations account is part of the 
Administration's effort to transform the General Services 
Administration (GSA) into an organization responsible for 
policy and oversight, and to place greater reliance on the 
private sector, as appropriate. The creation of this office 
will increase accountability for results, encourage innovation, 
and enhance government-wide planning.
                             recommendation

    The fiscal year 1996 budget request included a new 
appropriation of $111,827,000 for the establishment of a 
government-wide policy and oversight office within the General 
Services Administration (GSA). The ultimate goal is to move the 
GSA toward a centralized policy development and oversight role 
for government-wide administrative management issues. The 
Committee agrees with this position and has provided 
$62,499,000 for this activity, transferring $36,912,000 to 
Building Operations. The Committee believes that a centralized 
organization, separate from the three operational services, 
will be able to achieve significant government-wide 
administrative cost savings as a result of strengthened and 
coordinated policy and management oversight.

               general services administration operations

    The budget also included the traditional operating expenses 
appropriation at a requested level of $53,878,000 and a 
transfer of $68,960,000 to the policy and oversight 
appropriation. The separate traditional operating expense 
appropriation was maintained because the GSA is in the process 
of reviewing all its business lines to determine future 
requirement and funding. Because of this, GSA has argued that 
it needs to continue funding certain operations through a 
direct appropriation. The Committee agrees with this position 
and has provided $49,130,000 for this activity. The Committee 
supports GSA and its ongoing operational reviews. These ongoing 
reviews are necessary and should be completed in an expeditious 
manner.
    However, the Committee recognizes that the Administrator of 
GSA may well be torn between competing interests if both policy 
and operational functions are maintained within GSA. The 
establishment of the most cost-effective government-wide 
administrative policy may not always be in the best interests 
of GSA operations. GSA, in its ``serve the interests of the 
customer'' mode, may not always make the most cost-effective 
decisions for the Federal government as a whole. It is hard to 
understand how these functions can co-exist in GSA without the 
operational functions dominating the policy functions. The 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is 
directed to review whether keeping both functions in GSA should 
continue in future budget requests.
                           operating expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................    $130,036,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      53,878,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      49,130,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................     -80,906,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -4,748,000
                                mission

    This appropriation account provides for operating expenses 
for Federal Supply, Information Technology, Federal Property 
Resources and General Management and Administration.
    This involves property, transportation and travel services, 
and schedules contracting; coordination of government-wide 
programs for procurement and use of automatic data processing, 
telecommunications and other information technology equipment 
and services; maximum utilization of real property by Federal 
agencies and the transfer among agencies of excess real 
property; disposal of surplus real property by sale, exchange, 
lease, permit, assignment, or transfer, as well as the 
protection and maintenance of excess and surplus property 
pending its disposition; appraisal of excess and surplus 
property, necessary environmental and cultural analyses, reuse 
planning, and real property utilization surveys; Indian Trust 
Accounting; and administrative support of Congressional 
District and Senate State offices.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends $49,130,000 for the Operating 
Expenses appropriation, a reduction of $4,748,000 from the 
requested level.

                    flexiplace telecommuting centers

    The Committee is pleased with the progress on the 
telecommuting demonstration projects approved to date and has 
included $5,000,000 to continue, and expand, the number of 
telecommuting centers serving the Washington, DC area.
    The Committee has also included language (sec. 5) which 
provides clear permanent authority for GSA to use income from 
billings to Federal agencies and non-federal sources, to defray 
costs directly associated with the functions of flexiplace work 
telecommuting centers, paid on or after October 1, 1993.
    The Committee has included a provision (sec. 6) which 
provides for the transfer of not less than $2,200,000 to the 
Charles County Community College, inclusive of amounts 
previously provided, for telecommuting centers in Southern 
Maryland. This proposed transfer language is in recognition of 
the results of the interim report to the Congress on Federal 
Interagency Telecommuting Centers which shows that the Southern 
Maryland project, developed and operated by the Charles County 
Community College, resulted in the highest utilization rate and 
lowest cost per user of any telecommuting demonstration.
    Within the $2.5 million made available by this Act for 
telecommuting centers in northern Virginia, the Committee urges 
GSA to establish at least one center at a suitable location in 
western Fairfax County and one in Loudoun County, Virginia.

          support of congressional state and district offices

    The administrative support services provided by the GSA to 
Congressional State and District Offices shall continue to be 
provided on a non-reimbursable basis.

                       tax systems modernization

    The Committee has included a provision (sec. 526) which 
removes oversight of the Tax Systems Modernization program from 
the Administrator of the GSA. This authority shall be 
transferred to the Secretary of the Treasury.

            denver international airport employee relocation

    The Committee is concerned about reports that, under FAA 
and GSA rules, employees in the Denver, Colorado area were 
permitted to claim personal housing relocation allowances in 
connection with their transfer from FAA facilities at Stapleton 
Field to the new Denver International Airport, even in some 
cases where an employee's new home was farther from the new job 
site than the employee's former home. This kind of misuse of 
public funds is unacceptable and insults American taxpayers. 
The Committee expects GSA and FAA to review and reform current 
personnel rules and labor agreements to avoid any repetition of 
this experience and to restrict relocation allowances to cases 
in which a job site transfer reasonably and proximately 
necessitates a change in home site.
                    support of the paralympic games

    The Committee directs that within the funds available to 
the General Services Administration (GSA), $1,000,000 be made 
available for planning and logistical support of the 1996 
Paralympic Games.

                      iowa communications network

    In fiscal year 1995, the General Services Administration 
(GSA) provided $6,000,000 for the establishment of the Iowa 
Communications Network (ICN). The Committee directs that the 
$6,000,000 level be maintained in fiscal year 1996.
    The 1996 program funding will expand upon existing fiscal 
year 1995 ICN pilot projects by adding eight video conferencing 
Extension Centers to the Indian Hills Community College pilot 
project, a technology demonstration project to develop a 
unifed, intergovernmental law enforcement, public safety 
network connecting the Clarinda Correctional Treatment Unit to 
the ICN, develop a comprehensive local-state-federal plan for 
the use of information technologies and telecommunications 
services for the State of Iowa, and implement an electronic 
communication demonstration project.

                      office of inspector general
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $33,090,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      34,407,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      32,549,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................        -541,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -1,858,000
                                mission

    This appropriation provides agencywide audit and 
investigative functions to identify and correct management and 
administrative deficiencies within GSA which create conditions 
for existing or potential instances of fraud, waste and 
mismanagement. The audit function provides internal audit and 
contract audit services. Contract audits provide professional 
advice to GSA contracting officials on accounting and financial 
matters relative to the negotiation, award, administration, 
repricing, and settlement of contracts. Internal audits review 
and evaluate all facets of GSA operations and programs, test 
internal control systems, and develop information to improve 
operating efficiencies and enhance customer services. The 
investigative function provides for the detection and 
investigation of improper and illegal activities involving GSA 
programs, personnel, and operations.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends $32,549,000, for the Inspector 
General appropriation; a reduction of $1,858,000 from the 
request and $541,000 below the 1995 enacted level. The 
reduction is made without prejudice and shall be applied at the 
discretion of the Inspector General.

           allowances and office staff for former presidents
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $2,215,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       2,181,000
Recommended in the bill.................................       2,181,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................         -34,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................................
                                mission

    This appropriation provides support consisting of pensions, 
office staffs, and related expenses for former Presidents 
Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George Bush and 
for pension and postal franking privileges for the widow of 
former President Lyndon B. Johnson. Also, this appropriation is 
authorized to provide funding for security and travel related 
expenses for each former President and the spouse of a former 
President pursuant to Section 531 of Public Law 103-329. As of 
October 1, 1998, pursuant to Public Law 103-123, support will 
be limited to pensions only for these individuals, including 
anyone who may become a surviving spouse of these former 
Presidents. Support for future former Presidents or their 
surviving spouse will also be limited to pensions only 
beginning five years after leaving office.

                             recommendation

    The Committee has included a provision (Section 523) which 
clarifies the intent of Section 531 of the Treasury, Postal 
Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1995, 
amending the first section of Public Law 85-745.
                    General Services Administration

                           General Provisions

    Section 1. The Committee has continued a provision which 
provides for the crediting of amounts received as Federal 
agency rental payments to the Federal Buildings Fund.
    Section 2. The Committee has continued a provision which 
provides funds for the hire of motor vehicles.
    Section 3. The Committee has continued a provision which 
provides that funds made available for activities of the 
Federal Buildings Fund may be transferred between 
appropriations with advance approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations.
    Section 4. The Committee has continued a provision which 
limits funding for courthouse construction which do not meet 
certain standards of a capital improvement plan.
    Section 5. The Committee has included a new provision which 
authorizes GSA to accept and retain income to offset the cost 
of the flexiplace work telecommuting centers.
    Section 6. The Committee has included a new provision which 
authorizes the transfer of $2.2 million to the Charles County 
Community College and repeals a previous authorization.
    Section 7. The Committee has included a new provision which 
provides that funds appropriated for ``Operating Expenses'' and 
``Policy and Oversight'' may be transferred between these 
appropriations with advance approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations

           John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $2,150,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       2,418,000
Recommended in the bill.................................       2,150,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................................
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................        -268,000
                                Mission

    The John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board was 
established to oversee the locating and security of all records 
which relate to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 
These records include those of at least fifteen Federal 
agencies, previous official investigations, the Presidential 
libraries, and many smaller governmental and private 
repositories throughout the country.
    The purpose of the Board is to ensure the efficient, timely 
and full disclosure of these records to the American public.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends $2,150,000 for the John F. Kennedy 
Assassination Record Review Board, the same amount appropriated 
in fiscal year 1995.

                     Merit Systems Protection Board

                         Salaries and Expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $24,549,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      24,549,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      21,129,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      -3,420,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -3,420,000
                                Mission

    The Merit Systems Protection Board performs the 
adjudicatory functions necessary to maintain the civil service 
merit system. These include hearing appeals on adverse actions, 
reduction-in-force actions, and retirement. The Board reports 
to the President on whether merit systems are sufficiently free 
from prohibited personnel practices.
                             recommendation

    Both the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) and the 
Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) adjudicate employee 
grievances. Although the Committee appreciates the importance 
of separating the judicatory and prosecutorial functions of the 
employee grievance process, the Committee refuses to continue 
funding two separate adjudicatory agencies in these times of 
fiscal restraint. To express its concern, the Committee has 
reduced the MSPB appropriation by $3,420,000, and directs the 
Administration to develop a legislative proposal to merge all 
federal employee adjudicatory functions and to submit this plan 
to Congress no later than February 1, 1996.
    The Committee has also provided no resources for merit 
system studies in fiscal year 1996.
              National Archives and Records Administration

                           operating expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................    $195,238,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................     195,291,000
Recommended in the bill.................................     193,291,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      -1,947,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -2,000,000
                                mission

    The National Archives and Records Administration provides 
for basic operations dealing with management of the 
Government's archives and records, operation of Presidential 
libraries, and for the review for declassification of 
classified security information.

                             Recommendation

    The Committee recommends $193,291,000 for the National 
Archives and Records Administration appropriation; a reduction 
of $2,000,000 from the requested level. The Committee's 
reduction is taken without prejudice and may be applied at the 
discretion of the Archivist. The recommendation does provide 
for the $592,000 increase for the transfer of the records of 
former President Bush and the $1,200,000 request for roof 
repair at the Johnson Library.

                 information security oversight office

    In fiscal year 1995, the Congress moved the Information 
Security Oversight Office (ISOO) from the General Services 
Administration (GSA) to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB). The fiscal year 1996 budget request established the 
Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) as an independent 
agency. A subsequent budget amendment submitted to Congress on 
May 2, 1995, moved this agency to the National Archives and 
Records Administration (NARA). The Committee's recommendation 
eliminates this organization.
    The Committee's recommendation will result in the 
elimination of the ISOO, however it recognizes that any 
requirement to complete certain functions previously performed 
by the Office can be picked up by the National Archives or 
other appropriate agencies such as the Department of Defense.

                 Renovation of the Archives I Facility

    The Committee is concerned that the National Archives and 
Records Administration (NARA) is planning a renovation of the 
old Archives I facility without complete information on its 
requirements and a plan for financing this renovation. The 
Committee directs the Inspector General of the NARA review any 
and all plans which are being developed for such a renovation 
and report its findings to the Archivist no later than March 1, 
1996.

                      White House Gift Collection

    The Committee directs the National Archives and Records 
Administration to work with the White House to review the White 
House Gift Collection to determine the advisability of 
displaying the Collection at the Archives II facility.

        National Historical Publications and Records Commission

                             grants program
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $9,000,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       4,000,000
Recommended in the bill.................................       4,000,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      -5,000,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................................
                             recommendation

    The 1995 Treasury, Postal Service and General Government 
Appropriations Act, separated the NHPRC from the appropriation 
for the NARA, making the grants program a separate 
appropriation.
    The Committee recommends $4,000,000 for the National 
Historical Publications and Records Commission, the same as the 
President's request and $5,000,000 below the 1995 enacted 
level.
                      Office of Government Ethics

                         salaries and expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $8,104,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       8,328,000
Recommended in the bill.................................       7,776,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................        -328,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................        -552,000
                                mission

    The Office of Government Ethics (OGE) provides overall 
direction of executive branch policies designed to prevent 
conflicts of interest and insure high ethical standards. The 
OGE discharges its responsibilities to preserve and promote 
public confidence in the integrity of executive branch 
officials by developing rules and regulations pertaining to 
conflicts of interest, post employment restrictions, standards 
of conduct, and public and confidential financial disclosure in 
the executive branch; by monitoring compliance with the public 
and confidential financial disclosure requirements of the 
Ethics in Government Act of 1978 and the Ethics Reform Act of 
1989, to determine possible violations of applicable laws or 
regulations and recommending appropriate corrective action; by 
consulting with and assisting various officials in evaluating 
the effectiveness of applicable laws and the resolution of 
individual problems; by preparing formal advisory opinions, 
informal letter opinions, policy memoranda, and Federal 
Register entries on how to interpret and comply with the 
requirements on conflicts of interest, post employment, 
standards of conduct, and financial disclosure; and by issuing 
and amending regulations implementing the procurement integrity 
provisions relating to negotiating for employment, post 
employment, and gratuities in the Office of Federal Procurement 
Policy Act Amendments of 1988, P.L. 100-679.

                             recommendation

    The Committee provides $7,776,000 for the Office of 
Government Ethics, $552,000 below the request.

                     Office of Personnel Management

                         salaries and expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................    $111,999,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................     108,572,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      85,524,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................     -26,475,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................     -23,048,000
                                mission

    The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is the Government 
agency responsible for management of Federal human resource 
policy and oversight of the merit civil service system. 
Although individual agencies are increasingly responsible for 
personnel operations, OPM provides a Governmentwide policy 
framework for personnel matters, advises and assists agencies 
(often on a reimbursable basis), and ensures that agency 
operations are consistent with requirements of law, with 
emphasis on such issues as veterans preference. OPM oversees 
examining of applicants for employment, issues regulations and 
policies on hiring, classification and pay, training, 
investigations, and many other aspects of personnel management, 
and operates a reimbursable training program for the 
Government's managers and executives. OPM is also responsible 
for administering the retirement, health benefits and life 
insurance programs concerning most Federal employees, retired 
Federal employees, and their survivors.

                             Recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $85,524,000 
for the Office of Personnel Management, a $23,048,000 or 20 
percent reduction from the President's request of $108,572,000.
    The recommendation provides full funding for OPM's work in 
personnel policy, oversight of agency compliance with merit 
system principles, and oversight of its investigations 
functions, but takes significant reductions from employment 
services, middle management and executive direction, as well as 
a few low priority offices.
    The largest portion of the reduction, $19,423,000, is taken 
from OPM's employment service. The Committee is concerned that 
OPM is providing centralized employment services that may not 
be of value to the agency or the employee. OPM currently pays, 
for example, for the development and implementation of ``common 
occupation'' examinations--which may not help agencies make 
informed hiring decisions. To make sure that the government 
only pays for necessary examinations, the Committee has 
terminated direct funding for them and provided statutory 
language allowing other agencies to reimburse OPM for this 
service if it is necessary. Similarly, the Committee has 
terminated funding for offices providing federal job 
information to the public with the intent that all recruiting 
costs be borne by the individual agencies.
    The Committee's recommendation closes several unnecessary 
or duplicative offices, including the Federal Quality Institute 
($808,000), the International Affairs Office ($140,000) and the 
Research Office ($2,200,000). The recommendation also achieves 
savings by reducing overhead costs by eliminating regional 
offices ($2,720,000), reducing executive direction ($376,000), 
and not providing resources for common services for the 
terminated functions ($2,605,000).
    The Committee's recommendation provides $5,224,000 to fund 
closeout costs.

                       Privatizing Investigations

    The Committee supports the privatization of investigative 
services in concept. The current structure, with permanent 
federal employees funded through a revolving fund, does not 
respond quickly to rapid market changes, as we have seen with 
the rapid surge in demand in the mid-1980s and the quick 
decline in the early 1990s. A private service affords the 
possibility of smoother expansions and contractions.
    Nevertheless, the Committee is concerned that OPM plans to 
proceed too rapidly with its current efforts. The ``sole 
source'' contract with former employees, for example, may not 
bear scrutiny under contract protests. Also, OPM has not 
completed a detailed, long-term cost-benefit analysis of the 
proposal. The Committee therefore directs OPM to conduct a 
cost-benefit analysis of the proposal as well as a feasibility 
analysis of the employee-owned company. The Committee will 
furthermore request that the General Accounting Office (GAO) 
provide the Committee with analysis of the OPM submissions.
    Also, the Committee has included statutory language 
prohibiting OPM from initiating a reduction in force for the 
program before June 30, 1996.

                      Federal Executive Institute

    The Committee directs that no resources from the salaries 
and expenses appropriation be used to fund the Federal 
Executive Institute.

                      Federal Retirement Programs

    The Committee suggests that contract employees be used to 
meet the staffing needs of federal retirement programs to the 
greatest extent possible.

                 Labor-Management Partnership Councils

    The Committee is concerned about reports that labor-
management partnership councils, instituted by the 
Administration by Executive Order, have excluded 
representatives of non-bargaining unit employees and 
organizations or associations whose membership is made up of a 
majority federal professional, management, or career senior 
executive employees. The Committee urges the Administration and 
OPM to issue guidance to federal departments and agencies to 
include all employee groups in labor-management partnership 
councils. Such input and expertise will benefit the continuing 
effort to reinvent government.

                 Presidential Management Intern Program

    The Committee has included in the mark $560,000 for 
continued operation of the Presidential Management Intern (PMI) 
program. The Committee views this program as an important 
management development tool and a core function of the Office 
of Personnel Management, and supports its continued operations.

                      office of inspector general
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $4,009,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       4,037,000
Recommended in the bill.................................       4,009,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................................
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................         -28,000
                                mission

    This appropriation provides agencywide audit, 
investigative, evaluation, and inspection functions to identify 
management and administrative deficiencies which may create 
conditions for fraud, waste and mismanagement. The audits 
function provides internal agency audit, insurance audit, and 
contract audit services. Contract audits provide professional 
advice to agency contracting officials on accounting and 
financial matters regarding the negotiation, award, 
administration, repricing, and settlement of contracts. 
Internal audits review and evaluate all facets of agency 
operations, including financial statements. Evaluation and 
inspection services provide detailed technical evaluations of 
agency operations. Insurance audits review the operations of 
health and life insurance carriers, health care providers, and 
insurance subscribers. The investigative function provides for 
the detection and investigation of improper and illegal 
activities involving programs, personnel, and operations.

                             Recommendation

    The Committee provides $4,009,000, the same as the fiscal 
year 1995 appropriation.
      government payment for annuitants, employees health benefits
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................  $4,210,560,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................   3,746,337,000
Recommended in the bill.................................   3,746,337,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................    -464,223,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................................
                                mission

    This appropriation covers: (1) the Government's share of 
the cost of health insurance for 1,735,000 annuitants as 
defined in sections 8901 and 8906 of title 5, United States 
Code; (2) the Government's share of the cost of health 
insurance for about 14,000 annuitants (who were retired when 
the Federal employees health benefits law become effective), as 
defined in the Retired Federal Employees Health Benefits Act of 
1960; and (3) the Government's contribution for payment of 
administrative expenses incurred by the Office of Personnel 
Management in administration of the act.

                             Recommendation

    The Committee concurs with the President's request.
      government payment for annuitants, employees life insurance
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $28,159,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      32,647,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      32,647,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      +4,488,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................................
                                mission

    This appropriation finances the Government's share of 
premiums, which is one-third the cost, for Basic life insurance 
for annuitants retiring after December 31, 1989.

                             Recommendation

    The Committee concurs with the President's request.
        payment to civil service retirement and disability fund
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................  $7,339,638,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................   7,945,998,000
Recommended in the bill.................................   7,945,998,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................     606,360,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................................
                                mission

    This appropriation provides for payment of annuities, 
including the payment of annuities under special acts for 
persons employed on the construction of the Panama Canal or 
their widows and widows of employees of the Lighthouse Service; 
payment of government share of retirement costs financing the 
current year's costs of the unfunded liability resulting from 
any statute authorizing new or liberalized benefits, extension 
of retirement coverage, or pay increases; transfers for 
interest on unfunded liability and payment of military service 
annuities covering interest on the unfunded liability and 
annuity disbursements for military service; payments for spouse 
equity providing survivor annuities to eligible former spouses 
of annuitants who died between September 1978 and May 1986 and 
did not elect survivor coverage, and; transfers for payment of 
FERS supplemental liability covering annual amortization 
payments financing supplemental liabilities for FERS.

           general provisions-office of personnel management

    Section 1. The Committee has included a new provision which 
allows federal agencies to reimburse OPM for examinations for 
common occupations and Administrative Law Judges.
    Section 2. The Committee has included a new provision which 
allows OPM to withhold state taxes for payments to annuitants.
    Section 3. The Committee has included a technical amendment 
which extends retirement provisions under the Federal Workforce 
Restructuring Act to individuals taking delayed buyouts.
    Section 4. The Committee has included a new provision that 
allows the Office of Personnel Management to charge fees to 
other federal agencies for the dissemination of employment 
information.

                       Office of Special Counsel

                         salaries and expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................      $7,955,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................       8,566,000
Recommended in the bill.................................       7,840,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................        -115,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................        -726,000
                                mission

    The Office of Special Counsel: (1) investigates Federal 
employee allegations of prohibited personnel practices 
(including reprisal for whistleblowing) and, when appropriate, 
prosecutes before the Merit Systems Protection Board; (2) 
provides a channel for whistleblowing by Federal employees; and 
(3) enforces the Hatch Act. The Office may transmit 
whistleblower allegations to the agency head concerned and 
require an agency investigation and a report to the Congress 
and the President when appropriate.
    The Act to Reauthorize the Office of Special Counsel and 
for Other Purposes (P.L. 103-424, October 29, 1994) expanded 
the Office of Special Counsel's responsibility. The Act 
extended all protections of the Office to approximately 80,000 
medical employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs and 
whistleblower protections to certain employees of government 
corporations which employ 82,000 workers.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $7,840,000, 
assuming all of the savings contained in the President's fiscal 
year 1996 request and none of the increases.
    The Committee expressed its concern that two federal 
agencies, the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) and the 
Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), perform very similar 
functions in adjudicating employee grievances and directed the 
Administration to craft a legislative proposal to merge the 
two. Although the Committee supports the separation of 
adjudicatorial and prosecutorial functions, the Committee 
directs that any such reorganization examine the possibility of 
merging the Office of Special Counsel with the prosecutorial 
functions of the FLRA.
                        United States Tax Court

                         salaries and expenses
Appropriation, fiscal year 1995 to date.................     $34,039,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996.......................      34,039,000
Recommended in the bill.................................      32,899,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 1995.....................      -1,140,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 1996...................      -1,140,000
                                mission

    The bulk of the Court's work is the trial and adjudication 
of controversies involving deficiencies in income, estate, and 
gift taxes. The Court also has jurisdiction to redetermine 
deficiencies in certain excise taxes; to issue declaratory 
judgments in the areas of qualification of retirement plans, 
exemption of charitable organizations and the status of certain 
governmental obligations; and to decide certain cases involving 
disclosure of tax information by the Commissioner of Internal 
Revenue.
    Additional jurisdiction was conferred on the Court by the 
Taxpayer Bill of Rights in 1988. The Court is authorized to 
hear and decide appeals by taxpayers from decisions by the 
Internal Revenue Service denying awards for reasonable 
administrative costs incurred in connection with administrative 
proceedings within the Internal Revenue Service. In addition, 
if a timely petition for the redetermination of a deficiency is 
pending before the Court, the Court is authorized to restrain 
the premature assessment and collection of the disputed tax, to 
review certain jeopardy assessments and jeopardy levies, and to 
review the Commissioner's determination that certain seized 
property may be sold notwithstanding the pendency of the 
deficiency action. Finally, the court is authorized to enforce 
its decisions determining overpayments in taxpayers' favor, to 
resolve disputes involving interest on deficiencies which were 
previously the subject of disputes before the Court, and to 
modify decisions in estate tax cases involving certain payment 
extensions.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends $32,899,000 for the Tax Court 
appropriation; a $1,140,000 reduction from the request.
                      TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS

                                This Act

    Section 501. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the establishment of offices outside the District 
of Columbia unless certain criteria is met.
    Section 502. The Committee has continued this provision 
limiting the expenditure of funds to the current year unless 
expressly provided in the Act.
    Section 503. The Committee has continued this provision 
limiting the expenditure of funds for consulting services under 
certain conditions.
    Section 504. The Committee has continued this provision 
regarding employment of certain categories of Federal 
employees.
    Section 505. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the use of funds to engage in activities which 
would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of the 1930 
Tariff Act.
    Section 506. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the transfer of control over the Federal Law 
Enforcement Training Center.
    Section 507. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the use of funds for certain propaganda purposes.
    Section 508. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the use of funds appropriated in this Act from 
being used to prevent certain Federal employees from contacting 
their Congressman.
    Section 509. The Committee has continued this provision 
providing funds in this Act shall be available as authorized by 
title 5, U.S.C., sections 4501-4506.
    Section 510. The Committee has continued this provision 
authorizing donations of supplies and equipment to the Federal 
Executive Institute.
    Section 511. The Committee has continued this provision 
authorizing the Secret Service to accept certain donations 
regarding protection of former Presidents.
    Section 512. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the withdrawal of the designation of Front Royal, 
Virginia as a Customs Service Port of Entry.
    Section 513. The Committee has continued this provision 
concerning employment rights of Federal employees who return to 
their civilian jobs after assignment with the Armed Forces.
    Section 514. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the use of funds to provide any non-public mailing 
lists to any person or organization outside of the Federal 
Government.
    Section 515. The Committee has continued this provision 
concerning compliance with Buy American Act.
    Section 516. The Committee has continued this provision 
concerning prohibition of contracts which use certain goods not 
made in America.
    Section 517. The Committee continued this provision 
concerning prohibition of contracts.
    Section 518. The Committee has continued this provision 
which provides that fifty percent of unobligated balances may 
remain available for certain purposes.
    Section 519. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting any increases in the travel object classification 
for any agency funded in this act without the prior approval of 
the Committee on Appropriations.
    Section 520. The Committee has continued this provision 
specifying the authority of the special police officers of the 
Bureau of Engraving and Printing in the Washington, D.C. 
Metropolitan area.
    Section 521. The Committee has included a new provision 
establishing the rate of pay for the Chief of Police of the 
Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
    Section 522. The Committee has included a new provision 
establishing a revolving fund for the U.S. Mint.
    Section 523. The Committee has included a new provision 
making a technical correction to section 531 of Public Law 103-
329.
    Section 524. The Committee has included a new provision 
prohibiting funds in this act to be used for abortions.
    Section 525. The Committee has included a new provision 
providing that Section 524 will not apply when the life of the 
mother would be endangered.
    Section 526. The Committee has included a new provision 
concerning Tax Systems Modernization.
    Section 527. The Committee has included a new provision for 
the relief of certain weekly periodical publications, primarily 
a handful of suburban or metropolitan community newspapers, 
that have been adversely affected by a 1989 mail classification 
regulation designed to control the inclusion of loose 
supplements in magazines and similar publications. This measure 
is intended to ``grandfather'' the affected newspapers, by 
permitting them to continue to utilize their two-staple format 
without being subject to the supplement rules designed for 
magazines and similar bound publications.
    Section 528. The Committee includes a new provision which 
limits training funds to topics that meet identified needs for 
knowledge, skills and abilities bearing directly upon the 
performance of official duties.
    Section 529. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the use of funds to take adverse action against an 
employee of the Bureau of the Public Debt under certain 
circumstances, amended to cut off the effect of the provision 
on February 15, 1996.
              TITLE VI--GOVERNMENTWIDE GENERAL PROVISIONS

                Departments, Agencies, and Corporations

    Section 601. The Committee has continued this provision 
authorizing agencies to pay travel costs of the families of 
Federal employees to foreign duty to return to the United 
States in the event of death or a life threatening illness of 
the employee.
    Section 602. The Committee has continued this provision 
requiring agencies to administer a policy designed to ensure 
that all of its workplaces are free from the illegal use of 
controlled substances.
    Section 603. The Committee has continued this provision 
authorizing reimbursement for travel, transportation, and 
subsistence expenses incurred for training classes, 
conferences, or other meetings in connection with the provision 
of child care services to Federal employees.
    Section 604. The Committee has continued this provision 
regarding price limitations on vehicles to be purchased by the 
Federal Government.
    Section 605. The Committee has continued this provision 
allowing funds made available to agencies for travel to also be 
used for quarters allowances and cost-of-living allowances.
    Section 606. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the Government, with certain specified exceptions, 
from employing non-U.S. citizens whose posts of duty would be 
in the continental U.S.
    Section 607. The Committee has continued this provision 
ensuring that agencies will have authority to pay the General 
Services Administration bills for space renovation and other 
services.
    Section 608. The Committee has continued this provision 
allowing agencies to finance the costs of recycling and waste 
prevention programs with proceeds from the sale of materials 
recovered through such programs.
    Section 609. The Committee has continued this provision 
providing that funds may be used to pay rent and other service 
costs in the District of Columbia.
    Section 610. The Committee has continued this provision 
restricting the President's recess appointment power.
    Section 611. The Committee has continued this provision 
authorizing agencies with delegated authority to make direct 
expenditures to operate, maintain, and repair its facilities 
using funds otherwise available to make rental payments to GSA.
    Section 612. The Committee has continued this provision 
allowing agencies to use foreign currency (for which the 
Treasury is to be reimbursed) to carry out any program that the 
agency is authorized to carry out under its dollar 
appropriation.
    Section 613. The Committee has continued this provision 
precluding the financing of groups by more than one Federal 
agency absent prior and specific statutory approval.
    Section 614. The Committee has continued this provision 
authorizing the Postal Service to employ guards and given them 
the same special police powers as GSA guards.
    Section 615. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the use of funds for enforcing regulations 
disapproved in accordance with the applicable law of the United 
States.
    Section 616. The Committee has continued this provision 
limiting the pay increases of certain prevailing rate 
employees.
    Section 617. The Committee has continued this provision 
limiting the amount of funds that can be used for redecoration 
of offices under certain circumstances.
    Section 618. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the expenditure of funds for the acquisition of 
additional law enforcement training facilities without the 
advance approval of the Committees on Appropriations.
    Section 619. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the use of grant funds for the acquisition of goods 
or services unless certain announcement criteria is met.
    Section 620. The Committee has continued this provision 
permitting interagency funding of national security and 
emergency preparedness telecommunications initiatives, which 
benefit multiple Federal departments, agencies, and entities.
    Section 621. The Committee has continued this provision 
permitting telecommunications support for the work-at-home and 
telecommuting program under guidelines issued by the Office of 
Personnel Management. The Committee has amended this provision 
to make it permanent law.
    Section 622. The Committee has continued this provision 
requiring agencies to certify that a Schedule C appointment was 
not created solely or primarily to detail the employee to the 
White House.
    Section 623. The Committee has continued this provision 
requiring agencies to administer a policy designed to ensure 
that all of its workplace are free from discrimination and 
sexual harassment.
    Section 624. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the use of funds for travel expenses not directly 
related to official governmental duties.
    Section 625. The Committee has continued this provision 
requiring the President to certify that persons responsible for 
administering the Drug Free Workplace Program are not 
themselves the subject of random drug testing.
    Section 626. The Committee has included a new provision 
authorizing agencies to retain half of the money they receive 
as a result of participating in energy and water conservation 
activities.
    Section 627. The Committee has included a new provision 
establishing the Commission on Federal Mandates.

                                fts 2000

    The Committee recognizes and supports the 10-year contract 
for FTS 2000 program. This was awarded on a competitive bid 
basis and has consequently saved the taxpayers significant 
dollars. However, the Committee believes that the Brooks Act 
and the existing contract are sufficient and that further 
legislative language is superfluous. Therefore the bill deletes 
reference to FTS 2000. The Committee is satisfied that the 
existing contract is working as intended and does not wish to 
disrupt the contract.

                     commission on federal mandates

    The Committee has included a provision (Sec. 627) which 
establishes a Commission on Federal Mandates to review and 
report on federal mandates as required by Public Law 104-4, the 
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995. The membership of the 
Commission shall included a total of 9 individuals with 
extensive leadership experience in and knowledge of State, 
local and tribal government and intergovernmental relations, 
including State and local elected officials.

    Appropriations Can Be Used Only for the Purposes for Which Made

    Title 31 of the United States Code makes clear that 
appropriations can be used only for the purposes for which they 
were appropriated as follows:
    Section 1301. Application.
    (a) Appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for 
which the appropriations were made except as otherwise provided 
by law.

                      Compliance With House Rules

   definition of ``program project and activity'' as provided for by 
 public law 99-177, the balanced budget and emergency deficit control 
                              act of 1985

    During fiscal year 1996, for purposes of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 
99-177), the following information provides the definition of 
the term ``program, project and activity'' for departments and 
agencies under the jurisdiction of the Treasury, Postal Service 
and General Government Subcommittee. The term ``program, 
project and activity'' shall include the most specific level of 
budget items identified in the Treasury, Postal Service, and 
General Government Appropriations Act, 1987 as passed the House 
including the House Report which accompanies that Act. (Under 
the above definition, the Federal Building Fund, the Bureau of 
Engraving and Printing Fund and other intragovernmental funds 
are exempt under section 255(g)(1) of Public Law 99-177.)

                          Full Committee Votes

    Pursuant to the provisions of clause 2(a)(2)(b) of rule XI 
of the House of Representatives, the results of each roll call 
vote on an amendment or on the motion to report, together with 
the names of those voting for and those voting against are 
printed below:

                             rollcall no. 1

    Date: July 11, 1995.
    Measure: Treasury, Postal Service appropriations bill, FY 
1996.
    Motion by: Mr. Durbin.
    Description of Motion: Amendment to the report language 
amendment of Mr. Lightfoot on relief from Federal firearms 
disabilities.
    Result: Adopted 24 to 17.
        Members Voting Yea            Members voting Nay
Mr. Bevill                          Mr. Bunn
Mr. Bonilla                         Mr. Hobson
Mr. Coleman                         Mr. Istook
Mr. Dixon                           Mr. Kingston
Mr. Durbin                          Mr. Knollenberg
Mr. Fazio                           Mr. Kolbe
Mr. Forbes                          Mr. Lighfoot
Mr. Frelinghuysen                   Mr. Livingston
Mr. Hoyer                           Mr. McDade
Mrs. Lowey                          Mr. Neumann
Mr. Miller                          Mr. Packard
Mr. Mollohan                        Mr. Riggs
Mr. Murtha                          Mr. Rogers
Mr. Nethercutt                      Mr. Taylor
Mr. Obey                            Mrs. Vucanovich
Ms. Pelosi                          Mr. Walsh
Mr. Porter                          Mr. Wicker
Mr. Sabo
Mr. PSkaggs
Mr. Thornton
Mr. Torres
Mr. Visclosky
Mr. Wolf
Mr. Young

                             rollcall no. 2

    Date: July 11, 1995.
    Measure: Treasury, Postal Service appropriations bill, FY 
1996.
    Motion by: Mr. Hoyer.
    Description of motion: To restore funding for the Council 
of Economic Advisers to the requested levels.
    Results: Rejected: 16 to 28.
        Members Voting Yea            Members Voting Nay
Mr. Bevill                          Mr. Bonilla
Mr. Coleman                         Mr. Bunn
Mr. Dicks                           Mr. Dickey
Mr. Dixon                           Mr. Forbes
Mr. Fazio                           Mr. Felinghuysen
Mr. Hoyer                           Mr. Hobson
Ms. Kaptur                          Mr. Istook
Mrs. Lowey                          Mr. Kingston
Mr. Mollohan                        Mr. Knollenberg
Mr. Murtha                          Mr. Kolbe
Mr. Obey                            Mr. Lewis
Mr. Sabo                            Mr. Lightfoot
Mr. Skaggs                          Mr. Livingston
Mr. Thornton                        Mr. McDade
Mr. Torres                          Mr. Miller
Mr. Vosclosky                       Mr. Myers
                                    Mr. Nethercutt
                                    Mr. Neumann
                                    Mr. Packard
                                    Mr. Porter
                                    Mr. Riggs
                                    Mr. Rogers
                                    Mr. Toylor
                                    Mr. Vucanovich
                                    Mr. Walsh
                                    Mr. Wicker
                                    Mr. Wolf
                                    Mr. Young

                             rollcall no. 3

    Date: July 11, 1995.
    Measure: Treasury, Postal Service appropriations bill, FY 
1996.
    Motion by: Mr. Hoyer.
    Description of motion: To delete two general provisions 
that preclude funding of abortions in connection with any 
health benefit plan for Federal employees.
    Results: Rejected: 19 to 24.
        Members Voting Yea            Members Voting Nay
Mr. Bonilla                         Mr. Bunn
Mr. Chapman                         Mr. DeLay
Mr. Coleman                         Mr. Forbes
Mr. Dicks                           Mr. Hobson
Mr. Durbin                          Mr. Istook
Mr. Fazio                           Mr. Kingston
Mr. Frelinghuysen                   Mr. Knollenberg
Mr. Hefner                          Mr. Lewis
Mr. Hoyer                           Mr. Lightfoot
Mr. Kolbe                           Mr. Livingston
Mrs. Lowey                          Mr. McDade
Mr. Obey                            Mr. Mollohan
Ms. Pelosi                          Mr. Murtha
Mr. Porter                          Mr. Nethercutt
Mr. Sabo                            Mr. Neumann
Mr. Skaggs                          Mr. Packard
Mr. Thornton                        Mr. Regula
Mr. Torres                          Mr. Riggs
Mr. Visclosky                       Mr. Skeen
                                    Mr. Taylor
                                    Mrs. Vucanovich
                                    Mr. Walsh
                                    Mr. Wicker
                                    Mr. Young

                             rollcall no. 4

    Date: July 12, 1995.
    Measure: Treasury, Postal Service appropriations bill, FY 
1996.
    Motion by: Mr. Hoyer.
    Description of motion: To authorize collection of taxes in 
the manner prescribed in H.R. 1535, which provides tax rules on 
expatriation.
    Results: Rejected: 16 to 25.
        Members Voting Yea            Members Voting Nay
Mr. Bevill                          Mr. Bonilla
Mr. Coleman                         Mr. Bunn
Mr. Durbin                          Mr. Callahan
Mr. Fazio                           Mr. Dickey
Mr. Foglietta                       Mr. Forbes
Mr. Hobson                          Mr. Frelinghuysen
Mr. Hoyer                           Mr. Kingston
Mrs. Lowey                          Mr. Knollenberg
Mr. Murtha                          Mr. Kolbe
Mr. Neumann                         Mr. Lewis
Mr. Obey                            Mr. Lightfoot
Ms. Pelosi                          Mr. Livingston
Mr. Sabo                            Mr. McDade
Mr. Thornton                        Mr. Nethercutt
Mr. Torres                          Mr. Packard
Mr. Visclosky                       Mr. Regula
                                    Mr. Rogers
                                    Mr. Skaggs
                                    Mr. Skeen
                                    Mr. Taylor
                                    Mrs. Vucanovich
                                    Mr. Walsh
                                    Mr. Wicker
                                    Mr. Wolf
                                    Mr. Young

                           Transfer of Funds

    Pursuant to clause 1(b), rule X of the House of 
Representatives, the following table is submitted describing 
the transfer of funds provided in the accompanying bill.
    The table shows, by title, department and agency, the 
appropriations affected by such transfers.

             APPROPRIATION TRANSFERS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL            
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Account to which                    Account from which                
 transfer is to be       Amount       transfer is to be       Amount    
        made                                 made                       
------------------------------------------------------------------------
State and local         $52,000,000    Federal Drug          $52,000,000
 entities.                            Programs--HIDTA.                  
Personnel              $102,536,000    Trust fund of the     102,536,000
 Management.                          Office of                         
                                      Personnel                         
                                      Management.                       
Inspector General,        4,009,000    Appropriate Trust       4,009,000
 OPM.                                 Funds.                            
Merit Systems             2,430,000    Civil service           2,430,000
 Protection Board.                    retirement and                    
                                      disability fund.                  
------------------------------------------------------------------------

                          Rescission of Funds

    In compliance with clause 1(b) of rule X of the House of 
Representatives, the Committee reports that it recommends no 
rescissions in the bill, as reported.

                Compliance With Rule XI, Clause 9(l)(4)

                     inflationary impact statement

    Pursuant to clause 2(l)(4), rule XI of the House of 
Representatives, the Committee estimates that enactment of this 
bill would have minimal overall inflationary impact on prices 
and costs in the operation of the national economy.
    The total amount recommended in the bill is about $468 
million less than the total amount appropriated for these same 
agencies for fiscal year 1995 and about $1.7 billion than 
proposed in the President's budget request for 1996.

                         five year projections

    In compliance with section 308(1)(C) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344), as amended, the 
following table contains five-year projections associated with 
the budget authority provided in the accompanying bill:

Outlays:                                                     In millions
    Budget authority....................................         $23,315
    Fiscal year 1996....................................          20,577
    Fiscal year 1997....................................           2,039
    Fiscal year 1998....................................             420
    Fiscal year 1999....................................             192
    Fiscal year 2000 and future years...................             129

                  Compliance With Rule XIII, Clause 3

                            (ramseyer rule)

    In compliance with clause 3, rule XIII of the House of 
Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, as 
reported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be 
omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in 
italic, existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in 
roman):
    Section 6 of the General provisions-General Services 
Administration, of Title III, Independent Agencies, amends 
Public Law 103-329, 108 Stat 2400, by repealing language as 
follows:
    Between the funds appropriated and expended on any projects 
in this or any prior Act, under the heading ``Repairs and 
Alterations'', * * * for the Food and Drug Administration 
consolidation may be used for necessary infrastructure 
improvements: [Provided further, That of the $6,000,000 made 
available in Public Laws 102-93 and 103-123 for the 
acquisition, lease, construction and equipping of flexiplace 
work telecommuting centers, not to exceed $1,300,000 shall be 
available for payment to a public entity in the State of 
Maryland to provide facilities, equipment and other services to 
the General Services Administration for purposes of 
establishing telecommuting work centers in Southern Maryland 
(Waldorf, Prince Frederick, and St. Mary's County) for use by 
government agencies designated by the Administrator of General 
Services:] Provided further, That for the purposes of this 
authorization, buildings constructed pursuant to the purchase 
contract authority of the Public Buildings Amendments of 1972 
(40 U.S.C. 602a), buildings occupied pursuant to installment 
purchase contracts, and buildings under the control of another 
department or agency * * *
    Section 1 of the General Provisions-Office of Personnel 
Management, of Title III, Independent Agencies, amends Title 5 
USC as follows:
Sec. 1104. Delegation of authority for personnel management

    (a) Subject to subsection (b)(3) of this section--
          (1) the President may delegate, in whole or in part, 
        authority for personnel management functions, including 
        authority for competitive examinations, to the Director 
        of the Office of Personnel Management; and
          (2) the Director may delegate, in whole or in part, 
        any function vested in or delegated to the Director, 
        including authority for competitive examinations 
        [(except competitive examinations for administrative 
        law judges appointed under section 3105 of this title)] 
        to the heads of agencies in the executive branch and 
        other agencies employing persons in the competitive 
        service[;].
[except that the Director may not delegate authority for 
competitive examinations with respect to positions that have 
requirements which are common to agencies in the Federal 
Government, other than in exceptional cases in which the 
interests of economy and efficiency require such delegation and 
in which such delegation will not weaken the application of the 
merit system principles.]
    (b)(1) The Office shall establish standards which shall 
apply to the activities of the Office or any other agency under 
authority delegated under subsection (a) of this section.
    (2) The Office shall establish and maintain an oversight 
program to ensure that activities under any authority delegated 
under subsection (a) of this section are in accordance with the 
merit system principles and the standards established under 
paragraph (1) of this subsection.
    (3) Nothing in subsection (a) of this section shall be 
construed as affecting the responsibility of the Director to 
prescribe regulations and to ensure compliance with the civil 
service laws, rules, and regulations.
    (c) If the Office makes a written finding, on the basis of 
information obtained under the program established under 
subsection (b)(2) of this section or otherwise, that any action 
taken by an agency pursuant to authority delegated under 
subsection (a)(2) of this section is contrary to any law, rule, 
or regulation, or is contrary to any standard established under 
subsection (b)(1) of this section, the agency involved shall 
take any corrective action the Office may require.
    ``(4) At the request of the head of an agency to whom a 
function has been delegated under subsection (a)(2), the Office 
may provide assistance to the agency in performing such 
function. Such assistance shall, to the extent determined 
appropriate by the Director of the Office, be performed on a 
reimbursable basis through the revolving fund established under 
section 1304(e).''
    Section 2 of General Provisions--Office of Personnel 
Management, Title III, Independent Agencies, amends Title 5 as 
follows:

Sec. 8348. Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund

    (a) There is a Civil Service Retirement and Disability 
Fund. The Fund--
          (1) is appropriate for the payment of--
                  (A) benefits as provided by this subchapter 
                or by the provisions of chapter 84 of this 
                title which relate to benefits payable out of 
                the Fund; and
                  (B) administrative expenses incurred by the 
                Office of Personnel Management in placing in 
                effect each annuity adjustment granted under 
                section 8340 or 8462 of this title, in 
                administering survivor annuities and elections 
                providing therefor under sections 8339 and 8341 
                of this title or subchapters II and IV of 
                chapter 84 of this title, in administering 
                alternative forms of annuities under sections 
                8343a and 8420a (and related provisions of 
                law), [and in withholding taxes pursuant to 
                section 3405 of title 26] and in providing 
                withholding and related services to annuitants 
                under this sub-chapter and chapter 84;
          (2) is made available, subject to such annual 
        limitation as the Congress may prescribe, for any 
        expenses incurred by the Office in connection with the 
        administration of this chapter, chapter 84 of this 
        title, and other retirement and annuity statutes; and
          (3) is made available, subject to such annual 
        limitation as the Congress may prescribe, for any 
        expenses incurred by the Merit Systems Protection Board 
        in the administration of appeals authorized under 
        sections 8347(d) and 8461(e) of this title.
    Section 3 of General Provisions--Office of Personnel 
Management, Title III, Independent Agencies, amends Public Law 
103-226, 108 Stat. 111 as follows:

SEC. 4. ADDITIONAL AGENCY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE RETIREMENT FUND.

    (A) Relating to [Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995] Voluntary 
Separation Incentive Payments.--
          (1) In general.--In addition to any other payments 
        which it is required to make under subchapter III of 
        chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code, an agency 
        shall remit to the Office of Personnel Management for 
        deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the 
        credit of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability 
        Fund an amount equal to 9 percent of the final basic 
        pay of each employee of the agency--
                  (A) who, on or after the date of enactment of 
                this Act [and before October 1, 1995], retires 
                under section 8336(d)(2) of such title; and
    Section 4 of the General Provisions--Office of Personnel 
Management, of Title III, Independent Agencies, amends Title 5 
U.S.C. as follows:

Sec. [3329.\3\] 3330. Government-wide list of vacant positions

    (a) For the purpose of this section, the term ``agency'' 
means an Executive agency, excluding the General Accounting 
Office and any agency (or unit thereof) whose principal 
function is the conduct of foreign intelligence or counter-
intelligence activities, as determined by the President.
    (b) The Office of Personnel Management shall establish and 
keep current a comprehensive list of all announcements of 
vacant positions in the competitive service within each agency 
that are to be filled by appointment for more than one year and 
for which applications are being (or will soon be) accepted 
from outside the agency's work force.
    (c) Included for any position listed shall be--
          (1) a brief description of the position, including 
        its title, tenure, location, and rate of pay;
          (2) application procedures, including the period 
        within which applications may be submitted and 
        procedures for obtaining additional information; and
          (3) any other information which the Office considers 
        appropriate.
    (d) The list shall be available to members of the public.
    (e) The Office shall prescribe such regulations as may be 
necessary to carry out this section. Any requirement under this 
section that agencies notify the Office as to the availability 
of any vacant positions shall be designed so as to avoid any 
duplication of information otherwise required to be furnished 
under section 3327 of this title or any other provision of law.
    (f) The Office may, to the extent it determines 
appropriate, charge such fees to agencies and applicants for 
services provided under this section and for related Federal 
employment information. The Office shall retain such fees to 
pay costs of providing such services and information.
    Section 521 of Title V, General Provisions--This Act, 
amends 5 U.S.C. 5378 as follows:
Sec. 5378. Police forces of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and 
                    the United States Mint

    (a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall fix the rates of 
basic pay for positions within the police forces of the Bureau 
of Engraving and Printing and the United States Mint in 
accordance with the following:
          (1) Entry-level police officer--not more than the 
        maximum rate payable for GS-6.
          (2) Journeyman-level police officer--not more than 
        the maximum rate payable for GS-7.
          (3) Corporal--not more than the maximum rate payable 
        for GS-8.
          (4) Sergeant--not more than the maximum rate payable 
        for GS-9.
          (5) Lieutenant--not more than the maximum rate 
        payable for GS-10.
          (6) Deputy Inspector--not more than the maximum rate 
        payable for GS-11.
          (7) Inspector--not more than the maximum rate payable 
        for GS-12.
          (8) Chief--not more than the maximum rate payable for 
        GS-14.
    (b) For purposes of this section, the term ``police forces 
of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the United States 
Mint'' means the employees of the Department of the Treasury 
who are appointed, under the authority of the Secretary of the 
Treasury, as police officers for the protection of the Bureau 
of Engraving and Printing and the United States Mint buildings 
and property.
    Section 523 of Title V, General Provisions--This Act, 
amends Public Law 103-329 as follows:
    Sec. 531. The Act entitled ``An Act to provide retirement, 
clerical assistants, and free mailing privileges to former 
Presidents of the United States, and for other purposes'', 
approved August 25, 1958 (Public Law 85-745; 72 Stat. 838; 3 
United States Code 102 note), is amended by adding at the end 
of the first section thereof the following new subsection:
    ``(g) There are authorized to be appropriated to the 
Administrator of General Services up to $1,000,000 for each 
former President and up to $500,000 for the spouse of each 
former President each fiscal year for security and travel 
related expenses: Provided, That under the provisions set forth 
in section 3056, paragraph (a), subparagraph (3) of title 18, 
United States Code, the former President and/or spouse was not 
receiving protection for a lifetime provided by the United 
States Secret Service under section 3056 paragraph (a) 
subparagraph (3) of title 18, United States Code; the 
protection provided by the United States Secret Service expired 
at its designated time; or the protection provided by the 
United States Secret Service was declined prior to authorized 
expiration in lieu of these funds.''.
          Financial Assistance to State and Local Governments

    In accordance with section 308(a)(1)(D) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344), as 
amended, the financial assistance to state and local 
governments are as follows:

                                                             In millions
New budget authority....................................              $0
Fiscal year 1996 outlays resulting therefrom............               0
                   Comparison with Budget Resolution

    Section 308(a)(1)(A) of the Congressional Budget and 
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344), as 
amended, requires that the report accompanying a bill providing 
new budget authority contain a statement detailing how the 
authority compares the reports submitted under section 602(b) 
of the Act for the most recently agreed to concurrent 
resolution on the budget for the fiscal year. This information 
follows:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                          602(b) allocation             This bill       
                     ---------------------------------------------------
                         Budget                    Budget               
                       authority     Outlays     authority     Outlays  
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Discretionary:                                                          
    General purposes       11,362       11,750       11,362       11,871
    Violent Crime                                                       
     Trust Fund.....           64           55           64           55
      Total                                                             
       discretionary       11,426       11,805       11,426       11,926
Mandatory...........       11,555       11,553       11,655       11,652
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note.--The amount included in this bill as shown above does not include 
  estimates of the effect of H.R. 1944. The Emergency Supplemental      
  Appropriations and Rescissions Bill for FY 1995. The estimates were   
  not included since H.R. 1944 had not received final Congressional     
  approval at the time this report was filed. If H.R. 1944 is approved, 
  the amount scored to this bill will change and the new amount will be 
  within the 602(b) subdivision.                                        

    The bill provides no new spending authority as described in 
section 401(c)(2) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment 
Control Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344), as amended.
                   Compliance With Rule XXI, Clause 3

    In compliance with rule XXI, clause 3, the Committee has 
inserted at the appropriate place in the report a description 
of the effects of provisions proposed in the accompanying bill 
which may be considered, under certain circumstance, to change 
the application of existing law, either directly or indirectly.
    The bill provides, in some instances, for funding of 
agencies and activities where legislation has not yet been 
finalized (U.S. Customs Services, the Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget, 
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Office of Special 
Counsel, and the Federal Election Commission). In addition, the 
bill carries language, in some instances, permitting activities 
not authorized by law, or exempting agencies from certain 
provisions of law, but which has been carried in appropriations 
acts for many years.
    In title IV of the bill, in connection with the General 
Services Administration, certain limitations on availability of 
revenue in the Federal Buildings Fund and certain legislative 
provisions have been carried forward from last year. The 
Committee has included a provision requiring approval by the 
Appropriations Committee of additional repair and alternation 
projects, as well as several additional general provisions.
    The bill continues a number of general provisions applying 
to agencies covered by the bill as well as certain provisions 
applying Government-wide. These provisions have been carried in 
the prior year appropriations bill, and a number of them have 
been carried for many years.

                  TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for 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; official 
travel expenses, official reception and representation 
expenses, international affairs functions, information 
technology modernization requirements unforeseen emergencies of 
a confidential nature, repairs improvements to the Main 
Treasury Building and Annex.

                      Office of Inspector General

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
to carry out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 
1978, the hire of vehicles, official travel expenses, and 
unforeseen emergencies.

                  Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for hire of vehicles and official reception and representation 
expenses. The Committee has included language allowing FinCEN 
to use appropriated resources for official reception and 
representation; the travel of non-federal personnel attending 
conferences or meetings involving financial law enforcement; 
the purchase of personal services contracts; and the 
procurement of cutting edge technologies in an expedited 
fashion, provided that total expenditures do not exceed 
$500,000.

                Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for material and support costs of basic training, the hire of 
vehicles, student athletic and related activities, uniform 
purchases, conducting and or participating in firearms matches, 
community relations for U.S. Postal Service law enforcement 
personnel and State and local law enforcement training, 
acceptance of gifts, training of private sector security 
officials on a reimbursable space available basis, travel 
expenses of non-federal personnel to attend State and local 
course development meetings at the Center, the establishment of 
a fund to provide gifts for certain honor graduate students, 
directs the Director to present certain awards, allows for the 
provision of short term medical services for students 
undergoing training.
    Authorization for the Federal Law Enforcement Training 
Center has not been enacted as of the date of this report.

                Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

     acquisition, construction, improvements, and related expenses

    The Committee has continued language for construction, 
repair, and other expenses to remain available until expended.
                      Financial Management Service

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
to remain available until expended for systems modernization.

                Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for the purchase of vehicles, the hire of aircraft the services 
of expert witnesses, the payment of per diem and/or subsistence 
allowances for the National Response Team, official reception 
and representation expenses, for training of State and local 
law enforcement agencies, the provision of laboratory 
assistance to State and local agencies, enforcement of the 
Federal Alcohol Administration Act, the payment of attorney's 
fees, the equipping of certain vessels, vehicles, equipment or 
aircraft, and provides no funds shall be used to reorganize ATF 
or consolidate or centralize the records pertaining to firearms 
licenses, and prohibits the expenditure of resources on 
applications for relief from Federal firearms disabilities by 
individuals prohibits changes to the CFR without publishing 
prior notice.

                     United States Customs Service

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for the hire of vehicles, official reception and representation 
expenses, compensation to informers, rental space for pre-
clearance operations, part-time and temporary positions, and 
uniforms.
    Authorization for the Customs Service has not been enacted 
as of the date of this report.

                   harbor maintenance fee collection

    The Committee has included language relating to the use of 
collection of the Harbor Maintenance Fee pursuant to Public Law 
103-182.

                  air and marine interdiction programs

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for operation and maintenance of marine vessels, aircraft and 
equipment, training, travel, rental payments.

                   customs service at small airports

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for the provision of Customs services at certain small airports 
and provides that the funds may remain available until 
expended.

                       Bureau of the Public Debt

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for expenses associated with public debt issues.
                        Internal Revenue Service

                 processing, assistance, and management

    The Committee has merged the former ``Administration and 
Management'' appropriation and the ``Processing Tax Returns and 
Assistance'' appropriation to provide funds for the direction, 
management, audit, security, purchase and hire of vehicles, 
services authorized by 5 USC, official reception and 
representation expenses, research processing tax returns, 
accounting, developing statistics of income, taxpayer 
assistance, hire of vehicles, services authorized by 5 USC, and 
tax counseling for the elderly.

                          tax law enforcement

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for determining and establishing tax liabilities, tax and 
enforcement litigation, technical rulings, examining employee 
plans and exempt organizations, investigations, securing tax 
returns, collection, purchase and hire of vehicles, services 
authorized by 5 USC, and establishes a program to utilize 
private sector debt collection agencies.

                          information systems

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for data processing and telecommunications support, the hire of 
vehicles, services authorized by 5 USC, sets a minimum funding 
level for tax systems modernization, provides that certain 
funds shall remain available until expended and prohibits the 
expenditure of funds for tax systems modernization until 
certain conditions are met.

          Administrative Provisions--Internal Revenue Service

    Section 1. The Committee has continued this provision 
allowing 2 percent of the funds available to the IRS to be 
transferred to other IRS operations with the advance approval 
of Congress.
    Section 2. The Committee has continued this provision which 
institutes and maintains a training program in taxpayers' 
rights and cross-cultural relations.

                      United States Secret Service

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for the hire of aircraft, training and assistance requested by 
State and local governments, services of expert witnesses, 
rental of certain buildings, improvements to buildings as may 
be necessary for protective functions, conducting of firearms 
matches, presentation of awards, travel of employees on 
protective missions, uniforms, research, and reimbursement for 
protection as authorized by law.

                    violent crime reduction program

    The Committee has included language which provides funds 
for activities by Public Law 103-322 to be derived from the 
Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund.

             Department of the Treasury--General Provisions

    Section 101. The Committee has continued a provision which 
requires the Secretary of the Treasury to comply with certain 
reprogramming guidelines when obligating or expending funds for 
law enforcement activities.
    Section 102. The Committee has continued a provision which 
allows the Department of Treasury to purchase uniforms, 
insurance, motor vehicles without regard to the general 
purchase price limitation, and enter into contract with the 
State Department for health and medical services for Treasury 
employees in overseas locations.
    Section 103. The Committee has continued a provision which 
allows two percent of the funds available to the Treasury 
Department to be transferred between Treasury accounts with the 
advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations.
    Section 104. The Committee has continued a provision which 
restricts the use of funds appropriated to the IRS if employees 
are not in compliance with the Fair Debt Collection Practices 
Act. The Committee has modified this provision by adding the 
requirement that private sector employees under contract to the 
IRS must also comply with the Fair Debt Collection Practices 
Act.
    Section 105. The Committee has continued a provision which 
mandates the IRS institute policies and procedures which 
safeguard the confidentiality of taxpayer information.
    Section 106. The Committee has continued a provision which 
requires expenditure of funds so as not to diminish efforts 
under the Federal Alcohol Administration Act.

                        TITLE II--POSTAL SERVICE

                   Payment to the Postal Service Fund

    The Committee has continued language which prohibits funds 
made available to the postal Service from being used to close 
or consolidate certain post offices, from charging employees of 
local and child support agencies, provides funds for free mail 
for the blind, and for six day mail delivery and rural delivery 
of mail at existing levels.

TITLE III--EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO 
                             THE PRESIDENT

                     Compensation of the President

    The Committee has continued language which mandates that 
unused amounts of the President's expense allowance will revert 
to the Treasury and not be taxable to the President.
                         The White House Office

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for service authorized by 5 USC, subsistence expenses, hire of 
vehicles, newspapers, periodicals, teletype news service, 
travel, and official entertainment expenses.

                 Executive Residence at the White House

    The Committee has continued languages which provides funds 
for operation and maintenance of the White House for official 
entertainment expenses.

                Official Residence of the Vice President

    The Committee has included language which provides funds 
for operation and maintenance of the official residence of the 
Vice President, the hire of vehicles, official entertainment 
expenses and provides for the transfer of funds as necessary.

                  Special Assistance to the President

    The Committee has continued language which enables the Vice 
President to provide assistance to the President, services 
authorized by 5 USC, subsistence, and the hire for vehicles.

                      Office of Policy Development

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for expenses of the Office.

                       National Security Council

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for expenses of the Council and directs a transfer of funds to 
AID.

                        Office of Administration

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for expenses of the Office and the hire of vehicles.

                    Office of Management and Budget

    The Committee has continued language which limits 
expenditures for various offices and functions within OMB; 
provides funds for expenses, the hire of vehicles, carrying out 
provisions of 44 USC, directs that funds shall be applied only 
to items for which appropriations were made, prohibits the 
review of agricultural marketing orders and the alteration of 
certain testimony.
                 Office of National Drug Control Policy

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for expenses, research, official reception and representation 
expenses, participation in joint projects, the Counter-Drug 
Technology Assessment Center, and allows for the acceptance of 
gifts.

                          unanticipated needs

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for expenses of the President.

 federal drug control programs--high intensity drug trafficking areas 
                                program

    The Committee has continued language with provides a 
certain level of funding for drug control activities in High 
Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program, directs that a 
certain level of funding be used for State and local drug 
control efforts, and directs the obligation of funds.

                     TITLE IV--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

 Commission for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for expenses of the Committee.

                      Federal Election Commission

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for expenses of the Commission and specifying a level of 
funding for processing and prohibiting the expenditure of funds 
on ADP until certain requirements are met.

                   Federal Labor Relations Authority

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for expenses of the Authority.

                    General Services Administration

                         federal building fund

    The Committee has continued language dealing with the 
conditions under which funds made available to the Federal 
Buildings Fund can be used and has designated certain projects 
which can be undertaken. Many technical provisions have been 
inserted regarding use of funds in the Federal Buildings Fund 
which are not specifically authorized by law.
    The Committee has inserted language limiting funds 
available for construction and repair and alternation of 
building projects not authorized by law. A more detailed 
analysis of the Federal Buildings Funds can be found in the 
General Services Administration chapter of this report.
    The Committee has inserted language concerning the 
Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation.

                          policy and oversight

    The Committee has inserted language which provides funds 
for government-wide policy and oversight activities, the Board 
of Contract Appeals, authorized services, and official 
reception and representation expenses.

                           operating expenses

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for operations of the General Services Administration.

                      Office of Inspector General

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for expenses for the Office, payment for information and 
detection of fraud, and awards.
         Allowances and Office and Staff for Former Presidents

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for compliance with Public Law 95-138.

          General Services Administration--General Provisions

    Section 1. The Committee has continued a provision which 
provides for the crediting of amounts received as Federal 
agency rental payments to the Federal Buildings Fund.
    Section 2. The Committee has continued a provision which 
provides funds for the hire of motor vehicles.
    Section 3. The Committee has continued a provision which 
provides that funds made available for activities of the 
Federal Buildings Fund may be transferred between 
appropriations with advance approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations.
    Section 4. The Committee has continued a provision which 
limits funding for courthouse construction which do not meet 
certain standards and requires the submission of a capital 
improvement plan for the US Courts.
    Section 5. The Committee has included a new provision which 
authorizes GSA to accept and retain income to offset the cost 
of the flexiplace work telecommuting centers.
    Section 6. The Committee has included a new provision which 
authorizes the transfer of $2.2 million to the Charles County 
Community College and repeals a previous authorization.
    Section 7. The Committee has included a new provision which 
provides that funds appropriated for ``Operating Expenses'' and 
``Policy and Oversight'' may be transferred between these 
appropriations with advance approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations.

           John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for the Board.

                     Merit Systems Protection Board

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for the Board.

              National Archives and Records Administration

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for the operations of the NARA including expenses necessary to 
move to a new facility.

        National Historical Publications and Records Commission

    The Committee has included language which provides funds 
for the Commission.

                      Office of Government Ethics

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for the Office.

                     Office of Personnel Management

    The Committee has continued language which provides for 
expenses of the Office, services authorized by 5 U.S.C. medical 
examinations under certain conditions, rental of conference 
rooms, hire of vehicles, official reception, and representation 
expenses, advances for reimbursement, acceptance of gifts, and 
awards for the national Civil Service Appreciation Conferences, 
health promotion and disease prevention programs, transfers to 
appropriate trust funds, prohibition on the payment of any 
physician, hospital or other provider of health care services 
who is excluded from providing services under certain Social 
Security Act provisions, prohibition of funds for the Legal 
Examining Unit, authority to accept certain donations for the 
White House Fellows program, and prohibits a reduction-in-force 
in the office of Federal Investigations.

                      Office of Inspector General

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for expenses of the Office, audit of the retirement and 
insurance programs, and the rental of conference rooms.

      Government Payment for Annuitants, Employee Health Benefits

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for the payment of the government contributions.

       Government Payment for Annuitants, Employee Life Insurance

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for the payment of the government contributions.

        Payment to Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for the payment of the government contributions.

           Office of Personnel Management--General Provisions

    Section 1. The Committee has included a new provision which 
allows federal agencies to reimburse OPM for examinations for 
common occupations and Administrative Law Judges.
    Section 2. The Committee has included a new provision which 
allows OPM to withhold state taxes from payments to annuitants.
    Section 3. The Committee has included a technical amendment 
which extends retirement provisions under the Federal Workforce 
Restructuring Act to individuals taking delayed buyouts.
    Section 4. The Committee has included a new provision that 
allows the Office of Personnel Management to charge fees to 
other federal agencies for the dissemination of employment 
information.

                       Office of Special Counsel

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for the Office.

                        United States Tax Court

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for the Court.
                      TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS

                                This Act

    Section 501. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the establishment of offices outside the District 
of Columbia unless certain criteria is met.
    Section 502. The Committee has continued this provision 
limiting the expenditure of funds to the current year unless 
expressly provided in the Act.
    Section 503. The Committee has continued this provision 
limiting the expenditure of funds for consulting services under 
certain conditions.
    Section 504. The Committee has continued this provision 
regarding employment of certain categories of Federal 
employees.
    Section 505. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the use of funds to engage in activities which 
would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of the 1930 
Tariff Act.
    Section 506. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the transfer of control over the Federal Law 
Enforcement Training Center.
    Section 507. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the use of funds for certain propaganda purposes.
    Section 508. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the use of funds appropriated in this Act from 
being used to prevent certain Federal employees from contacting 
their Congressman.
    Section 509. The Committee has continued this provision 
providing funds in this Act shall be available as authorized by 
title 5, U.S.C., sections 4501-4506.
    Section 510. The Committee has continued this provision 
authorizing donations of supplies and equipment to the Federal 
Executive Institute.
    Section 511. The Committee has continued this provision 
authorizing the Secret Service to accept certain donations 
regarding protection of former Presidents.
    Section 512. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the withdrawal of the designation of Front Royal, 
Virginia as a Customs Service Port of Entry.
    Section 513. The Committee has continued this provision 
concerning employment rights of Federal employees who return to 
their civilian jobs after assignment with the Armed Forces.
    Section 514. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the use of funds to provide any non-public mailing 
lists to any person or organization outside of the Federal 
Government.
    Section 515. The Committee has continued this provision 
concerning compliance with Buy American Act.
    Section 516. The Committee has continued this provision 
concerning prohibition of contracts which use certain goods not 
made in America.
    Section 517. The Committee continued this provision 
concerning prohibition of contracts.
    Section 518. The Committee has continued this provision 
which provides that fifty percent of unobligated balances may 
remain available for certain purposes.
    Section 519. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting any increases in the travel object classification 
for any agency funded in this act without the prior approval of 
the Committee on Appropriations.
    Section 520. The Committee has continued this provision 
specifying the authority of the special police officers of the 
Bureau of Engraving and Printing in the Washington, D.C. 
Metropolitan area.
    Section 521. The Committee has included a new provision 
establishing the rate of pay for the Chief of Police of the 
Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
    Section 522. The Committee has included a new provision 
establishing a revolving fund for the U.S. Mint.
    Section 523. The Committee has included a new provision 
making a technical correction to section 531 of Public Law 103-
329.
    Section 524. The Committee has included a new provision 
prohibiting funds in this act to be used for abortions.
    Section 525. The Committee has included a new provision 
providing that Section 524 will not apply when the life of the 
mother would be endangered.
    Section 526. The Committee has included a new provision 
concerning Tax Systems Modernization.
    Section 527. The Committee has included a new provision for 
the relief of certain weekly periodical publications, primarily 
a handful of suburban or metropolitan community newspapers, 
that have been adversely affected by a 1989 mail classification 
regulation designed to control the inclusion of loose 
supplements in magazines and similar publications.
    This measure is intended to ``grandfather'' the affected 
newspapers, by permitting them to continue to utilize their 
two-staple format without being subject to the supplement rules 
designed for magazines and similar bound publications.
    Section 528. The Committee includes a new provision which 
limits training funds to topics that meet identified needs for 
knowledge, skills and abilities bearing directly upon the 
performance of official duties.
    Section 529. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the use of funds to take adverse action against an 
employee of the Bureau of the Public Debt under certain 
circumstances, amended to cut off the effect of the provision 
on February 15, 1996.

              TITLE VI--GOVERNMENTWIDE GENERAL PROVISIONS

                Departments, Agencies, and Corporations

    Section 601. The Committee has continued this provision 
authorizing agencies to pay travel costs of the families of 
Federal employees on foreign duty to return to the United 
States in the event of death or a life threatening illness of 
the employee.
    Section 602. The Committee has continued this provision 
requiring agencies to administer a policy designed to ensure 
that all of its workplaces are free from the illegal use of 
controlled substances.
    Section 603. The Committee has continued this provision 
authorizing reimbursement for travel, transportation, and 
subsistence expenses incurred for training classes, 
conferences, or other meetings in connection with the provision 
of child care services to Federal employees.
    Section 604. The Committee has continued this provision 
regarding price limitations on vehicles to be purchased by the 
Federal Government.
    Section 605. The Committee has continued this provision 
allowing funds made available to agencies for travel to also be 
used for quarters allowances and cost-of-living allowances.
    Section 606. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the Government, with certain specified exceptions, 
from employing non-U.S. citizens whose posts of duty would be 
in the continental U.S.
    Section 607. The Committee has continued this provision 
ensuring that agencies will have authority to pay the General 
Services Administration bills for space renovation and other 
services.
    Section 608. The Committee has continued this provision 
allowing agencies to finance the costs of recycling and waste 
prevention programs with proceeds from the sale of materials 
recovered through such programs.
    Section 609. The Committee has continued this provision 
providing that funds may be used to pay rent and other service 
costs in the District of Columbia.
    Section 610. The Committee has continued this provision 
restricting the President's recess appointment power.
    Section 611. The Committee has continued this provision 
authorizing agencies with delegated authority to make direct 
expenditures to operate, maintain, and repair its facilities 
using funds otherwise available to make rental payments to GSA.
    Section 612. The Committee has continued this provision 
allowing agencies to use foreign currency (for which the 
Treasury is to be reimbursed) to carry out any program that the 
agency is authorized to carry out under its dollar 
appropriations.
    Section 613. The Committee has continued this provision 
precluding the financing of groups by more than one Federal 
agency absent prior and specific statutory approval.
    Section 614. The Committee has continued this provision 
authorizing the Postal Service to employ guards and given them 
the same special police powers as GSA guards.
    Section 615. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the use of funds for enforcing regulations 
disapproved in accordance with the applicable law of the United 
States.
    Section 616. The Committee has continued this provision 
limiting the pay increases of certain prevailing rate 
employees.
    Section 617. The Committee has continued this provision 
limiting the amount of funds that can be used for redecoration 
of offices under certain circumstances.
    Section 618. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the expenditure of funds for the acquisition of 
additional law enforcement training facilities without the 
advance approval of the Committees on Appropriations.
    Section 619. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the use of grant funds for the acquisition of goods 
or services unless certain announcement criteria is met.
    Section 620. The Committee has continued this provision 
permitting interagency funding of national security and 
emergency preparedness telecommunications initiatives, which 
benefit multiple Federal departments, agencies, and entities.
    Section 621. The Committee has continued this provision 
permitting telecommunications support for the work-at-home and 
telecommuting program under guidelines issued by the Office of 
Personnel Management. The Committee has amended this provision 
to make it permanent law.
    Section 622. The Committee has continued this provision 
requiring agencies to certify that a Schedule C appointment was 
not created solely or primarily to detail the employee to the 
White House.
    Section 623. The Committee has continued this provision 
requiring agencies to administer a policy designed to ensure 
that all of its workplace are free from discrimination and 
sexual harassment.
    Section 624. The Committee has continued this provision 
prohibiting the use of funds for travel expenses not directly 
related to official governmental duties.
    Section 625. The Committee has continued this provision 
requiring the President to certify that persons responsible for 
administering the Drug Free Workplace Program are not 
themselves the subject of random drug testing.
    Section 626. The Committee has included a new provision 
authorizing agencies to retain half of the money they receive 
as a result of participating in energy and water conservation 
activities.
    Section 627. The Committee has included a new provision 
establishing the Commission on Federal Mandates.

            Fair Labor Standards Act Statute of Limitations

    In the fiscal year 1995 Treasury-Postal Act, the Committee 
included a provision directing the Comptroller General to apply 
a six year statute of limitation to Fair Labor Standards Act 
overtime claims filed by June 30, 1994. The Committee has been 
asked to consider repeal of this provision for two reasons: 
cost and fairness. The Committee will review this issue prior 
to conference with the Senate and, if deemed appropriate, will 
suggest changes at that time. In the interim, the Committee 
directs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide an 
estimate of the cost of last year's provision to the 
government, including a high and low cost estimate as well as a 
description of the methodology and assumptions inherent in this 
calculation.

                    Detailed Explanations in Report

    It should be emphasized again that a more detailed 
statement describing the effect of the above provisions 
inserted or continued this year by the Committee which directly 
or indirectly change the application of existing law may be 
found at the appropriate place in this report.
                  Appropriations Not Authorized by Law

    Pursuant to clause 3 of rule XXI of the House of 
Representatives, the following table lists the appropriations 
in the accompanying bill which are not authorized by law:
          Treasury Department
                  Departmental Offices, except International 
                Affairs and Official Travel
                  Office of Inspector General
                  Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
                  Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
                          Salaries and Expenses
                          Acquisition, Construction, 
                        Improvements & Related Expenses
                  Financial Management Service
                  Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, 
                except those activities related to the 
                enforcement of tobacco smuggling and regulation 
                of explosives
                  U.S. Customs Service
                          Salaries & Expenses
                          Operation and Maintenance, Air & 
                        Marine Interdiction
                          Programs
                  U.S. Mint
                  Bureau of the Public Debt
                  Internal Revenue Service
                          Processing, Assistance and Management
                          Tax Law Enforcement
                          Information Systems
                  U.S. Secret Service--except the Uniformed 
                Division
          Funds Appropriated to the President
                  High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program
          Office of Management and Budget, Office of 
        Information and Regulatory Affairs
          Federal Election Commission
          General Services Administration
                  Policy and Oversight
          Office of Government Ethics
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
 MINORITY VIEWS OF HON. STENY H. HOYER, HON. PETER J. VISCLOSKY, HON. 
              RONALD D. COLEMAN AND THE HON. DAVID R. OBEY

    The minority members of the Treasury Postal Subcommittee 
are particularly concerned about a number of changes in the 
bill that result in an appearance of a political attack on the 
White House. More than $5.5 million in policy changes have been 
recommended by the Committee for the Executive Office of the 
President. These changes result in the legislative branch 
micro-managing the President's own office.
    We are particularly concerned over the elimination of the 
Council of Economic Advisers and the reduction made to the 
White House Office. The Council of Economic Advisers has served 
Presidents of both parties for the past 50 years. They provide 
long-term economic advice on the state of the economy of the 
United States. The Council of Economic Advisers serves as the 
independent voice for policies that facilitate the workings of 
the market, and for policies that emphasize the importance of 
incentives, efficiency and productivity. We feel that the 
unique nature of the Council needs to be recognized since they 
look at the long-term macro and micro issues facing the country 
and analyze important but poorly understood areas of the 
economy. This is in contrast to other agencies that address 
more immediate and general questions of economic policy. The 
Council operates in the best interest of the American public, 
and the elimination of this office is a political decision that 
is not in the interest of the United States.
    Reductions made by this subcommittee to the White House 
Office are also contrary to the long standing practices of the 
Committee regardless of the political party in power in the 
White House. The Office of the White House is the office of the 
President and should be treated in a non-partisan manner.
    We are also concerned over program changes that are 
recommended for the Federal Election Commission. The FEC in 
fiscal year 1996 will have major expenses related to the 
upcoming Presidential election. The $2.5 million reduction made 
to the FEC coupled with an earmark of $1.5 million in computer 
modernization will hamper the ability of the FEC to carry out 
its responsibilities and to assure the integrity of upcoming 
elections.
    The Treasury Postal Subcommittee had unwisely included a 
provision that would allow rich felons to pay from $5,000 to 
$10,000 to have ATF perform a background review that could lead 
to felons having their right to having a gun restored. We are 
pleased that when the bill came to the full Committee the 
majority members reversed their position and instead retained 
prior year language prohibiting background searches for 
individuals who are convicted felons. Cases of convicted 
murderers and armed robbers being certified for gun possession 
lead to the provision in the first place. A reversal of this 
policy is not in the best security interest of the United 
States. It also is not in the long-term interest of those who 
seek to keep broad access to gun ownership for law abiding 
citizens.
    Finally, we are disappointed that the Committee did not 
adopt a provision that would have given the Secretary of the 
Treasury the authority to collect taxes from individuals who 
have renounced their United States citizenship. Billionaires 
and other wealthy Americans who have renounced their 
citizenship are benefiting from a tax loophole that the 
President has proposed closing. It is our hope that authority 
to close this loophole will be added to this or other 
legislation.

                                   Steny H. Hoyer.
                                   Peter J. Visclosky.
                                   Ronald D. Coleman.
                                   David R. Obey.
                ADDITIONAL VIEWS OF HON. STENY H. HOYER

    I believe that it is unfortunate that because of the 
Subcommittee's allocations there are not enough resources in 
the bill to adequately fund some of the basic functions of our 
government. I support the need to balance the budget, but this 
need not be done by undermining the ability of the United 
States Government to carry out its important responsibilities.
    The bill is silent on federal pay. I am concerned that 
neither the President nor the Committee has provided the full 
5.9 percent increase that the Civil Service is due as 
employment cost index and locality pay increases under the 
Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act. Since 1981, Federal 
employees have lost more than $163 billion in pay and benefits 
that they were scheduled to receive. This counterproductive 
trend is being continued under the Conference Report for the 
fiscal year 1996 Budget Resolution.
    The 2.4 percent recommended by the President, in addition 
to being less than half of the raise owed to Federal workers 
under existing law, is not fully funded. I regret that this 
bill requires all agencies not involved in law enforcement to 
absorb the additional cost of the pay increase from their 
program budgets. This unwise policy results in a hidden 2.4 
percent cut in programs at agencies that are already facing 
severe budget constraints.
    I am disappointed that the majority decided to reinstate a 
provision in the bill which restricts a federal employee's 
choice of a health care insurance plan by prohibiting ``federal 
funds'' from being used to purchase a policy which provides 
coverage for pregnancy termination, except in instances where 
the life of the mother is at risk.
    It is my position that there are no federal funds used for 
the purpose of purchasing health care coverage for federal 
employees. Federal employees, like many other employees, 
receive compensation in the form of salary, health care 
benefits and retirement benefits. This is their money to use. 
They choose a health insurance plan and a portion of that is 
paid for with their health coverage benefit. That money is no 
more ``federal funds'' than is their salary after they have 
received it. The choice of policies is the employee's alone. 
Therefore, the Committee's premise that it is the employers 
right to restrict the scope of coverage for legal medical 
services is wrong.
    I commend the Committee for its attention to the Tax 
Systems Modernization program at the Internal Revenue Service. 
This broad effort to update all aspects of IRS's computer and 
processing systems is a high priority that is critical to the 
agency's preparation for the 21st century.
    Unfortunately, another important IRS initiative received 
insufficient funding despite its promise to reduce the budget 
deficit. The bill provides only $266 million of the $405 
million requested under Tax Law Enforcement for the compliance 
initiative. This cut, which stretches the program from five to 
seven years, would result in estimated total collections of 
$10.3 billion compared to projected revenues of $11.1 billion 
under the existing program. As an income-producing program, I 
believe that this program should have been funded outside of 
the budget caps. In addition to the loss of $800 million of 
revenues, I am very concerned about the impact on employees who 
have already been hired and trained for the initiative. I am 
hopeful that this problem can be resolved by the time we reach 
a conference with the Senate.
    I do not support a provision added by the Committee to set 
up an unfunded commission on Federal Mandates. It is especially 
ironic that a Commission is established with no funds to 
operate while the Committee has eliminated the Advisory 
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, which the 
Administration had proposed for funding and would have had the 
responsibility for overseeing the question of federal mandates. 
This responsibility was assigned to the ACIR by legislation 
passed earlier in this session. The Committee elsewhere in the 
report has recommended that funds under the Office of 
Management and Budget should be used for overseeing the Federal 
mandates review, although the OMB budget has been cut $2.2 
million below last year and almost $850,000 below the request. 
This is a tangled web that can best be straightened out by 
restoring funds to the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental 
Relations.


                                                    Steny H. Hoyer.